my brother Van

there he is there's my brother van [Music] so let's run it up a pole and see who salutes you like that carl that was my great uncle louie nye he was like a comedian in the 60s very successful changed his name from nystat to 9 just because it was easier to to pronounce you'd probably i'd never heard of my uncle louis nye but today's video is about another nice that maybe you don't know enough about and that is my brother van neistadt [Music] [Music] let me start with a little bio so 42 years ago my mom was a single mom working as a waitress in a restaurant and she had a little baby boy named van my dad went into that restaurant met my mom started dating her met van really liked van then my mom married my dad and my dad so my dad married my mom and then my dad barry nystat nice that then adopted there then my sister was born and i was born and my little brother was born and we had this childhood that wasn't a bad childhood it was just a childhood it was a good childhood then van went to college like whatever 12 years later and he went to college in virginia which is far away from where we lived in connecticut and i ran away from home when i was 15 and i ran away from home to van in virginia but for me to go to high school in virginia i needed to have like a guardian a parent so it was at that point in time so at that point in time van adopted a nice dad me full circle van was my legal guardian okay then i moved back to connecticut i had a kid van move to new york city i went to visit van the summer of 2000 and he showed me his computer it's the first time i ever edited a video and that first time i ever edited a video was because van sat me down in front of my computer and showed me how to do it so i moved to new york city to become a filmmaker because of van because he had inspired that in me and when i moved there he and i became like this filmmaking duo there was no casey neistat it was just the neistat brothers every movie we made we made together like ipod dirty secret the first video ever that got us any attention [Music] it was van's idea and he was the one holding the camera spicy this video from like a 2002 maybe we're running around new york city stealing our own bikes to show that the cops didn't give a [ __ ] about stolen bikes and snap that one was also van's idea you've never seen this is a video about sneaking into scholastics publishing headquarters to get really cheap lunch at their cafeteria we've been doing this for about three years we only got in trouble once that was van's fault it wasn't a bad video but this was my idea not van's idea okay i was like looking for a video to show you what like a quintessential nystat brothers video was this video right here we're in paris for like work and we were supposed to shoot a video that day and we couldn't there's this huge protest taking place so we got these like french punk rock kids we put ski masks on we made a big poster that said viva la neistat brothers la vie de nice that i don't speak french and we tried to make the protest look like it was like a nice that brothers celebratory protest [Music] anyhow those were the kinds of videos we used to make at like the like the earliest days of our career and all of the early videos from my career had one thing in common which is that i made them all with van wait what are you doing wait don't don't take off your pants yet serious question and don't pull any punches who's the most talented nice step brother van why wouldn't you say okay did you want me to say you [Music] so we took our little partnership the nightstand brothers all all the way from like making silly videos online to having our own show on hbo [Music] remember uncle louie who had to change his last name so people would know how to pronounce it this is one of my favorite segments from our hbo show that van made about how to pronounce our our name it's pronounced neistat nice like rice or ice or mice [Music] here's a little anecdote to help you remember about seven years ago casey and i went to vegas and got drunk for a week and casey got a tattoo everywhere we went he loved to show off his nice tat nice dad the hbo show was awesome it was basically a youtube vlog on hbo 10 years before anybody knew what a youtube vlog was but hbo didn't think it was that awesome and they didn't renew us for a second season so after that van left new york city moved to l.a and the neistat brothers were no longer i was just casey neistat in new york and he was van neistat in la now van did a lot of things in la he worked on his art career he made other movies he made sculptures he made paintings this is not a van neistat painting this is van gogh vincent van gogh [Music] but one thing van never did one thing van has never done is start a youtube channel [Music] this house is where my brother van lives and this this gate here is a very good explanation of uh the kind of guy van is this gate is unique one of a kind built by hand built by van for one purpose to protect x x is van's little boy from the stairs love dad june 23rd 2019. [Music] you see there are a billion channels on youtube but no channel like van's channel unlike me and most everyone else in the world van's brain has not been poisoned by social media because he he's never really used social media and his videos are unlike any other creators because the guy doesn't watch youtube [Music] van studio when people would come to my office in new york city they would like look around like it was a museum or something that never really made sense to me until i stepped foot in here is that a homemade gimbal us property night vision [Music] yeah van is a fascinating guy but because he's not a youtuber because he doesn't know the youtube world his videos they're not motivated by likes or views or subscribers it's just pure untouched creativity and that's why he's my favorite youtuber he's the only youtuber i turn the little alarm on for and he might just accidentally be the best youtuber of all times did you mention my youtube channel i did i did mention your youtube channel okay thanks [Music] this [Music]

Channel: CaseyNeistat

Views: 1,795,200

Rating: 4.9392905 out of 5

Keywords: van neistat, neistat brothers, new york city, los angeles, filmmaking, casey van, casey brother, subscribe to van

Id: HgYVuXaihNs

Length: 11min 50sec (710 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 09 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/burritobullets]

I’m sure Van is talented and creative in his own right, but Casey neglecting to ever mention or credit Tom Sachs always strikes me as a bit odd

[u/SuperAdvancedProtein]

Dope video. Who’s gonna make r/vanneistat

[u/iamparkhwan]

aw this is so cute. Two brothers who once started everything together, then separated, then reunited with both of their respective dreams come true. Very poetic.

[u/Right_All_The_Time]

He finally breaks his 5 month YouTube silence to make a video to promote Van's YT channel?

I can dig it.

Van has made amazing videos for ages. He used to post quite a lot of them on his Vimeo channel. Most of us who have seen the Neistat Brothers show know just how hugely influential he was in terms of Casey's video style, especially in the early years.

I agree with another poster that it's odd how rarely Casey ever mentions the fact it was Tom Sachs and both Casey and Van interning at Tom's studio that inspired most of the aesthetic of their video's to begin with.

This video in particular shows the studio both Casey and Van worked in and when you see the style of this it's sooooo clear where the brothers learned their approach from.

https://youtu.be/49p1JVLHUos

Either way happy Van finally made an appearance even if it was just to promote his channel.

[u/Vegan_Biltong_co_za]

How to get a YouTube play button in less than 12 hours.

[u/Tyaigan]

Do you know what camera he used for this video ?

Thanks!