NYC VLOG: Day in the Life Exploring Manhattan and Living my Best Life

[Music] oh hey there i totally just woke up you could make this painful [Music] just kidding still wearing pants [Music] [Music] hello this is taylor if you are new here i am a 24 year old management consultant and part-time youtuber living and working in zibig apple today i am making a very conscious effort to have a more active day than i have had recently i know everyone goes through these days but i've just been in a little bit of a funk the weather hasn't been great here and i've just been kind of lying in bed with not a ton of motivation to do much it's been very interesting navigating this post-grad part of life and that when i was in college all of my friends lived so close to me you know we all lived on the same block basically so you don't really have to put in a ton of effort to see them on a day-to-day basis versus here in new york it's a huge city and even though i have lots of friends living here you still have to put in a lot more of an effort at least in my experience so that's what i'm doing today i'm excited i have plans with a couple of my good friends and even though it's a gloomy day right now it's actually supposed to be a perfect day it's gonna clear up in the next hour or so based on my weather app so i'm gonna respond to some emails in the meantime and i will see you guys when i hit the town [Music] all right this is off topic but i got a notification from youtube that someone is straight up posting my videos like not a little portion of them not a reaction they're just posting my full-length videos it's like what are you doing don't do that so i reported it obviously i'll keep you guys updated [Music] oh another update i just got a little invitation i'm graduating for those who don't know i was part of the class of 2020. i did my undergrad at upenn wharton business school and yeah because of kovid we never officially graduated in person at least and we're doing it in two weeks graduation vlog to come i think it'll be fun at first i was like two years later like i don't know it's just kind of weird but now enough time has passed where it will be a really fun reunion so i'm actually very excited for it and i just ordered a dress on poshmark for my graduation all right back to emails stop distracting me [Music] talk about vlogging in public i'm literally using a like a selfie stick type thing anyway i don't care out and about [Music] i'm going to meet a friend for lunch down in west village and i'm going to walk it's a bit of a walk for me but when the weather is perfect and i can take the high line i do so we're walking hudson yards first gonna grab a coffee anyway i'll just show you [Music] i probably look like a tourist in land city [Music] guilty plunger [Music] and would this be a taylor bell new york city vlog if i didn't talk about some real estate development that i see around me this incredibly unique building at 520 west 28th was designed by the famous late architect zaha hadid it's a collection of 39 condos ranging from 3.8 to 14 million dollars a pop based on what i read online i didn't buy one and whether you think this building looks out of place or not i personally marvel at it every time i walk past it zaha hadid's work is largely defined by curves that are inspired by nature and these condos are clearly no exception part of why i love walking on the high line so much is because there is such a cool mixture of old brick apartments and multi-million dollar futuristic developments like this one that line the whole entire walkway now whether i'd want to live right on the high line at the ground level where people would be staring into my windows all day is a different story but at the very least i think it's all very fun and neat to look at which is why the high line is one of the top sites that i recommend to people who are visiting new york city for the first time and for this shot a guy noticed that i'd set up my camera so he stopped walking to not get in the shot oh it's fine thank you though they caught me [Music] [Music] one of my favorite places in new york walking through west village in the spring with the birds chirping just got lunch with my friend laura we went to college together oh hi remember to like and subscribe and press the notification button down below down below down below she said it best do it do it all right just finished lunch oh so nice fun fact i used to live right around here during one of my internships it's definitely different than where i live right now it's a lot more quaint more of a village i mean we're in west village so it's a villagey feel i don't know might move back all right i forget to film the stuff that i do i just spent a while in b h photo which is like a huge photo store photo lighting audio etc anyway got some goodies it's expensive but hopefully over time i'll get my videos to be better so yeah [Music] you've been pepper sprayed i just did a lot of walking i'm gonna show you guys what i got some of you guys might know that i still film my videos on my phone and if you have an iphone like they film in 4k there's no excuse like some people say oh i need these all this fancy equipment to start a youtube channel no you don't i will say audio is more important than visual i mean of course visual is important but studies show that consumers care a lot more about having crisp audio versus crisp video i mean you know probably good to have both but anyway that is a nice little segue into what i got i got things for crisp audio so i actually have a really solid microphone that i use for my sit-down videos it's the blue yeti it's the one that a lot of people use for podcasts and such but since i moved to new york and moved into this apartment and it has 11 foot ceilings that's the final answer by the way i think in some videos even my apartment video i said that it's 12 foot ceilings it's actually 11. nonetheless very tall ceilings and i don't have a ton of furniture in here i don't have a rug no curtains so the sound absorption is not very good it's kind of echoey you can probably hear it right now and it's fine but it's not up to my standards i started my youtube channel from home at my parents house in los angeles and i film in my parents bedroom it's carpeted couch blankets all that good stuff the acoustics in that room are just insanely good so even though this might not sound terrible to you it's just not up to what i'm used to long-winded way of saying i got some things to up my audio game so these are not cheap but they're the rode wireless go-to two yeah not sponsored and i bought the separate lavalier lava is how you pronounce it lavalier see i don't know much about this stuff but this is a little mic that clips onto your shirt and then the receiver it will clip directly into my phone because i got the iphone adapter so anyway hopefully with the little microphone here it will be more crisp than my iphone's microphone plus it will give me the freedom to walk around and you know i could be all the way over there not facing the camera and it will still hopefully sound really crisp so let's open these up wow look at that the lavalier is it lavalier or lavalier tomato tomato wow it's so tiny and cute it smells good and the adapter all right testing testing testing it's a while later as you can probably tell because this has a charge but debut of the mini mic i'm pretty excited about it if it doesn't sound perfect now i will i will figure it out but hopefully it's okay and i found out how to do the little loop with the wire so it's hidden and i feel so official so we're gonna test it out for the rest of the video and what better way to debut the mini mic than by thanking the very special sponsor of today's video grubhub like all of you guys i live a very busy life when i'm not working and i have a few minutes to chill the last thing that i like to do is take care of my adult responsibilities like going shopping for food or even worse going shopping for those everyday items that need restocking in my apartment it is in these moments when i just want to kick my feet up and take some time for myself that grubhub comes in clutch and yeah i'm talking for the everyday items too like batteries and toilet paper and dish soap you can now order all of the convenience items along with food of course with just one tap from grubhub so for those with a busy lifestyle like mine or even if you don't have a particularly busy lifestyle convenience is always good grubhub is perfect for you click the link in my description and use the code taylor great code right short and simple for five dollars off of your first 15 order from grubhub to get all of your favorite food and convenience items delivered directly to your door thank you again grubhub for saving me time and for sponsoring this portion of today's video all right guys i'm still using the mini mic how does it sound it's also great because i don't have to yell not that i had to yell before but for some reason without the mini mic i feel like i had to anyway now i'm gonna go meet up with my other friend catherine for a nice little sunset walk along the west side highway ab so fruitly gorgeous gorgeous oh my goodness okay i'm gonna go downstairs early to get a closer look at that sunset before i go on my walk nice little bike ride home to finish off the day [Music] hello guys i just got back i got back a little bit ago actually [Music] i was craving ramen i don't always eat in bed but when i do i make sure to get something very precarious keeps things interesting i also got this brown sugar milk tea i don't even want to know how many calories is in this it is so good yum but i have walked 25 000 steps today which is a lot and it feels great like my feet are a little sore but yeah i don't need to go over the whole path of today again but just got back from such a lovely walk with my friend catherine we did the west side highway but we didn't go in a straight line we like went on any little pier or any out shoot that there was we followed the perimeter so a lot of walking and just really really nice conversation got back here saw that i watched 25 000 steps pat myself on the back a little bit order dinner from grubhub thank you again grab hope for sponsoring this video and now here we are this was a nice change of pace from the few days that i had where i just didn't feel any motivation it happened sometimes the weather plays at least for me and lots of people the weather plays such a big part when it's gloomy and rainy outside just uh the california person in me which is almost 100 of me i don't love it and then the second that the weather was perfect i walked 25 000 steps that's how i know i will eventually settle down somewhere warm and also very excited about the new mini mic edition to my arsenal it represents a new investment for the youtube channel or it doesn't represent it that's exactly what it is but i'm starting to slowly upgrade each piece of equipment little by little i have some new lighting some soft boxes coming on friday and then eventually a camera but the iphone does a damn good job if i may say so so we'll see how long i sit on that one thanks for joining me today guys go outside take a walk if the weather's nice and i'm going to be doing a lot more of it now that spring has sprung in the city like and subscribe if you made it as far and i will see you very soon in the next one turtle out [Music] can't think of something more unnecessary than that [Music]

Channel: Taylor Bell

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Length: 13min 3sec (783 seconds)

Published: Mon May 16 2022