I made this movie with my brother Van in 2003. It was a pivotal film in my career, before this was released online no one had ever seen anything I'd made. This movie recieved a crazy amount of press and was a bit step in my career.
I made this movie with my brother Van in 2003. It was a pivotal film in my career, before this was released online no one had ever seen anything I'd made. This movie recieved a crazy amount of press and was a bit step in my career.
I had to change the music from the original because of copyright issues. But this song is as equally weird.NYC Obstacle Course from 2006Casey Neistat Classics2014-12-04 | be sure to sub my main channel; youtube.com/caseyneistat
I don't think I got hurt when we filmed this but I did rip the pants I was wearing under my white painters uniform. They were fancy corduroys the my girlfriend got for me. I really don't remember why we made this Obstacle Course but Tom Sachs and I spent a morning designing it then Nev Schulman (yeah, the handsome guy from MTV's Catfish) spent the afternoon making this movie. We used only 1 camera and no sound gear. I just did every action 3 or 4 times so we could film it from different angles.
Nana made us grandkids, and greatgrand Owen, French Toast whenever we asked, anytime of day. It was my favorite food growing up. Not sure if it was her old pan or the butter or the way she blended the egg but it was always the best. This movie was us documenting her process.
She was such a sport when we filmed this. Put on her kimono and let us take all the food out of her fridge to cram the camera in there (a huge Canon XL1).
Nana passed away a few years ago, she lived 92 years strong.
I DON'T SMOKE. I may have when I made this but that was 8 years ago.
I was really into this book called 'The Poor Man's James Bond' it's filled with experiments and tricks like this. I never actually got any of them to work though. Infact I would guess there is no way to make the Wine Glass Cigarette trick work..
This movie was part of a 1 hour movie I made with my brother Van called 'The Respectability Tour'. That movie was the predecessor to us getting an HBO series. I don't remember the specifics but I shot this at a truck stop somewhere in the midwest at 3 or 4 in the morning. I was impressed with their sinks that dispensed soap water and hot air. This was indeed the first time I ever recorded voice over, I remember thinking my voice sounded super stranger when i heard it in the headphones.
Owen was 2 in this movie. It originally was a little longer and had different music. I don't have the original edit files so I can't separate the audio from the original songs that's why I recorded over all of the original audio. This is a bummer because hearing Owen and I talk is really nice now that he's all grown up. He was the cutest baby.
My friend Tom Scott got my brother and me this DIY Potato Gun for our birthday. It was dangerous and loud and could not be tested in the streets of NYC. This video was me testing it on camera as a thank you for my friend Tom.
I made this movie with my good friend Josh Safdie in 2007. Josh called me and said 'I'm coming over and we're going to burn some books' This seemed like perfect movie material. He was angry about the teachings of these post-structuralism books. The speak and spell thing was just a toy Josh had recently purchased.
In 2010 I won and Independent Spirit Award along side Josh for 'Daddy Long Legs' a feature film I produced and Josh directed. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Josh Safdie is a celebrated filmmaker now and remains one of my closest friends.