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Watched 2nd half of @guardiansofthegalaxy on @netflix on my MacBook Pro on treadmill! Ran for an hour and the time flew by! This is one my best ideas ever. The condo has downgraded the cable in the gym and we just get 10 channels on the treadmill TVs and I hate watching sports and @theellenshow is only at noon and @entertainmenttonight is in the eve and I can only watch so much @cp24breakingnews. So this week I had the idea to take my laptop down to the gym, but then I nixed that cuz remembered that I often yank the headphones out of the treadmill socket, and that would send my laptop flying. But then I remembered I have wireless @sony headphones that a production company gave me for a Christmas present about four years ago, and they've just been sitting in their box and I recently put them up for sale online but haven't decided to take on offer yet. So I filmed an unboxing today (for http://youtube.com/joshrachlis) and took the headphones for a run. I might wind up watching a movie a day now! And maybe I'll lose 20 lbs? I could be the fittest movie reviewer ever! Stayed tuned! 🎥 🏃🏼 #gym #fitness #runner #weightloss #condo #treadmill #Toronto #entertainmentnews #headphones #techblog 💻 🎧 I am a: #celebrityinterviewer #entertainmentreporter #radiohost #tvhost #comedian #actor #voiceactor #singersongwriter #cartoonist #screenwriter #filmcritic #travelblogger #lifestyleblogger #foodblogger #entertainmentblogger #fashionblogger #mommyblogger #YouTuber #podcaster #digitalnomad


I've started using @shapr_app, which is like @tinder but for networking with like-minded professionals. Kimberly Johnston @kimmyj02 is my first in-person meeting (I suggested my fav @secondcupcanada). Kim has overcome health issues like 2 strokes - During the 2nd one she thought she was going to die - And she's using her second chance at life to pursue her dream of celebrating niceness. Her site, nicecity.ca @nicecity_toronto, acknowledges acts of kindness that would otherwise go unnoticed. She gives out these bracelets (NiceCity.ca on front, "It's nice to be noticed" on back) to reward people for nice acts. She also gave a @dlishcupcakes cupcake to a random stranger in Trinity Bellwoods Park to celebrate NiceCity's Twitter hitting 70 followers. Oh, and her dog #blarneyobudrick is famous for sitting with his head out the window of Kim's King Street West brownstone. She's put a sign in the window with his hashtag so she can find when people post photos of him. He recently had his 10th birthday party in a park so his fans could celebrate with him. Anyway, I think Kim said we're supposed to pass the bracelet on to people we see doing nice things. So my bracelet and I will be watching you, #Toronto! 🏘 #networking #influencer #blogger #gooddeeds #charity #travelblog #entrepreneur #socialmediaexpert 🐶 I am a: #celebrityinterviewer #entertainmentreporter #radiohost #tvhost #comedian #actor #voiceactor #singersongwriter #cartoonist #screenwriter #filmcritic #travelblogger #lifestyleblogger #foodblogger #entertainmentblogger #fashionblogger #mommyblogger #YouTuber #podcaster #digitalnomad


Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Inspiring meeting with @artiktoronto! Last week on facebook I saw a woman ask where to get custom-printed drinking glasses and coasters. Ever the entrepreneur, I decided to google for companies that do that and emailed some asking if they have a referral program. Saul, co-owner of Artik, emailed back saying he liked my social media and we should talk on the phone. I offered to drop by in person and we set up a time for this morning. We wound up chatting for 2 hours about our mutual passions for blogging, screenwriting, logo design, drawing, entrepreneurship, @timferriss's 4-hour Workweek book, self-improvement, focusing on one creative project as per the book Good To Great... We even talked about my website name, and my new goal of being a celebrity interviewer, and he convinced me to switch from my current joshrachlis.today domain back to my celebrityjosh.com I'd been working on. I sketched out logo ideas and he told me to make the lines thicker and I drew my famous 3-D letters and he laughed and said he loves drawing letters just like that. I said I'd go home and work on a logo with my new @wacom Intuos tablet and he said that in a week he could make me business cards, T-shirts, hats, pens... Oh, and he's especially good at printing buttons. He wants to make buttons featuring just my doodle of my face on it, with no words. And we agreed that nobody today has a fridge you can stick magnets on. Now I'm home and need to spend a 2 hours recording a voiceover. Then I'll work on my logo. Oh, and if you want anything printed with the best quality and customer service, go to Artik.com and use promo code "celebrityjosh" for a special discount. He mentioned he'd make that happen for my friends - So I'm getting right on it! ⭐️ #tshirtshop #customprinting #printshop #printing #logo #Toronto #swag #promocode #fourhourworkweek #goodtogreat 📝 I am a: #celebrityinterviewer #entertainmentreporter #radiohost #tvhost #comedian #actor #voiceactor #singersongwriter #cartoonist #influencer #entrepreneur #travelblogger #lifestyleblogger #foodblogger #entertainmentblogger #fashionblogger #mommyblogger #YouTuber #podcaster #digitalnomad


#printing #logo #Toronto #swag #promocode Epic meeting with @artiktoronto! Last week on facebook I saw a woman ask where to get custom-printed drinking glasses and coasters. Ever the entrepreneur, I decided to google for companies that do that and emailed some asking if they have a referral program. Saul, co-owner of Artik, emailed back saying he liked my social media and we should talk on the phone. I offered to drop by in person and we set up a time for this morning. We wound up chatting for 2 hours about our mutual passions for blogging, screenwriting, logo design, drawing, entrepreneurship, @timferriss's #fourhourworkweek book, self-improvement, focusing on one creative project as per the book #GoodToGreat... We even talked about my website name, and my new goal of being a celebrity interviewer, and he convinced me to switch from my current joshrachlis.today domain back to my celebrityjosh.com I'd been working on. I sketched out logo ideas and he told me to make the lines thicker and I drew my famous 3-D letters and he laughed and said he loves drawing letters just like that. I said I'd go home and work on a logo with my new @wacom Intuos tablet and he said that in a week he could make me business cards, T-shirts, hats, pens... Oh, and he's especially good at printing buttons. He wants to make buttons featuring just my doodle of my face on it, with no words. And we agreed that nobody today has a fridge you can stick magnets on. Now I'm home and need to spend a 2 hours recording a voiceover. Then I'll work on my logo. Oh, and if you want anything printed with the best quality and customer service, go to Artik.com and use promo code "celebrityjosh" for a special discount. He mentioned he'd make that happen for my friends - So I'm getting right on it! ⭐️ #tshirtshop #customprinting #printshop 📝 I am a: #celebrityinterviewer #entertainmentreporter #radiohost #tvhost #comedian #actor #voiceactor #singersongwriter #cartoonist #influencer #entrepreneur #travelblogger #lifestyleblogger #foodblogger #entertainmentblogger #fashionblogger #mommyblogger #YouTuber #podcaster #digitalnomad


Funny Jenga Fail! Here's the clip that @ani.matevos replied to and told me to post. (See previous pic). It's a sample of my new plan to vlog via my Instagram Story! Now I'll post the whole vlog on YouTube. 🍷 The story of Ani's comment, cut and pasted from previous pic: So, on May 27 on route to @westcottvineyards Ginger Fest, I decided to post clips to my Instagram story along the way. I wasn't sure if anyone cared, but I got this sweet message from @ani.matevos, a YouTuber in Holland who writes songs about videogames. This gave me encouragement that maybe I was onto something. It showed me that people like my humour. And it also showed me that Instagram Stories can be an effective tool. When I film regular vlogs throughout my day, it takes me forever to get around to editing them and then takes a long time to edit. I still have travel vlogs going back 5 years that I want to edit. Those TIFF vlogs took me months to finish. And I've got an hour of footage from each of the 12 days I was in Costa Rica in August. So it will take me 12 hours just to watch the footage, never mind to edit it. I tried to do it on the drive to Miami but barely got Day 1 done. I guess I could just upload all the footage in chronological order. But nobody wants to watch an hour long video. But if I just do Instagram Stories as I go along and then download the whole thing and upload it to YouTube as one chunk, I could be posting a vlog every day. So I'll start by posting the specific clip of a Jenga game that Ani was referencing. And then I'll post the over 3-minute video of the whole Ginger Fest. 🍷 #influencer #entrepreneur #vlogger #dailyvlogger #Toronto #socialmediaexpert #vineyard #lifecoach #jenga #blogger 📱 I am a: #celebrityinterviewer #entertainmentreporter #radiohost #tvhost #comedian #actor #voiceactor #singersongwriter #cartoonist #screenwriter #filmcritic #travelblogger #lifestyleblogger #foodblogger #entertainmentblogger #fashionblogger #mommyblogger #YouTuber #podcaster #digitalnomad


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So, on May 27 on route to @westcottvineyards Ginger Fest, I decided to post clips to my Instagram story along the way. I wasn't sure if anyone cared, but I got this sweet message from @ani.matevos, a YouTuber in Holland who writes songs about videogames. This gave me encouragement that maybe I was onto something. It showed me that people like my humour. And it also showed me that Instagram Stories can be an effective tool. When I film regular vlogs throughout my day, it takes me forever to get around to editing them and then takes a long time to edit. I still have travel vlogs going back 5 years that I want to edit. Those TIFF vlogs took me months to finish. And I've got an hour of footage from each of the 12 days I was in Costa Rica in August. So it will take me 12 hours just to watch the footage, never mind to edit it. I tried to do it on the drive to Miami but barely got Day 1 done. I guess I could just upload all the footage in chronological order. But nobody wants to watch an hour long video. But if I just do Instagram Stories as I go along and then download the whole thing and upload it to YouTube as one chunk, I could be posting a vlog every day. So I'll start by posting the specific clip of a Jenga game that Ani was referencing. And then I'll post the over 3-minute video of the whole Ginger Fest. 🍷 #influencer #entrepreneur #vlogger #dailyvlogger #Toronto #socialmediaexpert #creativitycoach #lifecoach #Holland #blogger 📱 I am a: #celebrityinterviewer #entertainmentreporter #radiohost #tvhost #comedian #actor #voiceactor #singersongwriter #cartoonist #screenwriter #filmcritic #travelblogger #lifestyleblogger #foodblogger #entertainmentblogger #fashionblogger #mommyblogger #YouTuber #podcaster #digitalnomad


Saturday, June 03, 2017

May 16: I'm honoured that me & my #TodayWithTray cartoon appeared in @trayrush & @shortyisdope's vlog! (See previous post for 10 pics from that #YouTubeSpaceTO event). The story: Tray is white. His wife is black. They have kids. They vlog about their family. They have 579,064 YouTube subscribers. I got there late, right at the end of their Q&A. I was the only non-black person there, other than Tray and one other bald white guy. I was also probably the oldest person there. Undaunted, I lined up to get a pic with them. I admired the cupcakes with their edible photo on them and the cookies with their channel. I also gazed lovingly at the YouTube square pillow (which I later incorporated in my cartoon). But while in line, I had to pee. I took a cupcake to eat on the walk to the washroom. I ate it and took one bite of the edible photo but threw out the rest of the photo cuz I need to lose weight. When I came out of the washroom I decided I should draw a cartoon of them. But I wanted to get the drawing right. So I fished the edible photo out of the garbage and used that as my guide. I drew the cartoon and got chocolate icing on it. And then I remembered I had taken photos of them earlier and I could've referenced those. I lined up again and showed them my cartoon. Then next day, a friend called to tell me she saw me in their vlog. I watched it and I was in the 12-minute vlog for literally 2 seconds. But that was enough to get me spotted. They're my new vlogger insipiration! Who wants to make babies with me so I can vlog about them? 📷 #vlogger #multiracial #Toronto #cartoon #influencer #entrepreneur #travelvlog #familyblog #foodie 🎂 I am a: #celebrityinterviewer #entertainmentreporter #radiohost #tvhost #comedian #actor #voiceactor #singersongwriter #cartoonist #screenwriter #travelblogger #lifestyleblogger #foodblogger #entertainmentblogger #fashionblogger #mommyblogger #YouTuber #podcaster #digitalnomad


May 16: My cartoon of #TodayWithTray when I saw them talk at #YouTubeSpaceTO! (See previous post for 10 pics from that). The story: Tray is white. His wife is black. They have kids. They vlog about their family. They have 579,064 YouTube subscribers. I got there late, right at the end of their Q&A. I was the only non-black person there, other than Tray and one other bald white guy. I was also probably the oldest person there. Undaunted, I lined up to get a pic with them. I admired the cupcakes with their edible photo on them and the cookies with their channel. I also gazed lovingly at the YouTube square pillow (which I later incorporated in my cartoon). But while in line, I had to pee. I took a cupcake to eat on the walk to the washroom. I ate it and took one bite of the edible photo but threw out the rest of the photo cuz I need to lose weight. When I came out of the washroom I decided I should draw a cartoon of them. But I wanted to get the drawing right. So I fished the edible photo out of the garbage and used that as my guide. I drew the cartoon and got chocolate icing on it. And then I remembered I had taken photos of them earlier and I could've referenced those. I lined up again and showed them my cartoon. Then next day, a friend called to tell me she saw me in their vlog. I watched it and I was in the 12-minute vlog for literally 2 seconds. But that was enough to get me spotted. They're my new vlogger insipiration! Who wants to make babies with me so I can vlog about them? 📷 #vlogger #multiracial #Toronto #cartoon #influencer #entrepreneur #travelvlog #familyblog #foodie 🎂 I am a: #celebrityinterviewer #entertainmentreporter #radiohost #tvhost #comedian #actor #voiceactor #singersongwriter #cartoonist #screenwriter #travelblogger #lifestyleblogger #foodblogger #entertainmentblogger #fashionblogger #mommyblogger #YouTuber #podcaster #digitalnomad