Why I'm not making Lego videos.

Recently I officially put A Bus Studios into hatius. I haven't made a video on that channel in a long time and I don't see myself uploading any new videos anytime soon. There are several reasons why I'm not making anymore videos.

(1) My most loyal fans would know that I've started year 11 and the workload is higher than all my previous years of schooling. I'm spending more time studying and doing schoolwork than ever before. It wont be better much year either as thats when I start year 12, my final year of education (thats unless I decide to go to TAFE or university).

(2) Another important reason is that I've lost motivation for making Lego's. Legona Brickville hasn't been touched in ages and me and my parents made the recent decision to take it down all together as it's just sitting there collecting dust. So far the airport has been dissasembled with the rest of the town to go within the next couple of weeks.

(3) Ever since these new channels came out, Youtube has become boring. I feel as though the community was destroyed when these new channels came out. No one goes on other channels and comments on them anymore. All the channels are is some dull lifeless page. Previously everyone was commenting away on other peoples channels, everything was all together on the one page which made browsing the channel easy and everyone had the ability to customise their channels completely. When the new channels came along, all of this was taken away.

(4) The biggest reason however is my commitment to other hobbies. As some of you may know I have always loved trains. I used to upload on Abus709 some trains at my local station and at the big Flinders Street station recording electric suburban trains. Over the last 10 months thanks to my HD camcorder, I have been able to expand my hobby. It's now expanded so far that it's now what I spend all my leisure time on, recording transport related videos and uploading them to youtube. Through all of this, I've made a number of new friends who are other transport enthusiasts from all over Melbourne. We all go out on day trips going to various locatins recording and taking photos of trains and buses (and to model railway shows where my friends who have money have a shopping spree on new model trains). I've also gained the confidence to get out of the house and venture far far away to film various things. Both of these I wouldn't have gained from continuing to make Lego films. I feel as though I've become more independent and have developed more as a person thanks to this hobby and I don't think I'm going to quit it anytime soon.

Even though I barely use Abus709 anymore, I still use my other channel ThebusofdoomFSX quite frequently. Infact, I shouldn't even be calling it my other channel anymore as I now see it as my main youtube channel. Sure it doesn't have over a million channel views and a thousand subscribers, but it's updated frequently with new videos and it's part of a hobby that I enjoy. I even made a Facebook page for it. Now I know all 970 of my youtube subscribers aren't going to start watching my train videos all of a sudden and subscribe to the other channel, but it's always there if you want to look at it.

The Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/thebusofdoomfsx
The Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thebusofdooms-Transport-Videos/154523807992938?bookmark_t=page
The advertisement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnE1hFi0ANg

Update 26th February 2012.

I haven't posted a blog post in a while, so I'd thought I'd update yous all on everything thats been going on in my life.

Unfortunently this year, I've started VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education), aka: Year 11 and 12. Yes, I'm now in the final 2 years of my high school career and in these two years, I really do have to study hard, which means that I won't have as much time to do the things I want to do anymore, and the time in which I'm not studying would probably be used to play video games like Minecraft and Halo. Oh, did I also mention that I have to study hard? Hmm, I don't think I did, so yea, I have to study hard this year and next year. What else? Oh yea, I have to study hard. So I think yous all get the point now that I have to study hard. I might also be getting a job sometime this year which won't help things.

However, it's not all bad news. On ThebusofdoomFSX, I still got heaps of videos from Queensland to upload, although I won't be recording any new videos for that channel, except bus videos and when I plan to go to the Steamrail open day on March 11th (its a long weekend as well). For Abus709, I recently found a lego short I made involving Claude which is fully filmed. It's not the best in the world but it won't take long to edit and upload. I also found while searching through my computer, the "Brickville episodes". The Brickville Episodes are some of my earliest stop motions (even earlier than my first youtube video, Lego Race). Its all completely stop motion so I can easily add a script to it, voices and sounds and stuff, then upload it. So expect those two things in the near future. In more good news, I was recently appointed the male Captain of the Performing Arts at my school and my art teacher wants to try and set up a movie club at the school so we can all make films for the school's short film festival, so I might have to make a Lego movie for that. I have no idea what it will be yet.

Also, I think that i'm only just going to create Lego short films from now on. I don't think I want to create long epic movies anymore. I loose enthusiasm for it mid way though. I have some Lego shorts in my head that I want to make. I also might be uploading the occasional Minecraft video.

And don't forget to like ThebusofdoomFSX on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thebusofdooms-Transport-Videos/154523807992938?bookmark_t=page

Well thats me updated. Thanks for reading.

A quote I like.

"People hate cause 'HATING' Is affordable. Its free. But success? That costs work & dedication, and haters can't afford that."

My oldest Youtube friend diegodaudt has had that quote on his youtube channel for a long time now, so I thought I should share it with you.

Diegodaudt used to make random Lego videos, although over the years he's deleted most of them. He's still got some on his channel though and these days he makes Flight Simulator X videos, like this one.

Christmas.

I hope that all my fans, subscriptions and subscribers had a very happy Christmas and got everything they wanted. If you must know what I got, I recieved 2 Lego sets, the 5771 Hillside House and the 4644 Marina. I've already built the Marina but not the House. I'll finish that later. Even then I finish them I won't be able to add them into Legona Brickville because the town is in a bad state right now which is actually required for my next film that I want to work on, Neglected. I will do a review on both of those sets, and I might buy some of the new 2012 sets when they come out. I also got 2 t-shirts and a railway book. Yea, I didn't get much, but no matter.

I've also been trainspotting again yesterday. I haven't uploaded the videos but I will soon. When they are uploaded though, they will be up on this channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/ThebusofdoomFSX

Well, thats it from me for now. Have a happy new year everyone!

Neglected.

Hooray! I have 1000 subscribers!!! Actually theres no point in celebrating because this is now the 3rd time I've hit 1000 subscribers. The reason for this is because people are unsubscribing. So why do people unsubscribe? Simple, the owner of the channel has made no videos. This is the case with me as I haven't made a proper video in ages. Thankfully just now I thought of a video idea which I actually want to make which involves Lego's, however this lego film will be very different from my others. I'm calling this video "Neglected". Don't worry about the dark name, the video will have some humour in it. I will make a trailer of it.

Fail advertising.

Don't you love those moments when advertising is placed somewhere on a news source and then an article pops up that says something bad about the company/organization being advertised? This is a good example of that type of fail. This news website, the Herald Sun has advertising all over the place of the police and their campaign to stop reckless driving. Now look at today's top article: "Wedding hoon police won't touch". If you don't know, a hoon is a person who does reckless driving, usually speeding and doing burnouts, most likely in an old Holden. Kind of goes against what the police are trying to enforce, don't you think?

Infected, AGAIN!!!

You's aren't going to believe this, but once again the Super Bus Computer has fallen victim to another virus. It's playing havoc with the computer once again. The most annoying thing though is, MY DAD INFECTED IT!!! I SAW HIM DO IT WITH MY VERY OWN EYES!!! Here's what happened. I needed a certain program to install a Minecraft mod. Dad gets the program from his computer and puts it onto mine. When the folder is copied onto my computer and he tries to run whats inside it, all my security programs send warnings saying that the file is infected with a virus and blocks any process to do with it. Even Windows Firewall was blocking it. Despite all of these warnings, dad runs the file anyway which then infects the computer, sabotaging my security software and once again redirecting my search results on Goggle. Once again then, I can't make any videos. Worst start to the summer holiday ever!