The Illustrator, an NYC based motovloger

The illestrator saves cripple wheelchair man stuck in the street

New York City-based motovlogging ‘The illestrator’

The illestrator launched his channel on January 24, 2016, but he didn’t upload anything for another month or so because he didn’t know what the direction of the channel was going to be at that point. The initial reason for starting the channel was his first motorcycle crash, which happened on a rainy day in November of 2015, just two months prior. He had realized that even though it was a crappy moment, he still should have had it on film for several reasons.

If you’re not familiar with the term ‘ill’ in slang terms, it just means like ‘cool’ or ‘dope’ or ‘rad’ … all of those words are also slang, but you get the idea. He just combined the word ‘illest’ with the word ‘illustrator’, which references his overall interest in designing or creating things in general. He was always into that stuff. The idea was to have a unique channel name that could also double as an alias for HIM, the man behind it.

He just uploaded dramatic incidents and funny stuff that occurred in front of his camera out on the road. That’s what it started as. But soon after that, the vlogs came in. The nature of vlogs means that you can pretty much cover any topic you’d like on that day, and many times the subject of videos is just what I’m thinking at that very moment — something that’s bothering him or something he feels or needs saying.

His work background is rather unspectacular — retail stuff — although he just graduated from Brooklyn College this year after five years of pain. He is a political science major, which equipped him quite well when it comes to researching and writing. But the only real experience he had with video making before ‘The illestrator’ channel was an old gaming channel he made when he was a teenager.

The inspiration lies in how close all the New York City community is in terms of proximity. It’s cool to network like this and he would like to do it more in the future. They can all relate to each other through proximity and motorcycles. They all have something to offer each other in this community. Everyone knows everyone. It’s awesome, and because of that, he loves making occasional content that they can all relate to.

He just wants to be consistently entertaining above all. The great thing is that only through putting in the correct energy and effort can the content be consistent and entertaining. And through being those things, good things will come to him. It’s a cycle of good things that feeds itself. He has always struggled with consistency because life gets in the way. But his other goal is to achieve consistency with his platform, perhaps in all areas of his life as well.

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