Alright Andy, what's going on? How are you doing? I'm doing great.
So for the people on Floatplane, what does the average day of a production supervisor at LMG look like?
Okay, so right now I'm doing like sort of like scheduling and also a lot of shooting and a lot of like
going around between sets. Just make sure that we have the best flow and efficiency I guess.
Yeah. Does it get really busy a lot of the times? I mean there's so many videos we got to work on.
Yeah, so usually like Thursday and Friday it's like the most the busiest like
date for Shooterside. But because this week we're doing the April Fools video that takes like
eight set or eight setups so like it's kind of crazy like already even though it's like only
Wednesday. Right and that's eight sets just for one video right?
So how did you get your start at LMG? What did you do before you worked here actually?
So before here I worked at a tech company and which like they do like VR stuff so I was like
they're shooting like video and photo but in VR so I do a lot of like stitching and you know
yeah that kind of stuff but because I don't really have a lot of workload because they're still like
tech company like there are a lot of downtime for me because I've rendered a video and now like
the the pc or the mac that I had it was like i5 it was like super slow rendering a seven minute ak
footage that's like half a day. So I have a lot of downtime watching like youtube and really
learn stuff from youtube but then I was like yeah I want to shoot some youtube video then I ended up here.
Did you watch LMG or LTT before? Yeah yeah for sure.
Not a super super long term long time like you were but like it was I started watching LTT around
like 2017-ish. Did you ever build a pc before? No definitely. What was your first pc like?
So back in the day I was in China right? Yeah and my dad worked for um he had a job like that he
got like two PCs it was like in the 486 and maybe 586 error right and then one of the pc
have a better graphic card and one of the pc has a better CPU and that was like in grade one or two
so I swamped them. Oh wow so you're tinkering around with pc parts at a young age already? Yeah
pretty early yeah so like and my family got like 46 when I was like a kid so yeah. Oh that's pretty
when did you end up moving to Canada actually? It was like 2013 back in the day I was like I
was doing car review stuff like it's like a car website editor type of position right and that
involved a lot of like reading in English and back in the day I was like sub on English I was like
zero but I have to go on like English website to check this back and you know article and stuff
like that then I was like hmm maybe I should go learn English and so that's why I ended up here
yeah I still speak like both in English. Family wise like sometimes I have like still have like
the plural and stuff like that next up. Fair enough I mean it's still pretty impressive considering
you learned it pretty recently I mean 2013. No really because like it's kind of like you know
French for like English speaking Canadian right yeah it's like if you pay attention yeah you
learn pretty quick but like I like the the education system in China like they start
pretty young like for you to learn English is around like grade one they start teaching you
English. That's it you mentioned you worked for a car a car review website yes what was your
favorite car when you were working there did you get to review anything? Yeah so um a lot of
a lot of stuff it's like writing news and stuff kind of like tackling for like cars and stuff like
that. I see. And then we go out and shoot like picture for cars and you know put down the spec and
stuff but like we were doing a roundup around like 20 or like 30 cars in like in like 2012 I think
and I pretty much like drove all of those like super fun. That's awesome what was your favorite
car you drove back then? All the RA like China special oh yeah yeah it's like limited edition
like 88 like something like that. That's awesome yeah that's awesome yeah what's been your favorite
moment at LMG so far? I feel like CES is like the moment that I really enjoy because like I like
traveling and uh CES we're like having a lot of fun seeing like different like type of stuff
right it's just in general like the vibe of CES feels great um hopefully we can go back there
again after like COVID yeah of course. Did you ever end up getting that bed fixed by the way?
Oh uh funny sorry uh I was gonna sew that away because it's like really broken but like my
father-in-law like just used some metal bracket and fixed that so it's fixed but like I wouldn't
really trust to jump on it again especially for Linus you know. It's good to know that it's not going
away yeah it's not going away and currently it's still in that room and you know I'm doing like
bed things. Did you all just kind of like walk it off and be like oh well that happened? I was like
grabbing stuff like I was grabbing like extension cord or like stuff like that I kind of kind of
remember but like when I was like when I was like when I was like at my desk and Linus jumped on me
and it claps I didn't really expect that at all because like who know like Linus could clap my
bed it's like okay I know it's IKEA but IKEA usually you know have like decent quality not like
shitty quality right right not I feel you I was surprised too like I mean it doesn't seem like
a huge jump at all no no yeah it was like it's broken like it's like so broken that it's like
that basically. How long have you been into photography? Oh okay my first back in the day
when I was like you know in China my major was photography yeah that was like 2009
so I started photography around like 2009 yeah until now that's like 13 or 14 years
13 years that's really cool yeah by the way if you haven't checked out Andy's Instagram you
gotta check that out it's popped up right there random kid photo and you know family stuff yeah
sometimes I do snack like a little bit like street photography what's your inspiration getting into
it inspiration for like photography yeah yeah so inspiration for photography it was like back in
the day I really enjoyed like street photography I see a lot like YouTube video about like street
photography and then I started like getting those like getting into like photo books
like a lot of those um masterpiece you can really learn stuff from them like either a
composition or exposure or how they how they you know like sees the moment that's something
really interesting to me so you would kind of go through a photo book just see like you know some
really well composed photos and kind of break them down yourself yeah and also like shoot a lot of
photos and also let the photos sit so a lot of time you take a photo and you see it oh my god this
is like a masterpiece right but after like 10 or 20 days then you review the photo again then you
will find like the little detail that you messed up or you know not so good at yeah right so let it
right that's awesome I mean that leads into my next question I was gonna ask if you have any
advice for any like budding photographers out there what do you think they should
do when they're getting into it or what gear they should try and get okay um I would say
start with the prime or like the best camera is the camera that's always with you so it just
allocates your phone and like most of the phone has like a wide angle um non zoom lens right
but like digital zoom is not considering zoom for me so yeah just don't don't zoom in and use
whatever lens on your phone or on the on the camera you have just use that and use your feet
as the zoom ring and then you know play with like composition and make sure the contrast
and the color really helps you pop the you know have the make sure the contrast and the color
helps you have your subject pop in the frame or right you know have the like the story that you
trying to tell pop yeah so I mean how has fatherhood been you're a new father is that
correct so if you want to see a kid photo there on instagram um fatherhood it's something something
really in like enjoyable and sometimes can be a little bit like tired you know yeah a lot of
tiredness there because like it's pretty heavy for sure how old is your kid now it's like two
officially a toddler oh wow two one mom you know they call them the terrible twos right yeah it's
okay he just he's also a car guy oh yeah why but like he he sees like a car even without a badge
he sees the shape yeah and he knows what that brand is that's crazy but like a lot of the case he's like
yodda da i was like what the heck is yodda da and then like i figure out that's toyota oh and you
have to agree to him like my kid is like if you don't agree to him he'll be mad and throwing this around
so that's a terrible terrible too but like when you see that he knows stuff you know that's really
really rewarding oh yeah it's gonna be gonna be a smart kid for sure yeah what's his favorite car
right now the toyota right now toyota and i introduced like g g r supra and oh it's like a lot of
the car we do together and he like g i and supra yeah so the g r supra so the new one not the old
one um yeah he doesn't really know the need the old one yet because we were watching we do the new
one it's always fun to have like you know your own hobbit and you know pass it like to your next
of course of course you think he'll get into photography at any point yeah yeah i mean he'll
have somebody to learn from right yeah because like compared to other kids um he's now super shy
to camera because i shoot him all the time i see yeah i guess that could help oh maybe he'll be a
youtuber who knows i don't know maybe i mean if he wants to get into that we have plenty of camera
that's for sure yeah hey there you go so any words of wisdom for other new and future fathers by
chance yeah hang on there yeah after 13 or like after 18 years you'll be free
you just gotta wait it out yeah just enjoy the moment because like every moment is so precious
like i work right yeah and like a lot of time i don't really spend a lot of time with him and
but like i i want to spend more time like just treasure every moment with your kid yeah oh yeah
that's totally fair they grow up so fast yeah like who could know like he's already two yeah yeah
it's like a blink and two yeah anyways thank you so much andy yeah thank you guys really appreciate
it again check out his instagram if you haven't already you can see all his good work yeah okay cool
awesome thank you thank you