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Alright Andy, what's going on? How are you doing? I'm doing great.

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So for the people on Floatplane, what does the average day of a production supervisor at LMG look like?

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Okay, so right now I'm doing like sort of like scheduling and also a lot of shooting and a lot of like

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going around between sets. Just make sure that we have the best flow and efficiency I guess.

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Yeah. Does it get really busy a lot of the times? I mean there's so many videos we got to work on.

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Yeah, so usually like Thursday and Friday it's like the most the busiest like

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date for Shooterside. But because this week we're doing the April Fools video that takes like

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eight set or eight setups so like it's kind of crazy like already even though it's like only

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Wednesday. Right and that's eight sets just for one video right?

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So how did you get your start at LMG? What did you do before you worked here actually?

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So before here I worked at a tech company and which like they do like VR stuff so I was like

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they're shooting like video and photo but in VR so I do a lot of like stitching and you know

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yeah that kind of stuff but because I don't really have a lot of workload because they're still like

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tech company like there are a lot of downtime for me because I've rendered a video and now like

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the the pc or the mac that I had it was like i5 it was like super slow rendering a seven minute ak

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footage that's like half a day. So I have a lot of downtime watching like youtube and really

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learn stuff from youtube but then I was like yeah I want to shoot some youtube video then I ended up here.

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Did you watch LMG or LTT before? Yeah yeah for sure.

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Not a super super long term long time like you were but like it was I started watching LTT around

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like 2017-ish. Did you ever build a pc before? No definitely. What was your first pc like?

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So back in the day I was in China right? Yeah and my dad worked for um he had a job like that he

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got like two PCs it was like in the 486 and maybe 586 error right and then one of the pc

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have a better graphic card and one of the pc has a better CPU and that was like in grade one or two

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so I swamped them. Oh wow so you're tinkering around with pc parts at a young age already? Yeah

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pretty early yeah so like and my family got like 46 when I was like a kid so yeah. Oh that's pretty

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when did you end up moving to Canada actually? It was like 2013 back in the day I was like I

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was doing car review stuff like it's like a car website editor type of position right and that

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involved a lot of like reading in English and back in the day I was like sub on English I was like

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zero but I have to go on like English website to check this back and you know article and stuff

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like that then I was like hmm maybe I should go learn English and so that's why I ended up here

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yeah I still speak like both in English. Family wise like sometimes I have like still have like

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the plural and stuff like that next up. Fair enough I mean it's still pretty impressive considering

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you learned it pretty recently I mean 2013. No really because like it's kind of like you know

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French for like English speaking Canadian right yeah it's like if you pay attention yeah you

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learn pretty quick but like I like the the education system in China like they start

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pretty young like for you to learn English is around like grade one they start teaching you

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English. That's it you mentioned you worked for a car a car review website yes what was your

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favorite car when you were working there did you get to review anything? Yeah so um a lot of

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a lot of stuff it's like writing news and stuff kind of like tackling for like cars and stuff like

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that. I see. And then we go out and shoot like picture for cars and you know put down the spec and

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stuff but like we were doing a roundup around like 20 or like 30 cars in like in like 2012 I think

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and I pretty much like drove all of those like super fun. That's awesome what was your favorite

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car you drove back then? All the RA like China special oh yeah yeah it's like limited edition

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like 88 like something like that. That's awesome yeah that's awesome yeah what's been your favorite

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moment at LMG so far? I feel like CES is like the moment that I really enjoy because like I like

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traveling and uh CES we're like having a lot of fun seeing like different like type of stuff

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right it's just in general like the vibe of CES feels great um hopefully we can go back there

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again after like COVID yeah of course. Did you ever end up getting that bed fixed by the way?

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Oh uh funny sorry uh I was gonna sew that away because it's like really broken but like my

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father-in-law like just used some metal bracket and fixed that so it's fixed but like I wouldn't

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really trust to jump on it again especially for Linus you know. It's good to know that it's not going

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away yeah it's not going away and currently it's still in that room and you know I'm doing like

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bed things. Did you all just kind of like walk it off and be like oh well that happened? I was like

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grabbing stuff like I was grabbing like extension cord or like stuff like that I kind of kind of

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remember but like when I was like when I was like when I was like at my desk and Linus jumped on me

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and it claps I didn't really expect that at all because like who know like Linus could clap my

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bed it's like okay I know it's IKEA but IKEA usually you know have like decent quality not like

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shitty quality right right not I feel you I was surprised too like I mean it doesn't seem like

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a huge jump at all no no yeah it was like it's broken like it's like so broken that it's like

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that basically. How long have you been into photography? Oh okay my first back in the day

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when I was like you know in China my major was photography yeah that was like 2009

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so I started photography around like 2009 yeah until now that's like 13 or 14 years

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13 years that's really cool yeah by the way if you haven't checked out Andy's Instagram you

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gotta check that out it's popped up right there random kid photo and you know family stuff yeah

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sometimes I do snack like a little bit like street photography what's your inspiration getting into

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it inspiration for like photography yeah yeah so inspiration for photography it was like back in

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the day I really enjoyed like street photography I see a lot like YouTube video about like street

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photography and then I started like getting those like getting into like photo books

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like a lot of those um masterpiece you can really learn stuff from them like either a

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composition or exposure or how they how they you know like sees the moment that's something

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really interesting to me so you would kind of go through a photo book just see like you know some

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really well composed photos and kind of break them down yourself yeah and also like shoot a lot of

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photos and also let the photos sit so a lot of time you take a photo and you see it oh my god this

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is like a masterpiece right but after like 10 or 20 days then you review the photo again then you

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will find like the little detail that you messed up or you know not so good at yeah right so let it

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right that's awesome I mean that leads into my next question I was gonna ask if you have any

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advice for any like budding photographers out there what do you think they should

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do when they're getting into it or what gear they should try and get okay um I would say

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start with the prime or like the best camera is the camera that's always with you so it just

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allocates your phone and like most of the phone has like a wide angle um non zoom lens right

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but like digital zoom is not considering zoom for me so yeah just don't don't zoom in and use

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whatever lens on your phone or on the on the camera you have just use that and use your feet

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as the zoom ring and then you know play with like composition and make sure the contrast

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and the color really helps you pop the you know have the make sure the contrast and the color

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helps you have your subject pop in the frame or right you know have the like the story that you

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trying to tell pop yeah so I mean how has fatherhood been you're a new father is that

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correct so if you want to see a kid photo there on instagram um fatherhood it's something something

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really in like enjoyable and sometimes can be a little bit like tired you know yeah a lot of

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tiredness there because like it's pretty heavy for sure how old is your kid now it's like two

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officially a toddler oh wow two one mom you know they call them the terrible twos right yeah it's

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okay he just he's also a car guy oh yeah why but like he he sees like a car even without a badge

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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

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yodda da i was like what the heck is yodda da and then like i figure out that's toyota oh and you

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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

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so that's a terrible terrible too but like when you see that he knows stuff you know that's really

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really rewarding oh yeah it's gonna be gonna be a smart kid for sure yeah what's his favorite car

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right now the toyota right now toyota and i introduced like g g r supra and oh it's like a lot of

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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

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one um yeah he doesn't really know the need the old one yet because we were watching we do the new

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one it's always fun to have like you know your own hobbit and you know pass it like to your next

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of course of course you think he'll get into photography at any point yeah yeah i mean he'll

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have somebody to learn from right yeah because like compared to other kids um he's now super shy

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to camera because i shoot him all the time i see yeah i guess that could help oh maybe he'll be a

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youtuber who knows i don't know maybe i mean if he wants to get into that we have plenty of camera

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that's for sure yeah hey there you go so any words of wisdom for other new and future fathers by

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chance yeah hang on there yeah after 13 or like after 18 years you'll be free

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you just gotta wait it out yeah just enjoy the moment because like every moment is so precious

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like i work right yeah and like a lot of time i don't really spend a lot of time with him and

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but like i i want to spend more time like just treasure every moment with your kid yeah oh yeah

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that's totally fair they grow up so fast yeah like who could know like he's already two yeah yeah

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it's like a blink and two yeah anyways thank you so much andy yeah thank you guys really appreciate

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it again check out his instagram if you haven't already you can see all his good work yeah okay cool

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awesome thank you thank you