a little look at how I've been documenting my adventures the last few years :) find me here: Instagram: 🔗 / ottiliedijkstal 🖊️ @ottiliedijkstal TikTok: 🔗 / ottilie.d 🖊️ @ottilie.d
I'm finally learning this lesson myself. As a Finn living in the US, when I recently visited Finland again I wanted to make a vlog about it, but I didn't know how to express the feeling of returning to an old home, and how I'd forgotten about the slow living habits I used to have when I still lived in Finland. I'm now in the process of scripting a voiceover to describe those feelings. This was a beautiful video & I hope you do indeed make enough income from TH-cam eventually to keep traveling and adventuring! 💕
I hope you can translate the feeling! I'm originally from Germany but have lived in many different countries in Europe and now in the US I totally get it. Whenever you return home, you still somehow feel like this is the place you are from but it also feels a little foreign because living abroad changes you. You might not notice it at first but you definitely feel it when coming back to the country you are from.
With such a beautiful 5 minute film you could easily add 5 minute films as well as your paintings and that way instead of a load of random clips you would have one film per each adventure plus one painting. How cool would that be. I can paint but I can't make films like that. It was very beautiful and I love the concept. For some reasons my sketchbooks make me remember the events of my life much more vividly then photos or writing a journal does. The sketches are much more evocative.
I love this! People for some reason strive to work to live and get consumed in consumerism, we should be talking about working enough to get by without stress, and just spend on things that make us happy
I won't try in vain to use mince and half-ass words to describe it. This was the most eye-opening and best video on creativity that I could find on the internet! Very inspiring, thank you!
OMG🥹🥹Thanks to the algorithm, for bringing this to my feed today! This is the content I want, the ones that do not overwhelms you, but calms your nervous system!
Beautiful 🥺 life is about collecting and valuing those simple moments in which we are in nature without worrying about anything else. Thank you for sharing!
My problem is that I documented too little. Due to some health issues, my memory is deteriorating and I struggle to live in the moment, remember the past, and hope for the future, so I decided to hold on to as much as I can. Now I take dozens of photos every week, film random moments that seem mundane today, even record "interviews" with my friends and family, so I can have a reminder for the future. My younger brother even got mad at me for dumping all the 4 terabyte of stuff I have on the shared family cloud.
I relate to this 100%. Ive been focusing on “making” photos instead of just taking photos. ig it’s important to realise capturing meaningful photos is what matters in the end. To be able to look back at them and feel what I felt when I took it. Beautiful video.
Wow! What an absolute magnificence! I have been documenting my life by writing a journal everyday for that past 6 years now. I write down raw facts, emotions and random thoughts there but mostly facts and recently I started feeling that I really don't make use of this journal and I just write to write. But instead I should do something with it. I love your video, it was well structured, beautifully said and put together, it kind of inspired me to do something more with the journal. However I don't know what exactly...yet. ~Usat
You should read your journal, you will learn a lot by reflecting on your experience , by reading your journal you will reflect a lot. You will start loving yourself more, this is what happened to me.
I like to write short poems when I feel any profound way or experience something fascinating. I think it’s an easier way to know exactly what I was going through without reading a bunch of scribbles :)
I love this! People for some reason strive to work to live and get consumed in consumerism, we should be talking about working enough to get by without stress, and just spend on things that make us happy
I loved this. ❤ P.s: if like me you have absolutely no idea what to do with a canvas and a paint brush, you could just frame the most suitable photo that best describes whatever your experience or adventure was. Or that at least elicit the emotions you felt at the time, the most.
This was so beautiful and inspiring it literally bought me to tears. You are a talented story creator, through words, video, and paint. Thank you for sharing with us.
I had thought about doing the same thing, painting with watercolors all the inspiring, beautiful and worth remembering moments of my life. And today your video reminds me of this idea that I had and that I should not let go of. I also want to paint my adventures. I am excited to begin. THANKS!!
loved the video! Which mic do you use? We love making voiceovers on our videos but currently using my iphone for that... And the quality isn't the best :L x
This is such a beautiful video! I like to draw, but I never make time for it. This had inspired me to draw some moments from my own adventures. Thank you 🙏
This is such a great idea and feels like the exact thing I want to start doing with my memories. I've thought of having a big scrapbook, and who knows, I might still do that, but this is really what I need for my special memories. I find it cool that you just make the painting based off the photo from your phone: it doesn't need to be as realistic as possible, just captures the essence. Also by painting at the end of the trip rather than doing it live during the hike or whatever, you can actually gauge what was important looking back on the trip. I haven't painted in over a decade and I wasnt great back then as a kid, so it would probably be much better off with something like colored pencils, but seems like a cool opportunity to learn a new skill also and find my own style.
Great idea to paint 🎨 the memories, instead of filling harddrives (I’m guilty of that, too) Sidenote: I really enjoy the calm tone of your videos. It has something really relaxing to me.😊
that's such a beautiful way of documenting your adventures, can't even imagine how aweinspiring it will be with even more paintings on the walls to look at. also really beautiful video 🥰
I found your channel by chance. I love the way you describe your journey. I could listen to you endlessly. Your words are simple but have a deep meaning.
thanks!! these are the songs I used (all from epidemic sound): - The Trace of You by Taylor Crane - The Landslide by Martin Hall ft. Julia Holström - Just Bones (Instrumental) by Zorro - In Times I Think of Us by Travis Kowalski I think that's all :)
That was so beautiful! Really touched me. Thank you for that! Also, it made me really think about how I want to capture my life. So glad the algorithm brought up your video ❤
This hits on a so much deeper level. On the one hand, like Jonne, you have to live life and feel it. On the other hand, you have to make it meaningful by picking moments and give them a sense. As i'm also a hoarder of moments, i always thought: life passes just by. And going all the pictures and tickets I got a glimpse of the past, you made me realize, that i have to pick the best moments and have to present them to have the moments live on. Thank your for the awesome food of thought.
Can you guys give me recommendations to what to do with all the photos and videos that i take idk how to have all of them, my phone dont have more space and my google photos also :(
That is such a cool idea! I’ve been thinking about ways to try to document my life better beyond my journal, and this gives me some inspiration. Thank you for sharing!
Those drawings are so damn cool and pretty! i was so impressed at the moment where you showed the actual way of "meaningful" documenting everything, by those paintings. such a cool and inspirational idea! thanks :)
Beautiful! The video, the landscapes and the paintings! Also the sentence about not caring how much money you'll make, as long as you'll be able to go on trips like this that remind you what living life is all about, really resonates with me.
Such beautiful shots and scenery! Your painting skills are also so great and having inspired to try and take up landscape painting to capture adventures. Thank you so much for sharing this! Big love from Zambia 🇿🇲
Even i have the problem of over documenting my life, i do not share it on social media, just document it and way up my storage space. I wrote daily journals. I think i might need to make a discuss versions of my history to make them meaningful.
So cool! I started with a similar project during covid lockdown, but never made it past some sketches...as I still feel like I'm not good enough yet with water colors. Love your paintings! They motivate me to start working on this again and give watercolouring another try :)
I really love this! What a great film! The storytelling is soooo good and love the paintings you did! I might try and do that as it really does make it more meaningful and memorable
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Thank you algorithm for bringing this kind of content. I love this way of life 😍
Glad you enjoyed it! 🤗
I'm finally learning this lesson myself. As a Finn living in the US, when I recently visited Finland again I wanted to make a vlog about it, but I didn't know how to express the feeling of returning to an old home, and how I'd forgotten about the slow living habits I used to have when I still lived in Finland. I'm now in the process of scripting a voiceover to describe those feelings. This was a beautiful video & I hope you do indeed make enough income from TH-cam eventually to keep traveling and adventuring! 💕
Thank you 🤗 I hope you can translate those feelings in your video!!
I hope you can translate the feeling! I'm originally from Germany but have lived in many different countries in Europe and now in the US I totally get it. Whenever you return home, you still somehow feel like this is the place you are from but it also feels a little foreign because living abroad changes you. You might not notice it at first but you definitely feel it when coming back to the country you are from.
NOT AT ALL WHAT I WAS EXPECTING.
THIS IS CINEMA. I THINK THIS HAS CHANGED ME AS A PERSON FOR SOME REASON. THIS WAS ABSOULTELY CRAZY.
wow, that 5 min video felt like a movie, keep going you're doing a fantastic job 🥰
With such a beautiful 5 minute film you could easily add 5 minute films as well as your paintings and that way instead of a load of random clips you would have one film per each adventure plus one painting. How cool would that be. I can paint but I can't make films like that. It was very beautiful and I love the concept. For some reasons my sketchbooks make me remember the events of my life much more vividly then photos or writing a journal does. The sketches are much more evocative.
Great idea! :)
I love this! People for some reason strive to work to live and get consumed in consumerism, we should be talking about working enough to get by without stress, and just spend on things that make us happy
Yes the devil is a lie!🩵
wish I could paint like that😩 love it!
Get onto it pal, start training today
how often do you paint?
I won't try in vain to use mince and half-ass words to describe it. This was the most eye-opening and best video on creativity that I could find on the internet! Very inspiring, thank you!
thank you for the kind words!! :)
OMG🥹🥹Thanks to the algorithm, for bringing this to my feed today! This is the content I want, the ones that do not overwhelms you, but calms your nervous system!
Beautiful 🥺 life is about collecting and valuing those simple moments in which we are in nature without worrying about anything else. Thank you for sharing!
My problem is that I documented too little. Due to some health issues, my memory is deteriorating and I struggle to live in the moment, remember the past, and hope for the future, so I decided to hold on to as much as I can. Now I take dozens of photos every week, film random moments that seem mundane today, even record "interviews" with my friends and family, so I can have a reminder for the future.
My younger brother even got mad at me for dumping all the 4 terabyte of stuff I have on the shared family cloud.
This sounds wonderful and I hope it will help you. Maybe print some books with the images, and notes?
I just know you are going to have a ton of subscribers one day. You deserve it. This content is so well made🤩.
I relate to this 100%. Ive been focusing on “making” photos instead of just taking photos. ig it’s important to realise capturing meaningful photos is what matters in the end. To be able to look back at them and feel what I felt when I took it.
Beautiful video.
What a refreshing and inspiring perspective. Thank you for this video!
Wow! What an absolute magnificence! I have been documenting my life by writing a journal everyday for that past 6 years now. I write down raw facts, emotions and random thoughts there but mostly facts and recently I started feeling that I really don't make use of this journal and I just write to write. But instead I should do something with it. I love your video, it was well structured, beautifully said and put together, it kind of inspired me to do something more with the journal. However I don't know what exactly...yet. ~Usat
Glad to hear that!! 🤩
You should read your journal, you will learn a lot by reflecting on your experience , by reading your journal you will reflect a lot. You will start loving yourself more, this is what happened to me.
I like to write short poems when I feel any profound way or experience something fascinating. I think it’s an easier way to know exactly what I was going through without reading a bunch of scribbles :)
I love this! People for some reason strive to work to live and get consumed in consumerism, we should be talking about working enough to get by without stress, and just spend on things that make us happy
great storytelling! I really like how you put this video together.
Thank you! :)
Beautiful paintings. My mom used to paint a decent amount, and we had a few up in my childhood home. I'm terrible at it, but these took me back.
I loved this. ❤
P.s: if like me you have absolutely no idea what to do with a canvas and a paint brush, you could just frame the most suitable photo that best describes whatever your experience or adventure was. Or that at least elicit the emotions you felt at the time, the most.
This was so beautiful and inspiring it literally bought me to tears. You are a talented story creator, through words, video, and paint. Thank you for sharing with us.
Thank you so much 🤗
Besides the beautiful visuals and the voice over, this was so soothing to watch. Thank you for putting this out. Very well done 👏👏👏
Love the way you document your adventure and the way you film this video. So beautiful. Hoping for more adventures in the future.
this was unexpected and profoundly beautiful
"What kind of videos would you like to make some days?" Well, this.
what a compliment!! 🥹
this was beautiful! Thank you 🥹
I had thought about doing the same thing, painting with watercolors all the inspiring, beautiful and worth remembering moments of my life. And today your video reminds me of this idea that I had and that I should not let go of. I also want to paint my adventures. I am excited to begin. THANKS!!
Amazing!!
Wow your paintings are breathtaking
How beautiful 🥺 It's very inspiring. Thank you ♥
loved the video! Which mic do you use? We love making voiceovers on our videos but currently using my iphone for that... And the quality isn't the best :L x
What a stunningly amazing video. I am thinking of starting my own form of artistic documentation through collages and this has really inspired me :)
so glad to hear :)
You deserve millions of subscribers
These videos are soooooo impressive!!! Every video makes me want to live my life to its fullest!! LOVE your videos!!
so glad to hear that!! :)
Oh so lovely. Thank you for sharing. I wasn't expecting this, but its a really great idea
Your acrylics are really great! Such glorious captures. I think I need some small canvases!! I have a Dutchie man too. LOL
What a beautiful video. Makes me want to paint all day for some reason.
This is such a beautiful video! I like to draw, but I never make time for it. This had inspired me to draw some moments from my own adventures. Thank you 🙏
Thank you! Glad to hear 😊
What a beautiful video! And such a lovely and deeply meaningful way to keep your memories close x
Thank you so much!☺️
This is such a great idea and feels like the exact thing I want to start doing with my memories. I've thought of having a big scrapbook, and who knows, I might still do that, but this is really what I need for my special memories. I find it cool that you just make the painting based off the photo from your phone: it doesn't need to be as realistic as possible, just captures the essence. Also by painting at the end of the trip rather than doing it live during the hike or whatever, you can actually gauge what was important looking back on the trip.
I haven't painted in over a decade and I wasnt great back then as a kid, so it would probably be much better off with something like colored pencils, but seems like a cool opportunity to learn a new skill also and find my own style.
same :)
Your voice's amazing and so is your story
You are one hell of an artist. This was great!
thank you! ☺️
Absolute piece of art - i LOVE it!! so so well done
🥰🥰
Keep it up Ottilie!! Love the style and message! You are going places! 😄
Thanks so much!!
Beautiful film! Truly enjoyed it, thanks for making this.
Glad you enjoyed it!🤗
So happyy I found your channel :)❤
Me too!! 🤗
Great idea to paint 🎨 the memories, instead of filling harddrives (I’m guilty of that, too)
Sidenote: I really enjoy the calm tone of your videos. It has something really relaxing to me.😊
Thank you! :)
i love this!
The way I smiled through the entire video, thank you so much for sharing something extremely precious with the world :')
How to document your life:
"Just paint little pictures"
She says, in her documentary quality vlog.
A wonderful story
much appreciated! :)
I love your paintings
that's such a beautiful way of documenting your adventures, can't even imagine how aweinspiring it will be with even more paintings on the walls to look at. also really beautiful video 🥰
I found your channel by chance. I love the way you describe your journey. I could listen to you endlessly. Your words are simple but have a deep meaning.
thank you so much!!
All the best for a great future ahead!
Keep going girl! btw link your songs? :)
thanks!!
these are the songs I used (all from epidemic sound):
- The Trace of You by Taylor Crane
- The Landslide by Martin Hall ft. Julia Holström
- Just Bones (Instrumental) by Zorro
- In Times I Think of Us by Travis Kowalski
I think that's all :)
That was so beautiful! Really touched me. Thank you for that! Also, it made me really think about how I want to capture my life. So glad the algorithm brought up your video ❤
another version of life of riza. youre great too
the biggest compliment!!
And if you can’t draw?
This hits on a so much deeper level.
On the one hand, like Jonne, you have to live life and feel it.
On the other hand, you have to make it meaningful by picking moments and give them a sense.
As i'm also a hoarder of moments, i always thought: life passes just by.
And going all the pictures and tickets I got a glimpse of the past, you made me realize, that i have to pick the best moments and have to present them to have the moments live on.
Thank your for the awesome food of thought.
Such a beautiful film and concept. Thank you for making it.
I love this video!!! Thank you. Very inspirational
Wow. Stunning!!
Can you guys give me recommendations to what to do with all the photos and videos that i take idk how to have all of them, my phone dont have more space and my google photos also :(
Buy an external hard drive.
Pick the ones you love the most, print them out and put them in a photo album or make a scrapbook 🙆♀️
What a beautiful video! You are so talented.
PS What camera(s) do you use to film?
Kudos to the algorithm who brought me to this amazing video content. Subsrcibed to see many surreal and amazing experiences❤
What a video! Beautiful storytelling, images, lesson...Just incredible.
This video is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
That is such a cool idea! I’ve been thinking about ways to try to document my life better beyond my journal, and this gives me some inspiration. Thank you for sharing!
wooow i like this perspective. i think i'll be doing it too! thanks for sharing!
queen!!
You’ll be happier if you don’t document it.
This styled like Our Generation and Culture is weird
Those drawings are so damn cool and pretty! i was so impressed at the moment where you showed the actual way of "meaningful" documenting everything, by those paintings. such a cool and inspirational idea! thanks :)
Thank you!! ☺️
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Such a beautiful film and adventure, you've inspired me to start painting again 🙏💜✨️
Nowadays i m loving my youtube feeds
I love love love that you paint your adventures! So lovely!
thank you!! 🤗
Hi such a lovely and inspiring video.. Subscribed :) What gear do you use?
how are people this good at videomaking
I love this. And may I say, you are so pretty!
This video has so much beauty! Thanks for sharing this way of documenting life that you have :)
l love the idea of painting the travel//
Beautiful! The video, the landscapes and the paintings! Also the sentence about not caring how much money you'll make, as long as you'll be able to go on trips like this that remind you what living life is all about, really resonates with me.
A beautiful thing that we all have a unique perspective. Our own painting of the same thing. Great video!
This is lovely.
Please share the songs used in the video. They are wonderful :)
Damn i rly need to learn to draw xd
Such beautiful shots and scenery! Your painting skills are also so great and having inspired to try and take up landscape painting to capture adventures. Thank you so much for sharing this! Big love from Zambia 🇿🇲
Even i have the problem of over documenting my life, i do not share it on social media, just document it and way up my storage space. I wrote daily journals. I think i might need to make a discuss versions of my history to make them meaningful.
This video was lovely. Captures so much of my heart
Beautiful😍
So cool! I started with a similar project during covid lockdown, but never made it past some sketches...as I still feel like I'm not good enough yet with water colors. Love your paintings! They motivate me to start working on this again and give watercolouring another try :)
I loved your video! You did an amazing job and very well put together. May I ask what camera you used for filming?
Thanks :) I used the canon R6!
beautiful.
Thank you!
this is beautiful!!! do you mind telling me what camera you filmed this on?
would love to start documenting all my future adventures someday
that’s so nice to hear 😌 it’s mostly filmed on the Canon R6!
I really love this! What a great film! The storytelling is soooo good and love the paintings you did! I might try and do that as it really does make it more meaningful and memorable
The beauty isn’t in the outcome, it’s the process ❤️ love this!! I just had the thought I need to paint more then I stumbled across this video
wow
Is it necessary to document the events just live at the moment and remember it with just one photo 🤷♂️
ofc not necessary for everyone, whatever floats your boat ⛵️
Excellent video😁👌 makes me evaluate the sad fact that I have yet to spend days on end trudging through whiteout-level snowy conditions
wow i just loved this
Aaaand I'm crying