{"id":92298,"date":"2018-06-05T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/05\/life-update-living-in-saigon-for-the-next-2-months\/"},"modified":"2018-06-05T19:33:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T02:33:19","slug":"life-update-living-in-saigon-for-the-next-2-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/05\/life-update-living-in-saigon-for-the-next-2-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Update: Living in Saigon for the Next 2 Months!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just flew via EVA air for 20 hours, and arrived in Saigon, and made a <a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=pFXanRx68h0&amp;feature=youtu.be\">what&#8217;s in my bag Youtube Video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Why Saigon?<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What\u2019s in My Bag: Moving to Saigon for 2 Months!\" width=\"1180\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pFXanRx68h0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cindy is attending a conference in Singapore, and I&#8217;m also <a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/singapore-2018\/\">doing a workshop (July 21-22nd) in Singapore<\/a>. Saigon is for sure my favorite city in the world: super fast WiFi, great coffee, super friendly people, and spirit of innovation is pervasive. Also, apparently 90% of Vietnamese people are optimistic about the economic future, so you see lots of positive energy, especially in the youth.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there&#8217;s always new things being built and torn down, so you get the feeling that there isn&#8217;t stagnation. Compare to America, where Tyler Cowan wrote the &#8220;Complacent class&#8221; book, which suggests that America is stagnating in innovation (besides perhaps Silicon Valley).<\/p>\n<h2>What are you going to do there?<\/h2>\n<p>Anyways, while I&#8217;m here, I plan on doing more videos, making new online courses (signup for my <a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/newsletter\">newsletter<\/a> to stay updated), cinematography analyses, poems, and more epicness! I hope to be less distracted here, and to produce even more!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>What&#8217;s in my bag<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>New THINKTANK Perception Pro backpack (bigger, better for all my new video gear)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/lumixg9\/\">Lumix G9, 12mm f1.4 lens<\/a> for photo and video<\/li>\n<li>Rode Boom Microphone<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/24\/why-the-gopro-fusion-virtual-reality-augmented-reality-and-360-is-the-future-of-photography\/\">GoPro fusion<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Other misc. stuff<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Travel hacks:<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Don&#8217;t eat on the flight, to minimize jet lag.<\/li>\n<li>Use flight time to finally concentrate without WiFi, to read, write, produce stuff!<\/li>\n<li>Drink lots of black coffee and tea on the flight, and use eye mask and earplugs to take a nap when you&#8217;re tired.<\/li>\n<li>Schedule a taxi pickup if you have a long flight, to not hassle at the airport<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Lots more epicness to come!<\/p>\n<p>To stay updated, follow me on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/erickimphotography\">YouTube<\/a> or subscribe to my <a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/newsletter\">newsletter<\/a> for exclusive updates!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/travel\/\">Travel Articles &gt;<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just flew via EVA air for 20 hours, and arrived in Saigon, and made a what&#8217;s in my bag Youtube Video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/img_4245-1.jpg?fit=2260%2C1668&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92309,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92298\/revisions\/92309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}