The Jimmy DiResta Documentary: Shop and Property Tour
This documentary about the legendary maker godfather, Jimmy DiResta, not only takes you on a multi-shop and property tour but also goes in depth about his life and legacy both personally and in the community. Jimmy is a designer, builder, and maker located in upstate New York who is a content creator and television personality including but not limited to hosting the show Making Fun, as seen on Netflix.
"Since I was a little kid in my dad’s shop I have been experimenting with tools and materials. Learning how to use and implement them. Now 40+ years later that’s all I have been doing: Making things and teaching how to make things involving metal, wood, plastic and more.
I have been making things ever since I was able to hold a hammer and likely longer than that. I grew up working around, and alongside my dad, a Long Island handyman. He put me in an environment to keep experimenting and learning, so my early education involved a wide array of problem solving using all manner of tools, skills and materials… and that is my philosophy in the shop; learn all you can about anything and everything so it becomes a part of your problem solving arsenal." (excerpt from jimmydiresta.com)
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00:00 Meet Jimmy
02:21 Childhood: A More Interesting Way
04:31 The New Barn
07:41 Art School: The Beginnings
09:36 Becoming a Content Creator
14:24 House and Property Tour
18:36 Products
21:30 The Ice Pick
24:25 The DiResta Schedule
27:40 Iron Worker
30:52 Jimmy's Speedway: Go Kart Track
33:27 New Yorker at a Flea Market
36:44 Jimmy: More Than Just a Maker
41:22 The Godfather: A Legacy
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Moo! Moo! Moo!
We're gonna walk past 40 tons of grass to come and grab this animal here.
They're so dumb, but they're defiant at the same time.
Dumb and defiant.
My name is Jimmy DiResta and I make things for a living.
We're here in my house in Eastern New York.
It's funny, Barry Katz has been a big inspiration to me.
He's a TV movie producer from LA.
He would always say, just be a good hang.
And it's so simple.
He always says, be undeniable and be a good hang.
And just to be a good hang is what I would like people
to think of me once I leave the room.
and we're like, oh, that guy was a good hang.
I was supposed to be like, do you have water?
Where's the bathroom?
Is this fresh?
You know, I don't wanna be one of those guys.
Yeah.
No, Barry says it all the time.
He goes, if you wanna be successful in show business,
just be a good hang.
And it's just like that bee's nest in the backyard.
No one goes near the bee's nest.
No one goes to the other side of the yard
because they know they might get stung by a bee.
When somebody has a bee's nest of an attitude,
people just gravitate away from them.
No, I think it's really, it's an honor that people would call me the Godfather.
You know, it's, every once in a while I think like, why do I get called the Godfather?
I don't know, maybe it's just because I share so much.
I'm like maybe open to a fault.
I'd rather be called the Godfather than the asshole.
This is a typical day here in the Black Barn.
Taylor has that side of the room and I typically have this side of the room.
Taylor, my girlfriend, makes chairs, beautifully handcrafted chairs, and her
orders have been picking up so she hired a couple guys to help her out and
production is picking up doing really well. But on a typical day I work in here
by myself on this side and Taylor's on that side sometimes with her assistants.
When I was a little kid, I was always thinking about a more easy, more practical way.
And as I got older, I kept thinking of a more practical way.
For instance, if there was a line at the bank, I would always figure out how to cut the line without insulting everybody.
I would always figure out a more interesting way to solve a problem.
I'd always come in the back door.
And that rooster's going to accent every single thing I say.
So ever since I was a little kid, I always kind of had that.
And I feel that's been something that's carried through as I became an adult.
Even now, like for instance, an example would be, you know, everybody's getting paid to
take machines on YouTube.
A lot of times I don't want to get paid.
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Güneş!
Güneş!
Güneş!
Buraya gelip bu hayvanı yakalamak için 40 ton çimli yürüyüş yapacağız.
Çok aptallar, ama aynı zamanda meydan okuyorlar.
Aptal ve meydan okuyucu.
Video Summary & Chapters
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Video Transcript
Güneş!
Güneş!
Güneş!
Buraya gelip bu hayvanı yakalamak için 40 ton çimli yürüyüş yapacağız.
Çok aptallar, ama aynı zamanda meydan okuyorlar.
Aptal ve meydan okuyucu.
