№ 03 — Video
Two doors into the same craft: sponsored content built around the engineering work on the channel, and video produced for brands that need their story told properly.
The editor
I've been cutting video for half a decade — long enough that the editing language is muscle memory and short enough that the gear and grammar of cinematic content still feel fresh.
The shift into cinema-grade production is more recent — about six months in — and it's already reshaping what the channel can do: deeper colour, tighter sound design, real coverage. Sponsored segments are written, shot, and graded with the same craft as the editorial work around them.
The audience is technical and skeptical. They notice when an integration is bolted on and when it's genuine. The work runs on that distinction.
I — Sponsorships
Branded video produced for the Vanpeltventures channel and beyond. Engineering-tilted audience, integration over interruption — only sponsors I would personally use.
Da Nang — from a poetic vlog short, 2026
II — Productions
Video made for your brand — launch films, founder stories, event edits, and clipping retainers. One operator from camera to final cut.
The work
2026·09:38·vlog / travel
Saigon to Da Nang the cheap way — one night, no hotel, a ticket three times cheaper than the plane. The budget hack that turned into the story.
2026·06:10·vlog / startup
First week of the nomad chapter in Saigon — a hundred users on the board, zero revenue, and a monsoon rolling in over the build.
2026·03:58·vlog / personal
Committing to the leap long before the plan was ready — the one-way ticket as a forcing function.
2026·07:35·vlog / personal
Why I left the comfortable salary to build my own thing — and what the first month actually looked like.
2026·01:56·vlog / process
A day walking through Brussels, thinking out loud about the work.
2026·11:40·build / hardware / agents
Hotline Claude — restoring a 1950s rotary phone into a direct line to a cloud agent, coding live in production from a Bakelite handset.
Brand fit? Talk sponsorship → Need something made? Commission a video →