This is DPR LIVE, and this booster is going to be about creating your vision board.

I'm a big fan of envisioning and manifesting what you want.

Creation and manifestation starts in the mind. Always.

It's what you want to do, be and have, and it's what you put your 100 percent certainty on that gets manifested in the future.

Without having something you want so clear in your mind, how are you gonna achieve something?

I always start out with a pen and paper, and I categorize it into what do I want to have, what do I want to do, and what do I want to be? With no limitations.

If you had a genie lamp, you wouldn't be like, "Oh, that wouldn't be possible, I'm not gonna wish for that. Oh, this? No. I don't think I have talent for that."

No, like it would be like, "I want this. I want this. I want this." Right?

I would make sure I juice out my brain, like, squeeze every ounce of wants I have in my head and my heart 'till there's nothing else running.

In the beginning of my career and this venture off of becoming a musician, I would spend at least minimal four hours, just doubling down on my vision.

And I would do that day in and day out, every day, and I would continue that list and I would filter out, "Oh, having this already solves this." So I would cross that out.

And I would constantly like mold that into like a solid list of what I want in my life, like, what I want to juice out of my life.

Having absolute clarity there is the first step.

And then what I would do is, off of that list, start looking for pictures that could describe that, that you can't describe with words.

Say, like, I've always wanted to wake up with automated curtains just opening for me at a certain time while, like, one of my favorite music or lectures play.

And then the sun shines through the window as I, uh, wake up feeling so good.

And then I roll into my jacuzzi and then maybe my loved one or a, a private chef would hand me my organic green juice.

And this is like, this is things that pull on my emotional strings.

I go to Pinterest, I go to Google and I search what I'm looking for, whether it be a house, a car, an experience, for pictures or anything to fully detail that out visually.

I would archive those pictures, print them out somehow and then start cutting away and then start pasting it on the wall, according to what I want to have, do, and be.

So I would look for interior and houses that I would love to wake up in.

I would look for views I would love to wake up seeing, you know, like I would print out pictures of jacuzzis.

And right next to the bed, and I would kind of like, put the bed here and then tape the jacuzzi right next to it.

Just... and then, like, put the curtains over here, like, however, I, I have to do it, but that's enough for me to be like, "Oh, yes, that's what I want. I remember."

I don't have to go through the whole, "What do I want to do?" And rewrite it.

It's just, I look at that picture and it's like, "Yes!"

My environment was a big contrast to that.

Like, I was working three jobs like at Subway and cutting sandwiches, working at a coffee shop.

I was in a tiny-ass recording studio that was like in a basement somewhere where cockroaches were coming out.

All these visions I'm drawing in my head, it felt so real because I spent time to step into it.

That's something a lot of people are missing.

The third thing I would do, I think this one is the most important, and I'm not sure if I told anybody this, but I would go shopping for that, actually, physically.

So in Korea, I looked for the most accurate houses that I'm looking for, according to my vision board.

And I would call the real estate agents, and I would act like I'm looking for a house that I'm about to buy right now.

I would live that moment as if I'm gonna buy this.

I would even talk to the person like, "Oh, this would make a good room for my children. My wife would love this kitchen counter."

And now it's like, when I look at that picture, it's not just a picture, it's like, I've been there.

I know what it feels like to look at the view outside my window.

There's real feeling there and real experience there.

I would go to car dealerships and be like, I would really act like I would buy a Lamborghini right now.

I would get into cars, really look at the interiors.

I would ask them about pricing, what it would cost me to do a one time payment.

And mind you, they're probably thinking, like, 'Man, this guy's gonna buy it right now cause he's so certain about it, as if he's gonna buy it in one pay.'

But in all honesty, it was just me stepping into my dreams that much more.

And those are the moments that really changed my life.

Everyone should have a shot at living their best life.

If you wanna live your best life, you need to be your own designer of your life.

If you don't manifest, if you don't decide to take control of designing your life and creating the life you want, you're just gonna be a part of somebody else's plan.

Being able to choose how you wanna live your life is the first step to living.

This is DPR LIVE, and this is my Mindset.

DPR LIVE discusses how to create a vision board and manifest your dreams.

Manifestation with DPR LIVE

LIVE: Hey, this is DPR and we are going to walk you through how we write a song.

IAN: The process that I took for making “MITO,” for example.

It had a lot more to do with the character of this individual that had all the mental disorders in the world jam packed into one.

And with a flick of a switch, this person turned into this superhero.

I didn't want to hit on the idea that this was bad for him.

If anything, this was something that he needed.

IAN: Yeah. I wanted to show the perspective of, instead of, cause, you know, we live in this society of like, how mental disorders are, you know, like, it's very hard to sometimes even talk about, you know?

And this character, I wanted it to be a representation...

So then I would want to imagine, like no matter where I am in this world.

That's kind of what I want to do. I feel like that's so important.

IAN: That's how we enjoy it, you know, cause we like imagining and listening to it.

That's one key thing that DPR prioritizes.

IAN: I remember when I was in MITO, I had to be this character.

I literally had to train my mind to really, really think that this character was real.

You know, he had all these traits that IAN, the everyday IAN, would never have, you know what I mean?

And I wanted something so bad where when someone watched it on screen and then they saw me in real life, they couldn't piece two and two together, like, "Really? That's you?"

I wanted to be shocked because I wanted to also confuse myself, thinking that wasn't me.

Only when I'm in my dips, I felt like I was really MITO.

But then I think what happened was, after the album released, it took me like three months to get out of that character.

That's literally the mental process that, like, one of the examples that we sometimes go through when we create songs, when we create a project.

IAN: We actually engulf ourselves into a certain character, into a certain trait, just purely for a visual and sonic experience.

LIVE: IOT, that was like the most difficult, I feel like task.

IAN: Because you're actually going through it.

LIVE: Yeah, cause, like, I was going through that storyline.

Like, I had to really put myself in the sense of like, 'Okay, like, how would this guy feel when he's leaving Earth for looking for this planet that he only sees in his dreams' type of thing?

LIVE: But you have to really, like, put yourself in that character.

LIVE: And I think like, that's why, like, it takes so much...

I feel like that's something we... I don't know we, we love doing, though.

LIVE: For me, it's a little different from IAN in the sense of like I have a side where I just make music for the fuck of it.

LIVE: Because that's kind of like how I started out, like, Coming To You Live, IITE COOL, like, more music that's less a character, but more of a vibe.

And more of like, uh, like that type of, like, texture.

Sometimes you, you have to just make music just for the fun of it.

IAN: It doesn't have to be all that serious sometimes, you know what I mean?

Sometimes people will struggle with lyrics.

You just have to treat it, sometimes, as a journal, like a diary.

You know, like what you did on that day and how it made you feel.

If you're describing your love for someone, literally treat it as a diary.

Like, just write it out first, like, how you felt.

IAN: What you guys were doing in that moment.

Sometimes it doesn't even have to be that.

If you're just cross-referencing how you think it would feel, then it would be good to pick up on references from a movie, from books, from a picture even, you know?

And I would always put that as like a visual diagram in front of me, and I'll just kind of describe it as it is.

LIVE: For instance, like we'll put it in a photographer's perspective, right?

Everybody sees this homeless person in a certain street and he's always there.

But when a photographer comes in the picture and he sees something different about that homeless person, he decides to capture that in his camera.

And when people see it, they feel an emotion towards this situation and that person, where, like, the way he's looking at something and the grade of it and, like, it's, like, it was a very everyday thing, but because the artist shifted people's perspective on it with texture and like just the moment he captured it and it becomes very special.

And I kind of see art and writing as the same thing.

Like, it could be very everyday things where it might not feel special to somebody else, but, like, it's really the way you feel about it.

LIVE: And how you can make, like, art like you.

And that's kind of how I've been writing music like, “Text Me,” come on.

Like, it's, like, it's such aneveryday thing.

But for me, like, that moment was a very special moment for me and that individual.

You just have to be confident in your own story...

LIVE: My next step is coming to these guys and just sharing.

I just go right away to these guys, I'm like, "Yo I made a song. What do y'all think about it?.

LIVE: And then, you know, we start really imagining off of that and just start seeing the potential of how we can push it, if we want to push it.

Like, what's everybody's favorite song, like stuff like that.

To see how these guys feel about it because...

Yeah, I see, like, a lot of room for improvement through those conversations and I see the things I want to keep.

Like, they help me amplify the feelings I wanted to amplify, and it's just, like, another growth spurt.

DPR LIVE and DPR IAN share their songwriting process.

Songwriting with DPR LIVE and DPR IAN

Hey, guys, this is DPR IAN, and this is how I make movies.

Every key component of anything visual, especially, comes from imagination.

When I got the song for Summer Tights, you know, for DPR LIVE, I remember I was listening to that song and I, I was imagining a scene from a movie where a boy was stranded in the middle of Mount Everest, and his only hope was to be under this wolf skin.

And mind you, like, if you think about it, this song has nothing to do with summer tights.

You got to understand there's no rules when it comes to creating a visual.

For an audio piece for myself, I like to conjure up a scene where I know what that character's  feeling, where I know what that character's dressed as, what that scene looks like, what time of day it is, what's happening in that scene.

In order to have a broader imagination, you need to see a lot of things, experience a lot of things.

And that, in turn, I feel like, becomes your catalog to this huge library of inspiration, things that you can absolutely conjure up any time you want.

Usually, I tend to walk different routes.

Places I've never really walked before, and I go for an adventure.

I like to capture each moment, and I like to kind of feel like I'm in a music video at certain times.

I like to look at things and place a story on them.

And I think the most important thing is giving context, context to anything you want to give context to.

I like to write a journal about it, and that journal eventually becomes my lyric.

It could be pretty helpful for a lot of people that want to be lyricists.

And it's usually good if you have a reference picture, a reference video, just so you have a clear idea of what you're trying to replicate or what you're trying to imitate.

If I've already had that scene imagined and I've already written a song about it, all I have to do is essentially shoot that scene now, make that scene come to life.

If you're worried about equipment or the quality of what you're shooting on, don't worry, cause it will only get better.

When I first started, I used a, uh, iPhone.

Being practical, I think, is, is key in doing anything.

The more you shoot things, the more confident you'll get.

That's something that I've learned by doing it.

I would always compare my work to a lot of people.

If I did that, it would sometimes kill my buzz because I would always be comparing, like, how much I need to go in comparison to, like where I should be, which is fine.

You shouldn't compare too much with someone that's been doing it for like 10, 20 years, you know?

That's one way that a lot of people kind of end up giving up.

Let me tell you, if you stop giving any fucks about anything else like judgment or, or how much you have to do, or you have... especially if you're trying to please somebody, you know, I think the key thing is you shouldn't give too much fucks about anything and you should just do it for yourself.

If there's something that you want to do, if it's something that you want to shoot, purely because you're inspired by it, that should be enough reason for you to go out and just shoot something.

And the more you can imagine, the more you can be excited about it.

And I've always been excited about every project that I've ever done.

Filmmaking with DPR IAN

This is DPR REM. I am the creative director slash producer.

IAN: I'm DPR IAN. And I'm an artist as well as a visual director in DPR.

LIVE: This is DPR LIVE. I'm also a musician, Korean pop music, Korean hip hop music, musician.

REM: The name... It's quite infamous amongst us now.

DPR stands for “Dream Perfect Regime.”

That acronym was always around. Um, the originator behind that acronym is Christian.

He has always shared that acronym with me, and I remember one day I asked him what it actually meant cause it sounds good, to be honest.

It just, it has, like, a certain punctuation to it.

REM: A lot of the day one fans will know this story.

The original mean... I should say, right?

The original meaning was “D” and then “Pink Reel.”

And I asked him, I clearly remember I asked him, "How did you even think of that?"

And he said, "I just saw it in my dream. And I like the color pink. Or something in my, in my dream was pink."

And then real being R-E-E-L, like the director reel.

REM: So I listened to that for the first time and it was hard to put on a, an interested face.

IAN: I was hurt. REM: I literally told him, "Give me one week. I like DPR. Look, we're going to keep DPR."

And then we fiddled around, well, I fiddled around a lot for that one week, trying to piece a different meaning behind the acronym.

I remember I was, like, looking through the dictionary constantly, every day.

What words start with the letter D or P or R?

Literally doing my own little experiment of just mixing mashing words.

And then I don't know how, I really don't remember this, but it just hit me and I was just like, “Dream Perfect” was something that just stood out.

It was kind of odd but in the same breath, it was just also, it was interesting.

Like, I've never heard “Dream Perfect” put together like that.

And so that immediately made, I guess, the cut and then the R was the hardest part.

REM: I remember Regime just kind of came up in my head, and that's kind of like the formal way of saying, like, a very military type group that's just very, like, clean cut and they're very aligned.

I love it when military movies, they have that squad that just fuck shit up.

It's like the alpha black squad, like, they have the medallions and everything, and it's like these guys are like ninjas.

They move so precisely, and it gets the job done so efficiently.

And something about it just kind of clicked.

I don't know what it was, but I pitched it to IAN a week or two after.

LIVE: Yeah, and then he shared it with, I remember.

REM: Yeah, I think I shared it with all the other guys.

And I was like, "Alright, let's run with it, then."

IAN: We were, if not, like, one of the first independent teams that had a visual production and music production under one umbrella.

For us, those two, hand in hand, are key thing when it comes to, let's say, constructing music. We try to take it to another level where, um, we want to be different with it.

LIVE: We're trying to build something big, build something that fans could actually latch on and dig deep if they, if they chose to.

We haven't shared so much about our real stories.

Being able to like, share how we look at our art, how we look at our team, our values or morals, like what makes us stick together, what makes our relationships work, what we hold important to us, that type of side of us, you know, I'm pretty sure there's a lot of fans who are curious.

IAN: The process is something that a lot of people will not know how deep we go into this, the mindset behind where a lot of our inspiration comes from, our workflow, our process, and our mindset, and how we do it.

I think it'll give a lot of clarification.

To a lot of people that want to do this, it's just transparency, really, at this point.

REM: We just never knew when would be the right time to talk about stuff like this.

I think now it's like we've matured to a point where it's like, 'Oh, we know what this is. We know what we're doing. We've seen this before. Now let's learn to enjoy this before it passes us again.'

It's about time that we share our Mindset, share how we came about, and share how DPR was founded on, the principles, the values, the stories even.

If we just keep remaining silent, it's just such a waste of opportunity as well.

LIVE: We've pushed a narrative of dreaming and manifesting that, and through this conversation, if they can pull away something that can help them do that, I think that'd be amazing.

IAN: Even if one person watches any of the things that we do, from visuals, from songs, and they, one day, decide after they watch that to take a career in creating, you've already affected somebody's life, just like that.

As an artist, especially, that's, I think, one of your main goals.

LIVE: Me in particular, I kind of want to speak to the fan or the listener or the person who's interested in this as if I'm talking to the person when I was young.

Like when I first met these guys, like, what type of advice would I, would I give to that person, like, to that Dabin?

And for the listener, I guess, just like, let it flow through you and just soak everything in and then kind of like, think about it.

It could be very unorthodox, I feel like.

Drop any type of judgment, 뭔가 다 다를 수도 있는데, it could be different, but I would kind of advise to just be very open minded and just to take it all in and see how it can maybe affect you.

IAN: RIght. I think there are gonna be viewers out there that are very artistic and there are gonna be viewers that are very more logically, I guess, business savvy, um, type of people.

IAN: And I think this is a very good balance because in our team, we have that, we have those two sides.

REM: "Dream Perfect" has to be said together.

DPR

Meet DPR

The Making of MITO, Moodswings In This Order

The Making of the Businessman

The Making of the Mediator

The Regime

Maintaining an Element of Mystery

The Nightmare

Love Means to Provide

Emoji Gang

21 Questions with DPR

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