Brennan Miner

Brennan Miner is an American entrepreneur, sustainable homesteader focused on developing food forestry, aquaponics, water management, and self-sufficiency skills, and an importer of Japanese mini-trucks to sell in the US market.

Blackland Hills Homestead Farm

Brennan moved onto a chunk of land large enough that he realized that if he focused on developing and implementing well-constructed systems, he could live off of the land, improve his quality of life dramatically, and effectively retire, only focusing on topics that interested him. This endeavor, along with various other inspiration, led to the creation of his YouTube channel.

Warped Pipe Workshop

 Warped Pipe Workshop is name of Brennan's YouTube channel. The name is based on the name of his website; warp-pipe.net . After starting to spend more of his newly open free time with his brother, he started to pay more attention to YouTube. A user of the site since its launch in 2006,(???) he was no stranger to the site, but he had previously avoided watching "youtubers," viewing the entire genre of entertainment as low-quality, brain-rot "content" made by individuals whom if you had to be around in real life that you would avoid like the plague. He maintained this, admittedly purposely ignorant view of the platform's "lowest hanging fruit content makers," as he saw them, for way too many years before simply looking around for content that interested him. Once he became aware of the people making content that was interesting, or who had an eye for cinematography, etc. He became interested in possibly beginning to make content for the platform. He saw the kinds of views that other people were getting on their videos and realized that if he was going to be doing all of this interesting work around his property in order to create the type of sustainable, food-forestry and aquaponics-based homestead farming operation that he envisioned, that it would be wasteful not to take video of the process along the way in order to share with the world. He also viewed making the videos as inspiration to work at a faster pace and see-through side projects that tended to remain in various states of "semi-finished" -- cluttering up his spaces.
 He waited for many months, up to 2 years, making plans, developing video ideas, creating title graphics, interstitials, music, as well as various elements of the gear needed to film and make videos that met his standards. He learned to edit video, he increased his skills in digital visual art and music for several years before launching his platform, preferring to work "in the darkness", or simply outside of the public eye, to develop his skills in order to deliver a high quality product from the launch of the channel onwards, rather than having a on-camera growth period -- leaving a wealth of, by his standards, sub-par quality content on the channel as well as "using up video ideas before I had the skills to properly give the project the kind of attention that it deserves." His content is known for utilizing cinematic camera work and equipment in order to produce a quality that is memorable. Due to the strict rules on the platform about using copyrighted music, he spent "a significant amount of time" listening to film soundtracks, paying attention to the ways sound is utilized in television, and developing the skills to utilize tools like mixing software, sampling and looping equipment, synths, instruments, pedals, and an extensive vinyl record collection "as well as a large collection of random mp3s I've made of isolated sounds, as well as taped selections of broadcast TV from the 90s and before" in order to isolate, modulate, and manipulate in order to create "soundscapes" used as the background music in his videos. "I am planning to release a 1-2 hour ambient DJ / live-production album / set at some point soon -- among other audio projects that may or may not" escape from his videos to be released on their own accord. 

Houston Custom Kei

He began importing japanese vehicles with his brother in 2025, a venture that became Houston Custom Kei / HCK Custom Fabrication, a japanese kei truck importer, outfitter, and fabrication shop. The shop imports vehicles, performs an extended maintenance procedure, and does custom fabrication of interior electronics systems as well as offroading bumpers, railings, skid plates, roll-cages and exo-skeletons to a fully custom spec based on the needs of each client.