Congrats to my Brother

My brother Ben just graduated from the Sound Design for Digital Media program at the Vancouver Film School. That means he’s really good at managing and executing the end to end sound design process for films and video games – everything from creating and recording sounds to mixing and post production work. If you’re still not sure what that really means, take a look at his final project. It’s awesome. He took a video game trailer, stripped away all of the sound, and recreated all new tracks from scratch. A couple highlights: those creature screams are pigs and sea otters, and the sizzling sound when the soldier steps on the smoking body is meat hitting a frying pan. Congrats Ben. Well done.

Great Investing Advice

Many people often ask me for investment advice, usually with questions about individual securities. I generally don’t like to respond to these questions for two reasons. First, I believe asset allocation is the single most important decision in the portfolio construction process. For this reason, I like to evaluate investments in the context of a diversified portfolio, not in isolation. There are always exceptions, sometimes for good reason, but I try to avoid them. Second, I can’t predict the future, and anyone who claims to be able to do so is lying. I have opinions on which companies, markets, and sectors appear to offer favorable opportunities, but if you ask me if a particular investment is going to go up

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LCD Soundsystem – Sounds from Buttons & Knobs

I apologize for the lack of blogging over the past month. After a two year break from reality, I’ve reentered the workforce and haven’t had time to put together many posts. Over time I’ll hopefully find a happy medium, and get into a routine with at least a few posts a week. For any LCD Soundsystem fans reading this, here are two rather interesting clips of James Murphy using a sequencer to make sounds in the studio. For any non LCD Soundsystem fans, here are two really strange videos: On related note, I saw James Murphy’s movie, ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ a couple weeks ago and have to say that I was a bit let down. It was fun

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