Baby Benson's First Year!

Here is a fun little video I made of my son's first year of life. Hope you enjoy!

Beat Manipulators

The best doing what they do best.

Keeping it graphic...

Eye flares were pushed a lot when I was at Blue Sky. Open them wide and scale them up to accentuate moments of intensity. Perhaps they should sometimes be pushed even further with eye direction. This frame from Sex and the City shows Charlotte's eyes being pretty wall-eyed right at the extreme of her "NO" moment. Fascinating!

Change indeed

I cannot help but feel that my current profession as a trader has changed me quite a bit, and I am struggling with coming to grips with that. Trusting what others say has become more difficult, and my constant internal questioning has most likely hindered my abilities as an "artist" if I can even call myself that. One thing is for sure: creating things makes me happy, and I will never stop doing that in life.

SYTYCD

So You Think You Can Dance is by far my favorite TV show, and the season finale is coming up next Wednesday.  Who will win?  If a brilliant audition is any indication, it should be Ricky out of the guys.  Last year's male winner was Fik Shun, and I thought it was pretty obvious from this solo he did last year.

Dynamic Trading

Of all books on technical analysis, I have found Robert Miner's Dynamic Trading to be an invaluable resource to at least understand the thinking behind chart trading. It's really interesting to see how algorithms have been designed to attempt to capture the 3rd and 5th waves of Elliot Wave Theory. If the stock market is mostly run by computers that have been developed by humans, it makes sense that fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio serve as a road map for price.

Duet

This gets me every time I watch it. And I cannot stop watching it. Glen Keane is the guy who brought characters like Aladdin, Ariel, Beast, and Tarzan to life, and I know I am being so original in saying this, but he is my hero.