Sunday, February 3, 2019

Youtube daily report w Feb 4 2019

My name is Jeffrey Poon,

a landscape photographer from Hong Kong.

I usually search high and low

to discover and explore interesting and unique angle of Hong Kong landscape.

I always bring along with my FUJIFILM GFX 50S and 50R

to uninhabited areas of Hong Kong where allow me to capture the beautiful nature.

When talking about landscape photography in the hill,

apart from the portability, flexibility of gears also takes an important role.

So I decided to equip with the latest GF100-200mmF5.6 lens

and walk into the Lantau Island of Hong Kong to begin a long photo journey.

The first feeling that GF100-200mmF5.6 given to me is

Woo! It is really light and compact.

I can take it out very easily on the rugged roads

set the focal length and capture what I want.

When GFX body equipped with this lens, it won't add an extra weight to you

while the overall balance of the GFX is great.

Some people may have this question in mind. "The max. aperture of this lens is only F5.6, will the shutter speed not fast enough?"

"Will photos get blurred easily?"

I can tell you the truth is, the OIS system is much better than I thought!

It is easy to take sharp images.

I walked 6 kilometres with 40 pounds equipment to Tai Hom Sham,

which surrounded by trees and grasses only.

It is unbelievable that this primeval area is a part of Hong Kong.

Times flies and it is time to capture sunset.

With this lens I can stay close to my tent without walking around.

I can capture beautiful landscape nearby by just zooming in and out.

Taking the advantages of the GFX system,

even in the low light environment, GFX still gives outstanding performance.

GF100-200mmF5.6 lens perfectly fills in the gap of the focal length of current GF lenses.

I can't stop loving it.

With compact GFX 50R and GF100-200mmF5.6 lens,

taking this combo as a snapshot tool is definitely not an issue.

And the most spectacular thing is when combining with GF1.4X teleconverter,

the focusing speed can be maintained while focal length extended. It allows me to capture subjects which is more far away.

This lens is a "must-have" item for people who love landscape photography.

For more infomation >> Monster Glass GF100-200mmF5.6 R LM OIS WR with Jeffrey Poon / FUJIFILM - Duration: 5:11.

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"Si te gusta que te vean en todos lados": aerolínea trolea a Cathy Barriga con publicidad en redes - Duration: 2:05.

For more infomation >> "Si te gusta que te vean en todos lados": aerolínea trolea a Cathy Barriga con publicidad en redes - Duration: 2:05.

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GARRY'S MOD: BREACH ► ЧИТЕРСКИЕ БУДНИ ► ЧИТЕРИМ НА NOVUX - Duration: 13:59.

For more infomation >> GARRY'S MOD: BREACH ► ЧИТЕРСКИЕ БУДНИ ► ЧИТЕРИМ НА NOVUX - Duration: 13:59.

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「ナイツのちゃきちゃき」に片桐仁がゲストで登場-PN - Duration: 3:02.

For more infomation >> 「ナイツのちゃきちゃき」に片桐仁がゲストで登場-PN - Duration: 3:02.

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Paula declara voto em Alan e dispara: "Votaria nele de qualquer jeito" - Duration: 8:08.

For more infomation >> Paula declara voto em Alan e dispara: "Votaria nele de qualquer jeito" - Duration: 8:08.

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Karkataka Rasi 2019 Astrology March Month Prediction's | కర్కాటకరాశి 2019 మార్చి నెల రాశిఫలాలు - Duration: 3:00.

For more infomation >> Karkataka Rasi 2019 Astrology March Month Prediction's | కర్కాటకరాశి 2019 మార్చి నెల రాశిఫలాలు - Duration: 3:00.

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[TVD 3x01] A Drop In The Ocean por Ron Pope (Legendado) - Duration: 3:18.

For more infomation >> [TVD 3x01] A Drop In The Ocean por Ron Pope (Legendado) - Duration: 3:18.

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Após perder prova da comida, Rodrigo afirma: "Isso não pode afetar a gente" - Duration: 10:56.

For more infomation >> Após perder prova da comida, Rodrigo afirma: "Isso não pode afetar a gente" - Duration: 10:56.

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GARRY'S MOD: BREACH ► ЧИТЕРСКИЕ БУДНИ ► ЧИТЕРИМ НА NOVUX - Duration: 13:59.

For more infomation >> GARRY'S MOD: BREACH ► ЧИТЕРСКИЕ БУДНИ ► ЧИТЕРИМ НА NOVUX - Duration: 13:59.

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URS Qawwali 2019 - ख़्वाजा अब्दुल ख़लील हसनी - Tanam Farsooda Jaan Para - Duration: 23:34.

Tanam Farsooda Jaan Para

For more infomation >> URS Qawwali 2019 - ख़्वाजा अब्दुल ख़लील हसनी - Tanam Farsooda Jaan Para - Duration: 23:34.

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URS Qawwali 2019 - ख़्वाजा अब्दुल ख़लील हसनी - मोहब्बत की हो तो जानो - Mohabbat Ki Ho To Jano - Duration: 8:17.

Mohabbat Ki Ho To Jano

For more infomation >> URS Qawwali 2019 - ख़्वाजा अब्दुल ख़लील हसनी - मोहब्बत की हो तो जानो - Mohabbat Ki Ho To Jano - Duration: 8:17.

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बिना कागज के गाड़ी और मोटरसाइकिल कैसे चलाएं How to Drive Car Bike Motor Cycle Without Documents 2019 - Duration: 5:22.

For more infomation >> बिना कागज के गाड़ी और मोटरसाइकिल कैसे चलाएं How to Drive Car Bike Motor Cycle Without Documents 2019 - Duration: 5:22.

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Gazeteler - Gazete Manşetleri - Duration: 17:38.

For more infomation >> Gazeteler - Gazete Manşetleri - Duration: 17:38.

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Tin Showbiz - Da sáng mịn đổi tông rõ rệt chỉ cần sử dụng củ khoai lang làm theo cách này - Duration: 4:09.

Bạn đã biết đến cách làm đẹp bằng củ khoai lang hay chưa, nó có công dụng rất tuyệt vời đấy

Hãy cùng chúng tôi khám phá xem cách làm đẹp bằng củ khoai lang thực hiện như thế nào nhé!   1

Tác dụng làm đẹp của khoai lang  Khoai lang từ lâu đã phổ biến là thực phẩm dinh dưỡng ngon, bổ, rẻ với rất nhiều công dụng tốt đối với sức khỏe con người, trong khoai lang chứa nhiều Vitamin A, B, C, E, protein, tinh bột, chất nhựa, các acid amin và hơn 10 loại nguyên tố vi lượng cần thiết cho sức khoẻ cơ thể như: calci, kẽm, sắt, magiê… Lượng Vitamin C trong khoai lang rất dồi dào

 Do đó, ngoài việc là một thực phẩm bổ dưỡng khoai lang còn phát huy tác dụng làm đẹp da mặt từ khoai lang rất hiệu quả và được chị em ngày càng ưa chuộng sử dụng như một loại "thần dược" giữ gìn nhan sắc cho phụ nữ

Chất chống oxy hóa có trong khoai lang sẽ giúp tăng độ đàn hồi cho da rất hiệu quả

 Khoai lang không chỉ cung cấp nhiều dưỡng chất có lợi, chất khoáng, chất xơ, vv… làm căng da mà còn làm mịn phẳng các nếp nhăn trên mặt một cách hữu hiệu

sau đây là một số cách làm đẹp da mặt đơn giản từ khoai lang hy vọng sẽ mang đến cho các bạn thêm nhiều kỹ năng làm đẹp hữu ích

 2. Chống lão hóa với khoai lang  Khoai lang có chứa nhiều chất chống lão hóa, tăng độ đàn hồi cho da rất hiệu quả

Ăn khoai lang 1 – 2 lần/tuần sẽ giúp da được cung cấp nhiều sinh tố có lợi, chất khoáng, chất xơ, vv… không những làm căng da mà còn làm mịn phẳng các nếp nhăn trên mặt

 Bạn cũng có thể làm khoai lang hấp nghiền nhuyễn rồi trộn với sữa chua để tạo thành món ăn chống lão hóa rất tốt cho da

 3. Khoai lang giúp ngừa mụn nhọt Trong Đông y, khoai lang là nguyên liệu được dùng để trị mụn nhọt rất hữu hiệu

 – Cách trị mụt nhọt: Khoai lang củ 40g, lá bồ công anh 40g, đường hoặc mật mía giã nhuyễn bọc vào vải, đắp lên mụn nhọt

Bạn chỉ cần làm vài ngày theo cách này sẽ thấy mụn nhọt giảm đáng kể.  – Hút mủ nhọt đã vỡ: Lá khoai lang non 50g, đậu xanh 12g, thêm chút muối, giã nhuyễn bọc vào vải đắp lên vết mụn nhọt đã vỡ có tác dụng làm mát vùng da đó đồng thời làm mờ vết sẹo mụn giúp da sáng đẹp hơn

 4. Làm đẹp da bằng khoai lang, nước gừng tươi và sữa chua  Công việc đầu tiên cũng là hấp chín khoai lang, bóc vỏ rồi nghiền nhuyễn

Trộn đều khoai lang đã nghiền với 1 thìa nước gừng tươi và 2 thìa sữa chua. Khi đã có được hỗn hợp như ý bạn cần rửa mặt trước bằng nước ấm sau đó thoa đều hỗn hợp lên mặt

Vui lòng chờ trong 20 phút rồi rửa lại mặt bằng nước sạch là bạn đã hoàn thành xong liệu trình làm đẹp

 Công thức này phát huy tối đa hiệu quả với những bạn có làn da bị lão hóa và nó tăng độ đàn hồi của da một cách bất ngờ nhé

 5. Làm đẹp da bằng nước luộc khoai, bột mì và sữa chua  Để có hỗn hợp này bạn cần lấy 100ml nước luộc khoai lang trộn với 1 thìa bột mì và 1 thìa sữa chua có đường

Bạn phải đánh làm sao cho hỗn hợp phải thật mịn. Sau đó mình sẽ đi rửa mặt cho sạch rồi thoa đều hỗn hợp lên mặt

 Trong thời gian chờ đợi khoảng 15 phút bạn có thể massage mặt cho thoải mái nhé

Cuối cùng là rửa lại mặt bằng nước sạch.

For more infomation >> Tin Showbiz - Da sáng mịn đổi tông rõ rệt chỉ cần sử dụng củ khoai lang làm theo cách này - Duration: 4:09.

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Next-e @ 500 Startups Batch 10 - Duration: 1:38.

Hello!

My name is Isaac Hernández, and I'm part of Next-e.

We are a team specialized on energy management software.

We develop solutions to improve all aspects of electricity consumption in buildings and industries.

Why focus on electricity consumption?

We believe that in order to take our civilization any further, we need to change how we use energy.

All significant steps in human history are preceded by a radical transformation in the way we use energy.

So we believe that for real social, environmental, or economic development to happen

we need to pay close attention to how energy is being used.

In Mexico, 30% of all electricity payed by companies is wasted.

This is equivalent to losing +$6.8 billion USD / year

and 35 million tCO2e / year. That's why we created Joule.

Joule is a digital platform for every person that wants to save energy,

useful for both for your local store's manager and the guy at your company with an Energy phD.

So how does it work?

Through Joule you'll get acces to two main products,

both of which use AI technology to help you optimize your energy consumption.

First you'll get access to your building's "Energy Digital Footprint" where we calculate in real-time how much

your location should be consuming, and contrast it with your real-time energy consumption.

once it's clear how much you can save, you access to the second product, the "Energy Optimization Strategy"

here you'll get a clear view of your best options to save energy and money.

For more infomation >> Next-e @ 500 Startups Batch 10 - Duration: 1:38.

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Este sería el infame precio de un boleto para el Super Bowl LIII en la reventa - Duration: 2:56.

Por azares del destino te encuentra en Atlanta, donde casualmente se juega el Super Bowl entre los New England Patriots y Los Angeles Rams y te entran unas ganas tremendas de entrar al juego, pero no tienes boleto

Ante esa situación, quieres aplicar la misma técnica que usas cuando quieres ver a tu equipo favorito en la Liga MX, así que buscas a los de la reventa para ver si te hacen paro con un bonito detalle para el niño y para la niña para que puedas ingresar al estadio

Sin embargo, en el Super Bowl esto no sucede de la misma manera y al tratarse de un juego que sólo se disputa cada año y es un verdadero suceso en Estados Unidos, debes sacar la billetera para cumplir con el caprichito

Según Mediotiempo, el sitio de Stubhub el boleto más accesible tiene un valor de 78 mil 500 dólares, mientras que el más elevado ronda los 97 mil 900 dólares

Si te animaras a comprar el boleto más económico, tendrías que sacar de la billetera cerca de un millón y medio de pesos, mientras que el más caro supera los cuatro millones y medio de pesos

De esta manera, tendrías dos opciones: Pagar estas millonarias cifras o mejor ponerte las pilas para ahorrar e irte al Super Bowl del próximo año, que se celebrará en Miami

Aunque ahora, cabe mencionar que nos dimos a la tarea de meternos a Stubhub, y los precios sí están por los cielos, pero no tan alarmantes

Vimos desde los 3,250 dólares, hasta los 9,000 dólares, algo así como $180,000… ahí nomás

For more infomation >> Este sería el infame precio de un boleto para el Super Bowl LIII en la reventa - Duration: 2:56.

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Monster Glass GF100-200mmF5.6 R LM OIS WR with Jeffrey Poon / FUJIFILM - Duration: 5:11.

My name is Jeffrey Poon,

a landscape photographer from Hong Kong.

I usually search high and low

to discover and explore interesting and unique angle of Hong Kong landscape.

I always bring along with my FUJIFILM GFX 50S and 50R

to uninhabited areas of Hong Kong where allow me to capture the beautiful nature.

When talking about landscape photography in the hill,

apart from the portability, flexibility of gears also takes an important role.

So I decided to equip with the latest GF100-200mmF5.6 lens

and walk into the Lantau Island of Hong Kong to begin a long photo journey.

The first feeling that GF100-200mmF5.6 given to me is

Woo! It is really light and compact.

I can take it out very easily on the rugged roads

set the focal length and capture what I want.

When GFX body equipped with this lens, it won't add an extra weight to you

while the overall balance of the GFX is great.

Some people may have this question in mind. "The max. aperture of this lens is only F5.6, will the shutter speed not fast enough?"

"Will photos get blurred easily?"

I can tell you the truth is, the OIS system is much better than I thought!

It is easy to take sharp images.

I walked 6 kilometres with 40 pounds equipment to Tai Hom Sham,

which surrounded by trees and grasses only.

It is unbelievable that this primeval area is a part of Hong Kong.

Times flies and it is time to capture sunset.

With this lens I can stay close to my tent without walking around.

I can capture beautiful landscape nearby by just zooming in and out.

Taking the advantages of the GFX system,

even in the low light environment, GFX still gives outstanding performance.

GF100-200mmF5.6 lens perfectly fills in the gap of the focal length of current GF lenses.

I can't stop loving it.

With compact GFX 50R and GF100-200mmF5.6 lens,

taking this combo as a snapshot tool is definitely not an issue.

And the most spectacular thing is when combining with GF1.4X teleconverter,

the focusing speed can be maintained while focal length extended. It allows me to capture subjects which is more far away.

This lens is a "must-have" item for people who love landscape photography.

For more infomation >> Monster Glass GF100-200mmF5.6 R LM OIS WR with Jeffrey Poon / FUJIFILM - Duration: 5:11.

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GARRY'S MOD: BREACH ► ЧИТЕРСКИЕ БУДНИ ► ЧИТЕРИМ НА NOVUX - Duration: 13:59.

For more infomation >> GARRY'S MOD: BREACH ► ЧИТЕРСКИЕ БУДНИ ► ЧИТЕРИМ НА NOVUX - Duration: 13:59.

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"Si te gusta que te vean en todos lados": aerolínea trolea a Cathy Barriga con publicidad en redes - Duration: 2:05.

For more infomation >> "Si te gusta que te vean en todos lados": aerolínea trolea a Cathy Barriga con publicidad en redes - Duration: 2:05.

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「ナイツのちゃきちゃき」に片桐仁がゲストで登場-PN - Duration: 3:02.

For more infomation >> 「ナイツのちゃきちゃき」に片桐仁がゲストで登場-PN - Duration: 3:02.

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Best Buy In-Home Consultation

For more infomation >> Best Buy In-Home Consultation

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DOUBLE YOUR BITCOINS DAILY!!! - Duration: 11:13.

Hello this is Aiza Mercado

Todays video, I will be sharing you a legit way

how to double your bitcoins everyday,

every hour, and every minute.

Watch the entire video

because it is very easy to do

and I assure you that you will earn a lot here!

Do you want to earn extra money online?

Just click the SUBSCRIBE BUTTON and the bell as well,

to get notified for my next videos where we can all earn extra money online.

Before we start, please do like this video

and if this is your first time on my Youtube Channel, consider SUBSCRIBING.

Alright, so this is a follow up video regarding Upstake.com

And as I have mentioned in my previous video

is that I will add more investment when i have the extra money...

And today, I have added another 0.7 BTC

and this is now my total Upstoken balance.

This 4,990 dollars

is 1.46 BTC

and

and lets see how much will this profit.

Here in profit calculator

within 6 months, i will earn 27,000 USD

and if i will be holding this 1 year

i will earn 155,619 US dollars

and it is converted as 8,000,000 pesos.

If you want to invest in Upstake Token

just check out my video description for the video link

so you can watch my video presentation.

But anyway, lets proceed now how to double of your bitcoins.

Here in Upstake, there are 2 ways of earnings:

is either you will buy Upstoken

or you will purchase EDGE.

And this video is all about UPSTAKE'S EDGE.

The edge is located here.

First thing to do is to click settings

scroll it down until bottom.

Here you will see "lock to team leader"

You have to locked me in as your team leader

so i can help you to build your network and guide you all throughout.

Then click save...

And you will see me on your Edge Team Leader.

Alright, this is now the portion how you will double up your bitcoins.

Here in Edge Dashboard,

There are 4 packages/edges that you can select to purchase

Bronze, Silver, Gold and Diamond.

Question: how to earn using Upstake's Edge?

Answer: If you buy 1 edge, you will get 1 free edge.

Like for example, here in bronze edge

invest 50 USD and make 90 USD.

Buy 1 take 1 of 50 is 100, right?

You will earn 90 USD only because 10% of it will go to upstake website

and will use it to increase the Upstake Token value.

But anyway, its okay

you will earn buy 1 take 1, just less the 10%.

Same as silver edge, invest $250 and make $450

gold edge, invest $500 and make $900

and in diamond edge, invest $2500 and make $4500.

Question: What will we do if you bought an edge?

Alright, first things first...

UpStake Edge is a crypto investment which allows you to make passive profits through micro networking.

What we do here is we need to sell this also edge to another users.

So here in bronze edge, we click purchase now...

Good thing about it is that everytime someone is purchasing your edges,

it will go straight up to your BTC wallet and not in Upstake website.

Enter quantity:

you can purchase as many time as you want

then click confirm purhase.

And this deposit wallet address is

from my team leader's BTC wallet address.

Then i will copy it

paste it in my coins ph send

Copy also the amount

Select low

Alright, Send money success!

and i will now wait till it reflects in my dashboard.

And there you go, the bronze edges appears now in my dashboard

and because it is buy 1 take 1, 2 edges will appear.

What will I do here is that I will sell this 2 edges to other users

who wants to earn money like me.

For example,

Someone purchase my 1st bronze edge

which I will earn 45 USD

and because this is 2, i will earn 90 USD.

And thats it! I bought $50 worth of bronze package

and i will earn 90 usd because i sold the 3 bronze edges.

Thats the thing we do how we can double up our BTC

and take note this is not a ponzi scheme

good thing about this is that that purchase amount will go straight to your wallet address

and this is a micro-networking.

You can purchase unlimited edges too

its up to you if you can sell it and consume all

it does not matter how many, important is you stock them in your account

and sell them or maybe can invite atleast 2 person.

Lets say, here is the diagram

do start up, you can invite atleast 2 people.

Person 1 and person 2, purchase your bronze edges

45 times 2 = 90 usd

and will go straight to your BTC wallet.

What will this 2 do with their edges?

These 2 ofcourse have their 2 packages too

and they will also sell their packages to others...

Alright?

Good thing about here is that YOU CAN SELL UNLIMITED EDGES TO YOUR LEVEL 1 downlines...

You can sell unlimited edges to your level 1 or your direct referrals.

The more you invite, the more bitcoin you will earn!

And what if your packages run out?

Thats the time you will purchase again from your Team Leader.

About this Edge Pool,

Every package have their own threshold.

What THRESHOLD means?

Thats the balance you need to acquire

for you to withdraw or for you to get a certain item.

For example, here in Silver Edge pool

there are already $25

It tells here "Once this pool reaches $250.00 USD we'll randomly select a Silver Edge to purchase."

Crystal clear, once they reached the $250 pool

automatic Upstake will purchase some of our edges.

How to setup your Edge Product Page?

Click settings,

just set your own Edge URL

Me, i used Philippines

you need also to upload your personal profile picture.

So now, lets view my product page.

This will appear and this will be my official page in my Edge.

And i set my name to Upstake Philippines.

Scroll down a little bit...

And you will see the "Set up your Edge Sales Page"

Set your unique URL and click this "View sales page".

This will be your sales page and here you will see some information how to use Edge

and more information how this works and how we can earn money from it.

They also offer Edge Tool box.

You can use their templates

and can be used to invite and sell your edges.

It icludes business cards,

flyers,

banners, logo Upstake,

logo Upstake Edge,

hats, tshirts and handbook.

Pretty good about this Upstake Edge handbook

is they will give you some tips

how to grow your Upstake Edge network

and your marketing business guide.

You can edit this templates and

can be post in social media groups

like in facebook

Groups like: Coins.ph Buy and Sell

Bitcoin Philippines,

Coins.ph Bitcoin Users,

and Bitcoin users Philippines.

There are lots of facebook groups

where you can post your advertisement

and for you to double up your bitcoins.

Alright! So thats how easy to use this Upstake Edge...

Whats the difference between Upstake Tokens and Edges?

Here in Upstoken,

this is there invest, wait and earn and the value increases every hour.

But if you want to double up your bitcoin fast,

go and purchase the Upstake Edge.

If you want to learn more about the use of Upstake Edge,

you can send me a message and check the video description for my social media account links.

And we are so lucky because

this will be the first Upstake Edge Network here in the Philippines.

You know what to do, and just remember... "Law of First".

Thank you again for watching, if this video helped you how to earn money online

hit the like button!

Also, SUBSCRIBE now to my Youtube and Telegram Channel.

This is Aiza Mercado again and have a great day!

For more infomation >> DOUBLE YOUR BITCOINS DAILY!!! - Duration: 11:13.

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Ep #21: Four Property Lessons Learned Last Year - Duration: 9:33.

Singapore private residential property market finally has its full year report card when

URA released real estate statistics for 4th quarter 2018 early this week

As the year of the dog is coming to a close, let's review the performance of the housing

market and the lessons we learned last year. Lesson 1: You can't wrap fire in paper

Remember stock prices kept going up from January? Everyone felt they are richer and that's

when developers found the perfect time to launch new projects. There was so much noise

in the market about market recovery and speculation on ease of cooling measures.

With new launch prices going higher and higher, of course the property price index would go

up higher accordingly in each quarter. But no one seem to notice that transaction volumes

and rental prices never manage to catch up with the climbing of prices.

You can smell a rat whenever you see market optimism coming only from the supply side,

namely the developers, property agencies, bank analysts and the media, but there is

no good news from the demand side, including the rental market, HDB resale prices and population

growth. From May 2017, I have been warning my blog

readers that Singapore's housing market is not bottoming-out yet. It is at most a

dead cat bounce. And after the dead cat bounces, it's just a matter of time to let the cat

out of the bag. And who let the cat out of the bag? It's

the government. Many say that Singapore housing prices will continue to climb if not because

of July's new cooling measures. But that's not true.

Because sooner or later, we will all realize that, when there are already 370,000 private

residential units and 30,000 ECs in Singapore, where to find that so many buyers to take up

another 54,332 new units in the next 3 to 4 years? Where to find so many tenants to

occupy the new units for rent? How to justify an investment with high cost and low return?

Lesson learned? Those who can't see this will definitely get burnt. Because no one

can wrap fire in paper. Lesson 2: Never lose your head over Fear of Missing Out

When your property agent tells you that if you don't buy today, prices will go up tomorrow,

how do you know whether it is true or not? The answer is: If the salesperson is pushy,

and you feel being pressured, or you are forced to make a decision within a tight timeline,

most likely the other party is trying to call out the Fear of Missing Out monster in you.

Think the 1,000 desperate buyers who queued up to buy any unit from the not-so-ready-to-launch

new projects on the evening of July 5. Developers are now making use of every festival

and occasion to give away discounts, rebates, luxury car vouchers and lucky draw prizes

to clear as many units as possible. Those early buyers from the same projects

thought they could save 5 to 10 percent cash. But they end up paying the top price.

Trust me, for properties, as soon as you have the need and the money, you won't miss the

boat to buy. It is because, unlike the equity market, the housing market won't collapse

or recover overnight. Compared to stocks, property purchases require much higher capital

outlay and longer transaction time. Property's illiquid nature means that, even

if you don't pay attention the market for a few months, you will still notice the change

in direction and you know when is time to buy or sell, unless you are blinded by personal

greed or fear. Besides, the new URA guidelines also told

us that the private home market doesn't reward the early birds. Because from January

17 onwards, buyers can expect more liveable homes - with more spacious units, bigger communal

spaces and smaller balconies. According to SRX, we have a total of 43 condo

and private projects launched the whole of last year. This year we already

have 60 new projects waiting to be launched. In 2019, buyers will be spoiled for choices with

40 percent more projects to choose from in the market.

Lesson learned? Our kiasu culture doesn't help in buying properties. Dont lose your

head over fear of missing out. Lesson 3: Developers' stomach isn't a

bottomless pit According to CBRE, for the 1st half of 2018,

31 residential collective sales were closed at a total value of $9.69 billion. But for

the 2nd half of last year, en boc sales dropped 95 percent to close at $484 million only.

JLL admitted that , from January to November last year, at least 60 sites going for en bloc

sale closed their tenders without a buyer. The same projects are being put up for sale

again with a lower asking price, but they often end up to be another unsuccessful attempt.

Lesson learned? Even for big and cash-rich developers, their stomach is not a bottomless

pit, for 3 main reasons. Firstly, developers' landbanks are almost

full. Developers had to build up their depleted

land bank with shortage of available plots of land a few years ago. But after 1 1/2 years'

aggressive bidding at government land sales and high profile acquisitions of en bloc sales,

developers now have more than enough stocks in their landbank.

Secondly, market conditions have changed. When times are good, developers are in the

mood to buy more sites, launch more projects, and bring in more profits. But times have

changed now. Externally, we are all facing the challenges

of tightened borrowing, interest rate hikes, US-China Trade War and global economic slowdown.

Internally, with higher ABSD and new URA guidelines, the already miserable profit margins of developers

are being squeezed further. Yet they are pressed by fast approaching 5-year ABSD and 2-year

Qualifying Certificate deadlines. And with 60 new projects competing for a shrinking

pool of new buyers, can you imagine the level of competition developers are going to face

in the near future? Thirdly, sales numbers don't look good.Private

home prices have gone up 7.9 percent in 2018. Remember prices in the first half of 2018

has already increased 7.3 percent. But even after 1,000 last minute new units sold on

the evening of July 5, for the whole of second half prices only climb 0.6 percent to reach

7.9 percent. Look at the URA table on "Number of units

transacted in the whole of Singapore". It is meaningless to see the number of new sale

because it depends on whether developers have new launch projects in that quarter.

If you look at the number of resale transactions, you will notice that volume in the last quarter

has dropped 58 percent to 1,971 from the peak in 2nd quarter. Now we are officially

falling back to the level of 2016 1st quarter. Lesson 4: Your home can be a depreciating

liability Recently there is public concern over depreciating

value of older HDB flats. Depreciation in value comes from both aging of the physical

building and number of remaining years in the 99-year lease.

The truth is: lower value of older flats and borrowing restrictions of old flats have always

been there. But whether you are aware of it, whether you

choose to face it, and whether you know how to deal with it is another thing.

In the last few decades, Singapore went through the stage from an emerging market to a developed

country. Housing prices also escalate along with our growth in GDP and inflation. Singaporeans

have seen how they can be benefited from the rapid appreciation in value of their homes.

But many are not aware of the fact that Singapore has also joined the other developed countries

in the world to be a mature market with an aging population. From now on, the evolution

of our property market will follow the path of developed countries.

Many also forget the fact that property is a depreciating liability. When our homes age,

they will depreciate over time, while we are still paying the mortgage, repairs and upgrading

work. Lesson learned? Whether you stay in a private

home or an HDB flat, a freehold or leasehold property, your home is just a residence. It

is not an asset. Net worth is always calculated as your total assets minus your total liabilities

minus the home you are staying in. Don't overcommit and put all the eggs in

one basket. Separate your retirement fund from whatever value of your home. If it is

not enough, right size your home before it is too late.

I hope you have learned from the four property lessons last year. Don't forget

to watch the video presentations of the Year of the Pig Property Strategies. Let me take

this opportunity to wish you and your family a healthy and prosperous Chinese New Year.

Gong Xi Fa Cai. And see you again next time.

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BTS: True to the Times ft. Mahershala Ali, Stephen Dorff & More | True Detective | Season 3 - Duration: 3:35.

JIM DOBKINS: Could you tell us about November 7, 1980?

I remember everything.

NIC PIZZOLATTO: In season three,

these three timelines are being used

largely as narrative devices to acclimate the viewer

and show them how it's going to play out.

The story starts in 1980, then we move on to 1990,

and eventually we're in 2015.

STEPHEN DORFF: Just really exciting to be at the tip of the iceberg

in the writing world and in the artists behind

what goes into something like this,

from Emma Potter in wardrobe

to Ryan Smith, the production designer.

There's so many locations, here, that are time capsules

that have been just preserved and haven't been shot.

It's a great base to build upon.

Having a lot of work in the 1980s,

you're not dealing with 1980s yet,

because that hasn't happened. So, you're dealing with 1975.

Just making sure that my instincts on color

fit what was existing and realistic at the time.

We've played it as when the boy died,

a lot of the town dies with it.

It's somethin', isn't it? How quick this town died.

It didn't die, it got murdered.

Another great gift of playing over eras

is that you get to transform

through hair and makeup and costume.

In terms of wardrobe, working with Emma Potter,

she's really a genius.

And really subtly the glue to the world.

What'd you do? What did you do?

The characters were written with such intensity,

and very specific to this place and this time,

but also, kind of these universal human qualities.

From that, it became apparent to me

that I would really need to ground the design

in a sense of realism,

and I would build these large boards

that just have all these photographs,

almost like a collage, for each of the characters

that shows their passage through time.

Those two things, I think, really created the reality

and allow you to be at ease

and take the costumes and the set for granted.

If you're noticing the costume and the set, it's a distraction,

and therefore, too much of a character.

You lookin' good, Purple.

Who's that old man with ya?

I've seen so many movies where the old age makeup

looked like a man in rubber.

Not wanting to have that divorce from reality

that that creates,

this genius makeup artist, named Mike Marino,

is doing absolutely state-of-the-art work.

Thinking that detectives, you know,

are a little bit harder of a life,

I didn't want to be too tame with how they aged.

I may have taken a little bit more of a license

as far as making their eye bags a little heavier

or making them a little bit more worried looking,

because I think that type of character shows in the makeup.

Being in the aging makeup,

if you listen, it will guide your performance.

It was a great tool for me, but just the process itself,

it was challenging.

DORFF: I think by it being such a long journey,

me and Mahershala really went to a depth, I think,

as actors together that I've never really experienced.

I just think there's a tremendous challenge

for the actors to move between those worlds.

It elevated everything we were doing

to something that was much more powerful

than what was on the page.

For more infomation >> BTS: True to the Times ft. Mahershala Ali, Stephen Dorff & More | True Detective | Season 3 - Duration: 3:35.

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SILVER PLAY BUTTON UNBOXING FROM THE TOP OF LOS ANGELES - SKYSPACE VLOG - Duration: 7:43.

Hi guys. How is everyone? My name is Happy Aujla

and welcome back to my channel. If you're new to this channel,

I make tech-related videos on this channel. Today's video is

a special video to me. I'll be unboxing the youtube silver play button.

I've had the award for a few days now.

I was waiting for the perfect time and weather. This is a top acheivement

for me so I wanted to unbox this from the

top of the whole city.

That's why I'm at skyspace today, which is

Los Angeles's highest observation deck.

So let's go upstairs now.

It wouldn't have been possible to see

the view from the observation deck because it's been cloudy for a few days.

Today's a nice and sunny day to unbox

and see the view.

We're going to the top of this building

This is the entryway

Tripods weren't allowed in the building. That's why I'm recording on my phone.

The video might be a little shaky

Let's take the elevator to the 54th floor

From there, we take an elevator to the 70th floor.

You'll take a picture here at the entrance.

Going further, there are these big

360 screens always showing the hollywood sign and view.

There's a screen to the right and left.

This video is a combo of vlogging and unboxing

Check out these huge screens

Here's a better view of both screens

So we entered from there and now we go towards

the second elevator to the 70th floor,

where we'll unbox my award.

There are more screens along the way

and some other unique designs

There are LA's sports team's jerseys and uniforms

I'm going for the skyslide. My phone's not allowed there,

but I'll have my friend record. Check out this view!

See you after the ride!

So this is the skyslide from the 70th to 69th floor.

It's just a short 5 seconds slide. Phones aren't allowed inside

otherwise I would've loved to show you from inside.

Now that the slide's done, let's go unbox the silver award.

This is the view from inside the building.

It's a breathtaking view. The weather's nice and clear so

you can see into the distance.

It's still a little cloudy but the view's awesome.

After landing on the 69th floor, you have to go back upstairs to get your photos and belongings.

Alright let's go outside!

This is the entire LA view.

This is Deloitte company.

Just take in the LA view.

They have nice designs like this to take pictures.

I'll try to take one too for my instagram.

You can see the intercontinental hotel from here

and next to it is my gym

This is the slide that I took

Someone else is coming so i'll try to show you the landing

This is my youtube silver play button award so let's unbox it

Since a cutter and tripod weren't allowed,

I'm gonna open the box using my house keys.

I'm excited to see my award finally.

OK. Let's see this award now.

First of all, there's a letter here

from the CEO of youtube

So it's a letter congratulating me for 100,000 subscribers.

And finally, let's unveil my award

I'll take it out.

There's my silver play button award

A top level accomplishment from the top of LA

It was planned from the beginning that I'll unbox my

award from the very top of the whole city

I just want to thank all of my subscribers for subscribing and supporting my channel

If you haven't already, please subscribe to this channel

Let me put my award now and continue the tour

Let's take a last look at the contents of the box in order.

You have a letter, the award,

a note with congratulations

and there's a cotton pad to clean the award with

I'll put everything back in and continue the tour.

This building has more than one observation decks

Let's take a look from the east deck

You can see the staples center and Intercontinental hotel

I've vlogged from there few times

I usually go live from here. My gym

is in the basement of this building

That's the Hilton hotel.

It's an awesome view from here too

We can see the sunset too in a little while

From here, I can see the Echo Park lake

The Hollywood sign is here and, if you can see a white building in the distance,

that's the griffith observatory

This is an amazing view. The deck's pretty big.

Let me show you from the other side

These people are touring LA on a helicopter

It's right in front of us, on our level.

For everyone who asks me about LA traffic, see for yourself

All these freeways and roads are completely full

This is also peak time. It's almost 5 PM and people are

going home from work or school. This is just 50% of

the traffic. It gets worse.

It's surprising that the traffic is flowing freely

This is a high school's playground

and that's the famous Dodger Stadium

The sun is directly hitting my face so let me just go to

the side and talk to you guys

Hopefully, this is better

You can see the whole LA view behind me

This is the highest observation deck in LA

I've shown you this view from the Intercontinental Hotel a few times

but this is higher than that and a lot better.

And thanks again to everyone who has supported

and helped me reach 100,000 subscribers

Soon, we'll be a family of a million subscribers with your love and support

For anyone coming to my channel for the first time, don't forget to subscribe!

I bring you all the exclusive tech gadgets and vlogs

Let me end the video here

How did you like this video and the unboxing?

Please let me know in the comments

Few people are lucky enough to receive this award and I'm one of them

Please let me know in the comments what you thought of this video

I'll see you in the next video

For more infomation >> SILVER PLAY BUTTON UNBOXING FROM THE TOP OF LOS ANGELES - SKYSPACE VLOG - Duration: 7:43.

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Chit Chatting with Minnie from (G)I-DLE - Duration: 10:37.

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Un Domingo de Carros y Barbas - Duration: 12:42.

Good afternoon everyone!

Todays video has been brought to you

by

MY FREAKING BEARD

LOOK

AT

IT

yup

today is beard day

and a big shout out to

Vances beard

because she made

a special

appearance today

in todays video

so we got

1

video for the price

of 2 beards

and then

I met some other guy

named

Arturo!

who also has a nice beard!

3 beards!

1 day

so

on that note

today I was going to paint my calipers

but

I got invited to a beard car meet

which to be honest

sounded cool

and since you know

I had a beard

don't know if you can see it

but its a black beard

like the pirate

some say

my dads fidel castro

I enjoy the complement

which to say

no he is not my dad

or is he?

so!

i'm on my way

to this car meet

in which

to spoil it for you

I'll end up looking at jorges

bullit

and then looking

at vances cooper s

and then meeting some cool guys

with a taurus

and then vance

getting me info

on the future car

for this channel!

which might be closer

than I think!

the NEW HHR!

so on that note

since we talk a lot

of crazy stuff on this video

and so many people talking

having subs for everything

will be hard

so what I suggest you do

if spanish is hard

or you have no idea

what the hell

we are saying

give me a second

getting some chicken here

look at this

so what I was saying is

you can just

look at the cars

and by the tone

you might understand

if we are talking smack

or actually

complementing

each others cars

I think

this is more of a

view

than hear

video

which btw

I think

that if old people

can watch

car videos

without understanding

crap

of whats going on

because they might not understand

english

or can't hear

I think people

who don't speak spanish

can watch a video

without understand

let me know how that goes

so

as always!

i'll let you to it

enjoy

and i'll catch you later

its a short video

so don't worry

take car

and care

and i'll see you

in the next one!

For more infomation >> Un Domingo de Carros y Barbas - Duration: 12:42.

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Captain Marvel Super Bowl BREAKDOWN - Duration: 7:59.

This spot's got a lot of problems

and Marvel is betting perhaps a bit too heavily on Girl Power.

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Instagram Won't Let Me Login with My Facebook - How I Got Back In - Duration: 3:48.

Alright

Guys I could not get into my Instagram and I need to share how I finally got into it

Yesterday I was on my phone a bunch and Instagram would not load for me

In the sense that I was trying to log in and it would not log in

I was trying to use the Facebook login where you click on use Facebook as my login

Obviously Instagram and Facebook are the same "company" but it still was having issues letting

me log in

It kept doing two different things

It would endlessly refresh and then other times it would just show an error

So I tried the usual things

Rebooting my phone

Checking the internet connection both the data and the wifi - trying both of those

I even deleted and reinstalled the app from scratch

But none of those things fixed the issue

After trying to figure this out for way too long

I finally did figure out how to get in and so I am going to guys how to do that

Before we get into this

I just want to tell you guys that this is for those of you

Who are trying to login with a Facebook ID

This is not for those of you who do not know your password or don't know your username

and things like that

I made this video in hopes of trying to save you guys from having a headache and just show

you guys how to get into this

Alright I have my phone lets go ahead and take a look how to fix this

First we are going to pop into the Instagram app

Now as you can see I have two options I can either input a username and password

Or I can continue as me so if I press that button

You will see that it just does this endless loop of loading and does not go anywhere

As I mentioned other times it would give me this error that would say it could not log

in

You may also see a screen like this where it says continue as "your name" or you can

press sign in

So I am going to press continue as Payton

As you can see that little thing in the middle it just keeps loading it never changes from

that

I could sit here for twenty minutes and it would still be doing the same thing

Alright so the first step is let's close out of Instagram completely

Once you have closed Instagram completely lets go ahead and relaunch it

Alright now instead of clicking on the continue as your name

Go to the bottom and click sign in

Or wherever you are at on that login page just click the sign in button

And go back to the place where it lets you put in your username and password

Now instead of putting in your username and password you are going to go ahead and press

the forget password button

So you will see two options here.

One is to use your username / email on one of the tabs

The other option is to use your phone number

I personally used the phone number because it was more efficient for me

But you can also use an email if you would like as well

Now I will pause here for just a second.

If you do not have access to an email or a phone number you use for Instagram

I am not exactly sure what you should do at this point

But for those of you who do have that connected to your Instagram please continue along

You will go ahead and press the "send login link" button

Something very important that I kept messing up is don't press the big blue button right

in the middle

Press the button below it that says "send login link"

I kept pressing the top button and that took me back to where I was before

I went ahead and pressed that button and it should text me a confirmation code

Alright there it is

Alright - go ahead and press next on that once you have entered the code

And you are in just like that!

So yea as I said not too hard to do and pretty straight forward it is just a matter of doing

the right steps and knowing how to get there

I think this is just a temporary bug so perhaps soon it will be fixed

Oh guys before you leave go ahead and move your mouse or use your finger to tap the like

button on this video

It does not cost anything but it helps me produce more content for you

While you are at it go ahead and comment your Instagram down below in the comments

And I will be following a bunch of you guys and if you have any cute photos of dogs or

cats

let me know and I will be liking those up (laughs)

Oh and one last thing -- if you consider yourself a dork which is ok

or if you like technology with is also really cool

would definitely appreciate it if you subscribed to this channel

trying to get bigger and talk about more tech things and your support would be amazing

Alright that is it for now thanks for watching!

♪♪ EXCITING MUSIC ♪♪

For more infomation >> Instagram Won't Let Me Login with My Facebook - How I Got Back In - Duration: 3:48.

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Thousands Watch Super Bowl At Texas Live! In Arlington - Duration: 1:56.

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Is Adam Levine Married? Does He Have a Wife or Girlfriend? | Heavy.com - Duration: 5:15.

Is Adam Levine Married? Does He Have a Wife or Girlfriend? | Heavy.com

Adam Levine is the frontman of the long-running hit band Maroon 5, as well as the veteran coach on The Voice.

Many fans may be wondering about his love life.

Is he married? Does he have a girlfriend? Well, for all you hopefuls out there, unfortunately for you, he is happily married to his wife, model Behati Prinsloo.

Levine and Prinsloo have two children together and just appear to be one of the most fun couples on the planet.

In their Instagram posts, the two are often shown laughing together, dressing up in costumes, and playing with their daughters.

Prinsloo originally hails from Africa, but she left Africa to travel the world and pursue modeling.

She went on to become a very recognizable model for Victoria's Secret and could be seen walking in their famous annual show.

But, when Prinsloo decided to become a mother, she took a break from the scantily clad catwalk.

In an interview with Net-a-Porter, Prinsloo dished on the decision, saying, "I DIDN'T FEEL UNDER PRESSURE to get back in shape [after having children].

I got pregnant [with daughter Gio, now 11 months] seven months after I had my first baby [daughter Dusty, now two].

I've been modeling for 15 years and when I got pregnant I didn't want to do anything, I wanted to enjoy my time.

I really liked being pregnant and not working.

When I got pregnant the second time, I just did the same thing.".

In late 2018, Prinsloo returned to the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show and her husband was in the crowd, showing his support.

She even blew him kisses from the catwalk.

Prinsloo revealed to Net-a-Porter that when she or husband Levine are working, he has a lot of family in the area to watch their children, so that makes being a working parent a lot easier.

     .

Prinsloo and Levine married in a secret wedding in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in 2014.

Actor Jonah Hill, who is a friend of Levine's, actually officiated their marriage.

Both Levine's band Maroon 5 and Prinsloo participated in the reception as entertainment.

For years, Levine spoke about not really believing that marriage was for him.

He previously said to Elle that, "There are many things that keep me from getting married.

But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me … I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle.

The people I know who are married—90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night … The most important thing about marriage is understanding that it might not be the right time, regardless of what your friends are doing.".

Clearly, Levine's mind was changed after meeting Prinsloo.

The couple did have a hiccup in their courtship and broke up for a couple of months.

But, they ultimately realized they wanted to be together.

After coming back together, the two became engaged and ended up getting married.

Both have said that they'd like to have a big family, so maybe they will expand their brood soon.

For more infomation >> Is Adam Levine Married? Does He Have a Wife or Girlfriend? | Heavy.com - Duration: 5:15.

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Do You Get No-Shows? - Duration: 1:28.

James Schramko here.

Today, I want to share with you some ideas around what to do when you're setting appointments,

and your guest doesn't show up.

Look, it happens.

You're there, you're on time, you're on the right platform, but there's no sign of your guest

This can be a system failure.

Maybe you don't have the right process for booking people or interviews.

Maybe there's been a miscommunication, or maybe everything was fine on your end and

it's a rare anomaly.

When this happens to me, apart from checking that I have the right time, place and platform,

I send a message to my guest.

I'll let them know that we can reschedule, and then I get on with my backup activity.

I've always got a backup activity that I can get it into.

For me, I'm likely to log in to SuperFastBusiness membership and answer coaching threads.

I've been doing that for 10 years now, so I've always got a backup activity.

So my question for you today is: if your guest doesn't show up, if your appointment doesn't

show, firstly, have you checked your system? Make sure that there's no system fail.

And secondly, have you got a clear and predetermined backup task that you can get stuck into right

now so you can make an advantage from that time?

In fact, I'm recording this view in the time that someone was supposed to be talking to

me.

So you became the beneficiary of today's anomaly.

Take care!

For more infomation >> Do You Get No-Shows? - Duration: 1:28.

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Interview: Devin Townsend on Creativity - Duration: 43:03.

[Excerpt of "Grace" from "The Retinal Circus"]

AG: Devin Townsend is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada and I am really

honored to be here because you are the most requested person to be interviewed on the

site and it's so cool to finally be with you after listening to your music for probably

20 years.

So thanks a lot for joining us.

DT: Thanks man, it's nice to be here.

I appreciate being invited onto this, actually.

AG: Awesome.

DT: Yeah.

AG: I appreciate it.

So, for people who might be new to you, can you give a brief introduction to yourself

and the kind of music you produce?

DT: Sure.

My name's Devin Townsend.

I'm a 46-year-old Canadian musician.

I guess my bread and butter has been hard rock and progressive heavy metal.

I've got maybe about 30 records now through certain bands.

I had Strapping Young Lad when I was younger, which was really heavy, and Devin Townsend

Project had a whole gaggle of solo records of different styles and aesthetics.

I've worked with a lot of people.

My first thing was with Steve Vai in 1993 and I've worked with a lot of people since

then.

I've done a lot of productions for bands in varying degrees of success and I've toured

and played for years.

AG: Everywhere, right?

DT: Pretty much.

Some places more than others.

But it's been a long and confusing career and I am happy.

AG: That's awesome.

So, even on your website you talk about how you have HevyDevy Records because you "make

weird music."

DT: Yeah.

AG: And you needed a place to release it.

Those are your exact words.

Can you talk a little about what makes you feel like your music is unique or different

and why you might need a vehicle for you to release it on your own?

DT: The record label started inadvertently as I couldn't convince the labels at the

time that what I was doing was viable commercially, for one, but also for the level of capital

I would need to pull off.

So, because the Steve Vai record had done well in Japan, Sony Japan suggested that if

I just incorporate a name of whatever the name was, it dubiously ended up being HevyDevy

Records, then they would license the work.

That's how it started.

When I put together Strapping Young Lad and that ended up on the label Century Media,

if I could make any claim to business acumen, it was that I insisted that the only thing

they had rights to was Strapping.

Then, everything else that I did, whether or not it was ambient or country or rock or

orchestral—anything., I would have the rights to do that on HevyDevy records.

Why do I think it's weird?

I don't think it's weird, I just think I'm told it's weird, so I just preface

most conversations with preemptively telling people that "you may not dig this" or

"people are typically confused about this" or what have you.

But I think for me, it's musically I don't think about what I do, I guess.

I've never really thought about it.

I go by what I'm compelled to do and those compulsions tend to be very vision-based and

super specific.

So, I'll do things because that year seems to have certain aesthetics that play into

it, like I'm interested in green and I'm interested in this particular font.

I'm interested in this particular sound and this frequency and a particular guitar

sound, which leads me to another guitar pickup and then by the end of the year, all of these

subliminal clues tend to triangulate to the point where there's a really specific vibe

that a name typically happens in the formative stages of those clues coming together.

By the end, I'm like, "Oh, I guess it's Ki."

"Oh, I guess it's Ziltoid."

"Oh, I guess it's Empath."

And I'm sometimes like, "Oh that's weird."

But I knew it had to be that way, I know it has to sound that way, but I'd be first

in line to suggest that it's strange.

AG: One of the main reasons I wanted to talk to you is because of this book.

You wrote a book on creativity.

Can you give a little background on the book?

DT: I think part of the process that I have been working towards my own ability to actualize

ideas is: how do you refine your creative spirit to the point where what your intention

is is unclouded by any of the crap that you've put into your body or you ingest with media

or other people's music or whatever?

That requires a lot of exploration, whether or not that means I'm a vegetarian.

I'm a vegetarian for years and I'm like, "Well, why am I a vegetarian?

Eat meat and figure it out."

Then I eat meat and it makes me feel the way that it did and then I'm vegetarian again.

But it's like I think that on a creative level a lot of what prevents me from being

just a pure channel to what it is emotionally I'm trying to represent is my sense of self

or my insecurities or my ego or whatever.

I think that writing the book ultimately was an extension of being afraid of giving things

away, whether or not it's my guitar sound or my production process or what it is that

I—what my reasons are personally, spiritually, whatever.

I think I held on to those things for a long time because my insecurity is like, "Well,

if other people know how I do what I do, then they're going to be able to do it and I'm

going to be out of a job and I'll go broke and and…"

Whatever.

So, I think a couple years ago when the suggestion to come up with the book on creativity came

up around, there was a part of me that felt that if I was really forthcoming with the

process, then there's a certain part of the burden of protecting that, that you can

forget it all.

Like, "Here's my guitar sounds."

"Here's how I produce my vocals."

"Here's how I do it all."

And then through it, I think what I recognized is that what makes what I do unique is the

same thing that would make what you do unique or what you do unique or what anybody does

unique.

It's got very little to do with your process and more to do with how that process interprets

your trip, which no one else is going to be able to articulate.

So more people that have it, the better music I think ultimately will become.

AG: There are a few interesting themes in your book.

One I want to talk about is you talk quite a bit about the subconscious and you're

kind of discovering something that's already there.

And you almost make it sound like "it just happened to me.

I didn't make it.

This is already there."

And even the terminology you use is often work-related in terms of perhaps an archaeological

dig or you're massaging something.

I was curious if you think—why are there so many references to old things?

What are you digging up?

What are you excavating?

What are you trying to bring to light?

Is that stuff that's been there your whole life?

Did it already exist?

Where are you coming from with that?

DT: Well that has nothing to do with me.

I think it has nothing to do with any artist.

I'm often critical in the sense of artists who claim that the work that they do is anything

other than just trying to do an accurate version of the manpower to honor the source

than it has anything to do with you.

As a person, I think I'm lost and simple.

So, I can only hope that the moments that I've had in my life of spiritual significance—no

religion, but spiritual significance—are such where I'm like, "Well, that's the

only thing that I want to represent.

That's the only thing I want to sing about.

That's the only thing I want to get right."

But it's not that my version of that is, by any stretch of the imagination, "the

version" of it.

It's just middle class white Canadian male named Devin.

You have a glimpse of these things, as we all do, artistically and we're like, "Oh,

that.

Well, through my filter and through my biases and my fears and my hangups and the fact that

I liked Judas Priest when I was a kid, or Enya, or any of these things," it's that

that comes through.

And it is ancient.

That's primordial and I think that improvisation and artists who strive to represent these

things with reverence, you have to be proactive in calling yourself out on your own bullshit.

I think that for me, my reasons for doing that are not because if I do that, I'll

become more successful or I'll become famous or what have you, it's just that it seems

like the source and those sorts of fundamental human experiences are worthy of that sort

of self analysis.

AG: Do you feel like you just trip over it?

You trip over it and it just happens to you?

DT: Holy crap, yeah.

Not only that, but I don't understand it until I'm on it, so I often fear it, which

is super counter-productive to the process.

AG: What specifically do you fear?

DT: I fear that I'm not capable of handling it.

Right?

I feel like unless I keep my attention rooted in something that's fundamentally productive

and fundamentally helpful, as opposed to destructive, then it's going to be skewed and it's

going to be colored by my own ego in a way that misrepresents something that is larger

than us.

I struggle with insecurity because I don't know what I'm doing and I don't claim

to be particularly adept at any aspect of what I do.

The things that I like in life, you know like my family and I like food and I like sex.

You know, the fundamental parts of life are all that I really feel that I can enjoy and

there is a passion that is just so rooted in fear that the process becomes, "Okay

well face your fears" on some level.

If it's vegetarianism or if it's sex or if it's peering into the void or if it's

any of these things, it's…

In the past, I had experimented with a lack of accountability with writing as part of

the process of trying to actualize my own connection to creativity.

I thought, "Well, maybe that's an avenue to explore."

So this record, "Alien," and "Infinity" and these things were all based in me going,

"Well, I don't care how people perceive this."

But then through that is a real sense of, "Well, it's all connected."

Like, everybody's interconnectedness is part and parcel of how you approach this.

Your awareness of where your throw extends will ultimately affect how ably you are to

articulate this stuff.

I struggle with it because it's such a compulsion.

It's not like, "Oh I've got a good idea.

I'll write a record like this."

It's just all signs start pointing to certain things, like Empath, this new project.

Years ago, I was like, "Okay, well it's got something to do with covers of those old

new age things with the whales underneath and the universe up on the top and the font

is something like Star Trek."

You know what I mean?

It's like all these things, the pieces start to fall into place and then by the end of

it, I think I've recognized in the past by going down avenues that were in hindsight

rooted in arrogance or selfishness that I thought that led me to that place, which was

horrible for me.

I don't want to represent that.

It's much to the chagrin who had something invested in that.

Like people in bands that I was with, we were just on the cusp of success or what have you.

The last band, The Devin Townsend Project, I was so afraid of the dark that is part of

being human that I refused to acknowledge that it was a big part of what balances my

creativity.

As a result, that band started getting this reputation of being like, "Oh it's a positive

thing."

Then people would come to me like I had answers to some degree, like, "Oh, you know what

to—" You know?

"Because you're saying it, everything's going to be okay."

I'm like, "But it isn't!"

You know?

Then all of a sudden, I started looking down the trajectory of what that would become because

the next stage for DTP was more success and more success.

I'm like, "My God, I'm going to end up representing something that I'm not qualified

to represent.

I don't have the fucking answers.

Not even slightly."

And not only that, there seems to be very clearly a market for not only telling people,

"Fuck the world" because to be able to rationalize that with a cool logo, there's

a lot of people that are willing to pay for that because it removes that need to say,

"No, don't fuck the world."

And conversely, saying "Everything's going to be fine."

There's a huge market for that because everything's not, clearly, okay.

People want that sort of reassurance and to have it as a slogan on a shirt, all these

things, and so I started recognizing, I'm like, "Well again, your fear is preventing

you from representing your truth.

Your truth.

Not the truth.

Your truth.

My truth is somewhere in the middle, as it should be.

My truth is: everything's clearly not alright, but I firmly believe that if you're willing

to work and recognize that even though there's darkness everywhere, it's up to us to find

the joy in that.

Even with the awareness of that, not blocking out the awareness that it is fundamentally

chaos, with a certain type of internal discipline I think you can transmute that into something

that is healthy and enjoyable.

I'd like to be a step in the latter as opposed to the other.

You know?

AG: There are themes in the book, and we were discussing before filming, this notion of

via negativa where you are cutting away at things instead of building something up.

You use via negativa in a few ways.

When you are talking about things not working out in the world, are you using your art to

chip away at that?

Or are you using art to shine a light on that?

DT: Certainly not intentionally.

That's where sometimes I feel like the imposter syndrome on some level because if you get

it right, or at least I feel if I get it right artistically, in hindsight it looks intentional.

But it wasn't.

It was all based in just staring into the darkness.

Take these things that present themselves purely as an interest and then just have them

not irritate me anymore.

When I have a piece of music come into my head, it's finished when it doesn't bug

me.

It's not that it's—when I start a piece of music, it's not like the intention of

this is going to be for this and that and this is how it's going to help and this

is how it's going to—it's got nothing to do with that and I think that's why I

spend so much time being self-deprecating as well because I'll have these ideas that

seem to be of a lot of depth and importance to me and my trip, yet I don't understand

them until they're done.

AG: Can you give an example of something you didn't understand until it was done.

DT: All of it.

All of it.

AG: Something a little more tangible?

DT: Yeah.

Empath.

It's taken me a year and a half to write it and I consciously went into writing heavy

music again for this one, but juxtaposed by very mellow music.

It's the first time I've done it in one place.

The fear of doing that for fear of people interpreting that or the ups and downs of

it, psychologically being disturbing to people was such that I couldn't trust that my intentions

for it were not self-destructive.

You know?

On some level I was trying to sabotage myself because of the self-loathing or whatever that

on some—because I don't feel like…

It's not like I'm not in control of it, but because of the peripherals are so close,

I don't see it as it's going.

I was like, "Oh my God, what am I doing?

What am I doing?

What am I doing?

This is terrible.

This is terrible.

This is terrible.

It's great.

It's great.

It's great.

This is terrible.

It's terrible.

It's terrible."

But then once it was done and I listened to it, I'm like, "Oh it's beautiful!"

Like your intentions all along were to represent that life is not one thing.

Life is all these things.

And the last piece of music from the record, the last line is, "If you can't shine

for you, please shine for me."

It's like, through the storm of the record, what was kind of guiding my hand like an infant

was this sense that if you really want to contribute to music, to other people, other

people's art and other people's frames of mind in a very destructive time, you can't

be oblivious to the fear.

You can't block it out under the assumption that it will simply go away.

You have to face it.

So by the end of the record, when I finally concluded that I was able to listen to it

and say, "This is a positive statement."

It's a very uneasy time and therefore, as somebody who's empathetic to what's going

on just in his immediate environment, let alone the media and all the shit we're bombarded

with, of course it's going to come out like that.

Of course it's going to come out like that.

Unless you're being dishonest, of course it's going to come out like that.

And your fear of other people interpreting it in the wrong way is based on the fact that

you're not a terrible person.

AG: It's interesting how you view—it seems like you live with this juxtaposition of order

and chaos.

An album is essentially order.

The recording is ordered, everyone's recorded, the mix is perfect, the master is perfect,

but you're pointing and saying, "There's still the chaos."

You're saying, "I don't know what happens, I don't know why this happens."

But you have a 5-step guide to creativity, you know?

DT: I think the 5-step guide is based on very pragmatic, almost parental, advice because

any advice that I have to people to—"wield" sounds too pompous, but to "handle" this

type of process, is like—you know, "Don't do drugs and stay in school!"

You know?

It's really a lot more about when these moments of darkness and existential trauma

comes into your life, it's about practicing real fundamental parts of being a decent person

so that your heart is bigger than your fear.

AG: Do you feel that you've worked through a lot of this with your art?

Do you feel like you're a much healthier person of who you were, or do you feel like

you have different issues?

DT: Different issues!

I want to be healthy, for sure.

I think that I've made a lot of inroads in my personal life where I couldn't have

gone into very self-destructive.

For example, drugs are a very tender subject because a lot of the times the inspiration

you get from cannabis or alcohol or LSD or ayahuasca or any of these things are such

that it's really enticing because you think on some level it removes fear and you're

able to just produce.

However there's a certain aspect of that that it feels like you're taking it out

of the bank.

You know?

You make a withdrawal that allows you to get a riff or something like this, but you pay

for it in a psychological type of chaos that I think disallows you from being able to handle

the ramifications of what it is that you're producing.

So, it's a very fine line.

I think that extends to coffee and exercise and all these things, but you've gotta live

too.

It's not like you can be a monk in this world.

If you've got kids and if you've got a job and you've got phones and you've got—you're

recycling, yet you're drinking out of plastic bottles.

All these things.

I think what that comes down to in the same way, maybe some artistic avenues can lead

you to dark places, I think the idea you've withdrawn everything from and being completely

like, "I'm a pure vessel," is also a type of hangup and I think what you've really

got to do is foster some sort of sense of self-love that is rooted in, "Just give

me a fucking break, man.

Eat a piece of chocolate, dude."

You know what I mean?

I think that that ultimately plays into the book as well because what works for one person

is not going to work for everybody else.

There's some people I know that can do drugs all the time.

Or drink alcohol.

Or do any number of things that may not work for other people.

AG: It may not be working for them, either.

You just think it does watching them.

DT: Maybe, but I think that maybe it predisposes that there's "one way."

I'm not sure that I subscribe to that.

I think that there's one way ultimately, but I think that there's very much the idea

that everybody has a certain level of evolution and then, for example, I could remove everything

from my life.

I can become a monk and I can do all these things that seem to be enticing.

I just don't know if I'm spiritually evolved enough for that to not be a waste of my life.

AG: After seeing some of your performances, I'm not sure you'd be authentic to yourself.

DT: That's just it!

The whole purpose of the guide to creativity, if there is such a thing, is that you've

gotta figure out who you are and what your parameters are and then honor that, but don't

lie to yourself about it.

Sometimes the best thing that you may be able to do for yourself is have a glass of wine

and watch Netflix for two days.

You know?

Maybe it isn't.

Maybe for somebody else, that would be super destructive.

But I'm pretty far from enlightenment.

AG: You say the first step is to figure out who you are.

Would you say that these things you're describing about yourself is what you've figured out

about who you are or are they kind of something else?

DT: I've figured them out only because I've been so afraid of life.

In trying to not be perpetually immobilized by fear, these things have kind of revealed

themselves to me as opposed to any sort of benevolent, like, "I think that my role

in life is to…"

I'm shit scared all the time.

AG: Is the music a vehicle to process that?

Or is it a way of blocking it out for you?

DT: Music started as a loophole for me because we were raised in an environment where overt

displays of emotion were viewed as distasteful, I think.

I think that the downfall of that within my family is there's a lot of people who have

not a very highly evolved empathic, but moderate.

And I'm in that category, so you can't feel the need to understand emotions or to

represent emotions with such primal ferocity without a loophole for it to come out if you're

in an environment where it's not cultivated or else you're going to go fucking crazy.

For me, because music—I've always been, I guess synesthesic.

AG: The neuroscientist would know.

DT: I mean, numbers and colors and shapes and sounds and emotions are really connected,

right?

As a result of that, it could have been music, it could have been art.

It didn't really matter.

Music was just a loophole.

Because I was in a musical family, I could represent those sort of repressed things in

a way that wasn't going to get me in trouble and then when I found that it became a convenient

place for me to put it, everything kind of got hardwired to that.

And so now as I find myself, and this one could argue that I'm learning these lessons

that I've imposed on myself are helping, or I'm just getting older.

But music and its importance to me in terms of my identity is much less than it was.

So now I find that, for example on Empath, a lot of the theme ended up again at the end

being recognized as: what you're trying to do is let these things come and not let

them define you.

Let them bubble to the surface and then let them go.

AG: Which is something you cover in the book where you say, "Don't spiritualize or

idolize the idea.

Just commoditize it and record it, have a system for storing it, and you'll get back

to it later."

It's not like, "Oh crap, if I don't work on this, my life will fall apart."

DT: So if I can add a caveat to that: if you want to.

I think as soon as you say you don't or one method is or "this is how you do it,"

I think it verges on the same problem I have with religion where it predisposes that whoever's

telling you these things knows.

I will be the first to say, "I don't know and what I thought I knew tends to morph from

year to year."

When I was experimenting with eating meat again, I had all these people in my life that

were hardcore vegan and they were hyper-critical of me.

I was like, "Yeah, but I don't know.

I've been vegetarian for so long, I don't even know why I'm vegetarian.

I just need to know."

It was like, "Well you can't."

I'm like, "But why?

It just seems stupid."

And I mean, the truth is somewhere in the middle for me.

I realize that by allowing myself the lack of judgment that goes into saying, "If you

choose to try something, that makes you a terrible person.

You're going to hell."

Or whatever it is.

I find that's been really helpful creatively.

AG: This book is kind of all about that, like this notion of everyone has their own truth

and popular society may not be interested in yours.

But if pleasure and artistic expression is the goal, you're going to have to get over

that.

DT: Yeah.

Yeah.

I think it really comes down to: just be honest with yourself and it doesn't matter if what

you want is something that isn't "right" to want.

Maybe all you want to do is make a ton of money, but if that's what's going to make

you happy, then you'd be foolish not to pursue that because maybe somewhere along

the line you'll find that in the path of that is what you needed to know.

It's like, "Oh, that isn't going to make me happy.

But I didn't know it was not going to make me happy until I went there."

I think that it's like Bart Simpson testing the electric muffin.

He's like, "Ow.

Ow.

Ow.

Ow."

I feel like to a certain extent, my process is like "I just need to try it to know."

AG: Well now that you're a millionaire, you know if that money isn't that important

to you.

DT: I'm a "thousandaire."

AG: Right on.

Me too.

DT: I mean, I think money is a pain in the ass.

I would love to have enough money to never have to say "no" to the guacamole, as

they say.

I know a bunch of people who have millions of people and they just seem like they have

so many problems.

I feel like I've got, in a lot of ways, more than I need.

AG: I heard a great saying the other day.

It's a Chinese proverb/adage type thing.

"No food, one problem.

Lots of food, many problems."

DT: That makes sense.

That makes sense.

But I think, again, I think where the problems come there is thinking, "Well that's what

you have to do, then.

So I'm going to get rid of everything and I'm going to get a white cloak and I'm

going to tell my family that I'm the Buddha and I'm going to go off and…"

But if you're not spiritually in that place, all you're doing is fucking yourself and

everybody else that you care about.

I think that's a really important thing because during Infinity, I went down that

path where I was like, "I'm going to get rid of everything and I'm going to go be

a monk."

AG: Is that why you're naked on the cover?

DT: Totally.

But it's like, "But I'm not evolved enough for that."

It's like I'm kind of stuck in the western view of what spirituality is to the point

where I think there's a way that you do it.

You know?

If I got more than one guitar, then I'm spiritually unevolved and I find that a lot

of my problems with spiritualism or religion, but spiritualism in general, is people thinking

that--for example, I know a lot of people who are vegetarian because that's what spiritual

people do.

But then I know a lot of people that seem really spiritually evolved that eat meat.

You know?

So when you feel like you just have to have the uniform for what's going to--you're

going to transcend the birth and death cycle, you're

going to go to heaven, whatever it is.

You think, "Well as long as I've got these things, I say 'namaste' a lot and I do

a lot of yoga and I still talk shit about my buddies when they're not around."

I think ultimately, it's like, "Man you're wasting your time.

Just figure out what you want to do.

Burn around in a race car and eat ribs.

If this is your one time around, then maybe that's what you should be doing."

As opposed to just being frustrated with everything.

Now, I think the other side of the coin now is the further down you go, certain things

just don't make sense anymore.

Like for me, I love meat, but after a while it's like, "Well that just doesn't make

sense for a number of reasons."

But I needed to know that.

AG: I like Robert Fripp's way.

He has a couple of ways of thinking about this.

First he says that Tai Chi shows the perfect form exists and it's your job to align with

that form.

Whatever that form is, may be different for different people, but we need to build the

discipline to be able to take that form.

And then he calls King Crimson "a way of doing things."

And I always thought, "That is so irritating.

What does that mean?"

But just like you're saying, it's like, "This is how I process what I need to do.

This is my way of doing things."

DT: I thought you were going to say, "Just like what you're saying is irritating."

[Laughs.]

AG: Yeah, can we move on?

DT: Yeah, I'll choke now.

No, I get it, man.

I think it's like--I like my friends, I like my family, I don't claim to know a

lot, I like laughing, I like eating.

I don't know.

I don't know.

And I know less every day.

So I think that the creative thing frightens me just because I clearly do know.

AG: You do!

DT: And that's the thing where there's a disconnect.

AG: You can't not know after 30 years of it, right?

DT: This is the problem!

So because of the real disconnect between chaos and order that even exists within my

creative mind, I constantly feel ill at ease about what I do and that prevents me from

improvising in the way that I hope to one day.

You know?

I think that once I can make--and I think it comes down to insecurity.

I spent so many years going, "Oh I'm an idiot.

I don't know."

You internalize that to the point where you clearly do know and it's like, "Oh no

I don't."

[Inaudible.]

"I don't know."

Right?

But maybe this whole mid-life thing, I mean 46 is pretty late to still be battling with

this shit, but whatcha gonna do?

[Excerpt of "Grace" from "The Retinal Circus"]

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