u/turtle69696969

Hello all, I'm planning a trip to Vietnam in the next few months. My question is, would it be a good idea to take the train from Hanoi to Ha long bay, do the cruise and then take the train back the same day? Or would it be advised to stay in ha long bay for the night?

I've been collecting for the past few years. Mostly 10g bullions and a couple 20g bullions but every time I go to the gold markets, the one ounce bullions just call for me and I'm going to take the plunge. How many of you have a one ounce bullion? Have you kept it in the assay packaginig?

A little context, I make content (video and photo) for luxury hotels in my city which is fun but, what I've learned very quickly is that luxury hotels have designated "brand approved photographers" who will be flown out from wherever in the world they are and get paid anywhere from $20,000+ to shoot the hotel (some rooms, the pool, table setup and maybe some lifestyle stuff) and then the local photographers will get the crumbs, yet, some of the photos these brand photographers take look so amateur it actually kind of shocks me how these photographers are approved by the company and makes me wonder how on earth these people get work.

I remember a new 5 star hotel opening up here a few years ago. I got hired to film the opening video. After a lot of negotiations, I managed to get a budget of $10,000 approved for a crew of 3. Then, the approved brand photographer who charged 30,000 Dollars gets flown in from France, first class, to take some of the worst photos I have ever seen. Extremely poorly lit photos, there was one photo of a couple sitting down by the pool and the step had very visible damage to it (broken, chipped and discolored) this guy just left it as is and the hotel actually used that photo as a billboard, yet when creating my video, the team spent 1 month going back and forth with us because they didn't like the table cloths the hotel used in the video even though it was pre-approved in advance and made us "change the table cloths". Why do these brand approved photographers.

I guess my question is, how do these photographers get to be brand approved and how do they get away with creating terrible photos.

Essentially, producing two of the biggest records of the bands career and one of the highest selling records in the world, did he decide to just retire? With how well Hybrid and Meteora did, his royalties will have been really high to the point where he can just sit back and chill. Anyone got any idea? He hasn't really done anything noteworthy after LP apart from Avril Lavignes second album

How much is your stack worth?