I SHOOT STREET PHOTOGRAPHY is part of the minimalist collection, priced to be inclusive for people of all budgets.
I SHOOT STREET PHOTOGRAPHY is an original artwork created by Annette Kim. Inspired by Eric Kim’s first shirt released 10 years ago, I SHOOT STREET PHOTOGRAPHY is the updated version with modern typography and a minimalist illustration.
100% of the proceeds directly supports the artist.
HAPTIC means ‘relating to the sense of touch and proprioception.’ HAPTIC honors the meaning of ‘touch’ by making artistic tools, educational resources, and collaborative platforms. HAPTIC also inspires the making of art that touches others and uplifts our spirits.
You have much latent energy, potential, and inner-greatness … just willing to express itself. But do you ever let fear of judgement of others get in your way, or prevent you from expressing yourself, sharing your artwork, or just being you?
For my last postcard for now I would like to post this image from my photo book, Sunlanders, because it means so much to me as something emblematic of a street photography image. When I was working on the project traveling throughout Japan, I had Robert Frank’s The Americans on my mind. Like Frank, I was a foreigner attempting to interpret my adopted country with photography. Of course, this picture is made slightly in homage to Frank’s cover shot for this book– a passenger on a bus. The light was so good that day that it created a triptych of reflections, including the brick on the passenger’s face. The passenger himself is an everyman, a man in his twenties or thirties with glasses and a flu mask, a man you might see anywhere in Japan but who has come into some poignancy with this light, a poignancy he never knew he had at that moment. I love the tricks light plays on surfaces and mirrors and the good luck the photographer has in occasionally finding and seizing it. And I photographed this on Shijo, a busy thoroughfare in Kyoto where I live, after a long day of walking back and forth, hoping to see something beautiful. The best things happen when you keep on keeping on.
I cordially invite you to the open beta of ARS, an innovative new photography feedback platform, that gives you real, unbiased feedback on your photos from a community of real-life photographers.
ARSÂ is an innovative platform that gives you the opportunity to get frictionless feedback on your photos.
With a simple ↑ Upvote and ↓ Downvote mechanism, you can share your photos and get real feedback from the community on whether you should “↑Keep” or “Ditch↓” a photo.
Why use ARS?
If you have a photograph that you’re not sure whether you should “↑Keep” or “Ditch↓” — share it on ARS to get real feedback from other members in the community.
ARS thrives on your feedback– which means that you must also give feedback to other users in order to get feedback on your photos.
Follow the golden rule:
Treat others the way you would like to be treated. Provide honest feedback to as many photos as possible and others will do the same for your photos.
Signup for ARS with your Google Account. If you have any issues signing up, copy the link and open in a different browser such as Google Chrome, Firefox, or Safari on your mobile device or computer.
Upload a photo and ↑Upvote and ↓Downvote the photos of others.
For every 5 photos you vote on, you can upload 1 more photo for feedback.
Have fun: Keep up-voting and down-voting photos to give honest feedback to other photographers.
You are part of an exciting new platform and community and we would love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, and ideas. Let’s build something amazing together.
Over dinner, good friends Eric, Kevin, and Cindy discussed our dream to build a ‘productive’ community to learn photography by giving and receiving real feedback.
We emphasize the word ‘productive’ because we do not want this platform to just be a mindless ‘consumptive’ platform. Late one night Cindy realized that she was wasting her brain power on the meaningless act of scrolling and clicking like/favorite on others’ photos. She realized that there were so many people around the world like her, who had to much to give but the platform was not conducive to channeling that feedback in a productive way.
The existing platforms for photographers to give and receive feedback are limited to Instagram and Facebook. However, photographers never actually receive feedback because how well a photo is “liked” Â is dependent on closed social media networks and popularity algorithms. In other words, currently on Instagram and Facebook the photo that you share is not evenly shared to everyone equally.
We – Eric, Kevin, and Cindy – want to change the way photography was shared, seen, and provided feedback. We aspire to revolutionize the photography community by going back to the core of photo making and photo sharing.
Thus, we built ARS. We want to make ART ours again.
Fair feedback on your photos
Your photo will be uploaded and shown to others anonymously. No hidden algorithms based on popularity, your posting time, or your social media networks. Others will vote on your photo honestly and you can use that feedback data to help you learn and understand  whether you want to “keep” or “ditch” a photo.
Learning photography is difficult without a sense of feedback and understanding what makes a good photo. Of course, we should like our own photos, but giving and receiving feedback on our photos is a crucial part of the learning process.
BETA Testing
This is beta version one, with the simple act of just voting “keep” or “ditch.” We have big dreams for ARS, but also want to keep the beta version simple, because the simple feedback of “keep” or “ditch” is valuable information for photographers to learn and improve their photography and help other photographer’s understand their photos along the way.
Let’s learn and grow together as a photography community.
We’re still iterating, improving, and experimenting. Join us by beta testing ARS and provide feedback to email ArsBetaHelp@gmail.com
ARS =
MAKING ART, OURS
ART REALIZATION SYSTEM
AUTHENTIC RATING SYSTEM
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA
A ROAD TO SEEING
ART REVOLUTION SOCIETY
We have big dreams, and so do you!
(Update March 24, 2018):
On Cindy’s 30th birthday (February 19, 2018) we had an extremely successful beta launch. We received hundreds of e-mails from excited and enthusiastic users providing valuable feedback and suggestions of features to implement to improve community and user experience.
We have so many big moonshot dreams and visions to build up ARS as a revolutionary community of photography, photo sharing, and learning!
Currently we are looking for
Front-end developer to produce a mobile version of ARS for iPhone and Android
Investors and collaborators
Ambitious, self-driven visionaries who aren’t afraid of Nay-Sayers
Please contact us with your 1) Resume and work experience 2) Innovative big moonshot ideas or collaborations with the subject heading: “ARS Work” at ArsBetaHelp@gmail.com
FAQ
Q. I received a “403” Error Message from Google.
A. Copy the link www.arsbeta.com and open it in a new browser such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, on both your mobile device and computer. Do not open the link in an embedded mobile browser such as Facebook Messenger or e-mail app.
Q. I do not have a Google account.
A. Currently our beta version only supports Google login. We apologize for the inconvenience and plan to implement more login options in the future.
Q. What are the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for using this service and uploading my photos?
Q. I have another issue or feedback I want to share to improve ARS.
A. We welcome all feedback, ideas, responses. Please let us know what you think and send Eric, Kevin, and Cindy an email at ArsBetaHelp@gmail.com  If you have a technical issue, please send us detailed information on how that issue occurred (including device, browser, specific steps) so we could work to solve the issue as quickly as possible.
Q. I received an “Internal Server Error” on the signup page.
A. Currently our beta version can only handle ASCII characters (no diacritics, accent marks, non-Roman characters). We apologize for the inconvenience at this time.
A little mini-epiphany: to feel more happiness, human flourishing, and joy in life– seek to NEVER STOP CREATING (making stuff), instead of seeking to obtain more stuff.
One interesting thing I’ve noticed in a lot of street photographers which debilitates them from shooting street photography: the feeling of guilt of photographing a stranger without their permission, the feeling of guilt that they are “bothering†or “upsetting†their subjects, and the feeling of guilt that what they’re doing is inherently wrong or “evilâ€.
Creative dynamite
overcome your pain and strife
keep flying high; creative kite
be excited for the future, its all joy no bite
Creative flight,
this shit is tight
and rife with hope and opportunity
never feel fear; just make art and do it fluidly
make art like a child, stupidly
and foolishly.
Creative wheel,
Keep your axles spinning
perpetual motion
The antidote to nihilism or pessimism in life is to ACT — to do something (self-directed) that fulfills our own inner curiosities, or our own inner creative motives.
“Back by popular demand, Postcards from the Darkroom is a feature on Haptic Press by Sean Lotman. All images posted will be scans of his color prints handmade in his darkroom. A lover of narrative and color and travel, Sean hopes to tell a story or at least convey a feeling. He is the author of Sunlanders (Available for a limited time in the HAPTIC SHOP).”
Some more fun philosophizing — a photographer is all about making fictions with his or her photos; altering and transforming reality with their camera.
One of the most challenging things in the wintertime is to overcome the feeling of depression, gloom, and to discover inspiration and motivation to make photos, explore, find joy and optimism, and make art.
I’m currently the most prolific I’ve ever been in photography– shooting hundreds of photographs a day of just random stuff. I feel fantastic, and want to share this joy with you — how I have been able to shoot photographs everyday, and find joy and beauty in the mundane, everyday.
Photo by Joy – Winner of STREET CLUB Winter School
Eric and I (Cindy) are so so grateful for all who participated in Street Club Winter School on the ERIC KIM FORUM–an open and free school with photography challenges based on STREET NOTES. A very big special thanks goes to VICKI SEABROOK who volunteered to coordinate the Winter School.
Feel free to continue uploading and providing feedback on the assignment threads. Also, if you’re looking for some more challenges, pick up a copy of STREET HUNT –now available as a mobile edition.
Congratulations to Joy and Geoff! Winners please contact me at hapticindustries@gmail.com for your prize.
STREET HUNT is your new street photography field assignments manual, full of brand new, innovative, and challenging street photography adventures for you to embark on.
If you would like to coordinate the next Street Club, let us know! We would love to continue the community of learning here on the forum 🙂
Best,
Cindy & Eric
WELCOME TO STREET CLUB: YOUR FREE PHOTOGRAPHY SCHOOL (Summer 2017, Winter 2018)
During the week, complete the assignment and upload your 1-3 best photos from the week to this thread. Feel free to add your own reflections on the assignment: What were your challenges and successes? At the end of the week on Sunday, Eric and I will choose our favorite images and explain why.
Our dream for STREETCLUB is to
1) Encourage you to shoot, experiment, and learn and
2) Learn from others by providing and receiving constructive feedback. (Each photo you upload, leave constructive feedback for three other photos).
HAVE FUN! Love, Cindy, Eric, & Vicki
ARCHIVE: STREET CLUB SUMMER SCHOOL 2017
STREET CLUB video reviews is over, but you can still participate by completing the assignments and leaving feedback on others’ submissions on the threads below. Keep shooting!
For my last postcard for now I would like to post this image from my photo book, Sunlanders, because it means so much to me as something emblematic of a street photography image. When I was working on the project traveling throughout Japan, I had Robert Frank’s The Americans on my mind. Like Frank, I was a foreigner attempting to interpret my adopted country with photography. Of course, this picture is made slightly in homage to Frank’s cover shot for this book– a passenger on a bus. The light was so good that day that it created a triptych of reflections, including the brick on the passenger’s face. The passenger himself is an everyman, a man in his twenties or thirties with glasses and a flu mask, a man you might see anywhere in Japan but who has come into some poignancy with this light, a poignancy he never knew he had at that moment. I love the tricks light plays on surfaces and mirrors and the good luck the photographer has in occasionally finding and seizing it. And I photographed this on Shijo, a busy thoroughfare in Kyoto where I live, after a long day of walking back and forth, hoping to see something beautiful. The best things happen when you keep on keeping on.
