Philosophy of Nutrition
Is there an ‘optimal’ or “supreme” form of nutrition for us– in terms of mental and physical power?
June 2019
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Just Shoot It: You’ll Never Know Otherwise!
“I photograph to see what the world looks like photographed.” Garry Winogrand Whenever you see anything, just photograph it; you can never predict 100% what the final photo will look like! Photograph it because you’re curious what the scene will look like as a photograph.
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Life as a Means to Art
Use your life, your personality, your ego, and experiences in order to create art!
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Art Technology
The photographer as the currently most evolved form of artist-cyborg, embracing technological tools to create artwork.
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Deep Art
The most satisfying part of existence is to be an artist … to disappear into your artwork … and to keep making art. Artist as the apex individual in society — artist-philosopher-king, tyrant ?
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Photography to Spice up Reality
Reality looks more fun and interesting with photography!
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Day 1 Honolulu Hawaii
Southwest flight to Honolulu. Gonna be here for a month for Cindy’s work; traveling light with just my Xiaomi 9 SE phone, iPhone 6S Plus and 13 inch MacBook Pro.
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Change.
Change, bust out the range Ride out the bills– do it for real. You cannot change yourself without pain No gain without insane faith in your potential Gravity isn’t holding you down; so why stay on the ground? Loud out your sound–sonic boom it Take opportunities in life with no Guile If you live to…
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Never Look Back, Only Forward!
To maximize our personal thriving, perhaps we shouldn’t look back– we should only look ahead!
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Remove Your Limiter
What is a “limiter”? It is something in your mental wiring which holds back your potential. For example: Physical-mental limiter: The mental limiter which holds you back from attempting new “PR”’s at the gym, because you’re afraid you might injure yourself by attempting a heavier weight than you’re used to. Entrepreneurship limiter: The limiter that…
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Quantity Over Quality
We are always told: “Quality over quantity”. But what if this was a mistaken notion? What if we should in-fact, focus on quantity over quality?
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What Are Your Life Goals?
Let us assume you will live to be 120 years old in excellent physical and cognitive health. What do you desire to accomplish, do, achieve, or create while you’re still alive? To me, this is the beginning of philosophy.
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The Brussels Street Photography Festival (October 4-6, 2019) @ Centre Tour à Plomb
My buddy Daniel (head of the Brussels Street Photography Festival) is currently putting on their 4th edition!
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Practical Creative Productivity Tips
Advice based on what works for me — hope these can help you too:
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In Praise of Tips
I believe that tips are actually more beneficial, and generally more profound in knowledge and wisdom than “high brow”intellectuality. Why? Let me share.
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Social Media
Personal and philosophical thoughts on social media:
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Creative Producerism: You don’t live in order to consume, you live in order to produce!
To live a more fun, interesting, playful, and rewarding life– perhaps we should optimize our own personal lives for our own personal creative productivity.
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Morality and Ethics
There are no ultimate morals or ethics in life. You have the power to determine your own morals and ethics in your life. Of course you must accept the consequences. But this life is the only certain life — why live for another life or even an after life?
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The Zen of Powerlifting
To me, powerlifting, deadlifts, etc is more mental than physical. I believe that powerlifting is 90% mental, and overcoming your mental blocks.
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Why Aspire?
Why aspire? Think about the opposite: What would a life of non-aspiration look like? And would a life devoid of aspiration be a life worth living?
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Should We Strive to Make Great Photos?
Something I wanted to essay about: What makes a great photograph? Also — does it even matter if a photograph is ‘great’? Is ‘good’ good enough?
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What Should I Photograph?
A simple thought and idea: What should I photograph if I want to make more “interesting” photos, more meaningful photos– or to find more ‘inspirational’ things to photograph?
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Street Photography is the Ultimate Video Game!
Thinking about video games — People want an “open world” concept Gamers want to have fun, explore, discover, and adventure/quest Gamers want to exercise their “hand eye coordination”skills (consider first person shooter games) How can we integrate these video game traits to real life? Simple — by playing and shooting street photography! Street photography as…
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Life is a Game, Not a Duty
A thought while at the gym today: You didn’t ask to be born, thus you technically “owe” anything to anybody. So perhaps we should think BEYOND “duty” and “original sin”. We didn’t have a choice in being born, but now we have a choice how to live our lives (we have the faculty of free…
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How to Get Into a Photography Flow
Simple thoughts: Use a “standalone digital camera” like a RICOH GR II in order to NOT get distracted while shooting. While I think smartphones are legitimate cameras, the biggest downside of smartphone cameras is the fact that it is very difficult to focus on the simple task of only shooting photos! This is a good…
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How to Research Composition
I am passionate about composition — to me, it is the root and foundation of all artwork and aesthetics. But how do we improve our own composition? Easy — research compositions from other artists whose work inspires you, deconstruct it, sketch it, break it apart, figure out how it works, then determine how you can…
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The Ultimate Luxury is to Create Your Own Artwork!
Luxury isn’t buying stuff, nor is it living a certain “lifestyle”— it is about having the luxury of time, your own attention, and your own focus and willpower to create your own artwork!
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Focus, Not Privacy
A thought: Perhaps what we should be optimizing for in our personal lives is FOCUS, not ‘privacy’.
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In Praise of Standalone Digital Cameras
In today’s epic and hyper-connected world with smartphones and the internet– what is the role of a ‘standalone’ digital camera?
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Fast vs Classic
A thought while bored in mass today: What gets better with time, and what gets worse with time? When it comes to purchasing things, should we optimize to only buy things which get better or more beautiful over time? For example, beautiful patina, wear and tear, rips and holes (raw denim, wabi sabi aesthetics, leather).
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Supersede Your Genetic Potential
Don’t think about race, ethnicity, genetics; think epigenetics, hacking your own DNA, and modify and build yourself with your willpower, effort, and fearlessness.
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Visual Stream
What we are doing as photographers and creators: creating a beautiful visual stream of images— not caring too much for a single image, but delighting in the totality and collection of images as a whole and a stream. Including photos we’ve created, images we remixed, hybrid images, sketches we’ve made, traces we’ve made, and screenshots…
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Afterlife or Duringlife?
How would you live your life differently if you didn’t believe in an afterlife?
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Surprise, Predictability, and Control in Photography
As a photographer do you prefer to create the image, or be surprised?