Month: April 2020

What are we trying to do as artists? Seeking the sublime, creating the sublime. Seeking sublime art works, music, images, poetry, ideas, and thoughts. To float higher and beyond.

I allowed myself to become a child again!

An update:

Expanding on the game theory of life:

What inspires and moves me? Music and philosophy.

Are you dying to live or are you living to die?

There ain’t nothing wrong with you. So why try to “improve” or “change” yourself into something else?

In my last essay on happiness, my takeaway was this:

Happiness ain’t the ultimate goal. Happiness is simply as a MEANS to creative productivity and power.

I am very happy. I can tell you some of my personal thoughts on the philosophy of happiness:

Why am I so motivated? How do I motivate myself? My thoughts:

What is the greatest gift of existence? Of being alive!

The world is your own gym and playground!

Pop photography — remix your photos at will!

What does it mean to be a great man?

Utilitarianism is a bad philosophy. Let me share why:

ENCORE! The prior workshop (a day before, on Saturday) quickly sold out, so to accommodate for the demand, I propose this workshop. Don’t miss your chance!

Ethics — perhaps the notion of treating others how you would like to be treated is a bad one. Perhaps the notion of the golden rule isn’t great.

My thoughts:

How do you know if you’re eating too much or little? My thoughts:

Channel your soul and impute it into your art works.

You can only become positive if you’re survived and thrived from the deepest darks and negatives. My scars and stoic skin is what made me so positive.

The ultimate optimistic thought!

Dear fellow streettogs,

Right now is hard. But know you’re harder. Some practical ideas on how to re-motivate yourself during these difficult times:

Some money thoughts:

Things which help me:

My thought:

The future of travel will be more 360 videos, augmented reality, virtual reality.

Things will never be the same. Perhaps instead of waiting for things to get back “to the way they used to be”, it is about adapting to this BRAVE NEW WORLD … and for us to also learn how to profit/benefit from these uncertain times.

The future– hybrid of both photography AND video.

Simple ideas:

Is it better to have a strong or weak personality? Strong of course!

Discover beauty in everything and anything.

Philosophy is king. To me — there is nothing that stimulates me more than philosophy. To stimulate my mind. To give new birth and genesis to new ideas and thoughts. Philosophy as the broad base in which everything stands and grows.

You can shoot street photography during covid-19. Some thoughts:

What is the best type of courage you can exhibit in today’s less martial world?

The courage of your opinion, your thoughts, and your intellect.

This means:

1. Having the courage to share your own opinion without quoting anyone else, or without self-censorship.
2. Having the courage to publish your own ideas and be responsible for your own words (skin in the game).
3. Having the courage to CHANGE and modify your opinion as your life goes on.
4. Having the courage to own your own platform (your own website/blog) to share your thoughts (in order to not get censored),

My goal–

To become SUPER-HUMAN, or BEYOND human.

When in doubt, ask people (real life people) in the streets for their ideas, opinion, and thoughts.

You control your destiny.

“Un monstre gai vaut mieux qu’un sentimental ennuyeux.” – Voltaire

Basically the gist:

A happy (gay/joyful) monster is worth more than a sentimental bore (ennui).

I agree.

Why stay at the ground-level, when you were born to soar?

Just my thoughts. Theory — depression, anxiety, and melancholy originating from the body (physiology). There is nothing wrong with you. Loss of motivation (desire to move) must originate in the body.

Brave on.

Radical acceptance for yourself and for others.

To blog — web log. To log your life, thoughts, life journey, experiences, ideas, art, and all.

Isn’t this the apex form of artistic expression on the internet, with digital technologies?

Thought from Nietzsche:

If a demon came to you and told you– “This life, everything you have experienced in life, all the joys, all the pains and tragedies, all the regrets, all the pains and sufferings were to happen for eternity and on loop forever”, would you respond by telling the demon: “This is the most blessed thing I have ever heard, thank you you are a god!” or would you gnash and wail your teeth forever?

When in doubt, smaller is better.

A life without resistance is no fun. The game of life — the resistance makes us stronger. Consider muscles and resistance training. Resistance mentally, or entrepreneurial resistance. Resistance is good.

Why become spartan? We might be poorer, but more elite. More freedom. Better to be a free man, self employed, have your own business than to be a corporate slave earning $500,000+ a year in slavery or servitude.

Why Not Follow Your Passion?

No legitimate reason why you shouldn’t follow your passion in life! And to obey your passion!

As artists, our goal is hyper fertility. Hyper fruitfulness, and hyper prolificness. To make much, produce much, and never stop procreating birth to new art works, ideas, and creations.

What we need– more extreme imagination.

Consider–

1. Calvin and Hobbes
2. Steve Jobs: His vision for Apple, the future of computing (remember how soul-less computers and devices were BEFORE Steve Jobs and Apple?)
3. Kanye West
4. Elon Musk: Space colonization, Mars.

Lesson:

Have extreme child-like imagination. Don’t let it get beaten out of you.

Imagine what CAN be.

Physics first principles thinking. A lot of ‘unrealistic’ things are in-fact possible within the realm of physics. The more question is how difficult will it be to achieve?

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Unlimited future possibilities.

Study the human form:

To succeed in today’s capitalist world, the best answer:

Start your own business.

Don’t try to climb the corporate ladder. Avoid academia. Avoid anything which requires peer-evaluation and review. This way you will avoid classism, racism, sexism, etc.

‘Unfair advantage’. Does this really exist in reality?

How to future-proof yourself:

My momma taught me well.

Anti Quantified-Self // Demetricate Yourself!

Those whom exhibit the most courage, bravery, audacity, and grandeur.

Slow and steady wins the (ultimate) race in life! And the goal– be forever remembered. Best then to do it slow?

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For me, the true happiness originates in the body. Physiological happiness. The feeling of over-strength, hyper health, and physiological “power overwhelming”.

Some ideas:

Use the Pandemic and Lockdown/Quarantine as an Opportunity to Look at Your Old Photos!

Perhaps this is proof that the body is more important than the mind; the mind cannot exist without a body, but a body can exist without a mind.

Dear friend,

In these tough times, what better thing to do than to re-spark and re-ignite your passion for photography? For me, photography is everything. Photography is our primary artistic outlet, and creative force and power.

I created this unique Online Photography Creativity Workshop to re-spark your passion for photography, to motivate you to level-up your work, and for you to evolve as a visual artist, even when stuck indoors, at home, or in quarantine.

Question:

What do you want from your personal life?

Pandemic — something affecting all (pan) the people (demos).

For myself growing up, I grew up in a traumatic childhood situation of war-like situations. Poverty. Not during whether my mom would be able to pay the rent at the end of every month. Not sure if my dad would steal money from mom and gamble it away (it happened many times).

Growing up was good for me. Why? It hardened me. Truth be told, the hardest years of my life were probably middle school. High school was hard, but far easier. College was a cake walk. Becoming self-employed was difficult, yet fun, challenging, interesting, and I already knew what it felt like living with little (I was never afraid of going broke or bankruptcy, because I saw my mom go through it, and it wasn’t that bad). But anyways, in my life I have had cycles of war and peace. Then peace and war.

Now, this is my thought:

American society has had a very long period of peace (at least for us private citizens in the states). Now, with COVID, we are at war.

So what will happen?

What’s your minimum viable income necessary to “satisficing” your life?

That which tries to destroy you only makes you stronger.