Month: May 2020

What is the apex for human physiology, growth, muscle augmentation, and fat loss or minimization? My thoughts and theories:

I really enjoy shooting intelligent auto (iA mode on lumix cameras) and JPEG on my Lumix G9.

Eating meat might be bad from an ethical, moral, or planetary level … but good for a physiological and muscle augmentation level. Best for human physiology and physique.

When in doing, prioritize your body and flesh over metal (watches, cars, motor cycles, etc).

Your Name is King. You– your name, your self. The most valuable asset.

Never stop learning:

Steal inspiration ruthlessly from the past, and try to ADD to it, re-mix it, sample it, but ELEVATE IT. Visual training wheels Keep trying to increase your one rep max (or PR) for photography …

PDF Slides from my recent Online Advanced Street Photography Composition Workshop:

It ain’t about becoming more “brave” or “confident”— it is to become more brazen. More reckless. More ruthless. More audacious. More brazen.

Keynote: truly the most beautiful presentation tool ever made for mankind.

Life epiphany: The end of life and artistry … to create beauty and nothing but beauty, to also transform yourself into beauty.

My synthesis and hybrid: I am very happy with what I got and what I’ve accomplished, but I’m still very dissatisfied and want more. The ultimate hybrid?

Better to be honest, direct and uncensored than to be ‘professional’ and predictable.

The ability to create freely and share freely

How to compose:

The worst hate? Self-hate.

Why be productive? Towards what ends? What is some of the B.S. when it comes to productivity cult-like thinking? My thoughts:

The wisdom of delaying and procrastination:

Towards personal aesthetics:

The gist: Look for old photos of mine which I like Ask myself, “Why do I like this photo?” Let my photos sit and marinate Revisit old photos Draw composition lines on iPad or …

Why this trend towards this morose-type or thinking that good photography somehow must be depressing and angsty. Shouldn’t photography be more joyful instead?

What holds back many entrepreneurs? The idea that there is some ultimate truth or right or wrong. But if we accept that there is no ultimate truth, no ultimate right and wrong … then …

If we strive towards a perfectly ‘equal’ society, this means a profoundly mediocre, boring, and average society. A grey society.

If you had the option, would you elect for the life of ease, or the life of full control and self-autonomy?

When analyzing your own photos and composition, segment and break down the frame.

Work harder, rest harder:

Look towards the future.

Why strive towards great compositions? To inspire movement in us … quite literally for us to move, dance, and move around!

Helmut Newton — great at composing triangles.

Certainly it is better to prefer humans over objects, homes and things.

Ethical thoughts:

What makes “tasteful” erotica versus “distasteful” erotica in photography or art? Post contains nudity:

Insight … sight. Why sight?

Practical ideas: Find a photo you like of your own, and apply all photoshop filters on them to visually analyze them. Find a photo of a great photographer or painter you like, and try …

Analyze your own photos for fun, personal curiosity, and as a means for you to continue and augment your own self-learning, your own self-edification!

Never really give too much faith to an artist ,,, until they die, and their ‘dirty secrets’ come out. Why? Let me explain:

Question:

What makes photographers unique from other visual artists? The hybrid of technology AND art. In this sense, are photographers then the apex predator in the visual arts?

The ancient greeks talked about greatness, but not much about ‘perfection’. Where does the notion of perfection come from? (perhaps Plato), and how has it harmed us so much up until now?

My secret to the greatest artistic fruitfulness in life: Pursue only that which is interesting to you. Why? Whatever is interesting to you is highly likely to be interesting to others!

Brave new world. From the Google Tensorflow blog.

In praise of art. With art, you strive to create art works which cruel time will chew on slowly. Robustness to time. Better yet, antifragility to time; as time goes on, your art works …

This means: Accept hope is a vice. To desire a better uncertain future is holding us and you back. Fatalism: we take the most pessimistic and fatal view (things will never improve or go …

Your spirit must be lifted. Why? Because you’re gifted.

In praise of parks:

Always strive to examine the truth for yourself, by yourself.

Strive to seek deeper (personal) truths:

Life is about intensity, not reps.

The goal: Not to be a slave and prisoner to another platform, but to become the master of your own domain, your own platform. This is the impetus to creating this website, this blog, …

What does it mean to live in a post-monetary society? My thoughts:

A thought about economics and wealth: How do we generate wealth without exploiting the labor of others? Some ideas:

Let us think: Perhaps when we consume the ideas of others, we ain’t looking for some ultimate ‘truth’. Instead, we are seeking ideas which resonate us and motivate us to action and activity.

A new future: Either you’re free or a slave. And let us not be fooled; even the rich can be slaves (many of whom are).

A look into my brain:

Test it here.

Nothing is pure. Purism is for suckers.

From SUITS:

There is always an admixture of something or another.

A thought: If you shoot a street photograph of someone you know, is it still ‘street photography‘? I think so!

What is the maximum human life span? It seems for men around ~117 years. Women is 122 years. I personally aspire to live to be 133 years old (in hyper health and vigor). But… …

A blog is a web-log of your online activities or life activities. Better thought: Think of a blog as a live-stream, or a life-stream of your entire life.

Street photography is democratic and for all.

All is flux.

I love the stoics of the past, but what is my criticism? They didn’t go far enough.

A thought I had while looping around the park next to my house: My new ideal … the hyper-hero. My thoughts:

What does it mean to think for yourself?