Month: May 2020

My new pursuit.

The most important person to privilege — yourself.

Savannah Condon: one of my great promising students who attended a recent creativity online photography workshop I taught. Learn more about her and what she does:

Of course Michael Jordan is the greatest of all time. My thoughts after watching his documentary (Last Dance):

Photography entrepreneurship is the goal.

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You don’t need the xan
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That is facts

The goal:

To create BEYOND yourself.

Beyond your life, your life time. To strive to make a monument more enduring than bronze (Horace).

When in doubt, blog.

Don’t entertain any ideas beyond the flesh.

Race is a topic I am fascinated about, because it makes no sense. Aren’t we all ‘the human race’?

Upon philosophizing on this, this is my takeaway thus far:

Race ain’t real, but morphology is.

Vlog in the streets.

The best life: working for yourself.

Simpler is better:

Who is programming the algorithm? Are you programming the algorithm, or is the algorithm programming you?

What is the worst ill to have befallen new digital creators? The obsession for views.

The goal:

Self ownership through entrepreneurship.

Strive to become a great individual.

The great individual: severe, harsh, selfish. Focused on his or her own self development.

Photograph today as if you were to photograph for eternity!

Not only muscular gains, but also brain gains.

What’s the point of life? Eternal development. For you to never stop changing, evolving, augmenting yourself and aggrandizing yourself.

One of the arts I have gained mastery over is blogging. How and why? Let me explain:

Vermeer as a great painter to study. Why? He used a camera obscura to paint his composition and perspective lines. So in a sense, he was hybrid photographer AND painter.

Your goal as an artist: to paint your emotions into your art work. To impute your energy, soul, and life into that which you create.

The principle of life.

Gyms might be closed, but parks are a good alternative!

My thoughts:

Simple ones:

I am convinced: the secret to life, life extension, getting buff/swole (and losing body fat) is through fasting.

To me the apex human condition is a state of flow; when you feel god-like, or a demi-god of artistic creativity and flowing.

SWOLE

SWOLE; don’t do what you’ve been told
You pave your own path
Wake the fuck up; no cat naps

SWOLE, the whole world
Is your pearl, your own easter
Your own awakening, your own Jesus

Aggrandize yourself
Augment your inner wealth
And turn a positive out of everything you’ve been dealt

What awaits you? Grandeur. Take the world by the horns; your own bull run tour.

ERIC

Practical ideas and lessons:

Keep trying to destroy your photos with filters. Keep it going and see if your photos can survive.

Silicon Valley thinking to photography:

Don’t strive towards perfection in photography. Instead, strive towards making the most simple “viable” image which is acceptable!

Why strive to become anyone else but yourself?

It ain’t about making ‘good’ artwork. It is about just putting your soul into everything you create, attempt and do.

High reps. Combination of bodyweight and weights (like dumbbells if you got access to it):

You don’t need a ‘reason’ to walk. Just follow your gut!

Why we delight in motion and movement:

No movement, no life.

A more constructive and generative way to see life:

You have the power to transform any ill or downside into an upside or positive.

For example:

1. Gyms are closed. Focus on doing bodyweight exercises and calisthenics to strengthen certain parts of your body.
2. Death in the family: Use this opportunity to live your own personal life without regrets. Or meditation on the shortness of life. My reflections after the death of my grandfather.
3. Pain: Gratitude towards the pain as a signal what you must address or fix in your life.

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“Make it as simple as possible, but not any simpler.” – Einstein

Your insider view:

The goal of all of our life and artistic aspirations:

To make beauty, and to become beauty.

1. Make beautiful photos
2. Make our bodies beautiful

Behind the scenes:

Money ain’t real. This means money is based on a faith (fiat) system. Then perhaps a more fun goal in life is this:

Create a universal basic income for yourself, and see what you can do with it!

What is ‘basic’ income to you? You choose.

ERIC KIM

Besides utilitarian aims and ends, why NOT pursue your passion?

Pursue thunder thighs. Ronnie Coleman wheels!

I love great titles. Why? They stick with me! Some thoughts on titles:

Why do we like behind the scenes so much? Perhaps we like “truth-seeking”?

Lesson for us artists:

Share your works in progress and things behind the scenes!

What do you do when you have supreme self confidence to become the best, but reality doesn’t manifest according to your will?

Photographers flatter others so much with their obsession with their subjects. Why not flatter yourself with that same amount of attention to yourself?

Just write about, photograph or share your own life journey and experiences.

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Why do we love sports? We get second-hand high from the adrenaline, victory and supremacy of the athletes playing.

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The secret to eternal photos: a beautiful form and deep substance.

The idea:

If you want to become more ‘productive’, fast from productivity at certain times.

Intermittent productivity fasting.

Life and photography is a journey.

Lessons I wish I knew:

Practical tips and ideas:

What is street photography? Perhaps poetry in motion. Also why people love to watch sports, Michael Jordan, and the Olympics — witnessing poetry in motion.

In my eyes:

How do you know which of your photos are good? Simple: sketch them.

How I judge an art work? By the replayability of it.

To write literally means “to carve”. Digitally, we write or carve on a digital screen.

Why write? How should we write? Some of my thoughts:

No matter how cruel or unjust life may seem, let us realize:

Life is beautiful and worth it, no matter what.

The best photos: optimism in life.

My thoughts on composition theory:

Use it or lose it.

What I believe in — sole proprietorship. Basically you’re a one man ship. You got extreme responsibility in yourself. It’s all on you.