We only got this one life to live. No life or consciousness or spirit after death. The mortal soul— the soul which dies once your body dies. If this is the case, then why live life doing anything which bores you?
When you got nothing else to shoot, just shoot the sky!
With working out, don’t do these boring static stretches which take waaaay too long with waaaay too many boring repetitions. Just do it quick, efficiently, and get on with it!
In praise of just having fun in photography! Shoot with mirrors, shoot videos, and just have fun, keep experimenting and confusing the viewer with your (weird) perspectives!
In today’s brave new COVID world … isn’t right now the best time to go out and shoot uber-interesting photos?
As an artist, you’re always in a state of flux and evolving. No limits!
The goal: Associate with people who uplift and pump you up, not people who depress and hold you down.
Fear is the ultimate emotion we must conquer. The goal ain’t to live a “happier” life but a LESS FEARFUL life.
One of the worst ills of ‘Gen Z’ kids: They cannot make eye contact, have poor social skills. Even us ‘Millenials’. We cannot make eye contact. We always got our AirPods in. It is not considered ‘cool’ to talk to strangers. Worse yet, most people don’t got the guts (or social skills) to talk to…
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To weigh yourself, whether your scale-weight (how fat you are), weighing yourself in terms of your bank account balance, weighing yourself in your social media following numbers likes views etc is self-esteem suicide. What is self-esteem suicide? Quantifying your self-worth and ‘progress’ through numbers. Unquantify yourself. Some pragmatic ideas: Get rid of your scale at…
Less worries, less stress. Less stuff. Fewer obligations, fewer things to manage. Less is best!
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Technology as a means to an end, not the end in itself. Which means: Be more interested in your personal end-game, rather than being interested in tech for tech’s sake. In other words: Don’t fetishize and lust after gadgets and new technology for the sake of it. Think deep. Philosophy. Ask yourself *WHY?* and keep…
There is no end-game to blogging. The goal: Never run out inspiration, motivation or ideas and to keep posting indefinitely, until you die!
No doubt about it … WordPress (the open source wordpress.org and the paid wordpress.com) is *THE* best platform for publishing, blogging, website-building, whatever. Why? Ultimate flexibility and customization Future-proof (they got a trillion dollars to support it) Matt Mullenweg can be trusted. How to get started Go to bluehost.com and pay for the cheapest domain…
No no no… the devil doesn’t exist. Whoever talks about the devil in a metaphorical sense or even worse… a *real* sense — don’t trust them.
A thought — When we hear music, did the artist create the music out of their own depression and sickliness, or out of their over-abundance in health, joy, and liveliness? Perhaps this is the judge on what “good” or “bad” music is.
Something I’ve been realizing in the context of philosophy, health and hygiene … cleanliness certainly is the closest thing to godliness (wasn’t this an advertisement somewhere?)
Photos of my everyday life:
Featured image doesn’t need to be related to your post. Blog from your phone or tablet/iPad. Blog about anything in your life. No categories. Bullet point lists like this are useful. Better to post a “bad” post than no post at all. Drink cold brew black coffee to get the creative juices flowing! The best…
Cheap, strong, fast! Actually tastes better than Starbucks cold brew. Stronger, more dense, chocolatey, and smooth!
Design your blog, website, products and life just like air, the great outdoors. A breath of fresh air. Openness. Light, brightness. High ceilings. Floor to ceiling windows. The more air, light, and lightness the better! Towards more on the philosophy of fresh air.
Don’t be afraid of overtraining. Work out everyday for fun and physiological thriving. Intermittent fast during the day. Workout while fasted is better. More energy and motivation. Hunger motivates you to move and workout. Black coffee (no cream, sugar or milk) before working out. No music, phone or headphones while working out. More focus and…
Real ideas: Ricoh gr III in program mode and JPEG. Either high contrast monochrome or cross process filter. Positive film color filter is good too. Post photos to your own website blog, not social media. Delete your Instagram. Use Apple photos on your MacBook laptop instead of Lightroom. Apple Photos is much faster. If you…
Social fear aversion therapy technique.
Pork is delicious, cheap, and easily accessible! The main reason why a lot of Jewish people don’t consume pork was back in the day, pork had a lot of diseases. Not so much anymore.
Instead of seeking the ‘truth’, better to pursue just having the power to create art!
I have high expectations of others. A big one: One’s back-stage self should be the same as one’s front-stage self. In other words: Don’t talk a certain way behind the scenes and talk a different way in front of the camera. Make it the same.
We talk much now about physical hygiene (in today’s brave new COVID world), but how come we never talk about *mental hygiene* — in the context of mental health?
How to be a hype-man:
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Wisdom: physiological and mental health to pursue what is best for you.
Knowing the truth about x y z is often a distraction. Who cares if all these strange conspiracy theories are true? How does it benefit you? It doesn’t.
It is fun to showcase your progress, gains, and watching these videos (myself) is hugely interesting and self-entertaining!
My critique on social media:
Never forget… anything you do or post online, assume like it will be discovered down the line. Note: archive.org The Way Back Machine (http://web.archive.org) Do not post anything to Facebook, Instagram, Google whatever that you otherwise wouldn’t do in public.
Download the ‘Who Wrote That?’ Wikipedia plugin for Firefox, and find the fun — Let us do some investigations into people who (probably) wrote their own Wikipedia bio, or people who have written (biased) information regarding their own collective, group, or thing.
Also shout-out to my friend Thomas Leuthard for making the trip possible. Also shout-out to Loryne Atoui and Mohammed Badr.
My personal thought on ethics in America: Just leave others alone and do as they please in private. For example if people want to self-mutilate, let them do it. If they want to do bad things to their body, let them do it. However what we should *NOT* be tolerant of in America is when…
Sex is biological (were you born with testes or ovaries?). Gender is social — one can and perhaps *should* be allowed to self-assign their own desired gender. The tricky thing: In society, we get the two conflated (confused).
I do not believe in superstition of any form. I am a pure empiricist. What is superstition? It essentially means to believe in ‘meta-physics’, “energy” and all this other non-physics and non-biology based stuff. For example things I do *NOT* believe in: I do not believe in life after death (I believe in a mortal…
It is quite obvious we all descended somewhere in Africa (Lucy (Australopithecus), the original ancestor of Homo Sapiens). Thus what interests me is this: Not about ‘race’, for we are all the “human race”. More interest in human migration patterns.
As much as people tend to be very anti-American and the government, I am for it. Why? I suppose I am one of the few last liberals on the (now) intolerant left who believe in the American Dream, and has deep gratitude for what America, the government, all of my leaders and guides has done…
Something I’ve realized — So much of America and the world is antisemetic and anti Jewish. My theory why this is: They are envious and jealous of the success of Jewish people and want to scapegoat them.
Not good.
A look into my life:
I have zero interest in going to mars, space, and beyond. I like ‘spaceship earth’ (Buckminster Fuller). What if the best life were here on earth … and how could we maximize our use and life here on this beautiful blue and green planet?
Ultimately we can boil down most people to one or the other: Are your personal intentions rooted in love of humanity or hatred towards humanity?
If you pay for a service, buy an app, etc… there is more transparency. If an app, game or social media platform is “free”, then YOU’RE the product. Perhaps this is in favor of paywalls and paid news services (not free) in order to get truly more accurate or factual or honest news, compared to…