Month: November 2020

Sunshine beautiful sunshine!

Meat glorious meat!

MONOCHROME GYM: Great lighting, very interesting aesthetic and approach:

Why do we feel so alienated and lonely in modern times? Because of the change in social spaces. Covid 19 has accelerated and augmented the shift for us to be more antisocial, more stuck …

What’s our goal? To keep growing. Larger than life. To continue to grow in size, stature and bulk. And it isn’t about how objectively big you are or not, but your perception and acknowledgement …

Inspiration literally means to “in+breathe” while expiration means “out+breathe”. We seek artistic inspiration… but what if we also need artistic “expiration” (a breathing out of art work or concepts or ideas) in order to …

The gym as the ultimate playground to test your courage; and not to succumb to fear and horror!

FIRST SENT ON ERIC KIM NEWSLETTER > Dear friends, a motivational photo thought: You are what you photograph, and you photograph what you are. The point ain’t to photograph anyone else who isn’t you, …

The best life is the life in which you direct all your energy, force and courage towards things you can control, while realizing almost everything else is outside of your control, and that’s fine!

The two vices which grip mankind and hold back man from his fullest potential. What would a life look like in which we had no horror or fear? Perhaps the best and most noble …

Great health not for the sake of it. Great health as a means and as a road to great creative thoughts, which will lead you to great creative productivity (to think great thoughts and …

Not new cameras, not new lenses, not better smartphone cameras, new formats, etc. The future of innovation in photography as technique, approach, new modes of sharing and publishing your work, innovations in photo-video-animated GIF …

The difficult thing to reconcile in photography: Thinking about our past, present, and future photos. For example, I think most of us photographers tend to get stuck on our past photos, and as a …

My personal greed and desire: To do more, experience more, and become more in a single given day!

Arcade as a great place to shoot photos and videos!

The bright new optimism for our future as photographers: the reminder — With every new rosy fingered dawn means a new day for us as photographers and visual artists to make new photos!

Our goal: Never stop climbing for higher heights … literally and metaphorically!

In Praise of One Rep Maxing for Dumbbell Press Safer, more fun, interesting and independent than one rep max bench pressing:

What’s the difference between nature and man? Nature grows organically while man builds. If we think about our cities, our malls and all our man made creations … it is all predicated on this …

This is often the problem: We get suckered by what looks more sophisticated (silly exercise balls and “mobility” stuff at the gym) rather than what is more *effective* (one rep max deadlifts, squats, chinups, …

To save money for the sake of saving money or refusing always to use money and resources is foolish and scrooge-like. What we gotta determine and figure out is this: In which *contexts* is …

Typically we have been taught and trained that the more energy, electricity and resources we save and don’t use, the better. But what if the opposite were true: The MORE energy, resources and electricity …

The trillion dollar question: We shoot all these photos. How do we know which photo or version is the best?

Just watched the new episode of the Season 2 of Mandalorian and really didn’t enjoy it. Why? It became too “Disney-fied”. First season of Mandalorian as more dark, cruel, and “angsty”. But this is …

An interesting and robust way to live your life.

I love zen. For me, to have the calm and energetic and focused and sublime mindset of zen is supreme. To just walk, observe, photograph … isn’t this one of the ultimate zen practices?

Great trees, colors and vibes:

Training for our photography; a metaphorical photo gym!

This is what I believe drives us.

Almost all books (most modern) bore me. Far more interesting to focus on art, aesthetics and the body over “wisdom”.

Trees are phenomenal. Why? Theory; being in trees, you get increased oxygen and other micr-pollens in the air, which are good to awaken and enliven you? The joy of fractal patterns; The joy in …

My desire: To be in peak physical shape and fitness and strength … and utilize my peak fitness to supersede my (past) limits.

Or how udderrly grateful I am for life:

Thought: The reason *WHY* I like to drive stick shift instead of automatic because it is more fun *BECAUSE* it requires me to exercise my skill! For example, coasting on top of a hill …

Even though I’m rich, I prefer to own cheap stuff. Why? Simple reasons: Less anxiety associated with ownership. For example when I’m at the gym and I need to go to the bathroom real …

In praise of thunder thighs:

Who or what is a philosopher? An individual who sets values … who says: This and that is worthy and of high value and worth your energy, life and pursuit. And also, more importantly …

A great idea for maximizing the potential of our human physiology, growth, muscles, recovery: In the morning, icy cold showers to get you going. Then at the evening, insanely hot baths to rest, relax …

MANDALORIANJump in the DoloreanFast forward back to the futureKnow that you’re future is already hereNo need to clear your mind, or drive blind or stay divineStay direct, stay straight, stay great No need to …

What do we want and desire? To live the best, most beautiful, most blessed life and experience known to man. And to innovate and discover: How to live better. To discover new modes of …

In order to train your mind, train your body.

On one rep maxes:

One of my greatest joys in life: Going grocery shopping, shooting photos and videos, cooking food (especially greens and meat), and then eating and feasting!

A lot of people tend to be critics of the touch-bar on the new MacBook Pro, but I love it!

A beautiful zen calm feeling of snow— hyper white, outline, great clarity, great purity and great joy!

You don’t need a data plan for iPhone. Perhaps it is *superior* to have as a pure creativity tool (iPhone can be thought of a more portable iPad).

A fun addition to the prior Zen Brush 2:

Really grateful for the Apple App Store team for recommending this app as the app of the day. Very good, creative, thoughtful, fun and interesting camera app. Super fun and highly recommended!

The goal: To be seized with creative rapture, and you never stop creating!

For me, it is the only way to live. If I don’t produce, make things, and imagine … I feel like I’m degrading.

Or in other words why I hate “running” or “jogging” and would prefer powerlifting (one rep max), or a combination of walking and sprinting.

One of the best ways to live: Focus on your own self-development. Now how do we do it? Some thoughts:

The best type of determination to have in life: To have the power to determine your own future, your own fate, your own future!

I got a car (2003 Subaru Outback, 5 speed). Bought for only $800 USD on Craigslist!!! I got an abode, and have zero interest in owning a home or purchasing a home (anti home …

Thought: One of the most robust and independently interesting ways to live your life is this: to just focus on your own self development. Self development as continually augmenting your knowledge, understanding, wisdom, body …