STREET by KIM
STREET by KIM: New free photo e-book from ERIC KIM:
December 2020
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Science x Art
Is there a science to art? Or perhaps science *and* art as the ultimate hybrid synthesis?
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Always Opt for the Riskier and More Interesting or Unknown Option
The best way to live life!
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How to Boost Your Mood
What is mood? Mood is your physiological condition. How much energy, hype, motivation and energy you have in your muscles. The trillion dollar question: how does one improve their mood?
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The Artist-Entrepreneur
To be an artist isn’t enough … we must also become more entrepreneurial. The only artists who succeed … are a hybrid of good self-marketer, good self-brander, good self-promoter, and risk-loving entrepreneur. Or in other words: No guts, no glory.
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Why Photographers Should Study Geometry
By studying geometry, we can better understand the dynamic relationships of lines, shapes, forms, and planes in our photographic compositions. As a consequence, we become more cognizant of the dynamic visual forms in our photos when analyzing them, and also spot them intuitively when we’re out shooting photos!
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Creative Photography
A realization while walking in the snow and shooting photos: The purpose of photography is to be creative and create. In some ways, all photos you shoot are creative. But at the same time, the joy of photography is to see how creatively ingenuous you can be with your compositions, framings, ability to spot and…
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Creative Iteration
Creativity is fun when you take matter and reimagine and retransform it into something else:
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The Beauty of Mundane Happenings
For example, seeing a guy help another guy jump his snow-plow:
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CREATIVE OPTIMISM
What keeps me going? Creative optimism and self-motivation:
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My Interest in Street Photography, Philosophy and Entrepreneurship
If I could easily synthesize my primary 3 interests and passions, it has to be a combination of street photography, philosophy and entrepreneurship. Why? Street photography: This is just a more active and interesting form of sociology for me. I love humans, I am endlessly fascinated by society, life, lifestyle, and new modes of human…
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IMPACTFUL PHOTOGRAPHY
What are the best photos? The ones which impact you and the viewer the most:
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PHOTO JOURNEY
Life is a journey. As a photographer, your task is to document your photographic (and life) journey:
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The Philosophy of Happiness
In modern times, everyone wants to be ‘happy’. It seems much of consumerism and capitalism is to maximize our ‘happiness’. But what is happiness? Is this even something to be desired?
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Black and White Photography as Optimistic
A thought — The upside of monochrome photography is that it is more optimistic? Or deeper: To make optimistic photos in monochrome is more difficult and takes more skill/creative ingenuity than making optimistic color photos. Let us consider — color is naturally more optimistic, bright and colorful than monochrome. To make dreary, moody, and depressive…
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BAUHAUS DESIGN STUDIES
Personal studies on iPad and Procreate. The gist: As I study Bauhaus design, I find images which compel me. If I’m compelled to sketch, trace, dissect and analyze these designs … I find them great and worthy of attention! This is how I self-teach and self-learn design, visual arts and practically everything:
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The Art of Black and White Photography
Art means approach and technique. This is my personal take on black and white photography:
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How to See More Artistically as a Photographer
Free motivation on ERIC KIM NEWSLETTER > Dear friends, wanted to shoot you some words of motivation and words of creative energy. First of all, recognize that you’re not just a photographer, you’re a visual artist. This means that photography and the camera is only another means to making photos. This means that you’re not…
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How to See Like an Artist
Artist vision as a photographer means you see more subtlety, beauty, and connections in everything you see, witness and experience. As photographers our greatest attribute and advantage is our creative sight and vision. Thus to leverage this strength is the goal for us to see the world more beautifully and abstractly!
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Why Exhibit Your Photos?
Question: *Why* exhibit your photos? What is the functional purpose of exhibiting your work? What are the negative consequences of *not* sharing and exhibiting your photos?
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NOW IS YOUR DECISIVE MOMENT.
Not tomorrow, not yesterday or in the past; now is your decisive moment. Your decisive moment to innovate, wildly experiment, disregard self-preservation and see how far you can climb — ever upwards!
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BEATS by KIM
Open source beats:
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Digital De(Re)construction
As digital artists, we both deconstruct art works and re-construct them:
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DESIGNER.
What is a designer? Someone who designates (points out) importance. If you’re an artist and creator, you’re also a designer. Let us consider how we all design things in our everyday lives from our homes, clothes, cars, devices, and things we make, collage, curate and create.
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VISUAL ARTS
What are we? Visual artists. What tools do we employ? The best tools to suit the creative task at hand.
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True Luxury is Less.
A realization: In life, the best life is mostly via negativa (Nassim Taleb) — less concerns, fewer possessions (but higher quality), less b.s., less anxiety, less noise (sound canceling headphones which are “via negativa” as the ultimate luxury.
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Photography Image Selection/Editing Technique: Choose Photos You Want to Draw Composition Over
Simple idea:
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Lessons Man Ray Has Taught Me About Photography and Painting
Painting, photography and art … all as a hybrid:
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Photography and Design
Photographers are designers. We create a design… we designate beauty in our photos. When we photograph, we design the frame— what elements go where. Also, some of the best photographers have either formally or informally studied design, and applied their design principles to photography. Josef Koudelka, Laszlo, the Bauhaus school, Man Ray, etc. Also note…
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How to Shoot Street Photography During COVID
COVID ain’t going away anytime soon. Thus, it seems a wise decision to *not* delay your street photography pursuits! Some practical ideas: Broaden your definition of street photography Shoot at the grocery market Shoot socially distant street photography (12+ feet away outdoors) Wear a mask when you’re shooting street photography Shoot street photos without people…
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In Photography, Even the Smallest Thing Can Be a Leitmotif
This quote from Henri Cartier-Bresson has always puzzled me. But I think I got it figured out: Even the smallest little detail can be beautiful, a theme (leitmotif) into itself. In other words: The smallest most tiny, most mundane, most ordinary details can be insanely beautiful in photography! In praise of shooting macro photos, and…
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Photography and Planes: Composition
In photography composition, we deal with planes in two dimensional space (in photos), whereas the reality is three-dimensional. Therefore what we are doing in photography composition: How can we play with planes and perspective, to make more dynamic photos?
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Optimize Your Life for Photography
Simple idea: Considering photography is our passion, and considering there is no ultimate purpose to life, and considering that photography may be our Archimedes lever in life … isn’t the optimal approach to life to optimize for your photography and photographic output? This then means: If your thing is street photography, preferably live in a…
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How I See
For me, photography is the joy of seeing, observation, and creative insight. This is how I see:
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The Art of Creativity
Creativity as an approach and technique, not some sort of god-given gift to the select few.
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Why Constrain Yourself in Only Color or Black and White?
A thought while at the local Chinese grocery market: Why do we feel like we must stay “consistent” artistically? For example in photography, why this pressure to stick to only color or only black and white?
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In Praise of Collaging Your Photos
Simple assignment: Print out a bunch of 4×6 photos of meaningful life moments and memories, and collage them with your partner and soulmate.
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GRATITUDE.
GratitudeI’m on a new spiritual latitudeWith the oceans and wavesI love life, I want to stay. Gratitude takes skilland physiological will No need for hundred dollar billsor basic thrills Your life is trill and greatYou don’t consume life, you make.
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What is the Purpose of X?
The first step in philosophy — always challenge and question what the ultimate purpose of x, y, z is. To use the ERIC KIM “why?” chatbot to discover deeper meaning and purpose in your life, and what you decide to do and what you decide *not* to do.
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What Does it Mean to Be a True Man?
Not to be petty. To prioritize the joy and happiness of your partner over your own. To strive to become more stoic, zen and strong. To take things in life like it’s “not a big deal”. To attempt great things in life. To love risk and not to shirk from it. To avoid doing anything…
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MONOCHROME MOTIVATION
Dear friend, A thought: Life is far more interesting and engaging when we can see MORE photo opportunities. And the realization: With monochrome (black and white), there are more options for seeing potentially interesting photos. As a consequence, we find more motivation to shoot monochrome and to see in monochrome.
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Strength over Happiness
A thought: Perhaps ‘happiness’ and ‘joy’ are a bit overrated. Perhaps better to focus is on strength — specifically, physiological strength.
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Black and White Abstract Thoughts
Very quick thought: The very big upside of shooting high contrast monochrome, and also post processing your monochrome photos to look more dramatic is this: — You can have more opportunities to make interesting photos in your eyes!
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The Art of Post-Processing
Post processing as also fun, creative and an art:
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Humans and Environments
What I think interests me the most … humans and environments. Perhaps this is my interest in street photography? Humans in environments which are new, foreign or different/novel to mine? The interest of mine in exploring and discovering and witnessing new environments, and my joy of also my fellow human beings! Perhaps this is why…
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How to Visualize Depth
In experimenting with virtual reality, augmented reality I’ve been very interested in the notion of depth. Depth perception — the use of our two human eyes. Why depth?
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Why We Love the New
Why do we love the new so much? Life is about the new. For example, what would life be like without new babies and new humans? Without new technological innovations? The economy is all about producing new things. Also for us artists … we must also delight and frolic in the new!
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Photography is Visual Poetry
Why photography? To me, photography is visual poetry. Visual poetry — visual sublime. Elevated mood, heightened joy and delight in life!
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What’s the Purpose of Art?
Very simple thought: The purpose of art is to inspire and motivate us in life … to give us bright new light. A new excitement for living! To live for tomorrow, the day after … and theoretically, until infinity!
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Why Do We Photographers Have Such a Hard Time Staying Inspired and Motivated?
Some ideas: