Towards becoming a fully-realized full-stack visual artist:

Combine photos videos and also music (making my own beats).

Total independence:

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A view into my workflow:

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New visual arts:

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Photography as a movement of light:

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There are no rules to photography … just guidelines and suggestions. But with all suggestions in life, you can either take it or leave it!

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In life, the end-game:

To create.

Create … anything!

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If you’re in a position in which you’re trapped at home and want to be creative, virtual reality may be a good option for you (Oculus Rift S + Gravity Sketch or Google Tilt Brush) as great avenues to create in 3D!

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I’ve had the privilege of living in many different types of living situations, homes, lifestyles (digital nomad, location independent, etc).

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We talk much about the “hedonic” treadmill (a life in which we are just trying to maximize our base sensual pleasures). Why don’t we ever talk about the social media treadmill — in which we just keep producing things and uploading things to get more likes and followers and social media fame, towards what end?

To create, produce and beget more life! More life via having kids, producing new food and energy, and creating new products and inventions which motivate people to do more, create more and live more!

This is how we Americans view happiness:

If I only owned my own home (big), had a nice luxury car/sports car, had a lot of money in the bank, could buy whatever I want, travel the world, eat really great food, feel no sorrow or sadness, and have “passive income” and stay perfectly content at home I’d be perfectly happy.

The problem with this line of thinking? It is a bovine-like (cow) existence and happiness, while also making our personal happiness *dependent* upon purchasing x, y, z.

Thus the American is a trap to consumerism, workaholicism, desire for travel and exotic sights, base sexual pleasures, novelty and pain-reducing luxuries, and sloth and entertainment.

A more robust form of happiness:

A life in which we produce our own joy and create our own joy via social interactions, physical activity and exercise, arts creation and great entrepreneurship and attempting for epic risk and adventures in life!

Photography is our primary interest and pursuit. But why? Towards what ends?

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What’s our passion? To curate and to purchase and buy things, or to create things?

Why is it that some spaces, environmental and such are more productive for our thinking and artistic creativity?

Perhaps what it means to be human (or what we are biologically engineered for) is for variety, randomness and chance in our environments? This is the hunter gatherer instinct within us?

Lesson: optimize life towards maximal environmental randomness to keep us sharp and awake?

Let us not be fooled and suckered by other petty-minded photographers:

All photography is creative!

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The insanely motivational thought:

If reality existed simply for the sake of photography … it is worth it!

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Technically, any photo you create is “creative”. When we say “creative”, I think what we mean to say is “innovative, unique perspective, artsy, artistic”, etc.

But truly speaking … I think creative photography can be anything. To simply create photos, or “photograms”, or photo visual images, or visual art works derived from photos, or even sketching or painting over your photos (analogue or digitally) is “creative”. Applying filters or glitching effects is creative. It’s all creative!

So then what’s the goal? Simple … to just keep iterating your photos creatively, in innovative and new ways. To have fun with it, to never stop switching up your style, growing and evolving as a photographer, visual artist and creative!

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Apparently this was the last words of Goethe. Perhaps this is also a good motto for our lives and photography?

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