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A realization: For my whole life, I’ve always wanted to be *somewhere else*. For example, even as a student at UCLA, I wanted to be in Paris, skipping around like Henri Cartier-Bresson and shooting …
Or in other words, the effort is the reward.
Something that is quite cool about the future — the trend towards non-ownership.
To shoot much, not tire and not lose motivation … perhaps this is more important than “happiness†in life. For me, my photographic productivity is my highest state and value. So if you’re living …
FREE MOTIVATION ON ERIC KIM NEWSLETTER > Dear friend, A thought: Perhaps the best end-goal in life is to just focus on your photography. What I mean by that is this: Whenever I meet …
Why I prefer Bitcoin as the best cryptocurrency — it is the most simple, will probably not undergo many changes (no bitcoin ‘version 2’, like Ethereum 2.0 or Chainlink 2.0). This means less stuff …
Fun thing– 24fps in RICOH GR III high contrast video mode, just recording my warmup. Love watching the slower frame rate, and out of focus monochrome:
A thought: Why is it that Zen Monks seem to love drinking tea (green tea, caffeinated beverages)? Also– why is it that I love coffee so much? My thought — a connection between adrenaline …
if you try to optimize for everything, you optimize for nothing.
A thought: in life we often speculate in other things people stocks cryptocurrency‘s etc. However why not spend that extra money time and energy to speculate in yourself? this means investing your money in …
A big personal lesson I learned once having a kid is that you must radically adapt and adjust your life and lifestyle towards pursuing your passions while taking care of baby. This baby carrier …
My personal question ambition: to conquer photography and master all forms, aspects, and elements in philosophies around it.
A critical inquiry and questioning towards a deeper truth, for your own personal benefit and the benefit of others, the collective and society.
In praise of black and white to simplify photography and perhaps simplify life. Even when it comes to cars clothes and devices and accessories, perhaps to embrace the black-and-white, and the yin and yang …
Photography as a tonic for the body, mind and soul.
Level with the bass and the treble rumble hard go fast your life won’t last. Just look around you life is a blast. It doesn’t matter what your ranking was in class, just make …
This is the funny irony: we think we need motivation or inspiration before we go out and shoot. However, it seems better to focus on just drinking a lot of coffee in the morning …
Photos in photography is all real, you regardless whether it is digital or film or shot with the phone. In deeply thinking and philosophizing about life in general, we all understand that money is …
One of the huge new benefits of the ultra wide camera on iPhone and lots of smart phones in general is that you can get really really close to things or approach things from …
There is nothing sacred in photography. The goal is to use photography and the camera as an artistic tool in medium to create artworks which deify and glorify reality, life, and your own creative …
HDR can unlock a whole new creative outlet for you in your photography — I’d recommend experimenting with the in/camera HDR function, especially if your camera has it like the RICOH GR III in …
A random thought I had this morning. Money has a technology is great and fascinating because it motivates people to move. But then I thought deeper – – what are some other things that …