Month: September 2021

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What do we lack in our photography? Self-pride in our photos. Some thoughts and ideas:

I think what we’re all seeking for is growing in our photography. But how do we do that?

Seek the good pain, the good resistance, and the good stress to make you stronger:

You got everything to gain, nothing to lose.

Turbo thought:

Perhaps the future is going to be a “post money” or a “post currency” future.

Which makes me think — what’s more important than money and currency? Technology.

Perhaps Chainlink as more important than Bitcoin (in the crypto world).

The future — linking things together… from the digital to the physical world?

What is the meaning or the purpose of “perfection” in photography? My thought —

To perfect, means to complete, or accomplish or finish.

Per+facere (to do) in Latin.

Thus “perfection” is nothing but doing something and seeing it until completion.

Thus perhaps we should think of “perfection” as an ongoing task. That as we explore, adventure, experiment and tinker … we’re actually leading towards perfection!

As photographers, what do we desire? We desire to increase our photographic power.

How to do this? Some ideas:How to do this? Some ideas:

Why read? Reading as a boost, a turbocharge, and a stimulus to your own thinking.

Also, reading great thoughts can actually put energy, power and sensation into our legs, muscle and body!

What I love about technology, digital technology, blogging, YouTube, and cryptocurrency: the idea that the value of things is limitless. The sky is the limit. Also with blogging, in theory you could publish infinity amount of blog posts. And also with digital photography, in theory you could shoot 1 trillion photos+.

Like Buzz Lightyear said: to infinity and beyond.

ATTACK
No need to backtrack the progress in your life
Attack and build the stacks of your library of knowledge and wisdom

Attack
There’s nothing you lack or need
Harness your greed for the gains
And learn to love the strain and pain
Cerebral intoxication, Dionysian brain

ERIC

FREE MOTIVATION >

Dear friend,

If you are looking for some photography exercises to build your photographic muscles, some ideas:

The philosophy that the best is yet to come.

Let us crush romantic notions of the past:

The thought on my mind:

How much innovation has *yet* been done in monochrome?

To build off of the anti-romanticism notion:

Let us consider– the best is yet to come.

Our best selves are yet to come. Our best artwork is the best to come. The best designs, films, architecture, modern societal concepts are *YET TO COME!*

Something that I have thought about a long time:

Why do we have a romanticism of the past, specifically … ‘retro’ things?

A strong and solid primer to street photography [if I started all over again]:

Anything you can do to increase street photography options, the better.

My honest appraisal:

My life in photos:

NEWSLETTER

What are we lacking in today’s world as photographers? Pride. Pride in ourselves, and pride in our photos:

What are we lacking in today’s world? Pride. Pride in ourselves, and pride in what we do and create:

In today’s world where you have the Tesla Model S Plaid going from 0-60mph in less than 2 seconds, the question —

What’s the purpose of all these other cars out there?

Answer— aesthetics.

Another funny bias I learned about society: what society and people typically say is good for you is typically bad for you, and what people say is bad for you is often very good for you.

It seems in today’s world, there is a cult of reading. That is, the more you read, the better. But is this true?

Why is it that Ivy League schools deify the ‘endowment’ more so than real human beings? Why is it that we as individuals prize our ‘savings’ more so than ourselves?

Something Steve Jobs talked about a lot.

Been listening to the new DONDA album, and wow —

It is insanely great.

It blows my mind, how is it that Kanye West and his music is at least 1000x more interesting, original, and epic than his other peers?

Not sure if any other thinkers have thought this but,

Ethics are aesthetic.

The difficulty we all face:

We see our lives and environment as boring, and we are frustrated — we hope we lived a more interesting life (or lived in a more interesting city) to make more personally interesting photos.

How to do this? Some ideas:

Assuming that life is about becoming, and that you’re in a stream of becoming, the question is: what do you desire to become?

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Life is all about aspiration. The more you aspire, the better.

Either make things luxury [extra], or give it for free.

RICOH GR III as the best camera of all time:

What is our enemy? Creative stagnation. What the way? To conquer and overcome it.

What is the will, or willpower? The desire to dominate. To become master. To overcome boundaries and obstacles, and transform that which stands in your way into your fuelpower.

Channel your hunger to dominate in productive, artistic and creative ways.

We are often told that to get into photography as a business is a very bad idea. On the contrary, it is the industry the most ripe for disruption and innovation:

This is the intersection of all I love and find interesting and fascinating to myself:

Ask — will this benefit or harm me?

Don’t sit on the sidelines:

When in doubt, opt for bold. To be lukewarm or tepid is boring. Don’t filter your thoughts — go for extreme bold.

A more robust notion of success:

Complacency is the enemy: