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How does one become stronger? Simple: hyper nourishment and hyper nutrition. Even in bodybuilding, the notion of hypertrophy means hyper nourishment. One can only grow more, if one has more nutrition. More meat, and …
In today’s brave New World in which we have we don’t really go to public places anymore, it seems that which is functional is more important. Aesthetics are becoming more private.
What can you photograph when there is nothing to photograph? Go to the local mall Shoot macro things at home Photograph your street block, shafts of light. Shoot the suburbs. Shoot your coffee, and …
“Enthusiasm is virtue.” – Galiani Enthusiasm literally means ‘a god dwelling within’. In American English when we say ‘passionate’, what we really mean to say is ‘enthusiastic’. Passionate actually means ‘suffering’, whereas enthusiasm is …
Something I learned for myself: The most virtuous thing you can do is plumb your own thoughts and ideas, and ignore the suffering, pity of others. Too much interest in others is a bad …
Upon much consideration on what the aesthetics of the future are, a thought: Perhaps the aesthetic of the future is white and black. For example, when you think SpaceX and space ships … what …
LEICA, we off that. We onto the RICOH and the HASSELBLAD. We off social (anti Instagram), and we’re onto ARS and our own blog. We off Lamborghini, and onto that TESLA PLAID. We off …
In praise of Starbucks. Even though Starbucks is seen as to coffee aficionados as anti-coffee, I really like getting a treinta cold brew (no water, no ice) there, as well as a big cup …
Some ideas for the new year: Your own city and neighborhood project: For an entire year, you are only allowed to photograph your own (boring) city or neighborhood. Just call the project by the …
To ‘edit‘ your photos means to ‘bring forth’ (your best photos), from Latin ‘edo‘. To edit is also from the French (editer) which literally means ‘to publish’. A simple workflow: Look at all your …
If you give people what they want, then … you would just keep giving people soda, high fructose corn syrup, Facebook and Instagram feeds, mindless Gmail reloads, sugar, ‘natural’ sugar, weed, alcohol, etc. Tricky …
A thought on my mind: what are the clothes of the future, and future clothing?
In order to become more productive, take more naps. I called this a minimum viable nap, just lying down on the ground for even five minutes is quite sufficient. To sleep more, to nap …
My ideal: Eagles don’t fly in company, leave that to the partridges and pigeons (Galliani). What if you stuck for a year — to just go solo? True and deep independence.
Simple idea: Strip yourself of all foreign brands. Wear no clothes with have branding on it. Wear no watches. No association with any brands with yourself. If you want to choose a brand, just …
One of the life hacks I learned from my friend Jeffrey Lam, something he learned on a podcast. One way to hack your metabolism is immediately after waking up, go outside and expose yourself …
Inherent in every photography, and every photographer is a certain psychology. For example, it is very easy to smell optimism or pessimism in a photographer, or their photographs. For example, when I look at …
My anti-retrospective life philosophy. Spend a long time thinking before making a certain decision, but after you’ve made your decision, don’t second-guess yourself or turn back. Stay firm and keep marching forwards. No looking …
Something I learned from psychology and sociology is the notion of thin slicing. Basically the notion of thin slicing is that when you meet somebody, you could get a pretty accurate sense of who …
One of the most badass ways to stay fit, and become hard and harder is just have one heavyass kettlebell. That is all you need.
Which designs are the best? The lightest ones. For example, even with website design, the website that is the lightest in terms of code, and the smallest file size is best. Loads quicker, and …
Do not dwarf yourself. Do not make yourself small. What is the role of modern society? To make you as generic and insignificant this possible. It seems that this preaching of equality of rights …
When it comes to design matters, design for yourself. Design as if you were your own ideal user.
What is it like traveling with a kid or a baby, and doing photography? Difficult. But maybe not as difficult as you would think.
My new personal metric when it comes to decisions when to buy things, upgrade things, create things, share things, etc: Is this 1000x different? For example, don’t upgrade your iPhone unless you think the …
Look at your photos as small thumbnails in iPhone, and click and hold a photo to favorite it. Then filter your photos by your favorites, and make a new album with it. This is …
Much of the social world is a simulation. Which means, we follow the same old Scripps, and we always talk the way others talk. Therefore the notion of breaking the simulation is simple: go …
How to become more extroverted:
In praise of Nike. Now anyone could afford to have a cool pair of shoes.
Many people think that cryptocurrency is all overhyped, yet I see it as one of the most under exploited opportunities, for us and our future. If anything, I think cryptocurrency and crypto technologies is …
Dear friends, the new year is ahead of us. As 2021 comes to arrive, incipit is 2022.  I have great optimism for the next and upcoming year. Why? Our philosophy as photographers is …
A thought: If you got cool shoes, or a cool car, or cool clothes, but nobody is there to witness you wearing it or using it … does it make it still ‘cool’? No. …
The best clothes are the ones in which you forget you’re wearing clothes, the ones that feel invisible. For example when I wear merino wool (very fine high micron), I forget I’m wearing a …
In order to become more productive, you must do less.
Something on my mind: what will be the Aesthetics of the future? For example, which colors or color combinations evoke the strongest feelings of progress in the future? Maybe hyper yellow, hyper orange? Or …
Enjoyed a great two weeks in Mexico City and now I’m back to back to Cali Cali:
Be more clever on how to use or reutilize things you already got than buy something new.
The goals of modernity.
I say the purpose of cinema and literature should be to expand your mind, and to motivate you to new opportunities and worlds. Bad cinema and literature restricts and closes off your mind.
My personal ambition: To plumb the depths of the soul for photographers, and to expand our opportunities and souls as photographers.
I believe it is possible to live a happy life regardless of where you are. And truth be told, there are certainly certain places and certain cities *more conducive* to living a happy and …
Just finished watching the Matrix 4, and I really didn’t like it. Some reasons:
My personal joy and interest: the best design and innovation is thinking about the future, and making a clean break from the past. Perhaps homages and nostalgia are bad.
I’m currently watching the new MATRIX 4 (I love the original), and I really don’t like it. Granted I have not finished it yet, so I cannot make a proper critique or criticism yet. …
Simple– when your income/money outstrips your expenses and costs. Thus, if you’re ‘net positive’ with money, you’re technically rich. My binary.
Just got back from Mexico City to LAX, and it was a full flight. Good news, everyone who is on the flight tested NEGATIVE for covid (you must have proof of a negative COVID …
Now that I am a parent and have a kid, my free time is very short. Thus the need for extreme efficiency with processing and going through my photos. SMALL JPEG Shoot and view …
Even in matters of mental psychology — as Nietzsche said, the irony is that it is the duty of the healthy to keep the sick away from the healthy.
For example, I love the proportions of the high top Air Force one sneaker. It seems the biggest innovations is making it lighter, using the new Flyknit technology, or even making it Gore-Tex. Also …
Another reason why Tesla Model S Plaid as the best, most innovative and motivational car.
Perhaps the best use of money is for movement. So the question on my mind: how can one use money in order to move more? Certainly we could use money to travel. To pay …
Another pro tip when it comes to traveling, hotels or Airbnb‘s: optimize for hygiene, cleanliness, and peace and quiet.
With design matters, clothes, and things in general, optimize for ultrathin. Midweight things are a compromise. A bad compromise. Ultra thin phones, ultra thin laptops, ultra thin clothing (ultra thin shoes, with ultra thin …
To be always and constantly on the road is not that efficient. Sometimes we need to spend a little bit of time in one spot. That’s the goal isn’t to always be on the …
Thinking about the movie free guy, and just life in general. Do we live life like a video game, and should it be like that?
Just had a great two weeks in Mexico City, and about to fly back home. My lesson learned: the reason why traveling is so great is because it pushes you outside your comfort zone, …
Not the best, but the most beautiful? In life, there are certainly things which are the ‘best’. But … what is most beautiful is often not the ‘best’. Thus, perhaps best to optimize for …
I like living on the streets I think this is why I love street photography so much. My ideal lifestyle.
The best way to gain muscle mass, and lose body fat. For ‘vegetables’, no starchy veggies (cauliflower, broccoli etc). Only bitter dark leafy greens (kale, spinach). Also, fermented foods like kimchi or sauerkraut.
My design ideal: to create or discover designs which are 1000 times more unique and different and interesting. Or creating a certain design or product that does not yet exist. For example, my Eric …
Become fascinating to yourself, or become fascinating to others? With fashion, the question I have on my mind is this: the desire to wear certain clothes or fashions is to become more fasting to …
Better to risk boldness than triviality A saying from Peter Thiel (Zero to one) I love.