Month: December 2021

My personal passion and lust is a lust for subtraction. I actually get greater joy when I try to get rid of things, than to add things. A random thought of today: is there …

What I learned after coming back to Mexico City: the city is just as good as I remembered, yet I have changed so much.

In spite of the downsides. In fact, I think more intelligent and educated people should have kids.

A way to think how to compose black and white photos: What do I desire to be the distribution or the *ratio* of black vs white in my photos?

To dream new dreams, and to aspire anew, better to widen yourself and broaden yourself, rather than specialize and focus.

Composition means to figure out what to add to your frame, and what to subtract from your frame. Some practical thoughts:

Photography is our content.

Innovate the content, not the technology.

Polarize. No need to disguise your thoughts or your intent. Better stick to your opinion than be bent by others and their thoughts. You want to own your own opinion, you don’t want to …

We typically think about advertising as a bad thing. However, to advertise yourself means to simply market yourself, or to put yourself out there. The sole purpose of advertising isn’t always to make money, …

Some customization, not too much customization:

Life in Mexico City is good. Photography Paradise. Ideal place to escape the cold for us east coasters.

Just because you spent money on it, doesn’t mean you should feel forced to use it. If anything, just move on.

With iPhone or Mac, prioritize native apps for better sync and use. For example Apple Maps over Google Maps, Apple Music over Spotify, Apple Mail over Gmail, etc. Why are Google app icons so …

My aesthetic ideal.

Photo paradise:

It seems the best life is life in which we simply obey our own will, and do what we are compulsed to do. This means only do what you must— what your inner compulsion …

A practical idea when traveling or even back home — wear shoes and ensure NOT to slip — the most dangerous thing which can happen to you.

This is what is currently on my mind, especially after realizing Mexico City as a perfect city.

Why make a blog or website? Simple — to have a creative canvas to share your thoughts, art works, and ideas!

Life is not a test in which you get good and bad marks. Life also doesn’t have a ranking system. Therefore my idea is this: perhaps modern education, and modern notions of competition have …

Nobody desires health for the sake of health. Health is simply a means to something greater.

Often we want to buy certain things, because we think it will complete us. But is completion the goal? Perhaps not. Once you’re fully complete, what motivation do you have to do anything? Therefore …

Perhaps the best way to become more influential is to become more low-key.

It elevates my feeling of power, well being, optimism and hope for the future, and the grandeur of man.

Social media creates a box for you to fit into. You must cut off your limbs in order to fit into the box, rather than figuring out to create a new box to fit …

Specifically, the Roma Norte neighborhood.

Personally speaking, I think I made it. I have achieved practically all of my life goals which I set out for myself, and now, what next? The best answer I have thus far is …

Don’t do movements which cause you pain. Your body is wise. For me that includes dips and one-legged pistol squats. For example, the reason I don’t take painkillers is because I try to figure …

And this is why Instagram is lame.

To expedite your workflow, I suggest to look at all your photos as small thumbnails (contact sheet), and just favorite the ones which ‘pop out at you’ (when seen small). Favorite them, and export …

The best street photographer as maximally extroverted, gregarious, and interested (and interesting) to others. Or in other words, don’t be a ‘stealth’ or a ghost street photographer (like Henri Cartier-Bresson). Better to be a …

For me, the joy of photography is my personal curiosity of how certain scenes will manifest as photos. Also the joy when you’re looking through your photos, and you re-remember certain happenings and joys.

I am more interested in the making of, the ‘behind the scenes’, than the final product. Why? When I see people behind the scenes, or a work behind the scenes, I get inspired by …

The goal isn’t for you to work out for the sake of working out. To work out is not a duty, or a goal. Instead, the best way to think about it: When you …

Your task as a photographer: To re-interpret, and re-imagine, and re-explain the world, via your photos.

As photographers, we are not magicians. It is impossible to know with 100% accuracy what your photo will look like until *AFTER* you’ve shot it. Thus — When you see something which interests you, …

If you have a certain problem, and you think money can solve it, spend a lot of money on it. No need to be frugal, if anything— to become less frugal in important matters …

It doesn’t need to be “original”, just new.

The life in which you’re just shooting street photography all day, just walking around all day, being outside and outdoors all day, is this the ideal lifestyle? To strive to walk at least 10 …

The best way to differentiate yourself isn’t what you own, do, or where. Instead, you best differentiate yourself what you don’t wear, but you’re not interested, what you don’t use, and what you’re not …

Assuming to be human is to walk, then everything we do, the things we wear, and our lifestyle should be optimized for walking.

We often plan to much for the future. However this is what I have discovered: better to figure out the best plan of action once you get there, rather than in advance.

Certainly there are certain places which are more conducive to photography than others. For example, if you’re passionate about street photography, typically more urban cities tend to be better for street photography. But a …

Or in other words, better to be a Mazda Miata than an American muscle car. Also, better aspire towards the Doryphoros physique over the modern American bodybuilder type. For our body physique, better to …

For a long time, I have inspired for the perfect. The perfect physique, the perfect clothes, the perfect lifestyle, the perfect life, the perfect tools, and the perfect city and neighborhood, and the perfect …

Something i’ve learned with my photography: when in doubt, shoot more photos. Especially with your photography, there’s really no downside to shoot extra photos. Especially if you shoot small JPEG, allow yourself to see …

The best outfit — the outfit in which you can deadlift anywhere, at any times notice. Like “athleisure”, but more. “Powerleisure” is what I call it (powerlifting plus leisure clothing). This is, simple merino …

Do not concern yourself so much whether your photos are original or not. Also, do not worry if you’re copying someone else’s style or not. In fact, photographs are copies. Copies of embodied reality. …

In order to do more photography, or street photography, or to think more, become happier and more productive, just keep walking. The more steps the better.

When we often want to buy something, and we don’t buy it, we probably don’t really need it. Thus I said just buy it as late as possible. If you really need it, you’ll …

Perhaps rather than having Brand New shiny clothes, better to have worn and tattered clothes with holes, stitches, and patches. A more worn in, Wabi Sabi look, which shows your experiences on your clothes. …

How do we artists innovate? By experimenting with aesthetics, and striving to create a new aesthetic. Or a new way of interpreting and expressing the world. For example, my aesthetic innovation of making photos …

Shomei Tomatsu, Eikoh Hosoe, and more:

This is perhaps why I like street photography so much: it gives you the social adrenaline. Also, powerlifting. Perhaps what it means to be an extrovert as somebody who needs more adrenaline than average …

It’s hard to *not* be inspired to make photos while here!