Month: March 2022

The basic idea —

Use Procreate app to dissect, add color gradients, add noise, grain, and other ”image destruction” or ”image obstruction“ filters to see your photos in new ways. Invert your photos to better see the darkness and tone distribution of your photos.

Instead of learning how to code, better to learn how to blog.

Honestly at this point, blogging and wordpress is almost as confusing and technical as coding, yet blogging as a more effective way to distribute yourself and enact impact.

What do we seek as photographers and image makers? To make images which inspire — inspire movement, enthusiasm in the spirit of humanity, and the zest of living and being alive!

Lately I’m really into camo — camouflage and military aesthetics. Function and tactical as an aesthetic.

Just go to the Marines website and see their attire.

We are interested in investing in stocks, crypto, etc … why not ourselves?

Yourself as a means to yourself

Why are we not allowed to posit ourselves as an end unto ourselves? To strive to seek to transform ourselves into the ubermensch? Why must we justify our own self development for the sake of having utility to and for others?

To become 1000x more as a photographer — in terms of photographic productivity, shooting, innovation, entrepreneurship, vision, ambition, and subject-defying genre. How can we become 1000x more insanely epic as a photographer when compared to others or what a traditional ”photographer” should be?

Simple ideas being —

1. You become a “full stack” solution. You are the author, creator, distributor and publisher of your photos. No reliance on social media, third parties, agencies, etc to distribute your work. You distribute it all yourself!
2. Extra small JPEG as an experiment. Edit and select all your photos on your iPhone. Upload straight to your blog media library.
3. You make photography the purpose, telos, and directive of your life. Don’t get distracted with all this other basic stuff.

This is what gets me up in the morning!

Do you want to be shaped by the place, or do you want to shape the place?

The desert offers infinite possibilities. In fact, the terrain of the desert is almost like being on Mars. Isn’t it just better to live in a desert, than go to Mars?