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Month: April 2022

Photo essay / Apr 8, 2022

Future Cameras

A camera (more similar to GoPro) which captures your POV (point of view). A thought with an iPhone camera app: An app, once you launch it, it automatically takes a photo (quick photo). Also …

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Photo essay / Apr 7, 2022

Appreciating or Depreciating Asset?

Bitcoin as appreciating and increasing in value over time, just like Tesla stock. However if you actually buy a real Tesla, the value will depreciate overtime. Same goes with any car. Never buy a …

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Photo essay / Apr 7, 2022

Keep your judgements to yourself

Certainly it is natural to judge others. And it is good to judge others, because in judging others, we learn what not to do. Whatever when it comes to our ethics, just keep those …

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Photo essay / Apr 7, 2022

What is *not* mentioned?

The best way to think about information and knowledge is this: consider what is not mentioned. For example I was at a Whole Foods today, and I picked up this illustrated guide on the …

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Photo essay / Apr 7, 2022

It’s never too late

For example, people feel like they missed the boat on bitcoin. But who knows, what if 10 years from now one bitcoin is worth $1 million, $10 million, or even $100 million?

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Photo essay / Apr 7, 2022

Hold Out as Long as Possible

If it isn’t good enough for you, or you don’t consider perfect, just keep holding out, and wait for the best. For example, I was very dissatisfied with all the iPhones out there, even …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

Follow the Artist and Designer, Not the Brand

For example after Virgil has passed, OFF-WHITE not as interesting. Also after Steve Jobs died and now that Jony Ive has left Apple, Apple is no longer interesting. TESLA remains interesting because Elon is …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

MUSIC x PHOTOGRAPHY

More photographers should make beats, and more musicians should also make photos. Just use GarageBand on your Mac to make beats (use loops) and make them into a slideshow with your own photos in …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

War Chest & Innovation

When you’re rich successful and on top, why not radically innovate? Apple has an insanely huuuuuge war chest. Why are they taking such safe, boring bets?

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

KANYE WEST IS THE GOAT.

Kanye West is the best musician of all-time. Love the new DONDA 2 album. It is insane — Kanye is the only one always innovating in music. Let us also consider, he is not …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

RADICALLY DIFFERENT, RADICALLY NEW.

What I desire is something insanely different, something insanely new. No retros. One of the problem with YEEZYSUPPLY; re-issuing past designs. They should just create new color ways and keep moving on. Also the …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

Cut the Filler.

The fatal flaw of many shows: They intentionally add a lot of filler to just get people to keep watching, instead of keeping all the interesting parts (condensed, like a movie or film). This …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

First Person Perspective

The reason we like ‘first person shooters’– we feel as if *WE* are the hero. Also the popularity of my street photography goPro POV videos. Thus as a theory: Try to literally or metaphorically …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

Don’t Take Off the Mask!

Or the helmet. Critical flaw of the new HALO series: Why would Master Chief take off his helmet? Might have been a good idea like the Mandalorian (the last episode) when MANDO takes off …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

STEEL SPINE

STEEL SPINEUnwind the twineUnderstand your mindIs rooted in your gut, not your head STEEL SPINEUnwindRewindTo the pastKeep running forward, you’re never gonna last STEEL SPINETime to untwie the lineLime greenTime to goYou’re in first …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

Study Your Own Compositions

Self-studying of your photo composition is good because it helps you select/pick/choose your ‘best’ photos, and also as a way for you to figure out *why* you like a certain photo, and *why* you …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

SELECT A LOT OF PHOTOS.

A new philosophy when it comes to my photo editing philosophy: Perhaps it is good to select a lot of photos. Also considering nowadays I make really big iMovie slideshows with my photos with …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

MINIMUM VIABLE REPS (MVR)

With working out, weight lifting, bodybuilding or powerlifting— opt for MVR (minimum viable reps). Often this is just 1. Or 3. Anything more is bad.

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

Are Video Games Good or Bad for Society?

Good if the video game expands your mind, your creativity, and your desire and penchant for embodied-reality things. Bad if the world is ruled by micro-transactions, and unfair ‘pay to play’ schemes.

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

Human-Centric.

Not thing centric, or object centric, or money-centric, or capital-centric … but human-centric.

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

Don’t Make It Predictable.

What do we hate most in TV shows, films, stories? When the drama heightens and there is some sort of predictable thing that happens (heroine watches her father get killed in front of her …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

Do Humans Need to Be ‘Enhanced’?

Thinking about the fictitious HALO universe (Spartan soldiers, Master Chief): Do we humans need some sort of ‘augmentation’? In practical terms, the best way to become ‘enhanced’ (naturally) is maximal movement, walking, time outdoors, …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

The Future is Fake?

Funny– my mother in law calls Bitcoin (oh, the ‘fake money!’). And it seems in today’s world, all is fake. Fake TV (fake social relationships), fake bodies (plastic surgery, unnatural augmentation, steroids, human growth …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

DYSTOPIA X UTOPIA

It seems that many individuals seek a utopia. Yet, perhaps a dystopia *is* a utopia, and vice-versa.

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

Future Landscapes

Why are post-apocalyptic films (in the future) always take place in the desert, or in a world in which there is a lack of water?

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

In Praise of Gas Stations

Nobody likes gas stations, but assuming that photography is your passion and life task, gas stations are good. Why? When you’re filling up your car, you can shoot urban landscapes, and also photograph things …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

What Would John Wick Do? (WWJWD)?

Assuming that John Wick was the uber modern day stoic, when it comes to the way we interact and engage with others, ask yourself: what would John Wick do? How would he respond, not …

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Photo essay / Apr 6, 2022

The right size

From a design perspective, you’re trying to find the right size for things, not too big, not too small, just right.

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