Doing photography is good for your health!
(more…)Month: May 2022
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Obstacles Are Good.
When Seneca tries to go from point A to point B, some clutter and obstacles are good.
Instead of just clearing the clutter for him, letting him use the obstacles in real life like an obstacle course. He learns to better navigate, balance, and move around it.
Then obstacles actually help exercise our skills, develop our muscles, and make us more advanced.
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Smaller Body, Bigger Engine.
In praise of the new Lexus IS 500: a small compact sport sedan body, with a beefy V8 engine.
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COMPROMISE DESIGN.
The worst type of design is that which is a compromise. For example a lot of the low-end Mercedes cars seems like a compromise, moving Mercedes away from the luxury segment, into the mass market, like BMW.
Also, iPhone SE is a compromise. As much as I love the ethos of it, the old hardware of the phone does not play well with the new software iOS.
This is where Leica is actually very intelligent: increasing the functionality of their Leica M camera, and making it more expensive, and thus more exclusive. Leica camera will do well, as long as it belongs in that elite segment.
Thus the takeaway is that one should never compromise one’s ethos of design.
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GARAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
In praise of garages:
Consider–
- Garage-Band
- Steve Jobs/Wozniak starting Apple in Steves’ parents’ garage.
So think–
(more…)If you just had a garage (non heated) with wifi and electric outlets, what could you do and achieve?
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PERHAPS IT IS GOOD TO BE ‘DELUSIONAL’
In my short tenure and life, I have seen very interesting things:
- JAY Z turn into a billionaire
- Apple to become the first 1+ trillion dollar market cap company
- Kanye West to become a (multi multi) billionaire
- Elon Musk making electric cars (TESLA) a reality
Then my takeaway:
At one point or another, these men of great courage had this insanely audacious life plans. And were called ‘delusional’ at many points of their career/life.
But … what happens when their ‘delusions’ become a reality?
Then thinking about it:
Perhaps it is a good idea for us to be ‘delusional’ and ignore ‘conventional reality’, if we truly desire to become something insanely great and something totally new.
Also note:
(more…)Bitcoin starting at just a few cents, then a few dollars, then a few hundred dollars, then a few thousand dollars … and who knows what the limit can be? Millions? Billions? Trillions?
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PHOTOGRAPHY CREATIVITY POMODORO TECHNIQUE
A new idea for your creativity:
Set a timer for 15 minutes on your phone, and turn your phone to airplane mode. Then go outside, or around your home, and shoot for 15 minutes, totally focused, undisturbed.
With your 1 best photo, upload it to arsbeta.com for real feedback.
Creative thoughts for you
CONQUER CREATIVITY ideas for you:
- Better to make ‘bad’ photos than no photos
- ADAP (go as dark as possible with your photos) // as black as possible
- Creative double dipping: Think about how you can kill two birds with one stone when being creative. For example, take your kid on a walk AND bring along your RICOH GR IIIX and make photos.
- Put your photos, art work and ideas on google slides and share the public link (Slides link here)
- Just blog it: WordPress.com and start uploading your best photos there.
- Make music to accompany your photos (GarageBand beats on Mac) // how
- Shoot extra small jpeg
DOWNLOADS
TURBO YOUR PHOTO
Become creative every day
Become creative every day (Open source DL) // print edition
If this inspired you, feel free to forward to a friend!
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CONQUER CREATIVITY ERIC KIM ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP SLIDES (PDF)
PDF DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION LINK >>>
DOWNLOADS
- DOWNLOAD Mp4 video of audio recording + video of presentation (Drive)
- Google Drive JPEG folder of slides
AUDIO
Mp3: CONQUER CREATIVITY RECORDING NEW Notes:
- Kintisguri
- Mr Miyagi: Wax on, wax off
- Maestro/master -> Teacher
- ‘When one teaches, two learn’
- BOGO (buy one, get one free) theory of creativity
- wabi-sabi
- Meri-hari (Jeff)
- Pomodoro creativity (photography) technique — 15 minute timer on your smartphone
- ‘Creative double dipping’
- Miyazaki vs Disney films (watch Spirited Away vs Snow White)
- ‘Existential dread’ — why do I exist?
- “Don’t try to be so hardcore.”
- Create (*-ker) — to grow, to nourish
- ‘Creative upcycling’
- ‘Accuracy is overrated’
- DISTILL
- Imprecision is good in art
- Draw your photos in order to understand them (editing technique)
- Meta-editing
- Franz Kline
- Buy the cheapest iPad (Zen Brush 2, Procreate app)
- Dropbox
- To remember is to re-interpret.
- Back to factory defaults // don’t restore from cloud
- Make a wordpress.com blog, and start uploading your favorite photos
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GOOD FRICTION, BAD FRICTION?
When is friction good, and when is friction bad?
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TRY IT BEFORE YOU BUY IT.
A simple reason I like to try on clothes in-store or in-person (or trying out shoes in-person) is because you never really know whether you like or something or not, until you try it out, test it for yourself, on your own body, etc.
This applies to ‘test driving’ a car, ‘test driving’ a home (ideally, you could experiment and test living in a certain house/condo/apartment for a week or two or a month before signing a year-long lease), testing out a camera (in praise of ordering cameras online on Amazon and if you don’t like it, just return it). Same also goes with iPhones, iPads, Laptops, Apple devices, etc (buy it, and test it, and if you don’t like it, return it within 14 days).
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THE DIRTIER, THE BETTER.
An interesting trend I am seeing, from a fashion and aesthetics perspective:
The dirtier something is, the more destroyed it is, the more beautiful it is.
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MONEY OVER LIKES.
“You got a billion streams? I got a billion dollars†– JAY Z
Prioritize money over social media likes.
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BREATHE-ABLE
Optimize for fabrics and things which are breathable.
