Month: August 2023

OMAKASE COFFEE CONCEPT.

The general concept is cross pollinate other forms of photography to photograph your kids. For example a Street Photography aesthetic to photograph your kids, capturing layers, focusing on composition minimalism dynamism etc.

Also one of the great upsides of taking your kids to the park is that it is a place rife for great compositions. Lots of leading lines, different levels and elevation, etc.

When I am getting ready to Atlas lift over 10 plates, I get into such an interesting Zen mode. Part demigod, part monster, part dragon breathing fire.

Am I the first person to actually prefer a Prius over a Tesla?

For example I notice everyone low-key staring at me?

Better than ever!

For example, after my international travels, having the hype and the courage to attempt over 10 plates on my atlas lift. It looks like I lost strength, but no matter, I’m on the road to 12 plates!

Famous means powerful? Or influential, or of value?

Go full force, 100%, otherwise maybe it is best to just rest up!

For example, one of the most formative things that I’ve discovered at the gym is asking the best at the gym in regards to their warm-up, stretching mobility things etc.

1. Go to the gym, immediately hit the hot sauna. Leave when you’re no longer feeling it. To sweat a bit motivates and stimulates us!

2. Hot sauna speeds up our recovery, growth, strengthening?

3. The upside of public sauna, the gym — the social life! We like the ancient Romans or Greeks again!

4. Also the upside of the gym — the new modern day open air gymnasium of the ancient Greeks and Spartans! The ancient Spartans were not antisocial nor stayed at home!

5. If anything just go to the gym to clear your bowels! Funny thought, I go better when at the gym than at home?

No more apps.

Also, no more ugly icons.

Future humans:

I’m not interested in what already exists, I’m only interested in what is upcoming, what is next.

No home gym. Gym life, social life, the best place to maximize your stimulation and also your creative ideation?

Also hot sauna — part meditation chamber, part recovery and healing and speeding up of your metabolism?

Immediately starting off the day with the hot sauna I already feel my body strengthening and hyping up?

The hot sauna.

Sony owns Spider-Man?

There seems to be this new weird trend that somehow being more flexible, having better mobility, etc. is seen as more virtuous. I find this to be a bizarre concept.

Once you’re dead, you’re dead forever.

Save time, save life

Treat the gym as your own office commute?

Waking up this morning, and having some great ERIC KIM OMAKASE Coffee to get me going, some thoughts:

1. Innovate?

After being abroad, then coming back, the general thought I have is that perhaps at the end of the day, the most important and critical thing is in regards to innovation. How to innovate, why innovate, etc.

I think in America, we have a passion for innovation, however it is limited towards purchasing innovation. That is, we love innovation and the new, but the only way it seems accessible to innovate is through purchasing it. This means we purchase innovation by eagerly awaiting for new innovative products, whether it be the new iPhone, iPhone Pro, any Apple device, Tesla, electric car, something.

I think the big problem is that deep innovation cannot be purchased, it must be done by you.

2. Why do we feel so incapable?

Perhaps the reason we feel so incapable is that because the culture, modern-day culture, or culture in America or maybe high labor prices etc. is that things seem inaccessible to be done by us. We like the thinking or the concept that we can do things ourselves, and that we can be innovators.

New designs stimulate me

Asia and America crossover as the future:

Unlimited infinite horizons!

Sales optimized.

If it breaks, don’t buy a new one, just repair and fix it!

Perhaps this is time for me to send in my RICOHS to fix!

Also the joy of fixing up older cars!

No more being a fool!

What if in life, seeking to become MORE angry were the superior path?

Anger as a good sign —a sign that your strength is returning!

Just act and behave as if you were the boss, the owner, the lord, the land lord, the head.

Or didn’t hear them.

Ignore all standard and modern day ethics. All are bad.

All of these ethics are centered around changing the perfect nature of man.

Unbecoming of us great men.

After spending two months in Asia, this time about two weeks in Hadong South Korea, and about a month and a half in Vietnam, and coming back home to the states, I feel like a transformed man. How and why? The findings:

1. American thoughts

Lots of discoveries about America, coming back here with fresh new eyes. First and foremost, there seems to be this trend towards fear of other people, or strange antisocial behavior. This fear averse modern-day society of Americans is bad.

My simple suggestion is be the change. Instead be insanely friendly, and say hi to everybody you see.

One of the great things about being in Vietnam is the culture is great. People are insanely friendly, happy, social, and jokesey. Coming back to the states, Americans tend to be reserved, brittle, strangely curmudgeonly.

Don’t act like the typical antisocial American. Instead, be insanely friendly and happy.

2. Car thoughts

I some new thoughts in regards to cars; the great thing about being in Asia, Vietnam, is that having a car is a bad thing. Better to not own a car and just ride a Grab taxi anywhere.

Therefore the general thought is this; put less care and attention in your car.

What is the best car? I think a used white Prius; I recently re-inherited our old 2010 Prius, and white, and I love it! Cindy‘s younger sister Jennifer was driving the car for a while, but unfortunately in the middle of the night they stole the catalytic converter, and she no longer wanted to deal with the car. She initially was just going to sell the whole Prius to the mechanic for only $2700, but I thought this was a great opportunity, so Cindy and I offered to pay for the new catalytic converter, around $3000, and we just took it to the shop to replace the ABS brake sensor, another $2700 USD, and $350 for a catalytic converter shield, to prevent or discourage a future theft.

So all in all, around $5000-$6000 for a brand new (used) and insanely great reliable Prius!

Interestingly enough, chatting with the owner Vallentine (he is the owner of Hybrid 911, which is specialized in fixing Priuses and hybrids), and he told me that he used to have the P100D Tesla MODEL S 2017 model, the refreshed model, but ultimately ended up selling it because the charging was annoying, especially with long road trips.

I still love cars from a metaphorical and design and aesthetic perspective; but, my new ambition is to drive this Prius to at least 350,000, 450,000 or 500,000 miles. And instead use and invest my money into myself, my body, my entrepreneurial ventures, And beyond.

The easiest way to become rich is not to waste money on a car.

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Photo is all we need

When being stuck in LA, LA traffic, and having the privilege of shooting photos out the window, a turbo thought I had:

As long as we got photography, all of existence and being alive is justified.

Pure vision: lately I’ve been so inspired by Seneca, how he sees and shoots everything with a pure vision. No obstructions, only positivity, joy and curiosity.

Seneca is currently only two years and seven months old, yet he understands photography and photo opportunities. He does this finger trigger motion with his hand, whenever he sees abstract textures, he knows that it is a good opportunity for me to shoot.

How to more productively review your photos

Having around 1500 images to quickly review through some photos I shot in LA and recently, something I did on my iPad Pro was view the images buy a three column wide matrix, and reviewed the photos without my glasses on. This type of myopic vision was actually good for me; I was not distracted by details, but instead focused on the general composition and form of things.

To cross pollinate this idea and concept, there is a funny theory that a lot of the impressionist painters had poor vision, that is the reason why they saw the world so abstract and out of focus was because they had poor vision.

A simple technique you could do is apply Gaussian blur to your photos to better judge the composition, or, you can also view your photos or other photos without glasses on.

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How to Get More Done in a Day

Walk more in order to get more done!

Also, spend maximal time outdoors.

Also, during the day drink as much ERIC KIM Omakase coffee as you want! The secret and intelligence of robusta coffee is that it has more caffeine, and lower sugar content— healthier for you!

No matter how “meaningful“ it may be.

ERIC KIM BOOKS

Why? There are always hundreds of new books constantly being published!

Once you live a life which is absent of pain, then what?

Once you got a zen life, then what?