Better instead to work at the park, work at the gym, or work outdoors! Anything indoors is bad for your health

A Spartan wouldn’t own or have a phone!

The privilege of being able to just play with your kid all day!

To flatter our own self vanity?

New fitness experimentations:

Just moved to LA, Culver City, and love you my brand new apartment. In the process of moving, we threw away a lot of stuff and got rid of a lot of stuff. Yet still the elusive question is this:

What to keep, what to ditch?

Throwing stuff away

I have a theory; that is, in America, in the west, a lot of Asian people, the general ethos is this: it is sinful or bad or evil or foolish to throw things away. One must hold onto things forever, because you never “know when“.

Yet the problem is this; 99.99% of the time, nothing ever happens. But they never comes. As a consequence, we foolishly hoard onto useless stuff, so many empty boxes, just throw it all away! In fact, I despise this hoarder mentality. I both find it foolish, and unaesthetic.

We off the grid!!

Going off the grid, not just a literal one. Perhaps, more of a metaphor to life.

So trapped and depressing?

Just do it.

The Megapsychon!

Infinity loop!

The infinite man, the infinite photographer, infinite energy and power!

Electric and digital is the future!

Infinite possibilities!!

Entrepreneurship by KIM

Become the change which you desire to see manifested in the world!

Become you.

1. ZERO FINANCIAL CONCERNS
2. How to Gain Ascendancy
3. Business vs Entrepreneurship?
4. TAKE REAL CHANCES
5. Making Money as a Hobby
6. The Best Exercises for Entrepreneurs
7. INCOME VS EXPENSES MONEY LIFESTYLE PHILOSOPHY
8. Entrepreneurship is the privilege of being able to attempt something new
9. How to Become More Influential
10. The Point of Life is Entrepreneurship?
11. How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
12. Become the Outlier
13. Self Reliance
14. How to Extend Your Reach
15. NEWS: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
16. PVP (Player vs Player)
17. How I became so influential
18. WE LOVE THE *SENSATION* OF RISK-TAKING
19. WHY HIGH PROFIT MARGINS?
20. INNOVATION THOUGHTS
21. OVERCONFIDENCE IS GOOD.
22. GARAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
23. PERHAPS IT IS GOOD TO BE “DELUSIONAL”
24. USE YOUR WEALTH TO BUY STUFF, OR TO BUILD AND INNOVATE STUFF?
25. HOW TO THRIVE
26. Target Demographic
27. Ambition Over Happiness
28. Anti Collaboration
29. The Will to Economy
30. Why New?
31. CHOOSE ADRENALINE.
32. No Looking Back.
33. 1000x Different
34. BECOME SPENDTHRIFT
35. THE BENEFIT OF JUST ONE.
36. EXTREME INNOVATION.
37. Practicality is Boring
38. BECOME YOUR OWN STANDARD.
39. NEVER STOP ITERATING.
40. CONDENSE.
41. Take Lots of Small Financial Risks
42. Control Over Convenience
43. Why Are Chinese Companies So Innovative?
44. INSANELY DIFFERENT.
45. Why Doesn’t Anything Ever Satisfy Me?
46. THE GREAT PASSION.
47. Perhaps Dissatisfaction is Good
48. ONE REP MAX.
49. WHAT DO YOU *REALLY* WANT IN LIFE?
50. LIFE IS ABOUT STRIVING FOR MORE.
51. NEVER STOP LINKING.
52. THE GREATEST.
53. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
54. THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
55. ERIC KIM CRITIQUE OF ROMANTICISM
56. COMPLACENCY.
57. JUST BUY IT.
58. ALL ABOUT YOU.
59. MOVE THE WORLD
60. Boring or Not Boring?
61. What if Your Past Self were Inferior to Your Present Self?
62. THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS
63. CULTURE IS YOUR ENEMY.
64. Difficulty & Interest
65. The Will to Expansion
66. What is Work?
67. SOUL IN THE GAME.
68. JUST START IT.
69. Not Boring
70. PRIDE IN YOUR OWN NAME / BRAND
71. AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TOLERATE.
72. Speed is Paramount
73. TAKE IT BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
74. A Life With No Risk Taking is *NOT* a Life Worth Living
75. Dissatisfaction is Good
76. GREATER STRENGTH, GREATER CHALLENGES.
77. In Praise of the New
78. Uncorrupted Desires
79. You Cannot Fake Passion
80. SELF-OVERGOING
81. FORM YOURSELF.
82. Personal Entrepreneurship
83. RELENTLESS.
84. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.
85. A Life of Expansion
86. SELF-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
87. YOU ARE THE EXCEPTION.
88. Use Your Life as an Experiment to Self-Develop Yourself to Heights Never Seen Before
89. Invest in New Developments
90. Investing Towards What End?
91. The 90%/10% Principle in Entrepreneurship
92. Speed Wins
93. The Philosophy of Happiness
94. When to Over-Estimate, When to Under-Estimate?
95. Never Stop Iterating
96. Money as a Tool for Life and Artistic Experimentation
97. Less But More Premium
98. Mainstream vs Low-Key Success
99. Why Dissatisfaction is Good
100. SEEK YOUR OWN PERSONAL MAXIMAL BENEFIT INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING
101. Manifest Your Destiny
102. Is it Best to *Not* Communicate Your Inner Thoughts or Ideas With Others?
103. CREATE THINGS YOU WISH TO SEE MANIFESTED IN THE WORLD
104. How to Do More Work
105. CONTROL.
106. Competition is for Losers
107. Change.
108. Your Competitive Advantage with Insanely Fast Wifi and High Speed Internet
109. Pseudo Individualism
110. Natural Internal Promoting vs External Promptings

Think for Yourself.

1. Survival vs Thrivival
2. Become Rich
3. SECRETS.
4. Why it is Better to Beg for Forgiveness than Ask for Permission
5. Thinking About the Past Prevents You From Thinking About the Future
6. How to Predict the Future
7. Tools of Mass Distraction
8. So What?

FREEDOM

• On Leaving a Legacy
• I wanna be me!
• Productivity for personal freedom
• How to Purchase your Freedom

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Never stop innovating.

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Entrepreneurship Mindset

• What is Your Dream in Life?
• 8 Blogging Productivity Tips
• Why Be Normal?
• How Much Suffering Are You Willing to Endure to Achieve Your Dreams?

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Put a Dent in the Universe.

• Innovate for the Sake of Innovating!
• Reality is Malleable!
• Stoic Entrepreneurship
• Against Self-Preservation
• The Purpose of Life is to Make New Stuff!

Nobody knows what they want

Only the wise know.

Electricity nazis, “form” nazis, aesthetic nazis — any sort of nazi.

Taking insanely big design risks.

Waste of effort and energy to try to change, educate or “fix” people who habe mental and physiological problems. Just let them wallow in their own degeneracy! Stay away!

ETHICS by KIM

Your Own Personal Code of Ethics

1. We hate things and people we cannot control
2. HOW I DEAL WITH RACISM
3. How to Become a Great Man
4. BETTER TO FOLLOW YOUR GUT AND BE WRONG THAN DISOBEY YOUR GUT AND BE RIGHT
5. “I CAN’T BE FUCKED.”
6. Carte Blanche Ethics
7. Toxic People
8. Why Are We So Into Other People
9. Just focus on yourself and your own life
10. Perfect morals and ethics is following your own gut
    WHY ETIQUETTE?
11. NO BLAME, JUST CAUSE AND EFFECT.
12. Ignorance Takes Courage
13. TREAT OTHERS CARTE BLANCHE
14. Don’t give people what they want or what you *think* they want, give them what you think they *should* have.
15. Anti Small
16. Disdain or Admiration?
17. Beware Those With Good Intentions
18. STUBBORN x FLEXIBLE
19. ETHICS ARE VIA NEGATIVA
20. OBEDIENCE & DISCIPLINE
21. The Motive of Criticism
22. Ethics are Social
23. Anti Role Models
24. What is Greed?
25. On Having the Courage to Make Your Own Decisions
26. How *NOT* to Get Duped or Suckered
27. Why Help Others?
28. The Duty of the Strong
29. Why I’m So Intolerant Towards Intolerance
30. The Ethics of Criticizing Others
31. Consult Your Own Conscience
32. The Ethics of Shit Talking
33. The Ethics of Personal Enrichment
34. I’m Easily Distracted
35. On Forming Your Own Opinion
36. ERIC KIM Philosophy of Tolerance
37. Tolerance
38. Aesthetics are Ethics
39. Morality and Ethics

My new goal:

PHOTOGRAPHY 101

Dear friend,

If you’re new to photography, start here:

1. The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Photography
2. Free Photography Bootcamp
3. 100 Photography Tips for Beginners

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Photography is Everything!

1. In Praise of Shadows
2. Photography Leisure
3. FOCUS ON PHOTO
4. Closer is Better
5. POWER PHOTOGRAPHY
6. Film Noir Compositions in Photography
7. RAW PHOTOS.
8. The Photographer as Story Teller
9. Photograph Your Own History
10. THE INTRINSIC JOY OF PHOTOGRAPHING
11. My Desire to Become the Uber-Photographer
12. How to Become a More Creative Photographer
13. IMPACTFUL PHOTOGRAPHY
14. My Higher Mission
15. Photograph Human Affairs
16. Why is Photography So Pleasurable?
17. How to Shoot More Photos
18. Why Do You Shoot Photos?
19. Photo Zen Sublime
20. Photo Wisdom
21. How to Make a Digital Portfolio
22. How to Master Photography
23. Digital Photography 101
24. My Photos
25. Natural Photography
26. Fit Your Photography Style to Your Personality Style, Not the Other Way Around
27. 13 New Photography Assignment Ideas for You
28. Photography Ideas
29. Camera is God
30. Put Your Hand In It!
31. Even a Single Hair Casts Its Own Shadow
32. PHOTOS RULE EVERYTHING AROUND ME
33. Shoot More, Think Less.
34. Why JPEG is Superior to RAW
35. How to Have Inspiration and Motivation to Make New Photos
36. Shoot the Sky
37. The Art of Choosing Your Best Photos: How to Cull and Edit Down Your Portfolio
38. The Art of Photography
39. Never Stop Photographing
40. Visual Kinesthesia
41. Photography is Writing with Light
42. In Praise of Shooting Intelligent Auto JPEG
43. How I Mastered Photography
44. PHOTOGRAPHY GAME
45. Photography as Discovering Beauty in Unlikely Places
46. What is the Secret of Making Great Photographs?
47. Why Do You Do Photography?
48. You’re an Artist.
49. How to Edit Your Photos

Photography Tips

1. PHOTOGRAPH FOR FUN!
2. 15 Tips How to Make More Interesting Photos
3. 10 Tips How to Shoot More Photos Everyday
4. 7 Tips How to Shoot Surreal Photos
5. 10 Tips How to Fill the Frame in Photography
6. Look Up! 16 Photography Composition Perspective Tips
7. 10 Simple Black and White Photography Tips
8. 10 Simple Black and White Photography Tips
9. 5 Simple Street Photography Composition Tips
10. 5 Simple Street Photography Composition Tips

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Photography Articles

1. How to Elevate Your Photography to the Next Level
2. You’re (Already) a Photographer!
3. 7 Tips How to Shoot More Photos
4. Everything is Permitted in Photography!
5. 20 Dark Tips How to Shoot Shadow Photos
6. How to Give a Constructive Critique in Photography
7. 15 Tips How to Shoot Better Selfies
8. Photography is All a Matter of Perspective
9. Photography Warmup Assignments
10. 5 Simple Tips How to Take Better Pictures
11. 10 Tips How to Shoot Better Architecture Photography
12. 7 Reasons Why I Love Digital Medium-Format Photography
13. My Experience Shooting Digital Medium Format in Street Photography
14. My Experience Shooting my Friend Wedding on Digital Medium Format

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Photography Techniques

1. Photo Technique: Look Up
2. Street Photography Technique: Overlap
3. The Fishing Technique in Street Photography
4. The “Bookend” Technique in Street Photography

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Everyday Photography

1. How to Shoot Better Night Photography
2. How to Shoot Better Macro Photography
3. Everyday Photography
4. 10 Tips How to Take Better Photos of Everyday Life
5. 15 Tips How to Shoot Better Selfies
6. 10 Tips How to Take Better Photos of Everyday Life

Color Photography 101

• The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Color Photography
• Opponent Process Color Theory For Photographers
• Color Theory For Photographers

Photography Philosophy

• How to Delete Your Pictures
• Your Camera is a Blessing
• Reality vs. Perception in Photography

Photography Inspiration

• How to Become a Self-Confident Photographer
• The Spirit of Becoming a Photographer
• How to Make Better Pictures
• 10 Tips How to Take Better Photos of People
• How to Avoid Boredom in Photography
• How to Master Photography
• A Photographer’s Guide to Seeing
• PRETENTIOUS PHOTOGRAPHY
• Photography Energy Management
• How to Unlock Your Potential in Photography
• There Are No Good or Bad Photos
• The 5 Minute Photographer
• A-Z: PHOTOGRAPHY DICTIONARY by ERIC KIM
• Why I Want to Be a Photography Newbie Forever
• PHOTOGRAPHY FLUX.
• 10 Creative Photography Assignments to Re-Inspire You
• 50 Photography Tips by ERIC KIM

The Fundamentals of Photography

• Make Simple Pictures
• The Art of Reading a Picture
• How to Choose Your Best Photos
• GET CLOSER.
• Keep or Ditch?
• What Makes a Good Photo?
• Why Photography?
• Everyone is a Photographer
• How to take better pictures
• How to take better selfies
• How to Paint With Light
• Why Bokeh is Overrated

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Photography Equipment Â»

• What is the Perfect Camera For You?
• What to Consider When Buying a Camera
• More Megapixels, More Problems

How to Take Better Photos »

• How to Take Better Photos
• How to Capture Emotion in Your Photos
• How to Create a “Curiosity Gap” in Your Photos

Composition Lessons »

• Composition Lesson #1: Triangles
• Composition Lesson #2: Figure-to-ground
• Composition Lesson #3: Diagonals

Photography Assignments »

• 40 Practical Photography Assignments
• 15 Street Photography Assignments
• 25 Photography New Year’s Resolutions

Contact Sheets »

• Street Photography Contact Sheets
• Street Photography Contact Sheets Volume II
• Debunking the “Myth of the Decisive Moment”

Editing (Image Selection) »

• How to Choose Your Best Photos
• Be Your Own Harshest Critic
• Nobody Wants to Look at Your Photos

Creativity »

• The Beauty of “Creative Constraints”
• Beginner’s Mind
• Follow Your Intuition

Motivation »

• Each Photo You Take is an “Attempt”
• How to Overcome Photographer’s Block
• Why Do You Need “Inspiration” to Shoot?

Post-Processing

• How to Edit Your Photos
• Grain is Beautiful
• Are Filters “Cheating” in Photography?
• Video: Introduction to Editing, Processing, and Workflow in Lightroom

How to Create a Body of Work

• Don’t Work on Too Many Projects

Technical Photography Settings

• DSLR Photography 101

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Learn From the Masters of Photography

“He without a past has no future.”

Start here:

1. Why Study the Masters of Photography?
2. Great Female Master Photographers
3. Cheat Sheet of the Masters of Photography
4. 100 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography
5. Beginner’s Guide to the Masters of Street Photography
6. Download All Articles >

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The Masters of Photography

Classics never die:

• Alfred Stieglitz
• Alec Soth
• Alex Webb
• Alexey Brodovitch
• Anders Petersen
• Andre Kertesz
• Ansel Adams
• Araki
• Blake Andrews
• Bruce Davidson
• Bruce Gilden
• Constantine Manos
• Daido Moriyama
• Dan Winters
• David Alan Harvey
• David Hurn
• Diane Arbus
• Dorothea Lange
• Elliott Erwitt
• Eugene Atget
• Eugene Smith
• Fan Ho
• Garry Winogrand
• Gordon Parks
• Helen Levitt
• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Irving Penn
• Jacob Aue Sobol
• Jeff Mermelstein
• Joel Meyerowitz
• Joel Sternfeld
• Josef Koudelka / Part 2
• Josh White
• Lee Friedlander
• Lisette Model
• Magnum Contact Sheets
• Magnum Photographers
• Mark Cohen
• Martin Parr
• Martine Franck
• Mary Ellen Mark
• Rene Burri
• Richard Avedon
• Richard Kalvar
• Robert Capa
• Robert Frank
• Saul Leiter
• Sergio Larrain
• Sebastião Salgado
• Shomei Tomatsu
• Stephen Shore
• The History of Street Photography
• Todd Hido
• Tony Ray-Jones
• Trent Parke
• Vivian Maier
• Walker Evans
• Weegee
• William Eggleston
• William Klein
• Zoe Strauss

Confront:

Non-confrontation; being non-confrontational is often rooted out of fear, or some sort of weird Christian ethics. That to be confrontational is bad, unvirtuous.

Respect vs “Disrespect”?

To desire some sort of arbitrary “respect“ from other people; seems like a flaccid goal. I would say instead, seek to be feared… That is, you don’t really expect anything from anyone, but, you don’t tolerate disrespect. And also you don’t let people fuck with you. Certainly not bully you around.

Example, for me to dominate Street Photography, and also everything I do:

Dominate street photography:

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY 101

1. Street Photography Mastery
2. How I Became the Greatest Street Photographer Alive
3. Antifragile Photography
4. How to Conquer Your Fears in Street Photography
5. INSANELY AUDACIOUS AND BOLD
6. 5 Simple Street Photography Techniques
7. STREET PHOTOGRAPHER.
8. The Street Photographer Ideal
9. 50 Street Photography Tips, Techniques and Ideas
10. Street Photography Values
11. STREET PHOTOGRAPHY DOESN’T NEED TO HAVE PEOPLE IN IT.
12. Why Street Photography is So Great
13. WHY BECOME A STREET PHOTOGRAPHER?
14. Society Photography, Not “Street” Photography
15. How to Street Photography
16. STREET PHOTOGRAPHY OPTIONALITY.
17. 10 Street Photography Tips
18. The Street Photographer as the Apex Photographer
19. Street Photography & Adrenaline
20. STREETTOGS STARTING GUIDE
21. 50 Street Photography Tips by ERIC KIM
22. What I Wish I Knew If I Started Street Photography All Over Again
23. Photograph like it’s not a big deal
24. Suburb Street Photography
25. What is Our Personal Motivation Behind Street Photography?
26. WHY I’M SO PASSIONATE ABOUT STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
27. Personal Street Photography
28. STREET PHOTOGRAPHY AS A PRACTICE.
29. Pandemic Street Photography
30. AIRPORT STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
31. How to Shoot Street Photography Right Now
32. Towards a More Independent Street Photography Approach
33. How Street Photography Improves Your Life
34. How to Tell Stories in Your Street Photos
35. Face Street Photography
36. How to Start Shooting Street Photography
37. How to Shoot Street Photography During a Pandemic
38. 7 Street Photography Assignment Ideas

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY STARTER KIT

Master street photography with STREET PHOTOGRAPHY STARTER KIT.

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STREET PHOTOGRAPHY 101

If you’re new to street photography, start here:

• The Ultimate Street Photography Tutorial
• Street Photography 101 Tutorial
• 100 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography
• How to Shoot Street Photography

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Brave New Street Photography

• 10 Lessons I’ve Learned from Street Photography
• SKIN IN THE GAME: STREET PHOTOGRAPHY ETHICS
• The Beauty of Mundane Happenings
• Humans and Environments
• Define Street Photography for Yourself
• Street Photography of People You Know
• Street Photography Composition Ideas
• How to Shoot Political Photography
• Social Photography
• Street Photography Lifestyle
• Why Street Photography is So Fun
• Street Photography for Mental Health
• How to Become a Street Photography Sharpshooter
• How to Shoot Kid Street Photography
• STREET PHOTO MANUAL
• Street Photography is an Approach, a Technique, and an Ethos

Street Photographs

1. How to Shoot Street Photography with Dads and Kids
2. HOW I BECAME SUCH A GREAT STREET PHOTOGRAPHER
3. Use Quarantine as an Opportunity to Pick up Film Photography
4. Hong Kong Street Photography by ERIC KIM

Street Photography Philosophy

• Brave New Street Photographer
• How to Talk to Strangers
• How to Shoot More Dynamic Street Photographs
• WHY I LOVE ARCHITECTURE AND STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
• Why Street Photography Brings Me So Much Joy
• How to Shoot Street Photography Video
• How to Shoot Street Photography in the Brave New COVID World
• The Future for Street Photography
• ALL STREET PHOTOGRAPHS ARE GOOD PHOTOGRAPHS.
• AMERICA by KIM
• Street Photography in a Non-Travel World?
• How to Shoot Street Photography During COVID-19
• You’ve Never Shot Photography Until You’ve Shot Street Photography
• Xenophilia: Love of Strangers
• My Street Photography Philosophy
• Why Street Photography is Important for Society
• HOW STREET PHOTOGRAPHY CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
• STREET PHOTOGRAPHY IS ABOUT LOVING ALL PEOPLE
• Real Life People vs Abstract People
• Is it OK to Piss Off or Annoy People in Photography?
• ANTI PURISM IN STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
• Street Photography of People You Know
• Street Photography is Courage
• MY STREET PHOTOGRAPHY PHILOSOPHY
• Street Photography Motivation from ERIC KIM
• I AM STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
• WHY TALK TO STRANGERS?
• Why Street Photography is Supreme
• How to Make Great Street Photos
• Street Photography Ideas by ERIC KIM
• Why Street Photography?
• The Street Photographer’s Soul
• How to Become a Fearless Street Photographer
• Black and White or Color for Travel Street Photography?
• Street Photographers are Adrenaline Junkies
• How to Master Street Photography
• Almost Anything and Everything is Street Photography
• Advice for Aspiring Street Photographers
• Street Photography Sociology
• Why There’s No Right or Wrong Way to Shoot Street Photography
• The Street Photographer as a Soldier-Artist
• Why Street Photography is the Best Photography
• Street Photography is a Way of Life
• How to Conquer Anxiety
• Street Photography is Art with People

Street Photography Articles

• How to Edit and Sequence a Photography Project
• Practical Street Photography Tips
• 5 Simple Street Photography Assignments
• Street Photography Composition Ideas
• 10 Advanced Street Photography Tips and Techniques
• Daredevil Photography
• Lingering Technique: How to Work the Scene in Street Photography
• Why Photograph People?
• No Guilt in Street Photography
• Street Photography is Hard.
• Street Photography Inspiration
• 5 Simple Tips How to Shoot Better Street Photos
• 10 Super Simple Street Photography Tips
• How to Shoot Head-On in Street Photography
• The Decapitation Technique in Street Photography
• Be Brazen in Street Photography
• How to Shoot Better Street Photographs
• Drive-By Technique in Street Photography
• How to Shoot a Wedding Like a Street Photographer
• Street Photography is 80% Risk Taking!
• 10 Simple Street Photography Principles
• 5 Fundamental Street Photography Principles
• 10 Street Photography Assignment Ideas
• How to Tell Stories in Street Photography

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Street Photography Techniques

• How to Shoot Head-On Street Photography
• Street Photography Composition Tips
• In Praise of Street Vlogging
• How to Shoot Video Street Photography
• Street Photography Technique: The Stalker Technique
• Photography Technique: Take Photos While Walking!
• New Tokyo GoPro Fusion POV Street Photography YouTube Videos
• ERIC KIM Street Photography Tips and Technique
• The 360 Degree Technique in Street Photography
• How to Work the Scene in Street Photography
• How to Shoot Layers and the Bookend Technique in Street Photography
• Street Photography Technique: GET CLOSE & FILL THE FRAME + GOLDEN DIAGONAL COMPOSITION
• Street Photography Techniques: The 3D Scan/360 Degree Technique (Shooting Head-on) and Holding Your Camera High in the Air and Point Downwards (and Use Your LCD Screen to Frame the Scene)
• The Walking Alongside Someone and Shooting Until They Notice You Street Photography Technique
• SUPER INNOVATIVE NEW GOPRO STREET PHOTOGRAPHY POV EXPERIENCE: Cutoff Technique, Shooting Head-on with Flash, and Slow-Motion on RICOH GR II at 28mm
• How to Shoot a Street Portrait: Tips, Technique, and GoPRO POV Tutorial
• Street Photography Technique/Composition: Leading Lines and Crouching Down Low
• How to Shoot Layers in Street Photography: GoPRO POV Video Composition Tutorial
• How to Shoot Street Photography with a 24mm Lens
• The Cutoff Technique in Street Photography
• THE CUTOFF TECHNIQUE IN STREET PHOTOGRAPHY: GOPRO POV KYOTO ERIC KIM

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Street Photography Ideas

• Street Photography is Like Fishing
• Why Do We Feel Nervous Shooting Street Photography?
• Street Photography Philosophy
• Everyday Street Photography
• Why Street Photography?
• Why You Must Follow Your Own Voice in Street Photography
• How to Overcome Guilt in Street Photography
• 5 Dynamic Off-Center Street Photography Compositions
• 5 Night Street Photography Composition Tips
• How to Talk to Strangers
• How to Overcome Fear in Street Photography
• Street Photography Empowerment
• Eric Kim’s Top 30 Street Photography Tips
• How to Shoot Street Photography on a 35mm Lens
• 7 Tips How to Conquer Your Fears of Shooting Street Photography
• Street Photography Lifestyle
• How to Use Tactful Flattery in Street Photography
• How to Conquer Social Anxiety With Street Photography
• Street Photography Secrets Debunked
• 10 Dynamic Street Photography Tips
• The Benefits of Shooting Street Photography
• The Street Photography Manifesto
• My Experience Shooting Digital Medium Format in Street Photography
• Why Do You Feel Guilty Shooting Street Photography?
• Improvise in Street Photography
• Ethics in Street Photography

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Street Photography Composition Techniques

• 10 Inspirational Sergio Larrain Compositions
• 5 Henri Cartier-Bresson Photography Composition Lessons
• Street Photography Technique: Overlap
• Street Photography Composition Lesson: Chunking
• The Fishing Technique in Street Photography

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STREET NOTES.

Push yourself out of your comfort zone with STREET NOTES: Mobile Edition.

STREET NOTES PAPER EDITION ON AMAZON >

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LEARN FROM THE MASTERS OF STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

Timeless wisdom from the masters of street photography.

Learn more about MASTERS >

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FUNDAMENTALS OF STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

• The Psychology of Street Photography
• Fundamentals to Street Photography
• How to Conquer Fear in Street Photography
• Street Photography Secrets
• NEO STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
• Street Photography Lenses
• Street Photography Settings
• Street Photography Techniques
• Street Photography Ideas
• CLOSER.
• CLEAN BACKGROUND

Street Photography Inspiration

• How to Enter the Street Photography Zone
• Simple Street Photography Tips
• How to Defuse Confrontations in Street Photography 
• How to Make Controversial Street Photographs
• Street Photography Project Ideas
• How to Make Good Street Photos
• Is Defining “STREET PHOTOGRAPHY” a Good Thing?
• STREET PHOTOGRAPHY “RULES” TO BREAK
• Walking Meditation in Street Photography
• 10 COMMANDMENTS OF STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
• Street Photography is Improvisation
• In Praise of Randomness in Street Photography
• How to Become a Fearless Photographer
• How to Make Better Street Photographs
• 12 ERIC KIM Street Photography Assignments
• Meaningful Street Photography
• 25 Street Photography Tips by ERIC KIM

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Beginner Street Photography Articles

Get started in street photography:

Definitions in Street Photography

• Visual Sociology Street Photography
• Why Street Photography?
• What is Street Photography?
• Why Shoot Street Photography?
• The History of Street Photography

How to Shoot Street Photography

• How to Shoot Street Photography
• Street Portraits 101 by ERIC KIM
• The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Street Photography
• 70 Street Photography Tips for Beginners
• 15 Street Photography Techniques and Tips
• A Letter to My 18 Year Old Self: If I Started Street Photography All Over Again

Street Photography Equipment

• What is the Best Camera for Street Photography?
• What is the Best Lens for Street Photography?
• What to Consider When Buying a Camera

See all equipment articles >

How to Conquer Your Fears in Street Photography

• How to Conquer Your Fears in Life
• Shoot What You’re Afraid Of
• How to Channel Your Fear into Bravery

See all articles to conquer your fears >

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Intermediate Street Photography Articles

Take your street photography to the next level:

• How to Become a Stoic Street Photographer
• The 10 Principles of Good Street Photography
• 7 Tips How to Capture “The Decisive Moment” in Street Photography
• The Importance of Social Skills in Street Photography
• The Street Photography Code of Ethics
• “Taking” vs “Making” Photos in Street Photography
• Follow Your Gut in Street Photography
• 10 Reasons Why You Should Never Chimp While Shooting Street Photography

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Advanced Street Photography Articles

Find deeper meaning in your street photography:

• How to Master Street Photography
• How to Be a Zen Street Photographer
• Personal Street Photography
• The “Bookend” Technique in Street Photography
• Street Photography is Self-Therapy
• Zen in the Art of Street Photography
• Taoism and Street Photography
• How to Find Your Style in Street Photography
• Follow Your Gut in Street Photography

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Street Photography Tips & Technique

Learn how to shoot on the streets:

• 70 Street Photography Tips for Beginners
• 15 Street Photography Techniques and Tips
• Flash Street Photography Guide
• Take More Risks
• Don’t Think About Composition When You’re Shooting Street Photography
• 7 Tips How to Capture “The Decisive Moment” in Street Photography
• 7 Tips How to Make a Great Street Photograph
• Tokyo Street Photography Contact Sheets
• Video: Why it is Important to “Work the Scene” in Street Photography
• Shoot Less, Better
• Make Shitty Photos
• Shoot Effortlessly
• 10 Tips for Candid Street Photography
• 103 Lessons I’ve Learned From Street Photography

See all street photography tips and techniques >

Street Photography Guides

In-depth guides on street photography:

• How to Shoot Candid Street Photography
• How to Shoot Street Portraits with Permission
• How to Shoot Black and White Street Photography
• How to Shoot Color Street Photography
• How to Shoot Street Portraits with Permission
• How to Shoot Layers in Street Photography
• How to Shoot Urban Landscapes

Street Photography Equipment

The best equipment for street photography:

• What is the Best Camera for Street Photography?
• What is the Best Lens for Street Photography?
• Why I Love Cameras with Non-Interchangeable Lenses
• The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide for Cameras in Street Photography
• What to Consider When Buying a Camera for Street Photography
• In Street Photography, The Smaller the Camera, the Better
• Why Sharpness is Overrated in Street Photography
• How to Shoot Street Photography on a DSLR

See all equipment articles >

Street Photography Editing and Workflow

• Video: Introduction to Editing, Processing, and Workflow in Lightroom
• How to Edit (Choose Your Best Photos) in Street Photography
• How Studying Contact Sheets Can Make You a Better Street Photographer
• Debunking the “Myth of the Decisive Moment”

How to Start a Street Photography Project

• Free E-Book: The Street Photography Project Manual
• How to Start Your Own Street Photography Project
• How to Come Up With a Personal Photography Project Idea

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Learn From the Masters of Street Photography

“He without a past has no future.”

Start here:

1. Why Study the Masters of Photography?
2. Great Female Master Photographers
3. Cheat Sheet of the Masters of Photography
4. 100 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography
5. Beginner’s Guide to the Masters of Street Photography
6. Download All Articles >

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The Masters of Photography

Classics never die:

• Alfred Stieglitz
• Alec Soth
• Alex Webb
• Alexey Brodovitch
• Anders Petersen
• Andre Kertesz
• Ansel Adams
• Araki
• Blake Andrews
• Bruce Davidson
• Bruce Gilden
• Constantine Manos
• Daido Moriyama
• Dan Winters
• David Alan Harvey
• David Hurn
• Diane Arbus
• Dorothea Lange
• Elliott Erwitt
• Eugene Atget
• Eugene Smith
• Fan Ho
• Garry Winogrand
• Gordon Parks
• Helen Levitt
• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Irving Penn
• Jacob Aue Sobol
• Jeff Mermelstein
• Joel Meyerowitz
• Joel Sternfeld
• Josef Koudelka / Part 2
• Josh White
• Lee Friedlander
• Lisette Model
• Magnum Contact Sheets
• Magnum Photographers
• Mark Cohen
• Martin Parr
• Martine Franck
• Mary Ellen Mark
• Rene Burri
• Richard Avedon
• Richard Kalvar
• Robert Capa
• Robert Frank
• Saul Leiter
• Sergio Larrain
• Sebastião Salgado
• Shomei Tomatsu
• Stephen Shore
• The History of Street Photography
• Todd Hido
• Tony Ray-Jones
• Trent Parke
• Vivian Maier
• Walker Evans
• Weegee
• William Eggleston
• William Klein
• Zoe Strauss

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Free Downloads

• Eric Kim Lightroom Presets
• Street Photography Presentations

See all free downloads >

Free Street Photography Books

Distilled information on street photography:

• STREET PHOTOGRAPHY MANUAL by ERIC KIM
• The Art of Street Photography
• 100 Lessons From the Masters of Street Photography
• Street Photography Contact Sheets
• Street Photography 101
• Street Photography 102
• Film Street Photography Manual
• The Street Photography Composition Manual
• The Street Portrait Manual
• 31 Days to Overcome Your Fear in Street Photography
• Zen in the Art of Street Photography

For more resources on photography, Start Here >

Entrepreneurship by KIM

Become the change which you desire to see manifested in the world!

Become you.

1. ZERO FINANCIAL CONCERNS
2. How to Gain Ascendancy
3. Business vs Entrepreneurship?
4. TAKE REAL CHANCES
5. Making Money as a Hobby
6. The Best Exercises for Entrepreneurs
7. INCOME VS EXPENSES MONEY LIFESTYLE PHILOSOPHY
8. Entrepreneurship is the privilege of being able to attempt something new
9. How to Become More Influential
10. The Point of Life is Entrepreneurship?
11. How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
12. Become the Outlier
13. Self Reliance
14. How to Extend Your Reach
15. NEWS: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
16. PVP (Player vs Player)
17. How I became so influential
18. WE LOVE THE *SENSATION* OF RISK-TAKING
19. WHY HIGH PROFIT MARGINS?
20. INNOVATION THOUGHTS
21. OVERCONFIDENCE IS GOOD.
22. GARAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
23. PERHAPS IT IS GOOD TO BE “DELUSIONAL”
24. USE YOUR WEALTH TO BUY STUFF, OR TO BUILD AND INNOVATE STUFF?
25. HOW TO THRIVE
26. Target Demographic
27. Ambition Over Happiness
28. Anti Collaboration
29. The Will to Economy
30. Why New?
31. CHOOSE ADRENALINE.
32. No Looking Back.
33. 1000x Different
34. BECOME SPENDTHRIFT
35. THE BENEFIT OF JUST ONE.
36. EXTREME INNOVATION.
37. Practicality is Boring
38. BECOME YOUR OWN STANDARD.
39. NEVER STOP ITERATING.
40. CONDENSE.
41. Take Lots of Small Financial Risks
42. Control Over Convenience
43. Why Are Chinese Companies So Innovative?
44. INSANELY DIFFERENT.
45. Why Doesn’t Anything Ever Satisfy Me?
46. THE GREAT PASSION.
47. Perhaps Dissatisfaction is Good
48. ONE REP MAX.
49. WHAT DO YOU *REALLY* WANT IN LIFE?
50. LIFE IS ABOUT STRIVING FOR MORE.
51. NEVER STOP LINKING.
52. THE GREATEST.
53. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
54. THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
55. ERIC KIM CRITIQUE OF ROMANTICISM
56. COMPLACENCY.
57. JUST BUY IT.
58. ALL ABOUT YOU.
59. MOVE THE WORLD
60. Boring or Not Boring?
61. What if Your Past Self were Inferior to Your Present Self?
62. THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS
63. CULTURE IS YOUR ENEMY.
64. Difficulty & Interest
65. The Will to Expansion
66. What is Work?
67. SOUL IN THE GAME.
68. JUST START IT.
69. Not Boring
70. PRIDE IN YOUR OWN NAME / BRAND
71. AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TOLERATE.
72. Speed is Paramount
73. TAKE IT BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
74. A Life With No Risk Taking is *NOT* a Life Worth Living
75. Dissatisfaction is Good
76. GREATER STRENGTH, GREATER CHALLENGES.
77. In Praise of the New
78. Uncorrupted Desires
79. You Cannot Fake Passion
80. SELF-OVERGOING
81. FORM YOURSELF.
82. Personal Entrepreneurship
83. RELENTLESS.
84. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.
85. A Life of Expansion
86. SELF-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
87. YOU ARE THE EXCEPTION.
88. Use Your Life as an Experiment to Self-Develop Yourself to Heights Never Seen Before
89. Invest in New Developments
90. Investing Towards What End?
91. The 90%/10% Principle in Entrepreneurship
92. Speed Wins
93. The Philosophy of Happiness
94. When to Over-Estimate, When to Under-Estimate?
95. Never Stop Iterating
96. Money as a Tool for Life and Artistic Experimentation
97. Less But More Premium
98. Mainstream vs Low-Key Success
99. Why Dissatisfaction is Good
100. SEEK YOUR OWN PERSONAL MAXIMAL BENEFIT INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING
101. Manifest Your Destiny
102. Is it Best to *Not* Communicate Your Inner Thoughts or Ideas With Others?
103. CREATE THINGS YOU WISH TO SEE MANIFESTED IN THE WORLD
104. How to Do More Work
105. CONTROL.
106. Competition is for Losers
107. Change.
108. Your Competitive Advantage with Insanely Fast Wifi and High Speed Internet
109. Pseudo Individualism
110. Natural Internal Promoting vs External Promptings

Think for Yourself.

1. Survival vs Thrivival
2. Become Rich
3. SECRETS.
4. Why it is Better to Beg for Forgiveness than Ask for Permission
5. Thinking About the Past Prevents You From Thinking About the Future
6. How to Predict the Future
7. Tools of Mass Distraction
8. So What?

FREEDOM

• On Leaving a Legacy
• I wanna be me!
• Productivity for personal freedom
• How to Purchase your Freedom

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Never stop innovating.

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Entrepreneurship Mindset

• What is Your Dream in Life?
• 8 Blogging Productivity Tips
• Why Be Normal?
• How Much Suffering Are You Willing to Endure to Achieve Your Dreams?

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Put a Dent in the Universe.

• Innovate for the Sake of Innovating!
• Reality is Malleable!
• Stoic Entrepreneurship
• Against Self-Preservation
• The Purpose of Life is to Make New Stuff!

For my Roth IRA, traditional investments, I am 100% in Tesla. High gas prices are good for electric cars and Tesla.

All weakness must be excised.