It is best to lift weights barefoot, why? Maximal engagement and connection with the ground.
For example, if Hadthor deadlifted 501 kilograms barefoot, shouldn’t you?
Go barefoot when doing any form of extreme weightlifting/powerlifting/hypelifting — deadlift, squat, squat hold, atlas hold, atlas lift, rack pull, etc.
I have a fun theory and interesting innovation; I call it the atlas hold. Basically the notion is that you just take the maximum amount of weight on the squat rack, and you just try to unrack it with your shoulder and your legs, and just see the maximum weight you can bear on your shoulders. The reason why I call it the atlas lift is because it is like Atlas; carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders.
Or a squat hold.
The reason why this is such an interesting and innovative concept is that in order to unrack the weight, you still need to push up with your legs. Thus, it is a formidable leg and thigh workout. And by just holding the weight on your shoulders, it will build up your whole body strength. For example, after doing my epic seven plate plus Atlas hold/squat hold, I felt it in my wrists, my shoulders, my traps, my back, my spine, my hips, my thighs, even my feet.
I say so! Hypelifting during the day, yoga at night! Just get a local gym membership and a CorePower yoga membership.
Do you want to be the wild wolf, or, do you wish to be the happy sheep?
If you were at a coffee shop, and you over hear people talking about somebody, consider it a good sign for that person. For example, at the local Philz coffee shop, and I overheard two guys talking about Elon Musk, and a guy who used to work for Elon Musk at Tesla.
Therefore, we can identify Elon Musk as an interesting person, as he has talked about, even when he is not around.
For example, if you’re reading something, and it bores you, let that be a signal and a sign that it is not worth you.
Is this what each man seeks?
Nietzsche mentions Plato, in which he said something like, “each man would desire to become the master of all men.” Nietzsche asserts that this ethos in spirit should be made anew.
The loudest car? And the most expensive and flashy colored one? And the most unusual doors?
Still probably a brightly colored Lamborghini aventador or any car with the scissor doors.
Or still, the biggest flex is to just walk around downtown topless, no shirt on. Show off your demigod physique.
Why media is the future:
Medyos— with + me.
A simple thought; media is just sharing yourself with others. I like the idea of being a solo media entrepreneur, that is, you create a cult of yourself, and everything that you do create and publish is all by you, about you, through you. At the end of the day, it is all about you.
I have some theories; first and foremost, it seems that it is a moral ethical issue. Moralistically speaking, it is considered a sin or advice to talk about yourself. For example, the common word “selfish“, is akin to the word evil.
For example, if you tell other people to “stop being so selfish“, is that considered a good thing or a bad thing?
Let us consider the most dominant video platform out there, YouTube. Tube as in TV, you as in you. The basic idea and just of YouTube is that it is TV all about you.
Even twitch, was initially known as justin.tv, I believe it was just a live stream of this dude named Justin and all of his mundane life activities. Imagine the Truman show movie.
I don’t like the idea of gate keepers, or anybody holding you back from anything. I like the idea that we can do anything we want without having anybody stop us.
For example, I truly despise the notion of having an editor or a publisher get in your way. If I have a certain idea thought or something, I hate the idea of having anybody have to “approve” it, before publishing it. For me the ultimate freedom is being able to publish whatever I want, however I want, whenever I want. And also how frequently I want.
And this is the ultimate freedom of the Internet, websites and blogging, etc. No more gate keepers.
Yet, the pitfall that we fall into is that it seems that nowadays people don’t really care about freedom, they care more for popularity and “success”, money, fame recognition, followers and likes, etc.
How many followers, subscribers, is enough? I said 300 is sufficient. Why? Imagine King Leonidas and his elite spartan 300s. That is all you need.
Anything and everything. For example, just go pro or document your every day Monday in life activities. Whether it be eating, working out, or just share your thoughts on anything.
It seems that in today’s world, more media is better than less media. Simply put, more is better.
Why? With digital media, it seems that people have a voracious appetite, and there is really no limit to how much media a person can consume. Let us consider the average modern-day man, who listens to podcasts, listens to music, watches movies, watches TV shows, watches TV series, etc. Let us also consider the apple AirPods phenomenon; the new frontier of sound, audio things.
Also let us consider the fact that traffic is getting worse and worse. This means, more and more people stuck in a car, wanting to listen to something to entertain them during their hateful commutes and time stuck in traffic. It seems safety wise, audio, podcasts are safer to listen to while driving then having to watch videos while driving.
So the question is, what kind of media should you create?
I said create it all. No limits to your creative expression. I see the best way to think about it is create things in a spirit of fun and experimentation, and just have fun with it. Don’t take it too seriously, don’t get too caught up with editing, etc. Create media that you would like to see.
For example, something that’s really interesting to me is trying to figure out the behind-the-scenes of peoples day to day behaviors and activities. I’m curious about how people eat, and what they eat. Thus, I started to do some GoPro videos of me eating meat, what I call my meat meditation.
Also, I don’t think I’ve ever seen any vlogs on people talking about more philosophical topics, ethics, etc. Thus I started to create more Vlogs of me talking about philosophy, stoicism, etc. as a means to create information and knowledge that I wish I had access to when starting off.
I am not quite sure why people take what they create so seriously. They strive to make it so nice by editing it so well, maybe it is a byproduct of our K-12 educational system, or even our college education. We strive to make things tiptop perfect, editing it to please some sort of third-party intelligent constipated reader, etc.
Hilariously enough, I make my living from blogging, vlogging, etc. Yet, I have extremely poor grammar, “writing style,” etc. Yet, out of all the people that I know, I am the most successful blogger and vlogger that I personally know. Also the one with the most money in the bank.
I cannot speak for you, but I could speak for myself. What is the origin and the root of our inspiration and motivation?
For me, it is fun, adventure, play, etc. I am personally driven by curiosity, and I like to be able to delve deeper into ideas which are personally interesting and meaningful to me.
For example, whenever I blog about something that I am interested in, as I’m blogging and while I’m blogging, I gain deeper inside to the topic at hand. Blogging as a form to flesh out my own thoughts for myself, and the upside is I could also share those thoughts with others.
I see blogging as meta-thinking. Same for vlogging.
Therefore, blogging and vlogging is great because you’re killing two birds with one stone. It benefits yourself, and it also benefits others.
You know you’re successful once you have people start criticizing critiquing you etc. Consider it a good sign. For example, nobody ever publicly criticizes or critiques somebody who is boring. Boring people never get talked about.
Also, boring people are never hated on either. Thus, it seems that the root of success is to actually seek to become more hated.
Philosophically speaking, I think hate is just love in disguise, via Nassim Taleb Bed of Procrustes.
I have never gotten a useful comment in my whole life, whether positive or negative. For example, certainly nobody likes getting negative comments, but also, the funny thing is that positive comments can actually hurt you more. Why? If somebody gives you a positive comment on some thing, it trains you to create more things that will get you more positive comments. Thus the road to mediocrity.
The most robust way to deal with things is either disable comments on your blog or website, disable comments on your YouTube channel, etc., or, if the platform doesn’t allow to disable comments, just don’t read them.
Also stats. Statistics are depressing, they are not motivating. Thus, disable stats on your own website, and also, refuse to look at them.
The bias in modern day society is that people just want to do things in order to make a lot of money. If that were really the case, better to be a plumber, they can easily make $200,000 a year. But do you want to be cleaning somebody’s poop for a living? Probably not.
For me, creating media is my passion and my soul project. It is what I am best at, which is effortless to me, and also fun and interesting. I never need to be motivated to create something, because I just create what I’m interested in. If you live a life full of inner motivation for yourself, isn’t this the best life?
Spend 90% of yourself blogging, writing things out in text, or just using iA Writer and markdown to voice dictate your thoughts. Why? Text has better longevity than video, is much more easily indexable, searchable, and accessible. Video is great, but video has many downsides. For example, Even with modern day algorithms, to decipher all of the words that occur in a video is still a difficult task, even for YouTube and Google text and sound recognition.
Also, lightness. A text file is a few kilobytes, whereas even the smallest video is hundreds of megabytes. Even in today’s modern world, Internet speeds, download speeds, upload speeds, and bandwidth is still a huge problem. Even the promise of 5G is weak; 5G is not real, it is fake 5G. You almost never get 5G anywhere, maybe the only place you get it is in South Korea. But in America, I feel like we are just restrained to either 3G or 4G.
There are some things in life you can control, and some things you cannot. One thing you cannot control is how rich you will become. For example, even if I used all of my effort, heart and soul, to become a trillionaire, I may never attain it. However, focusing to create a lot, this is actually something which is attainable.
I think the thought that “quality” is more important than quantity is a weak modern notion. Even in ancient Greece, I think Epicurus actually wrote at least 300 or 400 books in his lifetime. That is a lot.
My personal thought is there are academic and scholarly types who are unproductive, and they look at productive creators with petty resentment and envy. They wish that they could be productive, and prolific, and therefore, they have created that aphorism that quality is better than quantity. That they believe that their quality is superior than the other person’s quantity.
However, even in show business, there is the saying, “Your best film is the last one you’ve produced.” or, “You’re only good as your last book.” This means, you always want to be modern and recent. That, you always want to keep producing, creating, publishing.
For example, even Google search: they prioritize freshness. That is, they prioritize the information which was created most recently. There is a recency bias.
Start your own solo media empire today.
Go solo.
Own your own platform. This means, you must pay for it. The rule of thumb is this; if it is free, you don’t own it.
If you use Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, etc., you are partaking in digital sharecropping. You are an Instaslave.
Even, don’t put faith in YouTube. Sooner or later, your account will probably either be removed, banned, or inaccessible, etc. Even with my Facebook and Facebook Fan page, I have long forgotten the credentials for it, and I can no longer access it. Access denied.
Instead videopress.com — via the WordPress.com premium jetpack plugin plan. The simple thought is this:
Could you upload sexually explicit videos without having it flagged or removed?
This is the secret to platform freedom.
Bluehost.com and WordPress.org — this is the key.
To create your own open source media empire, own your own digital domain, and also your own digital tools.
I like the idea that you could spend 99% of your effort, time and energy creating media, and only spending 1% of your time energy and force consuming media. Certainly we must have inspiration from somewhere else, however, we should limit it. Better to draw upon instead from your own life experiences, your own lived experiences, etc.
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Shorts. Vibram five fingers shoes. When the weather is nice, just take off your shirt. If you have to wear something, just wear a vest, no undershirt.
If you live in a city, your car is going to get beat up.
Lesson; either just have a beater car, like an old Prius, or just don’t own a car at all.
Elon Musk — Tesla, Space X — these aren’t “Silicon Valley”. Same with Kanye West.
Let us think BEYOND Silicon Valley. My thought:
The Future is Media
Everybody dies and is going to die — so why not just use our lives to attempt the insanely epic?
I’m just too happy, merry, joyful, gay and powerful.
Crudus — raw meat. *krewh– raw blood. Blood outside the body — a wound. Or raw meat.
Krouo — to strike, to smite. Krura — bloody, raw, harsh.
In terms of ethics, is it unethical, or morally evil to be cruel? Also, philosophically, what does it mean to be cruel?
Perhaps more creators should use the iPad Pro, as a good video capturing device, using the Ultra Wide mode, whether in selfie mode, the front facing camera, or the back facing camera.
The uber flex:
How to go demigod:
“I know I’m not the most high but I’m on a close high.” — Kanye West YEEZUS Album
Just think to yourself; if you were in fact a demigod, what would you do, what would you not do?
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A simple thought; a lot of us seek to be respected by others. And may be, the only reason we respect others, is because we want the reciprocity of others respecting us as well.
Perhaps this is where the whole notion of “don’t tread on me“ is good. You leave me alone, and I’ll leave you alone. I don’t greet you or be nice to you or ignored you, and I also don’t expect the same.
How to become invincible:
What is stoicism? Reaping the upsides of life, and creating a framework in which anything which attempts to damage you actually benefits and strengthens you.
For example, let us assume that real life was an RPG or a video game, Diablo II analogy to real life. Imagine as if your character was a Paladin, and whenever an enemy attacked you, your hit points, and your skills would actually increase. This is my notion of stoicism.
To me, stoicism is the best philosophical framework to deal with the maladies of life. For myself personally, studying stoicism, and reading the letters of Seneca helped me tremendously become more confident, and epic.
However, we must know and acknowledge that stoicism is not the end goal. Stoicism is simply a path, a technique and a means toward something greater.
To me, life experimentation, human physiology, philosophy, entrepreneurship, innovation, art creativity photography, digital things, the Internet, etc.
For example, stoicism will greatly help you in street photography. Why? I believe the 99% of street photography is simply conquering fear and hesitation. If you could apply a stoic mindset to street photography, you will thrive.
Another application is towards entrepreneurship and innovation. I believe the 99% of entrepreneurship and innovation is conquering the fear of risk and failure. If we could stoic strategies to become more risk loving, we are wise.
It seems that Seneca and the Stoic philosophers were obsessed with virtue for the sake of virtue. What is virtue? For men, it means to become the apex manliness.
However, this is where I feel that stoicism falls short. To seek virtue for the sake of virtue seems to be inconsequential. Once again, stoicism should be seen as a means toward a certain desired end, not the end itself.
Simply put, if you’re interested in building your mind and body to become unconquerable, you are already a stoic. To borrow the words of Anna, you have always already been a stoic.
Imagine like having a bulletproof vest for your chest, and also your mind and your soul.
My simple thought is channel and harness your stoic power to go even harder on your publications on philosophy, whether it be email newsletter, blog, vlog, etc.
I thought; better to be angry than sad. Why? Anger is an affirmative, stimulating emotion, whereas sadness is a depressive one. Even like Eminem said —
I hate to admit this, but I think I’m actually happier when I’m angrier.
If you get angry, or you’re angry, assuming you have high testosterone, low body fat percentage, and high muscle mass, anger is actually one of our most wise tools. Why? When we get angry, we perceive an injustice, which teaches us between right and wrong.
For example, I think it is actually very very wise to become aggressive and combative when necessary.
For example, in modern day life, we are taught that it is bad to be “defensive”. However, to be defensive, and to focus on defense might be one of the most intelligent strategies.
For example in football, American football, I think it is true that defense wins games. Or, when it comes to the US military, there is a reason why they call it the department of defense, not the department of offense. Even their website URL is Defense.gov.
Even the notion of “avenger”, comes from the notion of being a defender. To defend yourself, your family, your nation could be one of the greatest things one can do. For example, if we think about the spartan 300, their goal wasn’t to just go out and conquer every other nation. Their simple goal was to defend Sparta from king Xerxes and his Slave army. Sparta just wanted to be left alone.
It depends. For example, imagine like you were the dragon from the Lord of the rings, and there is this annoying poodle which keeps barking at you. In situations like that, maybe it is best to just ignore the poodle, or, you might not even hear it.
Therefore a simple stoic strategy:
Become more deaf to others.
For example, if somebody says something that super annoying, or triggers you, maybe the best strategy is just pretend like you didn’t hear it. And if they ask you whether you heard them, just lie and say you didn’t hear them. And just walk away.
My thought is a lot of sadness is physiological. For example, let us assume that you sleep 8 to 12 hours a night, spend a lot of time outdoors in the direct sun, go to the gym every day, chat with your buddies, make new friends, lift heavy weights, hype yourself up, and eat lots of meat, How can one be sad?
Another thought: I have never met a depressed person who walks 30,000 steps a day.
Theory:
Depression as a physiological phenomenon which originates in the body, not the mind.
Mental depression is simply an offshoot of bodily physical depression.
Because let us consider, people who are clinically depressed literally cannot get out of bed. Therefore, this is a physiological phenomenon.
We all know that in order to become stronger, one must lift heavier weights, and exercise regularly. I say daily is best.
Some stoic exercises:
I say: Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Epicurus, Diogenes the Cynic, Heraclitus, Democritus, etc.
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Become invincible:
Learn from the master stoics:
Don’t make eye contact with them, don’t greet them, don’t talk to them. Don’t engage with them. Pretend like they don’t exist.
Growth. Inspiration and photo motivation. What is the key?
The first simple thought is this; what does it mean to thrive as a photographer?
The interesting notion is that if you think about the etymology of the word thrive, it means to seize, prosper. Also from the Proto Indo European *terp-, which means to satisfy, enjoy.
To take, to grow was perhaps seen as the same thing.
For example, let us consider the Latin carpe diem, which literally means to seize the day.
In modern day society, one is not permitted to seize anything. Why? Notions of private property, etc.
But if you consider that you were the ancient Greeks, in order to gain and prosper, it was zero-sum; you had to seize from others. Other foreign people, their resources, women, men, slaves, labor, etc.
For example let us consider ancient war. War was waged in order to expand the empire of a certain nation, or to seize the resources and the human labor of another nation.
But taking it back to our own private notion, to thrive means to prosper to grow and to flourish. I like the notion of creative flourishing. And also, it is not zero-sum, which means, we can all thrive together. My thriving doesn’t mean your belittling. The same thing with the gym; because I am stronger than you doesn’t mean that you are weaker than me. Everyone could gain a seven plates squat hold.
Social media is a trap and a prison. Digital sharecropping. Social media slavery
Instagram is for slaves. I call it “Insta-losers”. Or “InstaSlaves”.
Delete your instagram — probably the 1000x most critical thing you can do to unchain yourself and become creatively free.
Blogging is the future for photographers. What is a blog? I Blog is just the website which gets updated frequently.
Consider, assuming you have a wordpress.org blog, there are an infinite amount of ways you can customize your website, blog, viewing experience, galleries, slide shows and other ways to share.
In fact, my thought is that blogging your photos is actually superior to printing your photos into a hardcover book.
Why? Unlimited free global distribution, immediacy, it is practically free. Jeff Bezos — Invent and Wander — he shared some very optimistic thoughts on the Washington post, in terms of digital distribution.
Even one thing I am grateful for is that when I started my YouTube channel in 2010, there was no notion of “good“ video editing. The only real portable video camera at the time was the original GoPro hero, no LCD screen, maybe 480p, maybe 720 P, I don’t even remember. Yet, the barrier to entry was so low, and there was zero intimidation. YouTube was just a free place you could host your videos, this was before they were advertisements.
Personally speaking, I think it means to have insane self-esteem in yourself and your photos, zero comparison with others, and interest in creating new images. In fact, nowadays, while I do have gratitude for my past photos, I am more interested in my current and potential future photos, than my past photos.
New photos are key.
Once again, if you are hungry and inspired and motivated to create new images, consider yourself blessed.
ERIC
99.9% of the time, be zen calm and nice, but the 1% of the time or .1% of the time when somebody crosses the line, go full force.
How to live a great life:
Glorify yourself, glorify your body. First and foremost, build a body, and become a demigod. Throughout the physique of an ancient Greek hero, think Achilles. Or think about the Farnese Hercules. or think about David Michelangelo, and his posterior chain.
Do you want to become the David. Imagine a 3-D LiDAR scan of yourself and your own body, you want to become the most beautiful and sublime thing known to man.
Weightlifting is key. It really doesn’t matter how old or young you are, anyone and everyone could benefit from weight lifting. Whether women or men, whether younger or older, etc. I’ve been taking my mom to the gym every single day, and she is 67 years old, and I have been doing the one rep max type of lifting with her, squat hold and rack pulls. She’s becoming so much stronger in such a short period of time, only after about a week and a half.
I also personally believe that the greatest mode of existence is a Zen one. But not some sort of meek and weak Zen, but I’m more robust, strong, muscular type of zen. In fact, I best consider myself as some sort of modern day Zen monk, who happens to really like to lift weights, yell loud, hypelifting, new Spartan etc.
Rather than seeking to have a “better” life, seek to have a more zen one. The best way to live a more zen existence is to remove distractions, pettiness, drama, noise pollution, etc. In some ways, an existence in the southern California suburbs, assuming you live in a quiet neighborhood, with lots of natural light is a good one.
A funny thought:
If you eat nothing but kale and quinoa, you need to supplement yourself with something else. But if you eat 100% carnivore diet, you don’t require any additional supplements.
There’s a certain Zen about being a carnivore, being a predator. Think of yourself as the wolf, not the sheep.
Or like our friend Galliani says —
It is better to be a gay monster than a sentimental bore.
Choose to be gay, happy, but also, when need be, become aggressive and combative.
Costco business Center, beef ribs, top sirloin. Also when you have the chance, beef liver, bone marrow, etc.
Photography is your art. Focus on it, and everything else will thrive.
ERIC
It doesn’t really matter how buff you are, what matters more is how strong you feel, and how powerful you feel:
What would king Leonidas do?
Confucianism is bad. Modern notions of male masculinity are bad.
What must we do? We must create a new notion of modern male masculinity, which is more robust, stronger, and more critical than any school of thought known to man.
Inspiration is our life blood in photography, and all artistic matters. So the question is this; how do we become more artistic, or more inspired in our photography art and lives?
I think the path to the greatest inspiration and motivation is becoming the most productive photographer. That means, to every single day shoot a shitload of photos. My personal ideal is to shoot at least 1000 photos a day.
A simple solution is to shoot with a recall GR 3X digital camera, and shoot extra high contrast black-and-white photos in extra small JPEG. I’ve been experimenting shooting just a small JPEG an extra small JPEG, and it looks like extra small JPEG photos import at least 10 times faster. This is good because we want insanely fast beers, even at the expense of quality resolution etc.
For example, if I had the option of having a Tesla car that could go from 0 to 100 in 10 seconds, or, if I had a Tesla with a range of 1000 miles but it took an hour, I will take the prior.
Once again —
I would prefer the Tesla model three with less range, but faster recharge times.
The same thing with smart phones; perhaps we don’t need that much battery, or battery life. What should just be improved is recharging times.
Therefore in the context of guitar if you, it seems wise to shoot extra small JPEG because it will offer you at least thousand X faster speeds in terms of importing time, loading time, uploading time, publishing time, etc.
The future of photography is smaller resolutions. Once again, 99% of people are just gonna look at your photos through an iPhone, how many pixels do you really need? I say 2000 pixels on the wide end is sufficient.
Assuming that you want to become the master of your own domain, you must own your own domain. This means on your own website domain, create a website a bluehost.com and install wordpress.org.
Would you rather be a billionaire and a slave, or to be poor and be a master? I would choose the second.
Assuming that we are the new Spartans, we do not want to become a servile slave to king Xerxes, even if he promises us all of the women, pleasures, and gold in the world. We would rather be the king Leonidas, eschewing luxury comfort and fame and power, and instead, putting our supreme joy in our own personal liberty.
This morning I was thinking to myself, what is freedom? I don’t really have a good answer, but it seems that the most were the goal we could just focus on is their own creative freedom. That is, having the liberty to create whatever we want to create, and to publish and share whatever we want to share.
Do you want to become a digital master? Once again, just think yourself,
Can I upload nude photos?
If you cannot upload nude photos, show nipples or penises or balls or testicles etc., without getting it removed or getting your account flagged, or getting your account suspended, you are not free.
The myth of the decisive moment is that when you see something happening, there is only one great photo that could be made. This is incorrect. The best way to think and approach it is that there is a continuum of interesting potential moments, and every moment is different, beautiful and valuable. Therefore, it is wise to “work the scene”, you discover the significance the composition and the subject matter as you’re shooting, while you’re shooting.
I like to think it is your duty to be happy. In fact, I think the reason why a lot of people suffer in modern day life is that they think it’s their duty to be miserable. In fact, the happier we are, the better of a photographer you will become, and also more productive you will become.
In fact, I think there is the strange bias in photography that in order to be a legitimate and great photographer, you must photograph the pain, the suffering, the injustice in the world. It is like some sort of self flagellating virtuosity.
For example, the more I think about it, Magnum photographers are bad. Don’t be a swallower.
Dynamism and inspiration go hand-in-hand. For example, if you stay inside your house 24 hours a day, for weeks on end, will you find any inspiration to make art or photos? I doubt it. I believe there is a physiological condition linked to walking, outdoor air and fauna and allergens and wind and other micro particles in the air, and also sun UV radiation that stimulates our photography.
Just think to yourself, if you walked outdoors for 12 hours a day, and just photographed anything which tickled your fancy, with your Ricoh GR 3X digital camera in your front right pocket, wouldn’t you find inspiration and things to photograph?
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The fun thing about blogging is that blogging is a good way to motivate yourself. For example, I like this idea, write a blog post about these topics:
Feel free to use any of these titles to make a blog post.
Traveling is good. Almost all of my great gains in life came from travel. For example, the first time I traveled internationally outside of South Korea was Beirut Lebanon, one of the most formative experiences of my life. Thank you to everyone out there, and especially Thomas Leuthard, Mohammed Badr, Loryne Atoui.
Also, my experiences traveling to Tokyo, and my time with Charlie Kirk and Bellamy Hunt. Also Mijonju and the whole gang.
Also all of my great times in Singapore. Shout out to all my friends at Leica Singapore, Gracia, and Adam and Callan and ABC and everyone like Kevin at IPA.
Any sort of travel is good. Why? It will put you outside of your comfort zone, and you’ll learn much. A list of places that I’ve traveled to, which have shaped and formed me:
London, Manchester, Dubai, San Francisco, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Stockholm, Umea, Hanoi, Saigon, Seoul, Paris, Marseille, etc.
I could go on and on and on on all the places I’ve been to. So this is not the interesting thing. What is most interesting is just living a maximally dynamic life. becoming more of an adventurer, more nomadic, etc.
How far can you fly as a photographer? Some ideas:
Your photo assignment is macro. Shoot in high contrast black and white macro, of anything you see in the world. Your hand, your thumbprint, your fingerprint, droplets of water, fractal patterns in plants and natural things the patterns within meat, etc.
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Also via negativa; don’t do and don’t say what do you think is bad.
No. Especially if it is not a form of punishment, but it is simply a way of you structuring things to prevent being a bad person to the other person.
Maybe the good thing about giving somebody the cold shoulder is that you don’t say anything bad about them, or gossip about them. You just don’t acknowledge their existence, and this will prevent you from saying any bad things about somebody else.
