Every and each day is a new day.

Just think about today.

Don’t think “bad” or “good” people. Think “boring” and “non-boring” (interesting) people.

Laptops are the future, not phones or iPads.

Not enough for incremental improvements, we must strive for and towards the quantum leaps forward and upwards!

All plaid everything.

I don’t want to just feel great, I desire to feel above great.

Don’t buy new, become new.

Stay staunch in your own natural approach and way of (positive) interaction.

Restraint as perhaps a greater pleasure than simply giving in?

My ideal.

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The new iPhone SE as a perfect phone:

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Dear friends,

Some photography ideas for you:

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I just heard that the new HALO movie, TV show series has just launched. An interesting thought: perhaps what we really desire is to become the master chief. The idea of a superhuman, all contained in one bodily shell.

The idea that you are the sole and solo protagonist. And that your armor, weapons, and personal body suit is all that you desire, own, and desire.

Currently I’m having a lot of fun making photos of Seneca. Him eating, growing up, and also learning how to walk unassisted. Also, photographing design objects, text, and concepts I like with my Ricoh GR 3X, in macro mode. Also, enjoying the 40 mm focal length with Ricoh GR 3X, and extra small JPEG, which has expedited my photographic workflow.

Also, not separating my photography from my personal life. Just photographing whatever I witness in every day life, photographing strangers, etc. (more…)

A question on my mind: what is the ideal clothing, or ideal clothes? What do we want from our clothes?

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Our goal as street photographers.

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Better to buy a Tesla Model S Plaid (White) than buy a house or home.

Technically if you take the Silicon Valley hippie approach, you could live out of your Tesla model S plaid. Get it in white, because it is like having an RV. Almost all RVs or white, why? Maximal reflection of heat in the sun, and also longevity.

In theory, if you got a white Tesla model S plaid, with no tint, it should last you the rest of your life. And also might last for the rest of your life of your children.

Why the Tesla model S plaid, and not the Tesla model X Plaid? Because the Tesla model S plaid is faster.

Also, the Tesla model S plaid can be like your mobile gym. Keep a 105 pound kettle bell in your trunk, and you could work out anywhere and everywhere.

If you fold down the rear seats, you could just sleep in the trunk. And because the car is electric, you could just keep on the heater or air conditioner at night time.

From a practical and pragmatic perspective, wait at least three years, and just buy it used from a previous owner on craigslist, maybe you could just pay it in bitcoin — P2P, peer to peer form of payment, especially with large purchases like a house or car.

For cars, our fascination with revving our engines, or 0 to 60 speeds is about power explosion. How much power, force, you could explode and express in a short given moment. Tesla Model S plaid (1.99 seconds) as the current GOAT.

With working out, do not grind out mindless repetitions, and try to gain muscle hypertrophy. Rather, strive towards Maximal power output and expression. Explosion. For example, explosive power when going for a run rep max sumo deadlift. Or, when trying to go for Maximal power explosion when doing to armed kettlebell swings or cleans.

We don’t want to be in the car, or at home — we want the opportunity for physical and creative challenges!

For me, it is photography, motivation, art, aesthetics, and ideas.

A thought when reviewing my photos on my laptop (vs my phone),

Tapping the left and right arrow button is a more efficient movement than having to ‘swipe’ for next on your phone.

Similarly speaking, kettlebell movement and workout as very efficient because to warmup, all you gotta do is the ‘goblet squat’ hip opener stretch/warmup, then you can just jump into the (two armed) then eventually 1 armed swings.

The difference between GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) and GOS (gear optimization syndrome):

With GAS, you keep acquiring equipment for the sake of it, but with GOS, you’re constantly returning and recycling your equipment to find the perfect 1 thing.

I’m often afflicted by GOS, not GAS. I don’t like having a lot of equipment, but I have a problem with trying to get and discover “perfect”.

My recent optimizations:

1. RICOH GR IIIX (after my Ricoh GR III died)
2. iPhone SE (after trying to like the iPhone Pro, but ultimately hating it for the huge weight and bulky/brutal dimensions).

The new emperor on the block.

What does it mean to gain more power as a photographer?

Is it more influence, power and reach you desire? Greater impact?

Your best photos are your new photos:

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I prefer the new me over the old me.

Do things because you must, not expecting or desiring praise or “helping” others.

40mm on RICOH GR IIIX— my new favorite focal length:

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Macro, through the big and small.

Black and white, RICOH GR IIIX.

Even a hair casts its own shadow:

Fill the frame, in praise of 40mm as a focal length.

Photography as a tool to reveal hidden details, through exposure compensation (making your exposure darker, or brighter).

Slimmer waist, in praise of wearing jeans with belt buckles (to track your waist size), or wearing tighter fitting shorts.

The ideal:

Slim waist, great and big muscles.

How to deal with the relentless march of technology:

For example, how is it that my new iPhone SE ($429) is faster than my older MacBook Pro, which had a maxed out processor just a few years ago and cost over $2,000?

This is what brings us the most happiness and pleasure in life?

For example, the feeling that my body, muscles are growing and getting bigger and stronger.

For example the day or two after I have had an intense workout, and ate a bunch of meat the night prior, and had great sleep— the feeling that my back, traps and wings are growing bigger and expanding.

Don’t blame people for who they are — many of them are simply immature (not yet fully mentally or soulfully developed, lack of life experiences, discovering oneself, etc.).

I don’t desire the best, but perhaps the most innovative and clever solution?

The more kids, the more artwork you produce, share and publish, the better?

I don’t desire the ”best”, but the most lofty, the highest.

Which variable do you want to keep static, and which variable do you want to keep dynamic?

For example, raising a kid is insanely dynamic — everyday is always changing and different. Then best to keep the environment static?

What makes life great and worthwhile? Not the Every day normalcy, or the sustainable, but the small, infrequent, and sublime moments.

For example, better to have one insanely great day a week, then every day as a “good“ day.

Or better yet, better to have six miserable days in a week, and one insanely great day a week, than seven good days in a row.

Or broken down even further, better to have one insanely great hour in a day, than a full day of normalcy.

Also, I’m happy having deadlifted 475 pounds, once, even if the remaining 374 days in the year were absolutely miserable.

Even with kids, even though much of raising your kid is physiologically painful, the few sublime happy moments make it all worth it.

I have yet to watch the new Batman movie, yet the concept is great to me. I love the idea that Batman is darker, more melancholic, more cruel.

Even with aesthetics, cars, etc. I love the all black everything, “murdered out” look. Even though black cars are probably the most impractical car of all time, there is nothing more sublime to me than a debadged black on black on black Tesla model 3, with limo tint, and all black components.

The image of Spartan 300s doing their battle training in the direct sun, in the outdoors dusty gymnasium of Ancient Greece.

The desert with the powerful sun, solar panels as the ideal place for power, energy, innovation?

The privilege of being able to workout outdoors, topless, in short shorts while also getting a nice tan.

The ideal place to work is outdoors, in the direct sun, either with your phone, tablet, or laptop.

What would King Leonidas of the 300 spartans do?