Why is RICOH GR III the best camera of all time? The most compact, simple, and powerful performing camera on the market.

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Why do people buy things? Not for the thing itself or the ‘performance’ — they buy it for the design.

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Why I own DigiByte:

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Some ideas towards a more efficient lifestyle:

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ERIC KIM WRIST STRAP II: The only strap for RICOH GR III (and II, and I).

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Why I am invested in Chainlink:

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The more you can link and connect things, the better. You’re the glue.

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Once you’ve become the greatest, then what?

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A good idea I got from the philosopher Nietzsche: that is, any action which is done instinctually and without thought is a perfect action. Thus, when you decide to act, best not to think about it too much. Rather to just follow your gut.

Perhaps in photography this also holds true. That is, to just photograph anything that your instinct tells you to photograph. Shooting with your gut is a good idea, just like what Anders Petersen says.

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Perhaps the lust for more is a virtue.

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Disregard what’s “pragmatic” in life. What’s pragmatic in life is often ugly and boring. I don’t desire a future where everyone is driving a Prius or a Honda Accord. True aesthetics is flamboyant, impractical and an ethical-aesthetic ideal.

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Just setup the HAPTIC SHOP to accept crypto (Bitcoin, DOGECOIN, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc), and it is exciting to start again from zero, to start from scratch!

In praise of this carte blanche approach:

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ERIC KIM NEWSLETTER >

Dear friends,

Contrary to what people think, right now is the best time to be alive, and the best time for street photography!

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Contrary to what nihilistic people say, the year 2021 is the best year to be alive.

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Turbo thought:

Perhaps it isn’t ‘street’ photography we are doing, but *society* photography.

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HAPTIC INDUSTRIES now accepting cryptocurrencies — Bitcoin, DOGECOIN, Litecoin, Ethereum etc for any HAPTIC PRODUCTS.

Powered by Coinbase Commerce

Discover all HAPTIC PRODUCTS >

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The reason why crypto is good:

As time goes on, it will become *MORE* valuable, useful and interesting.

Compare this to fiat currency (like the USDOLLAR or the Euro) which will LOSE value over time.

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Why are interest in brand new things? What does this even mean?

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HENRI NECK STRAP MARK IV in the now beautiful Blood Red x Mahogany Brown. Also available in PHANTOM BLACK.

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What’s the purpose of design? Why is design important?

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If you’re interested in the future of photography, it is PDF:

1. PDF: ERIC KIM Photography Composition Studies // Google Drive
2. PDF: Josef Koudelka Photography Composition Studies // Google Drive // Direct Download PDF
3. PDF: Richard Avedon Photography Composition Studies // Google Drive

More books >

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What do we lack in our photography? Self-pride in our photos. Some thoughts and ideas:

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I think what we’re all seeking for is growing in our photography. But how do we do that?

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Seek the good pain, the good resistance, and the good stress to make you stronger:

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You got everything to gain, nothing to lose.

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Turbo thought:

Perhaps the future is going to be a “post money” or a “post currency” future.

Which makes me think — what’s more important than money and currency? Technology.

Perhaps Chainlink as more important than Bitcoin (in the crypto world).

The future — linking things together… from the digital to the physical world?

What is the meaning or the purpose of “perfection” in photography? My thought —

To perfect, means to complete, or accomplish or finish.

Per+facere (to do) in Latin.

Thus “perfection” is nothing but doing something and seeing it until completion.

Thus perhaps we should think of “perfection” as an ongoing task. That as we explore, adventure, experiment and tinker … we’re actually leading towards perfection!

As photographers, what do we desire? We desire to increase our photographic power.

How to do this? Some ideas:How to do this? Some ideas:

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Why read? Reading as a boost, a turbocharge, and a stimulus to your own thinking.

Also, reading great thoughts can actually put energy, power and sensation into our legs, muscle and body!

What I love about technology, digital technology, blogging, YouTube, and cryptocurrency: the idea that the value of things is limitless. The sky is the limit. Also with blogging, in theory you could publish infinity amount of blog posts. And also with digital photography, in theory you could shoot 1 trillion photos+.

Like Buzz Lightyear said: to infinity and beyond.

ATTACK
No need to backtrack the progress in your life
Attack and build the stacks of your library of knowledge and wisdom

Attack
There’s nothing you lack or need
Harness your greed for the gains
And learn to love the strain and pain
Cerebral intoxication, Dionysian brain

ERIC

FREE MOTIVATION >

Dear friend,

If you are looking for some photography exercises to build your photographic muscles, some ideas:

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The philosophy that the best is yet to come.

Let us crush romantic notions of the past:

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The thought on my mind:

How much innovation has *yet* been done in monochrome?

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To build off of the anti-romanticism notion:

Let us consider– the best is yet to come.

Our best selves are yet to come. Our best artwork is the best to come. The best designs, films, architecture, modern societal concepts are *YET TO COME!*

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Something that I have thought about a long time:

Why do we have a romanticism of the past, specifically … ‘retro’ things?

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A strong and solid primer to street photography [if I started all over again]:

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Anything you can do to increase street photography options, the better.

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My honest appraisal:

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My life in photos:

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NEWSLETTER

What are we lacking in today’s world as photographers? Pride. Pride in ourselves, and pride in our photos:

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What are we lacking in today’s world? Pride. Pride in ourselves, and pride in what we do and create:

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In today’s world where you have the Tesla Model S Plaid going from 0-60mph in less than 2 seconds, the question —

What’s the purpose of all these other cars out there?

Answer— aesthetics.

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Another funny bias I learned about society: what society and people typically say is good for you is typically bad for you, and what people say is bad for you is often very good for you.

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It seems in today’s world, there is a cult of reading. That is, the more you read, the better. But is this true?

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Why is it that Ivy League schools deify the ‘endowment’ more so than real human beings? Why is it that we as individuals prize our ‘savings’ more so than ourselves?

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Something Steve Jobs talked about a lot.

Been listening to the new DONDA album, and wow —

It is insanely great.

It blows my mind, how is it that Kanye West and his music is at least 1000x more interesting, original, and epic than his other peers?

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Not sure if any other thinkers have thought this but,

Ethics are aesthetic.

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The difficulty we all face:

We see our lives and environment as boring, and we are frustrated — we hope we lived a more interesting life (or lived in a more interesting city) to make more personally interesting photos.

How to do this? Some ideas:

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Assuming that life is about becoming, and that you’re in a stream of becoming, the question is: what do you desire to become?

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ERIC KIM NEWSLETTER >

Life is all about aspiration. The more you aspire, the better.

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Either make things luxury [extra], or give it for free.

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RICOH GR III as the best camera of all time:

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What is our enemy? Creative stagnation. What the way? To conquer and overcome it.

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What is the will, or willpower? The desire to dominate. To become master. To overcome boundaries and obstacles, and transform that which stands in your way into your fuelpower.

Channel your hunger to dominate in productive, artistic and creative ways.

We are often told that to get into photography as a business is a very bad idea. On the contrary, it is the industry the most ripe for disruption and innovation:

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This is the intersection of all I love and find interesting and fascinating to myself:

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Ask — will this benefit or harm me?

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Don’t sit on the sidelines:

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When in doubt, opt for bold. To be lukewarm or tepid is boring. Don’t filter your thoughts — go for extreme bold.

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A more robust notion of success:

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Complacency is the enemy:

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For camera, RICOH GR III. After that, Fujifilm XPRO3 with Fujifilm 23mm f2 lens.

For strap, ERIC KIM NECK STRAP or ERIC KIM WRIST STRAP for RICOH GR. HENRI NECK STRAP for Fujifilm, Leica, Sony or any other mirrorless camera.

For bag, Thinktank. I love their camera travel backpacks.

For clothes, all black merino wool everything. The best T-shirt as outlier.NYC merino wool shirts, for pants simply wear black merino wool leggings, paired with black Marino wool shorts. Socks black merino wool socks, and for shoes Nike free shoes.

Solo photography — photos you shoot for yourself, of yourself and the life around you:

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The best way to prevent any regret in life, especially with speculative investing matters:

Just buy it.

Better to take a risk you’re interested in, and being wrong than to be prudent and be left at the sidelines.

Bitcoin, just buy some on Coinbase. The only two other cryptocurrencies I find interesting are Digibyte (faaaar faster, 40x faster than Bitcoin and 10x faster than Litecoin) and Chainlink (links are everything). The only cryptocurrency I’d be wary of is Ada Cardano, which seems like a scam (whenever an innovation is attempted to be created top-down by academics and researchers, this is bad).

In photography matters, if you’re curious about the Leica rangefinder experience, just buy it and return it if you don’t like it, or just resell it.

Towards a more risk-loving lifestyle.

If anything interests you even 1%, just try it and buy it!

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I’m more impressed with the Fujifilm XPRO3 over the Leica M10. So if you have the option (even though you can afford both), get the XPRO3. More innovative (no LCD screen), autofocus as better than manual focusing (zone focusing), and better image quality, JPEG presets and high ISO capabilities.

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As artists, what’s our primary preoccupation? Aesthetics.

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First of all,

Cliche isn’t that big of a deal.

It doesn’t matter whether someone has done it or not in the past. What is important is that you enjoy doing it.

For example, would you not drink coffee because everyone else does it, and everyone else has done it before? Or would you not have a coffee this morning because you’ve “done it before”?

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A street thought:

Authenticity is far more important than ‘originality’.

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There seems to be this bias everywhere. That is, all clichés are bad. But are clichés really that big of a deal? I think not.

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