My synthesis and hybrid:

I am very happy with what I got and what I’ve accomplished, but I’m still very dissatisfied and want more.

The ultimate hybrid?

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Better to be honest, direct and uncensored than to be ‘professional’ and predictable.

The ability to create freely and share freely

How to compose:

The worst hate? Self-hate.

Why be productive? Towards what ends? What is some of the B.S. when it comes to productivity cult-like thinking? My thoughts:

The wisdom of delaying and procrastination:

Towards personal aesthetics:

The gist:

1. Look for old photos of mine which I like
2. Ask myself, “Why do I like this photo?”
3. Let my photos sit and marinate
4. Revisit old photos
5. Draw composition lines on iPad or procreate, or vision AI on my photos
6. Discover new insights into my photos
7. Repeat.

Why this trend towards this morose-type or thinking that good photography somehow must be depressing and angsty. Shouldn’t photography be more joyful instead?

What holds back many entrepreneurs? The idea that there is some ultimate truth or right or wrong.

But if we accept that there is no ultimate truth, no ultimate right and wrong … then certainly it makes the most sense for you to just share your own experiences, thoughts and philosophies with others!

If we strive towards a perfectly ‘equal’ society, this means a profoundly mediocre, boring, and average society. A grey society.

If you had the option, would you elect for the life of ease, or the life of full control and self-autonomy?

When analyzing your own photos and composition, segment and break down the frame.

Work harder, rest harder:

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Look towards the future.

Why strive towards great compositions? To inspire movement in us … quite literally for us to move, dance, and move around!

Helmut Newton — great at composing triangles.

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Certainly it is better to prefer humans over objects, homes and things.

Ethical thoughts:

What makes “tasteful” erotica versus “distasteful” erotica in photography or art?

Post contains nudity:

Insight … sight. Why sight?

Practical ideas:

1. Find a photo you like of your own, and apply all photoshop filters on them to visually analyze them.
2. Find a photo of a great photographer or painter you like, and try to imitate or mimic it 100%.
3. Look at a renaissance portrait you like, and try to imitate it as a photo.
4. Start a selfie project of yourself: Shoot a selfie of yourself everyday for a year. Flexing is good too.
5. Upload a bunch of photos to Google AI Vision to visually analyze your photos using AI and computer vision.
6. When you are puzzled whether you photo composition is good or not, sketch it as a drawing, or upload it to arsbeta.com for real feedback

Analyze your own photos for fun, personal curiosity, and as a means for you to continue and augment your own self-learning, your own self-edification!

Never really give too much faith to an artist ,,, until they die, and their ‘dirty secrets’ come out.

Why? Let me explain:

Question:

What makes photographers unique from other visual artists? The hybrid of technology AND art.

In this sense, are photographers then the apex predator in the visual arts?

The ancient greeks talked about greatness, but not much about ‘perfection’.

Where does the notion of perfection come from? (perhaps Plato), and how has it harmed us so much up until now?

My secret to the greatest artistic fruitfulness in life:

Pursue only that which is interesting to you.

Why? Whatever is interesting to you is highly likely to be interesting to others!

Brave new world. From the Google Tensorflow blog.

In praise of art. With art, you strive to create art works which cruel time will chew on slowly. Robustness to time. Better yet, antifragility to time; as time goes on, your art works and ideas will get better!

This means:

Accept hope is a vice. To desire a better uncertain future is holding us and you back.

Fatalism: we take the most pessimistic and fatal view (things will never improve or go back to the way things used to be). Then the optimism:

Given the difficulty of the new world, how can we actually live a BETTER life now than before?

Your spirit must be lifted. Why? Because you’re gifted.

In praise of parks:

Always strive to examine the truth for yourself, by yourself.

Strive to seek deeper (personal) truths:

Life is about intensity, not reps.

The goal:

Not to be a slave and prisoner to another platform, but to become the master of your own domain, your own platform.

This is the impetus to creating this website, this blog, and now arsbeta.com

What does it mean to live in a post-monetary society? My thoughts:

A thought about economics and wealth:

How do we generate wealth without exploiting the labor of others?

Some ideas:

Let us think:

Perhaps when we consume the ideas of others, we ain’t looking for some ultimate ‘truth’. Instead, we are seeking ideas which resonate us and motivate us to action and activity.

A new future:

Either you’re free or a slave.

And let us not be fooled; even the rich can be slaves (many of whom are).

A look into my brain:

Test it here.

Nothing is pure. Purism is for suckers.

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From SUITS:

There is always an admixture of something or another.

A thought:

If you shoot a street photograph of someone you know, is it still ‘street photography‘? I think so!

What is the maximum human life span? It seems for men around ~117 years. Women is 122 years. I personally aspire to live to be 133 years old (in hyper health and vigor).

But… we should be grateful towards death. Why? Knowing that we will die … we actually have gratitude towards life and we also don’t dick around as much while we are still alive!

A blog is a web-log of your online activities or life activities. Better thought:

Think of a blog as a live-stream, or a life-stream of your entire life.

Street photography is democratic and for all.

All is flux.

I love the stoics of the past, but what is my criticism?

They didn’t go far enough.

A thought I had while looping around the park next to my house:

My new ideal … the hyper-hero.

My thoughts:

What does it mean to think for yourself?

My new pursuit.

The most important person to privilege — yourself.

Savannah Condon: one of my great promising students who attended a recent creativity online photography workshop I taught. Learn more about her and what she does:

Of course Michael Jordan is the greatest of all time. My thoughts after watching his documentary (Last Dance):

Photography entrepreneurship is the goal.

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The goal:

To create BEYOND yourself.

Beyond your life, your life time. To strive to make a monument more enduring than bronze (Horace).

When in doubt, blog.

Don’t entertain any ideas beyond the flesh.

Race is a topic I am fascinated about, because it makes no sense. Aren’t we all ‘the human race’?

Upon philosophizing on this, this is my takeaway thus far:

Race ain’t real, but morphology is.

Vlog in the streets.