A more constructive and generative way to see life:
You have the power to transform any ill or downside into an upside or positive.
For example:
Gyms are closed. Focus on doing bodyweight exercises and calisthenics to strengthen certain parts of your body.
Death in the family: Use this opportunity to live your own personal life without regrets. Or meditation on the shortness of life. My reflections after the death of my grandfather.
Pain: Gratitude towards the pain as a signal what you must address or fix in your life.
Photographers flatter others so much with their obsession with their subjects. Why not flatter yourself with that same amount of attention to yourself?
What is street photography? Perhaps poetry in motion. Also why people love to watch sports, Michael Jordan, and the Olympics — witnessing poetry in motion.
You will never have a partner or someone to work with you — assuming you have to do everything by yourself.
Bootstrap: How to start a company with only $100? Building a website-blog as the best bang for the buck.
Steer clear of Silicon Valley oasis: Not to make a trillion dollar company. Instead, to become the most epic solo entrepreneur, or the sole proprietor of your company — one man, you.
The more I think about it, street photography is truly all about courage. There seems to be no downside to exhibiting more courage in street photography.
Happy Sunday! Summer is just around the corner (I think it was the first day of summer in Providence the other day) and I wanted to use this breath of fresh air and sun to give you some great ideas on some practical and pragmatic ideas on street photography:
Studying physics is good to think about motive or motivating force, which set things, bodies and stuff into motion. Similarly, we can consider the same in artistic composition.
I am very excited to share the newest documentary film by Cindy, titled: “Velcro Shoes”. The film is based on an essay she wrote “The Slow Undoing of Velcro Shoes“.
If we just wanted the hands-down fastest and most powerful car, Tesla is obviously the answer. But if we want something more ‘sculpture’ and unique in design, perhaps we want something else?
Then begs the question:
What do we really want … more power, ore more sculpture/design/form/beauty?