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Why I love photography so much:

My practical ideas and thoughts:

1. Intermittent fasting
2. No breakfast or lunch. Only massive dinner.
3. No sugar, starch, carbs. No alcohol, weed, drugs. Only lots of black coffee.
4. Body weight exercises AND weight lifting.
5. The more muscular my body, the more artistically productive I am.
6. Combine ALL forms of visual art … the ultimate cross pollination to discover new artistic inspiration.
7. No phone as ultimate productivity hack.
8. Switch between iPad and Laptop for maximal productivity.
9. Living in tiny apartment with washer and dryer in unit and fast WiFi.
10. Drinking 100% cocoa powder, or cocoa nibs to extend fast.
11. Drinking green tea/matcha green tea in the evening instead of coffee.
12. Crock pot or oven for maximal ease of cooking delicious meats.
13. Best bang for buck meat: pork shoulder roast (.99 cent a pound), chicken legs or leg quarters, and beef. For ease of cooking big cuts of meat, just crockpot it!
14. Don’t sit. Eat standing up. If tired, take a nap by lying on my back. Standing desk, or squatting desk. Using iPad to compute while standing.
15. Cold showers
16. Water/kayak shoes (cheap minimalist shoes) for no foot pain.
17. All merino wool everything for optimal clothes. Merino wool men legging, t shirt, socks, etc.
18. Don’t own a car. Walk everywhere. For groceries, grocery delivery.

Pain as a stimulus to growth, movement… and a necessary component to pleasure.

What made Leonardo da Vinci such a genius? His imagination.

In praise of muscles:

Art: something you create with your own will-power. It is important because without art, we would have no reason to live.

On shooting from a distance:

Rather than criticize and critique .. better to take a ‘generative’ approach.

What is the use of studying the words, thoughts, books and art works of others?

Let their works be a stimulus to OUR OWN art-works and creations!

The goal:

Hybrid of both stoicism and child’s mind

The human body is the apex source of inspiration, motivation, and power.

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My Philosophy of Art

The ultimate democratic approach to art:

Art is whatever you want it to be, however you want it to be.

Health:

Physiological power to pursue your own personal life-goals and ends.

If you like watching action movies, perhaps also a good idea to live your life as if it were your own action film!

To me, street photography is deep gratitude towards existence and life. To shoot street photography means:

I LOVE REALITY! I’m so grateful to be alive!

The best life:

What I believe in:

How do you know what you should make and create? Simple thought:

Create what you like to consume!

Hugely beneficial to study sculpture, movement, physics, human physiology, statues, human athletes, etc to gain a deeper understanding of composition, force, and beyond.

A new genre of street photography:

Video street photography.

Let me explain the concept:

In life, perhaps we shouldn’t strive to go backwards. To have the courage to keep marching forward.

My new vision:

MY TECHNIQUES AND APPROACHES:

The future:

Harness both photo AND video to the maximum.

The art of people:

Which photos will last? Photos of humans!

Your name is the ultimate brand:

What if you could never augment your income?

Martial … relating to Mars (god of war). Art. A good symbiosis.

A practical insight into my writing process:

My thoughts and suspicions:

My theory:

Plato had dick envy for Socrates… and strove to super-seed him.

My vision for ARS FOTO; the art of photography.

How did the renaissance artists accomplish so much more, and create so much more insanely epic art works than anything of modern day times … hundreds of years ago? With no computers, technology, internet, etc?

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Behind scenes of my online workshop; using Zoom, iPad, and Procreate to analyze, critique, and dissect images:

Right now seems like a precarious time to be shooting photos. Why am I doing it? My rationale:

If you make a good composition but unintentionally, is it still legitimate?

Dear friend,

One of my great preoccupations in life is this:

What is the secret of great composition? How can I make greater photo compositions?

Some thoughts:

Why details make for great photos:

How I shoot:

Reality exists outside and BEYOND the frame.

Start with the human body and form.

Better than buying any new camera, lens or photo tool!

Fuck around with your photos as much as you’d like! Let us dispel this silly notion that a photo is sacred and shouldn’t be tampered with.

Dear friend, I am very excited to announce my newest and upcoming photography composition workshop (Saturday, May 23rd, 2020, 12-2pm Eastern Time)— focused on the fundamentals of dynamic photography composition. More info:

Your own photos are the most important photos:

Question:

Do you prefer nice photos of reality, or the reality itself?

To photograph means to write with light. Graph literally means to scratch or to embed, or to imprint.

Grapho: to carve, etch, cut into. Basically means to draw, sketch, paint, to write down, etc. Ultimately comes from ‘gerb-‘: to carve.

There seems to be a will to objectivity, but why?

You steer.

My thought:

Our desire to gain the approval and admiration of others.

The joy of making photos 

Now another fun thought:

Why is making photos so fun and interesting to us?

My thought:

Perhaps there is this joy we get in capturing external reality in a frame and being able to share this thing with others!

The joy of creating 

What is art? Art is just something you create. It doesn’t need to be “artistic”, which we mean to say is “divinely and accurately painted”. 

Perhaps in the past we deified artists, because they seemed godlike. For example, a renaissance painter — not everyone can do that. It requires tedious years of training, and even more years of insane execution and focus. 

But with photography comes the ultimate disrupter. Now literally anybody and everybody cam make art work! An art work as something which you create which is external of yourself and your body. 

What do we desire? More power. But how do we gain more power, and for what?

Interesting visions:

Besides physics, all opinions are equally legitimate and different.

My ideas, thoughts and theories:

Dear friend,

I just taught my first two online photography workshops on creativity and had soooo much fun. Some lessons and ideas which can re-spark passion in you:

Give birth to new life, and look forward to new life!

ERIC

ERIC
not a cleric
Just a curious mind

ERIC
someone who likes to shout and blare it
And likes to stare it in the eye.

Someone who likes to pursue the distasteful and forbidden
Someone who is risen and reawoken from his matrix slumber

Lightning and thunder, rifts and drifts. Strong muscles to lift the dead from the ground.

The sound is booming the skies are looming
The flowers are blooming
Pluck new flowers everyday and spray your creative mind info then air
No despair, only hope

Share your dopeness with others; this is the goal. With your fellow brothers and mothers.

ERIC

This means:

You can and want to do it all yourself!