Selfie photo assignment.

What do you gotta do? Just leave your apartment and home, and document your journey!

Statues– a good source of artistic inspiration and motivation.

Look at more nature… the ultimate visual stimuli.

Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, but not all opinions are of equal worth, weight. There is a hierarchy of opinion.

When in doubt, keep moving!

Google Arts and Culture app— my new favorite muse.

Why is it that the female form fascinates me so much? Some thoughts —

Why I prefer to live in cold (and warm) climates:

Writing — a tool to impute your thoughts into the external world.

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Dear friend,

A thought —

How can we be inspired to make art during COVID-19?

Some thoughts:

Totally a ‘low-brow’ film, but one of my new favorites.

Why Do People Think Porn is Bad?

We want to be happier … but towards what end?

What if covid-19 is the best thing we can do for our lives and creativity?

In today’s brave new world … with COVID and everything, it seems the only way to thrive is to be brave. And the good thing with bravery — we can actually control how much bravery we exhibit!

Right now living in COVID-19, it is almost as if we are living on a spaceship. Let me explain:

Why is being wasteful seen as an evil? Some thoughts:

Renaissance literally means ‘re-birth’. Thus … perhaps we can use this opportunity as a personal re-birth or re-baptism of our artistic genius!

Studying Renaissance art using iPad and Google ‘Arts & Culture’ app. [Download on Google Play, or Apple App Store].

The principle for our digital lives:

Never stop creating, sharing, uploading. Keep the stream flowing!

Hyper nutrition. To become bigger, stronger, more!

Let this thought be the starting point.

Composition is a Game. Like all games … don’t take it too seriously! Just have fun! :)

The fun joy with shooting layers:

A visual challenge, joy, interest, and game!

A positive photo thought!

If there is no ultimate purpose to existence… isn’t this insanely awesome? This means that you can do anything you want, and you DON’T need to do anything you don’t want to do.

Shouldn’t this encourage us to do more of what we care for, and not do anything we don’t care for … assuming no morality and ethics and ultimate purpose in life?

Move to become more powerful, to procure more power, influence, impact. To move more is for us to become happier, more joyful, and stronger!

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The artist– we share our perspective, our point of view (POV).

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No difference between the two. The question —

When I experience a piece of art, how does it affect my muscles?

We all talk about composition , but why never the negative or opposite — decomposition?

Let your muscles judge and guide your art and art creation. Also, judge an art work based on the effect of it on your body — your muscles, your physiology, whether it physically moves and motivates you!

What I like about the working hard ethos;; we have control over our destiny. We can have pride that we are self-made.

What do we lack? Artistic self-confidence. How do we augment this? Some thoughts.

I have insanely high self-esteem. How and why? Some thoughts:

Are you living to die, or are you dying to live?

What are we trying to do as artists? Seeking the sublime, creating the sublime. Seeking sublime art works, music, images, poetry, ideas, and thoughts. To float higher and beyond.

I allowed myself to become a child again!

An update:

Expanding on the game theory of life:

What inspires and moves me? Music and philosophy.

Are you dying to live or are you living to die?

There ain’t nothing wrong with you. So why try to “improve” or “change” yourself into something else?

In my last essay on happiness, my takeaway was this:

Happiness ain’t the ultimate goal. Happiness is simply as a MEANS to creative productivity and power.

I am very happy. I can tell you some of my personal thoughts on the philosophy of happiness:

Why am I so motivated? How do I motivate myself? My thoughts:

What is the greatest gift of existence? Of being alive!

The world is your own gym and playground!

Pop photography — remix your photos at will!

What does it mean to be a great man?

Utilitarianism is a bad philosophy. Let me share why:

ENCORE! The prior workshop (a day before, on Saturday) quickly sold out, so to accommodate for the demand, I propose this workshop. Don’t miss your chance!

Ethics — perhaps the notion of treating others how you would like to be treated is a bad one. Perhaps the notion of the golden rule isn’t great.

My thoughts:

How do you know if you’re eating too much or little? My thoughts:

Channel your soul and impute it into your art works.

You can only become positive if you’re survived and thrived from the deepest darks and negatives. My scars and stoic skin is what made me so positive.

The ultimate optimistic thought!

Dear fellow streettogs,

Right now is hard. But know you’re harder. Some practical ideas on how to re-motivate yourself during these difficult times:

Some money thoughts:

Things which help me:

My thought:

The future of travel will be more 360 videos, augmented reality, virtual reality.

Things will never be the same. Perhaps instead of waiting for things to get back “to the way they used to be”, it is about adapting to this BRAVE NEW WORLD … and for us to also learn how to profit/benefit from these uncertain times.

The future– hybrid of both photography AND video.

Simple ideas:

Is it better to have a strong or weak personality? Strong of course!

Discover beauty in everything and anything.