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MY BLOGGING PHILOSOPHY
Brave new world of blogging, publishing, creating, sharing, and building:
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PREFER YOUR OWN ARTWORK
The ultimate test:
do you enjoy looking more at your own artwork, or the artwork of others?
The goal: prefer looking at your own artwork, your own body, your own face, your own self above others!
Remixing your own artwork
Kyoto, 2017 #cindyproject 
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BUILD OR BUY?
More fun to build, make, modify, customize, or transfigure stuff than to buy stuff!
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YOU ARE THE HERO!
We are all into superhero movies and such. But what if your own life were a movie, and YOU were the hero?
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BRAVERY AND COURAGE IS EVERYTHING
WHAT IS IN YOUR CONTROL? The ability to exert courage and bravery. Also, to NOT exert cowardice.
Everything else is up to lady fate.
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BECOME THE BEST YOU CAN BE
You are your own ultimate self-experiment. See how far you can take yourself:
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DAMAGE AS THE STIMULUS TO GROWTH
How do we grow? My theory:
(more…)When you damage yourself, your body learns to re-build itself, and become STRONGER than it was before [super-compensation].
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WHY BE HEALTHY?
Health isn’t as a duty to society. Rather — health as a means to maximize your own personal power and creative power!
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THE NEW SOCIAL CLASS
A brave new world of social class:
The apex social class might have less cash, but more freedom over their life.
Lawyers, bankers, programmers who get paid lots of money ($200k a year) but who have NO freedom over their lives and schedules are the new slave class.
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BARBELL PHILOSOPHY TO LIFE
A-la Nassim Taleb’s idea:
To live a greater life, embrace the ‘barbell’ strategy and philosophy to life.
For example:
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EMBRACE SHITTY EQUIPMENT!
What holds us back? The nagging thought:
If I only had equipment x, y, or z — I could become a greater, more inspired, and more productive creator.
This is false.
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REAL OR FAKE PEOPLE?
Real people: People in ’embodied reality’.
Fake people: People in a screen.
Which do you prefer?
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WHY EMPOWER OTHERS?
When we empower others, we see a bit of ourselves in others.
When we empower others, we are technically empowering ourselves.
To see and treat others as ourselves — isn’t this the thought that can change the world for the better?
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DON’T CHANGE YOURSELF!
Naturally we are always changing. But don’t change yourself according to the idealized vision of others.
Instead, be proud of who you are. Your goal:
(more…)Continue to augment MORE of yourself!
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WHAT ARE YOUR HARD LIMITS?
Perhaps life is more fun and interesting when we self-posit an interesting life goal, and strive with all our strength to discover what our limit is. Then striving to SUPERSEDE that limit?
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NARCISSISM VIDEO
Perhaps being narcissistic and being into yourself can be one of the best things you can do:
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POWER PHOTOGRAPHY
What’s the best form of photography? Photography which adds power to you and others.
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SWIM UPSTREAM OR DOWNSTREAM?
In life if you got the option, would you prefer to swim upstream or downstream?
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HOW TO CONQUER YOUR SHYNESS
Shyness as something that can be trained, overcome, and conquered!
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WHY POWERLIFTING WILL IMPROVE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY
To improve your photography, start powerlifting.
Powerlifting [deadlift, squats] to strengthen your legs, and more!
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HOW TO CONQUER SHYNESS
In modern society, being shy is a huge disadvantage. Becoming less shy comes through training. Real thoughts:
- Start powerlifting. More testosterone means more social confidence.
- Test your limits. Strike up small talk with all strangers who you meet, and see if you can use words or phrases which make you seem interesting to them.
- Don’t censor yourself. Say what’s on your mind without obeying political correctness.
- Start off by asking everyone you interact with, “How you doing?” And when they ask you, don’t give a fake response.
- Make eye contact with strangers and smile! Say hello. Ask strangers for their hand and shake their hand.
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THE INDIVIDUAL > THEIR ARTWORK
What are we more interested in — the individual or their art?
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BRAVE NEW WORLD OF BLOGGING
We are about to enter a BRAVE NEW WORLD of blogging, and creation on the internet.
My thoughts and vision:
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MARKET YOURSELF
The best person to market yourself — not someone else’s product or brand — market yourself!
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WHY I WORK
I work as an existential thing. My work produces meaning in my life. Also, being able to share my work with you is what makes my life worth living:
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I AM STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
I am street photography. You are street photography. We are all street photography.
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1 HOUR: ERIC KIM STREET PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP: CONQUER YOUR FEARS OF SHOOTING STREET PORTRAITS
Just gave a quick and free workshop here in Providence, Rhode Island — sharing some quick ideas, tips, and pointers on shooting street portraits (and philosophy on street photography and people):
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MY WORKOUT, FITNESS, POWERLIFTING PHILOSOPHY, METHOD, AND THOUGHTS: BEAUTIFY YOUR OWN BODY
What new discoveries can you make about yourself and your own body?
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WHY VLOGGING HAS IMPROVED MY THINKING
Vlogging has improved my thinking:
I think better as I talk.
And with vlogging, I can walk and talk — the ultimate hybrid.
Also, talking is 1000x more efficient/effective than typing.
Lesson for myself:
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OBEY YOUR OPINION
To reach your own personal artistic apex, obey yourself, your own opinion!
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LEVEL UP YOURSELF
If life is an RPG, the funnest goal is to strive to level up yourself to the maximum, and BEYOND the maximum!
Discover “missing noâ€
In Pokémon, there was a hack and glitch in which you can fight a glitch called “missing no†(missing number), which allowed you to catch Pokémon BEYOND level 99 (the maximum level of a Pokémon monster in the game). For example, I remember catching a Snorlax which was level 255.
The basic notion was that there was a “glitch†in the system which allowed you to go BEYOND the system. Perhaps like Kanye said,
I’m like the glitch in wreck it Ralph!
If reality is the game, we should delight on being a glitch or a “mutantâ€. Perhaps this is what will allow us to go BEYOND being just a “normal†person. The goal is to become a HYPER human.
Become the glitch!
Glitch society! Go “off codeâ€. Don’t follow social conventions or norms!
Treat yourself like the ultimate life experiment. Strive to see the limits of the human body (powerlifting), and also the limits of artistic digital creation!
