In Praise of Shooting Macro Videos
Lately one of my new fun hobbies and passions in photography and video:
Shooting macro videos on my RICOH GR III of everyday stuff.
For example:
…What Do We Entrepreneurs *Really* Want?
Also notions on “true” entrepreneurship vs “vain” entrepreneurship.
…16 Inch MacBook Pro Touch Bar Unboxing and First Impressions by ERIC KIM
Quick thoughts:
- Not as heavy as I thought it would be. Feels only marginally heavier than my 13” MacBook Pro Touch Bar. Perhaps in this new COVID world where we won’t be traveling as much, it seems like it makes more sense to get a (refurbished) 16” MacBook Pro Touch Bar instead of getting the 13” MacBook Pro Touch Bar.
- The keyboard feels much better than the 13” MacBook Pro Touch Bar. More key travel equals less carpal tunnel for typing (sad truth I get carpal tunnel and wrist and finger pain when typing on my 13” MacBook Pro Touch Bar for too long).
- The screen seems substantively brighter (at max brightness) when compared to 13” MacBook Pro Touch Bar. I can notice the difference and it is good.
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You Were Destined to Do Great Things
Fuck it you only got one life to live. Why waste any of it thinking small, doing small, being afraid, and taking no risks? Let us not be fooled my friends… the best life is the life with the maximum amount of risk, the maximum amount of insanity, and the maximum amount of attempting (to ‘essay’ or ‘assay’ the great!)
…CONTROL.
A realization:
It isn’t money, power, fame, or notoriety I desire… but control.
Control over myself, control over my decisions, control to do what I want to do, and control to *NOT* do what I don’t want to do.
…Magnanimous Virtue
Don’t expect others to treat you the way you treat them.
This then means:
You are a magnanimous monster of great and highly virtue. If others act petty around you; don’t let it faze you.
You just do you (meaning, you pursue your epic virtue for the sake of it and for the sake of yourself!
ERIC
Life is All Upside, No Downside
New thought:
Life is too short. Let’s put ourselves in a robust (antifragile) stoic position that nothing any longer fazes us.
Car as a Second Home or Work Place
A thought and realization:
With COVID and beyond, the car becomes an external skin (like the Iron Man armor). It becomes a second home and a new mobile work space.
So perhaps when it comes for you to buy a car consider:
If I became homeless, could I live and work out of my car?
Perhaps the new millennial way to work and live: just live out of your car!
Life Share
A new thought and social innovation idea:
…We do home share (Airbnb) we do car share (Uber); why not life share?
Just Share Your Photos on Your Own Blog
Uber-simple approach to sharing your photos:
…Just share your own photos on your own blog!
In Praise of Play
In life if you approached it like it were all fun and games … wouldn’t you be happier, more productive, more creative and more passionate about living?
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Eternal Re-Creation
Just read a bit of the book, ‘Aristotle’s Way‘ (published by Penguin/Random House) and really liked the section and chapter on leisure, as well as the conclusion. The gist:
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In Praise of Playing with Kids
For the most part, I FAAAR prefer interacting and playing with kids than adults. Why? We have soooo much more to learn from children:
- Their phenomenal sense of creativity, disregard for rules and ‘social tact’. They speak what is *really* on their mind.
- I wonder if children (if we observe their thought patterns and behaviors, etc) are the more *true* form of human being. The modern adult as simply a castrated, domesticated (herd) animal. Children are like wild beasts; is this our primal nature?
Why Stability?
Why not rather instability?
Consider … if an object is uber-stable and at rest, it is boring. No motivation to move, advance or do anything. Whereas instability means:
…Move, change, advancement forwards.
The 10 Year Rule
Do anything for 10 years with passion, enthusiasm and zest and you will master it. For me this includes photography, blogging, lifting weights, talking, traveling, and teaching.
Why RICOH GR III is the Best Camera
I am convinced. RICOH GR III is the best camera of all time (thus far). Why? Reasons:
- The smallest size of all time, and the most premium. Smaller than even the great RICOH GR II, with better performance. Also lighter. The smaller and lighter your camera, the more you will carry it with you everywhere you go and the more you will shoot. And for us photographers, to make *new* photos is our lifeblood.
- The best JPEG files: Cross process filter on JPEG is phenomenal. So is the high contrast black and white monochrome mode. You will never need to shoot RAW ever again!!
- Shoots great videos and is perfect for vlogging.
- The best price. You cannot beat the ‘bang for the buck‘ compared to any other camera on the market.
- The sharpest photos. Sharpest photos… even more sharp than digital Leica photos! Also the resolution of the JPEG files are huge (6000 x 4000 pixels). You can print insanely huge, and also pixel peep a ton as well (if you want).
- Charges via USB-C: This means you can use your MacBook Pro charger to recharge your Ricoh GR III … insanely useful.
Long story short, get RICOH GR III.
ERIC
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Who is ERIC KIM?
Who is ERIC KIM? Why is he so opinionated? Where does he come from? What does he want?
…The Whitewashing of Society
First of all I don’t believe in “white” people. This makes no sense. I’m actually more pale and more “white” in skin tone than many Caucasian people (the more accurate term for a “white” person) as a Korean.
So when I talk about “white washing”, what do I mean? I mean it is like applying bleach to anything which is saucy, interesting, enjoysome and “racy” and “inappropriate” in life to make it acceptable and “wholesome” to essentially placate over-protective parents, paternalistic members of the elite intelligentsia, and also to placate advertisers.
…Why Make Money Online?
It seems the pipe dream for everyone is to “make money online” and to gain “passive income” online.
But why? Towards what ends?
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Autotelic Photography
Auto telic: to do something for the sake of it. Telos— purpose or aim. Auto (done by yourself, pursued by yourself).
Thus if we approached photography from this autotelic perspective, we would be far more happy, creative and productive as photographers and visual artists!
…All News is Fake News
What is “fake”? It means to rob, swindle, or to “spruce up with artificial means”. Thus in this regard, all news is “fake” news. Yes this includes Google News, New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, Atlantic and every form of mainstream (and underground) news.
All news is polished and spruced up not for “journalistic integrity” but towards what news agencies really want — more advertising revenue.
