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Street photography as courage. Photography philosophy as embodied life. A living archive by ERIC KIM.

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Photo essay / Feb 18, 2023

Muscles can conquer all

With strong enough muscles, you can do anything and everything! Therefore, if you desire to become more motivated, productive, have more willpower, invest in your muscles!

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Photo essay / Feb 18, 2023

Become Uber-Productive

This should be the tagline for Uber; by using Uber, you could do more, be more productive, live more, etc.

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Photo essay / Feb 18, 2023

Nobody cares for awards

For example, if Apple TV were smart, the way they would market their shows and series and movies by not talking about how many awards they win.

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Photo essay / Feb 18, 2023

Merit based hierarchy

My ideal for America is that there is a hierarchy, however, it is only predicated on merit, effort and courage.

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Photo essay / Feb 18, 2023

Justice and injustice

A lesson from Nassim Taleb; if overtime, you become angrier, that means that injustice has been dealt to you. Lesson: anger should not be an emotion which should be expiated, rather, anger is the …

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Photo essay / Feb 18, 2023

Carte blanche ethics and morality

The more I think about it, traditional Christian morality, protestant ethics, Catholic ethics, quaker Victorian ideals of America are bad. Moral of the story; start unlearning and disintegrating them from your moral fiber and …

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Photo essay / Feb 18, 2023

NEW CLOTHING CONCEPTS

For example, wearing a compression shirt as a base layer, and then just wearing another T-shirt on top of it.

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Photo essay / Feb 18, 2023

Megapsychon

The great mind, the great soul. From the good old Aristotle.

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Photo essay / Feb 18, 2023

iPad Over iPhone

What is the purpose and point of an iPhone nowadays anyways? Good things: FaceTime (can be done on iPad or laptop), Google Maps (can be done on Android). Also, even if you don’t own …

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Photo essay / Feb 17, 2023

MEGALOMANIAC.

Better to be a megalomaniac than be “realistic” and average.

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Photo essay / Feb 17, 2023

Don’t apologize.

When we apologize — technically, we didn’t know we were in the “wrong”. Thus apologizing does nothing. Also to apologize as a sign of weakness — simply fear of retribution? Also — don’t have …

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