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Some of my favorite street photos:











As parents, we all want to make better photos of our kids. Some thoughts:
First of all, shoot a lot. For myself, I should maybe 300 to 200 photos of Seneca a day, extra small JPEG on my Ricoh GR 3X digital camera.
Second, macro mode. This means close focusing mode on your camera, focus on your ears, their eyes, their feet, their hands etc.
Third, shoot dynamic and interesting angles and perspectives. For example, should really really low angle, the superman effect. Put your camera on the floor, and shoot looking up.
Fourth, different surfaces, levels, and planes. For example photos are more dynamic if your kid is on an elevated surface, and you are lower, or vice versa.
Fifth, always have your camera in your front right pocket. This is the upside of the digital Ricoh GR 3X camera. It is always with you, so you will never miss another decisive moment again. For short, I recommend the Lululemon license to train shorts, as there are zippers in the front and the back.
Sixth, take your kid to fun urban places, places you would otherwise shoot street photography by yourself.
















































































































































































































































A thought; only do certain types of weightlifting at the gym which involves standing.
Rack pull, squat hold atlas lift.
Also, practice walking with Vibram five finger shoes, or barefoot. My thought of a a lot of poor modern day posher comes from the fact that people wear shoes with soles in them.
I confess, God in the flesh, turn churches into arenas. – JAY Z
Getting rich is super simple; just don’t waste money.
Yes, you are important. Your thoughts, your ideas, your creative ideas, your innovations, etc. Your ideas can be a gift and a blessing to humankind. It is your duty to share these ideas, innovations with others.
First and foremost, I do not think human importance is a zero sum thing. I personally believe that every single human being, irregardless of their background, etc. is important. That means, you are an interesting amalgamation of your life experiences, your thoughts, the ideas you learned while interacting with others, etc. You are a very interesting filter.
What makes the world go round? Ideas and money.
By publishing, sharing, and propagating your thoughts, leveraging technology and your connections etc., you empower humankind, by individually sparking ideas, a little shot of motivation and turbocharging others.
For example, this is my basic thought:
If your idea, ideas, your blog post, your article, your book, your video or vlog, email newsletter, etc., can inspire, motivate, change the mind, or empower at least one other human being on planet earth, you’ve done your job.
To share, to publish, to propagate yourself and things is a great act of courage.
Let us consider, everything that you share is your own opinion, your own artwork, your own creative work, etc. For the most part, I do not believe there is any sort of objective value in ideas or art. It is all subjective.
Why is it that all of these nerds, and weaklings on the internet want to attempt or ascribe an objective value to things? Because these skinny fat losers are afraid of things like uncertainty, chaos, randomness, disorder, etc. Even that Jordan Peterson guy (the anti disorder and chaos guy) seems to be lacking in the courage department.
“I got so many zenemies†(Big Sean, ZTFO ZEN THE FUCK OUT)
A recent realization that I’ve gleaned, spending time in the gym is that actually, a lot of people who pretend to be your friend, or kind of nice to you, or you’re kind of nice to them, end up becoming your frenemies. A frenemy is a friend and an enemy and one.
For example, anyone who is a “hater“ is not a hater. They are a frenemy. Why? Anybody who hates on you actually knows quite a lot about you. In their hate is a mix of admiration, love and respect, yet confusion, and self dissatisfaction. The psychology of a hater:
They love you, adore you, and desire your affection. Or your attention, yet you do not give it to them.
For example, the psychology of a high school or college student, in regards to a pretty girl they desire.
They are obsessed with a pretty girl at school, and they want their love and affection. Yet, they are unable to obtain it. Then soon this love turns into disdain, and hate for that girl, because of the sour grapes fallacy, because I cannot obtain the affection of that pretty girl, I end up finding ways to hate her.
The first number one most critical thing in becoming a creator or publisher is having the courage to share your thoughts and ideas with others. How do you become more courageous in this regard? Some practical suggestions:
First and foremost, something that nobody likes to think of; I believe that courage is a physiological thing. That courage actually stems from the physical. For example, let us assume that you only slept two hours last night, and your health is very poor. You will not have a lot of courage, to do anything. Whether it be social, physical, or even creative. Therefore the first priority is to improve your physiology.
To improve your physiology, ensure that you slept at least 8 to 12 hours. If you need a hard reset, during the day, go to the gym, lift insanely heavy weights, hypelifting. Very very heavy rack pull, and atlas lift, one rep max. Even if you’re up for it, workout at least twice in the day; one session is weightlifting at the gym, another session is doing yoga at the local CorePower studio.
For dinner, strive to eat at least two racks of beef ribs, buy it at the local Costco business center. There is no way in hell you could be insomnia after that.
There are a few ways to think about this.
First and foremost, when you share your ideas, thoughts, innovation, creative ideas etc., it gives you a boost of self power. There is certainly a self boost when it comes to propagating and sharing your wealth with others.
For example, giving a big cash tip at a restaurant, or to your server. If you are able to be rich enough to give your server a $20 bill, a $50 bill, or even $100 bill as a tip, you are actually signaling your strength your power and how rich you are. In this regard, being able to flex your wealth is a positively good thing. Why? When other people need money more than you do, what that means then is you are doing a virtuous thing; you are helping the server or the person pay their bills, and also, you are boosting your own self-esteem and ego.
Also another simple thing; perhaps it is a good idea to have an insanely cheap car, and then save all of your US dollars, or your money to do other social virtuous things. Once again, let us say that you inherited your mom’s 2009 Hyundai Sonata for free, it only cost you $2000 to fix and update everything, then, consider that you have at least $40,000 to innovate, to share, and to propagate.
Even though I am very pro Tesla, Elon Musk, etc., I have zero interest in personally owning a Tesla car. Why? It is too expensive. The only thing that I might be interested in is leasing the cheapest base model 3 car, if indeed, the autopilot that it is included with will really help with the hateful 405 stop and go traffic. But the truly intelligent thing to do is to structure your life and architect it in such a way that you don’t even need to commute. I just saved you $50,000.
What will last longer than YouTube? Your own website.
I started my website and my blog in 2009. It has changed, refined, and grew and evolved with me over these many years, up to the present moment in 2023. I believe I started it as a high school senior about to enter his college freshman year, and now, at the age of 35, it is serving me well, even with my about to be two year old son.
I have in my short tenure, seen many things come and go. Xanga, MySpace, LiveJournal, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.
Even now; Instagram seems to be at a standstill, and you see modest growth in TikTok. YouTube is here to stay, but beyond that, not much else.
Building your own website is the only way to ensure a more prosperous future for yourself, and others.
All blogs are websites, not all websites are blogs.
A blog is simply short for web log, that is, you simply log your activities and your thoughts and your creative stuff on your website, on the Internet.
We can think of a blog as a website 2.0. The critical flaw of most websites is that they are almost never updated. They seem to be some sort of static front forward facing thing, to brand and market yourself, and your accomplishments and accolades. Yet, we disdain the static. We love new novelty and dynamic things.
Some new thoughts:
The first one is don’t focus on a small and narrow niche. Maybe from the get-go, it is a good idea to just blog, Vlog, and share your thoughts on anything and everything.
For example, my personal interests are infinite. Not only am I passionate about photography, street photography, art, creativity, I am also passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, industrial design, fitness and health, weight lifting, muscle, bodybuilding, meat, etc.
In fact, I think I was a philosopher ever since I was 12 years old. Ever since I was 12, I was always curious about questions about life like the meaning of life, how to become more productive, how to become less distracted and more focused, and how to live the best life possible.
The benefit and upside of just writing and publishing about anything and everything is that it signals to others that you are a diverse, interesting, and multifaceted individual. The reason why we feel this pressure to just stay within a small niche is that we want to pre-package ourselves to be made understandable and decipherable by others. Because when we step outside of the box, and do other things, people often get confused and scared.
For example, I consider myself the nicest guy of all time. I am insanely friendly, kind, greet everybody, and treat everybody with respect. Yet every once in a while, when I am insanely focused, I give an insane cold shoulder and don’t acknowledge the existence of others. Not because I want to be mean, but because I’m just so focused and I don’t want to be disturbed. When I act this way, people at the gym or typically greet, get a little bit confused, and scared. Perhaps this is good.
Also, 99.9% of the time I’m always happy, jovial and silly. Yet the .01% of the time I get really really angry, full of fury, others know to respect me.
The future is websites. And the Internet.
If you want honest feedback and critique on your physique, and your muscles, upload your selfie flexing photos to arsbeta.com
TURBOCHARGE YOURSELF:
Experiences never die.
PEEP THE EK SHOP
If this sparked even one interesting idea with in yourself, feel free to forward it to a friend!
A good epiphany and turbo thought recently:
Perhaps the point of life is to use your life, human metabolism and physiology to innovate, advanced, create knowledge and share, in order to help advance the human race!
Real men drive Hyundai Sonatas!
Also, currently the most interesting car on the market is the Hyundai ELANTRA N.
Porsche 911 cars, even the 911 GT3 RS is for losers.
Maybe if you have the money, and you love Porsche, just get the 911 Dakar instead.
Right now looks like a good time to go all in on the Tesla stock. News is that the cybertruck will come out this summer, which will totally dominate the whole truck industry; consider how much money people spend on the Ford F150 cars, the Ford raptors, etc.
Also some thing that my brother-in-law Gabe told me which was really interesting is that we shouldn’t think of Tesla as a car company, but rather, an artificial intelligence and data company. It seems that the Tesla auto pilot technology is still at least 1000 times better than any of their competitors.
Also, it seems that the whole Overlanding movement is a substantive one. Imagine all of these tech nerds and rich Silicon Valley single guys who will buy a cyber truck, get a star link, and just live off the grid.
Stay tuned on the EK BLOG — every time you bookmark it, and refresh it, I can guarantee you that you’ll see something new.
EK TURBO BLOG: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/
Huge shout out to Apple and the operating system team; do not disturb mode as one of the best innovations of all time.
Perhaps it is a good idea to always be in do not disturb mode:

My prediction is that muscle, fitness, aesthetics in regards to the human body is the future.
Funny enough, recently, I’ve been getting a lot of compliments on my physique, and how “lean“ I am.




First and foremost, get a Ricoh GR 3X digital camera. Because it has no anti-aliasing filter, it is so insanely sharp, and capture so much detail, it is insane.
Secondly, lighting. Ideally you want high contrast. To be able to see all the depth and definition in your muscles.
Third, do a combination of both still photos as well as videos. I think having both is a good way to double dip into getting the best videos and photos of yourself. Don’t use an iPhone or an iPhone Pro.
The fourth idea is use a GoPro mini, and shoot 1080 P, 24 FPS. Ultra Wide mode. Why? I think it is a good thing to actually exaggerate, accentuate, and distort how buff you really are.
Fifth, experiment with different lighting set ups. Use natural light, or artificial light, soft and diffuse light, or harsh and direct light. Experiment is all. Also, just flex outside in the direct sun.




















The upside of having kids.
Conquering insomnia is relatively straightforward. Some ideas and suggestions:
First and foremost, do a hard caffeine stop after 12 o’clock noon, afternoon midday. I know there is a lot of people who say that caffeine doesn’t affect them, I think it still does. This means that after 12 o’clock noon, or 11 AM, stop drinking coffee, caffeinated tea, energy drinks, etc.
Second, workout at least twice a day. During the day, go to the gym at least once, and lift insanely heavy lifts, one rep max style. HYPELIFTING.
There are many different types of lifts you could do at the gym, which include—
Also
A simple thought: if what you create and publish and share can help inspire, motivate, and affect the soul of one other human being on the planet earth, you’ve done your job.
Yes, you are important. Your thoughts, your ideas, your creative ideas, your innovations, etc. Your ideas can be a gift and a blessing to humankind. It is your duty to share these ideas, innovations with others.
First and foremost, I do not think human importance is a zero sum thing. I personally believe that every single human being, irregardless of their background, etc. is important. That means, you are an interesting amalgamation of your life experiences, your thoughts, the ideas you learned while interacting with others, etc. You are a very interesting filter.
What makes the world go round? Ideas and money.
By publishing, sharing, and propagating your thoughts, leveraging technology and your connections etc., you empower humankind, by individually sparking ideas, a little shot of motivation and turbocharging others.
For example, this is my basic thought:
If your idea, ideas, your blog post, your article, your book, your video or vlog, email newsletter, etc., can inspire, motivate, change the mind, or empower at least one other human being on planet earth, you’ve done your job.
To share, to publish, to propagate yourself and things is a great act of courage.
Let us consider, everything that you share is your own opinion, your own artwork, your own creative work, etc. For the most part, I do not believe there is any sort of objective value in ideas or art. It is all subjective.
Why is it that all of these nerds, and weaklings on the internet want to attempt or ascribe an objective value to things? Because these skinny fat losers are afraid of things like uncertainty, chaos, randomness, disorder, etc. Even that Jordan Peterson guy (the anti disorder and chaos guy) seems to be lacking in the courage department.
“I got so many zenemies†(Big Sean, ZTFO ZEN THE FUCK OUT)
A recent realization that I’ve gleaned, spending time in the gym is that actually, a lot of people who pretend to be your friend, or kind of nice to you, or you’re kind of nice to them, end up becoming your frenemies. A frenemy is a friend and an enemy and one.
For example, anyone who is a “hater“ is not a hater. They are a frenemy. Why? Anybody who hates on you actually knows quite a lot about you. In their hate is a mix of admiration, love and respect, yet confusion, and self dissatisfaction. The psychology of a hater:
They love you, adore you, and desire your affection. Or your attention, yet you do not give it to them.
For example, the psychology of a high school or college student, in regards to a pretty girl they desire.
They are obsessed with a pretty girl at school, and they want their love and affection. Yet, they are unable to obtain it. Then soon this love turns into disdain, and hate for that girl, because of the sour grapes fallacy, because I cannot obtain the affection of that pretty girl, I end up finding ways to hate her.
The first number one most critical thing in becoming a creator or publisher is having the courage to share your thoughts and ideas with others. How do you become more courageous in this regard? Some practical suggestions:
First and foremost, something that nobody likes to think of; I believe that courage is a physiological thing. That courage actually stems from the physical. For example, let us assume that you only slept two hours last night, and your health is very poor. You will not have a lot of courage, to do anything. Whether it be social, physical, or even creative. Therefore the first priority is to improve your physiology.
To improve your physiology, ensure that you slept at least 8 to 12 hours. If you need a hard reset, during the day, go to the gym, lift insanely heavy weights, hypelifting. Very very heavy rack pull, and atlas lift, one rep max. Even if you’re up for it, workout at least twice in the day; one session is weightlifting at the gym, another session is doing yoga at the local CorePower studio.
For dinner, strive to eat at least two racks of beef ribs, buy it at the local Costco business center. There is no way in hell you could be insomnia after that.
There are a few ways to think about this.
First and foremost, when you share your ideas, thoughts, innovation, creative ideas etc., it gives you a boost of self power. There is certainly a self boost when it comes to propagating and sharing your wealth with others.
For example, giving a big cash tip at a restaurant, or to your server. If you are able to be rich enough to give your server a $20 bill, a $50 bill, or even $100 bill as a tip, you are actually signaling your strength your power and how rich you are. In this regard, being able to flex your wealth is a positively good thing. Why? When other people need money more than you do, what that means then is you are doing a virtuous thing; you are helping the server or the person pay their bills, and also, you are boosting your own self-esteem and ego.
Also another simple thing; perhaps it is a good idea to have an insanely cheap car, and then save all of your US dollars, or your money to do other social virtuous things. Once again, let us say that you inherited your mom’s 2009 Hyundai Sonata for free, it only cost you $2000 to fix and update everything, then, consider that you have at least $40,000 to innovate, to share, and to propagate.
Even though I am very pro Tesla, Elon Musk, etc., I have zero interest in personally owning a Tesla car. Why? It is too expensive. The only thing that I might be interested in is leasing the cheapest base model 3 car, if indeed, the autopilot that it is included with will really help with the hateful 405 stop and go traffic. But the truly intelligent thing to do is to structure your life and architect it in such a way that you don’t even need to commute. I just saved you $50,000.
What will last longer than YouTube? Your own website.
I started my website and my blog in 2009. It has changed, refined, and grew and evolved with me over these many years, up to the present moment in 2023. I believe I started it as a high school senior about to enter his college freshman year, and now, at the age of 35, it is serving me well, even with my about to be two year old son.
I have in my short tenure, seen many things come and go. Xanga, MySpace, LiveJournal, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.
Even now; Instagram seems to be at a standstill, and you see modest growth in TikTok. YouTube is here to stay, but beyond that, not much else.
Building your own website is the only way to ensure a more prosperous future for yourself, and others.
All blogs are websites, not all websites are blogs.
A blog is simply short for web log, that is, you simply log your activities and your thoughts and your creative stuff on your website, on the Internet.
We can think of a blog as a website 2.0. The critical flaw of most websites is that they are almost never updated. They seem to be some sort of static front forward facing thing, to brand and market yourself, and your accomplishments and accolades. Yet, we disdain the static. We love new novelty and dynamic things.
Some new thoughts:
The first one is don’t focus on a small and narrow niche. Maybe from the get-go, it is a good idea to just blog, Vlog, and share your thoughts on anything and everything.
For example, my personal interests are infinite. Not only am I passionate about photography, street photography, art, creativity, I am also passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, industrial design, fitness and health, weight lifting, muscle, bodybuilding, meat, etc.
In fact, I think I was a philosopher ever since I was 12 years old. Ever since I was 12, I was always curious about questions about life like the meaning of life, how to become more productive, how to become less distracted and more focused, and how to live the best life possible.
The benefit and upside of just writing and publishing about anything and everything is that it signals to others that you are a diverse, interesting, and multifaceted individual. The reason why we feel this pressure to just stay within a small niche is that we want to pre-package ourselves to be made understandable and decipherable by others. Because when we step outside of the box, and do other things, people often get confused and scared.
For example, I consider myself the nicest guy of all time. I am insanely friendly, kind, greet everybody, and treat everybody with respect. Yet every once in a while, when I am insanely focused, I give an insane cold shoulder and don’t acknowledge the existence of others. Not because I want to be mean, but because I’m just so focused and I don’t want to be disturbed. When I act this way, people at the gym or typically greet, get a little bit confused, and scared. Perhaps this is good.
Also, 99.9% of the time I’m always happy, jovial and silly. Yet the .01% of the time I get really really angry, full of fury, others know to respect me.
The future is websites. And the Internet.
If you want honest feedback and critique on your physique, and your muscles, upload your selfie flexing photos to arsbeta.com
TURBOCHARGE YOURSELF:
Experiences never die.
PEEP THE EK SHOP
If this sparked even one interesting idea with in yourself, feel free to forward it to a friend!
A good epiphany and turbo thought recently:
Perhaps the point of life is to use your life, human metabolism and physiology to innovate, advanced, create knowledge and share, in order to help advance the human race!
Real men drive Hyundai Sonatas!
Also, currently the most interesting car on the market is the Hyundai ELANTRA N.
Porsche 911 cars, even the 911 GT3 RS is for losers.
Maybe if you have the money, and you love Porsche, just get the 911 Dakar instead.
Right now looks like a good time to go all in on the Tesla stock. News is that the cybertruck will come out this summer, which will totally dominate the whole truck industry; consider how much money people spend on the Ford F150 cars, the Ford raptors, etc.
Also some thing that my brother-in-law Gabe told me which was really interesting is that we shouldn’t think of Tesla as a car company, but rather, an artificial intelligence and data company. It seems that the Tesla auto pilot technology is still at least 1000 times better than any of their competitors.
Also, it seems that the whole Overlanding movement is a substantive one. Imagine all of these tech nerds and rich Silicon Valley single guys who will buy a cyber truck, get a star link, and just live off the grid.
Stay tuned on the EK BLOG — every time you bookmark it, and refresh it, I can guarantee you that you’ll see something new.
EK TURBO BLOG: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/
As time goes on, and now that I got a kid, much more limited time and energy etc … my tolerance for BS is going waaaay down. Nowadays I got zero tolerance for the bullshit of others.
I really don’t know anyone else as interesting, inspired, aberrantly creative, unorthodox, contrarian, unusual, courageous, and socially brave as me.
What if narcissism were a virtue?



















Don’t go on road trips either with your car, better to either take the train, fly, or even take the bus.
Applies to cars — refrain from adding superfluous parts!
For example, unwise to add turbocharger to a car, because when you add a turbo charger, you have to add all these other components which creates more opportunities for breaking.
Even stock turbo charged car, like the Subaru WRX and the Subaru STI seem to be notorious for having turbo chargers which break or cause problems. Especially Audi cars with turbo chargers, almost always have problems. Perhaps then, all motor is best.
Stay away from unhappy people like the plague.
Can you shoot street photography on college and university campuses, and the adjoining areas? Yes you can!






































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































GoPro mini hero is insanely great! Love the heat sink in the back is insanely epicly beautiful!







Don’t think about what the ancients thought; obey what you believe in
Spend more time, more mind space, more time to think about yourself.
Think; what do you really want?
I think more bodybuilders, weight lifters, etc should use a GoPro mini for recording their muscles, flexing, progress, recording their workouts etc!
The real way to hype yourself up:
Perhaps not. In some ways, going from my iPad Pro (smaller, normal size, 11 inch, M1 chip) to the new MacBook Air M2 chip seems like a step backwards.
The MacBook Air — albeit extremely light, substantively heavier than my iPad Pro.
Also– the keyboard. Do you really need a keyboard anymore? I think not. Voice dictation as the future.
Or can I?
Just had a fun introduction to rock climbing (SENDER ONE, highly recommended), and some thoughts:
The real way men eat:
All the footage:
Large intestine and heart:
Beef liver and heart:
The way real men lift:
Super saiyan baby:
Just 2.5 pounds (on each side) short of the insanely epic 8 plates!
Anybody with a normal Costco membership can go to the Costco business center. I recommend getting the meaty beef ribs, only $2.99 a pound!
Also, get the kimchi there. The Jonga brand at the Costco business Center has no sugar added!
The more jagged, random, and various the better.
Maybe we can also apply this to a life philosophy; flat lives, predictable boring lives are bad. The more random, unexpected, uncertain your life, the better.
Pink purple clay.
This is why it is foolish to compare yourself or your kids with others.
From a marketing perspective, it is a very bad idea to try to compare yourself to the competition.
Why? It lowers you and your product. For example, I really like the new Hyundai ELANTRA N, but there is really no need to compare it to the Volkswagen GTI, etc.

Perhaps LA, Los Angeles is the future. Why? That is where all the pretty girls, the beautiful women, the beautiful humans are. Why? The center of Hollywood, stardom, media, entertainment.
Also, it seems that everyone prefers LA weather.
I am also starting to think that with tech and technology, we are at a bit of a standstill. Yet there is still much more innovation to be had in streaming services, media, entertainment, etc.
Prioritize sleep. 8-12 hours a night.
During day, lots of espressos and time outdoors in the direct sun! Lots of walking.
Life of maximal movement, dynamism. This most time outside the house.
Also I have a theory that spending more time outside, in the direct sun, walking around is actually better for your digestion. And according to eastern thought, digestion IS health.
Testing out the new MacBook Air M2 chip; insanely good! Insanely buttery smooth, and also with the M2 chip, Apple photos works insanely well!
The screen isn’t as bright as my 13 inch MacBook Pro Touch Bar, however it seems fine.
The keyboard on it feels pretty good.
Don’t stay put; keep expanding.
Not just for kids but also adults? Not working out, but play!
Lifting weights should be seen more is playing than anything else.
For supreme health, being outdoors, in the direct sun as much as humanly possible?
Don’t just stick within your narrow genre or niche; expand.
Life without expansion is a narrow, small and boring life.
To desire more is a virtue.
The question:
Is college (university) ‘worth it’?
Simple thoughts:
Cleave greater distances between yourself and base folks?
Same with your kid — cleave LARGER and GREATER distances between them and other ‘basic’ kids/babies.
Approach the world from a child’s mind, a child’s approach.
Not social media, not Facebook, not instagram, not twitter, not YouTube. Your own website blog platform or web platform!