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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 / Dec 30, 2022

The Decisive Decade

The US military department of defense concept and strategy (PDF). National Defense Strategy—

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Photo essay / Dec 30, 2022

How Fashion is Bad

people want to buy beautiful clothes in order to become beautiful, but in fact, the only beauty is the body, your own human body. Instead of spending all that money on fashion, beautiful clothes, …

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Photo essay / Dec 30, 2022

How to Build a Demigod Bod

In order to build a demigod body, some simple thoughts and strategies: Why demigod bod? There are certain things which are in our control, and certain things which are not in our control. One …

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Photo essay / Dec 30, 2022

My New Favorite Clothes

Lululemon clearance (we made too much) stuff — Paypal checkout through the Lululemon.com website is insanely frictionless!

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Photo essay / Dec 30, 2022

Wear Size Small Tshirts

Shows off your muscles better. Also the added benefit of feeling your muscles bulging, expanding under your shirt. A good motivator to keep lifting, working out, and getting even more swole?

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Photo essay / Dec 30, 2022

The Atlas Lift

Towards a new concept — the Atlas Lift: What is the concept? The concept is simple: Load up the barbell on a squat rack, and just see the maximal heavy weight you can lift …

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Photo essay / Dec 30, 2022

Pressing Motions are Bad?

They call it weight-lifting, not weight-pressing. Theory — Lifting exercises are good (rack pull, atlas lift), pressing motions are bad? (bench press, dumbbell press, floor press?)

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Photo essay / Dec 30, 2022

LIT LIFTS

700 pound atlas lift: 7 plates and beyond, 700 pounds and beyond is lit:

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Photo essay / Dec 29, 2022

How to Become More Social

Become more social, become happier, stronger, and more! PODCAST VIDEO It is my personal thought in today’s world, to be social is a virtue. If you think about it, all success stems from the …

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Photo essay / Dec 29, 2022

Blasphemy

To deceive. -(S)mel— erroneous. Also (s)mal— small, little.

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Photo essay / Dec 29, 2022

Why T-shirt

When atlas squat hold lifting 700 pounds with my sleeves rolled up sleeveless, the bar was so heavy that it digged into my shoulders and rubbed off some skin. Lesson — tshirt is good …

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Photo essay / Dec 29, 2022

FLESH IN THE GAME.

Put your flesh at risk, at danger — at the front lines to take damage. You’re the defender, the avenger.

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Photo essay / Dec 29, 2022

BECOME INDOMINABLE.

Adrenaline in me like I got injected (Big Sean) Nothing can conquer me! 700 Pound Squat Leg Lift 700 and beyond:

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Photo essay / Dec 28, 2022

Meat is the Ultimate Health Food

Why? It promotes the most “wellness”. Also a heuristic and rule of thumb — Whenever someone tells you to eat this thing because it is “good” for you or “healthy”, it isn’t. Vegetables are …

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Photo essay / Dec 28, 2022

Barbell Emotions

Either give them 100% pure love and care and soul, or 100% ignoring their existence.

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Photo essay / Dec 28, 2022

Monster Challenges

Once I have tackled a certain monster of a challenge, I seek even a greater challenge. Even more monster of a challenge.

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Photo essay / Dec 28, 2022

How to Affect the World

Even wearing an insanely bright neon yellow, neon green, neon pink/magenta shirt– you will affect external visual reality and others!

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Photo essay / Dec 28, 2022

GYM ASMR

Good background noise: RACK PULL PODCAST VIDEO 665 pound rack pull audio ATLAS HOLD PODCAST VIDEO 695 pound squat hold // atlas hold lift audio

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Photo essay / Dec 28, 2022

Man

If you are a man, know that you’re a man.

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Photo essay / Dec 28, 2022

Polytheism?

What happened once society, philosophy, and thinking shifted more towards a monotheistic one?

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Photo essay / Dec 28, 2022

Superficial vs Deep

Avoid superficial thoughts, or superficial differentiation. What we must do it is dive insanely deep.

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Photo essay / Dec 28, 2022

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO LOOK LIKE?

Not like Elon Musk — he doesn’t look well. Arms look weak and flabby, and looks like he is getting a bit of a gut. And his face doesn’t look well either — look …

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Photo essay / Dec 27, 2022

Design Over Performance

A thought on design, especially in the context of sports cars, it is all about the design, not the performance. We humans are emotional beings, and we are often led by irrational things. For …

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Photo essay / Dec 27, 2022

How to Become Antifragile

What attempts to destroy you will only make you stronger. Antifrafile vlog What is anti-fragility? One of the most formative books that I’ve read in my life was anti-fragile by Nassim Taleb. Not only …

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