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  • ARS FOTO

    ARS FOTO

    My vision for ARS FOTO; the art of photography.

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  • Why Were the Renaissance Artists so Good?

    Why Were the Renaissance Artists so Good?

    How did the renaissance artists accomplish so much more, and create so much more insanely epic art works than anything of modern day times … hundreds of years ago? With no computers, technology, internet, etc?

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  • HOW TO CREATE MORE

    HOW TO CREATE MORE

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  • ERIC KIM ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CREATIVITY WORKSHOP COMPOSITION ANALYSIS, PROCREATE, iPad, ZOOM

    ERIC KIM ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CREATIVITY WORKSHOP COMPOSITION ANALYSIS, PROCREATE, iPad, ZOOM

    Behind scenes of my online workshop; using Zoom, iPad, and Procreate to analyze, critique, and dissect images:

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  • WHY I’M SHOOTING PHOTOS DURING COVID

    WHY I’M SHOOTING PHOTOS DURING COVID

    Right now seems like a precarious time to be shooting photos. Why am I doing it? My rationale:

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  • Photo Composition Thoughts

    Photo Composition Thoughts

    If you make a good composition but unintentionally, is it still legitimate?

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  • 5 Secrets to Great Photography Composition

    5 Secrets to Great Photography Composition

    Dear friend,

    One of my great preoccupations in life is this:

    What is the secret of great composition? How can I make greater photo compositions?

    Some thoughts:

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  • The Devil is in the Details

    The Devil is in the Details

    Why details make for great photos:

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  • ERIC KIM Street Photography POV 4K: Construction Worker Layers COVID-19

    ERIC KIM Street Photography POV 4K: Construction Worker Layers COVID-19

    How I shoot:

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  • Think About Life BEYOND the Frame

    Think About Life BEYOND the Frame

    Reality exists outside and BEYOND the frame.

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  • The Secret of Great Composition

    The Secret of Great Composition

    Start with the human body and form.

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  • WHY ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOULD BUY AN IPAD

    WHY ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOULD BUY AN IPAD

    Better than buying any new camera, lens or photo tool!

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  • Photos are Not Sacred

    Photos are Not Sacred

    Fuck around with your photos as much as you’d like! Let us dispel this silly notion that a photo is sacred and shouldn’t be tampered with.

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  • ERIC KIM ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPOSITION WORKSHOP

    ERIC KIM ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPOSITION WORKSHOP

    Dear friend, I am very excited to announce my newest and upcoming photography composition workshop (Saturday, May 23rd, 2020, 12-2pm Eastern Time)— focused on the fundamentals of dynamic photography composition. More info:

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  • How to Analyze Your Own Photography Compositions

    How to Analyze Your Own Photography Compositions

    Your own photos are the most important photos:

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  • Do You Really Wanna Live a More Exciting Life?

    Do you really wanna live a more exciting life?

    And if so, why?

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  • Do You Prefer Real Life or Art of Real Life?

    Do You Prefer Real Life or Art of Real Life?

    Question:

    Do you prefer nice photos of reality, or the reality itself?

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  • Why Write? Why Graph?

    Why Write? Why Graph?

    To photograph means to write with light. Graph literally means to scratch or to embed, or to imprint.

    Grapho: to carve, etch, cut into. Basically means to draw, sketch, paint, to write down, etc. Ultimately comes from ‘gerb-‘: to carve.

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  • Why Be Objective?

    Why Be Objective?

    There seems to be a will to objectivity, but why?

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  • You’re the Pilot in the Road of Life

    You’re the Pilot in the Road of Life

    You steer.

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  • Why Do We Care So Much for Editing and Choosing Our Best Work to Share?

    Why Do We Care So Much for Editing and Choosing Our Best Work to Share?

    My thought:

    Our desire to gain the approval and admiration of others.

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  • The Joy of Photography

    The Joy of Photography

    The joy of making photos 

    Now another fun thought:

    Why is making photos so fun and interesting to us?

    My thought:

    Perhaps there is this joy we get in capturing external reality in a frame and being able to share this thing with others!

  • Why We Make Art Work

    Why We Make Art Work

    The joy of creating 

    What is art? Art is just something you create. It doesn’t need to be “artistic”, which we mean to say is “divinely and accurately painted”. 

    Perhaps in the past we deified artists, because they seemed godlike. For example, a renaissance painter — not everyone can do that. It requires tedious years of training, and even more years of insane execution and focus. 

    But with photography comes the ultimate disrupter. Now literally anybody and everybody cam make art work! An art work as something which you create which is external of yourself and your body. 

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  • More Power

    More Power

    What do we desire? More power. But how do we gain more power, and for what?

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  • FISH EYE

    FISH EYE

    Interesting visions:

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  • ALL DIFFERENCES ARE EQUALLY LEGITIMATE

    ALL DIFFERENCES ARE EQUALLY LEGITIMATE

    Besides physics, all opinions are equally legitimate and different.

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  • WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF OUR POWER?

    WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF OUR POWER?

    My ideas, thoughts and theories:

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  • Photography Creativity Tips, Assignments and Ideas

    Photography Creativity Tips, Assignments and Ideas

    Dear friend,

    I just taught my first two online photography workshops on creativity and had soooo much fun. Some lessons and ideas which can re-spark passion in you:

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  • New Life

    New Life

    Give birth to new life, and look forward to new life!

  • ERIC #poem

    ERIC #poem

    ERIC

    ERIC
    not a cleric
    Just a curious mind

    ERIC
    someone who likes to shout and blare it
    And likes to stare it in the eye.

    Someone who likes to pursue the distasteful and forbidden
    Someone who is risen and reawoken from his matrix slumber

    Lightning and thunder, rifts and drifts. Strong muscles to lift the dead from the ground.

    The sound is booming the skies are looming
    The flowers are blooming
    Pluck new flowers everyday and spray your creative mind info then air
    No despair, only hope

    Share your dopeness with others; this is the goal. With your fellow brothers and mothers.

    ERIC

  • YOUR OWN LIFE IS THE ULTIMATE SHOW, VIDEO GAME, MOVIE!

    YOUR OWN LIFE IS THE ULTIMATE SHOW, VIDEO GAME, MOVIE!

  • Become a Full-Stack Entrepreneur

    Become a Full-Stack Entrepreneur

    This means:

    You can and want to do it all yourself!

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  • How to Remove Friction from Your Creative Life

    How to Remove Friction from Your Creative Life

    Towards an anti-optimized life flow:

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  • My Experiences Growing up Asian-American in America

    My Experiences Growing up Asian-American in America

    One of these buyers got eyes like a Korean, it’s difficult to read ’em. The windows to his soul were half closed, I put the key in. – (JAY Z [REASONABLE DOUBT])

    First and foremost, I would say I had a good childhood. I had a good growing up in America, even in spite of all my scars. Let me begin:

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  • ARE WE TRAINING THE ALGORITHM, OR IS THE ALGORITHM TRAINING US?

    We currently are living in fear of punishment from the algorithms which rule our lives.

  • WHAT IF YOU ARE ALONE?

  • My Philosophy on Workflow

    My Philosophy on Workflow

    My personal thoughts:

    First and foremost, the less inhibition, the better. To be able to create, flow and stream is the goal. Create and flow like water!

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  • Only Ask for Feedback from Those Whom You Admire and Respect

    Only Ask for Feedback from Those Whom You Admire and Respect

    More trust for the OG’s!

  • HOW I PICK MY PHOTOS IN IPHOTOS MAC

    HOW I PICK MY PHOTOS IN IPHOTOS MAC

    Simple workflow:

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  • Why Repress Your Nature?

    Why Repress Your Nature?

    And what is your nature?

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  • Why RICOH GR III is So Good

    Why RICOH GR III is So Good

    1. Cross process JPEG FILTER
    2. Ability to play with bokeh; macro focus on the hand, then shoot the background
    3. Insanely small; always with you in your front pocket, etc.
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  • New Frontiers and Futures for Photography

    New Frontiers and Futures for Photography

    My new vision for the future of photo:

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  • In Praise of Randomness

    In Praise of Randomness

    The more random, the better.

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  • WHY I’M HAPPIER NOW THAN I WAS BEFORE COVID-19

    WHY I’M HAPPIER NOW THAN I WAS BEFORE COVID-19

    NEW INNOVATIONS, NEW IDEAS! New experiences.

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  • HOW TO TEACH COMPOSITION FRAMING IPAD

    THE NEW FUTURE:

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  • Why Photographers Should Get into Bodybuilding, and Why Bodybuilders Should Get into Photography

    Why Photographers Should Get into Bodybuilding, and Why Bodybuilders Should Get into Photography

    All upside; no downside.

    ERIC KIM MUSCLE FLEX (1080P, 60FPS, RICOH GR III cross process filter)
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  • How to Self-Respect Yourself

    How to Self-Respect Yourself

    The most robust respect… self-respect.

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  • The Art of Photography Composition

    The Art of Photography Composition

    Why composition? Why photography? Some thoughts:

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  • How to make photos that get better over time

    How to make photos that get better over time

    Purity of artistic vision.

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  • Consistency is Anti-Creativity

    Consistency is Anti-Creativity

    Something interesting I’ve noted:

    When studying the ancients, there is no concern about “consistency” with their art work. Is this preoccupation with consistency a modern one?

  • Why I Prefer America the Best

    Why I Prefer America the Best

    Despite all her ills.

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  • The Future of 360, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality

    The Future of 360, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality

  • Perfectionism or Something Else?

    Perfectionism or Something Else?

    Are we perfectionists, or something else? Meaning:

    Perfectionism is just fear or uncertainty, disguised.

    Or:

    Trying to be a “perfectionist” is simply trying too hard to be “adult like”, in order to please others.

    Why is it important to know the difference?

  • Sketch and Paint in Order to Learn and Understand

    Sketch and Paint in Order to Learn and Understand

    iPad and Procreate:

  • Visual Iteration

    Visual Iteration

    Never stop iterating visual images. The David by Michelangelo:

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  • What is Beautiful?

    What is Beautiful?

    That which promotes life. Gives optimism, hope and joy. A richer, more fuller future. A brighter future!

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  • Noble Fear

    Noble Fear

    Not all fear is made alike. Good fear is this:

    Fear which focuses you, concentrates you, and strengthens you.

    The goal isn’t to fear zero fear… it is simply to not shirk from fear.

    This means:

    When David is facing Goliath he feels fear,,, but doesn’t let the fear PREVENT him from attacking (and then) destroying Goliath!

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  • How to Entertain Others

    How to Entertain Others

    Start by entertaining yourself!

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  • My Entrepreneurship Mentality

    My Entrepreneurship Mentality

    The riskiest life is the funnest life!

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  • My Experience Teaching My First Online Photography Creativity Workshop on Zoom

    My Experience Teaching My First Online Photography Creativity Workshop on Zoom

    Just taught my first online zoom photography workshop and learned a lot. This is just a stream of some of my personal thoughts and lessons.

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  • Henri Cartier-Bresson Street Photography Composition Studies by ERIC KIM

    Henri Cartier-Bresson Street Photography Composition Studies by ERIC KIM

    The master street photography compositionalist (thus far):

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  • Turn Over Every Stone You’re Interested In!

    Turn Over Every Stone You’re Interested In!

    Don’t go through life not turning over every stone you’re interested in.

    Or in other words

    Leave no stone unturned!

  • Why Make Photos?

    Why Make Photos?

    Making photos; blessing life, existence, and being born and being alive!

    Why Make Photos?
  • Everything is Worthy to Record and Photograph

    Everything is Worthy to Record and Photograph

    Photograph and shoot it all!

  • Review: Cross-Process JPEG Filter on RICOH GR III

    Review: Cross-Process JPEG Filter on RICOH GR III

    Really enjoying the new cross-process JPEG filter on the RICOH GR III.

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  • Street Photography at Grocery Stores During COVID-19

    Street Photography at Grocery Stores During COVID-19

    A new photo project you can embark on! Street photography inside grocery stores during COVID-19:

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  • Hypocrite vs Contradict

    Hypocrite vs Contradict

    A hypocrite: an actor. Someone who ‘fronts’ or pretends to be something they aren’t.

    A contradictor: contra (against) dict (talk).

    Thus a hypocrite is a faker, whereas a contradictor is someone who says one thing but engages in behavior that he criticizes others for.

    Why is this difference important? Let me explain.

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  • Design Yourself.

    Design Yourself.

    Designed for what. Designed for whom?

    A thought–

    What were you designed for? What ends?

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  • Are Humans Made for Computers, or Are Computers Made for Humans?

    Are Humans Made for Computers, or Are Computers Made for Humans?

    Something quite funny for me is this. Asking ourselves —

    Who were computers made for and designed for?

    Were humans made for computers, or the other way around? This should be the origin of all “ergonomics” research in computing.

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  • The Artistic Genius of Michelangelo

    The Artistic Genius of Michelangelo

    Why I love the work of Michelangelo:

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