ERIC KIM ₿

If you believe in yourself, so will others!

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When in doubt, just blog it.

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What do we want? More power. Why? This is the principle of life.

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Why do we consider it a mortal sin to be narcissistic?

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Real truth is unsavory and bitter.

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In life if you got the option, would you prefer to swim upstream or downstream?

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Shyness as something that can be trained, overcome, and conquered!

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To improve your photography, start powerlifting.

Powerlifting [deadlift, squats] to strengthen your legs, and more!

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What will last, what won’t last?

Don’t make it too obvious.

My thought —

• when it comes to artwork, what makes it last?

My thought —

• artwork which isn’t too obvious.

Subtle. ‘God is in the details’.

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In modern society, being shy is a huge disadvantage. Becoming less shy comes through training. Real thoughts:

1. Start powerlifting. More testosterone means more social confidence.
2. Test your limits. Strike up small talk with all strangers who you meet, and see if you can use words or phrases which make you seem interesting to them.
3. Don’t censor yourself. Say what’s on your mind without obeying political correctness.
4. Start off by asking everyone you interact with, “How you doing?” And when they ask you, don’t give a fake response.
5. Make eye contact with strangers and smile! Say hello. Ask strangers for their hand and shake their hand.

The goal: yourself. You. My self.

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You can only photograph who you are.

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What are we more interested in — the individual or their art?

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We are about to enter a BRAVE NEW WORLD of blogging, and creation on the internet.

My thoughts and vision:

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Starting to vlog is simple

• create like a child!

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Good advice from my best friend Steve Jobs:

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

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Why do we have this obsession with free will? Some thoughts:

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I work as an existential thing. My work produces meaning in my life. Also, being able to share my work with you is what makes my life worth living:

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New interviews and vlogs with my buddies Cole Turner and Dylan Fan (both 19 years old!!!)

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I am street photography. You are street photography. We are all street photography.

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Just gave a quick and free workshop here in Providence, Rhode Island — sharing some quick ideas, tips, and pointers on shooting street portraits (and philosophy on street photography and people):

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What new discoveries can you make about yourself and your own body?

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Vlogging has improved my thinking:

I think better as I talk.

And with vlogging, I can walk and talk — the ultimate hybrid.

Also, talking is 1000x more efficient/effective than typing.

Lesson for myself:

Vlog more, blog less.

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To reach your own personal artistic apex, obey yourself, your own opinion!

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What is the apex? To become a philosopher.

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When you see a fork in the road, go straight! (JAY-Z)

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If life is an RPG, the funnest goal is to strive to level up yourself to the maximum, and BEYOND the maximum!

Discover “missing no”

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In Pokémon, there was a hack and glitch in which you can fight a glitch called “missing no” (missing number), which allowed you to catch Pokémon BEYOND level 99 (the maximum level of a Pokémon monster in the game). For example, I remember catching a Snorlax which was level 255.

The basic notion was that there was a “glitch” in the system which allowed you to go BEYOND the system. Perhaps like Kanye said,

I’m like the glitch in wreck it Ralph!

If reality is the game, we should delight on being a glitch or a “mutant”. Perhaps this is what will allow us to go BEYOND being just a “normal” person. The goal is to become a HYPER human.

Become the glitch!

Glitch society! Go “off code”. Don’t follow social conventions or norms!

Treat yourself like the ultimate life experiment. Strive to see the limits of the human body (powerlifting), and also the limits of artistic digital creation!

We all consider entitlement as a bad thing— but why?

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A new future for vlogging— street vlogging?

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Currently what my body looks like:

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The goal: for ourselves to become more beautiful.

How to do this? Some ideas:

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Talk is cheap, action is expensive:

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Talking to strangers:

The opportunity to learn wisdom!

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To thrive, create like a child:

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Working without pay — isn’t that slavery?

If Facebook/Instagram (or any social media platform) is making money off your labor, isn’t that slavery?

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When is it good to be high-key, and when is it good to be low-key?

My thought: become the ultimate hybrid of high-key and low-key.

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How I work:

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KARLA — one of my best friends at the gym, and aspiring doctor:

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When it comes to street photography (and many things in life), best to simply ‘set it and forget it!’

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Why buy a Lamborghini when you can transform your body into a Lamborghini?

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We are often told that ego is evil, and ego is bad. To be ‘egotistical’ means:

You are too into yourself and not concerned with the well-being of others. Thus, you are a contemptible person, and you (might) go to hell.

Why do I think ego is good? Let me share:

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Lesson: Focus on yourself, not others.

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New Orleans as one of my new #1 destinations in America for travel:

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Anything (and everything) in life can be achieved with enough time and training:

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A life without having the ability to walk isn’t a life worth living:

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The best reality is embodied reality:

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Life is a stream of becoming. The point ain’t to make perfect things, it is to keep on streaming (until you die at age 120!)

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To destroy is also a creative act. Consider the joy of children — bulldozing buildings, Godzilla on cities, etc:

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The goal in life isn’t to become the best artist, it is to become the most AUTHENTIC artist.

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1. Stoicism: Don’t be petty.
2. Physical grandeur: Gain muscle mass, physical strength (one rep max in powerlifting), and reduce body fat. Eat tons of meat.
3. Don’t bully others to augment your own self-esteem. Self-contained ego-aggrandizement is the goal.

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Practical ideas to re-kick-start your passion for photography:

1. Shoot JPEG (smaller file sizes).
2. Shoot black and white
3. Shoot selfies (you cannot deny yourself)
4. Don’t shoot any category (defy all categories, or create your own category of yourself).
5. Allow yourself to be a child and photograph whatever you want!

Creatorism: a new idea. The anti-consumerism.

The basic notion is this:

To derive the maximal joy from existence, optimize your life for CREATION!

That means, create much. Make a lot of stuff. Anti-perfectionism. More focus on quantity over quality.

New batch of videos (open source and free download):

Downloads:

• 4gb (all videos in zip)
• All audio (ZIP) – 49MB

Google Drive:

• 1080p Videos
• Audio

See more on YouTube >

The goal is creative productivity (to make a lot of stuff), not for some sort of artistic perfection!

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Generally speaking based on my personal life, bigger is generally worse. For example, bigger cars are worse to drive, park, and live with. Bigger cameras are worse to carry, cause pain in your wrist or neck, and you shoot fewer photos. Bigger houses are worse, because they require more cleaning and maintenance.

But certainly there are some conditions in which bigger is better. This is something I’ll try to essay.

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It ain’t about work-life balance, but work-life integration.

My work is my pleasure and passion, and my life is my work. The two are yin-yang and inseparable.

Is this the key to the most happy and creatively productive life? I think so.

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Something I think about:

Discovering new methods in life which proves certain POSSIBILITIES.

And also, something I think about:

What is more important, striving towards new possibilities or what is “optimal” or best?

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Don’t strive to criticize, change, or critique others. Instead, strive to formulate your own opinions, and share them with others!

Share your own opinion without censoring yourself. Strive to reach your ideal followers.

A thought on success:

Don’t strive to accumulate trillions of followers for the sake of it. Instead, strive to accumulate your IDEAL followers.

What is an ideal follower of yours? Let me share:

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Strive towards artistic purity. That means, do it purely for yourself. Strive to master your own art, for yourself, with disregard for others.

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Something I think about a lot:

What is truly holding us back?

Is it lack of time? Lack of resources? Lack of ideas and inspiration/motivation? Lack of money? Lack of intelligence? Lack of courage? Lack of the proper tools and devices?

What is it that we lack?

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I’ve always been curious how others work. I cannot speak for others, but let me invite you into my mind and my personal creative working process:

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When we think of ‘creativity’, we often think of being “creatively original”. However, a better definition of creativity is ‘propensity to create’, or “the tendency to create (a lot) of stuff”.

So why this term ‘creative productivity’? Well, my thought:

When we tell others to be ‘creative’, they think we mean to say: “Do this in a novel fashion which has never been done before.”

This line of thought is paralyzing. Better to say:

“Be creatively productive! Just make a bunch of stuff! Perfection can be damned!”

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What’s the purpose of life and our human metabolism? Not to consume, but to create!

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The super human: synthesis of monster and child?

Sweet, naive, open minded, curious, and friendly like a child but also having the ability to turn into a monster, a beast, and a chaos?

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All black clothing, but white skin. Black cars with white accents, or white cars with black accents. Black and white photos or black ink on white paper.

What mysteries can black and white uncover?

A thought:

Perhaps life is more interesting and enjoyable when we strive towards infinite gains, in a slow and steady manner.

For example when it comes to powerlifting, I love the idea that as long as I keep eating, training, and giving it all of my courage, my “one rep max” will continue to grow indefinitely; infinite gains, although slow and steady. For example, striving to increase my one rep max by 5 pounds every week, or every other week (forever).

Infinite money?

It ain’t about how much money you got; I think it’s more enjoyable to think about your money always growing. Better to grow your money infinitely higher, slowly and steady, instead of earning tons of money in few chunks.

Better to get lots of steady serotonin daily (or weekly), instead of in infrequent (but huge) chunks

For example, I know I will live a long time, and I also desire to live a long time. If this is the case, then I want to feel maximally empowered as much as possible. And it seems to get infrequent but massive gains is frustrating. Better steady, consistent slowly, and infinitely more than inconsistent gains.

Should we work with human bias, or try to override it?

It seems philosophers and psychologists say:

Humans are dumb and defective because we get suckered by our “bad” or “irrational” human biases.

But what if there is insane amounts of wisdom in our folly and “irrationality”?

Thought:

Should we give more respect and credence to “irrationality”?

A good way to live life:

Simply avoid being a sucker (however you define this for yourself).

For example, when it comes to economic matters or purchasing decisions– don’t get suckered. Don’t get suckered into buying things which are contrary to your own personal preferences.

What does it mean to get suckered?

It is all subjective. My definition is this:

If you get tricked or fooled into doing something contrary to your own personal benefit, you’re getting suckered.

Obey yourself

Don’t let others try to superimpose their code of ethics or morality upon you. Stay firm, and have the courage to state:

These are my personal preferences, only for myself. My preferences aren’t for you, nor are your preferences for me!

Lesson:

There is no such thing as being “smart”, but there is such thing as being a sucker.

Thus in life, the best way to be “smart” is to avoid being a sucker!

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