Do you love being alive?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Are you living your life in a way in which you suck out the marrow of reality? Where you deify existence, and being alive? Or are you living in a way simply to kill the time, and to live an existence as un-miserably as possible — waiting until you die?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Beyond gratitude<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/eric-kim-photography-la-los-angeles-2019-ricoh-gr-iii-21mm-32-1333x2000.jpeg?resize=1333%2C2000&ssl=1\")
Los Angeles, 2019 #cindyproject<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI think for the most part, we are all ‘grateful’ to be alive. I didn’t ask my parents to give birth to me, but they did, and here I am! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world is your oyster and your play-thing. Given that you are alive, you have resources, you have time, you have energy, you have willpower, and you have consciousness– the question is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How do I desire to maximally exploit all the positives of existence, and what do I desire to direct my willpower towards doing\/creating\/achieving?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
What do you desire to deify in existence?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Los](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/eric-kim-photography-la-los-angeles-2019-ricoh-gr-iii-21mm-37-2000x1333.jpeg?resize=2000%2C1333&ssl=1\")
Los Angeles, 2019 #cindyproject<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAs an artist, you select what you decide to deify and deem beautiful, ‘worthy’, and great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or as a photographer, you photograph what you have gratitude towards. You photograph what you consider beautiful. As a photographer, you’re a visual philosopher. By selecting your subject and scene, you are signaling importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#cindyproject<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n![\"Kyoto,](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/eric-kim-photography-kyoto-cindy-project-3-1325x2000-1325x2000.jpg?resize=1325%2C2000&ssl=1\")
Kyoto, 2017 #cindyproject<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nFor example, I love Cindy with all of my soul and being. Having her in my life makes life worth living. Or in other words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I desire to express the joy and happiness I feel being alive with Cindy through my photographs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
And furthermore, I desire to encourage others to start their own cindyproject. Which means, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Direct more of your artistic powers to photograph or create art-works which show your gratitude towards life, or those who you love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
ERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A thought when walking around today: Do you love being alive? Are you living your life in a way in which you suck out the marrow of reality? Where you deify existence, and being alive? Or are you living in a way simply to kill the time, and to live an existence as un-miserably as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/eric-kim-black-and-white-street-photography-hanoi-0012086-EYE-ERIC.jpg?fit=4928%2C3264&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157307"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157319,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157307\/revisions\/157319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I think for the most part, we are all ‘grateful’ to be alive. I didn’t ask my parents to give birth to me, but they did, and here I am! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world is your oyster and your play-thing. Given that you are alive, you have resources, you have time, you have energy, you have willpower, and you have consciousness– the question is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How do I desire to maximally exploit all the positives of existence, and what do I desire to direct my willpower towards doing\/creating\/achieving?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
What do you desire to deify in existence?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Los Angeles, 2019 #cindyproject<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n As an artist, you select what you decide to deify and deem beautiful, ‘worthy’, and great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or as a photographer, you photograph what you have gratitude towards. You photograph what you consider beautiful. As a photographer, you’re a visual philosopher. By selecting your subject and scene, you are signaling importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#cindyproject<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Kyoto, 2017 #cindyproject<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n For example, I love Cindy with all of my soul and being. Having her in my life makes life worth living. Or in other words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I desire to express the joy and happiness I feel being alive with Cindy through my photographs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
And furthermore, I desire to encourage others to start their own cindyproject. Which means, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Direct more of your artistic powers to photograph or create art-works which show your gratitude towards life, or those who you love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
ERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A thought when walking around today: Do you love being alive? Are you living your life in a way in which you suck out the marrow of reality? Where you deify existence, and being alive? Or are you living in a way simply to kill the time, and to live an existence as un-miserably as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/eric-kim-black-and-white-street-photography-hanoi-0012086-EYE-ERIC.jpg?fit=4928%2C3264&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157307"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157319,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157307\/revisions\/157319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}