{"id":173177,"date":"2019-09-24T10:40:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=173177"},"modified":"2019-09-24T11:14:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T18:14:55","slug":"first-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/24\/first-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"First Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Carte blanche, always go back to ‘first principles’. Best to start totally ignorant of a certain field, and ruthlessly self-experiment with yourself. To learn via ‘bricolage<\/a>‘ (bricoler<\/a> in French, which means to keep fiddling, experimenting).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

  1. The innovation of TESLA: Starting ‘carte blanche’ from car design. Creating a new look and design which got inspiration from what came before, but still had enough leeway to create fresh new designs. For example the Tesla Model S no longer needing a grille (it is an electric car which doesn’t require air to cool the engine). Or Elon’s<\/a> insistence on creating the flush-door handles. <\/li>
  2. Kanye West<\/a> and innovation in music: To cross genres and boundaries (Electronic music with 808’s and heartbreaks, rock music with Yeezus) and tons of other innovations to rap music. Lesson: no genres; epic cross-collaboration and cross-pollination between all genres of music, art, fashion, architecture — everything! <\/li>
  3. Re-thinking what technology, computers, phones should be<\/strong>: The beautiful innovations of Steve Jobs<\/a>: extreme minimalism and aesthetic simplicity\/purity in the devices he created. Absolute ignoring what everyone else was doing in the computer industry (remember the ugly IBM beige boxes), and the ugly un-aesthetic of Windows, and superimposing his artistic genius into his products. Lesson: extreme ignoring of everything else in your industry, and being extremely stubborn on your own artistic vision. No compromise<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Artistic innovation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    Perhaps the secret to artistic innovation is to constantly go back to first principles. Perhaps the key is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    For certain periods of time stay very focused on a certain regimen, but then perhaps after a certain period, go back to first principles, and start again from ‘carte blanche’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    For example: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. I started off photography with a passion for monochrome. Every few years, I switch to color, but I always return to monochrome<\/a>, seeing it with new eyes and new appreciation. <\/li>
    2. I started off with my passion in street photography and I have evolved into shooting all different genres of photography. Yet I always come back to street photography<\/a>, with new philosophies and views.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      Never stop going back to first principles and basics!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      ERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Carte blanche, always go back to ‘first principles’. Best to start totally ignorant of a certain field, and ruthlessly self-experiment with yourself. To learn via ‘bricolage‘ (bricoler in French, which means to keep fiddling, \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173173,"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,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-24-at-1.10.03-PM.png?fit=1198%2C1310&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173177","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=173177"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173191,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173177\/revisions\/173191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}