{"id":54286,"date":"2017-06-29T02:26:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=54286"},"modified":"2017-06-29T02:28:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:28:24","slug":"fuck-complacency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/29\/fuck-complacency\/","title":{"rendered":"FUCK COMPLACENCY."},"content":{"rendered":"
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ERIC KIM x HENRI NECK STRAP<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dear friend,<\/p>\n

Are you complacent in your photography and life? Or will you fight reality, carve out your own reality with your camera knife?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

You only have one life.<\/p>\n

Why waste it being complacent?<\/p>\n

Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you want to make photos amazing?<\/p>\n

Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you want to soar to your own creative heaven,<\/p>\n

To take your potential, and crank it to 11?<\/p>\n

Your creative bread is currently unleavened.
\nYou need to knead your own photo dough.<\/p>\n

You also need to overthrow
\nYour own oppressive, complacent photo mind.
\nKnow your photo eye is divine,
\nAvoid gear acquisition syndrome<\/a>, and the blinding lights of the photo industry.
\nJust keep watering your creative curiosity, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never go thirsty.<\/p>\n

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Hanoi, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Why do you lack belief in self?
\nWhy don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you stand strong to your creative vision?
\nNever melt.<\/p>\n

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Hanoi, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Keep your teeth secured to your serpentine belt,
\nAlways latch onto yourself, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need nobody else.<\/p>\n

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Hanoi, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Complacency is death
\nComplacency is losing your creative breath.<\/p>\n

But how do you keep on breathing,
\nAnd believing
\nIn yourself?<\/p>\n

My suggestion: fuck the opinions of everyone else<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Hanoi, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You need to be a bit insane
\nEven Aristotle said every genius had a touch of madness
\nSo believe in yourself, and your personal badness.
\nCreatively be lavish
\nInvest in yourself
\nAnd experiment.
\nMake your own cool creative coin, make it mint.<\/p>\n

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Hanoi, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Your creativity is your entire life, not just a weekend stint.
\nKeep filling your mind with helium; creative blimp.<\/p>\n

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#cindyproject<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My photo god is Josef Koudelka<\/a>: a man who never stopped innovating
\nWho kept on shooting
\nAnd elevating
\nHis creative vision
\nHe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the Jesus of photography; creatively risen.<\/p>\n

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Selfie. Hanoi, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also love Richard Avedon<\/a>,
\nWho shot all his subjects against a simple white backdrop,
\nMonochrome bliss, ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t no blue and blond.<\/p>\n

Know that your best photos can be shot on your own lawn.
\nThe grass is greener on your side.
\nBe your own harshest self-critic, and ignore the whines
\nOf the photo critics and commentators
\nYou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re riding on your on creative elevator
\nYou control your own destiny, ignore the complainers.<\/p>\n

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STREET NOTES MOBILE EDITION<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Be a creative monster,
\nUgly and deranged
\nBut at least you are yourself,
\nYou are not the same.<\/p>\n

BE STRONG,
\nERIC<\/p>\n

HAPTIC INDUSTRIES ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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