ERIC KIM Thoughts<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An interesting\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 What if I put myself on par<\/em> with Elon Musk? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps where we go wrong is we are too humble. I think humility is mostly a fake thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Anybody who is Judeo Christian Roman Catholic protestant etc., or was raised in the states, or is Asian Asian American, follow some sort of confusion order\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Typically, the ethos revolves around humility, humbleness, not bragging etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When are the things I am so grateful about my grandma is how much she bragged about me with her friends. How I was the smartest, the most intelligent, the most handsome, the tallest, best grandson of all time. And she would often stretch the truth\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Which was fine by me! Also always spoiling me with the choices meats, the best cuts of galbi etc. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n No I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m starting to think more and more\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Maybe ERIC KIM truly is the goat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Young people\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Besides the art school nerds do they even know who Henri Cartier Bresson is? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, Dylan Fan, who I met in Providence Rhode Island, when he was a freshman, 18 years old\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I think he told me that he was following me ever since maybe he was 12 years old or something? And also, meeting other young photographers along the way. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Almost most certainly, Seneca, his friends, kids of the future\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Will probably be using a combination of Google, YouTube, ChatGPT to discover things. And I think searchGPT is incoming. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funny\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Do you remember how about 5 to 10 years ago it was all about making an app? Now that ChatGPT is out, and they even made ChatGPT for open to the public for free\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Which is already a very very good model\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 What that then means is I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure that slowly but surely\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 search GPT and ChatGPT will eat away at the market share of Google. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, when it seemed that Facebook was by far the most dominant platform, and it was\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slowly became superseded by Instagram, slowly but surely. And then Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcdid the super smart thing for buying out Instagram, which at the time seemed like an insane sum of money, $1.2 billion? And now it seemed like a steal!\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc what is Instagram worth now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 500 billion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n But anyways, Facebook, the meta-corporation, Instagram is in big trouble because TikTok is destroying Instagram at its own game. And the funny thing is when it comes to battle\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It is ruthless. For example Instagram stole the stories of Snapchat, which kind of destroys Snapchat. But now, TikTok is destroying Instagram, my theory is that because TikTok is pretty much owned by mainland China, and the kind of evil corporation Tencent, which I also believe owns riot games which makes all of the mobile gaming platforms which your kids are \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcaddicted to, and also I think they even own a small share in Kakaotalk\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Korean South Korean, Korean Americans\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Get yourself and family off of Kakaotalk and just use iMessage instead. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyways, it is still early guys\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It seems the strategy positioning yourself now and today for ChatGPT, searchGPT,, it is absolutely critical if you desire to dominate the future. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think the real real real big game changer here is when open the eye opens up the video generation tool, sora to the masses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think for myself, I was kind of impressed with ChatGPT, the text stuff. But what really opened my mind and amazed me was DALL-E, the image generation tool. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc Now, I almost take it for granted, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really use it that much. The funny irony is what I have discovered is photography is actually more simple and straightforward than DALL-E and image generation tools, because it is 1 trillion times faster. And actually\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 More satisfying, knowing that you made the photos yourself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I might have about a 10,000 photo backlog of photos I need to review, photos that I shot on my Lumix G9. And my constant battle is always trying to squeeze out time in my day and in my life simply to review my photos!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, a funny thought: now that we have ChatGPT, image AI generation tools, DALL-E,,, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bcI almost wonder if the tides will change, and we will start to think of digital tar fee like the new retro analogue photography? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think this is super groundbreaking as an idea. Why? The reason is because currently\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s skinny fat anemic loser guys, guys who have never lifted a weight in their lives, who have all this ugly facial hair, Hitler mustaches, antisocial tendencies, where this really really ugly loser baseball Cap or hat, maybe there were some ugly oversized flannel shirt, and try to assert their dominance through their strange eclectic taste in things of the past?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I say\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 We must kill and destroy the past! Burn it with fire!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nostalgia, if you study the ancient Greek etymology, essentially is a concept and idea in which old soldiers during maybe World War II\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Young boys and men, would long for home, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc and it became associated with some sort of mental disease? Certainly the longing for home is a natural thing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Even Odysseus strove to sail back to his home Ithaca,,, and reunite with his wife, his son, and take back the throne, his kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is my critical thought: any sort of desire of the past is an act of cowardice. Anybody who cares so much about the past is a bunch of losers and pussies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Example, the typical loser skinny fat, single, having some sort of wimpy maybe adopted \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rescue\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 dog, never says hi to you, even though obviously you spotted him and he spotted you, and you like a coward? Like you knock on the doorbell, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc to ask for a small screwdriver, and obviously they are home, and they know that you are home, and that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re waiting at their door, and you hear their loser dog barking, and they could hear their loser dog barking\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And yet they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even open up the door? To even ask what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re asking for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the thing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Anybody who has one of those cowardly ringing doorbell things\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It is a signal of cowardice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyways, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m tired of these losers. They invoke more and more anger and disgusting me, and even rage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But screw it, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc let us focus on better things. Not useful to channel your rage into superfluous things. \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crazy, I think the new minimum wage in LA is going to be about maybe $17.20.,, and I think that the new minimum if you work fast food, like McDonald\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s or Shake shack is $20 an hour! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s insane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Certainly the cost of living is going up because the government or Biden for Donald Trump or whoever\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Injected us with the stimulus bill\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And everyone got free money, they keep pumping up more money\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Certainly the cost of things are going to go up. it is very very simple, very very simple economics. The more money is circulating in supply\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The individual cost of each unit of each monetary thing is going to be less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, if there was $900 trillion worth of US dollars floating around on the planet, and then suddenly some nerd on computer, pushed the button, and then magically, the supply of US dollars was printed out 10 times more, certainly sooner or later\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The individual worth of each US dollar \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc would diminish, to become only 1\/10 of the price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to be an economist, or a rocket scientist to understand this. Inflation is a very very simple principle: maybe something we should teach to our kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, if you told your kid that every time they wanted to eat a cracker, they had to take a bite of that beef burger patty, and then one day tell them that they had to eat now 10 bites of burgers for just one cracker, they would know that is some sort of inflation\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And they would probably be very upset. But maybe overtime they would get used to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even with prices\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 In 2017 when I was in Vietnam, you can get a digital Ricoh GR II camera \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc For only $600 USD. Now, it is about $1000 and 15 bucks. Even the Fujifilm 100\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I remember that used to only be $1,299 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but now, nearly $1600? Even the like M camera\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It used to be a flat $6999, for the M9, and now , it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s maybe in the eleven thousand dollar range ? and even the Leica Q , which only used to be $4999 , \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc is now close to $7000? Insane! And just 5 to 7 years, prices have inflated maybe 30 to 40%?<\/p>\n\n\n\n What that means is trying to monetize your stuff your digital products your courses your offering etc.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Becomes more and more of a losing trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ERIC KIM Thoughts An interesting\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 What if I put myself on par with Elon Musk? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc\u00ef\u00bf\u00bc Multi media mogul Perhaps where we go wrong is we are too humble. I think humility is mostly a fake thing. 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How will young people in the future discover photography or street photography? \u00ef\u00bf\u00bc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
it is not AI or artificial intelligence, it is chat GPT, \u00ef\u00bf\u00bcsearchgpt and soon video gpt?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Digital photography is the new analog photography?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a wage slave<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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