{"id":64013,"date":"2017-08-27T23:21:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T06:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=64013"},"modified":"2017-08-27T23:21:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T06:21:22","slug":"dont-be-a-romantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/27\/dont-be-a-romantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Be a Romantic"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Kyoto.
Kyoto. Cindy, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a romantic for the past. Wishing things to never change. Fearing death. Feeling nostalgia for your childhood, or the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good old days\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

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Rather, love change. Love dynamic change. Hate the static.<\/p>\n

Still revere and respect the past and classics. But don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a slave to the last.<\/p>\n

Utilize modern-day technologies, but with a skeptical eye.<\/p>\n

Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t jump on the hype band-wagon, but don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a digital Puritan or Luddite either.<\/p>\n

Utilize the positive tools which promote CREATION<\/a> and PRODUCING ART<\/a>. Hate social media, games, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153free\u00e2\u20ac\u009d apps that hijack your brain, attention, focus, and tries to get you to click a screen for hours on end.<\/p>\n

Avoiding doing work that am artificial intelligence (AI) or bot can do. In photography, asking yourself\u00ef\u00bc\u0161\u00e2\u20ac\u009dCan an AI take this same picture?<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\"Kyoto
Kyoto selfie with Cindy. Reflection, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good old days\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sucked more than you remember. We always see the past with sepia-tones glasses.<\/p>\n

So friend, love the present, be excited about the future, and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t live on the past. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be afraid of change. Build your own future, and write your own history today.<\/p>\n

BE STRONG,
\nERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a romantic for the past. Wishing things to never change. Fearing death. Feeling nostalgia for your childhood, or the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good old days\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64013","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\/2017\/08\/ERIC-KIM-PHOTOGRAPHY-KYOTO-0136102.jpg?fit=4928%2C3264&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64013","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=64013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64014,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64013\/revisions\/64014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}