{"id":667385,"date":"2025-06-14T18:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=667385"},"modified":"2025-06-14T18:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:46:02","slug":"why-photography-and-street-photography-is-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/14\/why-photography-and-street-photography-is-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Why photography and street photography is the future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So I think currently a lot of people are kind of confused\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u201d> what happened to ERIC KIM?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re curious\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still logging my 30,000 steps a day, and on average, currently here in Phnom Penh, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m probably shooting at least 300 pictures a day. In fact I have like at least a 10,000 photo backlog, which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m currently behind on. How and why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just like so much interesting stuff happening up around right now in the world\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 With bitcoin, strategy MSTR, global economic politics, and now more interestingly enough my weightlifting. And also contrary to popular belief\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 All is all. It all perfectly dovetails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current theory is because we live in such a cyber world, and what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interesting with AI\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like not even the Internet anymore. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of like a brave new world, of large language models\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And it still seems that ChatGPT is mostly text. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think in terms of AI\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 An AI agent will never be as nuanced as a human being in terms of understanding subtle cues and video like tone of voice, facial expressions, even biases. For example, when I watched the recent Jony Ive Interview for open AI\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Actually the number one thing that shocked me the most was, how and why did he become so fat all of a sudden? Then made me go down a weird mental rabbit hole of thinking, maybe he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like depressed that has not at apple anymore, he no longer has a sense of purpose, his probably just like eating ice cream all the time, etc. You almost can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even recognize him anymore\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The cool Jony Ive we knew back in Apple days, is different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyways, my current belief is that there is a very very deep link between physical, physiological, health\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And everything else. For example if you live in a city that allows you to walk around like eight hours you never have to jump in a car, you could just walk to the grocery store and pick up meat, say hi to all the friendly people, walk to the gym, walk along the riverfront, take pictures, etc.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Certainly the type of images you create will be much more healthy and happy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t upload it, and ChatGPT cannot index it, it never happened<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So it looks like at least for the next 10 years\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 We are currently in a new global space race arms race\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 For ChatGPT and AI. My thought is Google is dead\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 All hail ChatGPT!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I think the number one biggest issue with image generation is it is just too slow. Even if it was instantaneous\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 In terms of physics you could shoot like 1 trillion pictures in like a minute, and sooner or later ChatGPT will probably rate limit you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And actually\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 My current thought is the reason why I like 99.9% of people in America are so depressed is that honestly, living in America is not very conducive for your health. America sucks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Asia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

OK let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say that guitar is your passion\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And also street photography. The truth is in America\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just like literally nobody on the streets. Unless you live in like New York City. Even in Los Angeles, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like nobody walking around unless you go to downtown LA. And it seems the reality is that even if you were super rich\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to live in downtown LA it is too dirty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asia is much more hygienic <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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