PHOTOGRAPHY 101

PHOTOGRAPHY 101 Dear friend, If you’re new to photography, start here: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Mastering Photography Free Photography Bootcamp 100 Photography Tips for Beginners Photography is Everything! In Praise of Shadows Photography Leisure FOCUS ON PHOTO Closer is Better POWER PHOTOGRAPHY Film Noir Compositions in Photography RAW PHOTOS. The Photographer as Story Teller […]

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Equipment

EQUIPMENT by KIM There is no “perfect” camera. Don’t fall into GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) and falsely believe that buying a new camera will make you a better photographer. If you’re not feeling inspired in your photography, I recommend you to buy books, not gear. Also check out these 75+ Inspirational Photo Books You Gotta Buy. […]

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Life Goals?

Dear friend, a thought on my mind; perhaps the best way to approach life is to consider our life goals, and also for us to become more critical and discerning on how to achieve those life goals. For example, our creative life goals, and also, what we want to achieve in a single day, in […]

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Life Goals?

Dear friend, a thought on my mind; perhaps the best way to approach life is to consider our life goals, and also for us to become more critical and discerning on how to achieve those life goals. For example, our creative life goals, and also, what we want to achieve in a single day, in […]

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PRIME VISION

WHAT IS YOUR PRIME VISION IN LIFE? LASER FOCUS. HYPED UP on ERIC KIM OMAKASE COFFEE— I’m currently drinking the black bag, THE PHOTOGRAPHER, which is 50% fine robusta and 50% liberica. This stuff is seriously liquid gold, gives me more focus, hype, and general good attitude toward life. Anyways, I thought on my mind […]

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LASER FOCUS

HYPED UP on ERIC KIM OMAKASE COFFEE— I’m currently drinking the black bag, THE PHOTOGRAPHER, which is 50% fine robusta and 50% liberica. Some thoughts on focus: How to focus? The philosophy of focus is tricky; on one hand, in modern-day times it is seen as virtuous to focus. To “not get distracted“. I know […]

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Commuting Thoughts

LA THOUGHTS The other day, woke up pretty early, got some good writing done (Man on a Mission), was feeling high strength, and decided that it may be a good opportunity and chance for me to go househunting and apartment hunting in LA with Cindy. We loaded up our car, and drove down to LA, […]

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Man on a Mission

To sell ERIC KIM OMAKASE COFFEE and to propagate fine robusta to the states and to the world; my mission? Being a missionary? An interesting thought that I got from Peter Thiel in his ZERO TO ONE book is the notion of a missionary versus a mercenary. The difference is that a missionary does something […]

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How to Become a More Productive Photographer

I believe the path to the greatest happiness as a photographer is becoming more productive as a photographer. This means, literally just producing more photos. Investing in production For example, the secret to true wealth is through production. To produce things, ideas, concepts, etc. I think the problem in today’s world is that we strive […]

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How to Become a More Productive Photographer

I believe the path to the greatest happiness as a photographer is becoming more productive as a photographer. This means, literally just producing more photos. Investing in production For example, the secret to true wealth is through production. To produce things, ideas, concepts, etc. I think the problem in today’s world is that we strive […]

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How to Stimulate Economic Activity

Something that is currently on my mind is the thought of stimulating economic opportunity and activity. That is, how do you move people metaphorically and physically? Not money, but economic activity? An interesting thing being here in Korea; everyone uses the Korean won, KRW. A simple estimate is 10,000 won is around 8 dollars USD. […]

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How to Become More Adventurous

One of my favorite things to do with Sen and myself in general, is this notion of “adventure time“. That is, anything that involves getting out of the house! I first thing to consider is that the basic notion of adventure time is super simple; just getting your ass out of the house. Why “adventure […]

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