Happy New Year! To you and your people, live long and prosper!
Allow yourself some prosperity, allow yourself some fun.
Your invitation to the next level has arrived, do you accept?
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Actualizationers
Alright, let’s cut the shit. Sometimes there are people that are too cool to read or upgrade. These people say they already have everything they need. These people are liars. Quit lying, liars.
A psychologist named Abraham Maslow created a model to better understand what drives human behavior, “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”. (Google it.) It is in the shape of a pyramid with the first level being physiological needs (food, shelter, etc) and the last one, the top of the pyramid, self-actualization needs (realization of potential).
“What a man can be, he must be.”
Everyone has needs. And since life is ever-changing, meeting our needs becomes ever-adapting. And with each adaptation there are new potentialities.
Understanding this is to also understand motivations. Everyone is behaving in a certain way, for better or for worse, in order to feel better about their priorities of particular needs.
Sure we are perfect as is, sure we have accomplished a lot already. Yet there is always another level to reach. Not just for the sake of productivity, but for a sense of purpose. Not just material purpose, but for evolution of the human species.
If we can imagine a nugget then we have an un-actualized nugget waiting for actualization. If we can dream a nugget then we must realize a nugget.
Think a nugget, a nugget appears. Infinity nuggets.
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Fumi
A work trip to rainy SF for a weekend. Just recalling now that we went for dinner with a bunch of people and Kappy mentioned to the waitress that it was my birthday, “Nah, not my birthday.” And that was that. But it was! I had forgotten my birthday was a week before. I should’ve played along. Still fun tho.
I’m usually on 18th these days, this time I stayed on 24th Street. It was a pleasant surprise going to all my old spots coffee shops and restaurants and they remembered me from years before.
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Singing
Part of the fun of moving these prints is clearing storage. It’s feels good to get rid of stuff. Not comparing myself talent or skill wise to Lil Wayne, but it reminds me of an interview I read with him. When he was putting out all those mixtapes, like 2 a month, what he was doing was going through all his notebooks of written lyrics. He was purging those books so he could go on to rap just off top like Jay-Z who never writes anything down.
Maybe I’m purging my prints so I don’t have to make them anymore. Just zines books and blogs from here on out.
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Waves
We are having fun selling these prints. It’s cool to see which ones people are willing to possibly frame and hang in their office or house, or toss in a drawer or box or garbage.
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Amor Fati
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary—but love it.” – Friedrich Nietzche
Reminds me of a quote I heard from Kappy, “Heaven is right now, Hell is wanting it to be any different.”
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PRINTS 4 SALE
I have hundreds of these prints. I just like to look at my photos this way. It makes it easier to group them and sequence them and show them.
I used to want to make everything gigantic, 30×40 inches up to 8ft x 12ft, but now I realize these smaller prints are closer to what I really do which is make zines and books.
We are raising funds for future issues of Hamburger Eyes.
Prints for $25 each.
I plan to add more every day until a new issue or two is born.
