2025
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Tokyo Street Photography: Why the Snapshot Mindset Changes Everything
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Currently wandering through the back alleys of Shinjuku, Tokyo. It’s early in the morning—7:54 AM on November 16, 2025—and I’ve been out for about an…
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Tokyo Street Photography in Pure Flow State 🎴📸
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. I’m currently roaming the streets of Tokyo — here in Shinjuku — photographing, wandering, drifting. I’ve got the Ricoh GR IIIx around my neck and…
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The Travel Advice That Will Transform Your Street Photography
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Right now I’m sitting in the airport waiting to fly to Tokyo, and I figured this is the perfect moment to talk about something that…
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What Pulls the Photographer’s Soul?
To go beyond the notion that the photographer is merely responsible for where they position their physical body — their relationship to the subject, the background, and the moment they…
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Packing for Two Weeks in Tokyo (Street Photography Trip)
autistic discipline and zen monk activation What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Here’s a simple, clean, no-fluff breakdown of what I’m packing for my two-week trip to Tokyo. One backpack. One…
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Aporia
Aporia comes from ancient Greek and literally means “without a passage” or “no way through.” In philosophy—especially in Plato and Aristotle—aporia refers to: Plato uses it to describe the moment…
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The Myth of Psyche
The myth of Psyche is one of the most beautiful and symbolic stories from ancient Greek mythology — a tale of love, soul, and transformation, most famously told in Apuleius’s…
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Why You Must Explore the Unknown as a Photographer
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. This morning I’m walking through the woods here in Fairmount Park, catching the sunrise, thinking about photography, exploration, and what stepping into the unknown has…
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Why You Should Start Street Photography in 2025
Check out this nice succulent I just potted up. Looks good. All right — what’s poppin, people? It’s Dante.Today’s thought: Why should you start street photography in 2025? There’s a…
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Phoenix – Too Young
Phoenix – “Too Young” is a song by the French indie-pop band Phoenix, released in 2000 as part of their debut album United. It’s one of their earliest hits and…
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My Three Favorite Films
Honestly I can only count on two hands the amount of movies I’ve watched in my lifetime so I am by no means a movie enjoyer but these are the…
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Who My Target Audience Really Is
I turn off likes and comments on my videos so I can create without distraction — no metrics, no validation loop, no algorithm shaping the way I think. Because of…
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The world is a playground, but school turned it into a prison and made you a prisoner. You’ve had the key to the playground all along. You only have to remember that you’re a child of God to get back there.
You are more than a cog in a machine. You are divine. Remember with me.
