Author name: Dante Sisofo

When it comes to media production, don’t take it so seriously! Use your digital camera, GoPro or your iPhone and record your life. Keep everything raw and unedited. Create for yourself and one other viewer. Treat the videos and media production similarly to how a livestream is created where you don’t filter yourself and try to keep everything as authentic as possible.

Relive your human experience

Create media as a way to remember. Don’t try to impress others with your life and just be yourself. It is much more rewarding to simply create memories for yourself to relive in the future.

Stream your thoughts

Go for walks in nature, and just speak your mind. Treat video as a way to create your own podcast. I use Spotify and YouTube as a way to upload my voice to the world. Also use Videopress as a way to embed videos directly to your own blog and website.

Share your life

The beauty of video is that it is endless. There’s no need to be a perfectionist and treat everything you create like some serious film or movie. Just share your POV, life outside your window, or whatever is happening in your town.

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When you eat meat, you don’t feel hungry. This is why it’s easy to eat one meal a day on the carnivore diet. Food is fuel.

Street Photography 101

1. My street photography workflow
2. 10 things I learned from practicing street photography for a decade
3. Three key traits to become a successful street photographer
4. How to conquer fear in street photography
5. Courage in street photography
6. How I improved my street photography
7. What lens should I use for street photography?
8. Why you should get close in street photography
9. Why repetition is critical for street photography
10. Why I prefer using an LCD screen for street photography
11. How to photograph decisive moments
12. What makes a successful composition?
13. Street photography is a visual game and a physical pleasure
14. How I use layers in street photography
15. Study the street
16. Snapshot street photography
17. Mundane street photography
18. Street photographers should make selfies
19. How to photograph famous landmarks
20. Photo books are good for inspiration
21. How the kendama improved my street photography
22. Why black and white street photography?
23. What is the goal of street photography
24. Where to find inspiration for street photography?
25. Why you should ask for permission in street photography
26. Why gear doesn’t matter in street photography
27. Photograph it all
28. Street photography at parades and events
29. Street photography is all about walking
30. Just produce more photos
31. Interact with people on the street

The Druze are a religious and ethnic minority found mostly in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, with smaller communities in Jordan and other countries around the world. Emerging during the Fatimid Caliphate in the 11th century, the Druze faith initially developed as a school of Isma’ili Islam but quickly evolved into a unique, distinct monotheistic religion that incorporates elements from Islam, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, and other philosophical and religious beliefs.

The Druze faith is esoteric, meaning it has hidden or mystical aspects that are accessible only to an elite class of initiates known as the ‘Uqqal’ (the knowledgeable or the wise), while the community at large, the ‘Juhhal’ (the ignorant), are not privy to the same theological and esoteric scriptural studies. Major Druze principles focus on the concepts of truthfulness, support of the Druze community, renunciation of all other religions, living in theocratic social means, and belief in divine unity.

Central to Druze faith is the consistent transmigration of the soul, a form of reincarnation that represents a deeply-held belief of the Druze; it is the responsibility of the Druze to adhere to their teaching to ensure the soul’s relation to the people and its actualization according to the soul’s precepts.

Druze communities, with an estimated world population ranging from 800,000 to over 2 million, possess a unique set of social values, religious faith, and group identity, though they play a key role in the social and political life of the societies they reside in. They can be highly active and mixed in a state’s activities, and often, strong dībki and ikram processes are utilized to ascertain community relations and images.

The Druze do not seek converts, with the current book of the belief system having been closed and closed to new communicants in 1043, and they generally prefer a strong aim of peace with their predecessors, but these are still certain to these lifetyles, allowing the religion to have fluid and swifting values of focus. Additionally, the religious tenets might not be followed or understood by all members of the society, enabling a complex life for free, or nor illiberal, life, which sometimes does not adhere to a political pressure.

Given the social and cultural duplicity of the Druze, there is a policy of status quo with a real lack of recognition and presentation of the economy’s economic, political, and nontheological elites but a spiritual and world beauty for the health of the love. This number then does not only show the history of the idea, but the context of the civilizations too. The enclaves of the Druze are located in over 8 countries, having influence in modernity and large internal girds, or geopolitical areas. Their ideas and support for their thoughts has been the same for years, however. The customs and laws that they avail are a big help to the various starting and over-burdened communities.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) is best known as the founder of the Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, a Roman Catholic religious order. He was born in Loyola, Spain, and his journey to sainthood began following a period of severe personal crisis and pondering about his life during a long rehabilitation from a broken leg suffered in battle. This reflective era led to a religious conversion, departing from his life of nobility and academia to pursue a principled existence in spiritual observance and teaching.

Ignatius is recognized for authoring the “Spiritual Exercises,” a famous collection of meditations, prayers, and practical mental exercises designed to encourage fidelity to the Catholic faith and to better discern and to serve God’s will. The Exercises are an enduring devotional model for the contemplation of mankind’s role in God’s vast plan, and they’ve been aptly provided to not only Jesuits but to countless meditative practitioners and religious individuals over the centuries for reflection and personal contribution to the betterment of the world around them.

He is celebrated for emphasizing the co-mingling of social justice work with evangelism, highlighting one of the major maturing benchmarks of the Jesuit religion—this patronage rises to justice, education, intellectual research, and missionary service through the greatest offer of their good energies.

Ignatius was canonized a saint by Pope Gregory XV in 1622. His light is shined in the fact that his techniques for advancing mental presence and the devoted peace from an open truth and union with God has been one of the eventual sponsors of a profusion of Jesuits and all allowed in diverse ages, to finalize unique conjunctions and executive church living in ways that interpret said prayers to some more profane or social real-world strength.

St. Ignatius of Loyola’s example has remained a heritage among the Church to be centered on justice, schools, a balanced answer to class and knowledge, and an evermore unique benefit to where God’s activity can be found in any environment. His feast day is celebrated on July 31st.

You can’t be a serious person and smoke weed or drink alcohol.

Stay focused

Alcohol, weed, drugs, etc. are extremely distracting. Even if you only have a drink or two at night, it’s going to drastically affect your performance the next day. My simple heuristic is to completely avoid any alcohol consumption. Just abstain from it all and remain focused.

It’s boring anyway

Using these external means for entertainment is foolish at best. It’s extremely destructive and unhealthy and not even fun. Plus, most alcohol just tastes gross. If you wind up at a bar or a party, just stick to sparkling water. It’s a shame that most modern people socialize over alcohol these days.

Be a serious human

I honestly don’t trust anybody who drinks or smokes at this point. I know that you become a completely different person under the influence of these things and because of that, I find you untrustworthy. If you want me to take you as a serious person, abstain from drugs and alcohol, and stay sober.