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Patrick Huy

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A place of love. Slow art for romantics. ✍🏼🎞️📸📖
📬 Writer, Poet, Photographer | 📍LA
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a poem for my friend @jodavimusic, who lost his wife January 2025, leaving behind him and their two kids.

So young.

Now he sings his album Zion: a dedication to her and their story, that I was privileged to document with photography last night in Los Angeles.

I can't even imagine what that's like, but I'm empowered by his continuation forward.

#poetry #music #love #faith #zion
@dansingrae @annemarie.asner @aliciadattner A love poem about a wife who passed away and how her husband cried a river to usher her to heaven. by @philosophyofeverything

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8 months ago

Choose wisely.

#partnership #relationshipadvice #perspective #influence #mentality taken in Los Angeles, California by @philosophyofeverything

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4 years ago

I was taking photos in Los Angeles Chinatown, when a man struck a memorable conversation with me, and I didn't realize I had my glasses recording until it beeped.

He tells me about his love for photography, his daughters, his late wife, and his recent father & brother. And then we take each other's portraits.

Connection in LA is heavily wanted, but heavily yearned for how uncommon it is. While everyone's stressed, lonely, and trying to make their dream come true.

Everyone's too worried about looking the part, or paying their next bills, to be able to let their walls down and connect, but everyone yearns for community.

I think it's just something we have to proactively take part in as a collective, together, and take initiative, like Dale does here, to bridge that gap and have those open, kind conversations. You never know who you'll meet, or how those brave chances can change your day or your life.

Thanks for talking to me that day, @mrdmf1, and sharing your story; it changed my day, and I hope it changed yours. Looking forward to shooting photos with you officially soon!

🎞️: @kodak gold200

#connection #conversations #community #art #photography taken in Chinatown, Los Angeles by @philosophyofeverything

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8 months ago

I almost didn't go to the Hayley Williams show last night, but, as expected: I loved it, and it reminded me of something I think we could all use a reminder of.

How often do you call off something you've had planned, that you know you'd enjoy or that you know is good for you?

I bet this happens to many people often. I almost didn't go, but then I thought: @yelyahwilliams is probably The Artist of our lifetime in her category and generation, and definitely my number 1 in her category.

Life is just a long series of: "you could.......but did you?"

It takes a lot of awareness to realize in the moment that some things are once in a lifetime or time-limited, like your friend's kid's 1st birthday, or the uncertain amount of weekends you have left to spend with your parents, or Hayley Williams covering @erykahbadu and duetting Stay the Night with @zedd, Live at your favorite venue: @hollywoodbowl.

I understand you sometimes don't want to put in the effort,

but Life feeling like it's worth living lies on the other side of putting in that work, and

for all of the moments involving the things & people you love, I hope you--more often than not--decide to give it your all.

Shot on @fujifilmx_us & @raybanmeta
Colored on @davinciresolvestudios

#writing #relationships #life #poetry #philosophy taken in Hollywood Bowl by @philosophyofeverything

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Reshare this if you agree, or let me know what you think. This "feeling" we've had for so long, I don't think anyone's been able to pinpoint. I've been thinking about it for the last 3 years, and I think this is it.

But until it's labeled and becomes acknowledged/recognized, the distaste will linger.

Disclosure is key.

It's a strong tool for augmentation, automation, and even ideation / direction / visualization, but...for creation or when generative outcomes are sold as products (without disclosure)

that's where the harm lives and where people might lose work/jobs and where buyers feel defrauded, scammed, and duped.

What do you think?

#aiart #generativeai #philosophy #criticalthinking #ethics by @philosophyofeverything

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Simple reminders for when things get complex.

#sunday #gratitude #perspective #mentality #romance by @philosophyofeverything

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Frankly, I thought I'd be one of the first ones to go once I picked up some critical, irreversible injuries in my early 20s, but you beat me, Autumn.

I'd say gone too soon, but you lived 36 years longer than you were predispositioned to, and that's a hell of a feat.

Girl with the glass eye, thanks for spending some of those years with me exploring @ucla's massive literature & humanities north campus and being my +1 for so many group projects and study sessions.

You were one of my most intimate friends from way back when. Love you so so much, and wish I got to see you one last time. Find you wherever the sweet people go, once it's my turn. 💌 taken in Los Angeles, California by @philosophyofeverything

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The most important word in the English dictionary is: Perspective, because it introduces us to the entire foundation of our own personal reality and how happy or unhappy we are about our circumstances.

Our life is factually what it is. Our feelings about it are based on our perspective, and

the sooner we realize that our viewpoints on matters-of-fact are charging our experience with emotions of joy or emotions of anger, fear, and frustration instead,

we find ourselves at the beginning of an opportunity to take control of steering how we experience everything that happens around us, to us, and for us, sometimes by us.

Exposure isn't always therapy though. And another person's greater suffering doesn't diminish our own. But if you find it helpful to see it that way, I've found it helpful to, too.

#perspective #philosophy #suffering #mindset #toughness by @philosophyofeverything

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Sometimes you have to die to what others think of you: in order to begin living for what you think matters.

And sometimes that means you have to learn to be okay with not having what others have, so you *can* have the select things you actually want.

The hardest thing in all of that is piercing through the noise of people telling you the 100 ways you should live and the 1,000 things you're doing wrong: to be clear about the 1 way you actually want to live and the 10 things you're doing right or need to do right in order to take your life in the direction that you want it to go.

It's okay if the world misunderstands you or disagrees with your decisions.

It's okay if co-workers judge you, or strangers have nothing to be impressed by.

What matters is: are you truly happy, are you living by your own philosophies, and are you nurturing the 1 life you actually have while you have it?

#perspective #philosophy #mentality #individuality #relationships by @philosophyofeverything

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2 months ago

Velociraptors or the T-Rex: which one is scarier? I've spent an insane amount of time thinking about this as a kid.

Many Stars chase legacy & accomplishment, but few will make films that will last.

Ironically, Sam Neill, who didn't seem like he chased any of it, will be one of the rare few actors whose face will actually be seen & whose work will be watched long after his passing today.

Jurassic Park was one of top 5 favorite movies when I was younger. I had the VHS, then eventually the DVD...I had many JP toys, too, including the cool car they rode in during the first movie.

I can't say I followed his filmography or life outside of film, but from the videos I've seen this morning, I can tell he was an incredible human being with a lot of wisdom & perspective that I wish reached more of us over the years.

Cancer's a bum. But based on what his dream was, it seems like he's finally gladly at rest.

Here's just a series of photographs of him I enjoy that I wanted to keep here on my wall just for memories & reference.

At the end of the video, he says: "and probably game ends in a draw. There's nothing happening...that's my dream. It'd just be nice."

All credit goes to the photographers, producers, and owners of each.

Slide 1: ???
Slide 2: GQ
Slide 3: Official Jurassic Park
Slide 4: ???
Slide 5: The Daily Telegraph
Slide 6: ???
Slide 7: ???
Slide 8: Official Jurassic Park
Slide 9: Official Jurassic Park
Slide 10: ???
Slide 11: Getty Images by @philosophyofeverything

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Ideal day off: David Geffen's Galleries Museum at 📍@lacma

Now open to the public. 900ft of concrete architecture, 20 years of planning, 6 years of construction, 6000 years of art.

Designed by @peterzumthorarchitecture
Photos by myself 🙂‍↕️🙏🏼

#museums #losangeles #davidgeffengalleries #photography #lacma New David Geffen Galleries at LACMA - Exterior Architecture by Peter Zumthor; Photographed by Patrick Huy taken in LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art by @philosophyofeverything

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What if I told you that you could retire today?

Retire your car and return to riding a bike.
Retire living to work and return to working-to-live.
Retire texts and return to sending letters.

Retire using a.i. and return to using your brain.
Retire looking at your phone and return to looking up.
Retire trashing your body and return to feeling its potential.

Retire rushing through life and return to enjoying it.

We spend all our days absorbed in devices and efficiencies, we forget life is everything beyond them:

the tactility of caring for your own belongings, growing & cooking your own food, writing with your own hands, using your own brain

...existing, eyes up, ears open, hands on. by @philosophyofeverything

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