Inaccessible Worlds: Unlockable Modes
Using blockchain history as an aspect of art.
Inaccessible Worlds: Unlockable Modes
What I wanted to see was worlds that began with human design, but had taken on a life of their own: designed beauty being exchanged for discovered beauty in virtual spaces - created by glitches or data-bending. I wanted to not just create art from broken ROM files for games, but explore things shut off from us by walls of failed code. I'm being a little poetic here, but this was the gist of how Inaccessible Worlds came to be: I ran corruption scripts on ROM files for games that made them un-p...
Inaccessible Worlds: Unlockable Modes
What I wanted to see was worlds that began with human design, but had taken on a life of their own: designed beauty being exchanged for discovered beauty in virtual spaces - created by glitches or data-bending. I wanted to not just create art from broken ROM files for games, but explore things shut off from us by walls of failed code. I'm being a little poetic here, but this was the gist of how Inaccessible Worlds came to be: I ran corruption scripts on ROM files for games that made them un-p...
Frank Lloyd Wrong
A generative tribute
Farcaster '26 - What We Are and What We Are Not
This post is taking part in the Farcaster 2026 writing contest With the introduction of Farcaster as the social feed in Coinbase Wallet, it’s worth asking what exactly it means to be a social layer in crypto. If we’re not just the communications and propaganda branch of Coinbase (and hopefully we aren’t) who are we? What are we doing with Farcaster? It’s hard to say, because on the one hand I’m not sure there has been a thing quite like what we want to be - but there are lots of examples of w...
Farcaster '26 - What We Are and What We Are Not
This post is taking part in the Farcaster 2026 writing contest With the introduction of Farcaster as the social feed in Coinbase Wallet, it’s worth asking what exactly it means to be a social layer in crypto. If we’re not just the communications and propaganda branch of Coinbase (and hopefully we aren’t) who are we? What are we doing with Farcaster? It’s hard to say, because on the one hand I’m not sure there has been a thing quite like what we want to be - but there are lots of examples of w...
Farcaster '26 - What We Are and What We Are Not
This post is taking part in the Farcaster 2026 writing contest With the introduction of Farcaster as the social feed in Coinbase Wallet, it’s worth asking what exactly it means to be a social layer in crypto. If we’re not just the communications and propaganda branch of Coinbase (and hopefully we aren’t) who are we? What are we doing with Farcaster? It’s hard to say, because on the one hand I’m not sure there has been a thing quite like what we want to be - but there are lots of examples of w...
Farcaster '26 - What We Are and What We Are Not
This post is taking part in the Farcaster 2026 writing contest With the introduction of Farcaster as the social feed in Coinbase Wallet, it’s worth asking what exactly it means to be a social layer in crypto. If we’re not just the communications and propaganda branch of Coinbase (and hopefully we aren’t) who are we? What are we doing with Farcaster? It’s hard to say, because on the one hand I’m not sure there has been a thing quite like what we want to be - but there are lots of examples of w...
I Am Not Good at Computer
What is IANGAC? It’s a fictional HyperCard stack that is an example of one person in relative isolation trying to map their own internal “memex” - their own Xanadu of ideas that are probably wrong or inaccurate in all kinds of ways, that even when they are right they are so particular and limited and conjoined to all sorts of other unrelated things. It is meant to shine a light on how we think - and what’s more - how we delude ourselves into believing we think more clearly and singularly than...
I Am Not Good at Computer
What is IANGAC? It’s a fictional HyperCard stack that is an example of one person in relative isolation trying to map their own internal “memex” - their own Xanadu of ideas that are probably wrong or inaccurate in all kinds of ways, that even when they are right they are so particular and limited and conjoined to all sorts of other unrelated things. It is meant to shine a light on how we think - and what’s more - how we delude ourselves into believing we think more clearly and singularly than...
I Am Not Good at Computer
What is IANGAC? It’s a fictional HyperCard stack that is an example of one person in relative isolation trying to map their own internal “memex” - their own Xanadu of ideas that are probably wrong or inaccurate in all kinds of ways, that even when they are right they are so particular and limited and conjoined to all sorts of other unrelated things. It is meant to shine a light on how we think - and what’s more - how we delude ourselves into believing we think more clearly and singularly than...
I Am Not Good at Computer
What is IANGAC? It’s a fictional HyperCard stack that is an example of one person in relative isolation trying to map their own internal “memex” - their own Xanadu of ideas that are probably wrong or inaccurate in all kinds of ways, that even when they are right they are so particular and limited and conjoined to all sorts of other unrelated things. It is meant to shine a light on how we think - and what’s more - how we delude ourselves into believing we think more clearly and singularly than...
Melon's Art Picks Vol. 7
Sometimes artists join the web3/crypto space and do what they’ve been doing elsewhere, only in a new place for a little while. Usually their art practice is pretty advanced and they make a few digital pieces for one marketplace or another. The next leg up towards being a participant involves a few things: expanding beyond the first marketplace they understand how to use, and finding a voice and way of being in social media that doesn’t make them frustrated to the point of quitting. The fact t...
Melon's Art Picks Vol. 7
Sometimes artists join the web3/crypto space and do what they’ve been doing elsewhere, only in a new place for a little while. Usually their art practice is pretty advanced and they make a few digital pieces for one marketplace or another. The next leg up towards being a participant involves a few things: expanding beyond the first marketplace they understand how to use, and finding a voice and way of being in social media that doesn’t make them frustrated to the point of quitting. The fact t...
Melon's Art Picks Vol. 7
Sometimes artists join the web3/crypto space and do what they’ve been doing elsewhere, only in a new place for a little while. Usually their art practice is pretty advanced and they make a few digital pieces for one marketplace or another. The next leg up towards being a participant involves a few things: expanding beyond the first marketplace they understand how to use, and finding a voice and way of being in social media that doesn’t make them frustrated to the point of quitting. The fact t...
Melon's Art Picks Vol. 7
Sometimes artists join the web3/crypto space and do what they’ve been doing elsewhere, only in a new place for a little while. Usually their art practice is pretty advanced and they make a few digital pieces for one marketplace or another. The next leg up towards being a participant involves a few things: expanding beyond the first marketplace they understand how to use, and finding a voice and way of being in social media that doesn’t make them frustrated to the point of quitting. The fact t...
Workstation95
Workstation95 is the synthesis of two projects - Do You Want to Feel Something? (by me, the sgt) and Iteration’s Vapor Workstations with Illumixis. The connection between these two projects may not be immediately apparent, but they weave together into one pseudo-nostalgic body of work. One of the surprises of working on a Windows95 themed project was to sort of discover an implicit world behind the system images Microsoft (and later other third parties) created. They have familiar icons in 2d...
Workstation95
Workstation95 is the synthesis of two projects - Do You Want to Feel Something? (by me, the sgt) and Iteration’s Vapor Workstations with Illumixis. The connection between these two projects may not be immediately apparent, but they weave together into one pseudo-nostalgic body of work. One of the surprises of working on a Windows95 themed project was to sort of discover an implicit world behind the system images Microsoft (and later other third parties) created. They have familiar icons in 2d...
Workstation95
Workstation95 is the synthesis of two projects - Do You Want to Feel Something? (by me, the sgt) and Iteration’s Vapor Workstations with Illumixis. The connection between these two projects may not be immediately apparent, but they weave together into one pseudo-nostalgic body of work. One of the surprises of working on a Windows95 themed project was to sort of discover an implicit world behind the system images Microsoft (and later other third parties) created. They have familiar icons in 2d...
Workstation95
Workstation95 is the synthesis of two projects - Do You Want to Feel Something? (by me, the sgt) and Iteration’s Vapor Workstations with Illumixis. The connection between these two projects may not be immediately apparent, but they weave together into one pseudo-nostalgic body of work. One of the surprises of working on a Windows95 themed project was to sort of discover an implicit world behind the system images Microsoft (and later other third parties) created. They have familiar icons in 2d...
The Confusing Meta of Early 2024 Crypto-Art
If you’re an artist who has been around NFTs for a minute but aren’t considered “blue chip” - what’s this year looking like for you? I’m going to take a second to offer some thoughts on the current scene, the market, and toss out some potential strategies. Current Scene: Fragmented For one thing - everything everywhere is getting harder to track. With the advent of services like Manifold to create contracts, it seemed like every marketplace developed their own function for artists to create t...
The Confusing Meta of Early 2024 Crypto-Art
If you’re an artist who has been around NFTs for a minute but aren’t considered “blue chip” - what’s this year looking like for you? I’m going to take a second to offer some thoughts on the current scene, the market, and toss out some potential strategies. Current Scene: Fragmented For one thing - everything everywhere is getting harder to track. With the advent of services like Manifold to create contracts, it seemed like every marketplace developed their own function for artists to create t...
The Confusing Meta of Early 2024 Crypto-Art
If you’re an artist who has been around NFTs for a minute but aren’t considered “blue chip” - what’s this year looking like for you? I’m going to take a second to offer some thoughts on the current scene, the market, and toss out some potential strategies. Current Scene: Fragmented For one thing - everything everywhere is getting harder to track. With the advent of services like Manifold to create contracts, it seemed like every marketplace developed their own function for artists to create t...
The Confusing Meta of Early 2024 Crypto-Art
If you’re an artist who has been around NFTs for a minute but aren’t considered “blue chip” - what’s this year looking like for you? I’m going to take a second to offer some thoughts on the current scene, the market, and toss out some potential strategies. Current Scene: Fragmented For one thing - everything everywhere is getting harder to track. With the advent of services like Manifold to create contracts, it seemed like every marketplace developed their own function for artists to create t...
