# 001 octopus inspace

By [ SFDK](https://paragraph.com/@malfnktion) · 2022-01-23

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**It’s cool to create your own worlds and then live inside of them. I’ve recently started exploring a strange new world known as inspace. I want to share some of these stories with you and journal them on the blockchain.**

I’ve also been inspired to learn animation and create a collectible work of fiction. Why not, right, I’m an artist traveling through an advanced metaverse. I can do lots of things. I can be an octopus.

Recently, I was inspace, at a bar with my friend Kairo. He said to me, “Without imagination, what’s the point of technology? You don’t want to use a toothbrush to draw a painting.”

Wtf does that mean?

He pointed to his glass of fermented red grapes. “Look at this wine glass. It has a whole universe inside.”

And it did, there were galaxy clusters and nebulae and planets with moons all swirling around.

I think these stories are worth sharing. Like when I came super close to experiencing shantii💙, a creative AI that imparts hyper sensory modal frequencies to every neuron in your body. The way Kairo introduced it, “bro, we’re going to submerge in this giant ocean called shantii💙, that’ll sort of fuck you. You don’t have to be an octopus but it’ll feel really good cause you have a hundred suckers on each arm.”

This animation, my first ever, is my impression of what that experience may have been like.

[edition://0xDF5b5ee15CC96ba7d0CB6BD9b2c0fc4417ab6445?editionId=3711](https://etherscan.io/address/0xDF5b5ee15CC96ba7d0CB6BD9b2c0fc4417ab6445)

Sadly we never made it in. Several creatures, including me got caught by a passing trawl. I heard a random voice, so you want to know what it really feels like to be a marine mollusc?!

Next moment, I was on a 2 bit platy called the 🐟 fish tank, an immersive dining experience. We were marinated, seasoned and served to a pack of hungry mark cubans and they devoured us limb by limb. Later, they joked that it was all just a big painful simulation to raise awareness on octopus fishing.

What I tried to capture is v real to me. But the scene is that memories inspace are hard to remember irl. I’m going to try writing down my experiences, and write a song if I’m inspired. And I will continue building the narrative known as malfnktion.inspace. Buy my genesis NFT to support its development ┏(＾0＾)┛

octopus inspace (audio) - [audius.co/malfnktion/octopus-inspace\_v3\_32bars](http://audius.co/malfnktion/octopus-inspace_v3_32bars)

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*Originally published on [ SFDK](https://paragraph.com/@malfnktion/001-octopus-inspace)*