It always starts as an interview, a silent interrogation of sorts. Who are you? I ask as I sit across the screen from the images and begin to scroll, click, zoom. What are you trying to say? What’s important to you? Where are your obsessions, your preoccupations? In any NFT art collection, I look for the unexpected, the unpredictable, for elements and images that recur, the hidden-in-plain-sight markers of any particular reference, philosophy, argument. Creative work requires immense courage ...

It always starts as an interview, a silent interrogation of sorts. Who are you? I ask as I sit across the screen from the images and begin to scroll, click, zoom. What are you trying to say? What’s important to you? Where are your obsessions, your preoccupations? In any NFT art collection, I look for the unexpected, the unpredictable, for elements and images that recur, the hidden-in-plain-sight markers of any particular reference, philosophy, argument. Creative work requires immense courage ...

It was a Sunday afternoon in March and I wanted a glass of red wine more, I was sure, than I had ever wanted anything in my entire life. I was two months sober, the weather was shit and my nerves were shot. I had spent most of the weekend thinking that the trip to Munich was a mistake, that travel would never be the same again, that life was hardly worth living without a drink in my hand. Our last stop before boarding the train back to Frankfurt was a visit to Museum Brandhorst, a modern art ...

It was a Sunday afternoon in March and I wanted a glass of red wine more, I was sure, than I had ever wanted anything in my entire life. I was two months sober, the weather was shit and my nerves were shot. I had spent most of the weekend thinking that the trip to Munich was a mistake, that travel would never be the same again, that life was hardly worth living without a drink in my hand. Our last stop before boarding the train back to Frankfurt was a visit to Museum Brandhorst, a modern art ...

Full disclosure—I adore the way that Browntopink portrays women. You don’t have to scroll through NFT art sites for long to find images of women doing explicit—or simply bizarre—things with/to their bodies. (In some cases, one can only assume that certain creators are DIY-ing their own soft-core porn and then trying to pass it off as art to the rest of us.) In contrast, Browntopink’s work presents the female form as the subject, not an object; the women in her pieces are the actors, not acted...

Full disclosure—I adore the way that Browntopink portrays women. You don’t have to scroll through NFT art sites for long to find images of women doing explicit—or simply bizarre—things with/to their bodies. (In some cases, one can only assume that certain creators are DIY-ing their own soft-core porn and then trying to pass it off as art to the rest of us.) In contrast, Browntopink’s work presents the female form as the subject, not an object; the women in her pieces are the actors, not acted...

The true story of how I lied about my drinking for two years too long, and not in the ways you might think... It does not reflect well on me that one of the first questions in my mind after I quit drinking was: “What will people think?” I became so obsessed with mitigating this public opinion problem that the answer, when it arrived, seemed self-evident: “Just don’t tell anyone.” So I didn’t. It wasn’t until I had been pretending to drink alcohol—at business dinners, industry conferences and ...

The true story of how I lied about my drinking for two years too long, and not in the ways you might think... It does not reflect well on me that one of the first questions in my mind after I quit drinking was: “What will people think?” I became so obsessed with mitigating this public opinion problem that the answer, when it arrived, seemed self-evident: “Just don’t tell anyone.” So I didn’t. It wasn’t until I had been pretending to drink alcohol—at business dinners, industry conferences and ...

“Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark, / for the straightforward path had been lost…” — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto I I was all of fifteen when I first read Dante’s Divine Comedy—feeling, with all an adolescent’s arrogance, that I had discovered something entirely new. Paradiso, I found too theological; Purgatorio was somehow forgettable, like so many sequels. No, the real fun was to be found in the Inferno, with its richly imaginative punishments and ...

“Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark, / for the straightforward path had been lost…” — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto I I was all of fifteen when I first read Dante’s Divine Comedy—feeling, with all an adolescent’s arrogance, that I had discovered something entirely new. Paradiso, I found too theological; Purgatorio was somehow forgettable, like so many sequels. No, the real fun was to be found in the Inferno, with its richly imaginative punishments and ...

The “Into the Gorge” mint includes an all-new short story + a 60-min audio episode + original artwork, all for free: no hurdles & no BS. Read on for how & where to mint! +++ "Into the Gorge" is the 1st piece of my limited-edition NFT series "Shadows of the Gods." This standalone short story + original art free mint is the proof-of-concept for my full book launch this fall, so you're doing me a huge favor by taking part! Minting will take place on my shiny new project site: shadowsbook.xy...

The “Into the Gorge” mint includes an all-new short story + a 60-min audio episode + original artwork, all for free: no hurdles & no BS. Read on for how & where to mint! +++ "Into the Gorge" is the 1st piece of my limited-edition NFT series "Shadows of the Gods." This standalone short story + original art free mint is the proof-of-concept for my full book launch this fall, so you're doing me a huge favor by taking part! Minting will take place on my shiny new project site: shadowsbook.xy...

Neuroscientists don’t know exactly where dreams originate inside the human brain. They can’t extract or study a dream itself, only descriptions of a dream, filtered through the memory of the dreamer. And the prevailing scientific explanation of dreams—defragmentation of the memory drives of the mind—somehow fails to satisfy. Recently, I’ve wondered if virtual reality is an attempt to create a kind of waking dream, a world on the boundary line, a way to tap into those hidden corners of the psy...

Neuroscientists don’t know exactly where dreams originate inside the human brain. They can’t extract or study a dream itself, only descriptions of a dream, filtered through the memory of the dreamer. And the prevailing scientific explanation of dreams—defragmentation of the memory drives of the mind—somehow fails to satisfy. Recently, I’ve wondered if virtual reality is an attempt to create a kind of waking dream, a world on the boundary line, a way to tap into those hidden corners of the psy...