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[Purchases & Prunings] August 2023
August ended up being a bit busier on the collecting front than I was originally expecting. In a good way of course.toucher de l'herbe #10/30 by Sarah Zucker (Manifold)I collected some gems including a brand new Sarah Zucker [pictured above], some amazing works off of Nifty Gateway by a few artists I have long admired and finally had the great pleasure of producing, as well as my first cryptoart on Solana over on the Exchange Art platform. You can peruse all of the works I collected belo...

Infinite Care & Unbounded Attention
This piece of writing was originally published on Cent back on Dec. 18, 2018 under the title “New Governments & New Communities.” I’m re-publishing it here because the promise of proper crypto social products is again palpable, and I believe the tenets of infinite care & unbounded attention are as pertinent as ever for founders of crypto social products in particular to embody and exhibit.To form a new government requires infinite care and unbounded attention, for if the foundation is badly l...

All The New Golden Ages
The following piece of writing was originally published Nov. 4 2020 over on my old Cent page reflecting on my then half decade being a part of crypto (3 years as a builder and 2 years digging down into the rabbit hole). Honestly though, this piece feels more relevant now than ever, so I’m re-sharing it and putting it onchain."I saw a vision of us move in the dark; all that we did or dreamed of..." That quote is from The Tower Beyond Tragedy by Robinson Jeffers. What a trip. I've been ref...
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[Purchases & Prunings] August 2023
August ended up being a bit busier on the collecting front than I was originally expecting. In a good way of course.toucher de l'herbe #10/30 by Sarah Zucker (Manifold)I collected some gems including a brand new Sarah Zucker [pictured above], some amazing works off of Nifty Gateway by a few artists I have long admired and finally had the great pleasure of producing, as well as my first cryptoart on Solana over on the Exchange Art platform. You can peruse all of the works I collected belo...

Infinite Care & Unbounded Attention
This piece of writing was originally published on Cent back on Dec. 18, 2018 under the title “New Governments & New Communities.” I’m re-publishing it here because the promise of proper crypto social products is again palpable, and I believe the tenets of infinite care & unbounded attention are as pertinent as ever for founders of crypto social products in particular to embody and exhibit.To form a new government requires infinite care and unbounded attention, for if the foundation is badly l...

All The New Golden Ages
The following piece of writing was originally published Nov. 4 2020 over on my old Cent page reflecting on my then half decade being a part of crypto (3 years as a builder and 2 years digging down into the rabbit hole). Honestly though, this piece feels more relevant now than ever, so I’m re-sharing it and putting it onchain."I saw a vision of us move in the dark; all that we did or dreamed of..." That quote is from The Tower Beyond Tragedy by Robinson Jeffers. What a trip. I've been ref...
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Perspective matters. A lot.
On the internet though, there is zero native perspective. Perspective here is emergent, and is only added later, by those who use it.
Anyone who has taken part in the emergence of cryptoart over the past 5 or so some odd years on the internet has for sure felt the bubbling kinetic energy that's powered a tidal wave of artists creating new art works that've landed in the collections of collectors all over the world.
We've all felt it. Maybe we've been lucky enough to see fragments of this growing thing we call cryptoart here and there at conferences or different irl & url meetups.
For me, personally, it wasn't until last year that the full, beautiful scope of cryptoart - the growing number of exciting and important and impactful yet unique and divergently different artists - and what it was growing into came into sharp relief when the Argentinian artist Panter Xhita released the first wave of A HISTORY OF CRYPTOART on Nifty Gateway featuring the portraits of 90 unique artists arranged in a style inspired by Mexican muralism.

Artists are seers, after all, so it's quite poetic that an artist and their work helped us finally see what we've all felt.
Visual perspective isn't the only thing that artists help provide though; often times an artists living, breathing experience provides much needed contextual perspective.
A HISTORY OF CRYPTOART was made for the screen on a screen by an artist located literally at the bottom of the world that was collected and talked about by hundreds of folks who reside on every continent save for Antarctica.
That is the perspective of cryptoart. And it doesn't stop at this work.
The cryptoart space is dynamic, and despite the best efforts of the bear market, we've continued to grow. Many more artists, collectors, and builders have appended themselves to the blockchain that is recording the history of cryptoart in the interim.
What started with a few wayward pioneers who started minting work using tools originally created to breed digital cats, grew into a small village of interconnected artists-collectors-builders captured in A HISTORY OF CRYPTOART (2022), and today the cryptoart space feels like a mini-metropolis set atop a digital pangea, ready to split off into its own uniquely divergent directions.
But we're still all here together. For today at least.
Before this moment passes, Panter has again captured the Perspective of this very special, particular moment in time in her new collection A HISTORY OF CRYPTOART - SECOND WAVE featuring the portraits of 110 artists (and some easter egg signs of important projects and builders) who are all a part of the history of cryptoart.

You can check out and dive into the detail of A HISTORY OF CRYPTOART - SECOND WAVE over on Nifty Gateway ahead of the primary sale set to launch this Wednesday (11/29) at 6:30 pm ET.
Perspective matters. A lot.
On the internet though, there is zero native perspective. Perspective here is emergent, and is only added later, by those who use it.
Anyone who has taken part in the emergence of cryptoart over the past 5 or so some odd years on the internet has for sure felt the bubbling kinetic energy that's powered a tidal wave of artists creating new art works that've landed in the collections of collectors all over the world.
We've all felt it. Maybe we've been lucky enough to see fragments of this growing thing we call cryptoart here and there at conferences or different irl & url meetups.
For me, personally, it wasn't until last year that the full, beautiful scope of cryptoart - the growing number of exciting and important and impactful yet unique and divergently different artists - and what it was growing into came into sharp relief when the Argentinian artist Panter Xhita released the first wave of A HISTORY OF CRYPTOART on Nifty Gateway featuring the portraits of 90 unique artists arranged in a style inspired by Mexican muralism.

Artists are seers, after all, so it's quite poetic that an artist and their work helped us finally see what we've all felt.
Visual perspective isn't the only thing that artists help provide though; often times an artists living, breathing experience provides much needed contextual perspective.
A HISTORY OF CRYPTOART was made for the screen on a screen by an artist located literally at the bottom of the world that was collected and talked about by hundreds of folks who reside on every continent save for Antarctica.
That is the perspective of cryptoart. And it doesn't stop at this work.
The cryptoart space is dynamic, and despite the best efforts of the bear market, we've continued to grow. Many more artists, collectors, and builders have appended themselves to the blockchain that is recording the history of cryptoart in the interim.
What started with a few wayward pioneers who started minting work using tools originally created to breed digital cats, grew into a small village of interconnected artists-collectors-builders captured in A HISTORY OF CRYPTOART (2022), and today the cryptoart space feels like a mini-metropolis set atop a digital pangea, ready to split off into its own uniquely divergent directions.
But we're still all here together. For today at least.
Before this moment passes, Panter has again captured the Perspective of this very special, particular moment in time in her new collection A HISTORY OF CRYPTOART - SECOND WAVE featuring the portraits of 110 artists (and some easter egg signs of important projects and builders) who are all a part of the history of cryptoart.

You can check out and dive into the detail of A HISTORY OF CRYPTOART - SECOND WAVE over on Nifty Gateway ahead of the primary sale set to launch this Wednesday (11/29) at 6:30 pm ET.
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