Max Drekker (https://twitter.com/MaxDrekker) There are a lot of people doing geometric abstraction - let’s get that admission out of the way first. Standing out in an aesthetic where a few shape tools puts you on level with thousands of other artists means that you’ve got to have a concept or a style that is so indisputably your own that it requires some kind of refinement to even have a glimmer of hope for success. Max Drekker is an artist I discovered on Instagram who now has a large collec...

Max Drekker (https://twitter.com/MaxDrekker) There are a lot of people doing geometric abstraction - let’s get that admission out of the way first. Standing out in an aesthetic where a few shape tools puts you on level with thousands of other artists means that you’ve got to have a concept or a style that is so indisputably your own that it requires some kind of refinement to even have a glimmer of hope for success. Max Drekker is an artist I discovered on Instagram who now has a large collec...

DISCLAIMER: This is long. It’s thorough but not exhaustive in detailing BASED history. It is targeted to a non-existent demographic: people interested in the history of based.money who have no prior experience with cryptocurrency. Originally written in November 2021 and discarded, now revised for the summer of 2022 after the launch of Based Ghouls to help make sense of our rich memetic history. It will probably make me seem less savvy than I already did, and I hope by being a little vulnerabl...

DISCLAIMER: This is long. It’s thorough but not exhaustive in detailing BASED history. It is targeted to a non-existent demographic: people interested in the history of based.money who have no prior experience with cryptocurrency. Originally written in November 2021 and discarded, now revised for the summer of 2022 after the launch of Based Ghouls to help make sense of our rich memetic history. It will probably make me seem less savvy than I already did, and I hope by being a little vulnerabl...

I've had a lot of people discuss tokenized art with me and ask about the difference between the file, the token on the chain - the relative worth of the token compared to the media file, things like that. I have an article called Do Your Own Rhetoric that addresses some concerns about NFTs and Crypto more generally, but here I want to take some time to try to ground the value of tokenized art and compare and contrast it with tokenized collectibles. I wanted to clarify first what I consid...

I've had a lot of people discuss tokenized art with me and ask about the difference between the file, the token on the chain - the relative worth of the token compared to the media file, things like that. I have an article called Do Your Own Rhetoric that addresses some concerns about NFTs and Crypto more generally, but here I want to take some time to try to ground the value of tokenized art and compare and contrast it with tokenized collectibles. I wanted to clarify first what I consid...

It’s difficult being an artist that also wants to collect, given that you’re not coming from a trader or investor kind of portfolio and your art income is very much a chunk of your livelihood. That said, there’s a few artists I’ve taken the time to collect repeatedly. Choosing who to talk about and who to wait on sometimes hurts feelings, so if I don’t cover your art here and we are friends or mutual collectors - take heart, I’ll get to you. I’m going to try to not just showcase what I like, ...

It’s difficult being an artist that also wants to collect, given that you’re not coming from a trader or investor kind of portfolio and your art income is very much a chunk of your livelihood. That said, there’s a few artists I’ve taken the time to collect repeatedly. Choosing who to talk about and who to wait on sometimes hurts feelings, so if I don’t cover your art here and we are friends or mutual collectors - take heart, I’ll get to you. I’m going to try to not just showcase what I like, ...