Fatigué mais
satisfait, I
pushed hard today
on my run, it
was moeilijk
and that makes the win süßer.
The trees on the opposite river bank look wonderful in autumn. Orbs in browns, reds, yelllows, oranges, golds, lay a wonderful cotton-ball blanket over the island and the hill on the other side of the river. This view inspired the poem I used for my first ever NFT, created about 4 years ago. With these colours, I entered a new world. One in which I met wonderful poets who have an urge to experiment and explore the unknown.
The poem above is, in a way, an ode to all these wonderful artists, and one in particular. Entering the wonderful world of Web3 meant encountering the mesmerising works of Marta Gazzola. It was for me the first time that I saw poetry that reflected how I use languages so naturally: mixing it all up like those living in a third country do. Even when I speak with my kids we use at least 3 languages seamlessly. Sometimes in a three word sentence. It is natural for us.
Still, I have not really tried to, or succeeded to, create a poem using more than one language. The one above came to me while I was running the other day. Combined with the multicolour cotton-ball blanket, it made me reminisce about my time in Web3.
How have you exeprienced your first steps into the world of crypto art? And if you have not tried it yet, what's keeping you?
PS: I have just launched my Paragraph Writer Coin, an ERC20 token. A bit more about that at the bottom of this issue. Way down past the poetry of life section.
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This week, I have an image and an accompanying linked poem for you. It is one of my favourite poems, by one of those amazing and inspiring poets I met "onchain": Marta Gazzola.
da quando ho perdonato, I
forgot all of my pain.
come
write your darkness on me. I
am ready to delete it again and again.
The current hype in the wonderful world of Web3, or crypto, or onchain, are coins. On Ethereum-based blockchains, there is a type of token named ERC20, that works like a crypto coin. Paragraph, the company behind the platform I am using to create and distribute this newsletter, has given me the opportunity to be one of the first to launch a writer coin here. So I did. Just now. The ticker is $TRPLFFCT, and by creating this, 2.66% of the total supply is shared with people who have supported me in the past. That is: holders of the ERC20 (on Base) $HOPJE, people who have supported this publication by collecting past issues, qualified followers on Farcaster (Paragraph makes the qualification rules) and qualified subscribers (again: Paragraph made the rules for qualification, I assume at the very least you need to have told them your wallet address).
Thank you all for reading, for your support and now here's another way to support me, and to step into the crypto casino while doing so. Enjoy.
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A post by @arjantupan traces fatigue and satisfaction after a hard run, autumn riverbank imagery that inspired a poem turned NFT, a Web3 journey with Marta Gazzola, and multilingual creativity in crypto art. It notes the launch of Paragraph Writer Coin ($TRPLFFCT) to support the project.