I'm obsessed with profile pages. Before algorithmic feeds, social media was about spending time on profile pages. It was personal. Users curated their pages based on aesthetics more than social signalling. They communicated with instead of at each other. Gardens. It was dope. Here's my Zora profile:I just noticed the primary display name is $usersteen, my profile's token (which this post is paired with lol) From a design perspective, it's clean. There's a coin-to-social flow that is intuitive...

UPDATED 08.26.25 @ 10:14PM Following up on:zora is for gridsA visual studyhttps://paragraph.comVertical lines appear thinner than horizontal lines of the same weight. This makes 9:16 feel tall. Weird tall. In person, on 55"+ displays, it's impressive. It also works well for mobile; we know this because of short-form social media. It displays relatively large. The digital flexibility is worth pushing past reels and vidz. Jpg+gif 9:16 is a massive creative opportunity. I think it's a pathway fo...

A visual study

I've been talking about writing more for literal years, but haven't done it for [reasons]. So it's noteworthy that upon starting only my second post, a pattern emerged. The original title for this was "On Format & Simulations." I wanted to write about aspect ratios in the context of 'Simulations,' and art project I'm publishing on Zora. Probably one of the few art projects on Zora erc20 version. I typed the title in and realized my first post, "On Rodeo/New Game," followed a similar structure...

There are a million things I wanted to write about this past year but didn't. Thoughts on platforms, my art, $ENJOY, and so on. Many drafts. Many thoughts unsaid. Letting the backlog go feels like a solid plan for 2025. To this point, I've mostly been publishing two projects on Zora: LOBOTOMY_V1, and Still Life. Zora's been screwing around with collections and removed the feature without an announcement. Supposedly, they're coming back, but the initial change forced me to pause those projects...

This image is so disturbing. I feel like I pulled off what I was going for and more, considering how it displays in different formats. Like the cover image for this post. Or a square, or pfp. Zora is an interesting arena because on profiles, images display in squares on web and natural-ratio on mobile. I'm pressure testing the 9:16 canvas, trying to optimize for multiple formats. This one will be cool on zora, but it won't work as a pfp. Next image on zora will optimize for all 3. It's worth ...