A collection of essays, research, and crowdfunding for curation, inclusion, archivism, creative immortality for cultural communities.
BLVKHVND — Building a Decentralized Gaming Community (dSports)
When the pandemic started in 2020, myself and my friends (Blvk0ut, Rolvel, and ATM) started a streaming group BLVKHVND to pass the time and compete as an eSports team. The only problem was, we all had different systems, equipment, internet speeds, access to games...there was a whole lot that made us very unique and we had different interests insofar as WHAT we wanted to play and HOW we wanted to play it.BLVKHVND Core Team: Sirsu (Vain), MVGIC (ATM), Rolvel, Blvk0utThe ones that started it all...
BLVKHVND — Building a Decentralized Gaming Community (dSports)
When the pandemic started in 2020, myself and my friends (Blvk0ut, Rolvel, and ATM) started a streaming group BLVKHVND to pass the time and compete as an eSports team. The only problem was, we all had different systems, equipment, internet speeds, access to games...there was a whole lot that made us very unique and we had different interests insofar as WHAT we wanted to play and HOW we wanted to play it.BLVKHVND Core Team: Sirsu (Vain), MVGIC (ATM), Rolvel, Blvk0utThe ones that started it all...
RIP: Take Your Vitamins / Twitter NFT Crowdfund Experiment
So, this didn't work. Which is fine. Sometimes you try to get something off the ground and doesn't take flight. No worries. Instead, I just closed the fund. Sent the funds back to each backer.Transaction 1 - Sirsu.ethTransaction 2 - Cancersucks.ethTransaction 3 - Sirsu.eth (didn't have adequate funds in the proxy wallet for the would be VITAMIN group, so sent it here to finish out the rest of the transactions)Transaction 4 - pan_danilTransaction 5 - redactedprideWhat we learned...
RIP: Take Your Vitamins / Twitter NFT Crowdfund Experiment
So, this didn't work. Which is fine. Sometimes you try to get something off the ground and doesn't take flight. No worries. Instead, I just closed the fund. Sent the funds back to each backer.Transaction 1 - Sirsu.ethTransaction 2 - Cancersucks.ethTransaction 3 - Sirsu.eth (didn't have adequate funds in the proxy wallet for the would be VITAMIN group, so sent it here to finish out the rest of the transactions)Transaction 4 - pan_danilTransaction 5 - redactedprideWhat we learned...
Memory Tokens: The Auction
I recently published an essay talking about the experience minting my own memories. I recently published an essay talking about the experience minting my own memories. I didn't have a plan when doing so, I just wanted to experiment with what an NFT could be. And although I had minted these works at the end of 2020 to early 2021, with Mirror's splits, and the open-source auction method $BOUNTY, I was able to not only bring these works back into the fore; I could do so with the proper...
Memory Tokens: The Auction
I recently published an essay talking about the experience minting my own memories. I recently published an essay talking about the experience minting my own memories. I didn't have a plan when doing so, I just wanted to experiment with what an NFT could be. And although I had minted these works at the end of 2020 to early 2021, with Mirror's splits, and the open-source auction method $BOUNTY, I was able to not only bring these works back into the fore; I could do so with the proper...
In Vitro Nostalgia: Minting Memories
Non-Fungible Memory Tokens [NFMTs]Memories. What do they reveal about you? What do they remind you of? A forgotten time? The nostalgia of an experience since passed? As combed through the various voice recordings on my iPhone, I found a selection of memories from a secret party in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. I didn't immediately think to make them into NFTs. It wasn't until I had gone through the motions on Zora and the audio looped that it clicked; this was the perfect experiment i...
In Vitro Nostalgia: Minting Memories
Non-Fungible Memory Tokens [NFMTs]Memories. What do they reveal about you? What do they remind you of? A forgotten time? The nostalgia of an experience since passed? As combed through the various voice recordings on my iPhone, I found a selection of memories from a secret party in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. I didn't immediately think to make them into NFTs. It wasn't until I had gone through the motions on Zora and the audio looped that it clicked; this was the perfect experiment i...
