[Thursday Thoughties] Crypto Habits & Social Speculation

Stupidly simple. Surprisingly sticky. That’s StreakPoints in a nutshell. It’s been a month since I started streaking on StreakPoints, a new crypto-powered site built on Polygon where users check-in daily to earn a portion of the one million $SP tokens distributed every day. What’s $SP you ask? According to Cameron, founder of Cent and the developer behind StreakPoints, it’s a token without a product. And that’s accurate, at least for now. So, why am I writing about StreakPoints? Like I said, ...

[Thursday Thoughties] Hallmark Cards

Tis the season for Xmas movies on the Hallmark Channel. The above may be the most unexpected phrase to be uttered onchain this year (at least by me lmfao). But trust me, there’s a crypto connection baked in there - just let me cook for a second. I’m not sure exactly when I first took notice, it may have been on a long winter semester home with the family outside of Philly a year or so after starting university in Seoul, but at a certain point in his life, every year around Xmas time my father...

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Cryptoart, History & Perspective

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...

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[Thursday Thoughties] Banal Screensavers

Listening to: “GIVE UP THE GOODS“ by Coast Contra Drinking: Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Urbock by Schlenkerla (Germany)Life is no longer rooted in reality. For some time now, but the last three decades in particular, we’ve been living in a permanent state of surreality. Our consciousness is constantly vacillating between the irl and url - reality and unreality. This has resulted in a modern experience that is definitionally absurd. Chaotic. Pointless some say. The American context stands out ...

[Thursday Thoughties] Aggregating Cross-chain Collections

Listening to: “Homeless Lottery Freestyle“ by 347aidanThe other day I was hanging out in the Tezos district rifling through the secondary market on objkt.com scooping some absolute gems when I realized most folks probably hadn’t seen my collection of art minted on Tezos. It didn’t take long for me to think that my collection of art minted on Ethereum and L2s like Polygon wasn’t any different since I collect across multiple wallets. I’ve only ever collected one piece of art minted on Solana, s...

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[Thursday Thoughties] Onchain Truth

2023 Nov 2Listening to: “Breathe And Stop Freestyle“ by Coast ContraDrinking: Imperial Hard Cider by 19 Acres Cider Co. (Sherwood, OR)The new home for Truth is onchain. Until recently, Truth could be found in universities around the world and in countries that embraced enlightenment ideals. Today though, Truth seems to be in short supply. I’m not sure when it started, but the dominant trend around the world these days seems to be one of privileging feelings over everything else; especially Tr...

[Purchases & Prunings] October 2023

Collecting in October was chill and relaxed. A welcome cooldown from a more active than forecast previous few months. There’s a habitual itch that collecting definitely scratches, but just like any other habit forming activity, it’s crucial to set redlines, especially when the medium of exchange is crypto (aka the slipperiest and easiest form of money ever invented) to ensure things remain consistently fun for the long run. Thankfully, my redline is simple: I only collect what I love - or at ...

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[Thursday Thoughties] Slow-Release Art

Thursday Thoughties [2023 Oct 26]Listening to: “Rejoice & Everybody Does - CARDINAL SESSIONS“ by Julien Baker Drinking: Cuvée des Jacobins Rouge (Flemish Sour Ale) by Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste (Belgium)I’m pretty sure I have one of the best jobs on planet earth. For those of you who may not know, I’ve worked at Nifty Gateway for almost three years. In that time I’ve had the great fortune to work with the world’s premier artists (as well as brands like Starbucks more recently) conceptualiz...

[Purchases & Prunings] September 2023

I may not collect the most or spend as much as other collectors, but I’m a pretty f*cking consistent collector. Looking back at my onchain & offchain purchase history, I don’t believe there’s been a month since the summer of 2019 that I haven’t collected at least one digital artwork. And yet, no matter how long you collect, you always remember your firsts. Of course there can only by one ‘first work I collected’ ($COLR by MLIBTY), but especially as you go deeper into your collector journey an...

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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.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 below.Purchases in August 2023toucher de l'herbe #10/30 ...