Steering away from the satellite of the satellite and recaps of the recaps of recaps and letting you know that during ETHcc, I did something crazy: I went to a museum.

I went to a museum because I always go to museums, because I wanted to see Jana Euler’s Wiels show and because I convinced Emily and Sarah to come with me. I spend way too much time online and reading up on the latest research, I reflect too much about our decentralized world. It was time to just go to a museum. 

No worries, I’m not only a snob. I am also a grateful snob: while I did love the cultural escape, we did 100% do ETHcc, and did it extremely well, all thanks to the people that showed up for Lens + Aave (and Family!). I don’t want to brag, but I’ll have to: we did have the absolute best events of the week. afk was a banger. Open Finance Day was really fun. Latashá (our special guest and honorary team member)  Latashád so hard and so good. And rAAVE was something else. 

Anyways, in a few hours I'll be giving a recap on the Internet Explorers podcast - but I wanted to let you know that sometimes, it’s totally fine to go to a museum. 

Before Internet Explorers and especially, before I enter a weekend of staring at a wall without uttering a single word, here’s some art, good vibes, and good reads I’ve been collecting throughout the week (mostly during Uber rides).

Culture

• Sarah’s fantastic art :) - give her a follow

• Innamosina who’s not only new to Lens but also killing it

• Stunning work by Kyushime (also new to Lens!)

• IT’S MIFELLA’S WEEK ON ORB! Go collect everything.

• The EntryLevel club by Chromuh and Chris Martz is back and launching a contest very very soon :) 

• The Kamigotchi thing looks promising ngl

• CSjoana’s rAAVE Lens collectables

• Yeche Lange hosting a raffle for IRL art! 

• Which brings me to… Evil Biscuit <3

Read

• Alex Van de Sande’s The Triangle of Everything

• Gokhan for the Kiwi x Lens x t2 contest entry questioning the existence and purpose of Decentralized Social

• Beth x The Blockchain Socialist ETHcc Sci-Fi story blew my mind

• Carlos on What Makes Buying a Memecoin Fun?

• Greg Bresnitz on Designing for Desire

Big Lens Energy 

This is unusual for Touch Grass, but this week has been big for Lens announcements, so here they all are:

• 0xUntitled announces they’ll be launching on Lens at afk

• This super interesting and nuanced LIP by zkJew 

• Nodle announced that Click, the app to fight misinformation they’ve been building will be integrated within Lens as an Open Frame

• BonsaiTown - a hub for crypto-focused discussions and blogging 
  

Kay’s Corner 

• Mamimozi just started posting on Lens, she is a talented Japanese calligraphy artist and performer so join me in looking forward to her content on Lens!

• Selene has been sharing her beautiful digital 2D and 3D artwork on Lens which are often available as limited editions, her latest digital drawing done in Procreate is breathtaking!

⭐️HOT NEW LENS USERS⭐️

• Innamosina

• Kyushime

• MysticGarden

• GlassyHeel

• Purrcat

• Joana Kawahara Lino

• Yoshioka