Reality Tunnel

I love seeing people make statements or repost statements on things they know nothing about with blind confidence. As if real life is exactly like what they see in Hollywood movies, or better still, as if establishment media and paid up politicians actually tell the truth.

When I first minted on SR, on January 2nd of 2019, it was already too late for me as Robbie Barat, XCOPY and Hackatao already minted the only pieces worth mentioning in cryptoart history over and over. As it turns out, being the 1st, 2nd or 3rd at something is the way to go.

BURNER launched 2 years ago today. The contract was deployed before The Merge. Public minting began a few days after. The series is both Proof of Work and Proof of Stake

Supporting artists that are in the top is not supporting, is maintaining. Curating artists that are in the top is not curating, is promoting.

Some people claim to support free speech and act as if they're patrons of the arts. Then when an artist produces work expressing an idea they don't like, they won't tolerate it. Either this is an art space with real artistic freedom or just a financial market larping as one.

The BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has described pagers being blown up in public places all across #Lebanon as a "tactical triumph" and a "spectacular coup". This was the youngest victim of the attack. 👇 The "cheerleading" of state terror should never be normalised.

The Monster in the Mirror is Never Me my (first ever) collab with santiago on SuperRare 💎 ...

Think bigger

Without critical thinking, you're a slave to your conditioning. If you only seek information from sources that confirm your biases, you learn nothing. If you accept without question "facts" presented to you by the media and politicians, you're a npc and you don't even know it.

While Israel spreads death and destruction, Palestinians rebuild. They plant and they grow. They take care of the land and try to restore it. They breathe back life and beauty into what Israel destroyed. Israel may cut all the flowers, but they will never stop spring from coming.

In NFTs there's an impulse to make work that people want to look at. Same thing in the gallery world. The attention economy is real, whether it's played out in people's wallets or on their walls. As a result, making work that's even mildly uncomfortable is a public service

ive sold over 2,000 pieces of art in about 6 years on the blockchain that still trips me out, the scale of it and i'm still pretty much "emerging" no agents, no marketing, pretty much just making the dopest shit i can imagine and posting it on social media

they primed your mind for a year to accept the mass extermination of palestinians. many don’t even know that gazans lost the ability to record more deaths 10 months ago. now the media barely mentions israel killing 500 people in lebanon today. i am so tired of this dehumanization

All four minted during the bear. All four leveraging the blockchain as a medium, carrying the signature of a bold and innovative artist. Besides being a good friend, James is someone I admire deeply for his courage to do things his way. These are true cryptoart treasures to me.

Rebirth

More than 700 killed in Lebanon in last two days. Lebanese health ministry says “most if not all” were civilians. An atrocity

Cycles is a new network artwork on Ethereum. It's an onchain kinetic sculpture of rotating rings, made up of 512 individual lenses. Each lens represents a unique simulation, moving through parametric space - a window onto patterns evolving over days, months and years. 1/

an invasion. it is called an invasion

Don't confuse a humanitarian issue with a political one, or a simple issue with a complex one. Don't confuse the oppressor with the oppressed, or the criminal with the victim. Propaganda is what separates perception from reality.