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16 Oct, 10 tweets, 3 min read
1/ On The City Experiment

I started this thread below literally on a 1 second feelz-converted-to-a-tweet.

Been thinking about it a bit more and will share a couple of thoughts plus a new organizational model for the cities in the thread below

2/ For me the most amazing thing about art is "you get to see the world through someone else's eyes"

What more incredible thing than this? I go through life trying to absorb as much as possible - through travel, through books, through as much inflow to my brain as possible
3/ Art is another way to do this, from very practical "here is a picture of an iceberg or person that I might never see IRL" to conceptual "here is what Dali dreams about"

It is awesome
4/ Back to the city experiment. It is a way to see our vast grand world through many people's eyes.

Buildings? yes
People? yes
Food? yes
Anything you want us to see? yes
5/ Can people post:

NFTs? yes
non-NFTs? yes
photographs? yes
paintings? yes
any way they interpret a city? yes
their NFTs? yes
NFTs of others? yes
6/ So I am going to keep going for a while and see how this goes.

A technical change - each new set of cities will be in a batch of 5 cities in a new thread, linked here, bc otherwise the replies will all be lost under the list of cities.

So cities #51 to #55 are inbound
7/ NEW: Cities #51 to #55 in the thread below

8/ NEW: Cities #56 to #60 in the thread below

9/ NEW: Cities #61 to #65 in the thread below

10/ NEW: Cities 66 to 70 and a special free-for-all at #69

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More from @punk6529

13 Oct
1/ On Eyes On Earth and Citizen Science

First, you MUST go watch this remarkable piece of art by @MattScobel that joined 6529 Museum Permanent Collection

It is a 24 hour view of all satellites circling the earth

foundation.app/@scobel/~/95439
2/ Second, read about the process of putting this together

mattscobel.com/eyes-on-earth

Hundreds of hours of work went into compiling the data, modeling it, trouble-shooting it and so on.
3/ What do I see here?

I see the beginnings of a new funding model, not just for art, but for collectively funded citizen science.

This particular NFT is as much science as it is art, not far off from the type of work that might receive a research grant or be a thesis.
Read 14 tweets
7 Oct
1/ On the 6529 Gradient Collection

So now that @lphaCentauriKid is live with his SR Genesis piece...

...time to add some more end-of-week fun and send @6529er live with his NFT genesis piece.
2/ As most of you know, @6529er has designed the iconic 6529 logo.

I am obsessed with this logo. I sometimes go to my own profile page just to look at it.

It is, imho, @6529er's finest work.

It is time tonight to start step 1 of its journey into the metaverse. ImageImage
3/ A few weeks ago, I asked @6529er to think about how he would like to represent the logo in his genesis collection.

He came back with the type of austere, clean and subtle collection that I love.
Read 42 tweets
5 Oct
1/ On A Pathway To An Open Metaverse

We are going to make a run at changing the arc of history.

It is a Return of the Jedi vs the Death Star style mission.

They have the money and the power. We mostly have our brains, our community and gm.

But it might be just enough
2/ A step back.

6529 has been involved in crypto since BTC summer 2013.

From the first day, I was convinced that BTC and its successors would change the world, make it a better world, decentralize power away from choke points, and that this was a net good for humanity
3/ I played a small role in BTC's development and acceptance.

Small in the scheme of things, but important to me, and, at the time, it was a "risky" move.

And since then I have been waiting for our more decentralized social systems to emerge.

And waiting, and waiting...
Read 100 tweets
3 Oct
1/ On ETH Gas Prices

Are Ethereum gas prices expensive for buying, transporting and storing art?

My 🔥 take is that they are very inexpensive relative to what they are replacing

Is this because 6529 buys 1,000 ETH pieces? NO!

We will work it out on less expensive pieces
2/ I just bought some 0.1ETH "gm" pieces (so about $350) and have been paying about $35 in gas (10% of the price), so 90% to the artist and 10% in distribution costs.

Is that a lot 🐳or a little 🤏?
3/ Well, what is my alternative in IRL?

~ For any physical object you buy at retail for $350, not just 'art' but the cool vase on your bookshelf, somewhere between 40% to 75% of the cost is 'distribution' costs - from transportation to middlemen to the cost of the store / staff
Read 14 tweets
3 Oct
1/ So a friend asked me about this tweet - "doesn't this piss you off?" and I thought I would tweet my answer.

The short answer is "no"

Yes, at some level @Vince_Van_Dough / @StarryNight_Cap / @zhusu & "mystery billionaire" & 6529 are competing for certain pieces, but...
2/ ...it is much more important that our individual efforts aggregate to help the NFT art space.

It is easy to think about this in reverse.

If 6529 was the only buyer of generative art at >1,000 ETH, would the space be better or worse off?
3/ Another lens:

In a year, do I hope that there are 30 people/funds/daos competing for these top generative pieces or just the 3 of us?

I hope that there are 30, even though it will make things harder for 6529 Museum as a permanent buyer, not seller
Read 6 tweets
2 Oct
1/ So as someone who has three full Art Block Curated horizontal collections (sets), some instant reactions to this.

These are not conclusive and I reserve the right to change my mind as I process it more
2/ This set for sale was ~a floorish set with a reserve a bit above the floor.

So we should think through who is the buyer for that at Christies and why are they buying it?
3/ First of all, I think horizontal ABC collections are a niche within a niche (gen art) within a niche (NFTs).

Right now, the collectors who care about them most I think are @VonMises14 and me.
Read 11 tweets

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