After listening to the community and reading some of the words of @hWonderofWorld here is what i think @puzlworld represents for internet people.

1. Think of us as letters of an alphabet. Alone we represent an ancient symbol that ties us to a memory.
2. Together we make words 3. these words construct action. and feelings. sense and direction. working together we build new meaning.
4. but life isn’t that easy. we really are faced with a choice about this spelling and uniting.
5. We can let others spell us.
6. We can take the method in our own hands.

I find it really interesting that #bayc holders are ambitiously trying to prove @ryder_ripps wrong so that they can regain some feeling of esteem that comes from following someone blindly and not having to question their authority.
What is going on here? anyone? #rrbayc The modus operandi here seems to be:

1. You are making me look at this art, and I don't want to, because there is nothing there to analyse
2. Look what @ryder_ripps did, and let me analyse it (wrongly) by saying Ryder is just being blatantly racist.
3. Ryder should stop arting.

As I walked up a tremendously steep hill to my next meeting, the weight of the art history book in my backpack started to feel heavy. I was thinking of Marines hiking through the swamps at Camp Pendelton.

I was thinking of when cultures turn to power figures to explain imagery. I have sat in on a couple of conversations in the #rrbayc spaces, and there seems to be two camps.

One camp wants to look under the surface of art.
the other sees the surface and accuses it of either empty meaning, or sinister undertones.
This side thinks an artist is evil.

I was thrilled to be asked to contribute a rare 1/1 NFT design for the upcoming @MFF_ETH mint.

I agreed to do it to test my reception as a digital artist. I am self-taught. I have only just begun a digital practice with any kind of concerted method to it. That being the case, I feel that I am described as important or great in the most recent tweets by @MFF_ETH founding designer @DNS_ERR and I just want to clarify:

I have no design or illustration experience. I manipulated hex codes in photos. I play with filter tools.

#phunkism no. 2 #phunkism no. 3

Why I am looking forward to the next few months of #NFT space:

1. Greater conversations will begin to happen about conceptual art

2. More people will be willing to test ideas for NFTs outside of trading monkey pics

3. Full wash out of over-influenced ape holders People have been guided down the wrong path by poor UI and UX at places like @opensea, which has had an outsized effect on what people are willing to explore or investigate when it comes to art, finance and technology

NFTs have been presented to us as a click and buy technology

A thread about my commission-based digital art / storytelling.

I made this #NFT for @hWonderofWorld -- it is one image from a series of images that form part of a biography project that illuminates the origin story of H 8 -- HWonder, his creator moniker. Up until this point, I've created NFTs for people in the #web3 ecosystem that I considered to be friends.

It was my purpose to do so, as I taught myself how to manipulate imagery and create clip art collage and cc0 assembly images that tell a story about that personality.

What does the #CryptoPhunk manifesto teach us about "the new art", a la #NFT art?

Here are my thoughts in thread form. Get out your rocking chairs and shawls, we are goig to sit back for a few minutes

phunks.medium.com/the-cryptophun… #NFT art was born into two contexts. There are actually two Renaissance moments happening at the same time.

1. The first is a struggle between what is visually appreciated, what is considered art

2. The second is a dialogue about decentralisation and control for artists

There have been some debates over whether Ryder Ripps is stealing copyright (he's not) and whether, as an artist or a collector, we should support him (we should).

I want to talk about why.

https://twitter.com/dbc___/status/1530342819944370176

from my article. here is an original #BAYC

And the metadata next to it.

1. the NFT was created to be gamed; it has a system of hegemonic data built into the way the contract interacts with the platform and the auction dynamics

does fine art do this? well, yes, in a way...

This current art time: we can not make judgments of art based on its aesthetic perfection.

What is beauty? a distraction.

Art must be a drill or a tool of some sort that pierces through our habits of perception that trick us into calling what we see “reality.” i want to know what is behind the door. what is behind the clouded glass that we post pamphlets and slogan on and that is a sounding board for echoes.

Funny: I humbly believe I am a pretty good writer about art. I read and think.

When I engage w/ established art critics & purposely write comments to them on their social profiles, they don't engage.

I feel like a % of the art world is hermetically sealed off from engagement. I believe it's because I am not "known."

This reminds me of looking for a job when I was young.

Wanted: someone young, willing to learn, but who has ten years of experience. Otherwise, we won't even talk to you.