PinnedRiffing on the GestaltObservations on friendship and emergence through the lens of Web3 Everything is breath and movement in this place, that is never really a place, since it is endlessly forming and deforming itself. —Philippe Parreno Iam a long time fan of the French conceptual artist Daniel Buren, who is well known…Web35 min readWeb35 min read
PinnedUnsigned GestaltA Glossary for the Unsigned Gestalt Community This glossary will evolve, as needed, over time. The intention is to offer some common terms of reference with a view to giving shape to this collective dream, rather than to establish an arbitrary list of rules, which can only dull our common…Unsigned Gestalt8 min readUnsigned Gestalt8 min read
PinnedUnsigned Algorithms: An Invitation To Ask Better Questions“The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.”–Edvard Munch There was a riveting Twitter Space yesterday, October 16, 2021, organized by the human behind the Twitter handle @IbisNft. The conversation was on the well regarded but yet to be entirely elucidated…Cardano8 min readCardano8 min read
PinnedTwitter: The NFT Museum Without WallsWhat French art historian, philosopher and cultural politician André Malraux has to teach us about curation André Malraux first published his essay Le Musée Imaginaire in 1947. It has often been translated in English as The Imaginary Museum or alternatively, The Museum Without Walls. There is abundant literature available online in English on the subject of this work but only a handful of articles pointing to…Cnft8 min readCnft8 min read
Nov 8, 2021No Passengers on this Crazy Ride to the Moon: We Are All Crew!How can we support one another and the growing Cardano NFT community while moving through growing pains? While I’m hesitant to draw too many parallels between finding myself in a freak accident which sent me straight to the ICU and being a tad burnt out, it’s impossible to entirely brush aside how exhausted we are as a collective. There is no shortage of information on dealing with…Nft7 min readNft7 min read
Oct 31, 2021Buying NFTs: Reflections on Collecting Art in the Digital EraIncludes experientially earned wisdom for new entrants interested in swimming with the shrimps and the dolphins! — “It’s not curators, it’s not critics, it’s not the public, it’s not collectors who find great artists — it’s other artists.” — David GalensonNft15 min readNft15 min read
Oct 14, 2021On Kindness, Beauty & the BlockchainStaying on course while navigating the strong currents of change — For close to two years now, I’ve been working on a vast photography project called Decentralized Beauty. …Nft6 min readNft6 min read
Oct 11, 2021Coming Full CircleArt and life itself forever mirroring each other My adult son is about to spread his wings and fly off to build a nest of his own, half way around the world. He is my only child and the moment is both bittersweet and ripe with possibility. The great comfort of cyclicality I might buy a small piece of land and build a…Nft5 min readNft5 min read
Sep 28, 2021Good Vibes Are Legal TenderReflections on the power to coin money and the wisdom to hold it lightly It would be good form to lead with some historical definitions about currency and whatnot but in truth, FIAT depresses me immensely, as does the crumbling paradigm that gave license to the Central Bank to counterfeit our hard earned money! …Cnft4 min readCnft4 min read
Sep 5, 2021Ancient and Modern Spiritual Technologies Dancing In UnisonWhy the Cardano blockchain is the natural habitat of the ten Great Wisdom Goddesses I just minted a collection of NFTs on the Cardano blockchain! A Cardano NFT is commonly referred to as a #cNFT. This article offers an excellent overview of the ever evolving world of cNFTs. …Nft Marketplace6 min readNft Marketplace6 min read
