Asked an LLM to assess my collection. Its take: I’ve built something with real depth and a coherent thesis around tech, consciousness, authorship, and the boundary between physical and digital art. @egodead is the center of gravity, with @beeple, @tylerxhobbs, @lovidlovid, @jakejfried, and others creating broader context. The advice: I’ve done the hard part. Now, it’s time to be extremely selective. Less collecting. More curating. What do you think about these LLM thoughts? 🤔💭

Today I want to talk about the connection between Yarntificial City and Entrelac Knitting. It is a modular knitting technique where individual pieces are connected together. Because of a clever sequence, it is done in one path instead of post-stitching like a granny square. 1/7

Amazing to see @CentrePompidou starting up a committee for art numérique. Congrats to @IsmaTaziS and @redbeardnft for chairing it. For those that don't speak french, it's time to learn. centrepompidou.fr/fr/offre-a…

a collection is not a trophy case. it is a record of what someone was willing to keep paying attention to.

If you are in NFTs see this

Please see below if you own a Primera or just any NFT. Given the recent Magic Eden hack, take a minute to revoke any potentially bad approvals. You can do that via revoke dot cash or with rabby wallet. Sad to hear some Primeras got swept up in the hack 😔

rarity ≠ relationship

GM, Happy Friday! Hope everyone has a great day! Seeing many hacks/exploits out there this morning. Stay safe out there. 🫶 “fml” by @egodead.

INFINITE PATHWAYS FORWARD

ARTISTS: what part of your practice takes the longest but is almost invisible in the finished work?

At 9AM EST today somebody abused a bug in Payment Processor V2 to steal 10 Meebits, 50 Otherdeeds, 10 WoW, and 235 Desperate Apewives. It wasn't until over 12 hours later that somebody reported it to me, and upon digging in I realized that a great many NFTs were subject to the same exploit. I got in touch with the team over at LimitBreak and they quickly paused Payment Processor V3, which was subject to the same exploit. Unfortunately, V2 was not pausable, so the only path towards protecting affected assets was to run a whitehat operation. Similarly, V3 on ApeChain is temporarily in a state where it cannot be paused, so ApeChain assets approved to V3 needed to be saved as well. All in all, we rescued 23,155 NFTs worth north of $5.7M USD. We later discovered that a similar exploit could be used in reverse to steal WETH. 660 WETH was at risk, which we unfortunately were not fast enough to recover. Apologies to those affected. Shout out to @Boomskite for flagging the initial exploit tx to me, and @coffeedev @0xjustadev and @whiteoakkong for acting quickly and assisting with the recovery. All NFTs are safely relocated. Soon, owners will be able claim them back after revoking the exploitable approvals. Addresses to revoke below.

Received some test prints today. My printed work is really something to see. I spare no expense in the printing process, and the quality is simply outstanding. With some exceptions most of my work is face mounted to optically clear glass, and always printed on archival paper. Zoom in and have a look!

A reminder to meet artists where they are. Contrary to popular belief on here, not all art needs to be tokenized. Don’t dismiss physical work from an artist you love just because it’s not onchain. I’ll get off my soapbox now. 🫶

next!! (if you are on Long Island lmk)

GM, there are opportunities in many places for those who follow along and have a long enough time horizon. Still one of the best environments to be a collector as attention bounces from new collection to new collection. Patience. 🫶

GM, here’s how I’ve initially approached curation of “Credit” by @jackbutcher for the permanent collection. Single color covering each weight. So, Yellow (Extreme), Cyan (Sparse), Magenta (Lean), Black (Even). Felt like the best place to start.🫡🫶

The batsoupyum paradigm

CREDIT WHERE DUE

Someone currently trying to fuck with our shit. Just a heads up to disregard any emails coming from Beeple looking accounts. There are no drops, there are not contest. Don’t click anything ever and don’t even look at stuff. (GM)