Maps, Networked Sculptures, and Markets as Medium
Hey friends, this week, I delve into maps, networked sculptures, and markets as medium.
📚 Reading - The Circle by Dave Eggers
It’s getting weirder as it goes along. I like it.
🕹️ Gaming - Dave The Diver
Heard good things about this game. But, I must admit, not entirely the type of gameplay that hooks me. I enjoy the progression and will continue playing, but not sure how long I’ll last with this.
📺 Watching - Skeleton Crew
Yeah, really enjoy this new Star Wars adventure. Very playful and entertaining. Excited for the next episode, directed by The Daniels. 👀
📚 Writing - Novel #2
It continues and I keep feeling better about it. Sometimes writing rewriting feels defragmenting a hard drive. Sometimes you go back way earlier in the book than anticipated, but it’s to clean up threads and motivations, to make it tighter. I was on pace to finish draft 2 by end of December, but due to various circumstances, I’m going to focus on being present with family for the rest of the year.
💾 Links
Maps and Stories
If you’re like me, sometimes a good evening is spent hopping around Google Maps in search of new places you haven’t seen. One recent place I found interesting is the town of Ganvie, at the delta of the Oueme river in Benin, a Venice-like layout in West Africa.
But, maps often tell so much more, and I loved finding Daniel Steiner’s channel which explicitly looks at maps and tells you what stories they tell. A recent video for example looks at how different occupations of Vietnam shaped its maps.
Enjoy!
Networked Sculptures
To explain certain blockchain art projects, the term “Networked Sculptures” have been used. I adore this term a lot. It really expands the concept or idea how an art project 1) shares a substrate, 2) allows for collectible perspectives of it, and 3) introduces dynamism over a long time. Enjoy a meditation of it from mmmatto on their new project, Cycles.
The Market is The Message
I enjoyed this take from
on seeing the market as a medium when he discovered Liam Payne’s death through pumpfun.Envision an opinion marketplace, populated by tokenized ideas, where the point at which one lives in that spectrum is valuable data on a vast graph. Its not like or dislike, but skin in the game that conveys conviction, and even why. That’s taste. And suddenly that graph is character, a set of beliefs with the dry powder of a startup that can then create motion.
Found this article when Mat Dryhurst shared similar sentiments on Twitter.
It’s something I’ve spoken about for years. Although my earlier ideas were focused on actively using tokens to curate, the mere act of having a memetic token is already a signal.
🎶 Music
Art School Girlfriend - A Place To Lie (Tom VR Remix)
I’ve shared Art School Girlfriend before. But this time, it’s a great electronic remix from Tom VR.
That’s it for this week folks. A bit of a shorter one. Hope you get to see a lovely sunset, whether you’re in the US East Coast or the tip of Africa. I’m hoping to get a lot of sunshine in!
Simon