@ALCrego_ I suggest you make a big map of your contribution and the artist that started from you work. Showing works and years. So people entering now can have a view of your ouvre more comprehensive. Your accomplishments.
NFTS are not dead.
NFTS were born DEAD.
They were just an inert puppet of the crypto side that tried to pretend to be a new digital art movement disguised as Digital Online Art, leaded/manipulated by people (platforms, autoproclaimed curators and companies) that were absolutely NEVER interested on digital art until money arrived, destroying all the previous efforts, work, achievements and art of many REAL digital ONLINE artists that were pushing for this culture YEARS before nfts arrived. (Digital Art was always there, even in galleries, in museums...)
The 'shift' is ONLINE, not Digital.
Many said: Renaissance!
I was saying: Renassassination.
Personally, I tried to warn, tirelessly...
Disdain, cancellation, hate and ostracism I received from many, that curiously, nowadays I don't know where they are at all...👀
But.. Ei, still here, and with ZERO plans to stop.
Trust facts, not hypes, if you really want this to EVOLVE.
(Or keep walking in circles, but if so, do not disturb please.)
BIG and SINCERE THANKS to those who always trusted my work (even much before Cryptoart hype started), and HONEST THANKS to those who started with disdain but finally understood my approach. Truly.🙏
And no, I was NEVER accomplice, nor agree, nor support, nor abide this fake Cryptoart culture. Only me (and those who offered me 'tasty treats') know what I rejected in the backstage. (I don't forget. Maybe this is one of the reasons they disappeared).👀👍
I walk my own path, as I'm doing since YEARS before this madness started, and... surprise!
Still here, doing, saying, aiming and fighting daily for the same as >15 years ago.🧘♂️
Let's work.✊
Please notice that the reasons the French Socialists (and their Stiglitz backup singer) give for extreme expropriation keep varying and yet the proscribed action is always the same.
Their papers keep getting debunked, they issue weak retorts, and just move on to new dubious ways of coming to the same conclusion. Here we have a stock over a flow with no actual evidence of harm. These are not economists they are just AOC/Mamdani in French academic dress.
Notice there is nothing concrete here. Not even a weak “study” to show this is a problem. Just lurid statistics that he hopes will get the guillotines sharpened.
Also, the implication is, of course, that the world would be better if Elon didn’t create SpaceX. Those rockets would’ve obviously landed themselves and the world government this liar has recently proposed would clearly have given us StarLink. Of course this is all a short leap for a French socialist who already has come out against growth because, uh, Greta says the poor and middle class shouldn’t advance themselves.
The central battle of the future is not oligarchy vs democracy as this “repetitive dishonest unable to do ‘maths’ socialist” says, it’s mob rule, that is both left and right wing populist nonsense against human flourishing.
I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is.
University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages.
Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.
There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.
If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.
Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:
Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.
Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.
Vou repetir mais uma vez: ninguém derrota o PT defendendo as pautas do PT.
Quanto mais cedo os candidatos de direita compreenderem isso, melhor. Em vez de importar debates identitários, é preciso recolocar o mérito no centro da discussão. Em vez de relativizar a criminalidade, é preciso defender com clareza políticas que reduzam a violência e protejam o cidadão honesto.
Quem deseja vencer precisa defender o mérito, a responsabilidade individual, a economia de mercado, a redução de impostos e o combate firme ao crime. E não pode ter vergonha de defender pautas morais.
O eleitor não procura cópias do PT. Quem quer votar no PT já tem o PT.
Esqueçam os marqueteiros. Ouçam o povo.
Last year DOJ published a report.
For every 10,000 blacks, 153 violent crimes are committed by a black person each year against a white person.
The same figure for violent crimes committed by whites against a black person: 3.4.
A black person is 50-times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white person than for a white person to commit a violent crime against a black person.
This is an extraordinary difference in the rates of violence committed between these two groups.
We are told that whites are systemically racist.
We are told that whites are successful because they oppress others.
But the facts tell the opposite story.
Blacks are not the ones being victimized.
Whites are.
Western civilization has been successful not because it was oppressive.
It has been successful because whites created, starting thousands of years ago, systems that are impartial and fair.
Today these systems are being dismantled.
Criminals are being released because of their skin color.
Law-abiding citizens are punished because of theirs.
All in service of an ideology that is simply false.
This puts everyone in danger.
I have had my privilege checked for being a white straight male operating within the Arts since graduating the Academy. It frankly amazes me that this framework still underpins much of the directorship playbook.
So, a message to other white males out there making their way within the creative sector: be sure to become decentralised from any of the "traditional" structures you may think are there for your benefit. They are not.
They are captured, and whatever you are making now will have to be focused on finding its seat in new breakaway institutions. You will never be judged by the quality of your work - your skin colour, gender, and accent are the standard criteria that determine if you will have doors open or slammed in your face.
I am optimistic that in time, more and more artists will, like me, focus their efforts on building something real on the outskirts of this stagnant, New Left captured ecosystem. We are now all very tired of this.
Big thanks to Doha Debates for giving me the platform 🫡