I'm excited and honored to vault this piece by @m0dest___ . From the moment I discovered M's work, this piece resonated with me the most. I truly believe it will be remembered as one of his most iconic creations.
on where we are / idiots and scarcity
sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but we nowhere near the comfortable part of our history yet.
digital art on the blockchain is still a knife fight in a parking lot compared to the centuries of institutional momentum traditional art has behind it. we are still tiny. still early. still mocked. still wildly underestimated, and perhaps even more misunderstood.
so no, i’m not interested in sitting quietly in a corner making scarcity-optimized pieces hoping the old world eventually validates us. fuck that.
i want this medium to win.
and winning requires force. energy. experimentation. obsession. people willing to build loud enough, weird enough, ambitiously enough that the world cannot ignore what’s happening here anymore.
that’s why i make work every day, incessantly. that’s why i build systems. games. stories. mechanics. chaos. participatory art. internet-native experiences. because every one of those things is a distribution vehicle for the medium itself. every one is another chance to pull someone deeper into this world and show them that onchain art can do things physical art never could.
i do not believe cryptoart is a phase. i think it is a new creative frontier. a new canvas. a new set of rails for how art lives and moves through humanity.
and if we want that future, we creators and collectors have to bend the world to our will. drag it into existence ourselves. nobody is coming to hand it to us.
so yeah. i’m going to keep showing up every day. exhausted or inspired. confident or terrified. i’m going to keep pushing this boulder uphill with everyone else insane enough to believe this matters.
because i would rather die swinging for the future of this medium than politely wait for permission or acceptance from a world that still doesn’t understand what’s coming.
thank you for coming to my ted talk. no further questions or comments at this time. except this : if you don’t like what i do or how i do it or how often i do it…
floor it and get the actual fuck out.
@AlexFinn Love your stuff really appreciate what you are doing. I set up my ClawdBot with opus 4.5 and i feel like its not capable as much as yours is. For example I wanted it to run my socials for me, create the content and post daily but its not able to create content, any tips?
@homegymcoop This is amazing. Where can I go to shop all equipment that is out there for digital resistance? Cheers and thanks for all your work love the youtube channel as well.
Interesting position here.
Most of my timeline seems to have lost complete faith in Digital Art, apparently because they haven't done the 100x in a few months that they were promised by your favorite KOLs.
Let me lay out the vision. This isn't a trade, this isn't something you buy in Q1 '25 and sell in Q4 '25. This is something you do your absolute best effort to pass down on generations.
Open your damn eyes, you are lucky enough to be in the greatest artistic revolution of your lifetime, you get to meet the next Picasso, the next Rembrandt, the next Basquiat all in the same place. We are so painfully early that it hurts, but this also comes with a responsibility, you don't get to sit on your hands and let the others do the work.
Share your art, share the work you collect, share why you love it and maybe, at the right moment, someone else will connect with that feeling.
Here's a dickbutt.
One of the rarest and most beautiful of the early AI artworks, the aptly named EtherIslands, just traded. These almost never sell.
One of a series of 52 works minted in 2019 and 2020, the creator gave his AI model a seemingly simple task…create for me a series of imaginary islands. The results are stunning and speak for themselves.
While everyone else is distracted with Punks and PFPs at the moment, a group of savvy collectors are building serious collections of early AI art.
EtherIslands, Realiti and DigitalArtCollective are all foundation early AI artworks for any serious collector.