*DAOs are some of the oddest and least precedented actors in the NFT art space. *There are quite a few, and they don’t hesitate to lavish crypto money on artists that they favor.  

*Not an easy matter, apparently. *Even if one doesn’t use Windows, it’s wise to keep up with developments in the planet’s dominant operating systems.  Android, for instance. https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/24/microsoft_windows_11/       *And YouTube.  Naturally, you will want to learn about Windows on Google’s Youtube:  

*If you’ve never  seen the incessant Youtube videos of the Maker guru, they’re pretty good, as such things go.   *A lot of Savage videos are about Hollywood issues, because he’s a Hollywood stunt man and veteran FX expert, but it’s good to know about hammers.  If you want to make art devices, hammers are […]

*Reminiscing is terrible, isn’t it?  It’s so much more fun to speculate!   https://youtu.be/afo5XM9zzao

*If you’re into amateur or hobby digital-manufacturing you have almost certainly seen 3DPrinters, but certain models are getting rather baroque and multifunctional here in the year 2021. *They’re cheap, as bench-top machine tools go, but they’re not “simple.”  

*Don’t buy the whole metaverse all at once.   https://cryptonomist.ch/2021/06/22/arte-metaverse-decentraland/   Le mostre d’arte sugli NFT prendono sempre più piede tra i protagonisti del mondo fisico, gallerie, artisti e case d’asta non si lasciano scappare l’opportunità di essere pionieri digitali in un settore che fatica ancora a comprendere cosa sia un non fungible token o si […]

*Meaning, of course, also the arts sector, the music sector, the museum sector and similar favorites of Share Festival. *This is a blog post by Thierry Breton, a European Commissioner involved with the European “internal market.”  As you can see, there’s more than a small amount of “new normal” involved here, and this is not […]

https://feralfile.com Fragments of a Hologram Rose Announcing a new digital sculpture and video exhibition of sci-fi, otherworldly plant specimens from 11 groundbreaking digital artists, curated by Rick Silva. Exhibition Opening:  June 28, 2021  7pm EDT / 4pm PDT  Collecting Begins at 8pm EDT (NFT Editions) Mutant Bagua by Andrew Thomas Huang. Image courtesy of the […]

*I particularly enjoy these lists of suggested conference topics.  I have no intention of going to this conference, but these lists convey a stellar overview of what the organizers think is going on. “Special preference will be given to multimedia related applications,” because everybody wants to become Hollywood. *Also, it’s easy to toss a blanket […]

*It might seem shocking (if you’re not Italian), but, well, that’s how it is.   https://www.giganti.co/TheItalians   One of the craziest yet most common lines of argument I get when talking to people in the tech industry about the Italian eye-frames industry is their belief that the government needs to step in and break up […]