*It’s another little NFT gallery metaverse with some curated collectibles on show. *Except for the lasting scandal that is the blockchain itself, it’s hard to understand why anybody would be upset about this.  Some of the artwork is animated and most of it is stills, but this is  mild, inoffensive, almost chocolate-box-looking graphic product.   […]

*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 […]