curiousmoomin 🔮🩸🈴

@A_Mashiro_nft thank you for continuing to produce unique and great art!

@CuriousMoomin Wow, this is such a unique piece with circles on both sides! The rectangle in the center creates an interesting sense of space. I’m so happy that you got this artwork. I really appreciate your continued support! 🫂🤍

Thank you @A_Mashiro_nft for the mint!

Had a great time with @neort_io during @nodefnd weekend in Palo Alto! Appreciate the shout from @RtClick_Save about Onchain Harmony: Punks & Pixels! Huge thanks to @SakazukiNFT and artists @piv_piv, @mae_1031_, @ENN & @crypto_citizens for helping make this happen 💚

Onchain Harmony: Punks & Pixels Join @neort_io + Glimmer for a night of digital art celebration, with Punk-inspired pixel art, whiskey & friends Jan 24 | 1-7 PM @ Bryant St Gallery, Palo Alto @cryptopunks @piv_piv @mae_1031_ @ENN @crypto_citizens Sponsored by @SakazukiNFT

Collected Diggly Collects All #569 by @DaCaldera. Thank you @artblocks_io

Drawings for a Monument #849 by @jeffgdavis on @artblocks_io

@punk9059 Yes that would be great!

I'm going to do 30-minute free coaching sessions with a few people here who want it next week. I got a masters degree in counseling a few years ago and completed a coaching course and want to get to know a few of you a bit better. Only guidelines: 1) Gotta be doxxed (I think it's important to at least have video). 2) Would like to discuss stuff related to a relationship, job, or career. 3) Can't help you with growing your crypto or investment portfolio. No financial alpha will be provided. Because I don't have any. That's it. Let me know if you think this would be helpful or if you'd be interested. Will get a link going soon.

Cloud Signals ☁️ Kumono Shingou, @zancan, 2023

My focus has always been the beauty of innovation in code as art. @braindrops_art has never been about quantity, but evolution. Some collections over the last 4 years never made the cut. Exploration happens in the background. The passion for art & code remains. We keep going.

Thanks @VanArman. Postcard well received from Marfa in Singapore. Hope to be there next year!

↓ Read Absorbing Time: A Conversation with qubibi on ‘hello world’ blog.objkt.com/post/absorbing…

WHAT GIVES ART ITS VALUE? I have been thinking about this question quite a lot recently. Why does some art merely please us while other art becomes priceless? A useful way to answer it is to separate the qualitative appeal of art from the financial mechanisms that allow that appeal to translate into market value. Art begins as perception and ends, sometimes, as capital. Between those two poles lie six conditions. 1. It is arresting to one or more of our senses All art begins in attention. Something must first stop us: color, rhythm, sound, texture, form. The arresting quality of an artwork is what differentiates it from the noise of ordinary perception. A painting that catches light in an unfamiliar way, or a line of poetry that disrupts our habitual language, generates a moment of heightened presence. Without this sensory spark, no further meaning or value accumulates. The first condition is therefore physiological: the artwork must engage the body before the mind. 2. It touches upon or tells a compelling story A work that merely dazzles fades quickly. For art to persist in consciousness, it must evoke or embed a narrative that invites interpretation or remembrance. This can be overt, like a myth retold, or abstract, like the implied struggle of brush and canvas. Narrative connects perception to emotion and memory; it allows the viewer to participate imaginatively in the work. Story gives art its mnemonic and symbolic power, ensuring that aesthetic experience is not fleeting but lived again in recollection. 3. It connects us to a community or identity Art rarely exists in isolation. It signals belonging and difference. To admire a Rembrandt at the Norton, a Beeple on X, or a Sam Spratt “Skull” is also to place oneself within a tribe of connoisseurs, technologists, or believers in a cultural order. Art is thus a social technology: it binds individuals into communities of taste and belief. What we value in art often reflects what we value in ourselves. This third condition transforms private perception into shared meaning, a prerequisite for any broader recognition or market. 4. It is scarce Here begins the passage from qualitative to financial value. Scarcity converts desire into economic tension. An infinite supply of beauty would be spiritually rich but commercially worthless. In traditional art, scarcity arises from the fact there may be only one original canvas. In digital or AI art, scarcity must be engineered through cryptographic uniqueness or limited editions. What matters is not absolute rarity but perceived exclusivity: the conviction that this instance cannot be casually replicated or replaced. 5. It can be owned Scarcity alone does not create a market. There must be a means to claim and transfer the scarce thing. Ownership is the social recognition of possession; it enables price discovery, trade, and inheritance. The entire edifice of art’s financial value from Renaissance patronage to NFT blockchain depends on mechanisms that make ownership legible. Even when the art’s essence is intangible, its rights must be definable such as the right to a banana taped to a wall. This condition turns art from experience into asset. 6. It is known by others The final catalyst is visibility. Art becomes valuable when its existence and ownership are known beyond the private sphere. Public awareness functions as a multiplier: it validates taste, attracts new interest, and creates the feedback loop of fame. In markets as in culture, attention compounds. The better known a work becomes, the more it is discussed, exhibited, and sought after. This reflexivity and network elevate the few from admired objects to cultural capital. The Alchemy of Value Art is not valuable because markets say so. Markets say so because art first satisfies deep human criteria for meaning, identity, and attention. When those meet the mechanics of scarcity, ownership, and recognition, perception hardens into price.

gm! Holding a Ghost from Ego in the shell: Singular Yet Divisible Traits; Motoko #ghostintheshell @SuperRare

I just purchased an asset on the minting.moonbirds.com marketplace!

Thank you so so much for @glimmerdao! We are extremely extremely honored to be included in the collection! ✨ 💎 superrare.com/artwork/eth/0x…

Thanks @VanArman. Just received my postcard From Emergence to Reflection in Singapore. Appreciate you keeping me on your list. Will keep my other picture company 🙏

@spencer Are there any birb events in Singapore planned for next week?

Singapore

BIRBS BUILDING BACK