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5/ It’s been fun to release this wide after our limited and experimental token gated interactive event last fall via @EntertainmintLA and also cool to see platforms now playing with some of these ideas. Excited for the future.

@NeuralBricolage These are wonderful

espressoid sets are imminent - in reds, greens and bolds

Added to tomorrow’s order. Crazy this is already on prime day of/next day. 🥂

Seeing non-English language posts natively translated is really cool.

.@bottoproject genesis book arrived. I did a lot of voting in this period. Fun looking back now and thinking how far the project has come. Set it beside the special @brtmoments Tokyo whisky which is also where I first met @quasimondo in person. A lot of fun times.

Special print editions coming soon | 4 | 1 | 26 A rare physical print edition from WSOTF, extending beyond the digital domain. Meticulously layered print process with varnish texture and relief, creating a beautiful three-dimensional finish. 0009 | Eterno Gallery⛓️🌹

@emikusano @ArtBasel @rk_contemporary this is soo cool!

My Magical Compact from Ornament Survival sold in the day 1 @ArtBasel !! @rk_contemporary

@Klutch_NFT I’ve had back issues forever. If there’s a place like this by you I’d try it or physical therapy. A pro can analyze your movement and figure out what’s wrong and create a plan to reposition things. Everything else is more management than root imo. functionalpatterns.com

Are any of y'all trying the peptides thing? Specifically BPC 157 or TB 500. My body has sucked lately. I feel like my whole left side can't get back to normal between back and hip pain. I went up to the front in church today to pray for healing. I'm getting massages once a week. Thinking about going to stretch labs and an orthopedic doctor. Been in some sort of pain for 5 weeks now. Feel like I'll try anything at this point to feel normal again. It's not fun to live on muscle relaxers and pain killers. My liver also probably wants/needs a break.

@bryanbrinkman @num1crush surprised to see you talking about the floor of a project smh

grabbed another toadcore by @num1crush one of only 3 w a green floor

“Where’s Devin?” Demirors asks. Finzer and Kuo are four floors above in their own private suite, with a personal team of assistants, security, and celebrity hair and makeup artists, surrounded by racks of couture. “I have Armani Privé flying in,” Kuo tells me. “An elegant black jacket from Mr. Armani’s last collection before he passed away.” Then, to the fashion director: “Someone from Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture flew in with options.” In the end, after millions of dollars of couture have been considered, she chooses an Armani gown that isn’t even couture and forgoes wearing her JAR jewelry. “You look like a fucking clown,” Demirors texts Kuo when she learns the pair are upstairs with an entire team.” Your “farming waves” ladies and gentleman. Your fees. Your sheepish acceptance. This is too perfect, cheers 🍻

@GaloAndStuff That place is made for ants. I was ducking the whole time 😂

Fun fact: I’ve eaten dinner there.

@OGDfarmer I think about that a lot. Sherry Turkle, Jaron Lanier put it top of mind for me ages ago, but I still find it impossible to escape. I used to leave my phone at home and treat it like a landline but that became harder with a wife and infant. Constant connection is the social norm.

Your nervous system can’t live inside a slot machine forever without wanting to crawl out of its own skin. I arrogantly pride myself for being an original, out of the box thinker, and yet I woke up today wondering if had a fully imput overload free, unadulterated thought in weeks. This life ain’t me.  We as a species haven’t listened to a whole album without touching a screen for so long. We cannot read twenty pages without checking a notification. We haven’t been bored without panicking and filling the silence with pixels. I don’t know what it says of the world, or me, that putting on a vinyl feels like an act of rebellion, but this is where I’m at.  It asks me to be present. It forces in me a pace I forgot. It imposes a ritual. It creates a beginning and an end. It reminds me that time is real and your life is finite and you can’t skip through everything like a playlist. You flip the record. You change the tape. You try carefully not to scratch your DVD. You rewind. You choose. You fucking commit. Says something that in the age of AI the best trade of this decade has been cardboard pictures. That I fisically reject another subscription, endless demands of data and attention and… me. I’m paying a premium for things that DO NOT update. That don’t track you, don’t buzz, don’t optimize you into a numb little data exhaust pipe.  Not sure why I even post this here, and I understand the irony, but maybe it can help someone feel less alone. I can see it in others too. Someone inundated by the sensationalistic bullshit of people yelling about the permanent underclass stranding, the standard bearers of financial nihilism. The anxiety of always feeling behind. I’m very aware that I’m priviliged. And succesful and… tired. Very fucking tired. And the only thing that is helping right now is unplugging. And it’s ipsetting just how hard that is, honestly. I thought I’d be stronger. You should try it too. There’s a world to pause into. That wants to be touched. And to feel the pain and warmth and the rough edges and the joy and the friction of human connection. That’s what matters.  That’s what makes us human.

One of the most valuable parts of this show has been hearing how other people read the work. Once it leaves me, it doesn’t belong to just one perspective anymore. I appreciate @TheMatthewA 's feedback : “At first, it felt familiar. Like I’ve seen these scenes before. Then you start processing what you’re actually looking at — beauty coming from ugly places. In real life, these scenes don’t feel hopeful. The work makes me look at the city more optimistically.” Perspective changes everything. Wrong Side of the Fence On view through April 4.

@bryanbrinkman just make a list. i did that ages ago with the journos i wanted to follow and I just look at that for news.

It’s never been harder to follow up to date news on this app. Having all the legit journalists flee a few years ago is really showing.

@kaigani I feel like I’ve accidentally hit enter halfway through questions on ChatGPT before and it didn’t care. It just tried to answer based on nonsense, so this tracks. 99% of my usage the last few months has been Anthropic.

This is a very interesting benchmark, and the gulf between the leading Anthropic models and the leading OpenAI models is shocking.

@philmohun CONGRATS!! Ours is 6 weeks ♥️

@bryanbrinkman Yeah, but like, the Wynn or the Gold Nugget? Because the Wynn has a lot of great art in the lobby.

Sometimes it really feels like we are just making art for the lobbies of casinos here.

Raw onions are better on a burger than grilled onions. I can’t believe we are even having this debate.

Some people say art can’t be functional. I disagree. This limited edition signed 100% petroleum jelly I acquired from @toadswiback in Marfa a couple of years ago has been a life saver with my cold this week.

@555elnaz @bryanbrinkman Looks great on the frame. My wife has a large social following and said she felt targeted lol.

GM 🌫️ 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 / 𝘕𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 commissioned by @bryanbrinkman

Just picked up Counterspace #34 from @dotjiwa Sometimes staring at a screen is good 📺 Public sale starts 2.26. galeriemet.com/exhibitions/ji…