Devon

Before I started shooting with the 5600, it was my dad’s. Every camera I own was his except for the DSLR I started with in 2022. I constantly beat myself up for not picking up a camera while he was alive. But the flame still burns through me now. I’ll never be on the same level, as he was a master b&w photographer/processor in the Navy. Won all the awards and has the “pats on the back” to prove it. In fact I’m in possession of all of them and the thousands of prints, slides, any type of print you can think of. One day they’ll all be digitized and I would like to fund creating a photo book with all of his best work. He was insane behind the lens. Every once in a while I cycle back to the “why” I shoot. And my honest answer is I don’t know, it’s like it wasn’t even my idea. I just decided one day that I wanted to do it, and I wanted to be serious about it. Photography has been a constant throughout my life because of my dad, and art also, so it’s not like it was an insanely unique and out of the blue thought. I need creative outlets, it’s something that is just in my blood. Anyway, I’m thinking of my old man today, and the life he’s given me and how I’ve been using my time after his passing. I’d like to always do better. Here’s a few shots he took with the digital. He never did fill up the SD card, and the mother fucker shot in JPEG.

Peeking Capitol Building

Regarding the recent buzz around my profile picture changes and some feelings that the Base community isn’t being supported enough: I appreciate the feedback (even if tough to hear) and I realize you wouldn't take the time to respond unless you cared. It seems I wasn't clear enough setting expectations for all of you, so let me try and do that now: please don’t follow my personal X account for investment advice or signals around individual coins. I’m simply posting things I find interesting or funny on the internet. I may not even be aware if there is a coin or project attached to the content I'm posting (you should assume I'm not, to be safe). My posts and profile pics are also not endorsements or commitments to anything. Base is our shot at building foundational infrastructure for financial services where we can all innovate together. That includes tokenized stocks, borrow/lend protocols, stablecoin payments, etc and yes even meme coin trading. I believe in economic freedom, and support you trading whatever you want. Just realize that if you're treating my X account as alpha, you are doing so at your own risk, against my wishes. I would never recommend this. On the topic of “support” from the Base team or Coinbase, there seems to be confusion around this too. There are many tokens we would like to list on our centralized exchange, but can't for compliance and regulatory reasons. If you want Jesse or me to pump your bags or shill certain coins, we're also not going to do that. Here is what we are committed to on support: we run in-person Base Batches and issue grants to high potential builders, Coinbase Ventures and the Base Ecosystem Fund also invest in the most promising companies building on Base, and we periodically integrate promising Base defi protocols into our products at Coinbase which enhances distribution. I might even mention something on X if I think it's interesting, but again, this is not investment advice. In general, we bias toward supporting projects that we believe will create long term customer value. You may like this approach or you may not, but either way hopefully it creates clarity going forward, so you can decide what you want to do. I respect your choice, either way. P.S. I still might post memes if I think they are funny! It's still not investment advice.

I find a lot of Mercedes in the wild