Art & the Individual

You don’t need me to tell you what art can say of an individual, you know those brushes strokes can tell you of a family, a fraught moment, a trauma healed or a new joy found. These works can speak manifestos in to being, tell you of an artists worldview and of how they thought the world viewed them. We know this, we accept this as fundamental to art, that these are expressions of a self rendered real. Yet when it comes to understanding others, exploring cultures and communit

I know it’s a somewhat cliched phrase that; Limitation breeds innovation, but it hold a lot of water. It’s a major reason special effects in movies from before the age of accessible cgi often hold up. When you can’t just lean on a fix it in post attitude, when shots need more detailed planning because the background set is something that actually has to exist on the day, when the main monsters design actually needs to be designed before production is in full swing because it’

Talent is such an interesting notion, the place where nurture and nature meet, our innate aptitude and ability, our proclivity for one feeling over another. The drive of long past positive reinforcement now subconsciously called up by our bodies formations in the battle for progress. It can give us a flywheel for growth, we find an activity easier, so we find it more enjoyable, we do it more, we get better, we find an activity easier, we find our progress enjoyable, we do it

You hear a scream, you turn, its nothing, you hear a scream, you turn, its nothing, you hear a scream... you dont turn. Shock for its own sake loses efficacy quickly, it draws in a crowd but barely holds their attention, and oft times the attention it does hold is focused in the wrong place. What's the point of a signal fire if you aren't actually signally anything. Don't get me wrong, there are times when the very shock itself is the signal, it is what is needed. The smoke f

It is the morning of the 14th of July 1789, A thousand civilians stand before the imposing cold stone walls of a medieval fortress known as the 'Bastille'. It is not just stone and mortar the people see though, it is the crushing weight of their monarchy, the abuse of authority, and the suffering of the individual, typified by those walls, the prisoners held within, and the cannon atop them. A delegate of the people enter, they demand the removal of these cannons and disarmam

It is the Autumn of 1830, acclaimed French painter Eugène Delacroix writes to his brother; "My bad mood is vanishing thanks to hard work. I've embarked on a modern subject—a barricade. And if I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her" That painting would become 'Liberty leading the people' perhaps one of the most influential works of revolutionary art and iconography ever created. Its imagery and influence so powerful that it is said to have inspired everyth

Art does not need to be owned to be experienced. Its fullness can be drunk in without a share in a company, or purchase price paid. All it requires is you to be there with it. Now this can obviously throw up some challenges, and yes some of those challenges may introduce a cost, but this cost isn't indicative of experiencing art. If a work is shown in a museum with an entry fee, and later shown in one without, the quality of the art does not change. Please don't get me wrong

No post production VFX or AI models are needed to fool us, and despite all our self assured statements about how "we can always tell what's real" our egos cannot alter the path of light to our eyes. The moment our world is captured by a single lens it is translated in to 2 dimensions, and in that transformation our ability to tell what is real falters. This is because we rely on binocular vision to most accurately determine depth, the differing position between our two pupils

Wanna know how I know? Because you're on social media, and in 2025 it is nigh on impossible to partake in this particular online landscape without being surrounded by an abundance of these people. Now ill soften here and say not all of them are "cants" in fact this degradation of our online spaces has been ongoing for so long now that a number of them were simply born in to it. They're told and observe this is the path to success in this space, to approval. The morality, the

We are desperately clawing at today, trying to tear its face off, just to get a look at yesterdays smile. Manufactured consent, The Matrix, Hauntology, 'Member berries, cultural feedback loops, your current obsession with a 90s trading card game. Different explorations and statements on interlinking ideas, when taken as one they describe a landscape of cultural cannibalism. And what happens when our species engages in wanton cannibalism? It cultivates prion diseases that dest

So I took a look over some of our "leading Light" accounts in the crypto art space. I scrolled back a few weeks, a month or 2 maybe, on each of them, and you know what I saw? Not a single post talking about the actual art. Oh sure there were threads describing artists rises (as documented by their first and last sales). There were "get to know this artist" articles, which may as well have been a plot graph of past sales decorated by the odd platitude. Exclamations of the art

I see you out there, taking Kanyes spiral in to national socialism for self promotion and sweeping it under the rug, we see you enjoying Chris Browns beats, ignoring Caitlyn's car wreck, glorifying Oprahs promotion of harm, we even see some of you finding Lost Prophets without problem... And that's fine, this thread isn't about judging any of that. Where you choose to draw your line between art and artist is up to you, it is an inherently personal thing. Only you can reconcil

We see this with regularity in the art world, some piece is held up, elevated by the oligarchs price or institutions praise, and we all scratch our heads wondering why? The artwork may not be bad, it may even be pleasant, but so can a 30cent pack of instant noodles, yet we aren't looking to pay fine dining prices for that or award them a Michelin star. This artwork and its sale/award then inevitably makes the papers, it becomes the soft story at the end of serious nightly new

You’ll see these posts from time to time, they’ll take a logo or app icon from a large brand, draw centre lines across them, then gleefully tweet about how “big company make dumb mistake lol” because the image doesn’t line up. Maybe they’ll use it as some justification as to how “the past was better”, or how real art and design are DEAD. Chances are, despite what their account says, they’ve never studied a day of design in their life. If they had they’d know the difference be

I hear the lament often, “there is no beauty anymore” oft followed by a disdainful cry asking “what happened to the craftsmen?” Rounded...

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I saw a mural being painted on one of my feeds today. It was by no means bad, and i do not write this to disparage the artist, but it...

Look I'll just come out and say it, a lot of creatives need to get over themselves. This isn't just directed at the cryptoart space, this...

We've all done it; just a quick scroll, just 5 more minutes, one more image, post, video... and hours pass in that swipe, that tap, that...

Never before have we had this level of access to art, to these MRIs of culture. We are not confined to the photographs and postcards of...