alexmack

2024: the year of “I did that.”

Honestly I didn’t really know where to start with this. 

I made a list of what happened this year, and almost felt a little overwhelmed… 

Realizing that I couldn’t remember everything.
Recognizing that it all flew by so quickly.
Feeling I’ve lived several lives in the span of a single year.

And of course, a part of me still wonders, “did I do enough?”. Classic. 

I’d need to write a novel to summarize what this year and it's impact, but the TLDR: I officially left my full-time academic career in pursuit of art and photography. Everything else either led up or continued from that. 

And it’s wild to think… damn. *I did that*. Wildly exciting and terrifying lol. 

One thing’s for sure though. I couldn’t be happier with the decision I made. I absolutely loved my scientific career, but this is the right direction for me now. 

2024 was monumental and rad. 
2025 will be monumental and rad. 
We keep climbing.

gm

been sick and bedridden the past few days, super annoying 😅

would much rather be here

mountains

ADHD

sometimes I play yoga videos at 1.25x speed 😬

Photographer | Artist | PhD🫀🤘 
/mountains /feelsgoodman /alexmack 
👉 https://linktr.ee/alexmackenzie

still with you on being baffled about how this is good for artists, but lowkey i want to fafo and see how it actually feels.

i applaud @mbranson for trying out this new model and actually being the reason why that little fafo but in me stays alive. 

i dont know if i would be able to put one of my photographs as a face of the erc20, but maybe just something else entirely.

Zora

Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

I appreciate this optimistic perspective and there's certainly applications for such a model, especially in the "content" sector. 

Art already was tokenized, so having it as a "token" isn't new. This is about the supply, distribution and liquidity. For art, there was never any need to have 1B supply. We also saw how quickly that fad died off after a few "bigger" artists had runners with the "coined" Zora mints a few months ago. There's simply not enough liquidity to drive that market, especially as it niches down. 

Plus, collecting and connecting with art ≠ trading "coined" art. Just feel this format doesn't work for the artists, on a platform that previously touted itself as being for the art. But that's just my opinion and I recognize I can go elsewhere.

Still not convinced the @zora "coin" model -  its supply, distribution and (lack of) liquidity - will be positive for artists.

Happy to be proven wrong.

geee emmm

happy /mountains monday 🏔️

pkok art

pics or it didn't happen

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thank you @kenny for introducing me to /poidh and encouraging some FAFOism 🤘

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Warpcast

Building /bright-moments - minting onchain art IRL | /purple #15 | FID 129 #magikarp | getting paid to post with @ampsfun

The biggest issue with the model is it's tone deaf to artists. 

I support experimentation, FAFO and innovation on all fronts here. 

But, tokenizing a piece of art (maybe not content, some other interesting discussions there) into a coin with 1B supply does nothing to "support" the artist. Rather, it turns their work into a vehicle for quick trading and flipping... theoretically. And I say "theoretically" because trading can only occur with volume... apart from maybe a few runners from well-known artists, there is little to no liquidity in this uber-niched "coined art" market. I'd be interested to see how the builders expect for that to change. 

Furthermore, shifting the focus to trading art as a coin literally drains the soul of the art itself. I'd bet very few people are actually taking time with the art. Considering how it connects with them. Seeing if they "feel something" apart from the dopamine rush of the click / trade... 

I'm not saying people shouldn't use it. I'm just saying it's now for me.

I'm not saying people shouldn't use @Zora or similar models

I'm just saying it't not for me, nor my art.

I think there's a clear distinction actually! With NFTs, we were introducing scarcity to an otherwise infinite asset (online content). We've now gone full circle to effectively infinite supply again (1 billion coins). 

The issue is that with NFTs, even if you made one sale every 3 months, it was still vastly more money than creators/artists earned from social media, historically. It maintained the self-considered "value" of art, in part due to this new concept of "online scarcity"

What we're seeing now is a platform that historically touted itself as "for artists" abandoning their artistic structure in favour of "content". This switch has caused many artists to lose faith in Zora, regardless of whether the new cointent will be a better system moving forward. 

Shared more thoughts here:

https://warpcast.com/wanderloots.eth/0xead4e233

/cal 

Photographer, Artist, Web3 Educator, IP Lawyer, Patent Agent, Explorer 📸⛰️✨ 

 Building /flowcast with /mindfulness 🌊

https://wanderloots.com/links

... ngl I had to look up "choleric" 😂

85% try-hard
75% nerd
60% stoke
70% chaos 😬

Posts on Zora are now instantly tradable coins.  

+ Each post is a coin with a supply of 1 billion
+ Creators automatically receive 10 million coins at launch
+ Creators earn 1% of every trade
  
Coin it. Trade it. Discover the value of your posts.

Art needs more innovation than a 1B supply 🚩

I wish there were a way to search through my own casts...

[unless I've missed a way to do that?]

Base

anyone remember when we staked $BUILD? 

anyone remember how to find that? 😂