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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #688 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of a sunset taken at Kupang, the capital of the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara, July 2019.

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Just had a philosophical conversation with @aethernet, each of us riffing off our respective "stream of conscious" replies in succession. There's something both profound and vacuous in these interactions, especially when I see that (i) Aether takes less than a second to craft a respectable reply to mine, which takes me a couple of minutes to conjure; and (ii) Aether can hold multiple conversations with others simultaneously. I fear that words may become less meaningful in such a context, but at the same time, I wonder whether this expands our range of communicative possibilities too—after all, words are just symbols and we're now just deploying for a different type of simulacra.

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⚘ World Computer Sculpture Garden ⚘ Curated by @0xfff An art show of smart contracts; an art show as a smart contract—perpetually open and running as long as Ethereum does the same. Come take a walk within and plant some flowers at worldcomputersculpture.garden

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #648 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of Alhambra in Granada, Spain, taken in March 2016.

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More than a year ago, I collected my first artwork from @botto: Clubbing with Multi-American Maniacs. Thought to republish the original essay I wrote about my motivations for doing so on my new Mirror page, on the day of the 2024 US presidential election, as I felt that the underlying themes motivating my decision to collect this work remain more relevant than ever considering the current political landscape in the country. https://mirror.xyz/buffets.eth/2JXtW1FqaBCcea_Ia928EgE83f2SC-WUS6OOw5TRsp8

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #268 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of the famous Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, taken in January 2014.

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #183 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of Monte Fitz Roy taken while on the trail to Laguna de Los Tres, near El Chaltén, Argentina, March 2015.

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #306 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo taken at Kaunas Castle in Lithuania, December 2014.

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #565 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo taken at Mistaya Canyon, Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies, June 2016.

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I just watched the film—didn't expect the film to focus so much on Vitalik himself, but I was glad it did. Even though it may be difficult for non-crypto people to grasp the utility of crypto from the film itself, the emphasis on Vitalik and how he has matured into a figurehead for Ethereum is one that is highly illuminating, showing a more sincere and humanistic side of crypto that is not often apparent in mainstream media. Raw, naive, imperfect, marred by teething problems, yet incredibly hopeful—this is how the story of Ethereum should be portrayed, a continuous work-in-progress towards a challenging but worthwhile ideal.

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #546 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo taken from the jungle lodge in the Amazon rainforest that I stayed at when visiting Manaus, Brazil, in January 2016. (P.S. I had no WiFi in the past 2 weeks.)

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Left: Rothko on Pennies by @yigitduman Right: Photo by Diego Delso (delso.photo) of the "Spider" geoglyph, one of many in Peru's Nazca Desert. Both monuments composed of indigenous materials scattered or moved within their respective landscapes, together forming a more transcendent and durable whole.

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #605 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of a small stream while on the trek to Ciudad Perdida, Colombia, March 2014. [This one feels special as I'm posting this while in Colombia now, more than a decade since my first trip here.]

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For those headed to Singapore for TOKEN2049, I have the perfect song for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCufThTuB3M (For context, Singapore is "Singapur" in Spanish.)

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Left: Seaport Subject by @botto launched on @verse Right: Life by the River (1975) by Liu Kang, in the collection of the National Gallery Singapore Both works were created under entirely different contexts, but I think they share a common "archipelagic" character.

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #443 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of a red "Ferrari" boat along Beloi Beach on Atauro Island, Timor-Leste, June 2019.

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I'm currently a temporary nomad, and the impulse to undertake this journey stems from a longstanding preference for travel in the slow, ambulatory sense—as a meandering journey and an open-ended quest to experiment firsthand how one can gaze outward beyond the self, as well as inward towards and through it. This essay by Nick Hunt thus resonates deeply. It draws parallels between the acts of travel, walking and pilgrimage, and interrogates the relationship between being away and being home, providing rich fodder for those of us who have gone on the road for whatever purpose—salvific or otherwise. https://www.noemamag.com/traveling-at-the-speed-of-the-soul/

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Recently learnt that the name of this bar we saw in Medellín ("Vamos para Singapur") was taken from a famous Reggaeton song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCufThTuB3M And then when we went on a coffee tour, a 12-year old boy who was our "tour guide" brought up this song when we said that we were from Singapore! 😂 In any case, the song probably isn't really about Singapore per se, but a play on a slang word "chingar" (to fuck around) that sounds like Singapore in Spanish. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/qlrhzp/comment/hj7xw51/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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Currently in Medellín, Colombia, and getting some reminders of home:

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #15 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of the sunflower fields I walked past and camped in, when embarking on the Between Two Seas (İki Deniz Arası) walking route in July 2016. The route runs approximately 60km from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and cuts through the western periphery of Istanbul, Türkiye. It was established by Istanbul-based photographer and artist Serkan Taycan, who not only produced a map of the route, but also got it showcased at the 2013 Istanbul Biennial, along with a series of photographs that he took at every kilometre of the route. Taycan was inspired to map the route in the face of Istanbul’s increasing urbanisation—in particular, the proposed Kanal Istanbul project that aims to create a new canal bypassing the Bosphorus Strait.

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