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Make something heavy: Motion → Mass Memes → Monuments Media → Meaning https://www.workingtheorys.com/p/make-something-heavy

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #180 in the Prismatic style by @mattdesl on @artblocks, in the collection of @gaspard Right: My photo taken at Palomani Pass (~5,200m) while trekking for five days around Ausangate (~6,300m), Peru, December 2024. [P.S. Meridian Mondays will take a pause next Monday as I'll be in a place without internet.]

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出 : Out; exit 生 : Life; live Two separate AI generations of Chinese characters from @genekogan's "A Book from the Sky" project, released via @fellowship. Taken together, they form the verb "出生" in Chinese, which means "to be born"—the act of bringing forth life into this world. Might this work represent a birth of a different sort—the birth of a scene and a novel way of seeing?

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Do nothing 🍃 📹 : On the trail from Laguna Turquesa, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, March 2025.

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Just had this bowl of ceviche made with salmon and cod from the Municipal Market in Punta Arenas, Chile. Fresh and delicious!

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Open protocols → closed networks https://howdoyoufeel.substack.com/p/open-models-closed-networks

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #178 in the Procedural style by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of the Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina, March 2025.

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开 : Open; start 发 : To send; to emit Both from @genekogan's "A Book from the Sky" project, recently released via @fellowship. Individually, each of these two character generations conveys a certain sense of potential. Taken together, they form the verb "开发" in Chinese, which means "to develop"—the act of turning potential into something tangible. My hope is that this work can reflect a broader development—the birth of a scene that learns to harness the latent potential of our cultural creations to create something that not only speaks to our contemporary condition, but can also stand the test of time. Glad to have these two character generations in my collection.

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #666 with the Peninsula palette by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo taken at the Valle de los Machos, Tupiza, Bolivia, January 2025.

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Looking at the tapestries of interpolations using Chinese characters in Gene Kogan's 2015 work, "A Book from the Sky" (launched by @fellowship today for collecting), I am brought back to the many hours I spent learning Chinese as a second language when I was a kid. A significant part of this involved writing practice (习字)—copying out individual characters repeatedly until their constituent strokes and the sequences of each stroke were seared into memory. While I didn't enjoy these exercises at that time, I do credit them for making my engagement with Chinese a deeply embodied one. Writing Chinese was fundamental to me seeing and understanding it; the kinetic undergirding both the visual and the verbal. https://genekogan.com/works/a-book-from-the-sky2/

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #72 in the Prismatic style by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo with a self-cameo at La Serranía de Hornocal, Argentina, February 2025.

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Just watched the press conference between the US and Ukrainian presidents in full. Can't help but go back to the piece by @botto that I collected during the Rebellion period in 2023: Clubbing with Multi-American Maniacs.

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #641 by @mattdesl on @artblocks in the collection of @curated Right: My photo taken at the Pink Lagoon situated within the Paracas National Reserve, Peru, November 2024.

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #622 with a glorious Gilded style by @mattdesl on @artblocks in the collection of @valent Right: My photo of a glorious sunset at the world's largest salt flat, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, January 2025.

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Rebecca Solnit for me. Have enjoyed reading her writing since discovering her books in college. I find that they tend to have a meandering yet profoundly expansive quality. Reading Solnit is like going on a leisurely stroll—soaking in the sights and sounds of the landscapes she has traversed, the geographies of emotions she has tried to map, and the histories of meaning she excavates. Perhaps I'm biased as the first books I read of hers were titled "Wanderlust: A History of Walking" and "A Field Guide To Getting Lost", and they came at a time when I was trying to figure out who I was as a young adult, often jetting off to farflung places in the process. But I do think she has a superlative ability to capture and distill emotional depth in her writing. For readers who have the time and ability to sit still for a while, you may therefore find that she has some amazingly resonant ways of reflecting the profundity of the human experience within nature and with each other.

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Constant 24 by @jonathanchomko "Constant works in a similar way - wallet addresses are not equivalent to their owners complex and rich personalities, and blockchain transactions are not equivalent to real connection. Creating a work that shifts each time it changes hands echoes the fragility of our real rich relationships, and reminds us that behind each blockchain address is you and me."

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #903 with a dusty Prime style by @mattdesl on @artblocks in the collection of the 6529 Fund SZN 1. Right: My video of the sand dunes beside the city of Ica, Peru, November 2024 (taken with a DJI Mini 2).

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My Top 9 on @rodeodotclub featuring @shl0ms, @bardionson, @rodeodotclub, @studiostrauss, @gremplin, @solyaev, @santiagoney, @hashrunner, and others

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For me, writing is an act that demands full attention—I can't write while multitasking. In this regard, writing is like a leash—it constraints my attention but also gives it a specific direction if used properly. I therefore find that writing is a wonderful aid for learning. I internalise a subject better when I'm forced to write about it. As the literary critic Walter Benjamin has aptly written, “Speech conquers thought, but writing commands it.” To be able to think well, I firmly believe we need to learn how to write well.

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MERIDIAN MONDAYS Left: Meridian #730 by @mattdesl on @artblocks Right: My photo of an Andean cock-of-the-rock taken at Reserva Natural Jardín de Rocas, in the town of Jardín, Colombia, October 2024.

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