Paolo Tonon

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So happy to be 1st in design again for some time Stripes 41 on @rodeodotclub /rodeo-club /base /basenft /base-creators

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Upcoming solo show in Bangkok COMPLEX / / / 29—30 March Goethe Institute Thailand https://www.goethe.de/ins/th/de/ver.cfm?event_id=26478018

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This project wasn’t political commentary. It wasn’t therapy. It wasn’t even, strictly speaking, art in the gallery-ready, asset-tokenizable sense that defines so much digital practice today. It was a ritual. A performance for an audience I never asked permission from. A way of acknowledging the unrelenting presence of the present. https://medium.com/@paolotonon_52618/living-on-the-edge-of-the-present-a-year-inside-my-own-digital-ritual-f951b03dee2c

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What surprised me was how much the same headlines returned. The Gaza war metastasizing into Lebanon. The Russo-Ukrainian frontline shifting like a sandbar in storm surge. Trump — always Trump — roaring back into office. The very themes that made me start this practice refused to leave, like guests who can’t take a hint. The project became a way to metabolize that repetition, to make it visible. By the ninth month, I realized *Present’s Edge* had become not a commentary on world events, but a commentary on how we look at world events. Not the event itself, but the act of framing it. The refusal to let abstraction become escapism. In that sense, I wasn’t making images. I was making tensions.

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What surprised me was how much the same headlines returned. The Gaza war metastasizing into Lebanon. The Russo-Ukrainian frontline shifting like a sandbar in storm surge. Trump — always Trump — roaring back into office. The very themes that made me start this practice refused to leave, like guests who can’t take a hint. The project became a way to metabolize that repetition, to make it visible. By the ninth month, I realized *Present’s Edge* had become not a commentary on world events, but a commentary on how we look at world events. Not the event itself, but the act of framing it. The refusal to let abstraction become escapism. In that sense, I wasn’t making images. I was making tensions.

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I built Present’s Edge with Midjourney, but not in the way most people do — typing prompts and conjuring stylish trivia. I used its *blend* function obsessively, treating each new image as the genetic offspring of the previous days. A visual ecosystem mutating in public. A chain reaction of images whose aesthetic arcs — from cosmic haze to sinister deco, to organic maximalism — weren’t pre-planned but emergent. The way a language evolves, or a folklore spreads. And here’s the secret that hardly anyone caught: these images weren’t entirely abstract. Hidden in the folds of texture and shape were echoes of the source material. A shape lifted from a war photo. A fragment of a propaganda image. A flicker of the actual, gnawing at the edges of the abstract. Because no abstraction is pure. Every form we create is the child of its time.

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Every day, like clockwork, I selected a headline. Not the one I liked best, not the one that flattered my worldview, but the one that had the most geopolitical weight in the international Western press stream. The news was my ready-made. Duchamp had his urinal, Man Ray his flatiron — I had the BBC homepage and AP wire. And into this brutal, banal modernity, I injected abstraction. Not as escape, but as confrontation. Viewers wrote to me. Some praised the images. Others recoiled at the pairing. “Why ruin this beautiful abstraction with that awful headline? I come to art to forget this world.” And I understood them. But the whole point was: you can’t. Not really. No one lives outside history. No one creates from a vacuum. The news is our weather. Our topsoil. It stains the paper you sketch on, clings to the pixels you arrange, hangs in the room while you work.

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Base has achieved Stage 1 Decentralization by: • Launching permissionless fault proofs • Increasing the decentralization of our contract upgrade process with a security council This is a critical step toward bringing everyone, everywhere onchain https://base.mirror.xyz/tWDMlGp48fF0MeADcLQruUBq1Qxkou4O5x3ax8Rm3jA

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30 April 2025 Rodeo Branch US economy goes into reverse from Trump's abrupt policy shifts

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30 April 2025 US economy goes into reverse from Trump's abrupt policy shifts https://foundation.app/mint/base/0x5C758Cbc58F56f1c510BC4DFfa07D4c2b2e2709C/32

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29 April 2025 Rodeo Branch A ‘p*ssed’ Trump called Jeff Bezos after learning Amazon considered breaking out a tariff charge https://rodeo.club/post/0x3c4856Faa51C00ab1b7E5B3aA165a445ed92aa48/289

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29 April 2025 A ‘p*ssed’ Trump called Jeff Bezos after learning Amazon considered breaking out a tariff charge https://foundation.app/mint/base/0x5C758Cbc58F56f1c510BC4DFfa07D4c2b2e2709C/31

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Averno #11 by @kenzodabarra https://www.fxhash.xyz/gentk/KT1EfsNuqwLAWDd3o4pvfUx1CAh5GMdTrRvr-222224

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28 April 2025 Rodeo Branch Huge power outage paralyses parts of Spain and Portugal

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My Top 9 on @rodeodotclub featuring @flintpope, @paolon, @o-gant, @namrufretep, @petersedlacik, @p1x3lboy, @hoizon, and others

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28 April 2025 Huge power outage paralyses parts of Spain and Portugal https://foundation.app/mint/base/0x5C758Cbc58F56f1c510BC4DFfa07D4c2b2e2709C/30

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27 April 2025 Rodeo Branch Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades

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27 April 2025 Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades https://foundation.app/mint/base/0x5C758Cbc58F56f1c510BC4DFfa07D4c2b2e2709C/29

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26 April 2025 Trump and Zelenskiy meet one-on-one in Vatican basilica to seek Ukraine peace https://foundation.app/mint/base/0x5C758Cbc58F56f1c510BC4DFfa07D4c2b2e2709C/28

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26 April 2025 Rodeo Branch Trump and Zelenskiy meet one-on-one in Vatican basilica to seek Ukraine peace https://rodeo.club/post/0x3c4856Faa51C00ab1b7E5B3aA165a445ed92aa48/286

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