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Enjoyer of jpegs on blockchains | Singaporean currently travelling through LATAM | Member of GrailersDAO, Station3 and ARC | linktr.ee/buffets.eth
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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.
Left: Meridian #565 by @mattdesl on @artblocks
Right: My photo taken at Mistaya Canyon, Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies, June 2016.
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.
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.
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.)
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.)
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.
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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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.]
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.]
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.)
(For context, Singapore is "Singapur" in Spanish.)
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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.
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.
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/
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/
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
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
Currently in Medellín, Colombia, and getting some reminders of home:
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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.
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.
Dived in a cenote for the first time while in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Such an ethereal experience!
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Left: Meridian #147 by @mattdesl on @artblocks
Right: My photo of the Church of Saint Gregory of Tigran Honents in the medieval Armenian city of Ani, now located in Türkiye; August 2014.
Left: Meridian #147 by @mattdesl on @artblocks
Right: My photo of the Church of Saint Gregory of Tigran Honents in the medieval Armenian city of Ani, now located in Türkiye; August 2014.
Left: Terraforms parcel #2802 by Mathcastles in the Jadeite zone (currently in my collection)
Right: Photo taken by me at Cenote Zací, Valladolid, Mexico. This cenote was once the water source of a nearby Mayan settlement, whose inhabitants likely regarded jadeite as sacred.
Right: Photo taken by me at Cenote Zací, Valladolid, Mexico. This cenote was once the water source of a nearby Mayan settlement, whose inhabitants likely regarded jadeite as sacred.
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Left: Meridian #614 by @mattdesl on @artblocks.
Right: Photo taken by me while on the 15-hour journey in a shared taxi from Dushanbe to Khorog, on the Tajik side of the Wakhan Valley, July 2015.
Left: Meridian #614 by @mattdesl on @artblocks.
Right: Photo taken by me while on the 15-hour journey in a shared taxi from Dushanbe to Khorog, on the Tajik side of the Wakhan Valley, July 2015.
While I was in Mexico City last month, I couldn't help but juxtapose my observations of the city against what I saw through Diego Trujillo Pisanty’s Blind Camera (2022), an ingenious artwork that uses an AI-based sound-to-image process to visualise the city's sonic landscapes.
This work (as a series of 100 images) was released on @fellowship earlier this year, and I was lucky to have been able to collect two of them.
Penned down some reflections in further detail about this artwork. Happy to hear thoughts on what you think!
https://mirror.xyz/buffets.eth/xAB5ovewZVm9h7TUg3OOUmBSo7NFnpq4nJc49GkpgDs
This work (as a series of 100 images) was released on @fellowship earlier this year, and I was lucky to have been able to collect two of them.
Penned down some reflections in further detail about this artwork. Happy to hear thoughts on what you think!
https://mirror.xyz/buffets.eth/xAB5ovewZVm9h7TUg3OOUmBSo7NFnpq4nJc49GkpgDs
MERIDIAN MONDAYS
Left: Meridian #266 by @mattdesl on @artblocks—with the Charcoal style reminiscent of a traditional ink wash painting.
Right: Photo taken by me on the way to the top of Montaña Machu Picchu, Peru, June 2013.
Left: Meridian #266 by @mattdesl on @artblocks—with the Charcoal style reminiscent of a traditional ink wash painting.
Right: Photo taken by me on the way to the top of Montaña Machu Picchu, Peru, June 2013.
MERIDIAN MONDAYS
Left: Meridian #801 by @mattdesl on @artblocks is what its owner (Dandelion) has called a “Transcendent Grail”, which embodies distinctive outputs that appear to transcend the intent of the artist. In this case, the Meridian algorithm was designed to produce stratified landforms, but instead created what seems like a clean night sky with stars overlooking a mountaintop.
Right: Photo taken by me of the night sky, taken while camping at Maiden's Rock, near the town of Arslanbob in Kyrgyzstan, July 2015. I had used an intervalometer so that my camera could keep taking photos of the night sky while I slept in my tent. Unfortunately, my battery ran out in the cold and I was not able to capture a complete star trail, or diurnal circle to be more precise.
Left: Meridian #801 by @mattdesl on @artblocks is what its owner (Dandelion) has called a “Transcendent Grail”, which embodies distinctive outputs that appear to transcend the intent of the artist. In this case, the Meridian algorithm was designed to produce stratified landforms, but instead created what seems like a clean night sky with stars overlooking a mountaintop.
Right: Photo taken by me of the night sky, taken while camping at Maiden's Rock, near the town of Arslanbob in Kyrgyzstan, July 2015. I had used an intervalometer so that my camera could keep taking photos of the night sky while I slept in my tent. Unfortunately, my battery ran out in the cold and I was not able to capture a complete star trail, or diurnal circle to be more precise.
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Left: Meridian #123 by @mattdesl on @artblocks—its dark purple and salmon pink hues reminiscent of dusk.
Right: Photo taken by me of Dubrovnik from the top of Mount Srđ, Croatia, September 2015.
Left: Meridian #123 by @mattdesl on @artblocks—its dark purple and salmon pink hues reminiscent of dusk.
Right: Photo taken by me of Dubrovnik from the top of Mount Srđ, Croatia, September 2015.
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Left: Meridian #820 by @mattdesl on @artblocks—its vivid tones and energetic composition played a part in my decision to collect this off secondary.
Right: Photo taken by me at Jemaa el-Fnaa, the square at Marrakesh’s old city, March 2016.
Left: Meridian #820 by @mattdesl on @artblocks—its vivid tones and energetic composition played a part in my decision to collect this off secondary.
Right: Photo taken by me at Jemaa el-Fnaa, the square at Marrakesh’s old city, March 2016.
🌮 TACO TUESDAYS 🌮
Taco de machaca de manta (tacos with dried and shredded manta ray meat) from Mack-Fisher in La Paz.
Although the name of the dish refers to manta rays, I understand from a couple of online commenters that the meat is likely to be from skates instead, which are much more commonly sold in markets all over the Baja California peninsula.
In any case, the "manta ray" machaca does add a lot of texture to the taco, due to its shredded nature.
Taco de machaca de manta (tacos with dried and shredded manta ray meat) from Mack-Fisher in La Paz.
Although the name of the dish refers to manta rays, I understand from a couple of online commenters that the meat is likely to be from skates instead, which are much more commonly sold in markets all over the Baja California peninsula.
In any case, the "manta ray" machaca does add a lot of texture to the taco, due to its shredded nature.
MERIDIAN MONDAYS
Left: Meridian #248 by @mattdesl on @artblocks—its Dune palette evocative of dusk and closure, the end of a long day.
Right: Photo of the setting sun, taken while on a bus to the Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran, Iran, October 2014.
Left: Meridian #248 by @mattdesl on @artblocks—its Dune palette evocative of dusk and closure, the end of a long day.
Right: Photo of the setting sun, taken while on a bus to the Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran, Iran, October 2014.
🌮 TACO TUESDAYS 🌮
Taco dorado de jaiba ("golden" taco with crab) from Tacos Baja in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
The crispiness of the deep-fried tortilla combined with the crispness of the grilled crab meat makes this a very snackable dish.
Taco dorado de jaiba ("golden" taco with crab) from Tacos Baja in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
The crispiness of the deep-fried tortilla combined with the crispness of the grilled crab meat makes this a very snackable dish.