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Gilbert
@gilbert #11781
CEO, Netmorf.
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Netmorf Corporate Graphics model now available in the titles mini app. I’m seriously using this to generate everything for a print project rn. 🙏🙏🙏 thank you @titles team
https://titles.xyz/frames/create?model=lMON80tVxgVxOKmGeZ5h
https://titles.xyz/frames/create?model=lMON80tVxgVxOKmGeZ5h
To those on the Netmorf corporate retreat: we’ve had a lost attendee badge handed in at reception
This part week I’ve been the first guest curator at Contemporary NFT Daily. Gallery and short essay: https://www.contemporarynftdaily.com
What’s interesting about this piece, getting some traction over the last days, is how its lite-doomerism makes no mention of blockchains! Only a few years ago blockchains were a primary element in narratives of a network uncaringly optimised for computational agents autonomously redistributing capital. Isn’t it typical of doomerism to underestimate the capacity of humans to mess up even the most perfectly bleak singularity? https://mirror.xyz/ramonmarc.eth/1G9oLJWblzK1u8rLxIcgqjYO0uULbS3LyBTePqLHmok
While three-person startups feel bound to communicate like corporations the consumer crypto space is going nowhere and inspiring no-one.
I’m curating and posting regular articles on digital community, lore-craft, and design at Foklore. In the Folklore channel here and the Telegram feed linked at https://folklore.institute
By way of follow-up on the Remilia Quarterly piece posted a few weeks ago, this is McKenzie Wark on the contemporary politics of cuteness. https://www.frieze.com/article/mckenzie-wark-politics-cuteness-246?utm_source=FRIEZE&utm_campaign=1bdc721c5d-newsletter-politics-cuteness&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0ebe20dcf-1bdc721c5d-519502209
Despite basically everyone I admire in the space showing up to vote for me got sniped by a pay-to-win 😔
Less than an hour to go and it's close, need a few more legends to show-up 😅
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BRANDING AND THE OPEN WORK: It’s a year since my piece about headless brands and Folklore’s adoption of the labyrinth as an open-ended icon was published. https://folklore.mirror.xyz/v3KHFm-Fz288fjTIcp5Gd63rXoANBewXqbypQqZesSw
Less than 12 hours to go on the Crowdmuse Cyberphysical comp — give me a little boost somebody? This needs to get made and sipped. https://www.jokerace.io/contest/optimism/0x079a413af162d0807f4b160f396160c61e5da84f
For the Crowdmuse/IDEO CoLab Ventures cyberphysical design contest I developed a Netmorf-branded vial of mildly psychedelic Blue Lotus flower extract, to be produced in collaboration with Berlin-based mood-shop Amama. Vote for it here, 24 hours to go: https://www.jokerace.io/contest/optimism/0x079a413af162d0807f4b160f396160c61e5da84f$0
friends, please vote for me in the crowdmuse cyberphysical design comp so that I can release another netmorf physical product https://jokerace.io/contest/optimism/0x079a413af162d0807f4b160f396160c61e5da84f/submission/18934952731597637207227136237727347319227886458710481577574409260322581483660
On the calcification of computing metaphors: “Our software interfaces are fiercely rigid; they can’t be meaningfully nudged — in big ways or small — to more closely reflect our mental models or meet our individual needs.” https://alexanderobenauer.com/think/
This 2012 essay is in resonance with Kei Kreutler’s ‘How to Repair a Spaceport’, recently-published by Folklore. https://www.kabk.nl/en/lectorates/design/understanding-repair-peter-maxwell
There seems to be a renewal of interest in the idea of distribution first design. https://hipcityreg.substack.com/p/distribution-determined-design
CULTURE OUTPERFORMS PEDAGOGICAL STRICTURE: On manipulating social hierarchies to seed desirous memes in Jesuit colleges and Montessori schools. https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/culture-studies
F**K POLISHED AESTHETICS: I’d say the trouble with technologists stewarding artistic tools is that they assume polish and lustre to be the goals and so they work to eradicate the uncanny. This six-year old interview with Robbie Barrat on machine learning and image generation has aged relatively well all things considered. But to look on these images is to be reminded of that thrill of glimpsing a version of ourselves in the garbled, strange, alternate image-physics of the computational. https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/fashion/do-androids-dream-of-balenciaga-ss29
On parasocial worlds and being absorbed. “In historical critiques, reading was condemned not just as a form of insubordination but as an addictive process that threatened the reader’s ability to come back from fantasy and into reality again.” https://reallifemag.com/take-me-away/
Computerised companions. Will they be ‘designed’ to fulfil emotional needs of human users, or will they exist beyond the scope of design? https://thejaymo.net/2024/09/12/milo-2-0/
First subscriber :D Thank you @fs for subscribing to PNG in the EYE for a year. I hope you find your catch-up video airdrop very makes quite sense.
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I’m writing NFT fan-fiction at Hypersub. 12 episodes to come, and a print book at the end. Subscribe. https://www.hypersub.xyz/s/gilberts-png-in-the-eye-1l2uiy7xpekg0/1
I’m airdropping subscribers a new and exclusive two-minute positively deranged video catch-up on the story so far.
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