none of the clients i use are letting me post images...

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"some people think they're always right, i guess right is all they'll ever be"

-anthony civarelli

#quotes

back in the studio after about a week away and it feels like i’m breathing again.

#ceramics #art #pottery #artstr #proofofwork

Back in 2011, Fed Chair Bernanke told Congress that the Fed's balance sheet would return to its pre-crisis level.

It never did, and now it's far larger than in 2011, let alone pre-crisis levels. And by around 2025 it'll level out and start to head up again. It's going up forever, Laura.

they buy negative bonds and then come and shit all over bitcoin like we are the crazy ones

Whenever you feel dumb, just remember that there are people who bought negative-yielding bonds.

All of the profits from the first thousand copies of Broken Money went to the Human Rights Foundation, since Alex Gladstein's public research was so useful for the book and I like the work they are doing worldwide.

The profits from the next four thousand copies went to making an animated half-hour video about Broken Money to reach people that haven't read the book, which we released a few days ago.

My graphics/editing team wanted to make sure that the video had good average viewer time in the first week to help with the YouTube algorithm, rather than the video be sent a ton of clicks that might watch it only briefly and hurt the early quality metrics, so they advised me to soft-launch it at first. We purposely haven't notified my email list or my Twitter feed yet, etc. But it's out there.

It's a half-hour video about the technological evolution of money, with animation. We put a lot of production value into it. And for the people who were sad that I didn't narrate the Broken Money audiobook, I did narrate this video.

In the coming weeks I will spread awareness for the video across my platforms, but for starters, it has been found here on Nostr.

Enjoy:

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this piece is about the frustration in life that we all experience.

for whatever reason, i really am drawn to drawing and sculpting very intense, exaggerated facial expressions, especially angry, disgusted, or stressed wrinkles. they are just fun to look at and draw/sculpt in my opinion.

in addition to this, i also think by exaggerating emotions to a ridiculous extant makes them seem silly and allows for me to take a step back and laugh at myself and how worked up i can get in my own frustrations.

in this way, i can sort of free myself from the heat of the moment.

a couple topics of frustration i intend to address in this piece are:

the destructive nature of consumerism, especially media consumption.

my personal discomfort in my perception of race, especially my own.

the (occasionally) harmful pressure of social norms

status anxiety

as i continue to work on this piece, i plan to explicate these topics with my surface design.

what wallet are you using?

did you recveive the zap? I sent?

seems fine

Money transmitter!