"The task of a patron is difficult. He is concerned with living, unknown artists. He must have the good taste to demand fine poetry or painting or music—or silver, pottery, furniture—and he must have the perspicacity to discover the artist who can supply him. He needs all the insight and flair of a good critic, but, in addition, the faculty for seeing where a young and untried artist may make the most of his gifts: he needs the tolerance and tact to ensure that he will do so. No wonder that great patrons should be so rare, or that poets should have so often recognized the primacy of patronage. Martial gave it as his opinion that if you have your Maecenases, you will get your Virgil."
- John Buxton
I forgot where this came from but this was my Twitter banner for years 😂 
Dipping at $30.1k
Hmm, I’m not seeing any zap information in this thread
I just bought all their songs on iTunes because they’re awesome. Search for “jusan-ya calace”
Running 1.6 (3)
“TL; DR: Splicing changes the game. Phoenix (Lightning wallet) now manages a single dynamic channel, no more 1% fee on inbound liquidity, better predictability and control, trustless swaps.”
I definitely do not have a comprehensive view of what’s going on though, basically I’ve taken a bucket of water out of the ocean and examined it with a microscope. There’s a million other things out there that I don’t even know how to search for.
As a city the one that sticks out is Vancouver because of a massive amount of training that goes on with indigenous artists (I’ve looked mainly at Haida or Tsimshian traditions). Either woodcarving or engraved jewelry, but they work in many other mediums too. Otherwise the pattern that I see is some lone genius that is in a major city by themselves, such as the iconographers Yury Yarin in Moscow or Anthony Gunin in Boston. But they’re all coming from cultures with longstanding traditions of art and building off of that.
Don’t save all your special plans for the distant future, but spread it out. Maybe the best time to do something special is right now.