This is the kind of work that I look at nowadays: 
This is the best presentation on The Mobile Wave that I’ve seen:
I agree in terms of self-education, but primarily what I’m concerned about is the patron-artist relationship, where the patron is enabling things that cannot be solved via crowdfunding.
"Of all human products, art is, perhaps, the most personally important to man and the least understood."
— Ayn Rand, Philosophy and Sense of Life
No one knows how much talent is in a population of 8 billion people. If you assume that no one has that figured out and some of the most talented humans on the planet are severely neglected, you can do something about identifying those people and supporting them.
Nice logo on the grill!
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can see this candle from space 😂 
One of my favorite charts, from casebitcoin 
Michael Saylor: If I had a million dollars of cash there’s nothing I would do with it other than buy #Bitcoin. #Bitcoin is the theoretical apex asset of the human race. The theoretical return on #Bitcoin is higher than anything else. Everything else is dilutive.
If you enjoy this song, please subscribe to Last lily’s YouTube channel. Out of all the artists I am following in Japan, she is the one that I most want to see get to 1,000 subscribers:
I hope gold loses all of its monetary premium to #Bitcoin because I need it for art supplies.
This kind of thing still happens. I was doing it on eBay though because it was low hanging fruit:
"All the Ph.Ds in art history or archaeology available do not guarantee connoisseurship. I am constantly baffled by the presence of an expert who knows all the facts and documents but still does not have an eye, and thus does not really know how to collect."
— Thomas Hoving
My original inspiration to collect art came from this class assignment from Paul Sachs that was described by Thomas Hoving. The idea that you could wander around looking for and actually find affordable objects worthy of being in a museum really appealed to me. I took up this challenge and applied it to living artists who needed a patron to fund such works: 
I was thinking about what else I rely on for info, this is a big one: https://timechainstats.com