"Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world."
— Andrei Tarkovsky
When I saw this in person in 2016 at the Peabody Essex Museum, I couldn't believe that it was contemporary and that it was being featured in a museum as part of its permanent collection. I became obsessed, and it turns out Northwest Coast indigenous art is THE strongest art scene I've found to date. At that time I had no idea what any of this was.
Gwitgwiniiks (The Owl) Shaman’s Helper, by David A. Boxley (Tsimshian) 
The second-hand art market is only as ambitious as artists and patrons were in the past. The potential of new art commissions is as ambitious as living artists and Bitcoiners want it to be!
Picked up a little food from a Chinese restaurant today through the #ToGoodToGo app right from their lunch buffet and didn't even bring enough containers. €6 😳 https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_8747788446258429111698514904.webp #foodstr
That’s a really cool service! I hadn’t heard of it
A wonderful in-progress photo from her Instagram: 
Who is gonna keep nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m off that 169k?
As far as I know, Saylor has yet to buy another $750,000,000 worth of Bitcoin that he set aside money for.
I’m a big fan of this one, “To Fall Asleep” (2018): 
If you’d like to support a living artist, consider these original paintings by Fuco Ueda:
I love watching this every year. He keeps pointing to things that still don’t exist yet!
In my opinion, there are well over 100,000 living artists worth paying attention to, I just haven’t found them all yet 😂
Terence McKenna: I can imagine a world where people live in idyllic pastoral naturalism, naked with perfected ageless bodies, it looks like an aboriginal high Paleolithic existence, but when you transport yourself into these people's bodies and they close their eyes, what they see are menus hanging in mental space and these menus are generated by an object on the inside of their eyelid no larger than a contact lens and that object is a doorway for them into a virtual global culture that is electronically instantaneous, multi-levelled, multi-sensory, transformative, you know, the complete database of the species on call at a glance, and so forth and so on. This is a reasonable technological goal.
15 June 1992
Reddit used to have “Visit random subreddit” which was helpful for discovery