Happy New Year, everyone! I hope your 2017 wrapped up with beauty, warmth, and generosity, and that your 2018 launched with peace and inspiration.
Updates For People Who Like To Read
I've spent the last month going hard on mostly-secret upgrades, just grinding on a bunch of overdue developments – including daily painting, learning how to paint digitally on a tablet, teaching myself to use a laser cutter, taping awesome conversations for Future Fossils Podcast, and immersing myself in the flood of news on distributed ledger technology (including Bitcoin and over 1000 other projects) and its potential to transform society.
Now that we're watching evolution in real-time as it transforms society, it feels like time to put my evolutionary insights into practice and help make some sense of where we're headed. Mapmaking's an art, and art has always felt like mapmaking to me. (I hope the maps I make and share with you are useful and empowering! What else would you like mapped?)
I'm also tinkering away at my first studio recordings in too long...the first new tunes will be on Patreon and Bandcamp before you know it.
So! Some quick links – and then tons of new art and recommended listening:
ALL Poster Prints & Original Paintings PERMANENTLY Discounted
From now on, all of my 11"x17" posters are $15 instead of $20. I've also permanently lowered prices on all original work. I'm doing well enough and know that my art could be more affordable and easier to share. I hope this helps you out! Browse years of paintings here.
Crypto Reader Weekly Emails
Starting a weekly new email list to share digests of the most interesting links I find on cryptocurrencies and the future of a planetary digital society powered by distributed ledgers and other decentralized technologies. Sign up here if that sounds interesting to you!
Coloring Book Pages & Digital Painting Time-Lapses
Posting numerous new time-lapse videos of my experiments in iPad's Procreate art app on Instagram. Watch me discover a new way to render hyperspace!
New Paintings!
Codex/Gnosis (or, The Magic of Reading)
36"x48" – oil and acrylic paint on gallery-wrapped canvas
Just polished off this new collab with Elliot Rogers & William Allan Ross, two of the coolest dudes I know in Austin. This piece has been an epic journey, and to our surprise and wonder was given props on social media by Raja Ram of Shpongle AND the Dead & Company tour page.
(We'll have canvas prints soon, signed and numbered in a couple different sizes. Let me know if you would like me to send details on that, when they're ready.)
Check out my feed on Instagram for plenty of close-ups and shots of it in progress...
Here are a bunch of tiny paintings that I made – the first six 9"x12"s, the last eight 8"x10"s. I plan to make a ton of these if you would like to order one ($120, s/h included). Some of these are still available; some have already found new homes as gifts. Click any of them for a closer look:
New Podcast Episodes!
Everything we took for granted is about to change…beyond Bitcoin and quick riches, there’s a new planetary culture based on the scalability of trust. This podcast explores what that means for you – and why so many of your friends think that this new evolution of digital money and contracts is one of the most important events of our lives.
COME PARTY WITH ME!
Parting Thoughts
“I’ve heard that the dirtiest place in a Catholic Church is the holy water, because all these people are putting their hands in it. The new paradigm is that bacteria’s good and that strong immune systems are built by eating dirt. And maybe, the people that went to church survive, not because they’re in touch with some deity that’s protecting them, but because they’re in touch with each other’s a**holes! Even if it’s a church that doesn’t use holy water, you’re still in the same small room, breathing the same air, sharing bacteria that way.”
