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ARTISTS IN THE CITY 🎨🏙️ #2
Recorded: June 11, 2025 Duration: 1:20:30Space Recording
Short Summary
Exploring the intersection of urban life and creativity, this week's discussion highlights the upcoming launch of a new art collection, strategic partnerships, and the growing trend of community engagement through public art.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. And I run out of bail-in, and I feel like I'm in jail, and my music bores me once again.
And I've been on the pinball and I no longer know it all.
We say that you never know when you're insane.
I freeze in the bedroom, I fly in the bathroom, and the cat just finished off the bread
So I walk over Soho
And I read about Monroe
And I wonder was she really what they said
Got a call from a good friend, come on down for the weekend, didn't know if I could spare the time.
I knew a woman who was crazy, about a boy who was lazy, but it didn't work out cause they just couldn't make it right
hey you all night but you turned it back on the party game
let my voice i keep a hat free will i really have a good dream
or will i wake up in confusion it's the same Hello, everyone. How's it going? Thank you for coming out for another episode of this
Artists in the City Spaces. This is technically our third episode. First episode, we went into
my story. Second one, we talked about my collaborator did.
And this week's going to be a little bit different. We're going to be talking about how cities affect our art and what creates these magical moments that exist across the physical and digital grids.
Especially in such a fast paced world, it really helps to ground ourselves in physical reality, learn from it, bring what we found there to digital reality and vice versa.
Things just move so fast. So I want to hear about a lot of people's voices.
I want to hear a lot of different memories and ideas today. I'm going to be welcomed by my friend Sam, who I've known for probably about 25 years or so now.
Sam Sklar is in the audience. I'm going to call him up soon.
And he's actually working in urban planning. He writes about urban planning. So we're going to
make some really interesting ties today from the digital to the physical.
If anyone wants to come up and chat, feel free to just raise your hand. In the meantime,
please share the space so more people can learn about this. This is going to be weekly. The first
few weeks we're focusing on the city's collection, which is coming to Artblocks just in a few days
on Monday, June 16th. That's my first long-form collection in collaboration with DID.
And the last couple episodes go really deep into that. We'll talk more about some inspiration today.
And another fun thing about this space today is I've been building the allow list along with help from Schiller and DID.
And part of the building of that presale list is we're asking people for their favorite
city memories.
So we have some great memories to share today live on the space.
And these haven't been
shared yet since it's been a private process. Would anyone like to come up and
join and co-host me because this is basically me rattling off and just
requests on the bottom raise your hand or if you don't want to request just
leave a comment in the spaces like the main thread and i can read them off
i'm going to invite sam up here
so maybe we just start with sharing one of these memories because i think these
these were so interesting to see how everybody approached it
So interesting to see how everybody approached it.
The top memory so far that we've received here in this form comes from CryptoPeng, CryptoPeng1.
They say, I remember visiting the city once during a summer after college.
I was dropping off a piece of equipment, a customer computer I'd built up for a friend
from college who was now living in a Brooklyn walk-up apartment.
It was an excuse to visit the big city, and I was living in rural Ohio at the time.
I jumped at the opportunity for a free vacation.
On the first night, I was invited to a party.
I thought, cool, I'll hang out for a bit, but I'll leave before it gets late.
All I knew of the city was what I'd seen on TV. Just as dusk was falling, I found myself standing
on a rooftop, the kind of flat-level gravel-top rooftops you only see in films. Below, the hum
of traffic wasn't noise as it was a rhythm. Horns, footballs, music echoing from alleyways.
Somewhere a saxophone cried and didn't care who listened. There was this moment a breeze passed
through, carrying the scent of food carts and a hot asphalt and jasmine from someone's window box.
I looked around and for the first time I understood the city isn't made of buildings,
it's made of moments stacked like bricks. Everyone below is chasing something, escaping something, building something. And for
a moment, I felt I belonged to that breathless, relentless pulse. I don't remember much else from
that night, but the city has always held a fondness when I think about it. It's the reason I try to
make it back every single year. Wow. If you're just tuning in, that was a memory
from Crypto Penguin, and that was the top scoring memory so far from this process of building
the city's pre-sale. And I just want to say thanks for submitting that. It was beautiful.
A lot of us have traveled and seen different cities and have different experiences of that
city. I feel like the video that I shared yesterday did a pretty good job at summing up my favorite
memory from the city, so I'm going to pin that up if you guys haven't seen.
But also just want to open it up and hear anyone's memories who's in the audience.
Feel free to raise your hand, come up.
If no one comes up, I'll just keep reading these.
So far, I don't see any requests.
This is what I'm trying to capture in my project, though. I think they nailed it. It's about how we're all part of this collective consciousness, and the
city really makes it apparent because we're around so much of our own species when we're in cities.
We can see those patterns a little bit better that exists in the spaces between us,
the spaces between the buildings, when we're in such a concentrated area.
Obviously, the city has a lot of problems, and we can't ignore that.
A lot of my projects in the past have focused on giving back and creating ways to have art
fund public works, like murals, things for mental health awareness.
I'm really excited to keep it going as well with this project.
It's not all sunshine and rainbows in the city,
but I do feel like nostalgia and joy is where I start
a lot of the time when I create.
So that's where I sort of lean towards
when I'm sharing my work.
And it's my happy place.
It's the way that I get a break in the day
to be able to just look out and capture what I'm feeling in these abstract marks.
Y'all leaving me up here by myself.
All right, we'll read the next memory until we get some more people in the space.
Please share it out so we can get more folks in here.
Next memory comes from Tormius.
Tormius is a wonderful artist in our community.
And he's also going to be attending the Rio Art Residency next month.
We have one person requesting, but I'll read this memory first.
From Tormius.
Visiting New York for the first time in my life two years ago, I was fascinated by the charm.
Everything I had seen in series and movies since I was a child was in front of me.
I don't know how I didn't end up with a sore neck and having to keep my eyes up on every walk.
I'd never been used to seeing big skyscrapers.
I was amazed by the vibrant city life and the randomness of events happening minute to minute on every corner.
There was an exhibition spot, the Boston Dynamics
robot dog around the street corner of my hotel, and a bagpipe convention at Bryan Park next to my
hotel. Besides one experience there that I always tell about was going on the subway to Luna Park.
With only a few stops to go, a man got out of our car, which was almost empty, sat in a corner with a defiant stance from which he could see the whole car.
My girlfriend and I didn't pay much attention to him until we saw what was resting on his leg was a pistol.
Without any reaction, we waited for the subway to stop, and at the next station, even though it was not our destination, we got off to wait for the next subway.
Wow, that's crazy. But it was really thanks to this descent
that I was able to take a couple of good pictures from the platform. It's a city that I'll never
forget and to which I wish to return. I don't know if it was the excitement of the first time
that I still idealize it, but for me, I found peace in the chaotic jungle of asphalt.
Wow, that one was intense.
Kay, what's going on?
Welcome to the stage.
Hi, Eric.
Thank you for having me.
Cities are wonderful.
Cities are wonderful. And I love the way you've captured them.
Cities to me are like human beings, each one having their own personality.
The different streets are like veins, leading people to where they desire to go.
The different pieces, different line marks are like different organs
having the different functions and each of them with their skyscrapers, some bungalows,
some just few stories, like different heights of people, different features, different
personalities, they all have their charm. So it's really wonderful seeing it
being portrayed. Yeah. That's what I just came to say. I love that. You said the streets are like
veins. Yeah. I didn't think about it like that, but that makes a lot of sense. That reminds me,
have you ever seen, have you ever compared the patterns, the macro patterns of the universe to the patterns that are happening in our brains and realized how similar they look?
I feel like the same thing is happening when I look out on the city.
I'm seeing patterns that have some kind of likeness to what's happening at the molecular level.
And maybe that's why it's so powerful to me to try and capture that visually.
But I love what you shared, Kay.
Thank you so much.
I'm going to share another one here.
This one is from Alex.
One of my favorite memories from city life is a summer morning in Berlin.
After a long night out with my closest friends, we had spent hours laughing, dancing, and meeting people we'd never see again. The
night faded. We walked through the quiet streets at dawn, still full of energy,
reluctantly accepting the night was over. We stopped in front of a wall covered in
street art and took a photo with the rising Sun behind us, light streaking
through the city like one of those perfect snapshots.
What I remember most is the sense of total freedom.
No responsibilities. No real worries.
Just a group of young adults, still partly kids, soaking in the moment.
We've all grown up since then, and I know those nights belonged to that time that was in our lives.
That's why the memory stays with me.
It couldn't happen in the same way again.
There's something about memories in cities because there's just such a concentration
of people that we all get to share a part of that memory and then we all paint it a
little bit differently in our minds later.
There's no 100% true memory.
It's just distorted
through these rose-colored glasses. But we all have similar memories, so I love to connect these
dots and see how other people see the city. Hopefully y'all can see how I see the city.
And maybe some more people if they want to come up.
But for now, keep reading. So the next one here comes from Neanderthal.
Ne like the body part, Neanderthal. I'll never forget the first time I walked through
Samqiangdong in Seoul. It wasn't a district. It felt like an interactive art labyrinth.
It wasn't a district. It felt like an interactive art labyrinth.
I love that.
What fascinated me most was walking into a gallery after gallery, not just seeing art, but finding the artists themselves right there, ready to talk you through their creations.
It was an experience unlike any other, almost like upgraded hawker stalls, but for the soul, where each stall offered a direct personal encounter with creativity.
where each stall offered a direct personal encounter with creativity.
The streets buzzed with just the right amount of energy,
lively but never overwhelming,
and the sight of a beautiful ancient temple nearby
truly amplified the area's unique charm,
adding a layer of spiritual depth to the modern artistic expression.
That feeling of discovering a direct connection to art
art and its maker in such a beautifully balanced urban space is a memory that's stuck with me.
and its maker in such a beautifully balanced urban space
is a memory that stuck with me.
I feel like this memory really hits on what's happening in this web3 space where artists are
now more accessible. I talked in my video about how the internet changed what a city means to me
and how we all connect in this place that doesn't even really exist. We're just
in the airwaves together or in the sound waves, I guess. And it's probably a good time to say that
we are doing some IRL events coming up very soon, similar to this memory that was just shared from South Korea. We will have two shows happening on the weekend of June 27th,
28th in NYC, where you'll have a similar experience. You'll get to meet the artists
behind the works. I thought about delaying this drop or delaying this show because it's a lot of
work for us to do at the same time. And we have a very small team. But the more I thought about it,
I realized part of the intention was to do this big cities drop and celebrate not just the cities, but the
artists within them and to cross pollinate these worlds as much as possible. It's my first on-chain
generative art collection with DID. So getting that crew to understand the magic of street art,
to understand the magic of hand illustrated art, photography, other genres that they maybe don't normally get to see, and then talk to the artist in person, was
a big part of my intention of why these are happening at the same time.
I'm going to pin this up real quick, though.
Kay, did you have any feedback on that last memory or anything you want to share?
Oh, yeah, I think having it side by side is really the best thing.
Like you said, people will be able to experience it, especially relating to the last memory you shared.
The city and the artist and how it all relates to each other.
Like talking about memory of how we experience it is different.
It's a magical thing because we all see through different perspectives
based on our worldview.
We tend to see things that other people might miss.
So we all experience it so specially, so differently. What others
might think is inconsequential is what might make someone stay.
So, the city is just, I would say it's more like an energy machine in a way because how
you experience it, both the exterior and the interior, it carries over in the way you move.
Different cities have different energies that come. Like if you consider New York, it's
more bustling now. So, it's sort of upbeat. In cities that are not as populated,
you tend to get, I would say, a free vibe.
And so each of them have their own signature
and each of them have their own, like I said, charm.
So yeah.
That's a beautiful transition here.
We just have Sam Sklar, who just joined up on stage.
Old friend of mine, super knowledgeable about cities,
very opinionated as well.
How do you want to comment on that, Sam?
Like having how each city has its own signature,
you know, being from this area,
but hearing some memories from around the world.
And how are you doing?
Oh, hey, everybody.
So thanks for having me.
I'm excited to join Eric's space here.
It's my first time on a Twitter slash X space.
So excited to learn how this works and to connect with all of you different
artists and followers and fans.
It's Eric's work from around the world here.
So I'll start with a comment on that,
and then I'll get into my background.
And then Eric, I'd love to either answer some questions
you have or start a dialogue or talk to some of the other folks
in the space if they have questions.
But I really think that every city shares certain aspects,
but also is unique in its own way.
And, you know, one of the things we were talking about yesterday was does art make a city or does the city make art?
Right. It's one of those dualities that does the city influence art or does the art influence city?
It is the city of people, is the city by people, is the city for people.
And I think it's all three of those in a lot of ways and
i think to talk about an overall signature is really hard because each community each local
neighborhood each block your neighbors whether digital or physical sort of are what make a city
great in a lot of ways and how you interact with them both physically and digitally and and one
thing that i will say and and I think, I hope this
resonates with folks in the space, is that the one area of art and urban planning in cities that I'm
really focused on is that art activates space. It is the one thing that draws people in, whether
that's murals, like Eric, that was one of your projects for a long time. I think you still may do some physical murals, but also architecture, the design of buildings,
the shape of a street can be considered artistic, whether it's a cross grid pattern or you've
got wavy streets or you've got a crisscross spaghetti.
That's an artistic expression by engineers even and planners and economic development people that care about the financial bones of a place to make sure everyone's got the ability to live.
And so I think everyone puts their own signature on a city.
And I think when enough folks share a font, share a typeface, that's when the real magic happens.
Super well said, man.
Thank you for that.
Yeah. Thank you for that. Yeah. The neighborhoods of different cities make them up, right? Like you can chunk it out and say, this neighborhood has this vibe,
this neighborhood has that vibe, but there's still the transition blocks. There's like moving
from one neighborhood to another. There's maybe even things that don't get covered in those two
descriptions that you see or that you feel. And I love what you said, how every person puts their own signature on the city,
and the people are really what make the city what it is.
Kay, did you want to respond to that, or you want to...
Oh, yeah, I wanted to respond to that, especially the architecture part of the city.
For cities, a lot of cities are planned and they have their vibe.
A lot of cities just sprung up by the influx of people and they don't really get the chance of
that organization and they also have their own vibe. So Ayuswati was a very fascinating observation.
And based on the way the city is planned,
there are some cities that the planners got right
and they were able to get a very functional city
that people can relate with and function in,
based on the way they place the different buildings,
based on the way they place the facilities, communal facilities,
based on the way they place the different functioning units of the city.
Once they got it right, they were able to get a very vibrant city.
Others were not, there are some that were not so good.
And the city became, what I say,
uninhabitable concrete jungles
because people could not really function as much.
So it just shows how planning can go a long way in making a city or breaking it.
In these designs, like this study of cities and the designs, it's helped in forming the
vibrant cities that we have right now.
Because from the failures of the past,
the architects and the planners,
they studied what made cities successful. They studied how people related with them,
and they tried their best to merge human psychology and the design together in such a way that people
can relate with the city, not just as a bunch of buildings, but as a place that you can
call home.
So, yeah, that's what I just wanted to share.
Dining cities and
you're cutting out a little bit, but we got most of it.
Thanks for sharing, man.
I think, Eric, if I can hop back in, I just want to say that was a really well put description
from your perspective of how planners
and how other folks kind of make a city, right?
Some cities are planned down to the roadbed
that cities like Canberra, Australia, Chandigarh,
and India, and Brasilia, in Brazil are three great examples of cities that were sent out for competition.
Folks would submit their plans and they built them sort of to a T, but you don't get that messiness that allows for the cracks between spaces where some magical surprise meets can happen or where you and your neighbors can can meet at a an oblique
intersection or something along those lines to sort of give the character to a place right and
I think that's exactly where art fits in I my background is in transportation planning so
most folks think about this as as someone who works with data a lot, someone who thinks about engineering and building rail and busways
and streets and highways.
But really, I've worked for several nonprofits
in my career too.
And what really gets folks going,
you get different types of people
at community meetings
when you build in a public art project
to activate, let's say, under an overpass
or along a wall that's going to wind up being blank.
You can really tell a story and you really get folks input on what makes sense as a mural or several murals or a photography project.
Is it permanent or temporary?
Do you want to tell your own story?
Do you want to tell someone else's story?
And one of the things, and to get back to Eric's project here,
one of the reasons why I'm so excited about this, and I'll be at the event later this month,
if that was public, I'm not sure I was supposed to say that,
but I will be there. I'm supporting Eric's project nonetheless,
but one of the things that's so exciting about the iterative nature of Eric's process
is that it does mirror how I see our cities changing over time.
And that your vision of the city now may not be the person of the vision of the city in the past or what the future people who are going to live in your apartment, your house, your place are going to be in the future.
And I think it's a really great way to represent it digitally, this abstract concept.
So I really, really like that. And I think it gets people thinking and concentrating about place
and how they can be stewards and guide the development of their place
with their community, with their neighbors,
whatever community your neighbor means to you.
I think it's super important and super excited to add some context to this.
So for folks in the call, I want this to be maybe more practical.
And if you like to read or you like to peruse,
one of the founding folks, and at least in my experience,
and again, this is by nowhere near exhaustive
because many people of so many different backgrounds,
so many different ethnicities, races, places from around the world have been developing their ideas of urban design, which is, I guess, the shorthand name of discipline.
One of the first books that I read was called Image of the City by Kevin Lynch.
And I'm going to iterate from there.
He was not the first person to have these ideas.
But in my curriculum, when I was learning about the design of place, the folks are interested in learning a little bit more about some of the
heuristics that make, according to this, just single person,
a place great or livable or something to aspire to.
That's one thing that's sort of practical that I can give to the folks who
wanted to come to the space today. So Eric,
do you have any questions for me or I can just go on and on and on,
but maybe I shouldn't.
I just want to call out,
I love what you said about how certain
cities are super planned down to a T and they have these contests like Brasilia and Chandigarh.
Jesse actually has family over there in Chandigarh and I really want to check it out. But you also
talked about how those cities sometimes lack the accidental intersections that get formed,
like these really long triangles or things that
create space for art that you can see it from far away. Like I'm thinking of Times Square before
maybe even still while it has the billboards. A lot of digital artists in this community are
preparing exhibitions for NFT NYC to take over Times Square. That's evolved in such an interesting way. When I was first getting into murals, I
didn't expect that type of takeover to be something I'm involved in in Times Square.
But maybe I would like to know from you, Sam, what's a memory from either this city or another
city that's shaped the way that you see the world? What made you want to get into this line of work?
Oh, we bumped him down by accident maybe I'm gonna invite him up again hope
y'all are enjoying the's been enjoyable so far.
Sam has really, really lent a lot of context to cities.
It's really, really wonderful hearing him talk about his wealth of knowledge about cities.
Just adding to the planned part of cities, it's also fascinating that no matter how planned the city is, we humans, we always have a way of imposing our weight on it.
So no matter how planned a city is, buildings get reconverted.
A lot of things go on and we tend to make it cozy enough for us.
We tend to make our own magic spots.
We tend to create our own experiences.
Even in a restrictive design, we find a way.
We always find a way.
Okay, I'm back.
Sorry, guys.
I think X crapped out on me there um so eric you're asking
about a memory that i have about a city and what what speaks to me or maybe what what inspired you
to get into this line of work oh that's that's too long of a story i think the long story short is that
i got very curious about why a building could be where it is and why another building wasn't there instead.
It sort of led me down the rabbit hole of watching videos and reading books and papers.
I'm ultimately the exact kind of nerd that you think does this type of work to everybody in the space.
But the memory, it's actually very close to your heart as well, I think,
is when I learned how to ride a bike.
And I learned how to ride a bike when I was 19.
I was in Boston.
And Eric, your brother, Josh, a.k.a. Fritz, a.k.a. Fritz Tech,
you should check some of his cool creations out.
He's a mechanical engineer for festival spaces and the like.
But he taught me how to ride a bike when I was 19.
I realized that I was really missing out on the opportunity
to explore my city on two wheels,
whereas I had done by pedal and car and by transit
and other forms before.
But one day, this is what sort of got me interested
in the sidewalk, right?
So there's a company called Eastern Mountain Sports
back in the day along Commonwealth Avenue for folks who had been to Boston in the late 2000s. Um, I just sort of
walked in there and bought a bike. I'd never ridden a bike before. I remember the salesperson was
like, Oh, do you want to test it out? I was like, no, I'm good. Which bike is good for the city?
And he led me to our bike, which was fast forward stolen about three weeks later
however um sort of got the bike walked it out of the store because i did not know how to ride it
out of the store i walked out of the store and then i just called josh aka fritz up and i was
like hey man funny story i just bought a bike and he'd known me for 10 years at that point
or eight years or something i was like all right you should teach me how to ride a bike and we're on the sidewalk and
I am mortified because I'm not quite getting the heuristic of you know it's like riding a bike
that meant literally nothing to me and I was sort of crashing into pedestrians and crashing into
the wall and not finding the momentum. And it was really frustrating.
And I just remember the encouragement from not only Josh, but some passersby,
and then the bullying from the teens on the street making fun of me.
But that's sort of the informal interactions on the city.
And that got me really excited enough to remember the memory today.
Eventually it clicked.
And now I'm an avid cyclist and I teach other adult riders because I've got that experience of learning when you're
not a kid and being able to have to figure it out but I really was it really sort of got me
it's a memory of a particular place on a sidewalk at a particular time with particular people and
again this is how I view the city I view it through the lens of transport and how transportation can be joy and movement. It doesn't have to be either or. And I
think that's why I'm such a bicycle fan because it does a lot of the things that you need to do,
but also giving you joy and exercise and a lot of the human experience potential all at once. So
that's a memory for me. I'm curious if other folks in the space either
remember when they learned how to ride a bike or when they interacted with or have a particular
memory of being on a street at a particular time and why.
Super cool story. I love that. And you mentioned something. I want to answer your question, but I want to touch on something you said first about these informal interactions that we have in the city.
I tried to capture it in my video, but there was so much I wanted to say, and that was just the teaser. So it doesn't really have, it doesn't capture that as much.
Like, how has that changed over the last decade or two as we become more sucked into digital worlds and especially with the pandemic last in 2020?
So how did you see the interactions between people on the street change?
And I'm sure you were paying more attention to that than most.
I think it hooked. I think it went in two different directions at once. Now we're seeing
is now it's sort of mix and that people got more antisocial and more desperate for social
interaction as well. So you see a lot of the digital online spaces become a lot more hostile
and that sort of translated into the real world in that people were afraid of each other
or didn't want to start a conversation
with a passerby on the street for fear of being judged or criticized or any
other these needs but I also saw folks desperate for that being in a third
place and what I mean by that is not home or work and that's a coffee shop
that's a library I think people would really really want
these places and they can exist informally as well
you can make your own third space
on a corner you know a lot of communities
where I live in New York they do
block parties they'll do hang out
on the sidewalk and really
you know you're welcome
to exist in these places with people
but are you existing by
them or are you existing with them i use a lot of uh
compositions anybody who's noticed this i try to make my point using kind of conflicting
prepositions in a way and i think what would be great is if we can use art as a digital
as a digital and physical connector and you know you one way to do that is just
on the street you see a piece of street art that you like, you can just mention to someone passing by, isn't that great?
And that's not a long interaction, but it's a way that both of you are experiencing something simultaneously.
And that's informal.
And that creates a memory, whether it's a lasting memory, but your brain gets that dopamine hit it's desperately looking for.
memory, but your brain gets that dopamine hit it's desperately looking for.
Um, and not through vitriol, not through anger, not through having a, uh, agreement
or disagreement with someone, but just an interaction.
And that's, that's where I'm so obsessed with art in space.
And it's not just the last thing on a budget or the first thing cut when you
need to do your value engineering of what's providing value to place.
I think those conversations need to happen a lot more and there's a lot more room for
artists, both digital and physical at public meetings involved in stakeholder conversations
about projects that go into the billions.
You could really use a couple hundred thousand to support local arts to create that meaningful
local space and a place to gather.
It signifies so many things.
And it's a very frustrating matter.
Folks are so obsessed with efficiency that they forget that, you know,
humans have their own biological clock,
and efficiency means something different.
Does that answer your question?
Yeah, you're nailing it, Sam.
I feel like the depth that you're providing to help us look at these city grids in a new way is awesome. And also just to hear more about your background and your memories.
I wanted to ask you if there is a specific street or corner that you return to in the city, like your favorite place to go or just the most fascinating place for the
history aspect? Anything there? That's a really good question. I think the street that I'm most
excited about is the one I'm currently on. One of the things that I don't mean like right now,
it's like when I'm in place, I really, one of the things why I love New York so much is that you can
turn down any block and have a completely different experience. There's a different
style of architecture, different type of hypology of building.
There's different things that you notice about like the width of the street compared to the
ratio of the height of the buildings, right?
If you think about that kind of creates your comfort, it creates an envelope for you to
be in while you're on your street.
Every street is different.
Dodging your question here, but I can give you some characteristics of a street that makes me excited
if that's better, because I don't have an answer for you
about which particular street.
That's cool.
But I also want to say that you're hitting perfectly
on something that I tried to bake into the last space,
which was talking about these ratios that exist naturally.
And this project that we're releasing next week with
art blocks is a system it doesn't have one artwork it has infinite artworks that can come out of it
there's only going to be 500 that are official but the idea is that we tried to create these ratios
the same way that i do when i'm working on paper and i choose a size of the paper and i choose a
size for the marker and there's inherently a ratio there as soon as you make the, you're not just drawing the dot, you're drawing the space around it.
And I think that's similar to how people lay out a city, but you can continue there. Yeah.
No, no. I think that's absolutely great too. And to use language that folks in the digital art
space will latch onto, it's, it's a vector, right? It's this idea of no matter how much you scroll in, you choose the size and the space of the digital creation.
And, you know, that doesn't translate necessarily to the real world.
I think vector means something different in like a physics.
But, you know, it's direction and speed, right,
which is how we all experience our city.
So there's a lot of crossover here in the language.
But, you know, things that I look for on a street, what I'm doing, it's funny. It's funny. You, you talk
about this. I'm at a conference this week in Providence, Rhode Island. And one of the sessions
I went to was how to do a walking audit, a walk about nothing. It's, it's a way to be
hyper observational about what it feels like to be in a place and you, what you do and anybody
can do, anybody can do this. You can, you can download the resources place and you what you do and anybody can do anybody can do this you can you can download
the resources online and you can gather your community you can talk to your city counselor
you can talk to people who represent you and it's walking along a block or a series of blocks and
the things you're noticing are different from the day-to-day experience but people that i think focus
on without thinking about it they focus on itly. The idea of how wide is the sidewalk?
How wide is the sidewalk with street dining?
What's the height of a sign?
Is it eye level?
Is it accessible for someone to look up who's got a vision impairment?
Does this work for everybody, all users of all ages and all abilities at any given time?
Are there, is there street furniture?
Is there a place to sit? Are there furniture? Is there a place to sit?
Are there trees? Is there a place for shade and to feel comfort? And do you feel like you're in
a city or do you feel like you're in the jungle or some other place that's full of trees? And I
know a lot of folks seek that out in New York, which is why our parks are so well used. And
there's so many other things, and I don't want to get into the details here but things like that things you look at things you notice from
that's where like the technical meets the observational in a lot of ways and again you
can even do this informally you can go out onto your street tomorrow and just take a look at um
uh what the house how a place makes you feel and you can use your feet literally just count
with your feet if you assume your your foot is one foot or one and a half feet or something
measure the distance from sidewalk to sidewalk and understand that you know a car is about you
know nine or so feet wide eight or so feet wide how many can fit on here versus how many people
can fit on here how many bikes can fit on here there There's just a lot you can do informally, and that can really help you, I guess, get more involved in your own place, and that you can find what you love and
what you don't love, and then there's ways to fix it. There's ways to talk to your city counselor,
your city manager. I'm not sure exactly how everyone's cities are structured here, but
there's ways to do this, and, you know, you can use your,
the way you think as an artist to help influence yours and your neighbor's experiences,
you know, on a day-to-day life.
Oh, sorry. I thought I was unmuted there.
I love the moving meditation through the city.
Maybe we do something like that at the end of the month when we're here, if we have any time.
But I see that Buna just hopped up. What's going on, Buna?
I think he hopped up.
I can't hear him, though. Can you guys hear him?
No, I can hear him. Can or can't hear him, though. Can you guys hear him? No, I can hear him.
Can or can't?
Hey.
I can't hear.
Yeah, getting a little...
I think it delayed there.
Can anyone else hear me?
Yeah, we got you.
Yeah.
Hold on.
Let me leave and come back. Let me leave and come back.
Let me leave and come back.
All good.
I have some questions here that are a little more polarizing
if you're up for them, Sam.
All right, Boon is back.
Yeah. all right boon is back yeah of having insanely too many twitter tabs open and forgetting that i had the space going in multiple
uh all right i accepted the invited one and forgot i had one up so classic yeah happy to be here how's everyone doing today
we're doing great yeah stoked to have you here it's a smaller space but it's more of an intimate
vibe this week as we're getting into personal memories and just talking everything cities
how you been man yeah doing good just been take I know, speaking of down to like do a little riff here, but you know, doing well just got back from taking the dog on a walk. I recently moved back to the city. I used to live kind of on the outskirts of Austin, but recently made a move back. So kind of feels right in line with with what we're speaking about. I've heard a few kind of in and out um like in the beginning of the space before uh before i took my dog in a walk but
yeah just happy to do a little riff if that would be appropriate here um but yeah down to yeah down
to share that um or any sort of the reason behind that but is that kind of the vibe of what we're
doing here yeah yeah share um you know
what your thoughts on the space or just like your memory uh your take on how you see the city
yeah it's it's a it's a big question i mean i think there's a lot of different ways to
to answer this um one thing that uh you know i grew up kind of in the suburbs on the outskirts of a city uh so i got
and now granted the the you know the place i lived was it grew so fast that it arguably could be
you know considered sun city but in comparison to houston it really wasn't um but there's a there's
a sense of there's a sense of urgency and electric like I first noticed that really when I went to New York.
Everything just felt so alive.
And it was kind of a surreal experience for me
to kind of see how there was a couple things happening.
Number one, there was just a sense of hustle
that was really just attractive to me.
But then there was also a sense of like,
you're kind of like a nobody, you know,
there's so many things happening all at once
and everyone's in their own world
and in their own,
has their own priorities and their own things.
And I think it's to the degree of like,
like you can see the most insane shit
walking around Manhattan or Brooklyn
and like no one just bats an eye.
Like everyone just like keeps going and keeps it moving.
And so there's, there's that sense of like, you know, everyone's, you know,
important to in their own world, but like everyone kind of serves a purpose.
And it's just, yeah, it's something,
it's something that I've always enjoyed even going on. I remember, you know,
of course I had the pleasure of checking out that video before it was shared.
And shout out to Weesh for the edits on there.
I really love that one.
What really called me there was the subway.
And you can kind of just see people just start randomly breakdance on the trains or on the subway system.
And I thought that was just probably one of the coolest things.
You just don't really get anywhere else.
So I think they all have their kind of own sense
of culture baked into them,
which, yeah, is really fascinating.
Definitely different from Houston culture.
But yeah, I kind of just love the
everyone's together, but everyone's alone
at the same time.
It kind of feels like a really authentic,
you know, meditation on what cities are and can be um but also the sense of connectedness uh that we all that
we all share um and yeah it's just kind of like there's a there's like a there's like layers to
it so um yeah i am all i'm such a huge fan um that's why new york is probably one of my favorite
events to go to uh every single year um there just, yeah, there's just so much happening and it's always just so exciting.
So yeah, that's a little, I can, I can go a little longer and have some more to share
and we can, we can unpack some of that, but yeah, I'll just, I'll leave it there for right
now.
That duality that you touched on between being all together but feeling alone, feeling in our own worlds, is such a strong feeling that I felt over the last few years and that got baked into this project.
Because how weird is it that we share these tiny apartment buildings with people, but we don't even know our neighbors' names for the most part.
Like a lot of us don't take the time, maybe the person across the hall because it's like
convenience factor, but there's so many people so close to us and yet we don't take the time to
learn their stories. And you said that, you know, it's what a city could be. I see the city as being
more connected, not so divided feeling, not so lonely
feeling. I think that's how it felt before the internet, because we didn't have resources to
order delivery or get everything so quickly, conveniently, and we'd have to ask our neighbors
for more things. And yeah, I just, I like what you shared, Buna. Thank you for that.
Of course, man. and happy to happy to riff
a little bit there it's what what's one thing that's really interesting i think there's a
a hope for like what cities could be but you know one thing i have noticed and compared i just went
to my parents house for or got back from my parents place for the past three weeks and they
live kind of in the in a little remote you know city in uh or kind of like out in the middle of east texas um on a lake and
um what was really fascinating was like and i don't know if my parents just got lucky or if
this is just kind of the way things like used to be generally but the amount of community that was
within probably you know four to five families that live up there full time was like was really
kind of heartwarming um and i got to hear a lot
of like how my parents did so much for that community and like as a result like everyone
took me to dinner and like brought me food and like invited me to hang out and like was always
making sure i was okay um you know because i was up there you know just completely by myself for
for quite a long time um and that's just something i don't, I haven't seen in a long time. Really kind of since it kind
of feels like that was a little bit more of a commonality pre COVID. And I think COVID really,
like, you know, in some ways, it really made our lives a lot better. And there was some,
like, we realized that we didn't have to be in person for everything. And we really got to
reprioritize ourselves. And lot of you know kind of places
that are a lot of like you know old traditions kind of melted away um or like the way things
were it gave people you know the validation that they needed to do things on their own
but there's also that sense like you were talking about like it's you know we we've gotten so
everything is so hyper personalized and hyper likeized and hyper instant and now.
I really would love to see us get back to what the world looks like
when we grow past some of the damage that COVID caused.
We're very isolated. I don't know if that's a word, but, um, that's what came to mind,
um, to where, but we can still kind of, there's a blend of like the old and new,
you know, and I really hope to kind of see that soon. Um, there's like, I'm a, I'm a hopeless
optimist, you know, in a lot of cases, uh, it's just an easier being an optimist is just an easier
way to live. Um, pessimism is just, uh, it's usually, you're being an optimist is just an easier way to live pessimism is just
uh it's usually you're you're a hopeless optimist that sounds like an oxymoron yeah well like
because in in light of a lot of like how people react today everything's all doom and gloom and
everyone's like you know uh it's so over and this and that and it's kind of like on the internet you
know it's it feels weird to be an optimist.
That's kind of why I say that
because it usually gets drowned out
because being a pessimist is what gets rewarded today
or it's what gets prioritized on the algorithm.
It's shock value.
It's pessimism.
It's rage bait.
It's this.
So yeah, probably projecting a little bit there,
but good call out.
There's definitely a sense of like, it feels, I think I'm in the right crowd, but there's a, there is a sense of like,
man, like how many of the people are genuinely out in this year? So yeah, man. But it was
interesting to see the duality, like, you know, like I, it was, you know, I experienced, since I moved to Austin in the city about a year ago, but experienced a lot more community in kind of like a little town that, I have no idea how big that city is, but it's small.
Or that town.
So yeah, it's just really interesting to see that and kind of experience, you know, two sides in different worlds.
I heard a good quote recently about optimism versus like, why are people so optimistic?
And the reason was surprising to me.
It was that the quote said, optimists are the way they are because they've been to some of the darkest places and they decided they don't want to go back.
A lot of truth in that.
Yes.
And so it's easy to be optimistic when nothing's bad happens to you in your life and you have a comfortable life or you were born with a lot of money or just connections.
connections. Obviously, we're all privileged in our own way. Growing up in New York State was
Obviously, like we're all privileged in our own way.
super lucky, and being able to be here as a creative feels like I don't deserve this privilege,
but I'm trying to use the privilege for good and create as many connections as I can in this world.
And that's a big part of what this is all about, is bringing these memories. I thought,
how could I grow this project in the most organic way, as if I was
able to create my own city? And it made sense to not just invite anybody, but no, let me ask for
a piece of your story too, because we're all needing to connect more in this time. Like I
said, we have to find ways to move past that mentality of, oh, I don't need to connect with
my neighbors. I don't need to know their story and feel that empathy. And it's all kind of doom and gloom. But if we can focus on each other's humanity
amidst all this noise and terrible news, then we can actually work together better. We do have
to have small talk before we have deep talk. That's something I had to accept recently.
I've never been a big fan of small talk but you know until you have the small
talk with your neighbors like you're not going to get deeper uh with them and make them feel
comfortable with you yeah agree yeah that's a that's a great point um i have a i have a something
that might be a little contrary to the first part um you know it's it i think this all this it kind
of determined like it's it has to do with,
like, where you're at in the journey, or, like, where you are in your life journey,
but people who have kind of experienced, like, you know, like, I'll be celebrating 12 years
of sobriety in August, and, you know, it's easy for, it's easier for me to be an optimist, because,
like, I've kind of seen the ugliest side of life, and like i was able to uh like that gives one a different
perspective that you know like not a lot of people get to have and like this is not me encouraging
you to to go to go down a horrible path to hope you get that perspective but um that was like my
deck of cards uh and it's really easy to see uh the world in a different light because if you know
one one thing i guess i've learned is that if you've
like if life can get that bad then that also means the inverse of that is also true um like it's just you can't have you can't have the light without the dark uh and just because i haven't experienced
maybe the extreme version of what i experienced maybe like at the end of into that road um you
know doesn't mean that it's not possible and it could be possible that we're just not there
yet um or that you know it's there's always there's always another ring and there's always
another layer to go um but i i i agree man uh and yeah i i think it's one of the things i just yeah
um i may sorry sorry to make that about me and this is about your collection but
um dude no this is artists plural artists in the cities plural it's all about
all of us it felt relevant to say that but i saw sam sam shot their hand his hand up uh yeah would
love to hear what you have to say man hey buna um that's a really great it's great that you're on
on your path to feeling your best self and you know i'm glad you're able to get there. Thanks for sharing it. It's always inspiring to hear how people are really just becoming themselves in a great way. So
thanks for that. I appreciate you. Anyway, friends on the stream, I have to hop off. I have a call I
have to get to at the top of the hour here. But I wanted to just say thanks for listening to me
pontificate about things that I care a lot about.
And I hope that it was meaningful to you in a way.
You can reach out, DM me if you have any more questions about Citi stuff.
Or have a question about how do I do X, Y, and Z.
I'm happy to point you in the right direction.
Or how do I apply for an artist's grant or get involved with being involved in the physical and digital space.
I'm happy to help point you in the right direction there.
But yeah, I just wanted to thank Eric for hosting us
and for kind of creating the space and inviting me to speak.
So thanks again, everyone.
And I hope to see you all online and maybe some of you in person in a couple weeks.
Thanks for coming, Sam.
That was awesome.
Really appreciate your time
and thank you Buna for being vulnerable in sharing your story everyone has a low moment and
we don't know until we share what other people are going through so it's it's great to hear
that you've been on a good path, like Sam said. Should I share some
more of the city memories that I was given? Or Kay, do you want to share one of your own?
And I also have option three is some polarizing questions that I found.
I just wanted to just make a few comments on the evolution of cities. And I would love for you to share some of the questions
and the observations you received.
I came across a video that showed how London transitioned.
I was always wondering why the entrances of some buildings on London streets always had the entrance on the second floor.
And I found out that just because in the past, the streets of London was always occupied by horses.
And there was always manual that always rises up to the first floor and they had to have their
entrance at the higher level to prevent filth from entering into the building and there was also
a sort of a railing where you can wipe your boots off to remove the horse hair sweater from your boots.
And some of those pieces still remain in the streets of London as a part, as it's kind of
useless right now since the roads are attired. And it's just like a monument of what has been and I just wonder how
what monuments of our current cities will remain when our cities evolve again It reminds me of your collection and how it evolves.
It's one of the things you try to capture in your pieces.
So I just wonder what vestige of our cities will remain?
What will be outdated and what will remain, what will not be taken off,
what will remain as a monument for the future generations to see. I really wonder.
I was thinking about that recently as well.
Have you seen that movie AI where New York City is depicted as underwater?
And you're like swimming underwater to find things in the city?
Oh, no, I haven't. I have to see it.
Yeah, it's wild.
Yeah, sorry.
Okay, where can I find it?
Just search for AI, the movie.
Came out in like 2002, I believe.
Oh, wow.
I definitely have to pick it out.
I know there's a famous director, but I can't remember who it was. The famous actor was Haley Jo Osment when he was a kid.
And wow, he looks interesting as an adult.
And then there's the director, Steven Spielberg.
So yeah, Steven Spielberg, AI.
I wanted to say hello to Swati who just popped up.
How's it going, Swati?
Hey, Eric.
What a great space.
And hi, everyone, Buna and Kay and everyone else.
You know, I absolutely loved it for a little bit that no one was coming up because you were reading, you know, what people wrote about their experience of the cities.
And it was so lovely. And first of all, congratulations to you.
And, you know, the first time I saw your cityscapes,
you know, before actually knowing what it was,
and this was my interpretation of it, you know, those little dots,
I felt like, you know, those were like the little humans
and little blood, you know, the drops of blood
and how it's kind of, you know, just moving.
So it felt like, you know, they were a whole lot on their own.
And then, you know, it's almost like the aerial view of, you know, of all is, you know, like built with the, you know, the life is the humans and everything around it.
And Kay also mentioned the veins.
You know, that's exactly how I saw it.
And it's very beautiful.
So, yeah.
so congratulations on that uh and you should know that i actually changed my tickets because i was
So congratulations on that.
supposed to fly back on the 28th but i changed my tickets and now i'm coming back on the 29th
because i didn't want to miss uh 28th uh being in new york uh so really looking forward to that and um also you know like i have very um you know i don't know
how to explain it like i grew up in india i grew up in a big city i grew up in kolkata
and it is a lot of chaos but um but there is also you know because i grew up there you also, you know, because I grew up there, you know, and, you know, I have the friends and neighbors and everybody and the city.
And, you know, there's a lot of love while growing up.
And I think that, you know, when someone comes to the city from outside, it takes a little while to get used to that.
to get used to that and people complain.
And people complain.
And then slowly, you know, they kind of love all the, you know,
the city with the chaos because they also find so much beauty in that chaos.
And I remember, you know, when I moved to the U.S.
and I saw Billy Dean post a photo of Kolkata, you know,
that he captured, you know, the street photography.
And that just made me so nostalgic. He posted a photo of Maidan, you know, that he captured, you know, the street photography. And that just made me so
nostalgic. He posted a photo of Maidan, you know, and like, we have so many memories of that place.
And I was like, so nostalgic, I almost teared up, you know, I just wanted to buy tickets and go back.
And why I actually love New York. I don't know if I want to stay there anymore. But you know, the first time
I went to New York, I loved it so, so much. Because you know, it's somehow in a very weird
way reminded me of Kolkata, you know, India, that chaos, you know, but it's just such a thriving
city, you know, that the like you go out at 12 o'clock
in the night, one o'clock in the night, and, you know, you would find something great to eat, you
know, and all those, you know, little pockets where people hang around, and, you know, and I remember
that, you know, when I went, I think it was like three years back uh one of those nft nycs and you know
this is like the side events like our side events are the most fun ones and um brian and briny had
this uh this event you know it was in a very small place but and the the location was like you know
like it was the streets and you know people are coming and then they are coming for the event.
And we spent so much time on the sidewalk, you know, and there were people drinking beer and stuff like that, saying hi and, you know, smell of weed and pee.
But who cares? It was just amazing. And, yeah, I know I'm all over the place.
But, yeah, I'm looking forward to going back.
And also Sam mentioned Chandigarh and you mentioned Chandigarh.
Actually, my in-laws live there.
And it is a much more, but it's also a smaller city
and it was built by a French architect
so it's much more put together
than the rest
but yes, looking forward to
going back to New York
I love the food, I love the vibe
and wishing you the very best.
Thanks for all the love, Swati. That was awesome. And the fact that you changed your tickets so
that you could come to my show, that means the world. I was worried about how late I was
announcing this and that people might have already booked their travels, but that's amazing. That's like, that made my day. So thank you. And I also wanted to say hello to Kat, who just hopped up on the
space. And congratulations to Kat, because she won last week our curation contest. She is going
to be the 12th curator and final curator for Canal Street show how are you doing Kat hi Eric hi swati
hi Bruna K Sam really nice to listen to this space has such good energy and you know I thank you so
much for the opportunity to be doing this curation it's really amazing and very special so i i really appreciate that
opportunity and it's funny because the other curation that i did before was about sense of
place and um that connects so much with what you're doing with cities and this idea that
cities are portals of memory because you know some people say that sense of place is like
our sixth sense. You know, it's this internal compass and map that we have that is related to
our memories and our kind of spatial perception. So it's really fascinating to me how you talk
about in cities, how that you're including these memories.
And I think you call them like glyphs throughout the artwork as well.
Because I do really believe so much that we have this connection to place that really taps into such deep emotions and memories. So I just wanted to
share that. And also, you know, I love how your collection invites us to go back into these
memories, like back into these memories of places that we've been and how that they're related to the city.
Sam was talking about being on a bike and how that kind of connects,
makes you see the city in a different way.
And I totally resonate with that because I live,
I actually live in a little small beach town away,
about three hours away from Bangkok,
which is one of my favorite cities in the world.
And it's kind of
like, I always call it New York City on steroids, because it's just a wild place where everything
is bigger and faster and louder. And for me, you know, I fell in love with Bangkok, one of the
first times that I finally agreed to go on the back of a motorcycle taxi and, you know, go through the night. You
know, everyone in Bangkok, they get everywhere on motorcycles. But for a Westerner, it's a little
bit scary because you're kind of holding on to the back there. You're wondering, where do you
hold on? Do you hold on to the guy? Do you hold on to the which part of the motorcycle? And of course,
it's like a crazy roller coaster because
you are weaving through the city it's jam-packed and it's amazing i highly recommend it because
you really feel so alive and you see the city in a new and special way and you experience it in a
special way and just like you were saying earlier that feeling of people being both alone and
anonymous but also so connected that's what i really found when that i go on a motorbike taxi
in bangkok and that one night particularly you know you're speeding through the night you can
kind of feel you know the heat the wind the lights you can feel that on you kind of feel, you know, the heat, the wind, the lights.
You can feel that on you kind of like overwhelming you like a wave.
And then going over the bridge over the Prakow River,
which is just this amazing view, and you kind of look over your shoulder
and there's like, you know, the glittering skyline
and you just feel a synergy with the city. Even though for me at that time,
I was alone in the city. I didn't even really know where I was going. I was kind of lost.
But at that moment, you kind of just feel a connection to everything around you,
even though you're just this tiny, tiny, tiny minuscule, little nothing really,
you still feel connected. And that's what I really love about big cities.
And I love how that, you know,
you've invited people to reflect on how they connect with us.
Beautiful, Kat, thank you.
The things that people are seeing in this collection
are being said better than I could say it myself.
And the idea that I'm trying to get across here
with this space series as well.
The awareness of our place, of each other in our places.
There's a couple hands up, so I'm going to pass it to Kay first and then Swati.
Oh, please, Eric, let Swati go first.
I'll hand well before mine.
All right, ladies first. Oh, please, Erica, let Swati go first. Our hands were open for mine. All right, ladies first.
Oh, thank you.
Now, Kat, I just want to congratulate you.
You know, the day you were talking about, you know, how you curated the pieces and the work.
And, you know, the person that I would love to, you know, get selected for this. But I remember Ibrahim was a speaker and I just messaged him saying, Kat, and he said, yeah, that's what I'm going to say too. So we were all rooting for you. Congratulations.
And I love Bangkok, you know, and I'm from India.
So I'm kind of used to those taxis.
But I have the best time in Bangkok.
I mean, the people are so nice.
The city is so good.
And also the food, you know, it's just amazing.
And congratulations to you once again.
And Eric, I just want to quickly tell you, you know, this is the fun thing about art, right?
I mean, I'm sure when you create, you have something in mind, you know, based on which you create something.
know, based on which you create something and then you have other people looking at it and,
And then you have other people looking at it.
you know, we have our own memories and then we create our own stories out of that. And I think
that that's what makes art so interesting that we all have our own stories, you know,
connected to our memories. And yeah. It makes me think that the definition of art is going to change a lot in these next couple decades here.
Because we're able to synthesize the data of all of our stories and find commonalities, find differences, point out insights.
That's what I've been using AI for a lot these days is just like do the research for me, compile as if I were to go and read 10 books on this subject or go deep in a rabbit hole
of a podcast that I really enjoy, the host. I wanted to wind down pretty soon because we've
been going for over an hour, But I want to leave with a
question, maybe that we can all think as we go on with the week. And the question is,
how, the question is, are the cities killing the creativity? Or are they a place that it can
survive? Because it's great to talk about how inspiring the city is,
but doing it in real life has become a niche thing,
a really niche thing.
Being an artist, making murals still,
I refuse to stop doing that because it's a part of my message.
But how can we make that thrive?
Are the cities going to drive us all out of them eventually?
Or can the artists be the ones that take back the city and survive?
And not just survive, but thrive.
Tempted to just end the space on that, but I just shot a hoof.
Any closing words, Kay?
Any closing words, Kay?
I just wanted to make a comment on the question you just said.
Yeah, I think it's half and half.
Humans are so strong.
But yeah, the city can restrict, I won't say, will attempt to restrict creativity, and we will always find a way.
Graffiti is a sort of rebellion against restrictions, and it's seen everywhere in huge cities.
restrictions and it's seen everywhere in huge cities. So that's the kind of reaction that
will always be. There are some cities that make it possible by creating creative parks,
even collaborating with artists to express on buildings and in buildings
and creating collaborative spaces.
So yeah, depending on where you are, depending on the philosophy of the city,
depending on the society,
there must be this talk of war between order and chaos.
So yeah, thanks for the question, Eric.
I'm glad I didn't end the space because I did have to say one more thing. And that was a great
summary. I feel like the duality in everything exists and it's hard to know what's going to
happen to our digital and physical lives in the future. I was thinking about how not only do we
build the cities, but the cities build us.
They rewire us.
They change the way that we move, the way that we think.
And that's what I want to do with this collection.
And this next week, it's all going to be shared in a way that you'll be able to actually play with the code that did created around my art style, these cityscapes.
It's almost like a street photographer walking around,
climbing up buildings, catching zoomed in, zoomed out moments. There's a lot of different color
palettes that I've decided to leave in the collection, so it really does feel like a full
day of exploring the city. I cannot wait to see all the reactions once it's live.
If you're interested in collecting this project, the details are in the top area of the
space and the allow list is still rolling at least until tomorrow. So if you're a collector of my
work or not, reach out to me. We do have a few spots to give away to people that are listening
to the space. The pre-sales will be going through NFT NYC and then on the day of our opening show
is when we plan to open up to public, but it's also still TBD on how the presale goes.
So look for more announcements.
And we'll be doing more spaces next week as well with Art Blocks and Shiller.
So subscribe if you're not already.
Follow along to these spaces, and we'll see you next week.
And have a great rest of the week, everyone.
Ending right on 420.
I love it.
Let's go.
Bye, everyone. Peace. Have a great week. Have a great rest of the week, everyone. Ending right on 420. I love it. Let's go. Bye, everyone.
Peace. Have a great week. Have a great week, and good luck. Have you ever been a rich nigga?
Nah, not me.
I got just enough to tell myself God got me.
Chose to take a leap of faith instead of living on the edge.
Find comfort knowing God gon' come through in the end.
It keep me humble.
Keep me grounded even when I stumble. Keep me human knowing I need help whenever I'm in trouble. Peace out, nigga. I believe what they get serious. I get rich and feel like I got no hope.
Peace out, everyone.
