Slow bad computers.

There's something uniquely satisfying about anchoring a thing you don't understand into a framing you do. In doing this, you may render a new something that is weird and maybe dumb and maybe useless. But if doing that helps give the world a more personal, or meaningful shape, then why not?

Years ago I came across an article that spoke about the blockchain in terms of its Turing completeness. Before that, I had a hard time understanding what blockchain was, or why it seemed to make so many people so excited. When I finally saw it in the framing of a really bad, really slow computer, I got excited too.

(I have a thing for really bad, really slow computers.)

24 bit pixel

24 bit pixel is a single pixel is represented as 24 bits stored on the Ethereum Blockchain.

The pixel’s color is a 24-bit RGB value. 8 bits for red, 8 for green and 8 for blue.

Each bit is a token anyone can own. Only the owner can toggle the bit’s value to 1(ON/WHITE) or 0(OFF/BLACK), altering the color of the single pixel.

Owners set the price of their bit. It might be something they hoard to toggle freely, or price to sell.

All bits are equal, but in relation to the pixel, some bits are more equal than others.

It's live now.

Brass Silo.

Silo, a project by Che-Wei and his friends Eddie and Andrew's, just released an uncoated brass version of their stack. It's fully compatible with the Aluminum version. You can buy them as singles, or as a set. Over time, the patina builds according to use. Maybe it's their solidness, or how they warmly reflect and distort space. Something about them gives off alien and uncanny.

Available from Silo directly.

Or from CW&T

Feast.

When I came downstairs this morning, I noticed a creepy blob suspended in what had to be a spider's web in our back yard. The spider was large, feasting on a spotted lantern fly. Colin came up from the basement where he was making some Solid State Watches. "I did that!" he said. And I was like "did what?" And he pointed to the scene I was puzzling over.

This morning when Colin came to studio, he noticed a big spider and its web and decided to feed it one of the spotted lantern flies. This is an invasive species that has infested NYC and is killing one of the trees in our yard. Colin also took this picture of the scene. The spider went first for the lantern fly's brains.