These JPG newsletters are getting weirder and weirder: text drops
Note: since this is about text drops and this is also my newsletter and I do whatever I want with it, I’ll just write it in haikus. Read them through to find projects, interesting articles and more.
“EXTEMPORAL ZONE, REPRESENTATION OF ETERNITY IN EVERY SIGHT, UCHRONY BEFORE UTOPIA” - took the photo of this plaque years ago in the Bauhaus Archiv in Berlin
text-based art is hot
and it's a weak spot of mine
so let us fucking go
Jenny Holzer, All Things Are Delicately Interconnected (1987)
text-based art isn't new
even on NFTs
Rhea Myers, Tokens Equal Text 4, 2021
from Rhea Myers' ingenious mind
Concepts that are art
Robin Sloan, Instructions to the Prospector (2021)
Let us not forget
that Robin Sloan has walked first
so that Loot could run
Loot, Bag #3455 (2021)
Are Divine Robes art?
Dhof turned our world upside down
words carry value
—
ape text with caution
words can be heaven or hell
they can seed poems
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Simon DLR
is always there first (shocker)
Here his new frontier
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Finally, I wrote this haiku a while ago for fun, and find it fitting:
Hedge and invest art
Sell and buy a token war
No exit ahead
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Oh and also, a haiku for and from our legal team:
our lawyer tells you
this isn't investment advice
do your own research
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Till next time,
MP