How craftsmanship & “total design” can inform the need for diversity within the on-chain creator economy.

- In 1964, Susan Sontag defined camp as an aesthetic “sensibility” that is plain to see but hard for most of us to explain: an intentional over-the-top-ness, a slightly (or extremely) “off” quality, bad taste as a vehicle for good art. - Camp is artificial, passionate, serious, Sontag writes. Camp is Art Noveau objects, Greta Garbo, Warner Brothers... See more

- It's difficult to imagine today, but not so long ago plenty of guys would balk at the idea of wearing bulbous sneakers - That's not to say fashion's volte-face toward loudness should be an unequivocal cause for celebration (no one needs to see any more Amiri or Philipp Plein), but for a lot of guys, the "bad taste" movement has let them discover ... See more

- At the opening of the Bauhaus institution Walter Gropius read his manifesto which declared in part: - | “there is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman”

- The web3 marketing stack is just now taking shape for marketers and community leaders to better understand their audiences, segment their users, and engage with their customers in a more personalized and effective way.

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- Those fundamental changes create opportunity for marketing startups to serve web3 marketers better.

- I can’t help myself but seeing the current blockchain ecosystem as a neo-bauhaus, where new creators + leaders are emerging, teaching and changing the landscape of finance, design, art, music, culture forever