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New Collab! ✍️ Recently the inspired @0xtjo invited me to write for his stunning ‘Diaries of Compulsive Obsessions’ project. I jumped at the chance having been a huge fan of his from the moment I saw his work🙏 Here’s a short essay on the project and how I am contributing… First, the project. What can I say? Here we have something that brings together everything that I love: - Deeply personal storytelling - Mind bending visual art - Web3 tech And of course, the sort of incredible narrative Tjo is renowned for. Here’s what @tjo himself says: "Diaries of Compulsive Obsessions" blends the realms of visual art and blockchain to create a collection of 39 digital diaries. Built on the Ethereum Blockchain and powered by Transient Labs' ERC-7160 protocol, this project offers a deeply interactive art experience. ​At its heart, each diary is formed of chapters. The first, “hello world,” is embedded directly into the token's metadata. This is just the starting point. From there, diary owners step into the co-creator role, invited to enrich the diaries with their own words, thoughts, and poetry in response to the videos, thanks to the Story Inscriptions feature. It's a process that sees these diaries evolve, shaped by a community of voices, growing and changing with each new contribution. And this is where I come in, your faithful writer and storyteller. A few years back when collaborating on my NEON & CONCRETE set of short stories I wrote a piece about an android AI caregiver named Arti and its patient, a young woman who had been horrifically injured in an accident. In this world, Arti’s code is based on an ‘Empathy Protocol’, this being driven by ‘Negative Feedback Loops’ which bind the android to the patient, so it feels their pain. Thus, in the story the android wants to relieve the pain of the woman - Eve - in order to also relieve its own pain. Unfortunately it goes a step too far, after all else fails Arti starts providing Eve with a high-powered street drug. This creates a savage addiction, which only creates more negative feedback loops. This leads to a vicious cycle of suffering for both. I decided to utilise this story as part of my diary entries for the project from a ‘fictional’ stand point where I’m looking to explore themes of empathy, AI and the complexities of care and understanding. The idea being that the Empathy Protocol and ultimately the shared struggle of the patient and the AI driven android look at how technology and humanity intersect, a topic that, I feel, will become extremely relevant in the near future. I wanted to take the challenges that Tjo faces with his OCD, and explore how they might relate to where we’re going in the future, as a species on the cusp of the singularity, and how ultimately, this may fail. I’m writing the story over the course of the Diaries that Tjo is releasing, and intertwining the narrative that Tjo is producing in the story itself. The stories converge on the mental health narrative, and the stigmas attached to the challenges people face around it, and in the case of this story, addiction being at the forefront. Secondly, from a more personal and non-fiction perspective, I wanted to dive into something as personal as the video Diaries that Tjo is creating. I couldn’t think of anything better than my own personal struggles with creation. A few years back I wrote a story called ‘This Is A War’. Coming in at about 500 words, at the time I wanted to look at how I struggle with the idea of creation - in my case writing - personal growth, and ultimately the idea of failure. Working with this idea, and again taking Tjo’s Diaries as inspiration, I will be breaking down my own exploration of the act of creation over the course of the Diaries, and cross examining my own growth through the metaphor of Shakespeare's ‘Stages of Man’. From infancy to schoolboy, lover and soldier I aim to map my own life, the contours of my human experience, and the struggle between having such great potential held within us (me) and the idea that ultimately, we (I) might fail. I believe this idea of potential versus fear, action versus paralysis is a universal experience, and the idea that we get so locked into the idea of doing something, we sometimes find it impossible to do anything at all. I want to explore ideas around why personal acceptance is so hard, and why we push it away so often. I will also dive into the idea around why we create at all. Is it to live forever, or simply because we must? I aim to hold a mirror up to myself and push the boundaries of my own thinking on this subject, through the diarised medium. So, that’s about everything, if you’ve got this far, thank you for reading, you can read the Diary entries here: launchpad.transientlabs.xyz/nfts/ethereum/…

Happy Saturday folks, 41 years young today and having a blast 🥃 Getting all the treats from @InessRychlik and feeling incredibly lucky 😭 Hope you all have an outstanding day, sending warmth through the ether to all 🖤

Happy Saturday folks, 41 years young today and having a blast 🥃 Getting all the treats from @InessRychlik and feeling incredibly lucky 😭 Hope you all have an outstanding day, sending warmth through the ether to all 🖤

New Collab! ✍️ Recently the inspired @0xtjo invited me to write for his stunning ‘Diaries of Compulsive Obsessions’ project. I jumped at the chance having been a huge fan of his from the moment I saw his work🙏 Here’s a short essay on the project and how I am contributing… First, the project. What can I say? Here we have something that brings together everything that I love: - Deeply personal storytelling - Mind bending visual art - Web3 tech And of course, the sort of incredible narrative Tjo is renowned for. Here’s what @tjo himself says: "Diaries of Compulsive Obsessions" blends the realms of visual art and blockchain to create a collection of 39 digital diaries. Built on the Ethereum Blockchain and powered by Transient Labs' ERC-7160 protocol, this project offers a deeply interactive art experience. ​At its heart, each diary is formed of chapters. The first, “hello world,” is embedded directly into the token's metadata. This is just the starting point. From there, diary owners step into the co-creator role, invited to enrich the diaries with their own words, thoughts, and poetry in response to the videos, thanks to the Story Inscriptions feature. It's a process that sees these diaries evolve, shaped by a community of voices, growing and changing with each new contribution. And this is where I come in, your faithful writer and storyteller. A few years back when collaborating on my NEON & CONCRETE set of short stories I wrote a piece about an android AI caregiver named Arti and its patient, a young woman who had been horrifically injured in an accident. In this world, Arti’s code is based on an ‘Empathy Protocol’, this being driven by ‘Negative Feedback Loops’ which bind the android to the patient, so it feels their pain. Thus, in the story the android wants to relieve the pain of the woman - Eve - in order to also relieve its own pain. Unfortunately it goes a step too far, after all else fails Arti starts providing Eve with a high-powered street drug. This creates a savage addiction, which only creates more negative feedback loops. This leads to a vicious cycle of suffering for both. I decided to utilise this story as part of my diary entries for the project from a ‘fictional’ stand point where I’m looking to explore themes of empathy, AI and the complexities of care and understanding. The idea being that the Empathy Protocol and ultimately the shared struggle of the patient and the AI driven android look at how technology and humanity intersect, a topic that, I feel, will become extremely relevant in the near future. I wanted to take the challenges that Tjo faces with his OCD, and explore how they might relate to where we’re going in the future, as a species on the cusp of the singularity, and how ultimately, this may fail. I’m writing the story over the course of the Diaries that Tjo is releasing, and intertwining the narrative that Tjo is producing in the story itself. The stories converge on the mental health narrative, and the stigmas attached to the challenges people face around it, and in the case of this story, addiction being at the forefront. Secondly, from a more personal and non-fiction perspective, I wanted to dive into something as personal as the video Diaries that Tjo is creating. I couldn’t think of anything better than my own personal struggles with creation. A few years back I wrote a story called ‘This Is A War’. Coming in at about 500 words, at the time I wanted to look at how I struggle with the idea of creation - in my case writing - personal growth, and ultimately the idea of failure. Working with this idea, and again taking Tjo’s Diaries as inspiration, I will be breaking down my own exploration of the act of creation over the course of the Diaries, and cross examining my own growth through the metaphor of Shakespeare's ‘Stages of Man’. From infancy to schoolboy, lover and soldier I aim to map my own life, the contours of my human experience, and the struggle between having such great potential held within us (me) and the idea that ultimately, we (I) might fail. I believe this idea of potential versus fear, action versus paralysis is a universal experience, and the idea that we get so locked into the idea of doing something, we sometimes find it impossible to do anything at all. I want to explore ideas around why personal acceptance is so hard, and why we push it away so often. I will also dive into the idea around why we create at all. Is it to live forever, or simply because we must? I aim to hold a mirror up to myself and push the boundaries of my own thinking on this subject, through the diarised medium. So, that’s about everything, if you’ve got this far, thank you for reading, you can read the Diary entries here: launchpad.transientlabs.xyz/nfts/ethereum/…