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Here are my latest pieces from my fantasy world of Spero. I love trying to bring to life fragments of this world's story. I find the process mindful and meditative. I hope that feeling is communicated

In your hand you hold an orange, perfectly round and pleasingly dimpled. You purchased it from at Charons Market just minutes ago, one amongst hundreds. It feels weighty, full of refreshing juice...

Here's a brief statistical report on the health of the Hive Blockchain from an external, market-based perspective. It shows how Hive is doing in comparison to other crypto-currencies. The raw data has

28 trees! - That’s how many trees have been planted as a consequence of my search-engine queries over the last 2 months.

The legal definition of “convertible virtual currency activity” in my own regional jurisdiction says: “...issuing, transmitting, transferring, providing safe custody or storage of, administering

Prismey - which is Manx Gaelic for ‘prism’. Light split into its different wavelengths, and each component refracted along a thousand paths. -- Just comment to enter this week's NFT giveaway!

The rate of global deforestation may soon be approaching zero. Yes - you heard me correctly: the total number of trees in the world may soon be on the rise, rather than on the decline. According to some

Right now I am reading Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark. It’s a book about Artificial Intelligence and it spells out the implications for society when or if we ever development of a truly sentient AI. Google, IBM,

This is the first piece I've made in this style for a little while, and the first blog post here on Hive for many months. At the beginning of the summer, our family received some devastating news about

This is the first piece I've made in this style for a little while, and the first blog post here on Hive for many months. At the beginning of the summer, our family received some devastating news about

People have been depicting the forms in their mind for at least 30,000 years. Clay pigments smeared with finger and thumb on a cave wall, egg tempera on canvas, pixels of light on a screen… and for that

When we look back on art history we demarcate its progress by applying a label to each period or offshoot and calling it an art movement. Sometimes there can be more than one art movement happening

Being an artist is a fantastic way of life. Whatever your style or taste, you are adding to the world in a positive way and helping to define what it is to be human. That’s a big deal, and the more of

My latest NFT from the collection "A Play on Light", available at NFT Showroom. Forged in fires beneath my feet; quartz and feldspar. Into sandstone, quarried on the hill. Hewn into knuckles

Knowing what makes an NFT collector buy your art is a crucial ingredient to being a successful professional artist. If you are wanting to making a living from creating and selling your art, it’s important

My latest NFT from the collection "A Play on Light", available at NFT Showroom. There is a watermark imprinted upon reality, at every scale throughout the universe. An eddy in your mug of coffee,

I previously made a guide with some tips for promoting art but it's been a while so I felt it needed some updates! The crypto art community on twitter is huge and highly active, probably the #1 place on

If you’re an artist at NFT Showroom, or are thinking of joining, here’s a post about some recent data I collected that outlines some of NFT Showroom’s fundamentals as a platform for your art practice.

I've completed my first week using the Hive ecosystem and I thought I'd share my thoughts and experiences. I’m an artist and I thought long and hard about which blockchain I should chose as the platform

I've completed my first week using the Hive ecosystem and I thought I'd share my thoughts and experiences. I’m an artist and I thought long and hard about which blockchain I should chose as the platform