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0x10b112108AA41262D05cE64967554252879BDCAaX post June 1 2026. Inscribed on June 8 2026.
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This is the post during which i ended up creating this contract and minted the piece. Included was the description on the token that follows every update.
How time flies. I guess i need to make a non-progress report on this. Last time i have touched it was 14th of April so officially nothing has happened to it. I did open the file once or twice since then.
I was pretty sure that i would be minting it the next week but it kind of got over run by other things. There was a deadline coming for a project in the next days, I thought this work could have fit very well, but I also thought it needed more time or rather I needed. It has been super stressful lately.
Looking at it now there is quite a lot that could be fixed. There handle is not sitting quite right on the edge and needs to be worked more. the lip on the left is off in symmetry.the steam needs to blend in better, it is kind of crammed in that corner and feels rigid and space feels tight, it is fighting against the corner. the decorations on the bottom are not following the shading and look flat. background is not too bad but that top left and bottom corners are little bit weird i have to see if this is something to fix or lean into more. latter feels interesting considering what this work is a bout. Also there is now base for some color change conceptually in the yellow end, there is now a particular red i could use. To catch up with some, ADHD medication was behind the yellowish color and this work and the coffee related to that of course.
So there were the observational problems i see at this time. after few weeks i can see them clearly, i did see them before but I am not so fixated on them now. I don't feel very attached to the work at present. I can try and almost look at it as if it was someone else's and.
Recently I've had to make due with things quite quickly and imperfectly. That is sometimes very hard, but also the opposite is true. This also relate to things like communication in all forms.. self-censorship. I took a presentation skills class this spring.. I could not invest into that 100%.. due to all restrictions maybe 50%. but still gained a lot of helpful things for that. I finished an online therapy thing for adhd same thing, little helpful bits, that i hopefully have time to implement in the future.
Actually all of this was kind of coming together last night after submitting all the materials for that class, some incomplete.. There was youtube video that popped up.. the true reason why c++ always wins.
I don't really do programming what made me watch it i don't know..i did start to learn some c++ in my teens, but programming enthusiasism, did not last very long, as is the case with most hobbies.
The main thing caught was that there were two competing schools of thought about programming. trying to do things perfectly and super user friendly, other was doing things simply, quickly and getting it out there and letting people deal with it. And the latter one being the better model because..even though its messy it just gets to the users more efficiently.
I understand that very well.. i think the perfect model, let's say ideal is not taking into account the reality..or perhaps connected systems. I was also finished the urban design class. There we talked about design mindset, which is quite different from artists, and design processes in general. and in urban design different levels of including people in the process, as we have moved towards more human based design in cities and more systems and co-development. Is this all coming together to a fine point..? perhaps i should have a made a disclaimer at the top that it is unlikely.
I guess i was thinking about how these ideas can come closer together even if they are incompatible was the claim, and perhaps how does it all relate to my process.
Well i guess this sharing of the process is kind of in that spirit. Certain things take time to develop, but they could be released earlier. I had to pause here a little bit because I just realized, I can and should now make a contract in Transient Labs and start with this work right here right now. I've thought about ever since i hear it, but as it was with other things like new asyncart feature back in the day, sometimes it was the right moment and sometimes i needed to think. Transfering some eth now, I wrote the description and titled it. just waiting to create it.
There you go. This ramble lead here.
Several hours since the beginning of this tweet.
Things happen like this now.
Becomings is the contract MLBCM
This is the first piece
The Last Drop
The Last Drop is the first work in my collection Becomings and the main cause of its creation.
This piece started with the thought of just drawing something from observation, an everyday object. I picked up my coffee mug. Since I had recently started on ADHD medication I had to pay attention to the consumption of caffeine and this became intertwined in the work. In digital drawings I mostly work in black and white, but I had been considering doing more works with color. I did some experiments and was thinking of ways to justify that transition. As I worked on the color, I remembered the mug as beautiful object it is, and how essential the color it is to it. It was also a nostalgic memory from my childhood, my favourite mug, that I had later spent some time acquiring. As usual to my drawings they evolve in the process organically, sometimes with more thought and sometimes with a feeling. The pills came to be part of the image for brief time, but I figured it was too much. I left their color to live symbolically in the background and kept working on the whole. I should say that, I usually stick to Windows Paint with my drawings as it works best for me, when it comes to adjusting things like colors I will use Photoshop. After a point I was trying to make a deadline to submit this piece, and realizing it needed more time. I left it for over a month. I opened it later just to take a look. I felt detached from the drawing and could see it more objectively. There were many flaws I could correct, but I was not ready to work on it at that time. The finish line was near but not near enough. I reflected on that, connecting many ideas I had been introduced lately. It came to me that this work could also exist incomplete in a state of becoming. As we are.