Highball Charlie✓

Hi(ball)! 🥃 I get asked this a lot: “So what exactly is SAKAZUKI?” So here’s SAKAZUKI in 3 pages. 😁 For people who already love Japan — and want to go deeper. 🇯🇵 This is SAKAZUKI. ↓

RT @aventurine_eth: A bit of housekeeping on "The Adobe Room" post Marfa Art Blocks Weekend First, I want to thank @tonyherrera and @HarryOtterNFT for everything. Second, we still have some art for sale ⬇️ Lastly, we are still accepting donations via crypto USDC or ETH to beardedtravelers.eth All funds will go to paying venue rental, gallery equipment/supplies, truck rental/gas, website build AI credits and any excess will be used for next year Thank you to everyone who participated and attended our events. See you next year!

Came to Marfa for the art. Ended up in the kitchen with Tony 😂🍵 Would happily do it all again! ❤️

Marfa, part 1. @tonyherrera and @HighBallCharlie on kitchen duty, @VinnieHager with his Letters From Marfa, @ArtOnBlockchain in his natural habitat, and @Dangiuz at sunset. Great people, great week.

RT @tonyherrera: gn and bn 🌙 This is my Marfa appreciation post.🌵🤠 I took it somewhat slow today and spent the day decompressing after a wonderful trip to Marfa for the Art Blocks Summit. I'm sure I will miss mentioning a number of great people that I interacted with while I was in Marfa, so apologies beforehand it is not intentional. 🙏 First, kudos to the entire @artblocks_io team for another stellar event. photo by: aventurine.obscura.eth

RT @tonyherrera: It was great to see @NEORT in Marfa and the Quietus Machine exhibition in the @artblocks_io House was truly special, please come back. 🙏 Can't wait to see what you guys have in store for next year, but I can only imagine that it's bigger and better than what I witnessed this year. Kudos to you @NORIWTS and @toshiaki_takase, as well as @themassagejp for his excellent curation. Feeling privileged to witness your collaboration with @ArtOnBlockchain which is resulting in such a special East-West connection for generative art paired with physical devices.

We hope to be back > MARFA @neort_io @ArtOnBlockchain @toshiaki_takase @themassagejp

RT @AdamWeitsman: I really love what @HighBallCharlie and his team are doing with the @SakazukiNFT project. After visiting the Adobe Room at Marfa and seeing the vision up close, I decided to join and minted my membership token! Hoping to get over to Japan at some point to really experience it first hand! 🙏🙏🙏

RT @HighballCharlie: Hi(ball)! A SAKAZUKI at Otherside. 🥃🌵 Our second gathering in Marfa was all about good people, good conversations, and sharing a few Hidden Gems from Japan. Thank you to everyone who joined us. ❤️

Huge thanks to @tonyherrera @HarryOtterNFT @sbmckeon @aventurine_eth @NORIWTS for making this happen together! 🙏❤️🥃

So glad we went together, Yosca! Art, friends, and tacos — what a trip 😁🌮 Let’s go back next year again! ❤️

This year, I attended “Marfa Weekend” for the first time. I had a wonderful time with the @artblocks_io community, saw lots of digital art and Donald Judd's work, and had a deep experience that I can't put into words. I was happy to see people I met in Palo Alto in January again, and to make new friends. Thank you to everyone who talked with me. I was also able to hand @tonyherrera the piece he commissioned in person. He taught me how to enjoy tacos, and I drew the moment I was moved by them. Thanks to @neort_io for helping make it happen. I hope to come back to Marfa again. I've really fallen in love with this place. Finally, I really appreciate @SakazukiNFT @HighballCharlie for bringing me along. Thank you!

RT @NORIWTS: The response to the exhibition was far greater than we had imagined. Each artist took NEORT’s machine platform, and the thinking behind it, as a starting point and found their own expression on top of it. @takenstheorem @satoshi_aizawa @rudxane1 One thing became clear. By adding the element of digital computation to a machine and building work upon it, the three artists let us explore the artwork and the system and let us imagined a digital death, and let their work leave their hands so that its form could be seen more concretely. People enter that system. Simply by stepping into the room, a visitor interacts with the machine; an image emerges as its output; and people look at it again. Three small worlds were built, each with its own loop of interaction. Experiencing them one by one, we could feel, with our own bodies in front of them, what it means to live in a digital society. Giving the work a physical body brought something new to the surface. Because we see the physical, we feel the digital more strongly; because we see the machine, we sense the human. And there is a world that holds even when no one is there. It is much like what Donald Judd found w hen he came to Marfa: a world of nature and matter that goes on existing, and shining, without human interference; and when people arrive, a conversation begins and a new way of feeling is added. Judd’s minimal, conceptual world and the deeply conceptual world of the digital have something in common. I felt that connection strongly, and this exhibition showed me once again how fascinating generative art can be. I think I felt why artblocks chose to be in Marfa. This is mind blowing. Thanks for all the great opportunity, we will be back! @ArtOnBlockchain @jeffgdavis @artblocks_io

RT @seanbonner: Thanks @NORIWTS for introducing me to @shojironakaoka’s incredible work. Delighted to add this piece to the collection today!

Quietus Machine in Marfa blew me away. Loved the storytelling and how you could get hands-on with the digital work. So much more to take in when you actually interact with it. @NORIWTS and the @neort_io team —so happy to be working with you through SAKAZUKI! 🙏❤️

RT @aventurine_eth: LIMBO PULSE by Shojiro Nakaoka at "The Adobe Room" curated by @neort_io presented by The Bearded Travelers

RT @aventurine_eth: Prepping tacos at 2am w/ @tonyherrera 🌮 Tomorrow is going to be a movie

Good times with good friends ❤️

RT @SakazukiNFT: Came with tea. Left with new friends. 🍵❤️ Thank you, Marfa🌵

So many new faces, so many new friends. Happy to see our SAKAZUKI family growing here in Marfa 🍵🌵

Thank you to The Bearded Travelers @tonyherrera @aventurine_eth @HarryOtterNFT and @Dannyb0yyy_ for bringing us together, and everyone who stopped by. So glad we made the trip! ❤️

RT @SakazukiNFT: A little Japan, a morning in Marfa. 🍵🌵 Tea, hidden gems, and new friends around the table. Thank you to The Bearded Travelers for bringing us together at The Adobe Room, and everyone who stopped by!

Shared Tea Time at The Adobe Room with @SakazukiNFT presented by The Bearded Travelers

Morning matcha with us? 🍵🌵 See you tomorrow at 9 at The Adobe Room! Come say hi 😁

Shared Tea Time at The Adobe Room with @SakazukiNFT presented by The Bearded Travelers Tomorrow 9AM Meet artists @JimenaBuenaVida and @mae_1031_ , connect with the people behind SAKAZUKI, and discover some of Japans Hidden Gems. Open Luma sign up below ⬇️