This work was done with oil pastels and acrylic paint on an old chalkboard. It lives in a private collection.
Nothing out of the ordinary happened today. I did a bunch of work and took a break to sit at the coffee shop for an hour. I wrote a script for the first Rstory video and am not satisfied with it. Working on this will probably keep me up late tonight.
The impending infrastructure bill has me fussing over my crypto portfolio. I almost sold it all into cash to hedge against a downturn, but decided instead to leave most of it in bitcoin and EOS while crossing my fingers. My experience suggests that fewer trades are better, especially in a turbulent market. So I'm just leaving things alone. Nervously.
After the video, my next big task with Rstory is to find more people deserving of gratitude tokens. And they can't be just any people. They have to be willing to accept the crypto tokens, which narrows my pool of prospects considerably. One idea I keep coming back to is using Rstory to celebrate entrepreneurship.
Small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs make the world better. They solve problems and bring economic activity into communities. It would make perfect sense to give Rstory to some of them. So far, the small business owners I've talked to about this have refused to have anything to do with crypto. Except for one bookstore owner, now that I think about it. He said he'd consider it.
The bookstore in question is a small storefront two blocks from my house. The place is absolutely overflowing with books and a rabbit named Zorro hops around, nibbling on things. Before covid, there were open mic readings there every weekend. I'd be happy to write an article for Rstory about the place and the value it brings to the community. In fact, that's exactly the kind of positive focus I want to maintain with this project.
In a social moment when snark and cynicism are trending, just doing something nice may be unpopular. It might even seem frivolous in the face of society's many crises. But what if more people just did nice things? What then?
I've been considering making the Rstory video while beating a hand drum. I realize how lame that probably sounds. What got me thinking about it was recalling the commercials for a website called 1xBet. In these, a heavy drumbeat punctuated marketing language. It stuck in my head, unlike every other website commercial I'd ever seen. If I can make a video half as memorable, I'll consider it a success.
The trick to pulling off a drum in the video might be to avoid feeling awkward. And to also not think about how other people might view the inclusion of a drum. Maybe I'll end up writing such a good script that the drum will feel unnecessary. Probably not, but maybe.
