LIQUID GOLD
Flavor of Digital
Welcome to Wunderland, where we make a Bitter Sweet Gold Fashioned and taste the Golden Age of Digital (aka Web 3.0). The “flavor of digital” is always changing, but there has been no “terroir” until the transparency of blockchain ledgers. NFTs with “transaction histories“ create digital terroir.
THE BAR
FOR POTION MAKING YOU WILL NEED...
Tap water
Glass tumbler with ice
Bubbly water or club soda
Bottle of whiskey, bourbon or cognac
A box. THE box. The one that arrived mysteriously by mail.
ACT I: UNBOXING
BEAUTY
Hidden in Plain Sight
Flowers of August
Bunny Tail Grass
Strawflower
Electric Daisy
There’s magic hidden in plain sight here...
can you find it?
MAGIC BOX
The Vanishing Cabinet
What do you see?
What is underneath
what you think you see?
weird strange
out of ordinary beyond the norm
the unexpected unexplained
we can all use a bit of magic
(some say technology is magic)
TAP WATER
Conjuring the OG Liquid Gold
Aqueducts
irrigation
water from a spout (?!!)
we call it technology
water is
life
flow
reality altering
DRINK ME
How does my
Public Water taste?
FLASK
Synesthesia
Expectations frame experience
SMELL ME
liquid sunshine
vitamin C
pungent
bitter sweet
metallic
fresh squeezed
juicy limonene
inspiration
aspiration
refreshment
awakens our relational imaginary
BITTER
Pavlov's Trick
Black forest
intense
opaque
mysterious
(overwhelming?)
Halmoni’s Chinese medicine brew. Onkel’s after-dinner Schnapps.
a bit scary...
the bitterest plant
gentian root
stimulating
triggering
poison or medicine?
lost and found again
resurrected formula
bartender’s magic
activates more complexity
SWEET
The Giving Tree
Burnt sugar
roasted candied almonds
cinnamon caramel
bright copper kettles
glorious warmth in wintery
some of my favorite things
Drs. Janis & Brooke who
regenerated a razed landscape into a lush agro-ecology...
are transitioning their maple forest
...to a new farmer who regenerates aliveness of landscapes through REGEN tokens
grief
for the world that was...
making space
for the world that is coming
Black Maple Syrup
restrains loss and longing
GOLD
Alchemy
Red Rose
Queen of Hearts
knows how to create boundaries
Also, Fireweed Flower, Comfrey Flower, American Basketflower, Mullein Flower,
Prairie Coneflower, Black Eyed Susan, Lady’s Purse, Self Heal Flower, Flamingo Feather Celosia, Burning Embers Marigold, Coreopsis, Black Knight Pincushion, Bunny Tail Grass Flower, Chocolate Mint Flower, Dried Pine Flower, Digitalis,
Spring Water, Artisanal Brandy, Consent and Ceremony
says you're worth your weight in gold
ACT II: MAKING
IMMUTO
Hidden in Combination
BITTER SWEET GOLD FASHIONED
FORMULA
1 flask of Tangerine & Grapefruit Essential Oils (laced)
1 oz of Your {liquid gold} Public Water (30ml)
½ bottle of The Bitter Truth Bogart’s Bitters (7.5ml)
¼ bottle of Berkshire Sweet Gold Maple Syrup (3.75ml)
1 bottle of Gold Standard Flower Essence (5ml)
1 spritz of Neroli Flower Water
CUSTOMIZATION
Glass tumbler with ice
Bubbly water or club soda
Whiskey, bourbon, or cognac (optional)
DIRECTIONS
Add water to flask's “liquid gold level” line (1oz). Add bitter, sweet and gold. Shake well. Taste your Immuto (Change). Pour over glass with ice and spirits and/or bubble water. Taste. Spritz Neroli. Taste. Customize. Sip. Save some for Electric Daisy trick.
STACKS
Memes & Blockchains
ACT III: FLAVOR OF DIGITAL
ABRACADABRA
I Will Create as I Speak
Can digital help us remember flavors we have yet to taste?
Electric Daisy
Spilanthes
Spicy
Szechuan flower
Buzz Buttons
Prickleboom
Activating
Numbing
Tingflower
this agent of alchemy was hidden in plain sight
find me
EAT ME
if you will
taste your Immuto (Change) potion again as super-tasters
DIGITAL SLEIGHT OF HAND
The Golden Token
So far blockchain stories are about striking gold and harvesting feelings: I'm special, lucky, powerful, risking it all
Can a drink of bitter, sweet, and gold be understood as a work of art?
As a piece of economic performance art?
As non-fungible?
Can digital help you remember flavors we have yet to taste?
wunderland.gold is flavor requests to the future.
RECIPE NFTS
Our submitted recipes
AUGUST ARTIST
AUBREY ANDERSON
Technologist Magician
Mr Aubrey Anderson is co-creator of STOI.org which demonstrates how next-generation mechanisms like “smart contracts” and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) can protect and sustain artists, and reward true ‘stans’ with actual ownership and participation in its value stream. The digital contract itself removes the work of collecting and distributing profits to all, transparently and at a fantastically faster rate of return. Aubrey designed the proprietary AI-infused intelligence that allows fans to interact with the song itself via chatbox. Aubrey says, "I specialize in creative misuse of current technologies and the invention of new ones. I'm a passionate believer in and advocate for the Free and Open Web."
And, thank you Stacey Sude for giving us magic-medicine words to describe the transformative power of our bittersweet and golden plant beings.