One of the driving and most fascinating elements of creating the HardFork world has been designing how personal communication and connection happens in our dystopian future. As our digital communication and connection with others gets more intricate, does our real world connection become further apart, more isolated?
One of the foremost strengths of Steemit is the way it fosters community and connection, meeting people you would never otherwise have bumped into on the street.
A great joy for me in recent months has been taking those connections to the next level and meeting people I’ve met on Steemit, in person (I can only imagine how fun Steemfest is). After months of team meetings over video calls, a few Saturday’s ago Matt was visiting NYC and Doug and I pounced on the opportunity to hang out in person. St. Paddy’s day in New York is always a fun day so we thought we’d start early to avoid the craziness later on.
A nice, civilized brunch at 10am followed by a visit to a local gallery or museum seemed suitably classy and impressive. So we all met at 10am for brunch at Freemans Restaurant in New York’s Lower East Side. If you’re ever in town it’s a great spot for any meal and one of the best cocktail bars in the city.
The conversation was so ranging and interesting (from infinite graph theory through to babies sleep habits) and accompanied by cocktails that we ended up staying at the restaurant until 5 in the afternoon.
After breakfast we ditched the idea of a museum in favor of more conversation and propped at the bar. As the conversation rolled on I asked our legendary bartender Colin to make us up something, a new drink, similar to what we’d been having but maybe with a little mezcal (Doug’s favourite btw).
Colin then proceeded to make a cocktail, so delicious I assumed it had been made before, “What’s this called, it’s amazing?” “I just made it up then, it doesn’t have a name”. After making a couple more for Doug and Matt, we felt it our moral and social responsibility to find a fitting name for this mysteriously delicious drink.
With Colin’s permission I hereby list the specs for THE SATOSHI, a drink of unsurpassed intrigue:
In a canister combine
2 ounces rye bourbon
½ ounce mescal
1 ounce lemon juice
½ ounce ginger syrup
2 dashes Agnousta bitters
Shake and serve in a chilled martini glass.
*It may need a dash of simple syrup to balance depending on how sweet the house ginger syrup is.
In the spirit of communion we would suggest writing down the specs, meeting a friend at your nearest purveyor of fine cocktails and have the bartender fix you up a couple of these. If you do, please take a photo and share it with us. This is open source so feel free to adapt it!
I heard a talk today from seminal Australian cinematographer John Seale, who after a career of shooting films on actual film, shot his first digital film. (The film was MAD MAX FURY ROAD, if you haven’t seen it, you should, particularly if you’re a fan of dystopian future sci-fi). He said having shot on digital he’d never go back to film, digital is the way forward. But he misses the craft of film, the accidents that can happen on the day that you can’t fix in post production. He misses the art of shooting and lighting for one camera rather than having seven cameras running and working out the rest in a computer. But in the hands of legendary director George Miller who uses all this brilliant technology with the motto “STORY first”, the technology serves the story.
With all of the mind blowing new tech, new ways of thinking and sharing and connecting we need to make sure it serves the purpose of bringing us all closer together. People first.
If you ever get an opportunity to meet up with a fellow Steemian, do it. The tech will never tell you how good a handmade perfectly chilled SATOSHI tastes when drunk in the company of good friends.
Yours in the Chain,
The HardFork Team
@HardFork-Series is an upcoming narrative film mini-series with a decentralized filmmaking approach to be produced in New York City and around the world, the team includes writer @ericvancewalton, writer/director @dougkarr, star and writer @bakerchristopher, producer @skycorridors, technical lead @complexring, executive producer @andrarchy, growth hacker @nickytothenines, the amazing HardFork-Universe crew, and the entire Steemit community. Please reach out to any and all of us to get involved, or simply reply below and we'll reach out!
We'd also love it if people posted about their ideas on Steemit using the #hardforkseries tag, we just want to point out that in order to avoid any liability that we will be assuming everything posted within that tag is intended to be a derivative work of the HardFork series and so the HardFork team cannot be liable for any apparent similarities between the content and the final product.
I am just getting in touch with this amazing project (Even if I knew about it some time ago)
I am here to stay, by the way. Because I see this as nothing short of historic.
Absolutely historic, couldn't have said it better ;)
You probably had a great time guys, especially considering how you spent 7 hours at the restaurant!
On a serious note though, Steemit does bring people together. I've made some strong friendships on Steemit so far so I can totally relate!
@haradfork-series, That's fantastic time y'll spend with memorable discussion in New York. I'm pretty happy to see your connections of friendship. It's highly recommend from me.
Absolutely brilliant work found from y'll developing steemians. Your personal communication and connection have been important for top gaining hardfork world. I'm glad to tell you I've made great relationships via steem blockchain. Keep going and wish you the best.
It looks like a great time! I wish I could have joined you. The personal connections are truly the best part of this platform. I've made a lot of new friends and some lifelong ones. You can't say that about Facebook!
That's awesome. I need to remember this recipe and share it when I meet up with other proponents of blockchain.
"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters... But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk." —Charles Baudelaire
THE SATOSHI sounds like a wonderful concoction. I'm not one for daytime drinking, but it is always 5 o'clock somewhere.
I've always liked that quote!
It looks fantastic time. Sound looking awesome with hardfork community. I prefer to spend some time to reading your article twice. So interesting to hear enjoyable conversation of you all. Better combination @hardfork-series.
Definitely created positive impact in Steemit especially to minnows. They will be more encouraged to engage in commenting posts due to higher revenues. The 4x voting power helped a lot for minnows to strive more in Steemit.
However, the new update is very dangerous. I see "Abuse" on this update. Community, groups, clans and connections will be the key of the abuse. Which means, trading upvotes will likely be one of the major problems of this HF19. Thanks @hardfork-series!
Charles, I think that for you... anytime is a good time to post!
Good to see your writing. Keep stackin!
Fantastic post! I can tell you put in some serious time to create this post. I think it's valuable info. It's certainly something to hit send and stare, refresh, refresh. I was cracking up at that. I'm resteeming this post.
Not sure that combo works with my stomach. Lol
Mescal is good on it's own, but really I am not a bourbon person.
You guys sound like a lot of fun. :)