https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/Essays, memoirs, and artist spotlights from the along7 collection of contemporary digital art.enWed, 22 Jul 2026 01:22:51 +0000https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/the-five-hundred/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/the-five-hundred/Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000Art Blocks numbered its projects like chapters, stopped at 500, and put the era behind glass. Then I started collecting it.https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/how-i-got-here/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/how-i-got-here/Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000Before the art there was a game, and before the game there was Bitcoin. Under all of it, there was always art. Ten years from HODL to a seventeen-hundred-work gallery.https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/sigmax-cities/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/sigmax-cities/Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000SigmaX makes glowing cities. His What Cities Hold drop scattered its rarest 1-of-1s at random through the mint, and I will admit it, I used my statistics degree to go get two.https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/andres-del-vecchio/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/andres-del-vecchio/Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000I wore Andres Del Vecchio's mask as my own face before I knew his story. Then I met him in New York, and we spent an afternoon in front of the American paintings at the Met.https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/deltasauce-feed/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/deltasauce-feed/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000DeltaSauce calls himself an AI Wordsmith and a Curator of Nostalgia. His FEED series is the piece that turned this whole collection on, so I kept following. Then one day he started collecting me back.https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/tdxl-all-of-it/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/tdxl-all-of-it/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000I grabbed every piece of TDxL's I could reach, the bidders and editions and 1-of-1s and animations, all of it. Then he told his story, and I understood why it had been hitting me so hard.https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/kris-shin-prints/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/kris-shin-prints/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000Kris Shin shoots Kyoto quiet. I collected five of his Still Kyoto photographs before I learned five was the magic number, and now some of these NFTs are ink on my wall.https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/an1-the-infinite-light/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/an1-the-infinite-light/Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000An1 paints in the dark, in Los Angeles, and buries whole diaries in her canvases in two languages. I came for the images. I stayed to decode them.https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/gul-yildiz-quiet-places/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/gul-yildiz-quiet-places/Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000Gul Yildiz makes emotive, figurative stills in Istanbul. I collected her at mint and through Ninfa, and somewhere in there she became one of the artists who collects me back the most.https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/moments-of-the-unknown/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/moments-of-the-unknown/Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000For a year I followed Justin Aversano's Moments of the Unknown one polaroid at a time, bid my way into just over two hundred of them, and on the seventh of April I shook his hand in New York.https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/the-guild-years/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/the-guild-years/Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000Two crowns, one spreadsheet, four games, a coin that died, and the memes that kept it all funny. What crypto gaming actually felt like from inside.https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/who-owns-the-picture/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/who-owns-the-picture/Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000Buy a painting and you own the canvas, not the picture. The copyright stays with the artist. Minting did not change that. So what does a collector actually own?https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/the-feeling-was-mutual/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/the-feeling-was-mutual/Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000I set out to collect other people's art. I did not expect so many of them to turn around and collect mine, to keep sending work my way, or to watch a hundred followers become a room worth speaking to. The table has two sides, and both of them gave.https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/year-of-the-daily-drop/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/year-of-the-daily-drop/Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000For one year, collecting meant showing up. Not browsing a back catalogue, but being there when the drop went live, every day, saying good morning to the same people before the auction closed. This is the room that made the collection.https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/why-i-keep-the-originals/https://along7gallery.xyz/stories/why-i-keep-the-originals/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000An NFT does not actually store the art. The token is permanent; the picture usually is not. So I keep the pictures.