The room where it happened every day
The daily drop was not a solo habit. It was a crew: artists releasing on a daily rhythm, collectors showing up, everyone saying gm before the auction closed. This is the scene that made the year.
Justin Aversano →
Some of this collection can be explained one piece at a time. This part cannot. This part is about a rhythm, a daily one, and a group of people who kept it together for a year mostly on Tezos, mostly on objkt, mostly by saying good morning to each other before the day's auction closed.
gm, and mean it
If you were not there it sounds like nothing. gm. Good morning. But on a daily-drop calendar, gm was the bell that opened the room. It meant the crew was awake, a new edition was live, and there were a few hours to look and bid and talk before it settled. I posted mine. gn, cya tezzy Tuesday morning, I wrote one night, already thinking about the next drop. The ritual was the point. It turned a market into a place you came back to.
The daily artists
The reason to show up was the work. Justin Aversano ran Moments of the Unknown as a daily project, one polaroid at a time, and I said so at the time: In 2025, Moments of the Unknown is such a fun daily project. I try to get involved by bidding or replying. Others kept their own daily cadence, LILIDYZ with DAILYTRIPZ, a whole rotation of Tezos artists dropping a piece a day. You did not collect one of these and move on. You followed a run, and the run became a habit, and the habit became a wall.
When I started dropping too
The scene pulled me from one side of the table to the other. I started making small editions of my own, the SERENIA drops on objkt, and the same crew showed up. All 69 editions sold, and the collection hit number 4 on objkt, I posted one night, still a little stunned. Thank you for all the love and support, everyone. A curator, Boundless8D, helped organize the drops. The people I had been collecting from every morning were now collecting me back by evening. That is what a scene is. Not a feed. A room.
Why this is here
Scenes do not leave monuments. They leave a scroll of gm posts and sold notifications that the timeline swallows within a week. I kept mine. This is the crew that made the daily drop worth doing, in their words and mine, so that the year we all showed up for does not vanish just because the feed moved on.