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 
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