# What We Like And Why

Host: Superhighgasfees (@SHGFees) with cohost Jack (@JackLT3_) · Thu, Oct 15 2026 · 1:15:33 · 4 speakers

## TL;DR
- A deliberately low-key LT3 space about taste: what each person is drawn to artistically, and why that's so hard to put into words. The first eight minutes are just Kanye and the Chainsmokers while the room fills up — start at [8:11].
- Super explained the new cadence: town halls and informative spaces run from the LT3 main account, chill ones like this from his personal page so the main doesn't get flooded with space links [8:11].
- Super's thesis: he's pulled toward sad and toward *irregular* art — things that make him stop and stare, whether that's a gallery piece in Miami, Lil Peep, or an NFT project he couldn't decode [11:17].
- Jack unpacked Daniel Arsham, foam sculpture, and why a room full of objects you love changes how you work [19:36], plus a confession about unfinished projects and pushing through the ugly middle [36:45].
- jakebalch.nft delivered the long middle section: art isn't what's moving the market right now, "less is more" is a skill not a shortcut, and no NFT collection has existed long enough to prove collector longevity [45:26]–[1:03:00].
- Closing bit, instantly nominated for copypasta: "collect what you love because most of it's gonna go to zero" [1:12:31]. Everyone decamped to the LT3 Discord for putt party.

## Highlights

**[8:11] Housekeeping, and why this topic.** Super admitted he'd been struggling for a subject because all he and Jack have been doing lately is making videos, and he'd already run the "how to go viral" space into the ground. So: what we like and why, artistically. Jack showed up fresh off skating with friends in town for Tampa Am, with zero prep and no complaints.

**[11:17] Sadness as the thing that sticks.** Super traced his taste back to a gallery in Miami where he stood in front of one piece on what was supposed to be a vacation and nearly cried — and has been chasing that feeling since. He connected it to Lil Peep and Lil Bo Weep: artists who, as he put it, effectively transfer how they feel over to you. His later theory for *why* it hits: it's a state of mind he doesn't live in, so when it arrives it lands harder [17:45].

**[13:58] Art you can't decode.** A conversation with Steer about a project called "the surreal" — one that rugged — left both of them unable to explain what it meant, and that struggle was the appeal. Super noted how rare that is in NFTs, where meaning is usually right on the surface, versus a museum where there's always a little placard telling you what you're looking at.

**[16:31] Jack's psychological framing.** Negative signal just weighs more: one hate comment under a good post, or the trading rule of thumb that making $100 feels about the same as losing $30. Extended to art, a sadder piece may simply resonate longer than an upbeat one. (Cat audibly disagreed in the background.)

**[19:36] Daniel Arsham, and why sculpture.** Jack walked through Arsham's furniture, foam work, the bending-wall installations, the marble pieces, and — with real affection — the man's house and its Japanese sand garden. Then the deeper reason: an idea becoming a physical thing in the room with you, something that has to work from every angle. He tied it to the LT3 warehouse where the pillows ship from, full of his sculptures and friends' art, which keeps the ideas flowing. Super's version of the same attraction is distortion — things that are irregular enough to make you look a beat longer [22:31].

**[24:50] The maxi's room as a design brief.** Prompted by a conversation with Craig about a store in LA holding six figures of KAWS figures, Super landed on a framework he clearly liked: picture the room of someone who's a total maxi for your brand. Make that walkway something you'd want to live in. "I think it's cool to create what you would want to see" [25:49] — which Jack immediately clocked as roughly an Arsham quote [27:00].

**[28:14] The Mr. Beast of foam.** Super's pitch to Jack: stop thinking small, build the tallest, most outlandish sculpture you can and put it out in the most eye-catching way possible. People already comment on his TikToks asking how to buy one-of-ones — don't drop them, just keep making. He also praised Jack's eye for restraint, down to three dots in the mascot's color on a town hall graphic.

**[33:26] Collecting as its own art form.** Super said he never saw it that way until watching how Mark collects — nakeds, fewest traits, the most stripped-down version of a thing. It rubbed off: his longtime LT3 PFP is traitless, he owns the only completely empty regen in that collection, and a macaroon that's naked except for a crown ("not all the way there, but I have my reasons"). He can now spot a Mark buy in the sales bot from the price and the piece alone.

**[36:45] Finishing the ugly part.** Jack's most honest stretch: he keeps starting things without a clear direction, stalling, and ending up with a pile of unfinished work. Lately he's forcing himself to push through until it starts assembling itself. Super's workaround is to return to what inspires him without biting it, and Jack refined that into the best line of the hour — find the feeling the thing installed in you and reverse engineer *that*, not the execution [38:53].

**[40:23] Jose on mood-based taste.** Jose's answer to "what are you drawn to" was that it moves with him — Japanese music one day, a classical rabbit hole the next, cute IP one week and retro or futuristic the next. The one constant: pastel over bright. That sent Super into Odd Future and Tyler, the Creator and the way a specific palette can become an instant signature — a vibe he compared to Doodles, with the skate lineage as his way in.

**[45:26] Jake's state-of-the-space read.** The buckets of art are mostly filled in, and in his view art itself isn't what's driving anything right now — clout, networks, and capital are. As a professional designer he flagged the common misconception that intricacy equals skill or value, calling it ass backwards. The part that stung: the projects with the clearest branding and IP, the ones you'd recognize instantly in five years, are the ones struggling. He was careful to say he wasn't trying to bring the room down, and gave LT3 genuine credit for having a distinctly obvious vibe [48:18].

**[57:11] The 100x disorder.** Jake's extended take: five years after the mania, the space still can't shake the belief that an asset must go up or it has failed and you were dumb for buying. That logic exists nowhere else, and the Pokémon comparison misses the framework — decades of brand-building before the cards meant anything. He argued no NFT has been around long enough to prove collector longevity [1:00:09], and described staring at wallet dust he FOMO'd into because the timeline told him to, versus the pieces he actually loves, which take up no mental weight at all [1:02:51].

**[1:04:40] Jack's clothing analogy.** The counterpart to Jake's point, and the most grounded version of it: nobody buys a shirt three sizes off because it might appreciate. You buy what fits, you wear it, and if it holds value later, great. Anything else is just taking up mind space you only have so much of.

**[1:06:00] Jose on the echo chamber.** Jose zoomed out — he came into crypto through a layer one and the tech, and the art corner is one small layer of something much larger. His reminder: step outside what you currently know and you might rediscover why you got here. Jack followed with musing about privacy-style collecting (Zcash, ZK) and whether a less speculative launch or marketplace model could exist [1:08:19].

## Topic timeline

| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| [0:13]–[8:11] | Music while the room fills (skippable) |
| [8:11]–[11:17] | Housekeeping: space cadence, LT3 main vs personal account |
| [11:17]–[18:00] | Sadness in art, Lil Peep, art you can't decode, why negatives hit harder |
| [18:00]–[24:00] | Daniel Arsham, sculpture, foam, rooms that inspire, distortion |
| [24:50]–[32:00] | KAWS, the maxi's room as design brief, the "Mr. Beast of sculpting" idea |
| [33:26]–[36:00] | Collecting style as self-expression; nakeds and empty traits |
| [36:45]–[39:40] | Finishing unfinished work; reverse-engineering a feeling |
| [39:44]–[44:45] | Jose on mood-driven taste, pastels, Odd Future's color language |
| [45:26]–[53:20] | Jake on clout vs art, "less is more," what's actually driving the market |
| [53:22]–[1:06:00] | Speculation vs collecting, the 100x expectation, Pokémon framing, clothing analogy |
| [1:06:00]–[1:10:00] | Jose on the wider crypto stack; privacy and less-speculative models |
| [1:11:03]–[1:15:33] | Closing thoughts, Discord putt party |

## Notable quotes

- "I was like nearly crying looking at it... it's almost weird, like I like to cry, you know." — Super [11:17]
- "There's a certain feeling that you're trying to capture that you felt there." — Jack [38:53]
- "There's a lot of misconception, especially in this space, that something's skill level or something's value is tied to how intricate it is, and that's actually, in my opinion, completely and totally ass backwards." — jakebalch.nft [46:54]
- "I just don't think we've been selling NFTs long enough to know whether any of them have true... collector longevity." — jakebalch.nft [1:00:09]
- "My vixens don't hold weight in my mind. I'm happy with them. My LT3 doesn't hold weight in my mind. I'm not trying to flip it." — jakebalch.nft [1:02:51]
- "Collect what you love because most of it's gonna go to zero." — jakebalch.nft [1:12:31]

## Who said what

- **Super (@SHGFees)** — host. Framed the topic, and gave the most personal answer: drawn to sadness, to irregularity, to art that resists explanation. Contributed the "maxi's room" design lens and the observation that how you collect is itself an art form.
- **Jack (@JackLT3_)** — cohost and the working artist in the room. Arsham, foam, sculpture from every angle, rooms that make you feel inspired — plus the honest bit about abandoned projects and the clothing analogy that made the speculation argument concrete.
- **jakebalch.nft (@JakeBalchNFT)** — joined mid-space without knowing the topic and then held the floor for the back half. Designer's view on restraint, a long and unsparing read on why the market stopped rewarding art, and the closing line of the space.
- **Jose (@Yoshi_3000)** — came up explicitly to support an open stage and ended up offering the most useful zoom-out: taste that shifts with mood, a preference for pastels, and a reminder that the art corner is one layer of a much bigger stack.

## Worth a full listen

- **[19:36]–[27:00]** — Jack on Arsham and sculpture into Super's KAWS/maxi-room tangent. The best stretch of two people genuinely trying to articulate why something works, including Jack realizing mid-sentence he'd never asked himself why he likes sculpture.
- **[45:26]–[53:20]** — Jake's opening salvo and Jack's response. The space's thesis section, and the place where the praise for LT3 and the critique of the broader meta sit side by side.
- **[57:11]–[1:04:40]** — The 100x "disorder," Pokémon, and wallet regret, landing on Jack's shirt-size analogy. Longer and more philosophical than a summary can carry, and he knows it.