new collection whitelist must have 150 retweets 3 tagged friends, 4 turtledoves, propagate custom referral link (50% bonus for Basquiat holders) and shoot Andy in the chest
Collect Terraforms because you love them and connect with them. If you yourself personally want to own some
Collect if you feel the obsession and passion for them that many of us do, and only if financially responsible for you to collect
Otherwise, perhaps don't buy Terraforms
@beeple
Good faith read is you wish for the art tradition of critique and satirization
But you obviously function as promotion of some of the worst forces regularly now
You’re in denial if you’re pretending you’re not a big gasoline
Felt so expensive, I was honestly quite nervous
Turned out to be one of the best decisions I've ever made, particularly bc of the adventure it started and the friends along the way
@larvalabs
thank you
In anticipation of some radical new curriculum coming this summer, I've created 2 working groups in the Mathcastles discord
Come learn & strengthen yourself
1) p5.js for absolute beginners, no requirements
2) Rust for people with programming experience
❤️🔥.eth
I can easily imagine the world where I regret selling this.. either way that is part of the story now
Congrats to the purchaser, quite an identity if they take it on !
by asking people to "tag and retweet"
you're optimizing for people who are willing to tarnish their socials with spam as your day 1 collectors
and even if I like your project I won't do it...
so then you lose me,
a potential actual collector of your project
Me? I love historical art! Here's my definitive list:
-Cryptopunks
-Autoglyphs
-Artblocks
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@beeple
Symbolism here doesn’t function like it’s 1985 and you’re a graffiti artist
You’re a cybernetic reflexivity in an era of GameStop despair-nihilism. Instantly co-opted
You must obviously know how people read and use your work, or, you’re clueless to the age you’re in
beyond optimistic about the vast frontiers of computing & art
a medium still in utter infancy. not closed, barely begun
truly no experts, no games settled
openness and greenfield beyond belief
So glad I saved that .01 eth lololol
gg
@pixelpete
, best goose steward, truly deserved & genuinely glad you snagged. I will congratulate you again when 1000 comes knocking : )
Our next project is so densely packed with vantages that’ll be misread as niche, baroque, obtuse..… but will be utterly commonplace and everywhere by the decade’s end
I've wanted to collect a
@_NaokiSaito
since I found out he was doing NFTs..
and lately everyone is ⚔📈 for a one on Foundation..
so I finally snuck over to collect this legendary one of his from the secondary ✨
One of my personal dreams is to have Yoshitaka Amano illustrate something from the world I'm building
He is possibly my all-time favorite artist, all eras of his work
Do I know anyone who is close to him or his team?
I'm starting a public campaign today
A flow field study by
@yeetljuice
called Terraflows
An EVM artwork that talks to the Terraforms program, and generates visuals via the runtime
A kind of interoperable artwork. Network art
trad art world is newspapers & movietheaters in 1999
doesn't "die" but majorly loses monopoly
already has obv
the internet is where art has been for the last few decades
now it's on a network made of money so you can have a career
long clear, just saying direct
Quietly deployed an upgrade yesterday, represents the 1.0 and 2.0 official launch of Terraforms
Will fully announce in due time..
If you want the info ahead of that or have questions tune in today
Will host a few of these AMAs throughout the week
need a better term than "onchain"
this year I'd like to make some public media that explains how Terraforms stands apart from so many other compositions..
considering things like
runtime art,
virtual machine art
but not good enough..
@beeple
.. and this is how you use your freedom?
You could do anything, you could learn entire new crafts and skills, you could’ve retreat into your study and become a truly important artist
Yet you choose this
You *are* the person you’re satirizing in these
definitely just metaverse land that project. and *scarce* metaverse land too, which is clearly wrong. not enough of them
definitely just dungeon crawler ascii nerd stuff. I mean the fans wrote a 90 page google doc. plus too many of them right? serious collections never have ~10k
Quit your corporate Death Star job stop waiting 20 years for the Hellraiser box consciousness mazes to align 10% toward to your now-strangled artistic vision exit the 20th century learn what Ethereum is what a computer actually is throw your entire life into the network volcano…
For clarity:
Our new piece Angelus has nothing to crack or brute force. Not a studio of puzzle or codebreaker aesthetics. Rather,
Angelus uses ZK-proofs to bring a new kind of abstraction to the canon of Painting
Are Monet's depictions of Rouen Cathedral a code to crack?
It’s almost like I saw all this coming years ago and absurdly picked Ethereum as a site for durable computer program artworks instead of Unity, Unreal, Apple and other nanny state proprietary jail runtimes
Today we announced a change to our business model which includes new additions to our subscription plans, and the introduction of a Runtime fee. We wanted to provide clarifying answers to the top questions most of you are asking.
Yes, this is a price increase and it will only…
Another day another stunning
@Paerytopia_NFT
piece added to the collection
Going to look so great in a gallery on a parcel someday, grateful to collect !!
𝑫𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑽𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝑺𝒌𝒚
🌙🐋✨🌸
Sold for 3 ETH to
@0x113d
💖 Thank you so much for your support again✨ today is probably the happiest day of my life 😭
I’ve ever dreamed that I’ll hit 2 ETH one day but this… is really more than my expectation 🌙✨
🐺♻️🐑♻️🐺♻️🐑
a dynamic 3D sculptural form as program on World Computer w/land art homage
visualized w/EVM-calculated html+unicode neo netart & e-writing piece, soon a canvas for an art movement's relatable logomark 🌺
in an "ascii roguelike for nerds?"'s clothing
Brad Troemel's July 2013 100 Bitcoin piece
vacuum sealed Christian Marazzi - ‘the VIOLENCE of financial capitalism’ with 100 BITCOIN gold plated bar (2/5 tsa no fly list series)
Join this AMA in a few minutes, will be chatting:
- Terraforms 1.0 and 2.0 w/Antenna subsystem
(quietly deployed on mainnet a few days ago)
- Angelus
a new piece, the first we've offered for sale since Terraforms, which is being deployed right now
Last night we deployed a new work, tentatively called
ZERO
The piece is a Zero Knowledge Artwork
Using zk-SNARKs, we've created a system for drawings that we can prove exist, but can never be known
13 Protoform pieces [SOON]
(10 will be available for sale)
details TBD
surely some VCs bought Eth crowdsale,
but so did I,
artist nobody with no dealflow,
just a brain and
thousand+ hours obsessively learning about crypto in 2013,
long walks & let's talk bitcoin podcast,
andreas talks etc
5. Autoglyphs are not onchain art
because contract ABIs can’t be reliably retrieved or reconstructed from bytecode on the EVM (to my knowledge),
there is no dependable way to call arbitrary contracts w/o existing offchain knowledge
thus,
there is no such thing as
onchain art
This idea explains much of
-my tweets
-
@Mathcastles
ambition
-my ongoing crit of cryptoscene & ai art
I believe:
Computers are still deeply in their McLuhan phase
"In its McLuhan phase, a new medium - despite its revolutionary break - still has an old medium as its contents"
What can one even say?
Infinite respect & love to
@ArtOnBlockchain
, a kind of hero-saint to art history, Titan Atlas life changer world maker art amplifier for countless golden practitioners, and we likely wouldn't exist or have had career-sustaining success if not for him 🤍
@beeple
I’ve seen your work for a decade+ and celebrated when there was finally a way for you to get paid for your study and craft. Seeing you make millions and be able to do whatever you want as an artist is an incredible incredible thing to me..
@Jiran_z
@nnnnicholas
the world is deeply confused right now
metaverse does not mean: social 3D world, avatars
it means
ubiquitous interoperable computer programs,
with licenses that enfranchise sovereign owners
1/ Enter the Hypercastle.
Our E30D
#4
exhibition and digital poster is now open for live view and collection in Marfa, TX and .
Collection: Terraforms
Artist:
@Mathcastles
(
@0x113d
,
@xaltgeist
)
Collector:
@HEEEEEEEEEEE_
Month: August 2023
[E30D No.
#4
]
So impressed with Meridians by
@mattdesl
Visually, this is a top 5 Artblocks set to me, maybe higher
Some of my favorites feel more like photographs, cyanotypes, or experimental printmaking
Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model.
Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions.
Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy…
going to continue to grow and define this movement
live on the timeline in public
so anyone who wants can watch it happen for fun, or join and be a part of it
Two Plagues in the Terraforms collection traded hands today in a way that is extremely humbling. Each day is a new flood of gratitude for our scene and collector base
🎉Victory Fanfare:🎉: A new adventure begins with
@ZIELCHAIN
's first collaboration project, led by the legendary Yoshitaka Amano, and featuring the talented team at
@Mathcastles
.
This is a milestone moment that combines 70 years of NTV (
@ntv_wands
) creative media experience with…
Part of CC0 collecting hypothesis is like
Can I build an entourage that would work in a cartoon or game
Feels like a cast for something that airs after Doraemon
Terraforms is a runtime object artwork for the medium of World Computer
It's a dynamically-computed, nonvisual, abstract & reinterpretable, interoperable systems artwork
All the (maximally-onchain) visual bits: svgs, html animations..
They're like box art or Mimikyu's garb
I internalized this message in 2013 as very important, and it affected my art making
Tons of art I never allowed myself to consider bc "well obviously that's not onchain truth"
Artists who never learned or ignored were functionally correct though. I'm still overcoming it myself