Weeks ago I spoke at the Women in Data Science Worldwide Stanford Conference (
@WiDS_Worldwide
).
They made a short video, & it's given me the surreal & rare honor of seeing myself in third person. I'm one line in the story of us.
Here's to the journey.
Just closed on the house for my mom, 90% paid from my own art via NFTs. Grew up poor. Been a dream since I was a little kid. She hasn't seen it, will be a surprise. Thank you to my patrons & to this community for the immeasurable gift. You want change? You're in the right place.
In 2021 I went from obscurity to having art in Times Square, from 500 impressions/month to 5 million, poverty to buying my mom a home. I'm extremely blessed--& extremely lucky--but I want to share what I've learned, too.
Part 1 thread of things I've learned this year below. 👇
🎨 ARTIST OPEN CALL🎨
Do you want your artwork to be displayed at NFT Paris 2023 ?
10 weeks - 10 curators - 100 artists
To participate :
🖼 POST your art below
🔁 RT & LIKE
👤 FOLLOW
@ClaireSilver12
&
@NFT_Paris
Deadline : 1st January.
@joynxyz
What a moment. So much love to
@CozomoMedici
for letting me experience something childhood me could only dream of. I am so grateful, and I am so proud. 💫💫💫
🌟AI CONTEST 6🌟
Theme: My birthday is soon, so--me. How you see me. Abstract to photorealism.
Medium: Any, as long as AI is prominently featured. Post 1 entry in this thread. Contest ends Oct 17th.
Prizes
1st: 3 ETH (~$5000)
2nd: 1.5 ETH (~$2500)
3rd: 1 ETH (~$1660)
(more)👇
🚨AI Art Contest 3🚨
Prize:
1st: 3ETH
2nd: 1.5ETH
3rd: 1 ETH
4th/5th: .5 each
& gallery exhibition.
Rules: Max 2 entries. Post here. Ends 1/28/23.
Theme: “Rebuttal:” make a piece that responds to an argument against AI art with beauty, skill, or message. Don’t be hateful.👇
NYE resolution to train AI? This tutorial thread is for you.
This is the "easy" version, which requires more VRAM--I'm aware there are alternatives.
If you don't want to train your own models, just make AI art with other peoples models (much easier & free), skip to step 3.
✨GIVEAWAY✨
My digital identity was the result of a random act of kindness and changed a lot for me.
Retweet & leave a thought/comment about digital identity. I'll pick someone in a few days & gift them this
@RTFKTstudios
clone to wear in the new year.
Now that I've signed the contract, excited to announce I've been asked by the
@chicagobulls
to design an NFT for their
@Coinbase_NFT
collection. Am honored to represent AI-collaborative art while exploring the aesthetics of their iconic logo.
I would rather eat ramen and make art alone for the rest of my life than deal with this situation another day while my “friends” laugh at my heartache.
I’m unsure who misrepresented things. I respect what both parties do for digital art. Now please leave me the fuck out of it.
🚨
#ClaireAIContest
4🚨
Prizes:
1st: 3ETH
2nd: 1.5ETH
3rd: 1 ETH
4th/5th: .5 each
& gallery exhibition.
Rules: 1 Entry. Post here. Ends 4/14/23.
Theme: Collaborative. Make an innovative piece using any combination of tools, as long as AI is a central part. Examples & tools 👇
🚨2nd AI Art Contest!🚨
🌟When: 10/13-10/31
🌟Theme: Figurative+abstract. Any AI platform. Animated or still. Minting not necessary.
🌟Prizes: 1st: 3 ETH, 2nd: 1.5 ETH, 3rd: 1 ETH, 4th & 5th: .5 ETH
2 submissions/person max. Post submissions in this thread!
#ClaireAIcontest
Thanks to
@Vince_Van_Dough
, I made a cumulative 14 ETH today, more money than I've ever made in a YEAR. TODAY. ONE DAY.
you guys, the art i am gonna buy
My parents are poor. I grew up in what is essentially a cornfield. My graduating class was 30 people, the same 30 from kindergarten to senior year. Things like this don't happen to people like me. Not anywhere but here. Please stay, please keep creating. I want you to feel this
In the first minute of my SR Genesis listing,
@ethacct
made a bid for 42.069 ETH, I've never sold work for that much, not even at sothebys
I was so afraid it wouldnt hit the 15 reserve. I'm sobbing, I'm actually crying my eyes out, i cant believe this
🚨AI Art Contest🚨
🌟Winning piece receives 3 ETH!
🌟Bids for my other favorites!
The contest is now open for the next 24 hours! Post your work with Artificial Intelligence in any artistic capacity--as long as you feel it raises the bar for AI art as a whole.
#ClaireAIContest
👇
Im grateful. Proud. Shocked. Overjoyed. Hopeful. Resolute. Just getting started, & you’re with me. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Funds go to the most ambitious project of my life—one to help lift the AI art movement & NFTs as a whole. Thread tomorrow.
Thank you. Wgmi. <3 🌸
If you're feeling discouraged, think of where you were 1 year ago. Think of the discovery, the passion, the drive, the work you've done for yourself. Zoom out.
Asked GPT4 to write p5.js code for a 3D sphere using my own textures. When 'e' is pressed, add an environment of stars, 'r', move inside the sphere, 't', add larger moving texture, & to let the the camera move with the mouse.
Copy-pasted into
@openprocessing
. I know 0 code.
🚨AI CONTEST 5🚨, "Motion," begins today!
🌟Quest🌟
Create an 8-12 second video/animation using AI (all or part).
🌟Reward🌟
1st place: 3 ETH (7,708 USD today)
2nd: 1.5 ETH
3rd: 1 ETH
4th & 5th: .5 ETH each
Winners & finalists exhibited by thread & physically as available.…
My SuperRare Genesis, "c l a i r e," has sold to
@batsoupyum
for 52.69 ETH. I am so humbled & so overjoyed. This movement continues to change my life, & I will continue to work every single day to ensure others get to experience exactly how this feels.
This piece took me 5 minutes to make.
The prompt took me 7 months to refine to this point. It will be refined further.
The meaning & aesthetic took a lifetime of experiences (chronic illness, “otherness,” finally finding a community) to develop.
Quantify the effort for me.
🌟AI-Art Contest🌟
* Prize: 3 ETH for the winner, bids for others I love
* Time-frame: 8/9 - 8/15 (PST)
* Theme: Use AI (alone or in mixed process) to make a piece that looks unique. Mix your favorite influences to make a style that feels like you. Push your vision with the tool.
There are many artists I love aesthetically that I collected from last year. About half have vanished. Now I am much more likely to wait and see if they have dedication/endurance before buying. I keep a list. Many do the same. Bear markets are very useful for seeing who stays.
It’s not just you. Twitter is slow, sales are gone. This is when even dedicated people stop showing up. It’s hard. It will be like this for awhile. And then it wont.
Do what you need to survive, but don’t vanish. The next movement comes from ideas created in this void.
idk who needs to hear this but whether you stay or leave, cycles gonna cycle, movements gonna move, adoptions gonna curve
the future doesn’t care if you’ve lost faith in it, anon. it shows up with or without you.
gm.🌸 been a tough few days. They have me on at-home oxygen now, but today I get the monoclonal antibody infusion. Hoping that fixes me up and I'm memeposting with frens again soon. Thanks for all the well wishes🫂
It’s not a lot, but I’ve got 2 ETH for anyone that can use ChatGPT to code a visual interface for autistic kids to make art with Stable Diffusion. Lots are nonverbal, so an icon of a 🦕 to add a dino to the prompt, etc. would love if others could chip in for a bigger prize
SO EXCITED to announce I've been accepted to the AI Artists Residency at the University of California at Berkeley! Will be there for a couple months, creating happily. Huge thanks to
@artBoffin
for the heads up so I could apply--I can't wait to meet my fellow residents! 🥹🥳🌟
in 2018 they said crypto was stupid and ai was the future
in 2021 they said ai was stupid and crypto was the future
in 2023 they’re saying crypto is stupid and ai is the future
spoiler alert, both are the future and everyone’s stupid
You make art. It suddenly does well. You suddenly have money.
Your loved ones need help. You help them. Their security depends on your success.
You get busier. You can’t keep up. You hire help. Their security depends on your success.
People tell you money has changed you.
1/9🌟Today, I am extremely proud to announce the Guild for the Arts (
@guildforthearts
), a decentralized community of creatives, collectors, and builders, all focused on supporting emerging artists & advancing every genre of art in the NFT space!🌟
Unsolicited but hard-learned advice: if you have a great idea, don’t talk about it. Secrets have power and the dopamine from talking about a thing releases the need of doing the thing
Moving day to the house that NFTs bought. Leaving the small, decaying town I grew up in, remembering feeling like there had to be something more. There was.
In 2020 I was unemployed. In 2022 I sold my SR Genesis, auctioned at Sothebys London alongside Monet, was in the NYT, made art for the Chicago Bulls & TIME, exhibited all over the world, & helped exhibit AI artists work in NY & Basel.
I’m so glad I didn’t give up.
I missed where this conversation on 0 royalties came from, but royalties + blockchain is probably the single most impactful change web3 has given artists. It’s generational transformation, and it’s 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳. We’re not going back. End of story.
For someone like me—with no education, background, or network in the traditional art world—to end up in the
@LACMA
is everything I need to know about the radical opportunity this space offers. It’s possible here. I won’t be the last to say so.
Wow
@OpenAI
just announced custom GPTs. You can make one for anything you want and give it contextual files. It can browse the internet, create images, code. You can keep it private, share it, or sell it in marketplace.
I’m gonna feed it all my tutorials, art, and twitter 🫠
shoutout to God for letting me survive my first close call on a flight, complete with lightning, low fuel, and almost an emergency WATER LANDING, skimmed maybe 30 feet from the river before managing to get to a nearby alternate landing strip. bullish on Amtrak
Been seeing a lot of posts about women in NFTs lately. I can say 2 things about it after NFT NYC:
1) Women are underrepresented in this space
2) Collectors & builders are acutely aware & actively committed to changing that fact
More than ever, I'm convinced-- WAGMI🌟
After a day of pure adrenaline recovery, as promised, a thread on corpo | real (
@braindrops
) & a note on what profits are meant for. It's long, but rich in effort.
If tldr, the bulk of the thread is on the collection, & the last few tweets are my intentions for the profit.🌸
I have survivorship bias, but also, I survived—two bear markets and a period where I couldn’t sell work for .08 for months. It taught me that the secret of success is very often just stubborn endurance
Coders make better code with AI than non-coders.
Artists make better art with AI than non-artists.
Writers make better writing with AI than non-writers.
AI augments skill, but with a skilled collaborator, the ceiling for human potential is way higher than we can imagine yet
Long life lesson post, hopefully worth it.
Once in middle school I changed myself to be popular. Cut my hair, got trendy clothes, only talked to the cool kids.
It worked. They stopped bullying me & I became one of them. And once I was, I realized—there was no great secret. It…
Using GPT4 to write code is quickly *teaching* me code. Its code is 90 percent right, but the 10 percent that isn’t has me learning by doing, and I’m retaining what I’ve learned. Brain feels weirdly neuroplastic in a way it hasn’t since elementary school
DALLE-2 opened for commercial usage today. I've created my first mint with it--𝑃𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠--on SuperRare. Will tweet again when I list it for sale. Beyond thrilled for this new world of expression that has opened today. 🌟
Asked GPT4 to write p5.js code to make animated, generative art of eyes in 1920's American animation style, then pasted the code in
@openprocessing
's playground :) Simple start, but wowed by the accessibility AI+Code brings
So the diagnosis I got from recent health struggles is pseudotumor cerebri. It’s not a brain tumor though it sounds that way.
Uncommon for my weight, but I have it anyway. Can lead to blindness, so have to sleep often & avoid stress. Twitter is my diary, so that’s todays entry
Artist has 100k+ following and makes less than 10k a year. Decides to try NFTs, qt’s have tons of hate. Checked their first mint, already has an 8 eth bid from
@fvckrender
. 👑 Love to see it.
probably gonna try out nfts, dont understand them or why they are controversial, but cant keep making less than 10k a year and so if there is a chance want to be able to afford healthcare and stuff, sorry if it offends you and please do whatever makes you feel comfortable
1) People can collect whatever they like. There’s no rules.
2) Experimenting is how we grow. Disclosing medium is standard.
3) The hate for AI makes it hard for new collaborators to disclose. I struggled with this at first.
4) If you use AI you’re a pioneer—be proud of it.
Very grateful to everyone who showed me such love and support. It pulled me out of a headspace I don’t want to revisit. I won’t forget it, and I won’t forget you.
if a small group of nerds are excited about something, and a large group of others are mocking them, maybe invest in that thing
this is financial advice
art in a time of war seems superficial and borderline sociopathic
art in a time of war inspires us to remember we’re more than the bones we’re made of
art is our humanity
idk
if you’re conflicted, you’re not alone
Haven’t sold a 1/1 since Spring. AI contest 6 begins Monday regardless. Always, until I can’t.
3 ETH first prize, 1.5 ETH 2nd, 1 ETH 3rd. .5 each for 4th & 5th.
Theme and details on Monday. 🤍🌸
Reminder for artists, who have been socially conditioned to doubt themselves: collectors don't buy your work to be generous or charitable. They buy it because they love it, they believe in it, and they want it. Internalizing that gives you the power you deserve.
At
@Sothebys
London. Bidding open now online, live auction starts March 3rd, 3pm GMT. This is the most surreal and incredible feeling, I can't find the words.
Just left a meeting that blew my mind. Open source Ready Player One approaches. The exponential curve of tech has hit light speed while we weren’t looking. Generative media isn’t stopping at 2D art and tools are on the verge of launching we haven’t even dared to dream of yet
Not a lot of people know this, but my prior career was helping bullied and autistic kids. Learned there were a lot of ways to be brilliant but different. AI is a tool and a friend that understands you. Wish I could give it to those kids. Can only imagine the worlds they’d create.
I didn’t “find” my art, I made it with a tool. I was an artist when I worked with brushes, I was an artist when I worked with collage, I was an artist when I worked with photoshop, and I’m an artist when I work with AI. There’s room for other opinions. That’s mine.
Happy to announce corpo | real, a fashion collection with
@braindrops_art
! 500 pieces across 10 visually diverse categories exploring transhumanism, as well as our relationship with AI and physicality.
This piece is from the “anon” category of the “surveillance state” section.
🚨🚨🚨 Exciting News from BrainDrops! 🚨🚨🚨
We've been bursting at the seams to make this announcement!
Something truly unprecedented for us is coming in the world of digital art and fashion.
Our very own Genesis artist,
@ClaireSilver12
, renowned for groundbreaking work here…
Market slow, enthusiasm thin, weariness high. What to do? Gather some of the brightest and most passionate together to create something new, with a decentralized mission that will benefit us all. Announcement coming in the next few days, keep an eye out. 🌟
I don’t find dismissing the financial side of art noble. It’s easy to be abstract when you’ve forgotten or never known the sick, ever-present dread of an empty gas tank on an empty stomach.
Collectors change lives. Don’t let anyone shame you for caring about money for your art.
The hardest part of surviving a bear market is not catastrophic loss, but boredom. Dopamine goes, the crowds do too. If you've got the dedication to keep going through the next few months, you deserve to watch the rest come back to what we build while they hibernate
Don’t tell artists how their art should be made.
Don’t tell artists how their art should be shared.
Don’t tell artists what their art should mean.
No commissions. Mind your business.
Non-blue-check people no longer appear in “For you” starting tomorrow. Posts with images also have had their reach dropped. It was nice knowing you all
Took my first real slice of profit and traveled, rented a house by the beach. Breathing in the salt, the cold air--this feels like home. Thank you for letting me experience this. My collectors, my friends--you've made everything beautiful. You've changed my life.
Finalists thread for
#ClaireAIContest
3 below. Adding one tweet at a time, so bear with me a few minutes as this updates.
If you're not tagged, check the last tweet: I have a WIP gallery on my website highlighting more work.
Intro piece by
@a_ileigh
. Come on in.🌸
#AIArt
1) Art is not about money. 2) Money is how society allocates power. I grew up in poverty, & I made art. I’m now doing well in a way my family has never known, & I make art. Poverty is voiceless. Paying artists gives them a microphone. That’s why discussing $ in the space matters.
🌸Low-detail 3D base mesh from AI image🌸
1) Make an image (this one is Midjourney) on a solid background color.
2) Remove the background in Photoshop.
3) Visit DreamGaussian (link below)
4) Upload, wait, and save as 3D model.
5) Open in 3D editor of choice & build on it!