The commission from
@FWBtweets
and
@opensea
provided me the chance to develop and mint a singular, 1/1 live-rendered artwork. I've been intending to do this since I wasa first introduced to the blockchain
Google effectively kills whole territories of innovation by staking a strong claim in the center of a high value area and then nuking it when it isn’t generating hype anymore
rick rubin’s pivot to creativity-coaching linkedin/tiktok influencer best-seller guy is just a symptom of there being a dwindling market for actual creative works
when young artists jump into minting NFTs and get sad about not instantly winning big sales, I gotta remind them that many of us waited 1.5 decades to see sales that look instant.
I would love to see even more unhinged and disrespectful installs of digital art - like really pushed too far. Thousands of little cellphone LCDs, cables everywhere, cans of diet coke and energy drinks.
In honor of Father's Day, I've started uploading the Desert Crust Series of video compositions I made during the year following my dad's passing. Due to account limits, I'll be staggering uploads over the next few weeks
hot take: we’ll eventually come to recognize that watching “floor price” is just as damaging to artists in our space as obsession with follower counts and engagement scores on instagram
the sickness of our age is demonstrated by the sheer amount of discussion about consuming or selling culture (art, music, theater), but almost no discussion about what it means to experience it.
What if everyone shared their not-new still-available NFT work with the same enthusiasm as fresh drops? Sell me the back-catalog! (This is a shill post, lol)
Pleased to announce my Wavelet Pools collection on OpenSea this morning.
A generative series of very LA pool inspired GIFs created locally with a Max patch and some shaders I’ve been working on since December.
I've been in a lot of situations where everything is boring until one person stands up and is like "yoooooo, are we doing this?" Like 99% of humanity is just waiting for someone to get psyched again.
6 hours later, 82/100 are minted and in the hands of collectors. This is my first project with my own smart contract, web front end, IPFS storage - all videos made with my own painting/animation software - DIY all the way.
I’ve operated as a professional artist at a substantial loss for a very long time. This month I’m paying off all the credit balances I’ve accrued over that time. I’m incredibly grateful to all who have supported my work this year.
I agree with this with the caveat that New Media and Computer Art have been heavily gatekept over the years and the full space of generative art is richer, more diverse, and more wild than these books reflect.
I believe that successful
#generativeArt
collectors will be the ones who understand the history of computer art 🤓 Here are some good reads / coffee table conversation starters to get you started. A thread 🧵
When people say "we already had ways to pay artists" they are overlooking this fact that every professional artist already knows. The instant gratification of a smart contract is like a miracle.
If you're worried about crypto+art turning everything into a market, consider how many artists have turned their public presence, lifestyle, time into marketable assets because their actual creative output wasn't valued by the existing markets.
Been slowly working on this project for the past year, where I make looped, animated drawings with a web-based app, and store the instructions into a text file. The idea is to be able to show these player-piano style, as live-rendered works in a browser. (this is a test demo)
It's hard to easily explain these recent experiments, but I think seeing it like this might help. I generate color wave patterns that get overlapped and added together. This one just has constrained scale so you can see each partial.