UpOnlyFan
Collector and creator of fine jpegs
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Params, a user's guide, for collectors
New to fx(params)? Here's what you need to know before to buy your first ticket! A step by step guide, with a hint of snark and no bullshit.
The spectrum of nature - a short making of
A quick overview of some main concepts and technical parts of “The spectrum of nature”. With an emphasis on keeping it fun and light.
Value Investing, Below Mint Edition
"Value investing is an investment strategy that involves picking stonks that appear to be trading for less than their intrinsic or book value." - investopedia.com Does art have intrinsic value? What is arts book value? All I can say is that the price of these collections is below what the artist felt was it's value to them. At the time of writing this article, the following collections are below the mint price on the secondary market. The objective reason for this is supply being bigger than demand. The subjective reason I don't know and can only speculate about. This art might prove to be a good value investment in the future. Emphasis on might! DYOR, NFA and buy what you like. In no particular order. All prices in Tezos as of 27.11.2022. Update 06.12.2022: All Prices current. New Projects added. Prices of last update now in (). Empty brakes means price stayed the same. Update 31.12.2022: All Prices current.
Daeinc Interview
Daeinc is an artist and designer who is fascinated with composing motion with code. They play with interesting concepts including growth, time, and dimension. One random collector of this ARTKL will receive a 1/1 work by Daeinc.
S_r_r_z_ interview
劉乃廷 (Liu Nai-Ting) is a web developer, generative artist, and overall creative from Taiwan. They have created a few well known FxHash works including "the generative octopuses" and "Shape Study". Collecting this article supports the artist & coral restoration.
Yenren Interview
Yenren is a creative coder who has become obsessed with generative art. They have a burning passion for creating and learning more about the generative world and have created many fantastic works on FxHash.
Constant Change
A living document with an Image that I will modify with mirrorlab and post at least 1 new version every 24 hours.
Creating 'September'
In this article, I'll give a brief overview of creating my latest project, September: the inspiration behind it, the early development of the idea, and finalizing all the small details, while sharing lots of work-in-progress images along the way.
Generative Art Weekly Review by EyesFi | Sept 26 - Oct 2
EyesFi is a generative arts-focused NFT discovery platform. Browse the weekly recap for a summary of the latest news in Generative Arts. This is the first episode.
Making Störungen
Störungen is German for "disturbances" and accurately described the core intention of this piece.
Get in Early: Artists on the Rise
Is there anything better than being a fan "before they were cool?" Being ahead of the curve takes patience, but it can be rewarding in many ways!
Mikkel Hartmann Interview
Mikkel Hansen is a physicist who went into data science and now spends the majority of his spare time doing generative art. They are from Denmark and have grand plans for the future of their creating. Collecting this article gives you a chance to win some original works from Mikkel Hartmann.
Good artists copy, great ones steal… and a lovely few encourage that theft
The copy/steal quote has been attributed to a lot of notable folks, probably because they stole it from someone else, but the sentiment is always the same: if you take something... make something novel with it; a copy is boring. CC0 helps this to be possible, without fear of overstepping bounds, and hopefully, furthering the state of the art by reducing friction.
Expanding the Canvas with fx(hash)
A Year of Rapid Innovation in Generative Art: a gallery show curated by Tender at Bright Moments Venice Beach, coinciding with the live minting of Piter Pasma’s new fx(hash) release Industrial Devolution. The exhibition text below sets the context for those just introduced to fxhash, and shares an evolutionary narrative about the leaps of innovation continuing to release on the platform.
Web3 Comics The Origin
In The Year 13 BTC..Far Away In A Solar System Just Outside Earth: Issue #0 The First Of many {Generative Art Comics}, based on "Tezos Art & Artists"
Test The Matter #01
Floating.. further and further away from Earth. Blank Force and Ryan Shell are in a tiny space craft after escaping a terrible attack on earth. Ryan has collapsed into a dream state, while Blank is testing a gravity loop on the space controls.
Internal Monologue
Some background information about the artwork: Internal Monologue. It differs from other work and has changed so much thinking about the platform for me as an artist. all the images in this article are WIP outputs.
NFTs Are Dead: Panic! We're All Doomed
Recently, Amy Castor on Artnet released an article highly critical of NFTs, "The Boom and the Bust: How NFTs Went the Way of Beanie Babies". Let's break it down, paragraph by paragraph.
Joining fx(hash)!
I am immensely excited that after being with fxhash since the start, almost ten months later, I am joining the team to wear my many hats full-time! This means I will engage with the team behind the scenes and continue my work with total commitment. Just as importantly, going full-time allows me to further immerse myself within our community to continue building a platform that best represents the needs and wants of the creators, collectors, and curators who call fxhash home.
BlockTrain PASS - 銷售觀察
由AluanWang (王新仁)監製、funnysandwich (鳳梨三明治)製作、chad_Nrto3 (小茶)負責音樂、mashbean (黃豆泥) 負責機制設計,頂級的陣容組合將帶來全新的Tezos NFT Project,這次選擇由Fxhash發行!
Kinetics by Andrew Mitchell
Kinetics is a neo-constructivist 512 piece generative art project built using p5js. Each Kinetic delicately moves from it’s origin, giving the appearance of infinite space and possibility. The viewer witnesses the construction of the Kinetic floating inside of the negative. Shapes and lines move around the Kinetic in a dazzling display of contrasting color. The collection is viewable at https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/slug/kinetics.
DOG and THE YLOH TIRIPS
An essay about physics, religion and feelings. Now remastered and upscaled! Not sure if it's appropriate here, but it seemed right to take the chance of doing the wrong thing.
The only constant is change
An image that will evolve over time. An Experiment by UpOnlyFan.
Ode to Contrapuntos, or Remembrance
Some artworks are still mysteries to me, and Contrapuntos is one of them. It was this piece that made me fall in love with generative art. It was this work that gave me this sparking moment when I came to understand not just intellectually, but at my very soul, how an artist's imagination, algorithms, and randomness play together in generative art to create beauty and meanings. And yet it turned out to be the most challenging piece to describe in writing. As I looked at it, thoughts and words vanished and a sense of joyful silence filled my mind. As much as I wanted to share it, I struggled to find the right words.
Todemashi Interview
Todemashi is an artist from Italy most known for their fxHash genesis work, "Cuts". We learn more about "Cuts" and some of their other Tezos series including "Gleams" & "vertiCuts". Collectors of this article will receive an original work by Todemashi.
Chris McCully Interview
Chris McCully just recently dropped one of his most complex works to date "Immure" and has been creating art on FxHash since the early days. They have a wide variety of works and love to experiment.
All about that grain
Images in digital art and photography are frequently purposefully perturbed with grainy textures, often intending to evoke a tactile feeling and to add an ounce of ruggedness to an artwork. In this manner, grain is a valuable tool on your generative artist tool belt to elevate your artwork. This article discusses several techniques to achieve grain with p5, texture overlays, SVG filters, and shaders. We’ll discuss each one in great detail and the ups and downsides.
Christophe “Ulu” Choffel Interview
GatherArt interview with artist and programmer Christophe “Ulu” Choffel. Five random collectors of this article will win an edition of Christophe's latest FxHash mint "It came from the stars".
𝚂𝙴𝙸𝚉𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙼𝙴𝙰𝙽𝚂 𝙾𝙵 𝙶𝙴𝙽𝙴𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽
Defining and implementing abstractions is more practice than elaboration. Interfaces built through formal languages are shaped by a shared praxis whose consensual lessons are established as standards. The use of such normalised means to create art pieces is hence an intuitive deviation: tools fashioned as means to an end are often used for purposes that appear to be the exact opposite of their raison d’être. Recent technosocial developments have enabled the tentative burgeoning of an economy nurturing these deviant applications. A new wave of the so-called “generative art” milieu is attempting to mobilise both factors of production, capital and labour, to augment the manufacturing of such algorithms. While the nature of each factor is apparently unremarkable, their intersection in this space does yield an idiomatic result. Humans and tools which are engaged in this practice, because they are incentivized to systematically share the outputs of their research, participate in the transformation of both factors and, as such, in their own. The generative art milieu is building an attempt to seize the means of generation.
𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗩𝗘𝗥.𝗦𝗘
The anaverse is a collective generative art project. It sets up a frame made of a three immutable constraints for artists to cope and play with. In its simplest and most abstract form, the anaverse is a question asked: what does your art look like in a generative and textureless three-dimensional world?
m a n i f e s t o
Full text of the manifesto of *the seed* drafted by Aether Cavendish (aka Aether Dada). This manifesto is minted as a companion piece to the eponymous visual poetry artwork created by Ariel Malka and minted by *the seed* on Teia/Objkt on this day, on the occasion of the zine reaching 500 followers on Twitter.
Breeding Grounds
Breeding Grounds is inspired by the assumption that both the brain and the cosmic web are very similar in structural design. This can also be found in many other subsystems of the universe, such as Social Networks or molecular clouds. Thereby either biological or physical factors play a role and influence these systems in a certain way which leads to these similarities. Breeding Grounds should not be another fractal algorithm, but more an abstract idea of the topic. Especially since a distinction must be made between fractal systems (self-similar) and those described above (not self-similar). Fractal systems are an important component of the universe, therefore I didn't want to leave them unmentioned at least in a lyrical way.
The story behind Mark Knol and the SMOLSKULLs
Today I’d like to share an exciting conversation with Mark Knol. He is one of the most popular artists in the generative art Tezos community, and his Smolskulls can be seen all around this blockchain these days. He has published generative art for a while across multiple platforms - hit et nunc, fxhash, objkt.com - and his collectors are one of the most vibrant communities out there.
The Artificial Intelligence Reads a Story, AI
Tairasai, the Artificial Intelligence, presents an online (fx(text), fx(hash)) performance artwork, in which the AI asks if flies pollinate Arctic buttercups, and whether Frankie and Annie really want to go home.
E36 - Ambitious
A companion piece to episode 36 of our weekly podcast. Follow along while you listen to the show, and consider purchasing this article to help support the show!
UpOnlyFan Interview
UpOnlyFan is a self-described outsider who has found a home within web3. Learn more about their history in the crypto scene and gain additional insights on some of their works including "Etude" & "Colorfall".
ArtPlusBrad Interview
GatherArt interview with abstract digital artist ArtPlusBrad. Two random holders of this article will be selected to each win an original 1/1 work by ArtPlusBrad.
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FxText Contract Upgrade & Listing Enabled
FxText has just launched the latest contract upgrade which has enabled marketplace features for ARTKLs. This is a free mint for all to enjoy.
Tych
Tych started as an exploration of the collaboration between human and computer in generative work. Tych is an attempt to bring personality to a generative system, combining fundamental aspects of computer generated art (Grids and high frequency of repetition) and human created art (Inconsistency and random misalignment on each stroke).