Hello and welcome to The Culture Project. I’m going to talk about something I have been working on in the background for a little while. This is specific to The Culture Project community and recognizing active members. There are people within the community that will receive a new role in discord. I have gone through all the back logs and looked into who has reacted or participated in discord since I have taken over. I will continue to do this from this day forward. I appreciate everyone that is still here or who has joined us recently. But there are certain people that have actively participated in the community and deserve something for that. There will be giveaways that only they can participate in. I will continue to do giveaways to Brush Strokes holders like I have been. But bigger pieces that are worth more will go to them. I have fourteen people that will get the role right away and I have made a Deca Art Etch that has their names in it. I’ll talk more about that down below. Ultimately this is to encourage engagement in chat or reactions to announcements; participation. There were a few people that were super close to making the list, but I had to have a cut off point I stuck to. Please keep engaging and people will be added to the group as they stay active.
Last month we had an artist named Phenomena join our community. When I first met them I didn’t put the name to the art they had released. They have an Art Blocks project that I am very familiar with, but have never collected called Apex. It’s a generative landscape art project.
Then there is the fxhash project Rococo that we recently collected for our community wallet. I really love the uniqueness of this series. Some of them remind me of alien terrains and others of psychedelic flowers.
They had a recent announcement about their next release that will be on Art Blocks. It’s called longing and it will have an interactive aspect to it. It’s lunar and solar cycles will sync with your time. If you own two pieces from Apex or three from Rococo you can get an allow list spot for a Longing mint on Art Blocks. Watch the gif below to see the cycle in action and check outputs from the project on the Sansa page.
After seeing all the outputs I had to get us an AL spot. Bought two more Rococos off the floor for 60 Tezos each. The floor has gone crazy since then announcement, getting up to 240 Tezos. After they have the snapshot for Longing we will have a giveaway for one of these pieces.
Release info below on Longing from the creator Phenomena. Check out the amazing video they made to go a long with it.
That brings us to the Deca Art Etch pieces I have created out of Brush Strokes. I love Deca Art and all the things they come up with. They constantly deliver fun and innovative ways to bring people together with generative art.
Here is a really long thread explaining everything about the Etch. The way it works, the artist behind it, and reasons why you may use it. You should take the time to read it. I’ll post some of the more important info below and some videos walking through the creation process.
So I create and mint the Etch and people can mint a Lift of the Etch. They look to be slightly different with each mint. I love this, it’s a very interesting way for someone to donate to a community or cause. They get a piece of art out of it that connects them to it in some way. And the creator gets 70% of the lift mint and 100% of the donation.
Etch #2203 created w/ Brush Stroke 744
Here is a screen grab with the name on it. When you right click save on the full screen display on their site it gives just the art without the words. Even though the words are showing.
Here is the last one I made that is dedicated to the new discord role, Cultured. I’ll have a few videos below to show the creation process. If anyone is interested in minting one, click the link below the image and click the Lift link in the top right corner of the site. Donations aren’t necessary, but would help to keep our community running.
Etch #2292 created w/ Brush Stroke 58
A big thank you to the fourteen members and everyone else that is around.
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A walk through video showing how to mint an Etch. Click on one of these two links to start an Etch mint experience. The Culture Project Etch & Cultured Token Etch.
Here is a video walk through I created showing the creation of an Etch.
Deca Art is constantly updating and improving the things they create. One last tweet below to show some of the recent updates. They have a really cool ecosystem worth exploring and getting involved in.
I will have an Artist Spotlight out soon. I was working on one when I started this article and have a few prepped to go. Thanks again to everyone that reads.
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