The Weekly Roundup #100
Looking at digital art projects and releases.
Hello and welcome to The Culture Project. Happy Easter to those who celebrate! It’s been a busy weekend here. Spent some time with family today and ate a great meal. The kids hunted for easter eggs and we shared our favorite candies. We hit a pretty cool milestone today with issue #100. Happy to still be at this as I love to write. Thank you to all that have stayed for the journey.
We have two new generative art projects to check out. One from a newer artist dropping their first project on Art Blocks. The other from William Mapan whom is a very well known name in our space. He has released some amazing art over the years.
Lets dive in.
Rodeo mints of the week.
Rodeo Club switched over to USD instead of ETH recently. I think they are trying to make it easier to onboard new members. You can collect 25 pieces for under $7, which still amazes me. There is never a shortage of cool stuff to collect there. I really feel it has art for everyone’s tastes.
WARP // WINTER by Stranger in the Q
Morning Fire, Part 4 by Matt Perkins
White Flower Field, Part 4 by Matt Perkins
drive thru social club 🥤 011 by grant spanier
Presented on Art Blocks
Mints on Monday - 256 pieces in the set.
Price: 0.0150 ETH
I love the look and style of these outputs. This description from below really drives it home for me. To find beauty in something you might see everyday or something you may overlook. Finding textures in a wall or the colors from an oil spill on the ground.
Sometimes, I wish I could see things as though I had never seen them before.
The outputs represent a discovery and accentuation of what is latent in the ubiquitous. Cracks in weathered walls, the depth of colour in rusted metal, undulations on the surface of rocks, irregularities of splintered wood or the uneven discolouration of an old shirt.
Sometimes, I wish I could see things as though I had never seen them before.
SINE is a comprehensive exploration of one ostensibly simple function - sinθ: distorted, mangled, modulated, folded, blended and employed in unconventional ways to generate layers of textured formations that are not evidently organic or geometric. When agitated with feedback, the sinusoidal wave exhibits complex characteristics in a narrow-band region of interest between periodic symmetry and randomness. The algorithm persists with a tendency to approach a limit between these states for compelling features and visual tension. Non-sinusoidal embellishments are deliberately avoided for an unadulterated expression of the functions manifestations, highlighting the variety that emerges from its repetitive manipulation.
Beauty of the elementary can be inconspicuous. The outputs represent a discovery and accentuation of what is latent in the ubiquitous. Cracks in weathered walls, the depth of colour in rusted metal, undulations on the surface of rocks, irregularities of splintered wood or the uneven discolouration of an old shirt. Perhaps the yearning to be awed is served by a scrutiny of this trigonometric function, a specimen of the little things that have infinitely complex details, but are seldom appreciated.
More information: https://www.shaunaq.com/SINE
Dedicated to my friend DR, who sees magnificence in the mundane.
Presented by SOLOS Gallery on Verse
Mints on Tuesday - 640 pieces in the set.
Études Mint Pass - Requires Mint Pass
Price: $300 - $225 - $150 (Collectors only pay the lowest purchase price.)
Changes every 15 minutes.
PRESALE - April 22nd, 6pm - 6.45pm BST
Dutch auction reserved for those on the allow list (see here)
640 mint passes available - those presold & reserved for William + giveaway winner
PUBLIC SALE - April 22nd, 7pm - 8pm BST
Ranked auction with rebate
64 mint passes available
There will only be 64 of these mint passes for the public mint. The rest will be going to collectors of previous projects. I would think this will go incredibly fast. His work is loved by lots of collectors. These have such a child like nature to them, which is a style he has used before. Others being more painterly like, while these look more like scribbles with coloring pencils. You can generate as many as you like and then mint the one you want from there. Which is really cool. You can explore the algo until you find something that really speaks to you. It wasn’t hard to find several that I liked, the one below being my favorite.
Études is a collection that, much like the artist’s sketchbook, mirrors the fluidity and spontaneity of artistic evolution via hand-drawn marks. Each work memorializes the essential role of drawing in the artist's exploration—both as a process and as a tool for discovery. The series is not bound by finality; it reflects the continuous, open-ended nature of drawing itself, where nothing is ever truly complete. Études captures the essence of artistic evolution—an ongoing process that, like the drafts of old, remains unfinished, ever in flux, and constantly engaging with the world.
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