The Weekly Roundup #64
Looking at upcoming projects minting this week.
Hello and welcome to The Culture Project. There is a lot going on in my life right now. The kids are about to go back to school and work has been crazy for the same reason. It’s going to be a very busy next couple of weeks. I am looking into minting the first Brush Stroke V0’s as a curated set. I’ll be posting about the first ones soon and talking about it more. We only have two new projects to look at today. With that said there are some older works I thought we would highlight from one of these artists. The other is releasing a very unique project that is a bit different from the normal generative art we see.
Lets dive in.
Presented by Casey REAS on Feral File
Ongoing Mint - 192 of 512 Minted - Mint Ends in 2 Days.
Price: 0.065 ETH
CRAWL is a very cool and unique project. As a kid I loved dinosaurs and archeology as I’m sure a lot of kids did. I collected fossils and even went to some fossil sites in Colorado to try and find some in slate rock. We were able to find small insects and leaves. As this project reveals the canvas you will see things like trilobites, ammonites, leaves, trees, and more. As if you were finding things at a dig site. Others can be just random patterns, colors, and textures. This project is aptly named as you watch it crawl across the canvas as it creates the art. You can take over and move around and explore the massive work during it’s creation. You can also combine multiple pieces you mint into one larger connected piece. This was fun to explore some of the minted works.
A video of one of them in action.
CRAWL is a series of 512 unique artworks, each generated from a Python-code system authored by Travess Smalley. Each artwork is a “level” to be explored, and includes different patterns, colors, and textures. The core of each artwork is a map image, but the artwork is also the way the image is revealed to the viewer through Smalley’s custom-built explorer software. Viewers can sit back and watch the software perform itself, or they can navigate directly with a keyboard. While exploring, different colors within the image trigger different events. Each level has a door icon, as well as other features to discover — all of which reveal new ways to explore.
Each CRAWL artwork is one “level.” If you collect multiple CRAWL artworks, they can be merged into a new artwork that contains all the levels in your collection. For instance, if 24 individual levels are collected, those artworks can be combined into a unique 1/1 software artwork featuring all 24 levels, and the original single-layer artworks are burned. After a merge, icons embedded into each level map enable the collector to move between levels.
Conversations Mint Pass - Conversations - by pxlshrd
Mints on Wednesday - 50 pieces in the set.
Price: Details of the sale will be added shortly.
I’m a long time fan of pxlshrd’s work. I’ve especially enjoyed his painterly style he has developed over time. He has released some amazing projects on fx(hash) over the years. A few of them have this wonderful abstract painter like style to them. I love how it’s developed over time. Excited to see more outputs from Conversations as we get closer to the mint date. I wanted to look at a few of these older projects to showcase this style before looking at his newest work.
I feel like Pâtisserie was one of his first projects that started to delve into this style.
Limbic Vortex may be one of my favorite projects by him. The output range is very impressive. Some of these kind of have the painterly style, but not all of them. I was hesitant to add this one, but I like it that much. I wanted to keep it in the article and share it.
Rückkopplung may be the more well known of these. There was a lot of hype on this project when it was released and for good reason. It’s a gorgeous project. Conversations resembles this one a lot more than the others.
Now to look at Conversations and the inspiration behind it.
The forest has become my safe haven. While walking in the woods, this repetitive, mechanical action cleanses my mind and creates more lucid thoughts than musing at my desk. It’s the meditative quality of these walks, that has translated itself into an extension of my workspace, in which ideas come together and blockages dissipate. In this motion, my projects take form—to the point where wandering has become a precondition for doing work. I enjoy mixing the sounds of the forest with ambient music on my earbuds. Preferably without field recordings to avoid artifice and overlap. Sometimes a tune captures a moment perfectly and the universe seems to align; it raises the experience to create this weird state of overwhelmed consciousness as if opening a window to a higher, dream-like plane of existence.
One of the describing moments, and which is the emotional foundation for Conversations, is when my eyes are drawn to the sky peeking through the distant canopy right above the forest floor. This view, combined with the music, creates a mystic, uncanny feeling—a type of future nostalgia, a longing for something indefinable yet familiar. It seems as far off as the foliaged horizon, always visible and forever out of reach. Though part of me recognizes the source of this feeling, I try not to surpass it. I’m progressing towards acceptance, yet I wonder if this feeling has put down roots too deep to ever fully remove.
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