The Weekly Roundup #82
Looking at digital art projects and releases.
Hello and welcome to The Culture Project. Just got back from a camping trip with the family. Had an amazing time camping and hiking over the weekend. May have this out late tonight, but I’ll still get it done! The end of the year is right around the corner! Hope everyone has safe travels if you are going any where. Thanks for being here and reading the articles this year. It means a lot to me. We have a few banger projects to check out this week.
Lets dive in.
Pano shot from a trail we hiked in Enchanted Rock
Ended up making this a Rodeo Post if anyone wants to collect.
Presented on fx(hash)
Ongoing Mint - 158 of 360 Minted.
Price: 3.14 Tezos
I’m blown away by this one. I’m surprised that it didn’t mint out at such a low price. I ended up getting five of them. I explored this project for a good minute. It has some amazing animations to check out while the art is created. Some very unique looks and the outputs captivated me. I want to see this one minted out. I feel it really deserves it.
ION TRAP #157 - One of my mints.
Inside the ION TRAP, reality is suspended. Particles hang motionless, captured in a glowing web of energy that hums with an endless, static resonance. Time has ceased to flow, frozen in a tension where neither motion nor decay is possible. The trap's design reflects the peak of retro-futuristic ambition; crafted to transcend the very limits of nature. It stands as a testament to the brilliance — and the final misstep — of a civilization that sought to master the fabric of existence, only to unwittingly freeze their world forever.
Presented on fx(hash)
Mints on Thursday - 256 pieces in the set.
Price: 9 Tezos
I’m a long time fan of Lammetje’s work and they have been producing amazing stuff on fx(hash) for a long time now. I love the look of these, almost like strange fabric blowing in the wind. Some great play of colors fading and blending throughout the pieces.
Silk captures the elegance that mirrors the smoothness of flowing fabric. The layered textures evoke the softness of silk, while the shimmering hues radiate a delicate translucence. Utilizing alpha channels and blending modes, light and color merge seamlessly.
Presented by Ivan Zhyzhkevych on Verse
Mints on Thursday - 24 curated pieces in the set.
Price: These usually have highest bidders win w/ Rebate to lowest winning price.
These are pretty interesting. Taking written work and completely transforming it into something new. Some are a lot more obvious than others, but if you take a good look at each piece you can see the underlying text to some degree. Kind of poignant in a way.
A written language is a complex tissage of signs and symbols. A conventional system of coherent patterns with which one seeks to express meaningful actions, ideas, thoughts and feelings. What happens though when one loses the capacity to decipher these visual constructs?
My present experience of text has become increasingly fragmentary. Words become a fragile material, at times liquid and forever from my grasp, at other times brittle and disintegrating before my eyes. distraKted takes my work with language to a more radical level. In distorting, displacing and at times pulverising textual elements, the work is an attempt to express the rhapsodic patchwork of these linguistic fragments and their fragility.
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