SkeletonKing

The air was filled with anticipation as the first members of the Gold Clan strode confidently into the halls of the Skeleton King for the Great Summoning. Dressed in the finest fashion and draped in glittering gold, the regular Golden Crowns made their entrance, eliciting gasps from the crowd.


But then, just as everyone thought the grand entrance was over, another group appeared. Pirates swaggered in, gold coins clinking from their belts, and everyone's eyebrows raised in surprise. The next arrival caused even more excitement - knights in shining armor, each one bearing the unmistakable symbol of the gold clan.


The crowd was buzzing now, and as the Rastafari skeletons ambled in, seemingly carefree, their love of the sun and its golden light clear for all to see, whispers of wonder filled the room. And then, finally, the ancient Aztecs arrived, each one bearing a glittering symbol of their devotion to the eternal golden hustle.


The halls erupted in applause as the full scope of the Gold Clan's diversity and power was revealed, and all those in attendance knew they were in the presence of true royalty.

Huitzilopochtli

NFT-LOTTERY

A lottery ticket for Art Blocks #98000586

Art Blocks #98000586 ticket #31

fire

A torch, probably used to burn something...

Torch

Isoverse - Invisible Cities

Isoverse - Invisible Cities #68

Isoverse - Invisible Cities #67

Isoverse - Invisible Cities #66

The Decagon is the infinitely evolving, always unique, and eternally open membership token of the Decaverse. Designed by Kjetil Golid.

Decagon

Decagon #1290

Chank Fonts

The complete basic alphabet of "Illuminated Linocuts" font presented all in one place for easy use in copy and pasting letters to create your own words, banners and logos. This useful alphabet art is presented with a CC0 license for free and unlimited use for all purposes commercial, personal and recreational.

Illuminated Linocuts Alphabet #56/111

Illuminated Linocuts Alphabet #55/111

Illuminated Linocuts Alphabet #54/111

EmProps OpenStudio

"One Thousand Elegies" is a very-long-form AI collection. One thousand editions of variable prompt-based, raw AI paintings.

This project  both the individual pieces and the collective whole  is a personal attempt to express my pain, guilt, empathy, confusion ... and the thousand other inexpressible emotions I feel when I look helplessly at the inhumane violence taking place in the world today. It is an epic; intentionally grand in scale, diverse, complex, abstract, messy, and contradictory. 


In these works I'm channeling some of my favorite painters from all periods of art history, from Pontormo to Soutine, Sonia Delaunay to Richard Diebenkorn, El Greco to Bill Traylor, Alice Neel to Goya, from Franz Kline to Amy Sillman ... and of course there's Robert Motherwell's haunting and heroic "Elegy to the Spanish Republic" series of paintings in the mix.

But this isn't just an exercise in remixing art history, it's more about my own efforts to make new paintings that feel new and private and deeply personal to me, while using samples from these artists that I know and love as my toolkit.

This project is also a continuation of what I really commenced with my collection "Onism," where I felt that I could make all the paintings I wish I'd made but never did. Where I could start to almost conceptualize infinite possibilities  infinite possible outcomes, infinite possible selves.

And of course it's about the perplexing idea that these digital images that I've created at arm's length via AI, can feel so expressive and imbued with emotion.

I also keep coming back to this poem, "The Children's Elegy," by Muriel Rukeyser 

Yes, I have seen their eyes. In peaceful gardens
the dark flowers now are always children's eyes,
full-colored, haunted as evening under fires
showered from the air of a burning country.

Shallow-featured children under trees
look up among green shadows of the leaves.
The angel, flaming, offersin his hands
all is given and he does not change.
The child changes and takes.
All is given. He makes and changes.
The angel stands.

A flame over the tree. Night calling in the cloud.
And shadow among winds. Where does the darkness lie?
It comes out of the person, says the child.
A shadow tied and alive, trying to be.


Emil Corsillo
One Thousand Elegies
Long-Form AI via EmProps OpenStudio Beta
2304 x 3456 PNG
November 17, 2023


One Thousand Elegies #45

One Thousand Elegies #44

One Thousand Elegies #43

Digital Bath

Digital Bath #103

Entropy is a visual representation of Entropy increasing on the blockchain.

Entropy by Nahiko

Visual representation of the blockchain increasing entropy.

Absolute Zero Block #15618977

AOI Engine

/// by Snowfro is a tribute to the essence of motion and racing, distilled to its purest form. It embodies an innate drive to perpetually venture into the unknown, embrace risks, and strive towards the pinnacle of racing. Through this series, Snowfro accentuates life"s inexorable forward momentumbe it maneuvering through life"s complex twists or riding the relentless currents of time, the emphasis is on ceaseless advancement. Each unique output of /// is segmented into various motifs, each depicting different stages of a Formula One race from the anticipatory tension before the red lights go out to the exhilarating rush of the fastest moments in the race. Snowfro seeks to encapsulate the quintessence of motion in the most minimal form, while also unfolding a chromatic narrative through two distinctive color traitsthe inner color style and the border color style.

/// is a multi-dimensional ode to the essence of motion, minimalism, and the relentless forward momentum that propels not just racers, but every individual forward in the race of life.

This work was exhibited as part of Velocity Series by Oracle Red Bull Racing and Bybit. Curated by AOI.

Controls: 

Press the space bar to invert background
Press the enter key to toggle party mode
Press n to toggle noise
Press f to cross the finish line
Press o to enter outline mode
Press l to activate lonely mode
Press p to activate print view (preferred printing format is square in lonely mode)
Press s to save canvas in PNG format
Press e to save embroidery file in SVG format

/// #1577

Art Blocks

*History doesnt repeat itself, but it often rhymes. - Mark Twain*

In our day-to-day lives, its natural for us to fix a conceptual view of the people, places, and things around us in our minds. We might think, that is the tree outside my window. This is my house. Thats my friend. Im me. In fact, this type of abstraction is necessary for us to make any sort of sense of our world. But is the tree outside your window today truly the same tree as it was yesterday? Are you exactly the same person as you were yesterday? Or twenty years ago? In a sense, the abstraction is an illusion. Our physical reality is inseparable from the flow of time; everything is changing, all the time. Sometimes the changes are fast, and sometimes theyre imperceptible  but time never stops. Change never stops.

__*because unless until*__ represents this concept in art, as a generative system of systems where each output changes over time. New days present new views of the algorithm, where a variety of mathematical shapes gradually and endlessly shift, demonstrating a more local and immediate form of change. Even so, each days appearance has enough in common with the one before it to provide the output with a continuous sense of identity. With the arrival of each day, what about the art has changed -- and what remains the same?


Changing Over Time
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One of my favorite aspects of generative art is the joy of discovery when viewing a new output for the first time. I also enjoy the novelty that comes with watching a chaotic system evolve over time. But, once youve seen a particular output from a long-form generative art collection, youve seen it. My intent, with the time-based mechanics in this algorithm, is to preserve that feeling of discovery so that every viewing and every day brings something new. 

In __*because unless until*__ colors are applied differently depending on the day of the week. The detail level of the animation changes over the course of a month, providing a different visual balance between the shapes, and the textures that fill them. Each month, the animations shapes are altered. The weave of these different cycles mean that each day has its own characteristics. It would take at least seven years to see every available combination.

Some outputs come with Daily Modes tied to a specific day of the week, where colors and textures are altered in a particular way. Each output also comes with a "Fiesta Day" -- one day of the year where it shows a set of new behaviors. One day in December is designated as Glitchmas  a holiday shared across all outputs with another unique behavior. Glitchmas falls on a different day each year.


Animation
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The algorithm works by layering multiple animations, whose intersections are used to divide the canvas into regions that determine the palettes and rules for a section of the output. The rules are applied to an underlying field of cellular automata, which change state accordingly. At the core of the project is a generic framework that runs arbitrary animations in their own threads. The threading enables performant, fluid motion (I find it sensuous -- I often find myself thinking "I want to run my fingers through it.). Threads run asynchronously, which in combination with the chaotic behavior of cellular automata means that outputs evolve in a unique, non-deterministic way each time. After a few minutes, the canvas is likely to be in a state that will no-one will ever experience again.

The animations in __*because unless until*__ are a return to some of my favorite mathematical techniques from a prolific period (2010-11) when I was first beginning to make art: Mandelbrot and Julia fractals, isolines, polar inversions, spirals, regular and irregular polygons, and  of course  cellular automata. Its been a joy to revisit them, and to combine them with my more recent animated practice. As the animations progress, a variety of emergent features sometimes appear  such as cloudlike trails, regular and irregular structures, and moir.

There are dozens of cellular automaton rules in the algorithm, which can take the states of surrounding cells as input in one of over a hundred ways. Derived from these rules, there are over a thousand possible textures, and billions of ways that a cell might change depending on its rules, state, and surroundings. The states of cells in an area around each cell are used in one of 18 different ways to select from the palettes available in the output  each of which is an interpolated gradient containing hundreds of colors. The large number of possible combinations contribute to a diverse pool of possible appearances.


Help
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Press **[H]** to open a set of interactive menus providing additional information about the available time-based features and interactive controls. The Today panel provides realtime information about which detail level or special day is currently active.

For collectors wanting a more concrete experience, a Canonical mode is available that makes the animation appear as it did at unix epoch (January 1, 1970), and a Synchronous mode is available that makes animations evolve in a deterministic way (at the cost of performance). These modes are used when generating the thumbnail animations for each output.

because unless until #524

BasedAF TentPoles

TentPole 2

Web3 meets Web2. MKBHD had his entire studio turned into a Fortnite level and yeah, we built it.  So to commemorate the occasion we commissioned artist Andy Needham to bring his unique brand of visual brilliance to Marques" signature robot. 

View the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc2gAB0_U0k


That is all. Please go and share your appreciation of Andy here:

https://twitter.com/imcalledandy

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