Friendship Bracelets by Alexis Andr

Since founding Art Blocks in 2020, artist Erick Calderon (a.k.a. Snowfro) has been intrigued by the idea of representing digital artwork in the physical world in the form of an ephemeral physical object with meaning, but with no inherent value. 

Donald Judd has long been an inspiration for Art Blocks. One aspect we admire most about Judds artistic practice is the elegance of design he effortlessly paired with the accessibility of materials that could be found at a hardware store. With Judd as inspiration, we hatched a plan to create a unique generative art friendship bracelet that includes instructions to make, in minutes, a simple bracelet using a few dollars worth of embroidery floss. Donald Judd believed that what surrounds us in our day-to-day life is already so beautiful, and that ultimately the experience of creating art is as important as owning it.

Erick was incredibly excited to collaborate with renowned artist Alexis Andr (a.k.a. MacTuitui) to bring generative art and ephemeral physical objects together in the form of friendship bracelets. Conceptualized by Erick and aesthetically and programmatically designed by Alexis, this project pairs creative coding with a beautiful spectrum of embroidery floss colors. The project was a true team effort, as each member of the Art Blocks team designed and named their own color palette!

The project is a token of our appreciation to the creators, makers, builders, and collectors who have all contributed to making the Art Blocks community what it is today. Participating in this project is a signal, both online and IRL, that youre a participant in this evolution of art + community. You are pushing the best ideas forward. You are the reason all of these imaginative projects come to life. Our community is what makes all of this possible. So, to say it plainly, we appreciate you, and we hope that youll accept this bracelet as a token of our special friendship!

The owner of any wallet with an Art Blocks piece at the time of snapshot (October 26, 2022, at 3pm US Central time) is eligible to claim two mints from this special generative art project. We would love to see you keep one bracelet and share your love for generative art by gifting your second mint! These mints are free to claim (you pay only the gas) and exist on L1 Ethereum. Please note that we may in the future release additional modified iterations of the Friendship Bracelets project, ideally on an L2 scaling solution, that may substantially increase the total supply of tokens related to the project, with the intent of being a more accessible entry point to a larger audience. But this version is what we"re here to celebrate today, and this gift is for you in gratitude for your support along the way. Please enjoy this token of our friendship and explore the wonderful artwork created by Alexis Andr. Then, let"s all make bracelets together! 

Warmly,
Alexis + Erick + the Art Blocks team



The claim window expires on January 10, 2023, at noon US Central time.

Click into the Display Notes for information about making your bracelet.

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Uniswap V3 Positions NFT-V1

This NFT represents a liquidity position in a Uniswap V3 TURBO-WETH pool. The owner of this NFT can modify or redeem the position.

Pool Address: 0x7baece5d47f1bc5e1953fbe0e9931d54dab6d810
TURBO Address: 0xa35923162c49cf95e6bf26623385eb431ad920d3
WETH Address: 0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead9083c756cc2
Fee Tier: 1%
Token ID: 500487

 DISCLAIMER: Due diligence is imperative when assessing this NFT. Make sure token addresses match the expected tokens, as token symbols may be imitated.

Uniswap - 1% - TURBO/WETH - 1722500<>6984600

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Post Photographic Perspectives is Fellowship's inaugural group show celebrating a new wave of innovation in photography.

As an artist, I have always been drawn to the power of visual storytelling. Through my work, I aim to create images that challenge the viewer's perceptions and encourage them to think deeply about the world around them. I have a diverse background in traditional mediums, such as Photography, 3D and graphic design. Still, when I discovered the world of AI art, I felt liberated from these mediums' constraints. 

In The Great Freeze, I am creating an imaginary event where everything got covered in snow. The collection explores how a photography documentation of this event around the world could look like. My goal is to harness the power of AI to tell stories that inspire, provoke, and engage the viewer on a deep level. 

The Great Freeze by Antti Karppinen

As an artist, I have always been drawn to the power of visual storytelling. Through my work, I aim to create images that challenge the viewer"s perceptions and encourage them to think deeply about the world around them. I have a diverse background in traditional mediums, such as Photography, 3D and graphic design. Still, when I discovered the world of AI art, I felt liberated from these mediums" constraints. In The Great Freeze, I am creating an imaginary event where everything got covered in snow. The collection explores how a photography documentation of this event around the world could look like. My goal is to harness the power of AI to tell stories that inspire, provoke, and engage the viewer on a deep level. With AI, I can create images that push the boundaries of what is possible, exploring new concepts and compositions that would be impossible to achieve through traditional means.



 Year: 2023

Edition: NFT 1 of 1

Copyright:  2023 Antti Karppinen. All Rights Reserved.

License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Arctic Procedure

Post Photographic Perspectives is Fellowship's inaugural group show celebrating a new wave of innovation in photography.

In a world that ceases to exist, every universal being coincides in a peculiar harmony. Their individual tales and perceptions are woven together in a mysterious fabric of connections, unearthing a realm too vast to comprehend. The bonds between its inhabitants and their
stories forever remain etched in time and are stronger than any tangible fabric of reality.

Surreal and ethereal depictions of this place offer stolen moments of insight. It is where the impossible becomes a daily occurrence, and a veil of uncertainty is lifted to reveal a glimpse of the extraordinary. This alternate realm of existence is a testament to the power of the human
spirit, the limitless potential of the mind, and the ever-changing nature of the universe.

Mindscape by Katie Morris

"In a world that ceases to exist, every universal being coincides in a peculiar harmony. Their individual tales and perceptions are woven together in a mysterious fabric of connections, unearthing a realm too vast to comprehend. The bonds between its inhabitants and their stories forever remain etched in time and are stronger than any tangible fabric of reality. 
Surreal and ethereal depictions of this place offer stolen moments of insight. It is where the impossible becomes a daily occurrence, and a veil of uncertainty is lifted to reveal a glimpse of the extraordinary. This alternate realm of existence is a testament to the power of the human spirit, the limitless potential of the mind, and the ever-changing nature of the universe."



 Year: 2023

Edition: NFT 1 of 1

Copyright:  2023 Katie Morris. All Rights Reserved.

License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Weekly artist drop auctions live on OpenSea from 1.0 to 0.1 .
Blind Mint is also still live at 0.08  on https://twt.obscura.io.

138 world-class, established and emerging photographers from 5 continents brought together by Obscura to take the 1st global visual timestamp of the 21st century. 13,800 native 1/1 NFT photographs of cities, landscapes, communities, people, events and conceptual images that will tell our story for centuries to come, taken Mar-Apr 2022.

An ode to the 1955 exhibition The Family of Man by legendary curator Edward Steichen for the MoMA, The World Today uses the blockchain to create a permanent record of our world, rich in metadata connections that further develop and cross-reference the stories within, resulting in a complex net of properties and rarities including 138 curated grails, 1 from each artist.

TWT expanded the frontier of possibilities for photography in the web3 era, and is responsible for onboarding dozens world-class photographers to NFTs.

The World Today

We are at an inflection point. I know the Metaverse is coming, I feel it, but I cant see it yet. 

The TWT10K project has given me a chance to explore this new dimension. This collection is an expression of my attempt to migrate my Web2 practice into Web3, and try to understand how photography can play a critical part in taking what is best from one reality and seeding it into another.

Flora of Argleton Lane is a collection of images of nature that I have captured in Google Street View over many years of virtual travel (instagram.com/streetview.portraits), that I have now reimagined for the metaverse using AI. The focus on nature was inspired by my sense that the Metaverse is something that is emerging organically, it reminds me of a Brian Eno quote where he says,  "composers are becoming more like gardeners than architects".  Flora of Argleton Lane is an experiment in fusing the mindset of a gardener with the sensibilities of a  photographer.

Argleton Lane is the name of the corner of the metaverse I discovered during lockdown (opensea.io/collection/homes-of-argleton-lane). Not for the first time, my anxiety disorder manifested itself as a desire to virtually escape to new places, this time by collaborating with an AI trained on my Street View images. The process has revealed a metaverse ready, alternate reality, that looks a bit like here, but isn"t.

The AI does not simply transform a photograph, it uses a photograph and written words as the seeds to grow an entirely new image. It has been exciting to explore how to creatively collaborate with an AI to craft the emotional effect of my output. I have spent most of my time exploring how to amplify the nature of what I loved about the accidental essence of the moments I discovered in Street View, and how those moments resonated with my feelings of awe, harmony and isolation.

I have set the metadata for this image to its seed location in the real world, its fruit is very much located on "Argleton Lane".






Flora of Argelton Lane 085

We are at an inflection point. I know the Metaverse is coming, I feel it, but I cant see it yet. 

The TWT10K project has given me a chance to explore this new dimension. This collection is an expression of my attempt to migrate my Web2 practice into Web3, and try to understand how photography can play a critical part in taking what is best from one reality and seeding it into another.

Flora of Argleton Lane is a collection of images of nature that I have captured in Google Street View over many years of virtual travel (instagram.com/streetview.portraits), that I have now reimagined for the metaverse using AI. The focus on nature was inspired by my sense that the Metaverse is something that is emerging organically, it reminds me of a Brian Eno quote where he says,  "composers are becoming more like gardeners than architects".  Flora of Argleton Lane is an experiment in fusing the mindset of a gardener with the sensibilities of a  photographer.

Argleton Lane is the name of the corner of the metaverse I discovered during lockdown (opensea.io/collection/homes-of-argleton-lane). Not for the first time, my anxiety disorder manifested itself as a desire to virtually escape to new places, this time by collaborating with an AI trained on my Street View images. The process has revealed a metaverse ready, alternate reality, that looks a bit like here, but isn't.

The AI does not simply transform a photograph, it uses a photograph and written words as the seeds to grow an entirely new image. It has been exciting to explore how to creatively collaborate with an AI to craft the emotional effect of my output. I have spent most of my time exploring how to amplify the nature of what I loved about the accidental essence of the moments I discovered in Street View, and how those moments resonated with my feelings of awe, harmony and isolation.

I have set the metadata for this image to its seed location in the real world, its fruit is very much located on "Argleton Lane".

Flora of Argelton Lane 036

We are at an inflection point. I know the Metaverse is coming, I feel it, but I cant see it yet. 

The TWT10K project has given me a chance to explore this new dimension. This collection is an expression of my attempt to migrate my Web2 practice into Web3, and try to understand how photography can play a critical part in taking what is best from one reality and seeding it into another.

Flora of Argleton Lane is a collection of images of nature that I have captured in Google Street View over many years of virtual travel (instagram.com/streetview.portraits), that I have now reimagined for the metaverse using AI. The focus on nature was inspired by my sense that the Metaverse is something that is emerging organically, it reminds me of a Brian Eno quote where he says,  "composers are becoming more like gardeners than architects".  Flora of Argleton Lane is an experiment in fusing the mindset of a gardener with the sensibilities of a  photographer.

Argleton Lane is the name of the corner of the metaverse I discovered during lockdown (opensea.io/collection/homes-of-argleton-lane). Not for the first time, my anxiety disorder manifested itself as a desire to virtually escape to new places, this time by collaborating with an AI trained on my Street View images. The process has revealed a metaverse ready, alternate reality, that looks a bit like here, but isn"t.

The AI does not simply transform a photograph, it uses a photograph and written words as the seeds to grow an entirely new image. It has been exciting to explore how to creatively collaborate with an AI to craft the emotional effect of my output. I have spent most of my time exploring how to amplify the nature of what I loved about the accidental essence of the moments I discovered in Street View, and how those moments resonated with my feelings of awe, harmony and isolation.

I have set the metadata for this image to its seed location in the real world, its fruit is very much located on "Argleton Lane".