Valley Girls, a collection of serial 1/1s, is an exploration of the Uncanny Valley through AI-generated portraits. 

The Valley is a reference to the Uncanny Valley, a term used to describe the phenomenon where something that is almost, but not quite, human-like in appearance or behavior can cause a feeling of unease or revulsion in people. This concept was first proposed by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970. It is often used to describe the potential negative reactions to highly realistic humanoid robots or digital avatars that are close to, but not quite, human-like. 


In an attempt to bridge art and NFTs, the portraits feature traits based on popular collections from across  the Web3 universe. These traits dissolve into the portraits and will be instantly recognizable to those in the know.

Valley Girls by ricky

Valley Girls is a collection of AI-generated portraits that explores the Uncanny Valley, a concept that describes the point where something that is almost, but not quite, human-like in appearance or behavior can cause a feeling of unease or revulsion.

The collection comprises serial 1/1s and is heavily influenced by the NFT movement, which has sparked a renaissance in digital art. It draws inspiration from popular PFP projects, such as the legendary CryptoPunks, featuring some of their most identifiable traits.

Portraits serve as a useful mechanism for evaluating AI-generated photography, and Valley Girls effectively harnesses this approach. Each portrait is a unique work of art that captures intricate details, exploring the subtle nuances that define human identity.

Paloma

Synthia

Onitama is a collection of 3,333 hand-drawn little monsters. Our mission is to build the community-driven NFTs with love and energy from the all aspect of life. Each Onitama NFT is designed to be unique, and will grand your access to future releases and gain entry to the Onitama world and the real-life events. Onitamas holders will also benefit from our exclusive on-chain and physical drops on a regular basis. 

You are invited to Onitama town. Please be careful these little naughty monsters !

Onitama

Onitama is a collection of 3,333 hand-drawn little monsters. Our mission is to build the community-driven NFTs with love and energy from the all aspect of life. Each Onitama NFT is designed to be unique, and will grand your access to future releases and gain entry to the Onitama world and the real-life events. Onitamas holders will also benefit from our exclusive on-chain and physical drops on a regular basis.

You are invited to Onitama town. Please be careful these little naughty monsters !

Onitama NFT #3329

WildWestRatz

WildWestRatz #2191

WildWestRatz #2190

WildWestRatz #2189

Bored Captainz

Mixing the classic bluechip with the upcoming bluechip for a new community. A Bored Ape took a ride on the Captainz ship and created the Bored Captains after a long voyage at sea.

Bored Captainz #1998

Bored Captainz #1997

Bored Captainz #1996

Bored Captainz #1995

Bored Captainz #1994

KUMALEON

KUMALEON #2958

hallo, here are 328 friendship situations.

Forest, No

friend #260

friend #238

friend #236

Art Blocks

**Axo is an abstraction of the human mental condition.** 

Each work has neurons. Each neuron has a nucleus at its source and fires electrical signals searching for synaptic connections. 

The signals, or in this case, pixels, act in accordance with the current mental state, which periodically enters states of stress, awareness, re-centering, reprogramming, and more.

The work explores the brains ability to change its synaptic pathways, materializing our cognitive flexibility and rigidity, inviting us to consider what barriers prohibit growth and positive change.  **Axo** is part observation of my own mental state and part research, analysis, and reflection. 

We are all a node on the societal network. The effects of our individual state ripple out impacting the network as a whole. As such, each **Axo** can be connected with and influence other works in the collection. Awareness can spread and evolve the network, or stress can cause chaos.  

**Axo** opens a dialogue on personal growth and societal change at the intersection of cognitive science, art, and technology, inviting us to envision a better existence and a harmonious network, underlining that this utopia is only a shift in perspective away. 

**Axo** is fully responsive & built using my pixel-easing algorithm. Pure javascript. 19kb.

**Interactivity**

Each Axo has a default state, though the viewer can also take control and influence its state of mind using the following keys:

"a" => awareness
Toggles awareness

"f" => freak out
Toggles a freak out.

"p" => stuck in past
Toggles being stuck in the past. May not do much while in awareness.

"c" => centered
Toggles centering the state of mind.

"d" => disabled fate
Disabled fate disables any auto-state changes, so the state of mind will only change with interaction.

"w" => willed experience
Axo can be curated by the viewer and replayed later. By pressing W,  all interactions up to that point will be collected and the work will reload with a new link that can be saved and replayed at any time. 

"0-9" => rigid pathways at specified reprogramming

Axos current state can be preserved at any of the first ten states of mind. If a viewer were to press 8, Axo would flow through the first seven changes, then stop at the 8th state change. 

"z" => scale up
"x" => scale down

Scale up/down to view in more detail, improve performance, or just gain a different perspective.

"s" => save a still

Each Axo can be curated using the keyboard, query string, and/or programmatically posting messages from a host page.

Axo is an art project by S. Ryan O"Connor, aka jiwa.