Red Pixels from the East

Red Pixels from the East #9

Create and collect #ProgrammableArt: digital paintings and music split into "Layers" which let you affect the overall work.

Async Art

Bulbasaur 9 series on Async Art is a collaboration between Hulki Okan Tabak and Bulbasaur 9 as a father - son team. Unless extra information is given, all drawings are by B9 and editing is by HoT. 

Bulbasaur 9 is an emerging artist, YouTuber and storyteller. You can find more about him on his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRjLXhHKyBpI813vFvMiMVQ.

This series is a result of library search by the duo. Some of the works were previously minted and burned afterwards. Some of them are minted for the first time. The series runs through 7 sets of 4 artworks, 1 HoT influenced special collaboration and 1 set titled Falling into the Tree. 

Due to the programmable nature of Async Art's canvas which enables multiple artworks to coalesce into one, this platform was chosen for minting.  

Early Works VI consists of:
Forest Elevator
Having A Lotta Fun
Luigi and the Godbaby
Two Business Dudes

B9 Early Works VI

Day begins with Fluid Prophecy where the dancer is enjoying a solo spot under the spotlights. Daylight follows Together under the Spotlights where two lead dancers are in a duet of colorful lights.

Night commences with Pull which is taken from the third act and the protagonist is being wound up metaphorically and physically. Rest of the night is the disturbing image of To Break Free with scant hope of escape for the leading woman of the third act.

Photography by Hulki Okan Tabak from 2019. Photoshoot from dress rehearsals of a dance project about three women and the hardships they endured. Edited various times with final edit on June 2021 to be minted on Async Art.

This has been a very intense photoshoot and gorgeous performance by the whole group. Further chapters in the series may be released depending on collector interest.

Dance: To Break Free

"Pity the poor proud dancer who can give
Death to her ease, so that the dance may live,"

-from Dancer: Four Poems by Paul Engle (3-1)

Alone in a Crowd

Bulbasaur 9 series on Async Art is a collaboration between Hulki Okan Tabak and Bulbasaur 9 as a father - son team. Unless extra information is given, all drawings are by B9 and editing is by HoT. 

Bulbasaur 9 is an emerging artist, YouTuber and storyteller. You can find more about him on his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRjLXhHKyBpI813vFvMiMVQ.

This series is a result of library search by the duo. Some of the works were previously minted and burned afterwards. Some of them are minted for the first time. The series runs through 7 sets of 4 artworks, 1 HoT influenced special collaboration and 1 set titled Falling into the Tree. 

Due to the programmable nature of Async Art's canvas which enables multiple artworks to coalesce into one, this platform was chosen for minting.  

Early Works V consists of:
All Along the Admin Room
Coconut Boy
Ready to Fight
Search and Sleep

B9 Early Works V

"The dancer quarrels with solid air,
For that one foot of surface where she stood,"

-from Dancer: Four Poems by Paul Engle (1-1)

Colorful Stage Lights

Humankind seeks affection. I have wondered many a time whether it is to love or to be loved that matters. There is a profound rabbit hole on that topic but Cuddle is more basic, more innocent, gullible even, modestly carnal, mostly emotional.

Cuddle's front layer is an abstraction from a segment of a project. That piece has been re-created in my imaginary depiction of two people hugging, holding, cuddling each other in the most basic confines of line-art abstraction.

Behind the Cuddle runs a gamut of photographs for different times of the day as Async Art's engine throttles through the incessant 24 hour interval of our lives. Sunrise hits with a garden shot of flowers in the morning from 2020. Day invigorated with an image from 25 years ago of a sun casting shadows through shutters. Sunset is a stylization of a female figure from a 1990 photograph that went through an extensive 2021 Photoshop session. Night uses a public domain photo in a subtle abstract yet attractive manner.

All through the cuddle remains the constant. Our need to express and to be heard and to be cared and to care. For most of the healthy ones at least..

Idea and execution and minting and the rest by HoT, sometime during the summer of 2021 on Aysnc Art as a Day/Night template project.

Cuddle

A sense of completion, aftermath, afterwards, aftertaste, the moment of subconscious recognition..

Self reported emotions from a University of California, Berkeley study. Commentary by the artist.

Bottom left of the 9 x 9 grid.

Calmness

A state of perpetual motion, not being able to sit down or concentrate, aware yet morphed, there but somewhere, not content yet, but kind of happy, at least in this case..

Self reported emotions from a University of California, Berkeley study. Commentary by the artist.

Middle right of the 9 x 9 grid.

Excitement

Have you ever felt that lonely when even your thoughts left you for real and you wondered if they would ever come back and when they did if they did you think they did and how did you if you could not think but lets say that it was so Did You actually think they were still yours?

A Penny for Your Thoughts minted June 2021 on Async Art by Hulki Okan Tabak

A Penny for Your Thoughts

"Pity the poor furred cat
Who needs four feet to do"

-from Dancer: Four Poems by Paul Engle (2-1)

Come to Us

Bulbasaur 9 series on Async Art is a collaboration between Hulki Okan Tabak and Bulbasaur 9 as a father - son team. Unless extra information is given, all drawings are by B9 and editing is by HoT. 

Bulbasaur 9 is an emerging artist, YouTuber and storyteller. You can find more about him on his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRjLXhHKyBpI813vFvMiMVQ.

This series is a result of library search by the duo. Some of the works were previously minted and burned afterwards. Some of them are minted for the first time. The series runs through 7 sets of 4 artworks, 1 HoT influenced special collaboration and 1 set titled Falling into the Tree. 

Due to the programmable nature of Async Art's canvas which enables multiple artworks to coalesce into one, this platform was chosen for minting.  

Early Works VII consists of:
Animation Time New Year Upgrade
Lipservice
Monkey in the Middle
Stacked Up

B9 Early Works VII

The moment of unstoppable emotion or want. Prelude to action. No wisdom required. Yet wisdom helps..

Self reported emotions from a University of California, Berkeley study. Commentary by the artist.

Middle left of the 9 x 9 grid.

Desire

"Who makes, with pain to every body part,
From perfect will power her imperfect art."

-from Dancer: Four Poems by Paul Engle (3-2)

Incommunicado

Bulbasaur 9 series on Async Art is a collaboration between Hulki Okan Tabak and Bulbasaur 9 as a father - son team. Unless extra information is given, all drawings are by B9 and editing is by HoT. 

Bulbasaur 9 is an emerging artist, YouTuber and storyteller. You can find more about him on his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRjLXhHKyBpI813vFvMiMVQ.

This series is a result of library search by the duo. Some of the works were previously minted and burned afterwards. Some of them are minted for the first time. The series runs through 7 sets of 4 artworks, 1 HoT influenced special collaboration and 1 set titled Falling into the Tree. 

Due to the programmable nature of Async Art's canvas which enables multiple artworks to coalesce into one, this platform was chosen for minting.  

Falling into the Tree consists of:
Falling into the Tree
Right in the Tree

Falling in to the Tree

Magic Man lived a long time ago in a place far far away.

Magic Man wore a hat that housed his powers. Never took it off for fear of losing it.

When he got too old to perform magic, Magic Man left his home in search of an apprentice.

During his travels, Magic Man encountered a world unknown to him. He loved and loathed what he saw. He desired and cried incessantly. His emotions were mixed, his magic wat patchy, his hat was ragged.

I've met him during his travels. It was by the inn on the High Steppes that he was so tired that he fell asleep on foot when he stumbled in. I helped the keep carry him to a room that was to be his last. 

The stories I heard from him changed my life. The brief encounter was so brief and deep at the same time that I lack words to describe it. His last words I shall take to my grave. His wishes are my wishes now. His travels were not in vain.

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Magic Man on the Loose
by Hulki Okan Tabak

Photography by Hulki Okan Tabak, January - February 2020
Digital Painting variations and Photoshop editing by Hulki Okan Tabak, January - September 2021
Concept and the story by Hulki Okan Tabak, September 2021

Magic Man on the Loose

"Pity the poor rain that only falls
Down from the cloud-caressing sky, then crawls"

-from Dancer: Four Poems by Paul Engle (4-1)

After the Struggle

Do Not Step Into Your Place
by Hulki Okan Tabak
minted 2021 on Async Art

24 artworks based on World War I propaganda posters including a poster for the Third United States Official War Picture called Under Four Flags.  

One hidden surprise image embedded alongside for thinking outside the box.

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The Great War, history, politics, art, posters and propaganda are topics of interest for me. It was kind of natural that I wanted to incorporate that in my cryptoart creations. The desire led to a selection of public domain pieces out of copyright from the Library of Congress archives. I created all sorts of derivative pacifist and tongue-in-cheek works. So far I have only minted a handful on KnownOrigin. Starting September 2021, I will mint a more comprehensive set on Async Art and KO depending on the nature of the final artwork. The artwork presented here is part of that World War I Posters set.