i just realized that the last Unofficial Punks collection i made, @UnordinalPunks (a remix of a remix of a remix poking fun at @/OrdinalPunks) has been banned from OpenSea. was probably them, too. getting banned on a platform is par for the course in my network art career. a badge of honor really.
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let's just say that i'm fucking coookin this week - unofficialpunks.com
new Unofficial Punks site design 👀
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i find selective outrage to be one of the least appealing social-communication behaviors in humans. and social media algorithms reward it. i try to avoid it when i can. not perfect, but who is.
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add to this a litany of geometric code-based explorations. iterations of which i've shared here on X. but of which concentric is the only one i've put onchain (i think) that was primarily code-generated. thinking i need a separate generative art page entirely. 😵💫
over the years i've collected a series of my #aislop experiments. for example:
ai-generated proto-personas for research (2023): secondrealm.net/personas
speculative fiction co-created w/ ai: 6h05t.net
agentic creative meditation w/ OpenClaw: secondrealm.net/collection/ech0
i'm not entirely sure how to curate these and the others. but putting them into the gallery (which is largely focused on network art doesn't feel like the right place.
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Eric Rhodes retweeted
So I'm being laid off soon 🫠
Good news: I'm free in January.
Bad news: I'm free in January.
6 years making tech + AI easy to understand. Launches, short videos, and an audience of 20K on here.
Now I'm torn. Get another job, or go all in on my own thing?
(and if your team 'm listening 👀 Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, ElevenLabs, I'm looking at you lol)
Good news: I'm free in January.
Bad news: I'm free in January.
6 years making tech + AI easy to understand. Launches, short videos, and an audience of 20K on here.
Now I'm torn. Get another job, or go all in on my own thing?
(and if your team 'm listening 👀 Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, ElevenLabs, I'm looking at you lol)
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over the years i've collected a series of my #aislop experiments. for example:
ai-generated proto-personas for research (2023): secondrealm.net/personas
speculative fiction co-created w/ ai: 6h05t.net
agentic creative meditation w/ OpenClaw: secondrealm.net/collection/ech0
i'm not entirely sure how to curate these and the others. but putting them into the gallery (which is largely focused on network art doesn't feel like the right place.
ai-generated proto-personas for research (2023): secondrealm.net/personas
speculative fiction co-created w/ ai: 6h05t.net
agentic creative meditation w/ OpenClaw: secondrealm.net/collection/ech0
i'm not entirely sure how to curate these and the others. but putting them into the gallery (which is largely focused on network art doesn't feel like the right place.
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i think Eli's sentiment is right. esp the part about art being inspiring and seeing the world through new lenses.
i did bristle at the "fun" part though. not b/c it's not fun. it it sometimes. but for the most part, i make things to understand the world around me. my feelings. your feelings. the culture. and that's not always fun.
for me, there's this intrinsic drive to make sense of the world around me through art. and i can't shut off. and sometimes it gets in the way of "real life." and sometimes it aligns with it.
but fun is usually an outcome experience well after the art has been shared with the world. the process of creating and working through ideas can be excruciating sometimes. then sharing them, even more excruciating. not always, but for me it leans more than way than towards fun.
anyway, maybe art is meant to be fun for some. i'm sure it is, in fact. but for it's the primary way i process the world around me. it's emotional. it's personal. it's enriching. it's life-affirming. but fun is not a word i would use for my practice.
i did bristle at the "fun" part though. not b/c it's not fun. it it sometimes. but for the most part, i make things to understand the world around me. my feelings. your feelings. the culture. and that's not always fun.
for me, there's this intrinsic drive to make sense of the world around me through art. and i can't shut off. and sometimes it gets in the way of "real life." and sometimes it aligns with it.
but fun is usually an outcome experience well after the art has been shared with the world. the process of creating and working through ideas can be excruciating sometimes. then sharing them, even more excruciating. not always, but for me it leans more than way than towards fun.
anyway, maybe art is meant to be fun for some. i'm sure it is, in fact. but for it's the primary way i process the world around me. it's emotional. it's personal. it's enriching. it's life-affirming. but fun is not a word i would use for my practice.
Remember ...
Collecting and creating art is meant to be fun.
It's meant to inspire us to see the world through a new lens. It's meant to help us sort through the challenges of everyday life - and do so as a community.
Everything else is a distraction. 🙏
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i spent much of the last few weeks immersed in cataloging and collecting my outputs, creations, writing, involvement and artwork that i put out into this space over the last seven years. i feels important that i do it. i’m not entirely sure why. i’m being guided by my intuition right now. but being able to look at everything altogether is giving myself a new appreciation for the work i’ve done.
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i have spent the last two years trying to locate where i put the files for this ai art collection i made in 2023. i thought i lost them. tonight... i found'em all. 🙌🏼
you've heard of these gemstone cuts: cushion, radian, princess, asscher, round, heart, trilliant, oval, pear, emerald, marquise, and baguette.
but have you heard of potato cut?
#RarePotato
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search through some old files and came across this. i don't remember making it but damn i like it.
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i paste nearly every post. i like to type in a .txt file first.
Stop pasting your replies on X 🛑
X's open-source code has an is_pasted flag 👀
Grok reads it when it scores replies under big accounts, 0 to 3.
Get a 0? Your reply gets labeled RiskyHighVizReply and buried 🪦
And it never recovers. Scores can only go down, never up 📉
Why? Pasting = not typed in X = looks like a bot or ChatGPT 🤖
So:
✍️ Type your replies in the app
🗣️ Use your own words
🚫 Don't paste AI replies under big accounts
Your thumbs are now an anti-spam signal 😂
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how much cataloging and archiving is too much cataloging and archiving? asking for me.
b/c this is me trying to collect all my artwork in one place rn 👇🏼
b/c this is me trying to collect all my artwork in one place rn 👇🏼
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Eric Rhodes retweeted
🎶 Another restoration milestone: Async Music! DRL’s @BardIonson has restored playback functionality to 17 Async Music masters.
Please have a listen and send any feedback! (This is a starting catalog, not the complete Async Music collection.)
async.art/archive/music
Please have a listen and send any feedback! (This is a starting catalog, not the complete Async Music collection.)
async.art/archive/music
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Eric Rhodes retweeted
Bad news: Eth is crashing
Good news: Editing a new pixel on One Million Edits is now about $0.20
Go put something on the canvas.
onemillionedits.art
Good news: Editing a new pixel on One Million Edits is now about $0.20
Go put something on the canvas.
onemillionedits.art
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Eric Rhodes retweeted
Nobody remembers, but I used my 40,000 $RARE to vote @maxOSIRISart, @ROBNESSOFFICIAL and @secondrealm back onto the @SuperRare platform after they were kicked off for being mavericks.
First and only time I've participated in governance.
Then I dumped the fuck out of all 40,000 coins.
First and only time I've participated in governance.
Then I dumped the fuck out of all 40,000 coins.
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hot take: fantasy football is the only thing that makes the NFL relevant. fandom doesn't exist like college football. no one's filling 100k seat stadiums to watch an NFL game. i mean, it's biggest game of the year seats about 75k.
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can't speak for anyone else, but i was never "in it" to get rich. making money is certainly a perk. and a perk i want more of. but i was here when making trading art and making single dollar sales on SuperRare was exciting and cool. my perspective is a different from those who came during @hypeflation '21. my expectation is different. and for down markets, mine is probably a better one to have.
We can all do so better as a community but we’ve been blinded by greed and the temptation of getting rich quick…
We are all a bit guilty of this
Things need to change and it needs to change now
Every voice matters whether big or small
Be part of the solution not the problem 🫡
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