I'm SO grateful to have worked with @SuperRare in launching the new #Series feature. The Door couldn't have found a more appropriate beginning! A great way to learn more about #TheDoor is with this video: vimeo.com/632154118 (1/7)
For an artist, a series is often about the evolution of ideas - the discovery and experimentation that takes place while investigating conceptual or visual curiosities. Since June, The Door marked my return to an almost undivided focus on my daily artistic practice.(2/7)
FACTS
These are the first NFTs on @SuperRare with attributes/traits. 🙏 Click "View Details."
There are 56 Doors to date.
I will mint more Doors.
I will create more Doors.
Not all Doors I create will be minted.
I've never minted an edition.
I've only ever minted the best.
(3/7)
An artist's series is concerned with creative abundance. It's necessary in order to advance an idea and discover where they're heading next. The Door is an on-going investigation that's already evolved and spawned into other works and ideas. It has legs and is running! (4/7)
I worked full-time, daily for 7 years on my custom software. This upfront investment of time allows me to now rapidly investigate conceptual and design oriented curiosities on the daily. As time & other pursuits allow, The Door is presently part of my daily practice. (5/7)
For me, it's essential that The Door has had 4 months to grow and mature - safe proofing it's early evolution and paths from becoming effected by a market more than the artist's creative direction. (6/7) superrare.com/mattkane/creat…
HODLing #1! I've set low reserves on rest to respect the market. I'll likely be minting more often than you've observed from me in the past. DYOR, you'll grin. I look forward to welcoming old & new collectors into what's been my daily practice and all it will evolve into!🙏(7/7)
NOTKAMOTO: A tribute to a masterpiece and symbol for decentralization, patronage, and belief in creating healthier systems for living artists to thrive in. #cryptoart
Please watch this introduction to my artwork and reflect:
69 patronage editions will shortly become available on a dispenser for 1 BTC each. These will not be reduced unless to 🎁. #uponlyxchain.io/asset/NOTKAMOTO
I know this is FAKERARES. But I'm doing something special for the REAL ones. To become eligible for a NOTKAMOTO:
Hi video content creators in #cryptoart and #nfts. In this global movement, adding accessibility is very important & also often easily accomplished, but requires a couple extra steps from us. Here's a quick how-to 🧵 for adding subtitles and translated captions to @YouTube...1/12
Today, February 12, all Gazers with the "First Stolen Paintings" origin moon trait celebrate 20 years and 246 New Moons passing since the moon under which I had 3 paintings stolen from my studio shortly before what was to be my first solo show. #cryptoart 🧵...
It was a most sickening, heart sinking feeling to step into the studio & discover these centerpiece works to my show, each 36" x 48", were missing. I made a police report and hung up fliers but the paintings would remain stolen. Check out my DANK poster and $100 reward! I was 21.
I only had a short time before my one person show was to happen. Without these works, I couldn't proceed. I put on my curator's hat and changed my solo show into a group show, inviting 12 other student artists to show a work. I learned how much joy that elevating others could be.
GM! Please let me introduce you to my latest coding achievement and on-chain #cryptoart work. "Gazers" will begin its reveal on Monday, December 6th at 12pm CT on @ArtBlocks. (1/8)
🌑🌒🌓🌖🌕🌔🌗🌘🌑#gazers
Gazers is a collection of generative moon phase calendar NFTs seeking to create community around our love of color theory, generative art, astronomy, and crypto.(2/8)
Every lunar cycle lasts ~29.53 days. Each New Moon, a new moon design is generated from your NFT. Your transaction hash creates color theory and design rules that set forth every moon that will be created into infinity. (3/8)
As an artist who works with code, it's important to reference at least some software and libraries that I use. Personally, I don't want to get carried away into processor speeds, but some high level context of my development environment is in order. Let's use metadata! (2/9)
@intellijidea is my preferred IDE for @Java development. I utilize an older version of @ProcessingOrg with the help of @lager_p's G4P GUI tools. Acknowledgement in the metadata of an #NFT feels appropriate for a whole host of circumstances any artist runs into. (3/9)
(1/10) "Meules after Claude Monet" is a multitude of expanding experiences.♾ Let's break down what is actually archived as part of the #NFT being auctioned as part of #NativelyDigital at @Sothebys. My NFT Portal website is where to 👀 for supreme quality: collect.mattkane.com/minted-works/m…
(2/10) @nameless_nft created a custom contract solution for me. I explained that I don't tokenize a singular JPEG or GIF. I tokenize artwork. A singular artwork might require an archive of files that aids a viewer's experience, help provide context, include a press kit, etc.
(3/10) @nameless_nft provided the solution of creating archives for relevant files on both Arweave & IPFS. These are referenced in the metadata. While the Arweave link is a JSON format, IPFS also has a human readable.
IPFS: ipfs.io/ipfs/QmVnu7JQV…
Arweave:arweave.net/tx/I3xtFX1hMe3…