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)
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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)
In Gazers, we invest in time and experience. Each NFT is designed to continually increase it's potential animation speed fractionally over time. Stacking these investments, we create a generational evolution of experience. The present collects what the future appreciates.(4/8)
At midnight, each layer of an NFT receives new instructions on how to behave the next day. The result is subtle changes in how we experience color as the artwork rises and sets, echoing the change of light in our skies.(5/8)
The passage of time will unlock additional rendering modes within the artwork. These additional modes of viewing are intended to help a collector better understand the architecture of their artwork’s design and also benefit from greater enjoyment of it.(6/8)
Gazers love celebrating. Things like lunar & solar eclipses. And other things.😏 Saturday is our first eclipse! Only #0 is minted, so only one will experience the peak this time. Some Gazers celebrate longer than others... let's see what happens over the next week! 🌞🌚(7/8)
To learn more about Gazers, please visit the artwork's website at: gazers.art (8/8) πŸ™πŸŒ›

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