Thread by @derakmandious

🧵#Midnightbreeze by @dutchtide founder of @DutchtideStudio

𝕄𝕚𝕕𝕟𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥夏季𝔹𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕫𝕖 Is a project about a lonely road. Where you the viewer are the last awake, the last to see the night. A moment of stillness fades to a haze & you are lost in a midnight summer breeze....

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio A strange world, stuck, lingering in the present.
Empty cars await their drivers, buildings
await their occupants. Spirits drift in and out of
the night air & strange creatures roam the fringes of the midnight road

But what is happening here? you decide....

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio In early 2021 @dutchtide had a vision & an idea, a generative art based banner project, leaning heavily into his style of vaporwave, where the old meets the new in a neon dystopia...

after 6 months of hard work designing and creating this world we now know, the breeze was ready

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio Midnight breeze was designed with the idea of "MA(間)" a concept of the space between spaces, the sound of silence, or a moment between moments.

Breeze captures this essence in the viewers eyes, making you see your own meaning in the art, as your story is written on this road

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio Each element found in Midnight Breeze has been
hand-painted in a 90's anime aesthetic coupled with
the Dutchtide tone and flair

130 different assets with each their own story
to tell

Each Midnight Breeze that is generated comes
banner/wallpaper compatible

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio Since the beginning Dutch has been transparent about funds and what happened with them, detailed on the website is a breakdown of what was expected to be the profit and costs of producing V2 post mint.

Funds have been kept in stables, USDC, to sustain through the studio longterm

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio and on 12th December 2021 #midnightbreeze mint went public, the first thing that struck me was the detail in the minting site, thanks to @Capko8 for her amazing work, was such a vibe I forgot to transfer eth to mint a second 🥲

and after 45 minute, all 6969 breeze had sold out.

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio @Capko8 After release, seeing the strength of the core community was beautiful, such a wonderful group of humans, spending all day chilling and appreciating the art, looking through the collection, people took it very seriously finding their forever breeze, that still hasn't changed 🫡

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio @Capko8 A collection focused on personal interpretation, there is a breeze for all tastes, collectors creating personal value

By not using traditional rarity tools, the community were the ones who decided the rank

Buy for the vibes is a meme to some maybe

For a Breezer, its a mantra🔥

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio @Capko8 its impossible not to scour the collection constantly, until finding that perfect one. I've been looking at them daily for 6 months and still find new things, the details are breath-taking

I recently discovered the chart in the ATM of Tokyo street, wonder what else there is?👀

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio @Capko8 This was even more accentuated by Dutch's idea to include "hidden" traits, not listed in metadata, you could only find them if you spoke to a member or looked closely at the collection, looking for hours to find some, see my thread here for some info:

https://twitter.com/derakmandious/status/1526170391454134280

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio @Capko8 The suspense and mystery created by these "hidden traits" was amazing, people spent weeks and months trying to find them all, someone even made code to scan the images at one point, i wonder if they found them all....🤔

what will V2 entail for the "hidden" traits i wonder? 👀

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio @Capko8 So then......whats next for #midnightbreeze?

Well, coming soon will be high quality eco friendly prints, available to order for holders ONLY & available to claim in two different sizes

Each Breeze can claim one exact authenticated version of itself in print, check the teaser 👇

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio @Capko8 After Prints the plan is to release the long awaited Midnight breeze V2 animation, these will be available free to all holders of V1 to mint your exact breeze into an animated version, no snapshot, just hold a breeze when the time comes

more info on this in the future...😉

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio @Capko8 The breeze is very much like a new form of story telling, with you the viewer filling in the details of this tale

V1 is the setting of the universe, the lore of the lonely road and what you see....

V2 is the setting of the story, the plot and the characters that inhabit it....

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio @Capko8 Those that are active in the discord may have pieced together more information about what V2 will truly entail, but I think when the time is right, people will pleasantly surprised🤫

all I will say for now is that its more than you think, your not sufficiently prepared for it 😤

@dutchtide @DutchtideStudio @Capko8 Give @DutchtideStudio a follow for any info on that and make sure to hop into the discord to keep up to date on everything:

discord.gg/nUnhZBJMbD