will thread some process on this, maybe it turns into something, maybe just a sketchbook

had this idea the other day when reading about the decline of the 'ultra-contemporary' art market (artists born after 1975)

if your goal is to get people to read/see your work

the most sustainable way to make it happen is to treat your timeline like a public notebook/sketchbook

the times I have resisted the above are the most frustrating, the times I have embraced it have been the opposite it's a pressure release valve for your mind

vvip, v∞.1 this has taken a long time to crack for a number of reasons

1/ don't want to ship a forgettable poap
2/ don't want to "dilute" flagship collections
3/ want to do justice to the symbol that unifies everything

opepen evolution

↓ transparency threads have been stopped and started many times, because this process has taken many twists and turns

it began as a free mint, open for an hour, a nod to the open edition meta of the time and the internet's most prolific memetic character

opepen ramble

as you can probably infer from my tweets, the idea of shipping a finished collection in the middle of what we are currently experiencing in image generation does not feel that special or interesting some feedback we've gotten along the way on recognizability is also well taken

what we're currently exploring is the ability to "drop" on opepen — and give collectors full agency on how they'd like to proceed (lock or unlock canvas)

maintain max optionality on both sides

gn

opepen to interpretation

got delayed on the ai thing from last week, reviewing now

still locked out of visualize value account

hacker still posting malicious links

how many mentions of @TwitterSupport can we drum up here @TwitterSupport thanks to everyone sharing these, makes a massive difference

transparency time

opepfp

↓ will open with a massive hat tip to everyone who has succeeded with anything in this category, incredibly hard to do well at a scale of multiple thousand

i'll outline all of the thinking and experimentation in a rambling thread below, in realtime

getting around to compositing my one check

missed token 13 and the 13th day, but can make the 13th one check

strategy as follows:

composite non gradient wide bands, eyeball for brightness at each level

aiming for light and bright

follow below 40s all composited

lineage check now live download as a png or svg:

id toggle coming shortly

would warmly suggest to many to think about what a permissionless market is before getting involved in one could expand infinitely here but ultimately I am trying to build things that have the fewest external dependencies possible

that is the goal, and there will be many seemingly "wrong" decisions as a function of that choice

conceptually speaking, you can make every single digital image in existence with the pieces above

remixed to infinity

to clarify, this has always been the case

no one owns checks, everyone owns checks

finally getting around to some compositing my plan is a semiperfect set

edition, 80, 40, 20, 10, 5, 4, 1

this 20 might make the final cut

checks in paris

10 displays at nft paris, feb 24-25

will share the curation process below as I work through it (and ask for your input)

🙏 lots to show, so thinking of building out displays thematically

- concept
- contract
- community
- mechanics
- composites
- migrations
- metadata history

not exhaustive yet

community example below (would loop through many)

eternal disclaimer

don't buy things you don't want

it's truly bizarre to get endless streams of messages like this

we described what we were making down to the last detail for this reason sorry if this came across poorly

I can only control the work we're doing and trying to be as transparent as possible

I stand by the assertion that buying something purely to speculate can end badly

apologies again

Humanity Check

For on the ground crisis relief in Turkey and Syria.

All funds to Doctors without Borders via The Giving Block.

vv.run/humanitycheck @MSF_USA @TGBMike 1,000 minted 🫡

wondering if there is any upside to changing this to a private account to try and reduce the scam onslaught?

blocking any impersonating accounts would prevent faking the timeline via rt

wdyt? let's give it a crack

not particularly shocking that private tweets perform better than public in a twitter optimizing for max engagement

your tweets measured against people who are already opted in, vs your tweets measured against everyone on twitter

math innit devastating to learn you are not as interesting as the previous twitter algorithm led you to think you are

status superrare genesis...?

g vvagon (car included)