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aebrer’s no FOMO zone zine - 2022/05/23
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table of contents
project, portfolio, and social links
tweetcart token club (TTC) May 2022 status update
making the water reflection effect in ideocartography_lakeview_entities
current plans (aka roadmap if you’re a degenerate gambler)
working on the June TTC Tweetcart
need to get a new AI art generation pipeline figured out, due to conjure.art closure
more community curated pico_punks to mint! they’re coming, I promise!
WIP ideocartography piece, p5js, for fx(hash)
unannounced collab [on hold, awaiting new AI art pipeline]
unannounced ideocartography collab
normal talk for people to treat with generosity
fancy talk for lawyers to argue about
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tldr - too long, didn’t read:
- TTC mints are free to club members and available on fx(hash) from now on
- reserves will stay forever even if unminted
- I am having lots of fun
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The Tweetcart Token Club is an ongoing series focused on building and sharing Pico-8 Tweetcarts (tutorial to get started here). Initially, I sold a yearly subscription token, here. The initial premise for the series is that once a month, on the first day of the month, I will take a snapshot of the current holders of that membership token. Then, the tweetcart for that month will be airdropped to those people.
Lately that series has evolved in a few important ways that I want to mention here. This series means a lot to me, and seeing these membership tokens change hands, settle, and become a core of support like this means a lot to me. I am striving to balance two things:
Given the way that these early early platforms and blockchains are constantly evolving, we’re all adapting to new trends and new data.
Here is what is currently driving me:
When I make tweetcarts, I actually relax. I make them on the couch, or at a bar, or relaxing in a park, on a handheld device called a PocketChip (nitter link to tweet). So above all these things are just fun for me. Joyful even. So that’s also a big part of it.
So from now on (until further notice), I’ll be doing my TTC Releases via fx(hash). This latest for example: pico_tessellations was the one for this month of May. I gave each TTC member 24 free mints. This was for a few reasons:
I have learned a few things:
For the sake of simplicity for now and all time, I simply vow not to change the reserves after minting and release, even if a TTC member never uses their mints.
Also, in terms of big future plans for this series, there’s 5 more months to go in this cycle, then I think I will wait the two months or whatever to get the cycle in sync with January, then I will start Series 2 of the TTC, which will be 24 members (12 new memberships available + snapshot of the current 12 at the end of the cycle).
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tldr - too long, didn’t read:
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So lately I’ve been developing in p5.js. I have never been a huge fan of Javascript, but one time I did write bot AI for a game called Screeps in it. What I do love though is the accessibility and surprising power of it. It’s not quite as accessible or friendly as Pico-8, but it is powerful, and the sheer room for creativity is mind-boggling. So naturally I’ve been exploring. Specifically I’ve been exploring the limits of simple functions like `image()`. I tend to obsess with things I get interested in, and right now I’m obsessed with this underutilized function. Before anyone says anything: yes, I know my code is likely horribly unoptimized; and yes, actually, you are very welcome to reach out and show me how it can be better, I would appreciate that very much, even if I don’t do actually do the changes, I do love to learn. I’m still learning with p5js, and I’m experimenting a lot. A lot of the glitch elements in my art are going to be heavily featured for awhile I think, because I’m currently spending an obscene amount of time just “debugging” in order to understand how p5js works, and I love the tension between nice aesthetics and also totally destroying a tool and using it in an unintended way.
One more bit of context, there was a tweet recently (link via nitter for no tracking), in which Víctor Doval highlighted some data revealing that the most common category in the top all time sales on fx(hash) was landscapes. I thought this would be a great challenge and a fun goal, to produce a “landscape” that is recognizably in my style, with my methods and tools, yet also a landscape. Also, as this was meant as a kind of satirical take on landscapes, I wanted to make the ultimate generic conceptual landscape: a horizon reflected in water. This is the “live laugh love” of landscapes IMO. I have since lightened my stance on this considerably when I realized how difficult it is to get this to look natural.
I’m going to show a closer look here at the reflection (but still trying to keep the files really small in here). There are way more details and images from the overall process in my WIP tweet thread here.
So I’m actually really pleased with this effect. I tried to reduce the concept of a “lakeview” down to the most basic form in which the human brain will then fill in the details and do the heavy lifting for me: which I thought of as simply “imperfect reflection”. Basically what I’m doing here is:
I have some further ideas with this... for example, you get subtle differences if you do this effect all at once at the end of the rendering of the other layers, or if you do it piece by piece as you render the image. Since it can happen multiple times on the same row (creating those much darker bands you see, which can be amplified using seed looping), but the row might have had stuff added to it in between waterline applications, so it further nests and entangles the various elements of the piece. I prefer this, as I believe it results in a more holistic and integrated final render, which you unconsciously perceive better as an “imperfect reflection”.
The most up to date code for this effect is here (this is further changed from Lakeview Entities):
// water vfx
for (let i=0;i<water_n;i++) {
let y=random_int(0,ww)
image(this, 0, y, ww, ww/1024, random_int(-5,5), y, ww, ww/1024)
}
for (let i=0;i<water_n;i++) {
let x=random_int(0,ww)
image(this, x,0,ww/1024,ww, x,random_int(-5,5),ww/1024,ww)
}
In this snippet, you’ll see that it’s set up to create these scanlines in both the horizontal (first loop, position by y) and vertical (second loop, position by x), and that it (in defining x and y) covers the entire screen. Really, water reflection is just a single example of what this can be used for, I’m still exploring it. If you want to see how it’s done in Lakeview Entities (A or B side), just look at the source code in your browser, or download it from IPFS! I don’t obfuscate my code, other than just being bad about commenting, and I’m happy to answer any questions about it.
Anyway, I’m super excited about my latest p5js work, and having a lot of fun with it.
https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/13354
3.2 tez, 44/128 editions minted so far
One of my favorite tweetcarts lately, with the emergence series I wanted to focus on emergent outcomes that arise from seed looping. I’m really happy with how this one turns out. It first existed only as an idea for a mountainous horizon created by seed looping (revisiting this).
collect (and/or play) it here: https://teia.art/objkt/717500
play it here when IPFS is shitty: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=47359
115/128 editions available, 20 tez each
If I was to say I had a “masterpiece” so far, this would be it. It’s strange, it’s weird, and it doesn’t fit neatly into any genres. It exists simply because that’s what it had to be, that’s what was in my mind for the last year, and I had to get it out.
The world of the Foundation, the Vestiges of the Dead God, The Library Ruin, etc. is not finished. This is a world I dream of constantly, and the stories there continue to inspire my art. However, The Trace Gallery is the first “solid” glimpse into this universe. Not a simple peep through a piece of art or a concept, but fully a realized artifact from this universe. Play it for free, and feel what it’s like to succumb to the Dead God...
Currently, I’m using Morphology #57 by George Savva as my desktop wallpaper:
it runs live! See this tweet (via nitter) by Sableraf to see how: https://nitter.net/sableRaph/status/1524016707374923776?s=20&t=Qm7VW2lt6tepROB-bS3-6Q
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