Current status of NoC (Non-objective Cliché) is sitting at 130 minted editions out of 512 possible.

Usual course of action for an fxhash artist, who want to enable secondary market for his collectors would be burning the rest. This would come with two huge draw backs for NoC:

Long form

1. As a long form project, huge part of the creative process was create a system producing beautiful unique artworks at a predefined volume of iterations. For NoC, this was 512. In my estimations a bigger number would result in too much same looking artworks and in our case the lower number of minted iteration don't gives it opportunity to show all it is capable of, especially the rare traits that come with animated T-rex or Sun, the rare palettes and some rare composition options. Only fully minted this piece will feel complete.

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Utility feature

2. The Utility feature. You may have seen that each minted iteration has a feature looking like this:

Utility combo
#216, #37, #91

Idea behind this is to make a collection of 4 pieces that will bring you additional benefits. People holding this combo will get some gifts and participate in giveaways available only for them. The Utility combo feature is created to output random numbers between 0 and 512 and if we reduce edition size to 130 it would be impossible for almost every combo to be completed.

Up to now these problems would stay unresolved and artists like me would have to make uneasy decision, but now we have a new hero!

Tez Vending Machine entering the room

What if I tell you there is an option to mint all editions, showing all their glory to the world and still be able to distribute them randomly without compromising the utility feature?

The amazing @tz1Mn66CLYJUmsrYSy23EFtdWBkHgqCooCzi's creation is solving so many problems for distribution of pfp, generative or other art projects and it will solve our too.

The Plan

In the next few days we'll mint all the NoC iterations, throw them in the Vending Machine and let people hunt them down for artistic or utility purpose. Probably Flexa and I'll throw a few more works into the mix to make it even more interesting

Unique experience

This is something that has never been seen before for fxhash. All iterations will be minted allowing the system to show what it's capable of, while still preserving the experience of getting a random iteration over the fun UI of the Tezos Vending Machine.