Published 2022-12-18
E50 - Playful Exchanges
01. News
- Danielle King, guest host redux
With Trinity out on baby watch, community favorite and perennial reserve list honoree Danielle King was kind enough to guest host on this week's episode. Not only is she an avid collector, but she is an artist in her own right - check out her AI-assisted work on Objkt.
- Chris McCully interview
We had the absolute pleasure to sit down with Chris McCully to discuss his history as an artist and do some deep dives on some of his most recent releases. Definitely check it out for fun times and chill art conversations.
- Ty Vek mania concludes...for now
With this week's release of Artifice, which did very well by the way, Ty Vek has announced that they are taking a bit of a break to work on some new work. Stay tuned, perhaps identities will be revealed...
- USD market update
It's been a minute since our last market update and things have...looked better.
Projects that are up include:
- Garden, Monoliths
- RGB Elementary Cellular Automaton
- Dragons
- SMOLSKULL
- Art For Walls In Public Spaces
- Uninhabitable
Projects that are even or down include:
02. Projects of the Week
- Surfers
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- Birds
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Rami Awad's latest sound project is reminiscent of another bird...by the one and only Iskra Velitchkova.
(on Objkt)
- Suspiro
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fxhash beta staple Eduxdux released a project that made a splash in the sales feed this week - it was great to see them with another hit!
Projects referenced -
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- A city that once was real
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Ge1doot returns with their fourth project in as many weeks after a lengthy 11-month break from fxhash. A city that once was real leverages classic ge1doot motifs in a terrestrial setting, shying away from deep space.
Projects referenced -
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- Artifice
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Ty Vek (who are they?!) has done it again, with Artifice taking the top spot in best selling new projects of the week.
Pieces and projects referenced -
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- Agharta
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XALTED's follow-up to In a Moment brings new levels of detail and a topographical feel to colorful array of split shapes and structures.
Projects referenced -
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- EDDY
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We have been tracking EDDY for a few weeks now, following along with elsif's WIPs on Twitter. This abstract work warps and unwarps with the tap of the `R` key and leverages rich color and texture to speak to the viewer.
Pieces and projects referenced -
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- CHIP
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Jonas Lund was kind enough to release a very accessibly priced fxhash project ahead of his upcoming Art Blocks drop (coming at you January 2023).
Pieces referenced -
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03. Shoutouts
- quentinhocde secondary sweep
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- Swatch
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- Oracles
Not fxhash, but we are tracking the breakout success of emprops.ai, a new generative (?) AI art platform. The Oracles is the genesis project and has seen a huge secondary growth in its very wacky PFP outputs.
- Glossa-in-Gena
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- Divine Levels
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Not Ty Vek, folks, but published with their blessing. Proceeds from the project are being donated to charity so mint with with a full heart.
That's it for this episode, everyone. Thank you for listening and reading, and a huge shout out to Danielle for sitting in for Trinity this week. Smash that `collect` button to show support the show, and we'll be back next week with a roundup of 2022.
Thanks now and forever,
Trinity & Will (& Danielle)