Ramble #47
Project
- the animation takes time to trigger so you can read the generative prose *
ram•ble - talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way / a walk taken for pleasure in the countryside
Ramble is narrative artwork about a life (or lives). From a single observation to a long history. Part prose part painting. After a time the letters of the narrative slowly cover with tiny abstract landscapes. They are the type of landscape painting you would paint on a postage stamp. As the size of the narrative grows it becomes harder and harder to read all the letters before they are covered. Eventually when all the letters are covered the landscapes are walked over and scratched. There is no trace of what was there to start.
Just code (Javascript, no frameworks or dependencies).
Made by DSims (dillansimmons.com)
https://objkt.com/profile/tz1Q4YfANpgKAuPXd1fobzBzdjg6wtPmmw5m/created
Instructions
ram•ble - talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way / a walk taken for pleasure in the countryside
Ramble is narrative artwork about a life (or lives). From a single observation to a long history. Part prose part painting. After a time the letters of the narrative slowly cover with tiny abstract landscapes. They are the type of landscape painting you would paint on a postage stamp. As the size of the narrative grows it becomes harder and harder to read all the letters before they are covered. Eventually when all the letters are covered the landscapes are walked over and scratched. There is no trace of what was there to start.
Technical / Artistic
The prose is built around a slotted algorithm that builds sentences always starting with a universal pronoun. It then splits and randomizes the lines and fills the allotted grid space it is given. The build up of sentences creates a sort of character study or life.
The landscapes are a set of very simple rolling shapes with texture applied, they stick to a predefined color scheme chosen by the hash. They remind me of tissue paper stained glass kids make in kindergarten.
The scratches are just that, scratches or shapes that bleed through to the background. They serve to flatten and wipe away, chair scratches on a ballroom floor or bird footprints in sand.
Scaling the image up or down will yield slightly different final outputs. I prefer the 10:9 view ratio. Right click to save image.
Just code (Javascript, no frameworks or dependencies).
Made by DSims (dillansimmons.com)
https://objkt.com/profile/tz1Q4YfANpgKAuPXd1fobzBzdjg6wtPmmw5m/created
Traits
- Size
- 3224 of 85 indexed NFTs · 28%
- Spread
- very high44 of 85 indexed NFTs · 52%
- Color scheme
- Gen275 of 85 indexed NFTs · 6%
- Background
- e5d9cd23 of 85 indexed NFTs · 27%
- Cousins
- true46 of 85 indexed NFTs · 54%
- Detail
- true56 of 85 indexed NFTs · 66%
- Orderly
- false41 of 85 indexed NFTs · 48%
- Sea bottom
- false68 of 85 indexed NFTs · 80%
- Swept
- true42 of 85 indexed NFTs · 49%
- Prose
- We remembered heartbreak. We watched replays of terrible catastrophes. We took our piercings out. We ate saltine crackers with tomato paste. We knew all the right things to say, but forgot them when we needed them. We constantly outdid our predecessors. We buried the past or painted over it. We became excited by drama. We mistook weeds for flowers. We kept pets and loved them like children. We built fantasy baseball leagues, and fought over them. We jumped rope and drank beer. We rode buses and drove cars, cross country and close by. We made robots that made art. We tried to stay productive but cynicism got to us. We believed in some kind of afterlife. We wished on shooting stars. We got weird with age. We listened to Willie Nelson. We kept inner monologues, they said 'For the love of God don't', but we ended up doing it. We gave it all we had. We hoped we made the right decisions. We feared the world was going to shit. We grew old.1 of 85 indexed NFTs · 1%
Price history
| Date | Event | Price | Market |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-01 | Mint | 2.5 tez | fxhash issuer v2 |