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@crashblossom1

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Conceptual abstract dynamic networked social blockchain art.

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Joined March 2021
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James Bloom
18 days
Very proud that BURNER, GOLD and MASS, my trilogy of blockchain artworks on Ethereum, have been acquired by the Francisco Carolinum Museum @ooeculture 🎉🎉🎉 More details below
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18 days
Happy to announce the acquisition of 3 artworks by @crashblossom1 ! 💥 Every artwork explores the structure and dynamics of blockchains in different ways, as well as the relations between the people that use them. 🤖 ‼️ Click the Links to see the interactive artworks! 🧵👇🏼
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James Bloom
3 years
Did you know that your jpegs lose resolution as ETH goes down? True facts.
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James Bloom
2 years
BURNER is live for minting! 256 interconnected pieces of dynamic cryptoart. Each piece reacts to Ethereum gas price data, changing every block as gas rises and falls on the blockchain. Mint here for 0.256 ETH: (site optimised for desktop) 🧵👇
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James Bloom
2 years
BURNER is 256 pieces of dynamic cryptoart that change with every block on Ethereum. They respond to live gas price data and block hashes, changing dynamically in response. This thread explains BURNER. The series is sold out and available on secondary:
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James Bloom
3 years
I use AI, glitch processes and dynamic on-chain code to make ruptured digital images. Merging the figurative with the abstract. Exploring our jagged relationship to the metaverse. Collected by MOCA, Matt Kane, Claire Silver, BlackBoxDotArt, Rare Scrilla...
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James Bloom
11 months
I'm not one of the NFT artists that did well in the 2021 bull. I was mostly ignored through that period, apart from a few great collectors. My first dynamic series BURNER minted in Sep 2022, already in a bear. It took 3 months to mint out. I don't take anything for granted...
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James Bloom
2 years
Just a reminder that when ETH goes down your jpegs lose resolution. Don't get caught out like I did
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James Bloom
3 months
There's a quieter side to the crypto community and a softly-spoken culture within crypto art. Cultured, thoughtful people who believe in the technology and the artistic medium. They don't speak with a loudspeaker. But they're more important than any influencer
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James Bloom
1 year
As of today I'm going under my real name instead of crashblossom. I'd been thinking about this for a long time and finally pushed the button. Some of my collection links have changed, display names have changed, but a lot is still the same
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James Bloom
1 year
GOLD is a dynamic crypto art series where the artworks change in response to the series’ own live market activity. The actions of GOLD collectors are part of this ever-changing artwork, where prices, levels of activity and on-chain provenance define the art itself 🧵👇
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James Bloom
2 years
Art collectors are often the first to spot talent, years before critics, curators or institutions recognise. Critics are often too steeped in historical constructs of art to see what's in front of them. Good collectors see the future of art and support innovation early
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James Bloom
2 years
🧨BURNER IS NOW ON CHAIN🧨 I minted the javascript to Ethereum mainnet last night. Following tests it is now live 🥳 All image layers are now on arweave, called dynamically and mixed live by the Ethereum on-chain script
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James Bloom
11 months
If you believe in decentralisation, buy something from an artist who isn't already popular. Prove it
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James Bloom
3 years
⚡️⚡️⚡️Let's get an art share going⚡️⚡️⚡️Drop your work below. No rules. No need to retweet unless you want. Just share art. Comment on others if you like. #nftart #NFT #NFTCommunity
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3 years
⚡️⚡️⚡️FRIDAY ART SHARE⚡️⚡️⚡️ 👇Drop your work below👇 No rules. Retweet if you want to. Comment + share other people's art. 🕶️Make a new art friend🕶️ Let's see what everyone's been making! 👇👇👇👇👇
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James Bloom
3 years
👁️SHARE YOUR TEZOS ART HERE👁️ Haven't done one of these threads in a while! I'd like to buy a few pieces on tezos so pls share below. I'll Retweet some too. Feel free to comment and share other people's work, maybe you'll even make a new art friend! 🚀🚀🚀🚀
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James Bloom
4 months
Mass is my new series coming to Ethereum on 15th May. 300 on-chain dynamically changing 3D artworks. Mass is a shared 3D space that lives on the blockchain. Everyone shares the same space, but it appears differently to each viewer and evolves in unexpected ways over time
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James Bloom
11 months
I'm used to enjoying a critical debate about art. But in NFTs there often seems to be a sort of anti-intellectual insecurity that makes it hard to voice a genuine opinion. I'm not talking about tearing down others' work, just that it would be nice to debate without the paranoia
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James Bloom
3 years
🔥🔥🔥FRIDAY ART SHARE!🔥🔥🔥 No rules. RT only if you want to. Comment on other's work if you like. Let's see what everyone's been creating! #NFT #NFTart #NFTartists #NFTCommunity 👇👇👇👇👇
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James Bloom
5 months
There are many collectors here who don't get enough credit. These people keep the whole space going. Men and women. Long-term thinkers with unique, opinionated collections. Often quiet about what they own. Artists don't realise how lucky they are to have these people around tbh
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James Bloom
2 years
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James Bloom
3 years
⚡️⚡️⚡️FRIDAY ART SHARE⚡️⚡️⚡️ 👇Drop your art below👇 No rules. Retweet if you want to. Comment and share other people's art. Let's see what everyone's been creating! 👇👇👇👇👇👇
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James Bloom
3 years
🔥💗🔥WEEKEND ART SHARE🔥💗🔥 Drop your work below. Feel free to Retweet. Comment on other artists work. Let's see your art! 👇🤩👇🤩👇🤩 #NFTs #NFTartists #NFTart #NFTcommunity #cryptoartist
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James Bloom
3 years
🔥🔥FRIDAY ART SHARE🔥🔥 👇Drop your work below👇 No rules. Retweet if you want to. Comment/share other people's art. 🕶️Maybe make a new art friend🕶️ Let's enjoy everyone's work! 👇👇👇👇👇
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James Bloom
3 months
Mass is sold out! Massive thank you to all the collectors who minted and everyone who has supported this project. As long as Ethereum exists Mass will continue to live and change based on the actions of its community. More about the series here:
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James Bloom
3 months
I've created 4 collections of blockchain art so far. BURNER, RECALL, GOLD and Mass all explore the structure and dynamics of blockchains in different ways, as well as the relations between the people that use them. Thank you to everyone who has participated!
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James Bloom
2 years
BURNER is my new dynamic cryptoart series, about to be released. 256 interconnected pieces, each reacting to Ethereum gas price data, changing every block as gas rises and falls. Been working on this for 10 months with solidity maestro @arielbeckerart 🧵👇
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2 years
BURNER IS SOLD OUT Thank you all the collectors who bought a piece of dynamic cryptoart. Hope that you will enjoy your artworks over the years to come as they change in step with Ethereum. Couldn't have done this without the brilliant dev @beckermaticeth 🔥🔥🔥
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James Bloom
3 years
⚡️⚡️FRIDAY ART SHARE⚡️⚡️ 👉Share your art here👈 No rules! Retweet if you want to. Comment + share other people's art. ✨Make a new art friend✨ Let's see everyones creations! 👇👇👇👇👇
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3 years
👁️⚡️⚡️⚡️WEEKEND ART SHARE⚡️⚡️⚡️👁️ Share your art below. No rules. Retweet if you want to. Have a look at other people's work and comment if you like. Let's see everyone's art! 👇👁️👇👁️👇👁️👇
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3 years
⚡️⚡️⚡️WEEKEND ART SHARE ⚡️⚡️⚡️ 👇Share your art below👇 No rules. Retweet if you want to. 👀Comment on and share other people's art👀 Let's see what everyone's been making! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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James Bloom
9 months
I feel very lucky to have found this community. There is a lot of bullshit - which is easy to get put off by - but the community of artists, coders and collectors using blockchain are some of the most intelligent and visionary people I've met ⛓️❤️
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James Bloom
10 months
✨GOLD giveaway✨ I'm giving away GOLD #474 . 100% on-chain dynamic blockchain art. The pieces react to the collection's own market activity. For a chance to win this artwork, QUOTE TWEET this tweet saying why you like this series. I'll pick the winner in 2 days
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James Bloom
1 year
I love cryptoart because it's a genuine new artistic movement and a step beyond what was done before. There are great, diverse artists putting their work on chain, but as a whole it represents a real artistic revolution, in aesthetics and politics. Cryptoart is the alpha
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James Bloom
3 years
🔥🔥FRIDAY ART SHARE🔥🔥 ⬇️Share your art here⬇️ No rules. Retweet if you want to. Comment + share other people's art. ❤️‍🔥Make a new art friend❤️‍🔥 Let's see your art! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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James Bloom
1 year
GOLD is my new dynamic series coming 21st June, released in partnership with @FingerprintsDAO . The artworks change dynamically according to the collection's own market activity. This film explains more (sound on). More info below 🧵👇
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James Bloom
3 years
👀👀👀 I'm looking to buy new art on @hicetnunc2000 ! Show me what you've been working on! Would love to see what the community's been up to, feel free to RT and comment too 👀👀👀 #nft #nftart #NFTCommunity
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James Bloom
3 months
Little preview of my Physicals being hung at Strouk Gallery in Paris, alongside Mass. Opening will be 25th May and on for a month
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James Bloom
1 year
GOLD is 100% on-chain dynamic cryptoart where the artworks change according to the collection's market activity. The GOLD contract records whether sellers pay a royalty or not. If a royalty is paid, all artworks in the collection turn gold. If a royalty is not paid they turn red
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1 year
I've written a short piece called 'blockchain art and the aesthetics of impermanence'. Been wanting to write this for a while, to explain something I see connecting a lot of recent dynamic series together. Hope you enjoy it
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3 years
⚡️⚡️⚡️WEEKEND ART SHARE⚡️⚡️⚡️ 👇🔥Drop your art below🔥👇 No rules. Retweet if you want to. Comment on other people's work. Let's see everyone's art! 👇👇💗💗👇👇
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🔥🔥🔥FRIDAY ART SHARE🔥🔥🔥 🤜Drop your art below🤛 No rules. Retweet if you want to. 👀Comment on and share other people's art👀 Let's see what this community has been creating! 👇👇👇👇👇👇
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James Bloom
2 years
BURNER floor is currently 9 ETH 🧨
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3 years
👁️👀👁️WEEKEND ART SHARE👁️👀👁️ Share your art here. No rules. Retweet if you want. Comment on other's work. Let's see what everyone's been making. 👇⚡️👇⚡️👇⚡️👇
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2 years
BURNER floor price is currently 2.44 ETH. And on that note, gn 🧨
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James Bloom
1 year
Your twitter following says nothing about your art. What you say on twitter says little about your art. The social media hype cycle is meaningless and also full of bias. We need less hiding and more revealing. Less bullshit and more truth. Thank you for your attention
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3 years
✨✨✨FRIDAY ART SHARE✨✨✨No rules! No RT required! Share your latest work and comment on other people's. Collectors are watching. ✨✨✨ #NFT #nftart #NFTartists #nftcommunity #nftcolllector
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⚡️⚡️FRIDAY ART SHARE⚡️⚡️ 👇Share your art here👇 No rules. Retweet if you want to. Comment + share other people's art. 🖤Make a new art friend🖤 Let's see your work! 👇👇👇👇👇
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3 years
✨⚡️🔥FRIDAY ART SHARE 🔥⚡️✨ No rules as usual. Retweet if you want. Comment on other people's works. Let's see what this community has been creating! 👇👇👇👇👇👇
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⚡️⚡️⚡️WEEKEND ART SHARE⚡️⚡️⚡️ 👇Drop your latest art below👇 No rules as usual. Retweet if you want to. Comment on other people's work. Let's see what our community has been up to! 👇👇👇🔥💗🔥👇👇👇
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James Bloom
3 years
My 3 year old daughter just discovered collage
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3 years
Call me a fashion victim but...
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1 month
My collectors hardly ever flex my work on the timeline. I never appear in Top NFT Artist community votes. I don't have a huge social media following and the influencers aren't interested in me ✨
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⚡️🔥🌈WEEKEND ART SHARE🌈🔥⚡️ 👇 Drop your art below. 👇 There are no rules. Retweet if you want. Comment on other people's work Let's see what everyone's been making! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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James Bloom
3 years
Here's a preview of a piece I'm working on for @BBStudiosGuild , based on the theme of Heroes and Villains. I chose villain. #NFT #NFTart @NftLisa @Crypt0Warr10r
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James Bloom
2 years
Just to say thank you to everyone who's supported my dynamic cryptoart series BURNER. I released it in a bear market without the support of a big platform or influencers. It's got the attention of many great people in the space and made me some new friends too. I'm grateful 🖤🧨
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James Bloom
1 year
BURNER #51 is back at Sotheby's New York with an improved lineup including some of the best female and nonbinary glitch artists in the space. Proud to be part of this better sale 🧨 @Sothebys @Sothebysverse
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8 months
Recognition from the market isn't the same as the deeper recognition most artists really value
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1 year
'GOLD'. 100% on-chain dynamic cryptoart. Uses an Ethereum node as a data source. Engages critically with the NFT art market. Coming soon:
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1 year
GOLD mints today 21st June at 12pm EST. The series is 100% on chain dynamic art where the artworks react to the collection's own market activity. 500 unique pieces released in partnership with @FingerprintsDAO Mint here: This film explains (sound on) 🧵👇
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James Bloom
5 months
The real NFT trickle down to art. Apologies @batsoupyum 😂
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9 months
To the collectors: I believe some of you are part of the next generation of patrons of the arts. The true collectors, not the VC-backed funds. Some of you stumbled into it, but I see you obssessing over every detail of a work. The next 20 years is going to be crazy for you 🥂
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👁️🔥👁️Friday Art Share! 👁️🔥👁️ 👁️🔥👁️Let's see your work! 👁️🔥👁️ No rules, as usual. Feel free to comment on other people's art. RT if you want. #NFT #NFTart #NFTartist #NFTcommunity
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3 years
⚡️⚡️⚡️FRIDAY ART SHARE⚡️⚡️⚡️ Share your work below. Retweet if you like. Feel free to comment on other artists work. Let's see what everyone's been making! 👇👇👇👇👇👇
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James Bloom
1 year
Today is the birthday of The Merge and my series BURNER is also 1 year old🧨 The BURNER contract was deployed before The Merge and public minting began just after. As a result, the series was generated under both Proof of Work and Proof of Stake 🧵👇
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⚡️⚡️FRIDAY ART SHARE⚡️⚡️ 👉Share your art here👈 No rules. Retweet if you want to. Comment + share other people's art. ❤️‍🔥Make a new art friend❤️‍🔥 Let's see what everyone's been making! 👇👇👇👇👇
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1 year
Probably going to fully doxx soon. I like the name crashblossom but always find it weird when people call me that. Don't really want two separate identities tbh
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5 months
So far I've created three collections of dynamic blockchain art. Each one forms part of an overall series exploring ideas around networked data structures and people's relationship to them. My next dynamic collection coming in May will bring together all these ideas in a new way
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3 months
The NFT market won't tell you if an artwork is good or not. You have to work that one out for yourself
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3 years
🔥⚡️👀WEEKEND ART SHARE👀⚡️🔥 Share your art here. Retweet if you want to. Comment on other people's work. What have people been creating... 👇🦿👇🦿👇🦿 #cryptoart #NFTCommunity #nftart #NFTartist
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6 months
I've been politically left of centre all of my adult life. It never ceases to amaze me how most lefties completely miss the potential of crypto
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James Bloom
2 years
I love this place but one of the things I notice about making art here is that people’s attention spans are quite low when it comes to looking. The combination of Twitter, the fast pace of the market and viewing on small screens reward ‘snack-able content’. Just saying
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6 months
The death of NFTs had long been predicted, but noone knew it would be a suicide
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James Bloom
1 year
BURNER #51 now available for bidding at Sothebys🧨 This dynamic cryptoart piece changes every block in step with Ethereum. The composition rearranges in response to live gas price data @Sothebysverse @Sothebys #nativelydigital
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James Bloom
3 years
I've just minted my genesis piece on my own custom ERC721 contract. 'UPDATED PFP'. Synthetic character passed through multiple CNN and GAN neural networks in an attempt to create a new character. Digital painting.
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James Bloom
3 months
Opening in Paris tonight Strouk Gallery 5 Rue du Mail. See some of you there!
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I actually love the tradition of art collecting as connoisseurship. Growing your own aesthetic sensitivity and philosophical literacy, learning all the art historical context etc. It doesn't have to be elitist or obscure, it's a personal exploration
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James Bloom
2 months
You can't make an artwork mean something just by saying it. It has to actually be there. Say no to art lies
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James Bloom
10 months
Warms my heart that The Simpsons focused their latest episode on real blockchain art instead of financial speculation in NFTs ✨
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James Bloom
2 years
GM. Every time an artist kisses a whale's ass, a fairy loses its wings. Just saying
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James Bloom
11 months
Just because you mint a creation on the blockchain, doesn't mean you have to sell it. Sure, the market is a big focus point, but blockchain technology allows for a lot more than just buying and selling. This isn't about zeroone, I'm just saying the market isn't everything
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1 year
GOLD is a dynamic cryptoart series with a roadmap. Yep you read that right, in fact GOLD has a 20 year roadmap. It'e written on the chain, it cannot rug, but you have to hodl to realise the 'gains' 💫
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3 years
Morning! Post your latest work below. I'd love to see what you've everyone's been doing. No obligation to RT, but feel free👇👇👇 #NFT #NFTart #NFTartist #nftcollector
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2 months
Sold two Physicals during my exhibition at Strouk Gallery. Physicals are CAM CNC carvings on polyurethane board. 83 x 50 x 4 cm each
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10 months
I'm starting to believe the killer app that causes mass-adoption of NFTs won't come from inside this space. Because the supposed thought leaders here are too busy speculating or defending their bags to invent anything good. Lack of vision is the problem. Harsh maybe, but true imo
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3 years
Computer-mediated identity isn't trustworthy. But human identity isn't fixed. A splintered self is normal. I pass synthetic characters through neural nets to create abstract identities. Collected by MOCA, Matt Kane, Claire Silver, John Karel, Joe Looney
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2 years
BURNER is now verified on Opensea 🥳
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3 years
'GALAXY REAVERS' 1/1 now minted on my custom ERC721 contract. This is the first in a new collection of 'SCREENGRABS', based on in-game shots. It has special traits and boosts in the metadata too 👀
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2 years
OS3. My first 1/1 on the tezos blockchain
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James Bloom
10 months
For NFTs to go mainstream the market needs to be put in the background and the actual thing (art, for example) should be the primary focus. If market speculation is the focus, it won't go mainstream. Not saying the market isn't important, just other things are more important
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Very few artists have communicated anything profoundly different in a digital medium that hasn't already been expressed in other formats. Maybe the constant speed of new technology is the problem. Artists get stuck reacting to the tech (or just become a product of it)
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James Bloom
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I came to make art here to escape marketing, not get better at it
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James Bloom
3 years
'PFPv2'. 3/3. Metaverse character passed through multiple CNN and GAN neural nets. Available on @rariblecom
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James Bloom
3 years
🤖🐔🤖H=N ART SHARE🤖🐔🤖 Share your art below. Retweet if you want to. Take a look at what everyone else is making and feel free to comment. Maybe sell some art too. 👇🦿👇🦿👇🦿👇
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James Bloom
1 year
Collectors who won't collect if certain other collectors have collected. What is that about?
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James Bloom
3 years
'UR PROFILE' is my genesis piece on @KnownOrigin_io and part of the @museumcryptoart 'CryptoArt Revolution' exhibition in Paris 15-16 Dec
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James Bloom
1 year
GOLD is my new dynamic cryptoart series. Coming soon:
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James Bloom
2 years
GENERATOR New 1/1 on my custom ERC721 contract
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James Bloom
8 months
Seems there is an arms race to produce the next technically groundbreaking NFT collection. I personally ended up in that race basically by accident, was always more interested in exploring people's relationship to technology, for good or bad
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