
Web3
Known Fact's Web3 Journey
I've been minting works on the Ethereum blockchain since 2020. In that time the infrastructure, tools, and platforms have changed immensely. Minting some kinds of works is much easier than it was back then, but even when the community was stuck with platforms only interested in small jpegs I found work arounds.
A short synopsis of my works since then are as follows:
1st Gen Music Series - My first series was the then uncommon music nfts for my "2020 Vision" album. They were minted on Rarible and used IPFS/Pinata to get around the filetype limitations - providing uncompressed music, the Ableton project files, and commercial use rights.
Video Art Series - A series of all the video-based art I had produced in the period between 2010 and 2020. There's a wide variety of work here, from 2D and 3D animations, to planetary dome format videos, experimental live action, and video collage. Each work comes with the full length/resolution video as well as a private streaming link. Again minted on Rarible with some IPFS/Pinata tricks to get around limitations.
AVG Art Series - A video series and my first rodeo involving AI tools. I took a rather large collection of life study drawings I had made and sorted into themes. I then used machine learning to create interpolations between the different drawings in a set to create videos. The tokens provide not only the full length/resolution video but also all the life drawings used to make it. This was my first series made using the Opensea contract.
Where's My Mask Series - Early in the Covid pandemic (spring 2020) I started making a children's book focusing on the stress and anxiety of the life changes it brought. A bit after release I was taking a look at all the sketches and development art that went into it and thought some special edition nfts would be a great way to get them out in the world. Each token comes with full page art as well as sketch/wip images. This series was also done on Opensea.
Endless Experiment Series - My current music nft series. I produce new songs once a week in 10 week runs each quarter. Each song, comes with the uncompressed music, individual track art and a full set of commercial usage rights baked right in the contract. So far two volumes have been released and a third has begun production. This is both my first series made under my own contract - via Manifold's tools - and also my first series of 1155 type tokens.