The Molt: Dancing in the Collapse
Everything hums like a live wire. You can feel it, right? The buzzing tension that makes your chest ache when you scroll too far down the feed, the static that builds every time another headline screams the world is ending. Climate collapse, endless wars, algorithms tightening around our throats… like we’re sleepwalking toward extinction. …Doomscrolling our way to the heat-death of culture. But here’s the secret: this isn’t death. It’s molt. Think snakeskin. Think cicadas buried underground f...
The Molt: Dancing in the Collapse
Everything hums like a live wire. You can feel it, right? The buzzing tension that makes your chest ache when you scroll too far down the feed, the static that builds every time another headline screams the world is ending. Climate collapse, endless wars, algorithms tightening around our throats… like we’re sleepwalking toward extinction. …Doomscrolling our way to the heat-death of culture. But here’s the secret: this isn’t death. It’s molt. Think snakeskin. Think cicadas buried underground f...
The Molt: Dancing in the Collapse
Everything hums like a live wire. You can feel it, right? The buzzing tension that makes your chest ache when you scroll too far down the feed, the static that builds every time another headline screams the world is ending. Climate collapse and endless wars. The algorithm's noose tightening around our throats… We’re sleepwalking toward extinction. …Doomscrolling our way to the heat-death of culture. But here’s the secret: this isn’t actually death. It’s molt. Think snakeskin or cicadas buried...
The Molt: Dancing in the Collapse
Everything hums like a live wire. You can feel it, right? The buzzing tension that makes your chest ache when you scroll too far down the feed, the static that builds every time another headline screams the world is ending. Climate collapse and endless wars. The algorithm's noose tightening around our throats… We’re sleepwalking toward extinction. …Doomscrolling our way to the heat-death of culture. But here’s the secret: this isn’t actually death. It’s molt. Think snakeskin or cicadas buried...
Snow Crash movie & character screenshots, AI collaboration
Apparently in 2023 this sort of 1980’s AI reimagining is all the rage now. But I wanted to finally post another part to series I started in the middle of last year. What’s more dystopian than publishing a set of AI generated images inspired by Neal Stephenson’s SNOW CRASH, on a “web3” publishing platform -- in a space where the term metaverse is so ill-defined and misappropriated. Nothing. Prepare yourself for character art of Hiro Protagonist, Y.T., Uncle Enzo and many more of these beloved ...
Snow Crash movie & character screenshots, AI collaboration
Apparently in 2023 this sort of 1980’s AI reimagining is all the rage now. But I wanted to finally post another part to series I started in the middle of last year. What’s more dystopian than publishing a set of AI generated images inspired by Neal Stephenson’s SNOW CRASH, on a “web3” publishing platform -- in a space where the term metaverse is so ill-defined and misappropriated. Nothing. Prepare yourself for character art of Hiro Protagonist, Y.T., Uncle Enzo and many more of these beloved ...
rwx's cool cold reality: november 2022
Originally this was going to be a much more put together post, speculating on scenarios that could happen and what artists could do to prepare for them and what they may need to expect as we moved forward in time. Unfortunately, I didn’t finish anything but the outline and if you’re plugged into the vast ecosystem of blockchain related things… well, you may have noticed that a few other things have happened that I think are speeding us toward a conclusion that I am not thrilled about. In fact...
rwx's cool cold reality: november 2022
Originally this was going to be a much more put together post, speculating on scenarios that could happen and what artists could do to prepare for them and what they may need to expect as we moved forward in time. Unfortunately, I didn’t finish anything but the outline and if you’re plugged into the vast ecosystem of blockchain related things… well, you may have noticed that a few other things have happened that I think are speeding us toward a conclusion that I am not thrilled about. In fact...
rwx's cool cold reality: november 2022
Originally this was going to be a much more put together post, speculating on scenarios that could happen and what artists could do to prepare for them and what they may need to expect as we moved forward in time. Unfortunately, I didn’t finish anything but the outline and if you’re plugged into the vast ecosystem of blockchain related things… well, you may have noticed that a few other things have happened that I think are speeding us toward a conclusion that I am not thrilled about. In fact...
rwx's cool cold reality: november 2022
Originally this was going to be a much more put together post, speculating on scenarios that could happen and what artists could do to prepare for them and what they may need to expect as we moved forward in time. Unfortunately, I didn’t finish anything but the outline and if you’re plugged into the vast ecosystem of blockchain related things… well, you may have noticed that a few other things have happened that I think are speeding us toward a conclusion that I am not thrilled about. In fact...
AI imagines the games and movies of movies and games we missed out on - Part 1
AI image generation is becoming an incredible thing. Here’s my personal thesis on it all: “I think once AI can make perfectly rendered art, a lot of art services for corporations will vanish and these organizations will start hiring for AI artists. Instead of buying stock photos, they’ll be rendering out tailored art for things like marketing materials, media concept art, etc. If not hiring AI artists, they’ll hire engineers who can write custom algorithms. I think artists who want to go beyo...
AI imagines the games and movies of movies and games we missed out on - Part 1
AI image generation is becoming an incredible thing. Here’s my personal thesis on it all: “I think once AI can make perfectly rendered art, a lot of art services for corporations will vanish and these organizations will start hiring for AI artists. Instead of buying stock photos, they’ll be rendering out tailored art for things like marketing materials, media concept art, etc. If not hiring AI artists, they’ll hire engineers who can write custom algorithms. I think artists who want to go beyo...
Rick and Morty: The NFT scene
If you love bad fan fiction, this post is for you. This scene was written by OpenAI and a shitload of refreshing/iterating the prompt: “Rick and Morty argue about NFTs”. Obviously, you can’t generate this many tokens in a single output - so the editor (me), did take artistic liberty in the order of the scene outputs. The images are generated from masterofallscience - I used screencaps to help illustrate it visually (forgive me that I pulled from a million different scenes, this took forever a...
Rick and Morty: The NFT scene
If you love bad fan fiction, this post is for you. This scene was written by OpenAI and a shitload of refreshing/iterating the prompt: “Rick and Morty argue about NFTs”. Obviously, you can’t generate this many tokens in a single output - so the editor (me), did take artistic liberty in the order of the scene outputs. The images are generated from masterofallscience - I used screencaps to help illustrate it visually (forgive me that I pulled from a million different scenes, this took forever a...
Rick and Morty: The NFT scene
If you love bad fan fiction, this post is for you. This scene was written by OpenAI and a shitload of refreshing/iterating the prompt: “Rick and Morty argue about NFTs”. Obviously, you can’t generate this many tokens in a single output - so the editor (me), did take artistic liberty in the order of the scene outputs. The images are generated from masterofallscience - I used screencaps to help illustrate it visually (forgive me that I pulled from a million different scenes, this took forever a...
Rick and Morty: The NFT scene
If you love bad fan fiction, this post is for you. This scene was written by OpenAI and a shitload of refreshing/iterating the prompt: “Rick and Morty argue about NFTs”. Obviously, you can’t generate this many tokens in a single output - so the editor (me), did take artistic liberty in the order of the scene outputs. The images are generated from masterofallscience - I used screencaps to help illustrate it visually (forgive me that I pulled from a million different scenes, this took forever a...
rwx quest, evolving the 'stamp' metagame, & breaking the conditioning
There’s a shady path that leads to a hidden cabin deep in the dark woods behind the gated kingdom. No one has ventured there before. Rumors are that inside of this cabin is a cursed tome -- something that should have been left forgotten. It probably smells a bit like old, wet socks (though some records report that the scent is more akin to 4-day old wilted roses). I’ve spent a while trying to recruit a party that’s brave enough or bored enough to excavate the ruin. Most of the time, the energ...
rwx quest, evolving the 'stamp' metagame, & breaking the conditioning
There’s a shady path that leads to a hidden cabin deep in the dark woods behind the gated kingdom. No one has ventured there before. Rumors are that inside of this cabin is a cursed tome -- something that should have been left forgotten. It probably smells a bit like old, wet socks (though some records report that the scent is more akin to 4-day old wilted roses). I’ve spent a while trying to recruit a party that’s brave enough or bored enough to excavate the ruin. Most of the time, the energ...
NFT Monetization mechanics for AAA Video Game Publishers
This blog will outline ways AAA Video Game Publishers can leverage NFTs to give gamers some ownership while still milking them with the usual predatory practices found in loot crates and battle passes.The NFT Battle PassThe NFT Battle PassBattle passes (BP from here on) are the absolute worst monetization thing to exist since loot crates. They create FOMO for gamers and force them to sacrifice fun for completing agonizing challenges in exchange for experience points that level the pass up. Ea...
NFT Monetization mechanics for AAA Video Game Publishers
This blog will outline ways AAA Video Game Publishers can leverage NFTs to give gamers some ownership while still milking them with the usual predatory practices found in loot crates and battle passes.The NFT Battle PassThe NFT Battle PassBattle passes (BP from here on) are the absolute worst monetization thing to exist since loot crates. They create FOMO for gamers and force them to sacrifice fun for completing agonizing challenges in exchange for experience points that level the pass up. Ea...
