Today we're releasing CHRYSALISM. Now I'm officially the guy who did at least something in web3. Guess the time to tweak my Twitter bio has come. With this post, I wanted to share a few random facts about it – and inspire you to visit the project.

Here's the link: https://chrysalism.space

The experience is already open. You can mint your personal commemorative NFT (which you may like or not - but I hope you do) at the end of the reading. 

So what's up with the CHRYSALISM? The backstory starts somewhere around the summer of 2021 when our production team shot the visuals. During the early stages of development, we conceived this footage as a part of a commercial campaign for the local Russian jewelry brand. Unfortunately, for personal reasons, the brands' key decisionmaker lost interest in the project along the way, and we put the material aside to focus on something else. And early this year, we dug it up and started thinking – what can we do with this content after the brand that inspired the visuals is gone? And at the same time, making our first probe into NFT artwork was on our minds. So the reassembled material ended up as CHRYSALISM: "The serenity of a person who stays in a shelter during a thunderstorm."

With the source project's visuals, we explored humankind's sensual nature and the infinite sensuality of the human body. Upon revisiting the materials, the critical element was to include our reflections on the boundaries of digital texture. Across our previous work in traditional mediums, we constantly tried to explore this particular topic. The deeper we delved into its physique, the more vividly we discovered pleasures and unrecognized savagery that are not always recognizable in our everyday lives. CHRYSALISM uses photographs, videos, and AR objects to bring you closer to an innocent, childlike exploration of the nature of self without any social stigmas. Each digital piece evokes nature's primary natural cycles: growth and awakening. 

As for the technical side, we're doing the minting in the simplest way possible. The collection release is on Polygon. The mint price is utterly symbolic – 1 MATIC – with the total amount of editions being 35. The contract was made using the no-code tools from Studio721. This simple solution saved us a lot of time and allowed us to learn from the process. Predicting the skepticism, someone may ask, "why Polygon?." It's our first NFT project every step of the way – and we always perceived Polygon as a perfect technical playground for experiments and creativity. And yeah, an affordable one too. Our primary goal with CHRYSALISM – is to commemorate studios' transition into web3. Making money is not the intent of this collection. We view CHRYSALISM as an experiment first and foremost, so the affordability of participating in this experiment is a must. We do not promise a sophisticated roadmap with community calls and Discord activities. It is different from how we initially designed the project; the worst we could do is to fill it up with stuff that we never even thought about just to make a quick buck. As a studio and I, we are here for the long run. And my personal goals are simple: to implement an NFT collection in the least resistant way possible, learn how it's done and what's behind the engine, take notes and see the results. In my view, that's a good playground for a person who could not have been farther from coding and engineering for most of his life. And I'm most excited about what could be done next. 

Our expectations for CHRYSALISM are modest. The whole collection may stay unminted for months, and that's okay. Or perhaps it'll be minted out in a few days, which would be fantastic. No matter the result, we're still proud of finally letting go of CHRYSALISM, after all the initial perturbations. It's a relatively small but profound achievement for a small studio like ours. 

So, as a final reminder, visit CHRYSALISM: https://chrysalism.space

And also, check out our studio's website at https://thinkwithpink.com to learn more about the studio and our previous projects. There's more to come. *And yes, we're still in for the Bilita. *You can also follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/thinkpink_brand.

Today we're releasing CHRYSALISM. Now I'm officially the guy who did at least something in web3. Guess the time to tweak my Twitter bio has come. With this post, I wanted to share a few random facts about it – and inspire you to visit the project.

Here's the link: https://chrysalism.space

The experience is already open. You can mint your personal commemorative NFT (which you may like or not - but I hope you do) at the end of the reading. 

So what's up with the CHRYSALISM? The backstory starts somewhere around the summer of 2021 when our production team shot the visuals. During the early stages of development, we conceived this footage as a part of a commercial campaign for the local Russian jewelry brand. Unfortunately, for personal reasons, the brands' key decisionmaker lost interest in the project along the way, and we put the material aside to focus on something else. And early this year, we dug it up and started thinking – what can we do with this content after the brand that inspired the visuals is gone? And at the same time, making our first probe into NFT artwork was on our minds. So the reassembled material ended up as CHRYSALISM: "The serenity of a person who stays in a shelter during a thunderstorm."

With the source project's visuals, we explored humankind's sensual nature and the infinite sensuality of the human body. Upon revisiting the materials, the critical element was to include our reflections on the boundaries of digital texture. Across our previous work in traditional mediums, we constantly tried to explore this particular topic. The deeper we delved into its physique, the more vividly we discovered pleasures and unrecognized savagery that are not always recognizable in our everyday lives. CHRYSALISM uses photographs, videos, and AR objects to bring you closer to an innocent, childlike exploration of the nature of self without any social stigmas. Each digital piece evokes nature's primary natural cycles: growth and awakening. 

As for the technical side, we're doing the minting in the simplest way possible. The collection release is on Polygon. The mint price is utterly symbolic – 1 MATIC – with the total amount of editions being 35. The contract was made using the no-code tools from Studio721. This simple solution saved us a lot of time and allowed us to learn from the process. Predicting the skepticism, someone may ask, "why Polygon?." It's our first NFT project every step of the way – and we always perceived Polygon as a perfect technical playground for experiments and creativity. And yeah, an affordable one too. Our primary goal with CHRYSALISM – is to commemorate studios' transition into web3. Making money is not the intent of this collection. We view CHRYSALISM as an experiment first and foremost, so the affordability of participating in this experiment is a must. We do not promise a sophisticated roadmap with community calls and Discord activities. It is different from how we initially designed the project; the worst we could do is to fill it up with stuff that we never even thought about just to make a quick buck. As a studio and I, we are here for the long run. And my personal goals are simple: to implement an NFT collection in the least resistant way possible, learn how it's done and what's behind the engine, take notes and see the results. In my view, that's a good playground for a person who could not have been farther from coding and engineering for most of his life. And I'm most excited about what could be done next. 

Our expectations for CHRYSALISM are modest. The whole collection may stay unminted for months, and that's okay. Or perhaps it'll be minted out in a few days, which would be fantastic. No matter the result, we're still proud of finally letting go of CHRYSALISM, after all the initial perturbations. It's a relatively small but profound achievement for a small studio like ours. 

So, as a final reminder, visit CHRYSALISM: https://chrysalism.space

And also, check out our studio's website at https://thinkwithpink.com to learn more about the studio and our previous projects. There's more to come. *And yes, we're still in for the Bilita. *You can also follow us on Instagram at https://instagram.com/thinkpink_brand.