Another week, another artist leveraging Atomic Form’s Proof of Exhibition at the Colonna Contemporary Gallery in Wayne, PA.About the Exhibition, Artist, and GalleryFrom January 12th - 29th, BHARE will be opening up his solo exhibition “Building a Happier Home” at the Colonna Contemporary Gallery. He’s a first-generation Barbadian American abstract artist and possesses a multidisciplinary approach, yet his primary focus lies in working with acrylic and oil pastels on canvas. Through the utiliz...

Another week, another artist leveraging Atomic Form’s Proof of Exhibition at the Colonna Contemporary Gallery in Wayne, PA.About the Exhibition, Artist, and GalleryFrom January 12th - 29th, BHARE will be opening up his solo exhibition “Building a Happier Home” at the Colonna Contemporary Gallery. He’s a first-generation Barbadian American abstract artist and possesses a multidisciplinary approach, yet his primary focus lies in working with acrylic and oil pastels on canvas. Through the utiliz...

A Glimpse Into the FutureAt his recent NFT drop, Jesse Woolston faced a bit of a challenge.A still frame caught from Jesse Woolston's new art series, The Infinite Constant Front. Video available at https://twitter.com/jessewoolston/status/1512166293708832792.He was pushing the boundaries of computer-generated art, resulting in breathtaking computer simulations of millions of particles smashing off of each other. Initial exports of his masterpieces were a hefty 1.6GB apiece. Unfortunately...

A Glimpse Into the FutureAt his recent NFT drop, Jesse Woolston faced a bit of a challenge.A still frame caught from Jesse Woolston's new art series, The Infinite Constant Front. Video available at https://twitter.com/jessewoolston/status/1512166293708832792.He was pushing the boundaries of computer-generated art, resulting in breathtaking computer simulations of millions of particles smashing off of each other. Initial exports of his masterpieces were a hefty 1.6GB apiece. Unfortunately...

Simple Summary: We claim the most valuable NFT data is created after its mint. However, blockchains are optimized for consensus of truth, permissioned writes, and historically sticky data. This creates friction for creators trying to update NFT metadata or crowdsource external contributions. We propose a new way of approaching these challenges. Rather than trying to control and update the single metadata file referenced from an NFT’s tokenURI, why not mint additional blocks of metadata that b...

Simple Summary: We claim the most valuable NFT data is created after its mint. However, blockchains are optimized for consensus of truth, permissioned writes, and historically sticky data. This creates friction for creators trying to update NFT metadata or crowdsource external contributions. We propose a new way of approaching these challenges. Rather than trying to control and update the single metadata file referenced from an NFT’s tokenURI, why not mint additional blocks of metadata that b...

@jackbutcher’s Twitter feed is a master class in how building in public can engage and grow a community. Yes, Jack is the leader of the movement he created, with final decision-making authority on the art he produces as well as how, when, and where he reveals it. Still, you can’t help but feel the energy of the interplay between him and his audience. Multiple times I’ve witnessed a single reply ignite a slew of ideation and experimentation. To me, these are critical conversations that breathe...

@jackbutcher’s Twitter feed is a master class in how building in public can engage and grow a community. Yes, Jack is the leader of the movement he created, with final decision-making authority on the art he produces as well as how, when, and where he reveals it. Still, you can’t help but feel the energy of the interplay between him and his audience. Multiple times I’ve witnessed a single reply ignite a slew of ideation and experimentation. To me, these are critical conversations that breathe...

This is the second article in a series where Atomic Form analyzes NFT metadata diversity across several chains. These efforts are intended to provide a path for developers to display the best available quality of NFT for a given device or screen. The first article, written by Will Johnson, analyzes Ethereum NFTs and is available here.A Helios 3D NFT and metadata.Atomic Form is taking on a very intriguing challenge. We want to allow users to authenticate multiple multi-chain wallets, choose fr...

This is the second article in a series where Atomic Form analyzes NFT metadata diversity across several chains. These efforts are intended to provide a path for developers to display the best available quality of NFT for a given device or screen. The first article, written by Will Johnson, analyzes Ethereum NFTs and is available here.A Helios 3D NFT and metadata.Atomic Form is taking on a very intriguing challenge. We want to allow users to authenticate multiple multi-chain wallets, choose fr...

The mfer metadata and nft side by sideThe big lie: NFTs are “just JPEGs.” The reality: NFTs are the web3 equivalent of index.html in web1. Developers have near infinite flexibility in what they put into a web page. They can change the layout, style, and content to create a bland Craigslist listing all the way to media rich-platforms like Youtube. Similarly, NFTs (through the tokenURI field) can be filled with data and links to other datasets. As we start to see developers and artists push the...

The mfer metadata and nft side by sideThe big lie: NFTs are “just JPEGs.” The reality: NFTs are the web3 equivalent of index.html in web1. Developers have near infinite flexibility in what they put into a web page. They can change the layout, style, and content to create a bland Craigslist listing all the way to media rich-platforms like Youtube. Similarly, NFTs (through the tokenURI field) can be filled with data and links to other datasets. As we start to see developers and artists push the...

"Artworks most dear have, for countless moons, escaped the grip of oblivion - and such strange, bewitching treasures, borne of genius arcane, shall persist eternally beyond the gloaming of generations yet to come." – Edgar Allan Poe, or maybe just an unprovable AI hallucinationThe most precious works of art have been preserved for centuries, and precious art is worth being preserved for centuries to come. During their travel through time, works of art have built up, and continue to build up, ...

"Artworks most dear have, for countless moons, escaped the grip of oblivion - and such strange, bewitching treasures, borne of genius arcane, shall persist eternally beyond the gloaming of generations yet to come." – Edgar Allan Poe, or maybe just an unprovable AI hallucinationThe most precious works of art have been preserved for centuries, and precious art is worth being preserved for centuries to come. During their travel through time, works of art have built up, and continue to build up, ...

The Future of NFTs: Cryptographically Capturing Their HistoriesAtomic Form is creating a full-stack solution for NFTs: from data management and provenance to hardware and exhibition. The topics in this article include media file store redundancy, metadata tagging beyond minted data, interchain record keeping, and exhibition data. Atomic Form is largely addressing the following:Creating superior data granularity to enhance record keeping, search, and discovery. A P2P economy for data availabil...

The Future of NFTs: Cryptographically Capturing Their HistoriesAtomic Form is creating a full-stack solution for NFTs: from data management and provenance to hardware and exhibition. The topics in this article include media file store redundancy, metadata tagging beyond minted data, interchain record keeping, and exhibition data. Atomic Form is largely addressing the following:Creating superior data granularity to enhance record keeping, search, and discovery. A P2P economy for data availabil...

At Atomic Form, we’ve been strong advocates for improving NFT metadata standards & usage. Why? We see a pattern emerging from two previous generations of the web. In both cases, content producers that embraced/applied metadata benefited big time. Key benefits:Their content ranked higher against other content.Their content received more real estate on the page.They controlled the exact title, image, and description that would appear.These were transformative changes. So how did each generation...

At Atomic Form, we’ve been strong advocates for improving NFT metadata standards & usage. Why? We see a pattern emerging from two previous generations of the web. In both cases, content producers that embraced/applied metadata benefited big time. Key benefits:Their content ranked higher against other content.Their content received more real estate on the page.They controlled the exact title, image, and description that would appear.These were transformative changes. So how did each generation...

Atomic Form’s Proof of Exhibition in Action at Adam Disbrow’s From Pigment to Pixels exhibit at the Colonna Contemporary Gallery. Adam Disbrow’s career started in the physical, traditional art world. In 2021, he began his artistic evolution from the traditional art realm to the digital and NFT space, and officially rebranded to AD_AD (Adam Disbrow_Analog to Digital). His recent works continue to bridge this divide, being produced and available in canvas and NFT formats. In tandem, Michele Col...

Atomic Form’s Proof of Exhibition in Action at Adam Disbrow’s From Pigment to Pixels exhibit at the Colonna Contemporary Gallery. Adam Disbrow’s career started in the physical, traditional art world. In 2021, he began his artistic evolution from the traditional art realm to the digital and NFT space, and officially rebranded to AD_AD (Adam Disbrow_Analog to Digital). His recent works continue to bridge this divide, being produced and available in canvas and NFT formats. In tandem, Michele Col...