I am Mag, a street photographer/Artist. Here is a brief profile.

Street photographer & artist searching for beauty hidden in everyday life, started his career in December 2021. Based on the technique of street snapshots, he takes photographs with the theme of moments where reality and fiction are ambiguously intermingled and where there is a blank space for the imagination. He is also challenging unconventional photographic expressions such as collaborations, secondary works, and abstract expressions based on photography.

Please allow me to describe the process and thoughts behind the creation of this new photo-based glitch/generative art work "YAKUYOKE".

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/muNmUJ-REes?feature=share

YAKUYOKE is a photo-based glitch/generative art on Bitcoin.

YAKU (厄): misfortune or calamityYOKE (除け): to ward off or get rid of.

Inspired by the ritual of warding off bad luck at shrines in Japan, this work is a wish for good luck, inspired by the idea of burning misfortune and calamity from a photograph with the flames of generative art.

The inspiration for this work was a flame that the artist saw at a ceremony to ward off misfortune in the New Year 2025, in an effort to shake off the scam theft misfortune that he suffered in the year 2024.

This experience inspired him to ask himself, “Can I express the ritual of warding off misfortune and calamity and wishing for good luck on Bitcoin? This was the theme of the project.

The act of burning eight pure street photographs taken in Shibuya, Tokyo, and making them non-transferable corresponds to the act of burning firewood.

Using p5.js and WEBGL programs, the Burned photo data is randomly retrieved by Recursion, and various glitch destructions are added to reproduce the flames of burning bad luck.

The output of the glitch is randomized according to transaction ID, bitcoin block size, and number of transactions.

In this work, the artist also aimed to create an architecture that embodies the concept of “burning bad luck” as Art on Bitcoin.

All eight photographic inscriptions are Burned, making them non-transferable and non-sellable.

The generative art program is inscribe on Uncommon Sats.

Programs and photos are in a Parent-Child relationship, where the program is the Parent and the photo is the Child.

By using Delegate/Reinscribe to construct the Parent/Child relationship, the structure is reproduced on the on-chain as well, like a flame burning on a piece of firewood, with the code at the top, connecting the burned photos and aggregating them.

It is hoped that the on-chain flame, which exists in the wallet, will be like a amulet that protects against scams and other misfortunes and calamities, and wishes for good luck.

I decided to create this work because I wanted to shake off the bad luck and disasters that befell me in the year 2024.

In 2024, I had more health problems than any other year in my life, including a cold that lasted several weeks and a bone bruise, but the most shocking of all was last October 2024, when about 3,000 USD worth of BTC was stolen by scammers.

The crypto world is a DYOR, self-responsible world, and I have no feelings of resentment towards anyone. However, at the time, I still strongly remember the various feelings of fear, disappointment, and apology to those around me who had inconvenienced me.

Troubles such as scams and hacking are inseparable risks in the crypto world. I feel that we need to protect ourselves and ride the rough waves.

Recently, there have been an increasing number of technological attempts to prevent scams, such as apps that guard against scams in wallets, but I wondered if there was anything I, as an artist, could do.

I wondered if there was anything I, as an artist, could do to reduce the number of people like myself who feel depressed after being scammed, by alerting them through artistic expression. What came to mind was the idea of “warding off bad luck.

The idea of “YAKUYOKE” in creating this work came to me when I went to a shrine in the year 2025 for the New Year's first visit.

In Japan, there is a culture of going to shrines and temples to perform a traditional ritual called “YAKUYOKE”. Although I don't think there is any scientific basis for this, you know that many people pray for good luck in the New Year in the hope that it will be a good year.

Although there are various methods of praying for good luck, it is common to have a Shinto priest or a Buddhist priest pray to the gods and Buddha in the year of declining luck, called the bad luck year, to ward off bad luck and disasters or to prevent them from befalling you in advance.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, I was exhausted after the scam damage in 2024, and although I was not in a bad luck year, I decided to have my bad luck exorcised at the New Year's first visit to a shrine in order to make a wish as well.

The method used to ward off bad luck and misfortune at the shrine I went to was to make gomagi (firewood) from bad luck and misfortune, and burn it with a sacred fire.

When I actually witnessed the ritual of burning evil spirits with powerful flames in front of my eyes to drive them away, my stagnant feelings were mysteriously cleared away. At the same time, I was inspired by the method of burning bad luck with flames.

Based on this experience, I wondered if it would be possible to create an artwork that expressed the idea of burning bad luck. I wondered if the work could be a kind of talisman to prevent bad luck and disasters that exist in the world of cryptography and to pray for good fortune, and this led me to deepen my ideas.

How do we express the idea of a flame that burns like a bad luck? First of all, I approached the idea of using photographs, which are the foundation of my own expression, as a base to see if I could create an expression like a flame that is burning with fire.

For the base photo, I went with my intuition and chose photos of graffiti and stickers scattered around the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo.

Although it may be controversial, I often photograph graffiti and stickers because I like their chaotic impression. I thought that the chaotic accumulation of expressions left behind by various street people could provide sufficient strength to my work as the base wood for a flame of mischief.

From there, through trial and error, I approached my own image of a flame that burns away evil by destroying photographic images with glitches, changing colors, and so on.

I then added randomness to the color pattern of the flame and the degree of glitching. While the transaction ID was used as the seed value, I also included the bitcoin block size and number of transactions as elements of the randomization so that it could be a generative art.

Since this work was to be developed in Ordinals, I sought an architecture that would embody the concept of “burning bad luck” as Art on Bitcoin.

As shown in the schematic diagram, I arrived at the following form for the base mechanism to generate the generative art of this work.

• All 8 photo inscriptions have been Burned and are no longer available for transfer or sale.

• The generative art program is inscribed to Uncommon Sats.

• Programs and photos are in a Parent-Child relationship, where the program is the Parent and the photo is the Child.

• By using Delegate/Reinscribe to construct the Parent/Child relationship, the structure is reproduced on the on-chain as well, with the code at the top and the Burned photos connected and aggregated to the code.

I hope that the flame that burns the bad luck built on Bitcoin will be a protection against scams and other misfortunes and calamities, as well as a talisman for good luck.

I will be releasing the product in two phases: a WhiteList (WL) presale at a discounted price and a public sale. Both releases will be at FCFS.

• Supply: 256

• Start: 1/23(Thu) 21:30(JST) / 7:30(EST) ~

• Platform: Gamma(Mint page is under preparing)

• Duration: 1/23(Thu) 21:30(JST) / 7:30(EST) ~ 1/24(Fri) 21:30(JST) / 7:30(EST)

• Price: 0.0002 btc

• Duration: 1/24(Fri) 22:00(JST) / 8:00(EST)~

• Price: 0.0003 btc

*If unforeseen circumstances cause the start date and time to be moved back or forward, we will contact you immediately.

Holders of the following ordinals collections of my works are eligible for WL. I am also planning to distribute some WLs by other means.

• Ordinal Tokyo Fragments

• Recursive Tokyo Vintage 78

• Mount Fuji from Tokyo

• Deviation

• BitFragmentation

• RuneScan

• Tokyo Substances

• Kyoto Raindrops/Dissemination

For those who are not holders of their own work, we will distribute discounted price WL.

It will be open until Monday, 1/19 at 21:00(JST)/7:00(EST). If you are interested in, please check it out.

https://forms.gle/SrgBGCMJdQ3HRAwH9

Through the creation of this work, I have been able to reflect on my own inadequacies in my own actions and to move forward positively without being defeated by bad luck and calamities.

Of course, there is no scientific basis for this work that can definitely remove bad luck and disasters. However, I believe that it can be a source of emotional support like a talisman.

I will continue to devote myself to it without giving in to bad luck or difficulties.

Thank you for reading to the end! If you think this post is good, I would appreciate it if you could spread the word by RT or liking it if you like! Please feel free to contact me again with any questions or concerns!

For your reference, I will post a link to my past notes on my NFT activities. Please take a look at them if you are interested.

• My Thoughts Behind "The Nearest Dusk," a NFT Photography Collection of Dusk

• Thoughts on the NFT Photo Edition "Multifaceted Tokyo"

• Thoughts Behind the Illustration/Photo Collaboration Works with NFT Creator Unagi

• Twists and turns and thoughts in the creation of a collaborative work with NFT artist Kyushime

• Multifaceted Tokyo - Open Edition

• Thoughts behind Ordinal Tokyo Fragments

• Thoughts behind Recursive Tokyo Vintage 78

• Thoughts behind Tokyo Condensation

• Thoughts behind Mount Fuji from Tokyo

I am Mag, a street photographer/Artist. Here is a brief profile.

Street photographer & artist searching for beauty hidden in everyday life, started his career in December 2021. Based on the technique of street snapshots, he takes photographs with the theme of moments where reality and fiction are ambiguously intermingled and where there is a blank space for the imagination. He is also challenging unconventional photographic expressions such as collaborations, secondary works, and abstract expressions based on photography.

Please allow me to describe the process and thoughts behind the creation of this new photo-based glitch/generative art work "YAKUYOKE".

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/muNmUJ-REes?feature=share

YAKUYOKE is a photo-based glitch/generative art on Bitcoin.

YAKU (厄): misfortune or calamityYOKE (除け): to ward off or get rid of.

Inspired by the ritual of warding off bad luck at shrines in Japan, this work is a wish for good luck, inspired by the idea of burning misfortune and calamity from a photograph with the flames of generative art.

The inspiration for this work was a flame that the artist saw at a ceremony to ward off misfortune in the New Year 2025, in an effort to shake off the scam theft misfortune that he suffered in the year 2024.

This experience inspired him to ask himself, “Can I express the ritual of warding off misfortune and calamity and wishing for good luck on Bitcoin? This was the theme of the project.

The act of burning eight pure street photographs taken in Shibuya, Tokyo, and making them non-transferable corresponds to the act of burning firewood.

Using p5.js and WEBGL programs, the Burned photo data is randomly retrieved by Recursion, and various glitch destructions are added to reproduce the flames of burning bad luck.

The output of the glitch is randomized according to transaction ID, bitcoin block size, and number of transactions.

In this work, the artist also aimed to create an architecture that embodies the concept of “burning bad luck” as Art on Bitcoin.

All eight photographic inscriptions are Burned, making them non-transferable and non-sellable.

The generative art program is inscribe on Uncommon Sats.

Programs and photos are in a Parent-Child relationship, where the program is the Parent and the photo is the Child.

By using Delegate/Reinscribe to construct the Parent/Child relationship, the structure is reproduced on the on-chain as well, like a flame burning on a piece of firewood, with the code at the top, connecting the burned photos and aggregating them.

It is hoped that the on-chain flame, which exists in the wallet, will be like a amulet that protects against scams and other misfortunes and calamities, and wishes for good luck.

I decided to create this work because I wanted to shake off the bad luck and disasters that befell me in the year 2024.

In 2024, I had more health problems than any other year in my life, including a cold that lasted several weeks and a bone bruise, but the most shocking of all was last October 2024, when about 3,000 USD worth of BTC was stolen by scammers.

The crypto world is a DYOR, self-responsible world, and I have no feelings of resentment towards anyone. However, at the time, I still strongly remember the various feelings of fear, disappointment, and apology to those around me who had inconvenienced me.

Troubles such as scams and hacking are inseparable risks in the crypto world. I feel that we need to protect ourselves and ride the rough waves.

Recently, there have been an increasing number of technological attempts to prevent scams, such as apps that guard against scams in wallets, but I wondered if there was anything I, as an artist, could do.

I wondered if there was anything I, as an artist, could do to reduce the number of people like myself who feel depressed after being scammed, by alerting them through artistic expression. What came to mind was the idea of “warding off bad luck.

The idea of “YAKUYOKE” in creating this work came to me when I went to a shrine in the year 2025 for the New Year's first visit.

In Japan, there is a culture of going to shrines and temples to perform a traditional ritual called “YAKUYOKE”. Although I don't think there is any scientific basis for this, you know that many people pray for good luck in the New Year in the hope that it will be a good year.

Although there are various methods of praying for good luck, it is common to have a Shinto priest or a Buddhist priest pray to the gods and Buddha in the year of declining luck, called the bad luck year, to ward off bad luck and disasters or to prevent them from befalling you in advance.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, I was exhausted after the scam damage in 2024, and although I was not in a bad luck year, I decided to have my bad luck exorcised at the New Year's first visit to a shrine in order to make a wish as well.

The method used to ward off bad luck and misfortune at the shrine I went to was to make gomagi (firewood) from bad luck and misfortune, and burn it with a sacred fire.

When I actually witnessed the ritual of burning evil spirits with powerful flames in front of my eyes to drive them away, my stagnant feelings were mysteriously cleared away. At the same time, I was inspired by the method of burning bad luck with flames.

Based on this experience, I wondered if it would be possible to create an artwork that expressed the idea of burning bad luck. I wondered if the work could be a kind of talisman to prevent bad luck and disasters that exist in the world of cryptography and to pray for good fortune, and this led me to deepen my ideas.

How do we express the idea of a flame that burns like a bad luck? First of all, I approached the idea of using photographs, which are the foundation of my own expression, as a base to see if I could create an expression like a flame that is burning with fire.

For the base photo, I went with my intuition and chose photos of graffiti and stickers scattered around the streets of Shibuya, Tokyo.

Although it may be controversial, I often photograph graffiti and stickers because I like their chaotic impression. I thought that the chaotic accumulation of expressions left behind by various street people could provide sufficient strength to my work as the base wood for a flame of mischief.

From there, through trial and error, I approached my own image of a flame that burns away evil by destroying photographic images with glitches, changing colors, and so on.

I then added randomness to the color pattern of the flame and the degree of glitching. While the transaction ID was used as the seed value, I also included the bitcoin block size and number of transactions as elements of the randomization so that it could be a generative art.

Since this work was to be developed in Ordinals, I sought an architecture that would embody the concept of “burning bad luck” as Art on Bitcoin.

As shown in the schematic diagram, I arrived at the following form for the base mechanism to generate the generative art of this work.

• All 8 photo inscriptions have been Burned and are no longer available for transfer or sale.

• The generative art program is inscribed to Uncommon Sats.

• Programs and photos are in a Parent-Child relationship, where the program is the Parent and the photo is the Child.

• By using Delegate/Reinscribe to construct the Parent/Child relationship, the structure is reproduced on the on-chain as well, with the code at the top and the Burned photos connected and aggregated to the code.

I hope that the flame that burns the bad luck built on Bitcoin will be a protection against scams and other misfortunes and calamities, as well as a talisman for good luck.

I will be releasing the product in two phases: a WhiteList (WL) presale at a discounted price and a public sale. Both releases will be at FCFS.

• Supply: 256

• Start: 1/23(Thu) 21:30(JST) / 7:30(EST) ~

• Platform: Gamma(Mint page is under preparing)

• Duration: 1/23(Thu) 21:30(JST) / 7:30(EST) ~ 1/24(Fri) 21:30(JST) / 7:30(EST)

• Price: 0.0002 btc

• Duration: 1/24(Fri) 22:00(JST) / 8:00(EST)~

• Price: 0.0003 btc

*If unforeseen circumstances cause the start date and time to be moved back or forward, we will contact you immediately.

Holders of the following ordinals collections of my works are eligible for WL. I am also planning to distribute some WLs by other means.

• Ordinal Tokyo Fragments

• Recursive Tokyo Vintage 78

• Mount Fuji from Tokyo

• Deviation

• BitFragmentation

• RuneScan

• Tokyo Substances

• Kyoto Raindrops/Dissemination

For those who are not holders of their own work, we will distribute discounted price WL.

It will be open until Monday, 1/19 at 21:00(JST)/7:00(EST). If you are interested in, please check it out.

https://forms.gle/SrgBGCMJdQ3HRAwH9

Through the creation of this work, I have been able to reflect on my own inadequacies in my own actions and to move forward positively without being defeated by bad luck and calamities.

Of course, there is no scientific basis for this work that can definitely remove bad luck and disasters. However, I believe that it can be a source of emotional support like a talisman.

I will continue to devote myself to it without giving in to bad luck or difficulties.

Thank you for reading to the end! If you think this post is good, I would appreciate it if you could spread the word by RT or liking it if you like! Please feel free to contact me again with any questions or concerns!

For your reference, I will post a link to my past notes on my NFT activities. Please take a look at them if you are interested.

• My Thoughts Behind "The Nearest Dusk," a NFT Photography Collection of Dusk

• Thoughts on the NFT Photo Edition "Multifaceted Tokyo"

• Thoughts Behind the Illustration/Photo Collaboration Works with NFT Creator Unagi

• Twists and turns and thoughts in the creation of a collaborative work with NFT artist Kyushime

• Multifaceted Tokyo - Open Edition

• Thoughts behind Ordinal Tokyo Fragments

• Thoughts behind Recursive Tokyo Vintage 78

• Thoughts behind Tokyo Condensation

• Thoughts behind Mount Fuji from Tokyo