Highlights and sidecuts of the Meme Maxis, week of Oct 24 – cover art “Sternennacht“ by gmmoneyETH.

A very warm welcome to all our new members: rakesh_pulapa + spuddhism + web3_50 + milestones_nft + HugoFaz + AzOgZz + blocknoob_ + Giopetto14 + and now the hazing begins 🎃

Burnasso weaves his love of puzzles with the Open Metaverse, co-organizing (with DarrenSRS) a long-awaited scavenger hunt that went live this week. With three intrepid winners, of course one of them had to be a Maxi of our very own – congratulations to G9ralt for the speedy sleuthing! 🎁

Dinocelotti gifts two (2) “Shredded Institutions” to each holder of his Spread the Memes collection via airdrop. It’s an instant classic (announcement):

As we collectively figure out what it means to liberate art and culture from our web2 corporate overlords, UNIC and punk6529 continue to illuminate the vanguard:

Punk6529’s conversation with Punk4156 (co-founder of Nouns, a slow-release NFT collection and, some might argue, way of life) is foundational and thought-provoking. You can hear the interview and read class notes also:

There is a phenomenon called a visually evoked auditory response (vEAR) where, when given a silent video clip, some people’s brains fill in a matching sound all by themselves.

My award for the loudest new vEAR gif goes to JakNFT’s darlin’ new meme card (artist announcement) –

…and hot on its heels fins, G9ralt’s charming derivative meme:

IntrepidPhotos.eth acquires a coveted NakamotoFreedom (meme card 4) from MeltedMindz, bartering his own honest-to-god stunner of a photographic composition, “Rock and Ice” (entire “Northern Exposure” series on SuperRare) –

Pandemonium among the Maxis! Punk6529 offers the latest card by 6529er as a completely public mint from the get-go, bypassing the usual allowlist process. To celebrate the openness of cc0 and the entry of Pooh into the public domain, Winnie-the-Punk debuts with a pop:

Mouths grumbling and stomachs tumbling, the maxis bumble through the public mint and, in the end, emerge intact … even moving gradually to embrace the work. How could we not, accompanied by this epitome of wisdom and cuteness? [ed: I mean Dorian, obviously.]

Life is a journey when searching for hunny 🐝 M0niqueSullivan

And aRegularDad composes an opus celebrating the NFT realm as an Uncarved Block, just like Pooh and the eternal ocean he represents, in this thread on The Tao of Pooh –

Happy Birthday to Deconstruct_eth! 🎂 They present the 4th piece of their collection entitled “Upward” and I do hope some parts of it will be edible –

The big three-oh meme card is a 100-second performance extravaganza, spanning multiple acts. Here’s an intro from the artist himself:

Making this art video took 30 days and directly involved 60+ people, who were all onboarded to Web3, NFTs and our mission towards the open metaverse!

In true performance art fashion, HugoFaz has taken the ultimate goal of expanding and strengthening our broader web3 community, and made that goal integral to the piece itself. Be sure to read his entire announcement thread, beginning with inspirations for the work, to its grand purpose, exemplified by CasaNUA, HugoFaz’s local-artist incubation and support efforts. What we witness as dazzling creativity and proficiency becomes engraved with layers of deeper meaning. OM:HIG is a work of art unique to the medium of NFTs, yet universal in its celebration of humankind and our infinite power of expression.

Inevitably, by simplistic metrics the immediate audience reaction is…well, I’ll pass the mic to ReadyPereOne:

It takes but a single passionate cry to strike down the silence of the infinite. G9ralt’s derivative video-meme-card is thus the ideal all-caps assertion:

Later, HugoFaz shares footage of the dancers’ at a nude Halloween party watching the piece they created together. May we never lose sight of the fact that, in the end, it’s always about the people.

As we shimmy out of our costumes and into November, let’s take a spirited stroll through some colorful output from the collective this past week, original art and hallo-memes™ alike (coinage credit: mememaxis).

The good doctor is everywhere, even on sides of buildings:

“Cyber Cinema” by Zigmarillion (announcement) –

Gorgeous, lush orchestration by RacBrasti on OMSeized –

Even in the Twilight Zone I’d still want to float with Pooh. Here’s a Halloween mashup from Alex8rite –

“Punklet” by Spuddhism (announcement) –

“Shadow Reflection” – or is it possibly the perfect illusion – by Burnasso (announcement) –

And so all things envelop, encircle, and return to their origin. gmmoneyETH carries us back to where life begins anew (announcement).

🐳

Happy meme-seizing and life-seizing to all ~

Highlights and sidecuts of the Meme Maxis, week of Oct 24 – cover art “Sternennacht“ by gmmoneyETH.

A very warm welcome to all our new members: rakesh_pulapa + spuddhism + web3_50 + milestones_nft + HugoFaz + AzOgZz + blocknoob_ + Giopetto14 + and now the hazing begins 🎃

Burnasso weaves his love of puzzles with the Open Metaverse, co-organizing (with DarrenSRS) a long-awaited scavenger hunt that went live this week. With three intrepid winners, of course one of them had to be a Maxi of our very own – congratulations to G9ralt for the speedy sleuthing! 🎁

Dinocelotti gifts two (2) “Shredded Institutions” to each holder of his Spread the Memes collection via airdrop. It’s an instant classic (announcement):

As we collectively figure out what it means to liberate art and culture from our web2 corporate overlords, UNIC and punk6529 continue to illuminate the vanguard:

Punk6529’s conversation with Punk4156 (co-founder of Nouns, a slow-release NFT collection and, some might argue, way of life) is foundational and thought-provoking. You can hear the interview and read class notes also:

There is a phenomenon called a visually evoked auditory response (vEAR) where, when given a silent video clip, some people’s brains fill in a matching sound all by themselves.

My award for the loudest new vEAR gif goes to JakNFT’s darlin’ new meme card (artist announcement) –

…and hot on its heels fins, G9ralt’s charming derivative meme:

IntrepidPhotos.eth acquires a coveted NakamotoFreedom (meme card 4) from MeltedMindz, bartering his own honest-to-god stunner of a photographic composition, “Rock and Ice” (entire “Northern Exposure” series on SuperRare) –

Pandemonium among the Maxis! Punk6529 offers the latest card by 6529er as a completely public mint from the get-go, bypassing the usual allowlist process. To celebrate the openness of cc0 and the entry of Pooh into the public domain, Winnie-the-Punk debuts with a pop:

Mouths grumbling and stomachs tumbling, the maxis bumble through the public mint and, in the end, emerge intact … even moving gradually to embrace the work. How could we not, accompanied by this epitome of wisdom and cuteness? [ed: I mean Dorian, obviously.]

Life is a journey when searching for hunny 🐝 M0niqueSullivan

And aRegularDad composes an opus celebrating the NFT realm as an Uncarved Block, just like Pooh and the eternal ocean he represents, in this thread on The Tao of Pooh –

Happy Birthday to Deconstruct_eth! 🎂 They present the 4th piece of their collection entitled “Upward” and I do hope some parts of it will be edible –

The big three-oh meme card is a 100-second performance extravaganza, spanning multiple acts. Here’s an intro from the artist himself:

Making this art video took 30 days and directly involved 60+ people, who were all onboarded to Web3, NFTs and our mission towards the open metaverse!

In true performance art fashion, HugoFaz has taken the ultimate goal of expanding and strengthening our broader web3 community, and made that goal integral to the piece itself. Be sure to read his entire announcement thread, beginning with inspirations for the work, to its grand purpose, exemplified by CasaNUA, HugoFaz’s local-artist incubation and support efforts. What we witness as dazzling creativity and proficiency becomes engraved with layers of deeper meaning. OM:HIG is a work of art unique to the medium of NFTs, yet universal in its celebration of humankind and our infinite power of expression.

Inevitably, by simplistic metrics the immediate audience reaction is…well, I’ll pass the mic to ReadyPereOne:

It takes but a single passionate cry to strike down the silence of the infinite. G9ralt’s derivative video-meme-card is thus the ideal all-caps assertion:

Later, HugoFaz shares footage of the dancers’ at a nude Halloween party watching the piece they created together. May we never lose sight of the fact that, in the end, it’s always about the people.

As we shimmy out of our costumes and into November, let’s take a spirited stroll through some colorful output from the collective this past week, original art and hallo-memes™ alike (coinage credit: mememaxis).

The good doctor is everywhere, even on sides of buildings:

“Cyber Cinema” by Zigmarillion (announcement) –

Gorgeous, lush orchestration by RacBrasti on OMSeized –

Even in the Twilight Zone I’d still want to float with Pooh. Here’s a Halloween mashup from Alex8rite –

“Punklet” by Spuddhism (announcement) –

“Shadow Reflection” – or is it possibly the perfect illusion – by Burnasso (announcement) –

And so all things envelop, encircle, and return to their origin. gmmoneyETH carries us back to where life begins anew (announcement).

🐳

Happy meme-seizing and life-seizing to all ~