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TITLESTITLES & Lucky The Golden Goose
How my dad’s 1999 children’s book led to the future of creator-owned AI modelsAs an entrepreneur and someone building in consumer technology, I’m realizing that much of what you bring into the world is rooted in the ideas that were instilled in you as a kid. Each of us is led into the world by our parents who open doors for us with a slight push of encouragement, watching to see how far we walk in. Looking back, it’s clear now that my love for creativity, storytelling, and finance can be attr...
TITLESINTRODUCING TITLES
It’s 2016, I was working on my first startup and traveling around Oregon taking drone photos. I started to see many of my photos pop up across the web without mentioning me. The excitement eroded and in its place came frustration looking for credit, attribution, or pay. Shortly after, I started to learn about a network of media startups like Mediachain, Po.et, and Ujo leveraging Ethereum to build a more equitable media ecosystem. Little did we know that the core of these projects was a simple...
TITLESForked Self: How Mr. Misang’s AI Model Explores a Different Creative Future
Mr. Misang is a Seoul-based illustrator and animator whose work explores the individual's position within the anonymous structures of contemporary life. His densely composed scenes depict crowds, cities, and bureaucratic systems not as backgrounds but as active forces—environments shaped by desire, routine, and infrastructural logic. Forked Self, Mr. Misang’s model with TITLES, is trained on two separate bodies of work—one more recent and one comprising pieces created between 2010 and 20...
TITLESTITLES & Lucky The Golden Goose
How my dad’s 1999 children’s book led to the future of creator-owned AI modelsAs an entrepreneur and someone building in consumer technology, I’m realizing that much of what you bring into the world is rooted in the ideas that were instilled in you as a kid. Each of us is led into the world by our parents who open doors for us with a slight push of encouragement, watching to see how far we walk in. Looking back, it’s clear now that my love for creativity, storytelling, and finance can be attr...
TITLESINTRODUCING TITLES
It’s 2016, I was working on my first startup and traveling around Oregon taking drone photos. I started to see many of my photos pop up across the web without mentioning me. The excitement eroded and in its place came frustration looking for credit, attribution, or pay. Shortly after, I started to learn about a network of media startups like Mediachain, Po.et, and Ujo leveraging Ethereum to build a more equitable media ecosystem. Little did we know that the core of these projects was a simple...
TITLESForked Self: How Mr. Misang’s AI Model Explores a Different Creative Future
Mr. Misang is a Seoul-based illustrator and animator whose work explores the individual's position within the anonymous structures of contemporary life. His densely composed scenes depict crowds, cities, and bureaucratic systems not as backgrounds but as active forces—environments shaped by desire, routine, and infrastructural logic. Forked Self, Mr. Misang’s model with TITLES, is trained on two separate bodies of work—one more recent and one comprising pieces created between 2010 and 20...
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Today, we’re excited to launch a new model created with NYC street photographer Trxnt. Along with access to the model, below you’ll find an interview with Trxnt detailing his process, what excites him about publishing work onchain, and what having his own custom model on TITLES means to him. Trxnt is a talented photographer that hits the streets of New York to capture people, scenery, and moments in their essence. He’s know for his distinct tones and use of light that bring a unique view to life in New York. In a city with so many people, his work brings to life an individuality in each of his subjects. Trxnt has a unique approach to photography and we couldn’t be more excited to be working more closely with him.
Create with MODERN COLOR, here.
OUR CONVERSATION WITH TRXNT
I'm a street photographer from New York City. I've dabbled with photography at multiple points throughout my life but never really stuck with it or took it seriously until moving to New York, and even more so after discovering blockchains. I’ve always loved the idea of being able to capture small fragments of life and when I moved to the city it was the first time where doing that actually felt important to me. The majority of my work explores humans in urban areas and the interplays between them and their surroundings.
Modern Color is my approach to all of my color film photography. Before all the editing software we use today, film photographers were always limited to the stock they used in terms of color so that's something I try to continue in my work. Even though I do edit my photos in Lightroom I try to keep my photos close to how I shot them, usually just increasing contrast and adding in a little saturation. The main reason for this is so that my work matches the time in which it was created — one of my favorite things about past film photography is that just by looking at the color and contrast of photos you can tell when they were taken.
The shots used for modern color are from a few different series and from my personal catalog. The selection process for choosing the images was heavily focused on light and color and making sure there was enough variety for the model to take in.
Mainly through Twitter. At the time I just started to explore Ethereum and I was seeing a lot of people sharing links to minted work and making sales. I would say it’s changed as the market and tech has changed. I started off only published my work on Ethereum Mainnet but have since published on Optimism and Solana and will most likely publish on Base sometime in the near future. I feel like it’s important to have variety in how I publish my work so it can be accessible to different types of collectors. Also, some work makes more sense in certain places than others.
You can check some of Trxnt’s published work on Foundation, here.
Permanence, community, and monetization. Before I discovered blockchains I did not create nearly as seriously as I do now, mainly because I had no idea what to do with my work and no idea where to start in terms of monetizing it. It's been amazing to see the communities formed around blockchains, especially in photography and to be able to connect with and learn from new people.
It's so awesome to have a model trained on my work for a few reasons. For one, it allows me to ideate and create in ways that aren't always possible with a camera on the street while still allowing me to keep a consistent style. It also allows anyone who enjoys my style of work to create whatever they imagine. That's probably the thing I'm most excited about is to see how other people use this model and what they’ll create with it.
MODERN COLOR ON TITLES
Available today, MODERN COLOR is available on the TITLES mobile and web applications. At TITLES, we build creative tools powered by artist-owned AI models. We help artists maintain ownership of their likeness in AI by making it easy to train, distribute, and monetize their own custom models. Since launch, TITLES has been used to create over 32,000 creations using artist-trained models each attributing and sharing earnings back with their owners. If you’re an artist or IP holder looking to create your own model with TITLES, reach out to us on Twitter or Farcaster.
Create with MODERN COLOR, here.
Creative tools powered by artist-trained AI models.
Much love,
- TITLES
Today, we’re excited to launch a new model created with NYC street photographer Trxnt. Along with access to the model, below you’ll find an interview with Trxnt detailing his process, what excites him about publishing work onchain, and what having his own custom model on TITLES means to him. Trxnt is a talented photographer that hits the streets of New York to capture people, scenery, and moments in their essence. He’s know for his distinct tones and use of light that bring a unique view to life in New York. In a city with so many people, his work brings to life an individuality in each of his subjects. Trxnt has a unique approach to photography and we couldn’t be more excited to be working more closely with him.
Create with MODERN COLOR, here.
OUR CONVERSATION WITH TRXNT
I'm a street photographer from New York City. I've dabbled with photography at multiple points throughout my life but never really stuck with it or took it seriously until moving to New York, and even more so after discovering blockchains. I’ve always loved the idea of being able to capture small fragments of life and when I moved to the city it was the first time where doing that actually felt important to me. The majority of my work explores humans in urban areas and the interplays between them and their surroundings.
Modern Color is my approach to all of my color film photography. Before all the editing software we use today, film photographers were always limited to the stock they used in terms of color so that's something I try to continue in my work. Even though I do edit my photos in Lightroom I try to keep my photos close to how I shot them, usually just increasing contrast and adding in a little saturation. The main reason for this is so that my work matches the time in which it was created — one of my favorite things about past film photography is that just by looking at the color and contrast of photos you can tell when they were taken.
The shots used for modern color are from a few different series and from my personal catalog. The selection process for choosing the images was heavily focused on light and color and making sure there was enough variety for the model to take in.
Mainly through Twitter. At the time I just started to explore Ethereum and I was seeing a lot of people sharing links to minted work and making sales. I would say it’s changed as the market and tech has changed. I started off only published my work on Ethereum Mainnet but have since published on Optimism and Solana and will most likely publish on Base sometime in the near future. I feel like it’s important to have variety in how I publish my work so it can be accessible to different types of collectors. Also, some work makes more sense in certain places than others.
You can check some of Trxnt’s published work on Foundation, here.
Permanence, community, and monetization. Before I discovered blockchains I did not create nearly as seriously as I do now, mainly because I had no idea what to do with my work and no idea where to start in terms of monetizing it. It's been amazing to see the communities formed around blockchains, especially in photography and to be able to connect with and learn from new people.
It's so awesome to have a model trained on my work for a few reasons. For one, it allows me to ideate and create in ways that aren't always possible with a camera on the street while still allowing me to keep a consistent style. It also allows anyone who enjoys my style of work to create whatever they imagine. That's probably the thing I'm most excited about is to see how other people use this model and what they’ll create with it.
MODERN COLOR ON TITLES
Available today, MODERN COLOR is available on the TITLES mobile and web applications. At TITLES, we build creative tools powered by artist-owned AI models. We help artists maintain ownership of their likeness in AI by making it easy to train, distribute, and monetize their own custom models. Since launch, TITLES has been used to create over 32,000 creations using artist-trained models each attributing and sharing earnings back with their owners. If you’re an artist or IP holder looking to create your own model with TITLES, reach out to us on Twitter or Farcaster.
Create with MODERN COLOR, here.
Creative tools powered by artist-trained AI models.
Much love,
- TITLES
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