Fellowship Daily to feature Mind Wank debut show

The first newsletter we ever put out covered the daily AI video auctions being done by Fellowship. These have been quite successful in featuring a variety of different artists each day, and I have been fortunate to collect several pieces from them.

This week, they are mixing it up a bit, and Tuesday's daily is going exclusively feature Mind Wanks first solo show "Untitled (Sauna)". We hope to see more of this!

Twitter thread

Daily.xyz for Tuesday

A Drop in the Ocean

This is a collection of 25+ artists who will share the beauty and love of the oceans on Tuesday. A percentage of the World fee for any sales will be donated to Ocean Conservation. You can already see quite a few of the pieces ready to go live on Tuesday

Tis the season

The Exiles Project Advent Calendar Pass is for sale now. Each day in December, pass holders will be airdropped a piece from a member of the group or guest artist. I got the pass last year and it was fun to see new art each day. 10 Tezos total for 25 pieces of art.

Happenings

The line-up for "Ephemeral Euphoria: Exploring Love Through Lenses' World looks amazing. It will go live this coming weekend.

DocT has a new collection that is live on Joyn today. One thing we love about Joyn is how so much context can be provided, DocT utilizes it well.

Search Light has two "Out of the Blue" showcases going live on Joyn, November 21st and 22nd respectively.

Art Showcase - Collaboration

Happy Monday! It’s Clete here with the 47th spotlight thread and it is all about working together in harmony!

There are 10 wonderful collaborations below from last week's art share thread of dear Pop! You can continue and enjoy some great art or you can head to this X thread to read there instead and share while at it!

Enjoy!

"Duality" by @zhannetpodobed & @maytoyoart

1. "Déjà vu of a romantic disaster" by @NickYashika & @no_faith_left

Great composition meets an abstract narrative with the vision and skill sets of these two talented artists and creates this deep, dark, and intense story of love, lust, and loss! Exquisite piece!

2. "The Last Wish" by @haningwaslost & @pichwish

Ning's iconic figures and Pich's wonderful steampunk style once again merge not only to create this marvelous piece but also to show the level of understanding of one another's art. Working together at its best!

3. "Green Stage" by @aida_studios & @Bitaemm

Bita does a great job dismembering the beautiful photography of Aida only to create a bouquet of feelings for us. One of those times when fixing when it's not broken totally works!

4. "Aura" by @TheCultSeries & @nudity_slip

The elegance of Julia and the experience in the cinematography of the Cult create this wonderful work along with 119 more unique pieces as an FND drop. Kudos to the quality of this drop and the effort put into it! Please view it in all its motion glory in the thread.

5. Artwork by @AndresgallardoP & Andrea Minini

Andres' mindblowing angles and eye for aesthetics are being complimented with smooth movement and gorgeous minimalism and kindly objected to by strongly contrasting vibrant colors by Andrea. A symphony by different minds!

6. "Reminiscence" by @Tylersjourney_ & @iamsati

I personally find it quite hard to create a working collab between photography and illustration yet here we are, witnessing two different genres being hand in hand effortlessly in a cyberpunk vibe. Wonderful!

7. "I'm too shy" by @Grigalaaaa & @youmiirror

Grigala's iconic lines and scribbles are genuinely embracing this beautiful collage work by Miirror that has such a natural warmth to it thanks to its textures and shades! Great combination of minds and hearts here!

8. "The Birth of Venus" by @quetzalgelo & @OdysseyHeart

A wonderful example of two distinct styles working with each other without compromising their qualities while elevating the other! Totally love this team-worked interpretation of the famous "The Birth of Venus!"

9. "The momentary weight of events" by @Empatia17 & @m_sangalli

A stunning digital painting and collage collaboration that creates a great harmony of the natural, ethereal, elegant, and beautiful with the elements working together sincerely! Bravo!

10. "Gamblers Club" by @Negarghorbanii1 & @marmarsiyadat

I know it when I see two brilliant illustrators with a similar whimsical taste having fun together on a digital canvas! Two tasty styles so well incorporated here that you gotta take your time to distinguish them!

This is just the tip of the iceberg of collaborations art share thread! You can head this post by Pop here and experience so much more!

All the best,

Pop & Clete

Where you mint matters - discoverability is so important long-term

I was going to mint something this weekend and saw that it wasn't on an artist's own contract but instead on a totally new one. All I could think was that no one would ever see this collection again after a month.

I have been spending quite a bit of time on secondary markets in the last couple of months, and one of the strongest conclusions I have made is that... where you mint matters when it comes to discoverability.

It is so hard for an artist to get traction and take off. If a collector is putting their limited funds into collecting, many would at least like the work to show up on people's radar if/when an artist takes off enough for people to take the time to research.

This isn't to say that you always have to mint on your own contract but think about how will people find your work long-term.

For most artists, an edition of The Meme by 6529, a 1/1/x on Art Blocks or equivalent is likely much more discoverable than their own contract, but this is the 1% exception. Because of this, I am really bearish on group collections minted on a group contract and much more bullish on Foundation Worlds or equivalent where the artists' creations can come together at sale, but still exist on artists' own contracts. Note that you can still do group collections. Noble, Proof, Skalda, and many others bring works together that are still minted on artists' own contracts.

I think most of us should list our for-sale art on our own contract when we have the choice.

Contract = Long-term Discoverability Chance

Bull market wen?

I am bullish. I am bullish on ETH, crypto, PFPs, and NFT art. I think there are positive signs coming in, but just know I have also been wrong many times before.

We talked about bull market signs on our Spaces this week. Many thanks to Clete and Fer for co-hosting each week with me, and Ben Meadows who joined us for most of the Spaces as a speaker.

Here are some key takeaways from that discussion and beyond…

The latest run-up in PFPs seems to be in existing collections and some that have a bit of age on them. This points to the upward move in PFPs is coming from those who have stuck around, just waiting on the sidelines. If one has seen Doodles at 20 ETH you might feel a bit of FOMO if they start to move up from 1 to 2 ETH, thus we start to see people jumping back in. Looking at the number of wallets active in NFT and those that are bidding, very little to new money has joined the space. This is also to be expected early in a cycle.

Fine art sales don't seem to be up much if at all. Because SuperRare has an API, I was able to look at the number of sales and total sales volume. November is actually tracking to be about the same as October was, which is less than half the sales of even March of this year. So we aren't even on the upswing in 1/1. Foundation numbers aren't available, but just from looking each day, the number of auctions seems to not be increasing.

That doesn't mean we won't get there. Generally, the order in which things take off in cycles is…

Crypto ➡ PFP ➡ Big Name Art Collections ➡ Generative ➡ 1/1 Art

I feel like we are in the middle on this, and of course, when we actually see a bull market, all of these will start to increase and build off each other.

gmoney who was on Laura Shin's podcast this week talked about how much of the NFT buying still comes from crypto gains. One of his thesis is that those who make money in crypto then want to show that off and they get into PFPs and then NFT more broadly. This is kind of the status symbol thesis (think Rolex and Fendi bags). I don't think this motivation can be dismissed as a common motivation, but of course, we all hope for "I just love the art" collectors. A group in between is community affiliation. Many people buy PFPs and art to be part of a community, and I think this motivation is also a pretty pure one.

New market cycles do take a while, but I will say that when people get together for end-of-year holidays they often talk, and it is definitely the time of year when new people enter the space or return.

SuperRare gets into the 1/1/x with new Lazy Minting auction mechanic

This is news because, to be frank, SR hasn't innovated a ton in this bear market. The auction part of lazy minting might be new, but we will have to see as details come out. Leading with a Van Arman drop on Thursday at a 1 ETH price point is sure to be popular, and I imagine all the mint/auctions will likely get kicked off. SuperRare says the details will be available today (Monday).

This has me thinking more broadly about the now frequently used label 1/1/x.

For those who don't know, 1/1/x means that all the pieces are unique, but they get released in a larger collection all at once or in this case as they are minted. 1/1 is distinct in that it is a stand-alone release. The distinction here isn't always clear. If an artist releases 5 new 1/1s at once, that seems like five 1/1s. If they do 50 in a new collection, that seems like a 1/1/x. 1/1/x was made popular with generative collections, and then I guess PFPs are generally 1/1/x but are rarely thought of that way. With generative and AI the volume of pieces created certainly can increase and thus I think we see this term more. I don't think the difference is fully defined, but as the term is used more frequently, I tend to think about it.

Happenings

Women's World on Foundation is happening on Friday, November 17th. 60 women artists will be releasing 1/1 work at .1 ETH.

On Wednesday Art for Humanity is raising funds for Palestinian civilian relief via 1/1 auctions. 70+ artists are involved and 50% of sales are going to relief. All pieces start at .1 ETH. They have been very thoughtful about the charity, and we quote them here: "The JHCO [the benefiting charity] has permission from Jordanian, Egyptian, and Israeli governments to send trucks of aid into Gaza, and everything has been thoroughly inspected by the Israeli government. Due to this, we felt that this group was our best attempts to put funds into action". 

Braving high gas prices, our friend Olly will be releasing his newest on-chain 1/1 this Monday as part of Builders DAO. Also, check out Ben Meadow's security-minded on-chain piece currently available. 

Le Moon has been curated into so many great collections, and now she is the curator! Sloika is working with her to bring artists together for a 7-day Open Edition of the AI + Animation collection. Open Call is now live and closes on November 24th.

We are enjoying this 22 artists, 22 Tarot card collection on Tez.

Roger Dickson is hosting NFT Stats (Punk9059) today at 1 PM ET. This is two people who watch the market super close to one Spaces. We will be tuning in!

Spotlight on Art - Imagination

Happy new week, everyone! It’s Clete here with the 46th spotlight thread that is full of imaginative wonders from you!

Below you will find my 10 picks from our collaborative art share thread with Pop! If you wish to read it on X instead and drop a comment or share my picks, you can head to this X thread!

"The Struggle" by @leaf_swan

1. "Mental Fog" by @PonseLakiva 

Once again, Ponse nails answering the human need to find something familiar wherever we look with her style and relatable message! Out of her cosmic and beautiful imagination, this piece speaks directly to most of us!

2. "Big Big Big Big Big Big Mac" by @GraphicaPng

Graphica's imagination is fun and self-aware enough to stuff us all into a giant Big Mac as an on-point commentary on our age! The overwhelming nature, our stepping on/sticking with each other, all there! A feast for the eyes!

3. "Proof of Aliens" by @PunyFox777 

A tad of quirky imagination and contemporary culture blends beautifully in this very piece! Love this scene of "taking the smartphone out" as a first reaction as it both embraces the new generation and the criticism of the previous one!

4. "Nirvana" by @flostitanarum 

These meticulously crafted details and vibrant palette do magnificent work creating an otherworldly and tranquil scene of imagination that promises nirvana at the end of the road! Such a wonderful journey ahead!

5. "Disrupted connection" by @magicalords

An impactful visualization of the roots and connection we have as humanity and a reminder that although innovation connects us more than ever today, it is us that supply the will and power to stick together! Great work!

6. "Coin Operated Cosmos" by @MoonlightCiara

A cosmically beautiful interpretation of an idea that arrived in a dream state! Love this whimsical idea of dropping a coin to take a journey to somewhere in space in a 'universomat' and its gorgeous application! See the original, animated version here!

7. "Melancholy" by @minwjr 

This wonderfully shaded and detailed, hand-drawn piece of our dark and deep state of mind pulses with a sad yet beautiful vibe thanks to the imaginative power and skills of Mina! Outstanding job!

8. "World’s End" by @PWarrenn

A gorgeous photo manipulation that resonates with the vibes of power, readiness, and will to face hardships. In imagination or in reality, in a broken world, we stand our ground!

9. "Bioluminescence" by @cerenyuzgul

This surreal scene that looks as if painted with vibrant hues of light brings the depths of the imagination where it gets even more blurred to the surface of the mind! Taking a dive into this is recommended!

10. Artwork by @barrylsutton

Bringing the elements of elegance, fine art, modernity, and movement together with AI collaboration, this piece and many alongside it in the collection of "Mythologies" does an excellent job putting forward raw and powerful imagination! Bravo!

As it does every week, last week’s art share thread was full of wonderful art! You can check the art share thread or the #PopExploresImagination tag on X for more!

You can always reply to this email to share upcoming news. No one ever replies so it will defiantly get seen. 👀🤷😂

Thanks for reading!

Pop Punk & Clete

Open Call with 6 ETH pool to collect

Pop here! I am excited to be on the jury for the 'Unfolding Tales of Cili Regalia' Open Call.

I want to be clear upfront that this isn't a simple create-and-submit Open Call. To participate you need to:

• Create a Quantum Temple account (5-10 minutes, including connecting your wallet and signing a transaction)

• Mint a QT Passport on ETH which while is free, does require that you pay gas. There is another option to get the pass via email. This will create a new custodial wallet via ZKlogin on Sui which doesn't have a gas cost involved that I am aware of.

• Do your submission via Joyn with some of the fairly standard RT/Like/Follow requirements.

I think given the 6 ETH prize pool and the environmental goals of the organization, it is worth it, but as someone who rarely participates in Open Calls because of time issues, I want you to know everything up-front!

Quantum Temple's multi-disciplinary Art Open Call “Unfolding Tales of Cili Regalia” for artists and creators across the globe, working within varying artistic realms: visual art, photography, music, poetry, performance, digital art, and more. Here, diversity is not just acknowledged but celebrated as we come together to honor Cili, the Balinese Goddess of prosperity and womanhood.

Echoing the transformative aura of Cili, our contest theme seeks to unravel an artistic introspection into prosperity, fertility, womanhood, the Balinese Rice Culture, and the vibrant cultural tapestry that characterizes our collective heritage. Every creative interpretation brings us closer to understanding this multifaceted deity and the cultural richness she embodies.

Art Submission Details:

• The work should be inspired by Cili, a goddess of prosperity and womanhood

• Unminted

• JPG/MP4, max. 20MB

• You are requested to put an estimated ETH value in your submission (I would recommend using your existing work as basis for pricing, but you can of course choose whatever method you would like)

• You have until November 27 to submit your work, but no time like now to get started.

Submissions are accepted via Joyn and you can read more details there as well

A fun way to document a moment - Postino AI

Chikai has created a a postage stamp-style art generator tool that uses AI-prompted creations along with a stamped date. Several artists told us about it in the past month and now it is available for public beta.

"I wanted to create a simple and fun experience that makes it easy for people to be creative in a low-pressure casual way and also trade those creations at a low cost."

Read more about it in Chikai's X thread where you can also find a Discord link to join.

JIVA collection released by Transient Labs

Monday, November 6th at 11 AM ET on Foundation
ARTCRUSH IRL Exhibition November 6th-12th in Ghent, Belgium

Transient Labs is launching their newest collection "JIVA". It is a showcase on how people perceive the human body and the soul. Many great artists will be releasing work including Faithlove, Skilux, Pauline Faieff, TobyDPhotograph, Synchrodogs, Sasha, Katz, Armand, V1ncent, ArtbyEleven, Robinson St. George, and VonSoul. We wish we were in Belgium to see this show in person!

Marketplace news

OpenSea laid off half their workforce according to a The Block article . The OS founder's X thread announced with fairly generic language a pivot to be more innovative and quick to act, but it was very light on details. We have confirmed that this layoff has affected customer support and developer roles.

Magic Eden is launching their new ETH NFT marketplace and Yuga is a partner. Yuga's announcement states that this will be "the first major ETH marketplace contractually obligated to honor creator royalties". While we love artists getting access to royalties, this announcement is super ironic in that Magic Eden was the first marketplace to make royalties optional. Their decision opened the floodgates to our current environment where royalties are generally not enforced.

Happenings

We enjoyed talking to Roger Dickerman this week on Spaces. His daily NFT art market report has a ton of value, you can check the newsletter here and subscribe if interested.

Nathan Bauman has released 'New York City (2022)' a series of 20 analog street photographs from his archive of work. The work in this collection is available for .10 ETH on Foundation.

Alice Gordon's "Clonism" collection is now live at the Kate Vass Galerie. It is a .05 ETH blind mint.

The Hydro Eclectic collection from Exiles Project artists and guests is available for a few more days. 16 artists have limited editions priced at .01 ETH.

Pop Punk was a guest on the Skalda Space with Taj and AI Collection talking about collecting AI art. The discussion also went beyond just AI.

Weekly Spotlight - Spooky / Halloween / Dark

Happy Monday! It’s Clete here! We’ve decided to share our collaborative spotlight thread here on Pop5 as well to beat the X algo!

Below you’ll find my 10 favorites I picked from wonderful creations submitted for #PopExploresSpooky thread. Go ahead, but if you wish to read it on X and share while at it, you can click here!

Let’s get going!

"The Loneliness Kill Me" by @artrinaeth

1. "Babysitting Night" by @LeMoonSynth and @MoonlightCiara 

The glam of the 70s meets Halloween! An awesome collaborative piece that brings a glamorously horrific uniqueness and a perfectly balanced quirkiness together! A brilliant work of synthetic photography!

2. "WANDERER" by @BRuline_NFT

A lining technique that I personally will never get tired of seeing! Bru's trademark blue-red lining and their wonderful ink work complement the eeriness of this composition in the most beautiful way possible!

3. "Dark Side Harmony" by @ArtBe11a

Clashing beautifully with the uplifting palette and smooth textures of the frame, the idea of embracing our dark sides that we tend to look away from is the perfect kind of spooky to be experienced! Great job! 

4. "The Unheard Scream" by @ZaynJaevedEth 

As much as Halloween is about mostly fun, unfortunately, not all horrors are. ZayN-X does an amazing and moving job with the use of colors, shapes, and expressions to reflect the horror that's been ongoing in Palestine. Intense work!

5. "Smiley The Ghost" by @extazdesigns

A stunning combination of elements of eerie and joyful creates an undead character that has two sides, light and dark, just like us! Great use of colors and textures with a relatable background makes this a lovely mini-story!

6. "Circus" by @RicardoTakamura 

Wonderful depth, framing, and editing skills turn this almost ordinary landscape shot into a lifeless, ominous place where no one would dare to step in! I recommend seeing the full collection on Objkt, as it's an awesome experience!

7. "FEAR PORTRAIT #2" by @aaronsosaphoto 

Yet another wonderful example of great synthetic photography that works so well with the current theme! Great editing skills and creative touches give this piece a next-level quality along with mild spookiness.

8. "dream about death" by @nocrwl 

This scary-at-first then sad in the second glance story has so many aspects to be appreciated. The skillful line work, great coloring, balanced and mindful composition, and occasional pop of bright colors are simply stunning!

9. "NECROMANCER" by @f16michael

Not only a work of great skill but also of great patience! Created traditionally with ink on paper with more than 50 hours of active drawing, this piece invites you to lose yourself in the details created by thousands of little dots

10. "Fading Echoes" by @YedaiArt 

Created with AI, this lonely and somewhat eerie dinner scene where everyone is a no-show forever is a beautiful lament for the ones and the times that are long gone. Either with art or heart, we're all trying to hang on to ghosts of the past!

If you enjoyed all this you can always go back to this art share thread by Pop Punk for more!

Thanks for reading. You can always reply if you want to share something with us! And remember our question for today is Why do you collect? What is your motivation broadly or even what was the thing that got you to collect your last piece?

Pop & Clete

Creative ways to emphasize royalties

Whether you pay artist royalties on secondary sales is public information on the blockchain. Right now royalties are largely paid based on personal ethics and wanting to part of an ongoing community. You have no doubt seen Matt Kane's clever 'Souvenir' drop to 'Contractual Obligation's holders. Depending on if you paid full, partial or no royalties, you got a different "Souvenir" drop. Making the drop based on royalties paid is a clever dynamic and increases awareness on this issue. In the future we expect that many Access Lists will be be based on tools that look at the history of royalties paid.

Artie Handz was the first person I saw write about the 'Souvenir' drop, and he does a good job providing the details.

Nomadic Nouveau launches October 25th

This collection features Delta Sauce, Blac.AI and DVK. Each artist will have three editions of 11, resulting in 99 total editions with one, 1/1 that is a three way collaboration. Each piece representing an aspect of a journey, centered amongst the desert and shifting sands.

All editions are on a project contract and will be .05 each.

dgb & frens

A week from today, this curated World on Foundation by 0xdgb will be released. 20 artists will be presenting new minimal art. The early full work we have seen has been quite good.

Happenings

Rik Oostenbroek with working with Concious Hotels to create a curated showcase of artists. The work will featured on MET AMS as well as in the hotel itself. Rik didn't do the normal tag three artists route with this Open Call (many thanks), so if it does interesting to you, show it some love! Ends the 23rd at 10PM CET. Submit here!

The 'Cinematic Cyberverse Exhibition' is in Toronto this Monday. So many favorites artists are featured in this exhibition that blend cyberpunk & cinematic aesthetics. Tickets are required. Oct 23, 2023, 5-10 pm EDT

(un)curated is launching (un)spooky, their first collection on Joyn. 14 artists present works inspired by the fears that lurk in the corners of our psyche.

Art Unchained is doing their first Foundation World and it will feature Dark Art! The Open Call runs until October 26th and the submission requirements are quite reasonable and laid out clearly.

The next BrainDrops collection will be released on Friday. Fernando Jerez evolves his previous collection, combining generative art and automated image generation techniques.

Mr Richi has a new collection being released today using the Transient Labs developed Doppelganger contract.

The Poseidon DAO has been quietly collecting quite a few of The Memes by 6529.

Magic Eden has started doing Open Editions as part of their Launch Pad.

Eric Bulckens and Omar Robles are giving talks this week as part of the launch of the LA PIPA, a 2024 web3 x culture festival in Spain.

Arthr is doing something unique with this NFT/Physical/VR combo mint. We enjoyed this video. Launches the 27th on Manifold.

Open Call for Samhain (Celtic Festival) themed art is available for a few more days.

Weekly Spotlight - Photography

It’s Clete here, with the 44th Spotlight thread for the art share thread we had on last Tuesday! The technical issues didn’t let us post this thread on X as we do usually so for a change, you can enjoy my weekly selection of #PopExploresPhotos tag here!

Thank you once again for sharing your wonderful work! Let’s get started!

"SILENT WITNESSES" by @fenelonff

1. "A Green Symphony" by @maheshguild

There are not many words fair enough to express how wonderful vibes this capture of the Umngot River in India makes the viewer feel. It's a glimpse of paradise with indigenous elements, an embrace of nature, and soothing colors!

2. "Candy Diner Delight" by @takeuchifilm 

The happy and colorful vibes of the 80s are being served in one of the coziest ways possible by @takeuchifilm! Feels like your favorite show full of nostalgia is about to give you a lovely diner scene!

3. "0xFlow Alpha" by @wildalps

This long exposure piece with such unique editing does a brilliant job telling about one's soul interacting with the world unseen with such limited and ordinary subjects. Stunning, creative, and deep!

4. "Overthinking" by @DorukSeymen

Quite fitting the collection it is in, this emotionally and physically dark piece from the "Lucifugous Portraits" depicts a state of mind that most of us suffer from in a beautiful, simple, and stunningly creative way!

5. "Bridge of Intuition" by @ericboockford

A delightful work of nature, human technology, and the artist's viewpoint! This aerial shot does wonders when evoking emotions with an uncommon palette, marvelous textures, and lines that flow before your eyes and into your heart!

6. "Quiet Serenade" by @AntenoreFabio

The well-known romanticism of Venice has been altered and given a makeover in the narrative! I appreciate this relatively dark and mysterious take. Quite an unconventional and unique way to tell about Venice!

7. "Reflection" by @TheCultSeries 

A fantastic work depicting a profound moment of introspection that melts the inner and outer planes of mind and soul in one pot. With simplicity, serenity, naturality, and a sensation of timelessness, this is an invitation to contemplate!

8. "Eternal Rest" by @MichaelBuda2 

A stunning shot full of the story of nature's takeover of once majestic vessels that ruled its waves. Clashing wonderfully with the sad tale, soothing turquoise palette, and playful touch on framing do a visually satisfying job!

9. "I..." by @YonesMahmoudi99 

A brilliant minimal monochrome piece overflowing with that struggle comes in a pack with self-awareness! Great visual metaphor, great depth in meaning and palette, and great composition!

If you wish to stay submerged another while in this pool of creative photography, you can check the thread below or the #PopExploresPhotos tag! I promise it is worth it!

https://x.com/CryptoPopPunk/status/1714281994438549741?s=20

Thanks for reading. You can always just reply if you want to share something with us!

Pop & Clete

P.S. This past week's Spaces with Summer Wagner is is one of our all-time favorites. Summer shared so much that spoke to us and others! We know most people don't listen to recordings, but we are going to highly suggest this one.

Create your own Allowlists with tools from 6529 and Manifold

We get it, when the market is rough like this, we just want people to collect our work! But in the long run, we are big believers in rewarding previous collectors and having the option to give minting options to communities that best align with our work. Allowlists are one way to do that.

6529 has launched a tool to create allowlists. They make so many allowlists with all the Meme Card releases that they have quite a bit of experience. It isn’t free, but essentially with one Meme card in your wallet, you can use close to an unlimited amount for an artist's purposes. We tried it out a bit and really liked it! For more complex or large allowlists, this is a good choice. The output is CSV, JSON, or Manifold-ready lists.

Also, remember that Manifold has Manager which prepopulates all the collections on your individual wallet as options. You can also add in external contracts manually and even specify traits for larger contracts to capture editions you might have done with third parties. Once you organize the allowlist, you can save it to have it available to do snapshots in the future. It is free to use and really well done.

6529 thread / Direct link to tool

Manifold Manager

Open Call for Curators

We are all familiar with Open Calls for artists, but now there is one for curators.

Starting Wednesday the 18th, Patrick Amadon, Joyn, and Superchief are coming together to give one selected curator a one-night IRL show in NYC and a 1 ETH prize. The pieces curated will be drawn from the previous 6000+ 404 submissions.

Announcement Tweet

Understanding what Monkey/Wallet Drainer is and how to protect yourself

In order to sell things on OpenSea, you have to approve those collections. You might approve a lot of different collections or only one. Once you have approved collection(s) to the OpenSea contract (currently Seaport) then Monkey Drainer just needs to get you to do one signature transaction and all your approvals to OpenSea will be listed to the scammer at essentially zero costs.

The common approval scams target one collection; Monkey Drainer targets all the approvals to a contract. You might think you would never fall for this, but this one signature can be served up on any site.

The malicious signature can also be targeted at the old OS. Most people (99%+) don't ever revoke the old OS contracts, so the vulnerability persists

How you can decrease your risk:

Be wary of hexstring signatures as these are what the scammers use. Plain text, human readable signatures are generally safe, hexstrings you don't know what you a signing.

If you aren't actively on OpenSea an easy way to protect yourself is to "revoke" all approvals to the current OS contract. With one inexpensive blockchain transaction, this removes all approvals, listings, and offers. Can also be done on Revoke.Cash which includes an option for Blur.

If you want to learn how to remove approvals from old (May 2022 and before) OpenSea contracts watch this video from Pop's security friend WiiMee.

Happenings

A group of AI artists has created an open letter to the US copyright office; you can read it and add your support if you are in agreement.

Metabodies is a new Foundation collection being released on Thursday featuring four artists exploring digital flesh & identity.

New artists are getting added to curated collections including Builders DAO (currently) & Diptych World (Thursday),

Artemis, the Grecian goddess of the hunt, is the inspiration for a 15 artists World that is opening today.

Cinem(a.i) has a new World worth checking out.

Sloika's Montage will have close to 100 artists releasing work on SuperRare this Thursday. We didn't find a link with details, but we imagine if you are on Twitter, you will see it as it goes live.

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All the best,

Pop Punk & Clete

MoMA comes to NFTs in an artist and community friendly way

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) being in the NFT space is cool. Doing it so everyone can participate and in a way that builds community, perhaps even cooler. Details on this “Postcards” project are starting to filter out...

What is is:

The postcard is the overall minted work on Tezos that has room for 15 stamps and owners. Yours plus 14 more.

The stamp is pixel art you created in the Autonomy app with MoMA color palette.

You create pixel art, your friends do the same, everyone shares their piece with friends, and 15 stamps make up the final postcard piece.

Details:

• You are going to need the Autonomy wallet/app. Everything happens on Tezos, but the Autonomy app facilitates all of it, including invites we discuss at the end.

• You actually have to create your own piece of pixel art via the app using the MoMA color palette and the app.

• You “stamp” it. It gets your “postcard” minted and pinned to IPFS (so it can be seen).

• Then you send your “postcard” to other artists who have stamps that you ask that will added to yours. This is done via messaging platforms.

• You only have 24 hours from the initial stamp before the card closes.

It sounds like a lot of work, but I can see it being fun if it takes off and your fellow artists also start to do it. It does seem like a big win for the Autonomy app/wallet which I am not familiar with.

The Autonomy teams states that "Postcards will be released in limited quantities each day via QR code or link." So distribution is currently unknown. We asked the team for more information. Remember this project is on Tezos so anyone sending you links that require ETH blockchain actions is scamming. Be cautious, but have fun!

The Autonomy team provides an overview with a few more details.

When you mint work on your own contract, where does it show up?

Pop Punk here. On Friday I did a Tweet about on what marketplaces your art gets displayed on if you mint it on your own contract, and I got so many great additions in the replies that I am including an updated version here.

A quick guide to where your work is display ⏬

OPENSEA: Literally everything… Manifold, Foundation, SuperRare, Makersplace, Joyn, Transient Labs, Known Origin

FOUNDATION: Manifold (ERC-721), SuperRare, Transient Labs, Makersplace, and Known Origin

SUPERRARE: Essentially nothing (As an approved artist you can choose/request to index specific contracts like ones you create on Manifold or Transient Labs)

RARIBLE: What a cluster, while they try to bring in lots of work from different contracts, some things are just off. As an example, they attribute Grant Yun as having created some 8lien and Shibe Shelter PFPs?!? 🤷 Feedback from Nucleo is that the Rarible spam filter isn't reliable and they tend to mix up created with owned.

NINFA: If you have listed something on NINFA previously and thus are in their system, then you can take advantage of their fairly comprehensive marketplace coverage including Manifold, Transient Labs, SuperRare, and Foundation. You can toggle between collections with a click. I don't believe this is available for non-NINFA artists, so the use is fairly limited, more of a bonus.

BLUR: Seems to list ERC-721 collections that reach a certain ETH volume on OpenSea in a certain time frame (I believe it used to be 20, but now seems to be expanding out to as low as a few ETH). And only the volume since Blur launched counts.

What did I get wrong or miss? You can always hit reply on any email including this one to let us know!

OPEN CALL: A birthday party for Claire Silver where the gifts go to her and the prizes to us

Claire Silver is a hero to many in this space including ourselves. Her AI work was early and highly impactful to many artists.

While her last AI art contest was all about the potential for AI video, her new one is a celebration of herself and her birthday. If anyone deserves a bit of a self-nod in our industry that is wrapped in a present to self, Claire is it. Take advantage of this more open theme to submit your work!

Theme: My birthday is soon, so--me. How you see me. Abstract to photorealism.
Medium: Any, as long as AI is prominently featured. Post 1 entry in this thread. Contest ends Oct 17th.

Prizes

1st: 3 ETH (~$5000)

2nd: 1.5 ETH (~$2500)

3rd: 1 ETH (~$1660)

4th & 5th: .5 ETH each (~$830)

Please do not mint entries--Winners will mint, and I will bid. If outbid, you receive the prize in addition to the collectors bid.

To enter

Powerful new collection provides a personal view of the angst and aspirations of a nation

There is a Country is a new collection by Anonthy Azekwoh that is being released on Foundation this Tuesday at 12 PM ET. It is anchored by No Victor No Vanquished/The Last Day of Biafra a large painting that depicts the last days of the civil war in Nigeria. The physical painting is currently on display at Yenwa Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria. This 1/1 is accompanied in the collection by one open edition and two limited editions.

He was inspired by Jacques-Louis David and Sam Spratt’s work to create a piece with a profound story of the issues in his home country of Nigeria.

From the artist:

This depicts the last day of the civil war in Nigeria.

Capturing the angst and aspirations of a culture caught in an inescapable loop of history. Conceived from 2022, the artwork represents the distillation of exhaustive research and deeply personal reflections into a monumental canvas—a kind of cartography of cultural memory. With each brushstroke, I've woven a rich tapestry of unspoken narratives, punctuated by potent symbols: a flag occupying the upper-right corner serves as both a mournful elegy and a defiant anthem, a burning figure stands as a visceral monument to our collective suffering, and Nsibidi inscriptions imbue the tableau with a lexical subtext, acknowledging a linguistic heritage too often suppressed.

The collection

Detailed thread on the piece

I AM WOMAN to support Iranian women artists

Some might remember, about a year ago we launched the "Say Her Name" collection on Tezos as NFTGoddesses (Clete here!) to be a fundraiser initiative, after the death of Mahsa Amini under police custody started a mass movement in the country and the world. The aim of the collection was to support our sisters in Iran and celebrate womanhood and freedom. Raised 1.45 K Tezos together and supported all the Iranian sisters we could reach. Last Tuesday NFTGoddesses launched a contest for Iranian women to give out the rest of the funds collected to Iranian Women in Web3 art space. Make sure you apply if you meet the criteria! You can also set reminder to join their spaces to talk about your application piece or ask the questions you have on your mind!

Happenings

"Femme sensuality" is a thoughtful new exhibition curated by Katriana Maruve on Joyn; we love this essay format that also is able to display the art. ArtPacks is bringing an exhibition of all their artists to the CASA NUA in Brazil; we both contributed art to the project. The first part of the “Punks As Told By CryptoPunks” documentary will be released this week on October 10th. "The Out of Bounds' exhibition "challenges the very essence of portraiture" and goes live on the 11th. Creative Collective explores the theme of possibilities in their 12-artist edition drop. SuperRare artwork file size limit has been increased to 250MB. This week's spotlight thread was all about Worlds and other multi-artist collections; see the five selected, but also check out the full share thread for 100+.

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P.S. Our Spaces is one day early this week. We will have Roope Rainisto joining us to talk about some of the tools he uses as well as his art. Would love for you to join us!

My biggest mistake... with Open Calls don't assume

Don't assume artists are reading all the details when you do an Open Call. In fact, some might not even understand the language you are tweeting in. Not a big deal normally, but I (Pop Punk here) would say my biggest fail in this space was doing an open call for artists to have their work featured in the I Survived... 2022 collection.

I showed the spot the art would be featured in (less than 10% of the overall space in the work) and had 500 words written out with all the details. The idea was to include lots of artist's work as part of the historical record for 2022. I then followed up with artists who made replies who didn't explicitly acknowledge the concept to make sure they were good with inclusion. I still had one artist who was unhappy being included (for good reason as I didn't make explicit enough) when the collection went live. We quickly removed them, but I learned a lot from that.

In reading through the replies to this month's 404 initiative, this came to mind. So if something shows up in a CC0 art share, don't assume is CC0 before using! Ask the artist!

DALL-E 3 release and how you can access

DALL-E 3 is getting considerable praise from some of our favorite AI artists. This third full version is currently available to paid ChatGPT subscribers, but you can use it right now for free on the Bing search engine. You get 100 credits a month for free on Bing.

If you want more precise text or symbols in AI outputs, DALL-E has made the biggest leap in that area.

On Bing the images take a REALLY long time to generate, so have it open on the side while you do something else. If you create something cool with it, hit reply to this email and show us!

LONG LIVE LONDON launches as the first NFT art exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery

October 4-6 Duke of York's HQ
Foundation World Editions, October 3rd at 6 PM ET
Foundation World 1/1 by OSF, October 6th

There are so many names associated with making this drop happen that we are honestly a bit overwhelmed and don't want to misattribute any associations, but the bottom line is that multiple reasonably priced editions and one 1/1 are being dropped by favorite artists on the IHAM Gallery NFT World at the same time as this IRL exhibitions, so we think it is worth being on your radar.

Foundation World

Do you like your art with edges? Builder's DAO mint

WL Mint: October 6pm CET
Public Mint: October 7pm CET
Fixed Price 0.069 ETH

Builders DAO has been very popular with artists in large part because they built a community well before getting to open calls and now a mint. Their blind mint of Builders Box happens this week. 100 unique pieces, by 85 artists will be available in unique box style. It reminds us a bit of the Yearbooks project with the consistency of "canvas". This is a blind mint, so good luck.

Disclosure... I, Pop Punk, unrequested, was gifted an NFT that I believe provides WL access. Until we were researching the drop, I didn't make that connection. The multiple reminders from artists and collectors about this drop is why we wrote it up, not the gift, FWIW.

Foundation World

FAQ like Twitter thread with details

Happenings

Issue #16 of Dam zine is titled BRUSHFIRE and features the work of seventeen female artists. There is a new Streets World that just opened up with 10 photogs (many of their work is in our collections). 23 artists will be dropping bunny art on October 11th via Tez. The Nvde photography Open Call for the Milano, NinfaLabs Gallery is open and still accepting submissions. Strange History's Conquest World collection launches on Friday. We do an weekly spotlight thread of artist work and this past week was animated/in-motion art. New Wave Surf Club is offering up the opportunity to share daily art creation for Suftober; this will be our second year of doing Surftober.

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Do you have a CC0 piece ready for 404?

Tuesday, September 26th

When Patrick Amadon was on our Spaces recently, he talked about the future of the 404 initiative. For those that don’t know, this has been a periodic art share where many collectors committed to collecting from it for a certain amount of funds.

Two things stuck out to us in our conversation about 404 with Patrick!

1. It is going to be going to a quarterly format to make this something that goes on forever.

2. The next 404 initiative is going to be all CC0.

If you don’t know CC0 stands for Creative Commons Zero as is a “no rights reserved” designation. It is the type of public domain license that allows us and everyone to explicitly use and remix existing work into our own or use it as is for any purpose.

As an example, we used Cath Simard’s famous CC0 piece Free Hawaii as a background for some rare New Wave Surf Club surfers. Perhaps a bit more famously 😂, all The Memes released by 6529 are CC0.

If CC0 is the type of thing you want to support or participate in please keep an eye out for the next release and do share art that you explicitly are releasing as CC0.

Patrick Amadon shared that Tuesday will be when this 404 Art Share/Collective initiative will be posted.

Spirals everywhere - Two resources

We like to think that we are not much of trend followers, but sometimes they can be fun to participate in. With everyone creating spirals, we want to share a step-by-step thread on how you can do them from Dreaming Tulpa. Bonus thread from Claire Silver on how to install ControlNet for Stable Diffusion which is the key element of these spiral pieces.

Sloika Open Call for Rome & SuperRare

Currently ongoing, till October 1st

Sloika has recently been quite active in onboarding artists on SuperRare with Montage Space and has announced their latest open call recently, inviting artists to be on SR as well as an IRL Gallery in Rome. Submissions can be made through their related tweet or via Joyn. All you need to make sure is your art is UNMINTED.

How the Whitney Museum almost didn't happen

A bit of art museum history this week. Pop Punk is currently reading Rogues' Gallery, a history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In an interesting story from the book, the Whitney Museum in New York City almost never came into existence. In 1918 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney created a studio club to be a showcase for artists and to house (and build on) her already extensive collection of contemporary art, but she realized that it was growing beyond what she could manage.

In 1929 she offered to give the entire collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art along with five million dollars to build a wing in their museum to host it. The Met was known for its dismissiveness of living artists or anything contemporary. Their director's response...

"What will we do with them, my dear lady? We have a cellar full of those thing already?"

That condescending response ensured that the Whitney Museum of American Art got created on its own and is available to all us art lovers today!

Successful NFT artists contemplate paths to IRL art reach

We had discussions with several artists this week about the desire (and in some cases the need) to have a presence in the IRL art world.

Since many artists came from the IRL art world to NFTs, this isn’t surprising. Artist have long had to diversify their income if they want to make this a full-time or focused endeavor.

Separate from our discussions, but appropriate for this topic...

Nevin Johnson an active photographer and artist in our community is well known for his series “Before You Wake”. While he has NFT auctions literally active, he is still expanding the reach of his work with an opening at Colonna Contemporary in Philadelphia where he is now represented. If you are in the area, his debut show opened this weekend and is ongoing.

We asked him about his motivation to pursue IRL representation and would like to share his thoughtful response:

I believe artists in the web3 space should be looking into opportunities in the traditional art space for a myriad of reasons. There is a vastly untapped pool of folks interested in art that have never even considered collecting art as a NFT. It is folks like Colonna Contemporary that are leading the way in bridging this gap in art. Michele comes from a traditional art background & sees the value of what web3 can bring for artists. It is his goal to bring more trad art collectors into the space. Working with him on this exhibition has been a blast. Having both the physical (prints) & digital (screens) at the exhibition sets the tone for what IRL gallery showings can be. Pushing forward a narrative to bridge & bring the art world closer together.

Things we think we know:

• It is tough to get into the highest levels of the traditional art world. And the space is very small.

• Many people make a living being IRL artists (regional, subject, or style-specific) but it usually takes years of work to even be in the position to get consistent sales.

• The NFT space remains the best way to reach a global art audience on the Internet, but it doesn't have to be either/or.

We applaud people trying different approaches and appreciate the level of commitment it takes to do new things.

Happenings

Nuclear Samurai has curated a number of artists into a new world that pairs two artist's work in one minted diptych. WOMENVERSE is celebrating their two year anniversary with an Open Call and taking art donations for a Tezos fundraising auction which will be held on Wednesday. Rich Caldwell has new Bull and Bear pieces that will be dropping this Wednesday on MakersPlace in addition to being on display at Nematic Gallery in Carmel, California. Previous guests on our Spaces have two new collabs and wrote great threads on their processes... Hyperspek x Vnderworld and TheBenMeadows x Twick.

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P.S. We are hosting OSF this week on Spaces to talk about art and this market, we would love for you to join!

Fellowship Trust - Launching Daily AI Video Art Auctions

Monday, September 18th, at 13:00 EST
Daily auctions starting at .01 reserve

I was able to speak on a Twitter Spaces this week about curation. Many great examples were shared, but I had to highlight the work that Fellowship Trust does as a golden example.

Starting today, Fellowship will be doing daily auctions of AI video drops. The curation part I want to highlight is that they went DEEP sourcing the 30+ artists for this ongoing drop. This isn’t just alumni or the names that would normally come to mind. They of course drew from existing AI video artists, and previous Fellowship artists like Roope Rainisto and Frank Manzano, but they also drew from 2D AI artists who are expanding their wings. They found several artists who were active in NFTs but hadn’t minted anything yet (Puff Yacht is crazy good!). They also drew from some of the more popular (and skilled) AI video artists that had nothing to do with the NFT space like Nice Aunties! I am excited about this drop. If you are looking for a group that is going hard to expand the space and bring quality work to collectors, look no further. – Pop Punk

Daily.xyz is the platform where the auctions will be each day.
Learn more on their X announcement thread.

10 Different Open Calls Offered by HUG

Curation from top artists like Claire Silver, postwook, Amber Vittoria, and Reuben Wu, combined with the creation of physical art from the art selected, makes this a special Open Call opportunity. Organized by HUG’s Print Shop, there are ten Open Calls over the next several weeks with at least four already open.

Visit HUG Open Calls for more information.

Western Art Department, a new Moment

Thursday, September 21st at 10AM ET
8 1/1 and 1 Edition

Western Art Department returns with a new collection being released on their Foundation World as a Moment. Robert Hagan, Igor Jacobe, Russell Green and Alex Kittoe will be releasing new work. Pop Punk already has his eye on one of these new pieces!

Western Art Dept | Foundation

ClownVamp's "Detective Jack: The Cold Case" on BrainDrops

Monday, September 18th at 13:00 EST
.1 to mint

ClownVamp drops his new collection “Detective Jack: The Cold Case” on BrainDrops this week. 500 AI-assisted works collectively tell the story of a missing woman and the investigation into it.

Clown Vamp is part of AI history and also a proponent for better education about it. He will join us at 10 AM ET this Thursday on Spaces to discuss his new collection and the history of AI art. We cannot wait to hear more about the mysterious case of Detective Jack and AI history!

https://braindrops.cloud/
Learn more on their Twitter announcement thread.

Strange History: Conquest - Open Call

Open Call - September 5th through September 28th

Strange History continues to be a hub for the AI space! ‘Conquest’ is their new video AI collection. The deadline to enter this Open Call is September 28th, but if 'History' is any guide (See what we did there!), get your submissions in early as winners may be announced on a rolling basis giving you more time to finalize your work. The theme and requirements are quite specific so do give the full Twitter submission thread a read in full. On the theme…

”Theme: Historical Conquests & Battles /
Style: Any Style AI Video

Think: What if we could go back in time and watch the Norman Invasion of England in 1066? Or a famous battle in history? Perhaps you can create a strange AI video depicting a samurai warrior or conquistador? Use AI video and let your imagination run wild…”

Full Disclosure: Pop Punk listed several pieces in Strange History’s SuperRare drop. He has also collected over a half dozen pieces from the various collections! He also just loves this whole community and is honored to be part of it! We definitely recommend for you to be a part of this creative initiative!

Submission thread with more details

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P.S. Looking for editions? A number of our favorite artists are part of the "More than Human" World that is dropping twelve different edition for .01 ETH each at Noon ET today!