E75 - Curated Critique
00. Listen
Coming Soon
01. News
- Will's audio sounds bad, not rad like Very Large Array
- Diablo IV is out; here is a random review from the internet for you to read
- The #200tezos event was an absolute hit this week; an intro tweet is pasted below and be sure to follow the hashtag to find some of the outstanding work that was posted:
- Cinematic trailers were 'in' this week, including this one from Rob Scalera promoting his fxhash project, Sillage:
02. Platform talk
- Alba
- Alba officially launched this week with its genesis project, Turing Test by developer Willyham
- fxhash community member and Alba artistic director, Haiver, released Lace Factory to a relatively quick sellout at 0.03 ETH
- This release has proved that open platforms can potentially work on Ethereum (as long as gas stays reasonable), but Pronoia makes several good points about the ability to support more artists on low-cost chains such as Tezos or Etherum L2s
- Art Blocks
- Fidenza #545 sold for 625 ETH. Wow!
- Neural Sediments by Eko33 sold out before hitting resting price:
- Verse
- Funktor by Erik Swahn is his second collector curated project on the platform
- Rudxane's Hypnagogic **is an excellent example of artist-curated work
- GenArch is Verse's new exhibition next week, featuring a bevy of work by several artists. Below is Antichambre by Anaglyphic, Yumo no Sekai by Kira0, and Tekon : Optima by Studio Yorktown:
03. Projects of the week
- Axiomata
- KRILLER, by James Paterson & Stephen Ramsay
On KRILLER.com.
- NFC Lisbon
- Rooted is the first project we call out, and mention some other projects by MJ:
- We also reference elsif's Slice of Life and its predecessor, For Algernon:
04. Looking ahead
- Sonoran Roadways by Jake Rockland will be coming out on Art Blocks:
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Have an excellent rest of your week.
Trinity & Will