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A collection of cubist circles with original art by Gabe Weis and generative code by yungwknd

Cubist Circles

15/31 PROMPT: "GUIDEBOOK" 31 Days, 31 prompts, 31 artists + (CPUBLOOD x 31 artworks) infecting inktober proper

GLITCHTOBER 15/3`1

the shape of pepe is an artist-driven pepe collection inspired by the 'shape layer 2' network.

the shape of pepe

**Block APE** is a generative, infinite artwork that reimagines the iconic Hoodie CryptoPunk Ape through blockchain technology. 

The artwork continuously evolves, with the size of its geometric shapes dynamically generated using the digits of the current block height from the **Shape L2** network. Each new block brings a fresh transformation, creating an ever-changing visual experience that blends the randomness of blockchain with the aesthetics of generative art. 

Block APE captures the intersection of digital culture, technology, and creativity, offering a unique and evolving piece that is forever tied to the blockchain.

Block APE

Celebrating the launch of Shape, the chain for creators.

Day One on Shape

(re)Shape, balance between creation and destruction, where form, structure, and identity converge. It reflects the intricate ways we are shaped by art, people, and the influences around us, strength intertwined with fragility. Each fracture and collapse reveals how we break down, only to rebuild, not as we were, but as something newly forged, continuously adapting to the forces that mold and (re)Shape us.

(re)Shape

**Block TinyDino** generates different monochrome TinyDinos based on the **Block number** of the Shape blockchain. 

Each digit or group of digits controls various visual attributes like transparency, grayscale, and conditional rendering of elements like "caps," "spikes," "noggles," and "laser." . The code is designed for visual experimentation, where the change of the block number will affect the appearance of the layers and patterns drawn on the canvas.

Block TinyDino

With just one small gesture, you can embark on a big adventure.The things you don't see are the things that will surprise you the most.Just mint.As you take more, the value multiplies.Just mint.

Just Mint

This certificate verifies the non-existence of said digital asset. 

Certificate of Non-Existency

A Shape of Yours

Trace is inspired by the simple joy of discovery. Like a child playing with pieces of paper, cutting, and arranging them with endless curiosity and a sense of wonder, this piece grew from a place of exploration. So, I set out to recreate that feeling—allowing some shapes to be irregular and imperfect, others geometric, and put them together just like the paper pieces that kids arrange without a second thought. The colors were chosen to reflect the joy and excitement of that moment. Trace captures the feeling of letting imagination lead and reconnecting with that child-like creativity, allowing the unexpected to shape something beautiful.

Trace

Bold, fixed shapes interplay with dynamic colors and textures, capturing the tension between structure and creativity. Vibrant strokes of purple, copper, and silver create movement, as if the shapes are resisting boundaries and pushing beyond constraints. It's a reminder that while the world may impose limits, imagination knows none—creativity can burst forth in radiant, unpredictable ways, transcending the frames meant to contain it.

Unbound Radiance

Decal by Kjetil Golid #67
https://deca.art/token/0x3C280E833896e29ff8cf3445a51da0d7fD0eEC7e/67

PiercedCAT is a Hole Yellow Cat Metaani.


Decal by Kjetil Golid #67

The autumn wind blows through the reeds and grasslands, and the tree loses its leaves one by one. With each passing day of autumn, the tree’s body becomes more bare, and it feels the touch of the sun’s rays more deeply. The tree knows that winter will come, and the tree is always longing for spring.

Morning Sunbeams

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not a newfrontier composable pfp, just a gremplin sorry

GreePle

Rabbit Hole

**Discount ALs**: https://lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/e5da0ac3-d896-4e2f-8545-1357e01a283a

## Noodlz: Vintage Gen Pop

Illustrated article on Medium: https://medium.com/p/1efa809b1170

**Nostalgia for the future**

Noodlz builds on ideas I began exploring in Fontana and Velum — specifically, how to represent advancing and receding pictorial space and dynamic movement, using statically drawn graphic elements. In contrast to this spatial push and pull, I add the application of algorithmically worn surfaces and aged colors. These two devices aim to create a tension between instantaneous 3D dynamism and a 2D canvas that indicates a slow, subtle process of attrition. The resulting juxtaposition is characterized by a pictorial space that’s simultaneously punchy, fun and explosive with a rendering that’s very flat, measured and methodical. A paradoxical expression that aims to feel both of-our-time and digitally native but simultaneously time honored and nostalgic.


**Playful Vintage Pop Vibes**

I particularly love some of David Hockney’s stage landscapes from the 90s. He pushes and pulls the space with a witty and artistically intelligent use of scale, texture, overlap, and skewed perspective. I love how these apparently simple, almost naïve forms have a jovial interplay and yet occupy very distinct space giving each work presence and power. This sense of structured freedom I feel in Hockney’s work is also something I aspire to express in Noodlz. I don’t want the elements to seem too self serious. The name Noodlz is deliberately unpretentious to reflect the streamer festooned pop vibes of the project. For me there is also something inherently exciting about bold colorful pop art contrasted with a weathered vintage surface. Worn Lego boxes from the 80s and retro posters of race cars also trigger this feeling in me — most likely because these are the things I loved in my childhood. It’s quite possible my art is an attempt to recreate something magical I felt growing up, but I feel it’s probably fairly universal to a certain generation. Noodlz is a melding of many personal feelings and inspirations that I hope are clear in the art but, by nature, are hard to put into words.


**Algorithmic immediacy**

Creating a sense of immediacy in generative art is an interesting challenge. In painting and drawing a direct and unhesitating stroke can express an effortless and spontaneity that’s hard to parallel using algorithms. My solution is to keep primitives uncontrived and true to my medium which is scalable vector graphics. Simple circles, spines, rectangles, flat fills, and linear gradients are used to flesh out the main structure and space in these compositions. It’s important to me to try and preserve the inherent beauty in these simple forms rather than bending them into more subtle mark-making that hides the graphical immediacy that’s authentic to the medium. In contrast, the actual composition of these primitives can be very complex and dense although a product of simple geometric rules. These geometric rules I believe provide another type of directness as the underlying logic can be intuited on some level. Immediacy for me is all about revealing the process and at least creating the sense that the primitives are laid down in an algorithmically uncontrived manner.


**Inspirations of Effortlessness**

Throughout his life Matisse went to great efforts to remove any evidence of excess labor in his works, wanting them to look free and spontaneous. Finding an equivalent to this in generative art without the work becoming overly simplistic is a fascinating challenge. Matisse’s cut paper was something I was thinking about when deciding to keep the shapes clean and undistorted when building the primary motifs in Noodlz.

Howard Hodgkin is a contemporary inspiration for this project that also seems to conceal the labor in his work and builds his compositions from very direct and uncontrived daubs and strokes. There is an obvious reference in Noodlz to his inclusion of the frame in his works. The frame in Hodgkin’s work becomes another direct primitive that is not fussed with yet adds another rich layer of texture and structure.


**Polymorphic Gen Art**

Polymorphism has a number of different meanings in different disciplines but I feel the term would describe where I am trying to go with Noodlz and in my own practice in general. Polymorphic comes from the Greek roots “poly-” (meaning “many”) and “morphē” (meaning “form” or “shape”).

My collection chatFUKR from 2024 was a revelation for me in that the figurative nature of the project forced me to combine many algorithms and resulting visual languages together in single compositions. At the time I felt that figuration might be the glue that enabled me to break free of a more homogeneous approach to making gen art, but as soon as the project was dropped I started to think how a similar approach could be applied to pure abstract art making. The desire and ambition to marry a complex array of elements together in a single work is something that’s been in my artistic DNA for decades. This approach has typically meant developing the essential building blocks (primitives) of my art over a number of years and exploring different ways to combine them.

It strikes me that artists typically develop devices, symbols, palettes and motifs over decades and don’t start from scratch with every work. A mature and sustainable practice for a dedicated long form generative artist might be to build a library of algorithms that can be evolved slowly over successive projects, finding new ways to combine them into compelling fresh expressions.

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