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2/ Pick a format Use creative constraint to make it easier to produce consistently and be consistently recognized. @visualizevalue assets are black and white vector depictions of high-leverage ideas. To go back to the fishing metaphor, use the bait that gets you bites. https://t.co/ncvRpES9xl

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Visualize Value: constraint and a change of medium

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  1. 01 / Same selected reading record

    what began as black and white compositions explaining value mechanics evolved into blockchain projects using those same mechanics as their medium. pieces about consensus, immutability, and network effects became pieces powered by consensus,…

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  2. 02 / Project: Visualize Value

    with the final auction now up and running for Latent ( I'll write up a few disparate/post-rational thoughts on the collection to try and cover the bits missed in the more polished write-ups, share a few dots that connected looking backwards…

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  3. 03 / Project: Visualize Value

    the first and most obvious is the concept of latent space as an all consuming conceptual rabbit hole the root of this idea/execution is to make obvious the massive overlap between mechanical photography and images generated via neural netwo…

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  4. 04 / Editorial topic: Constraints

    I’ve been responding to the platform constraints of Rodeo through a collection of 26 pieces capturing its dynamics, each minted with unique imagery (below left). Upon discovering that tokens could be updated to point to new images, the orig…

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  5. 05 / Editorial topic: Medium

    did not intend to activate a zora coin but apparently happens automatically when you log into the ios app, which is a bit mental would like to have done something like this much more intentionally, but here we are

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  6. 06 / Project: Visualize Value

    one of the biggest reflections, in the same way you leave your house with a camera and don't know what you'll end up having the opportunity to photograph - the neural network as a medium can function like this but with an order of magnitude…

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  7. 07 / Project: Visualize Value

    first one, "prompting the environment" is to do with the broad assumption that working with a neural network to generate images is about describing exactly what you want it to do, which is how I interfaced with it originally "a person on a…

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  8. 08 / Project: Visualize Value

    the final 80 pieces in the collection are derived from around 8,000 outputs, 1% or so making the cut there are also dozens of visually disparate pieces born from the same prompt - an inversion of the assumption I started with

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