hello, frens. stoked to say that my website is finally live! you can find it at: batz dot art much work still to be done, but its a good start 🙏

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GM 🐸 modulo punk generative GeoMetric Pepes by @batzdu

Gm

Welcome @jackbutcher to our Legendary Canvas!🤍 Jack was the big inspiration for us while creating Normies, canvas, collective creation. 2 weeks ago our NORMPEPEN entered the permanent collection of @opepenedition. Today Jack created a masterpiece in Normies canvas for @AdamWeitsman Fully on-chain programmable canvas, sky is the limit.

I fundamentally believe that the future for artists working in digital mediums and online ecosystems is a future that is built on blockchain. I am wholly committed to planting a flag, defending our ground, and making projects so undeniably interesting that the power of this technology is self-justifying. We have an incredibly strong, interconnected community here. I know I'm preaching to the choir. What we all need to do- and what I'm going to do with WINDOWS, is to break into the zeitgeist outside our walls and SHOW, not tell- how enabling this technology is for funding creative concepts- and creative careers. I've been sharing this work on IG and the reception has been astounding to me, it's the largest audience my work has ever reached. I'm doing a print sale there in a few weeks- so I'm holding back a portion of the windows grids mints- buildings- to use as an onboarding tool to the people who purchase physical prints. People who mint the tokens on Tuesday will also have a chance to print their outputs, at cost, once we have our system dialed in. People on IG and Threads are so excited about this project, but there is an education gap that has been further widened by toxic headlines, misunderstandings, and the unwillingness to change one's mind about the way the world works. I plan to change a lot of minds in the next few weeks and I invite you all to do that with me. My call to action here is this: let's all be more vocal about art and blockchain on other platforms too. Let's all be advocates of ideas that help artists renegotiate their relationship with the internet. I believe that breaking this barrier is essential to the long term success of our space, and consider this my war cry to redouble our efforts across every landscape. The internet has largely been absorbed by feudal landlords who tell us we are lucky to have space on their land. For the million-plus eyes I got on WINDOWS // NYC on IG, their valuation of that impact was 49 dollars. Let's show the world how creative concepts, previously impossible, can be funded by a collective of passionate minds with sovereign onchain identities- and that art has value and deserves the economic upside of the value it generates in the networks it beautifies. Let's build on land we own. I get to make these ideas because so many of you support them. With attention, with ETH, with validation and kind words. All of that matters and makes this a very real living for me. I want as many artists as is possible to experience the feeling of working so hard on something and it being a practical way to spend time. If you will join me, drop some links to your IG here and I would love to check out your pages. If you read this far and are interested in minting a building, indicate that and I will reach out to a few people for wallets for the AL. Thank you all for the support so far and I can't wait to build this city with you. With passion- @ dave.krugman on IG 🫡🪟

I'm not sure the lack of v5 is the thing driving a lack of participation here, unfortunately I think you can more honestly attribute it to maybe a 90% drawdown in number of active participants in the wider ecosystem. Despite this there are still people working on submitting and collectors curating. The incentive for artists to participate is downstream of this too, a recent example of @serc1n's normie set making it through is (in my opinion) a testament to the design of Opepen as a system - it can always respond. It's no small feat to get 80 people to bet on your work in a market with a few hundred participants. Speaking for myself only - I think releasing a big rework to the protocol into an environment where participation is down only for the time being is a huge waste of potential energy. It's a long game, this artwork may or may not be notable etc.

still waiting for a home, only 1/1 listed on ETH

GM 🐸

It's Sunday June 12th, 2016 and the world is mourning the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting. Trump, who recently clinched the Republican Party nomination, posts on Twitter that Obama should leave office over the shooting. You walk to a nearby cafe thinking about the possible implications of Move 37 (played a few months prior) and how neat the SpaceX reusable rockets are. On the way, a mysterious gentleman pulls a newspaper out of his cloak and hands it to you. It's dated June 12th, 2026. Top Headlines: - Elon Musk Becomes World's First Trillionaire as SpaceX IPO's - Department of War Publishes Third Release of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Files - Citing Safety Concerns, Trump Administration Places Anthropic's New 10T Parameter AI Models Under Export Control Huh? Still holding the newspaper, you look up... but the mysterious gentleman has already vanished. You look down... the headlines are also gone. Sipping your coffee, you think to yourself "Wow, these art students sure are are getting stranger and strfr!" Before heading home, you find yourself checking the price of BTC... honestly, $600 per BTC seems pretty high. Maybe it's time to sell??

New collector 0x37fa…6656 Acquired CryptoPunk #5092 for Ξ200 ($356,488) punks.auction/punks/5092

gm - hope everyone has a great weekend ☀️🙏

People not believing you can do something is a hilariously big motivator to go and prove them wrong. Not the most sustainable source of motivation but definitely a valid one 😂

Good morning to all, and especially to @batzdu and @BB88888888888BB

gm frens 🐸