Metaversal

🍝 Meet Spaghetty (#94) The generative art AI assistant you didn't know you needed.

Make generative art with Spaghetty and learn his role in a new interactive artwork from artist Fahad Karim only in this week's issue of The Metaversalist:

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♾️ Fahad Karim's infinite creatures (#93) The Lumen-shortlisted artist talks to us about time, inspiration, and his first commission.

Fahad Karim short-listed for the Lumen Prize's inaugural Metaversal Generative Art Award for his work "Pohualli," an edition of 100 dynamic creatures that grow and evolve each day, only to die and be born again.

We spoke to him about his practice, inspiration, and forcing collectors to be patient:

🦢 GoosePunks (#92) Inexplicably, there's no goose emoji... yet.

In this week's edition of The Metaversalist:

🪿 The making of GoosePunks
🤖 The robot tattoo artists hate
🖼️ MoMA's first tokenized art acquisition
👟 Nike making degen sneakerhead's dreams come true

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📰 Printed Punks (#91) Is the Nouns DAO Fork the end of the road... or a fresh start?

This week's issue of The Metaveralist puts the "news" in newsletter, from Avant Arte printing CryptoPunks to Opensea's no-code Studio, Unlonely's dating gambling show, a Doge statue, and Starbucks' digital PSLs 🎃🥤

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💗 Maya Man is very online (#89) Except when she isn't.

In the latest edition of The Metaversalist, we speak to Lumen Prize shortlisted artist Maya Man about her practice, the perils of being very online, and how p5.js changed her life:

⌐◨-◨ Nouns resets (#88) Is the Nouns DAO Fork the end of the road... or a fresh start?

Over half of the Nouns DAO is leaving, choosing to fork into a duplicate DAO and return their Nouns to the treasury. 😱

Despite this, almost everyone agrees it's for the best. 🤔
Find out why in this week's edition of The Metaversalist, out now ⌐◨-◨

📚 Storytime (#87) Can a new protocol fix Web3's IP challenges?

How do you make sure creators get paid in a world where AI and remix culture making copying and sharing IP faster than ever?

Story Protocol believes it has the answer.

Learn more in this week's issue of The Metaversalist:

🌈 No more Squiggles (#86) All good things...

The last mints of Erick "Snowfro" Calderon's iconic Chromie Squiggles project are happening imminently, representing the end of an era in on-chain generative art. But with every ending comes a new beginning.

Read all about it in The Metaversalist:

🏛️ Monumental (#85) Sam Spratt skims all the fat / His wife need no longer be lean.

There's only one story in Web3 this week... @SamSpratt's "The Monument Game" 🏛️

Read about how it's rewriting the rules of digital art and how getting collectors to invest emotionally might be the secret to surviving the bear in The Metaversalist 👇

🪦 RIP royalties... again (Issue #84) OpenSea sends creator fees to sleep with the fishes.

This week's Metaversalist newsletter is all about bad decisions:

⛵️OpenSea sunsetting royalties
🙅Musk blocking blocks
👀Coinbase reviving Kevin

Make a smart decision, and read about it all, right here:

🔦 Illuminating Lumen (Issue #83) Art + technology = magic.

In this week's edition of The Metaversalist, @craigw.bsky.social sits down with Lumen Prize founder Carla Rapoport to talk about how technology shapes art, "Electric Sheep," and the sui generis power of David Hockney.

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🎹 Themes and variations (Issue #81) Vera Molnár makes history, again.

Gen art is "having a moment," and it's thanks in no small part to the likes of Art Blocks, Sotheby's, and pioneers like Vera Molnár. This week all three collided when the famous auction house sold the famous artist's work using tech from a famous gen art platform:

🫡 For the culture (Issue #80) It's not always about profits, anon.

This week's edition of The Metaversalist is all about Jack Butcher, the power of Opepen, how ThreadGuy and Bored Elon kickstarted a cultural movement, and the rallying cry of "For the culture."

We believe market conditions are going to change in the months ahead, which is why we're placing our bets now.

We believe value accrues to the most iconic pieces of the most iconic collections.

We believe if you're going to go ugly, go ugliest.

We believe in CryptoPunks.

There are only 88 zombies, but #8531 is special. First, he's got the "stringy hair" attribute, second, he's got the goatie, and third, he's got the shades.

Some might argue that's an ugly combo. We'd argue it's the ugliest, and that's precisely what one wants in a zombie.

In the world of Web3, there are few projects as significant as CryptoPunks.

Punks represent an inflection point in culture, where a revolution in digital ownership and another in online identity collided.

At Metaversal, we call this the start of "Hyperculture."

Over the weekend, we bought a $1 million JPEG. Not just any JPEG, but CryptoPunk #8531... Some call him "Undead Fred," we affectionately call him, "The Ugliest Zombie." 🧟‍♂️

Here's the TL;DR 🧵

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Why did our CEO Yossi Hasson get into Web3? As he explains to The Creative Block Podcast, it all comes down to ownership of our data and digital assets and wresting control over them back from the tech titans.

💥 Into the Ether (Issue #79) It's best to pretend you know what you're doing.

This week, we look at Ether's shambolic mint, Google warming to NFTs, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink's views on the future of cryptocurrencies:

My conversation with Metaversal's CEO & Co-Founder, Yossi Hasson. Metaversal is a hyperculture brand using blockchain, AI, and emerging technology to create ... Metaversal CEO & Co-Founder, Yossi Hasson

Catch Metaversal's CEO and co-founder @yossihasson on the latest episode of The Creative Block Podcast below!

Yossi talks blockchain, emerging tech, and the myriad creative possibilities Web3 offers IP holders, creators, and fans:

Fashion trailblazer @vitalik.ca believes BRC-20 and Ordinals are Making Bitcoin Great Again, and he's not wrong.

Read all about it — and the rest of the week's Web3 news — only in The Metaversalist:

https://themetaversalist.gg/p/vitalik-buterin-taproot-wizards-ordinals-bitcoin

☎️ Hello Operator (Issue #77) We speak to the duo redefining the parameters of generative art.

Have you read our in-depth interview with Operator yet? We get into the challenges of choreographing generative art, accidental interventions from feline friends, and why the duo is open-sourcing its innovations:

https://www.themetaversalist.gg/p/operator-interview-dejha-ti-ania-catherine