Making Making Making

I have barely touched this site in a year but I’m actually making stuff every single day. All the work I’ve been making is mostly posted in my Twitter Media Tab or YouTube but I am also on TikTok and Instagram to a lesser extent. I’m in my Discord showing news videos and playing online video DJ sets all the time and the occasional IRL ones. This year I’ve got heavily into making A.I. videos with A.I. voices. You can see some of Trisha Code and Tonya BK’s stuff. Next Party is actually in 5 days in Decentraland. Where’s everyone hanging out online these days?

>RUN

>RUN is my first ever AI video NFT and is out today as an open edition for one hour only. OE starts at 7PM UTC and price 0.02 ETH.

Also this week Broadside crew is doing their first metaverse rave in the bunker and I'm going to be doing  a special Drum and Bass video dj set.

I've been diving deep into AI video finding all the different avenues it can be used for with video music and it's life changing for me. I've been using it to make pictures talk and sing, creating themed supercut journeys, disguising samples to create new mashup pieces, turning old remixes into totally new remixes like claymation terminator , building camel motorbikes and the list goes on.

The Characters of 2022

The Characters of 2022 is a AI stable diffusion video montage remix gathering together some of the people who made 2022 notable for some reason or other. It features Boris Johnson, Brittney Griner, Do Kwon, Elon Musk, Harry and Meghan, Jerome Powell, Joe Biden, Johnny Depp, Lionel Messi, Mark Zuckerberg, Masih Alinejad, Piers Morgan, Queen Elizabeth, Salt Bae, SBF, Sidney Poitier, Will Smith, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Volodymyr Zelenskyy all standing around a stable diffused airport lounge. SD was also obviously one of the main features of 2022

AI Stable Diffusion Video

Recently I’ve been getting into making video with Stable Diffusion and it has been life changing for me. For years I’ve made remixes using movie clips that I cannot sell or really even play at some live shows and SD has freed me from all that. It’s able to disguise the clips just enough that it’s impossible to tell where the original clip came from. At first I was taking whole movie scenes but they were still identifiable a bit. Then I started rotoscoping (cutting out) singular objects from movie scenes and using SD to disguise the clips and now I’m at a point where you cannot tell where they original came from. I make all the music originally and use sound effects from libraries i’ve bought the rights to (the same libraries most Hollywood movies use anyway).

Santa vs The Martians

I’ve just minted Santa vs the Martians on my own manifold contract. The auction has already been triggered and just under 24 hours remain. Also 23rd December 7PM UTC we’re throwing a Cult Crypto Art Christmas Party on the rooftop of the voxel hotel and on my twitch. I’ve also just recently done an NFT with Griff.

Video Remix NFTs

I’ve been bad at updating this website and an absolute huge amount of stuff has been happening. If you want the latest follow me on twitter. Since last I wrote we’ve had 3 NFTs on Super Rare. YES/NO sold to RadioSolace for 14.77Ξ ($47,855). Heads sold to king0x for 15.5Ξ ($43,362). Our collaboration with XCOPY “Breaking News” resold on the secondary market from Yeah Yeah to Colborn for 89.0Ξ ($263,421) our first ever 1/1 of secondary sale ever. Today The Coldie Method™ sold to Momus Collection (who also collected our Bootsy Collins collab) for 44.044Ξ ($153,447) a record sale for us. We have a 1/1 auction as part of cryptocubes collection on Nifty Gateway on October 28th. Every Friday 3PM I’m video DJing on TWITCH and Token Smart’s Discord. Constantly making stuff you can catch me on twitter and joining the mailing list of you want to be updated on new videos.

Moto

Moto is now on Super Rare. It’s our latest Audio-Visual NFT motorbike rhythm in which we have construct every model from scratch. The full commercial rights to the motorbike and the music will be given to the collector. Every Friday 1PM EST we are livestreaming on Discord and Twitch.

Kung Fu

Kung Fu is now on Super Rare. Classic 70s Kung Fu Movies reconstructed so every punch, kick and swoosh forms part of the rhythm. Most active these days on twitter and also every Friday 1PM EST live video remix stream on Twitch.

How to get into Crypto Art

A lot of people have been asking me about Crypto Art and NFTs and I wanted to write down something to show them about what i’ve learned so far. Firstly what are NFTs? This video gives a really good short explanation. To start selling your own NFTs you will need an Ethereum Wallet something like MetaMask is a browser plugin you can use to sign into all the sites that sell Crypto Art. You will need to put some money in there to “Mint” your art. Minting is the act of Tokenizing or putting a bit of code associated to your art piece that you are making to guarantee the rareness of the file.

If you are just starting out Rarible and Opensea are fantastic places to start selling. They don’t require an application process and anyone can start selling there immediately. We started out on Rarible in December, then did OpenSea and recently we have been accepted to SuperRare, KnownOrigin and Foundation.

When we first started minting Crypto Art it only cost about $20 but since then there has been a huge increase in people using ETH and now it can sometimes cost as much as $200 to mint a piece. The price of “GAS” to use Ethereum changes throughout the day. It is best to keep an eye on this chart before minting.

We’ve also recently started experimenting with minting art using TEZOS instead of ETH. You can do this by getting a Kukai Wallet with your twitter account and then going to Hic et Nunc to mint art. Minting on Tezos is far far cheaper but they don’t yet have as many collectors there but that might change.

The final stage is promoting your art and this is the hardest thing to explain. Every artists journey is totally different and a big part of our Crypto Art journey has been centered around the video remix work we have done. It seems that Twitter is core to Crypto Art and being on twitter and engaging with the community is key. Don’t @ collectors asking them to buy your art instead just make jokes, chat, be involved but also post your art. Eventually people will come to your art as they engage with you more and more.

Finally check out these two articles from Sophie Sturdevant

• A beginners guide

• Navigating Crypto Art as a traditional Artist

And also check this article from Scott Belsky.

CRYPTO FUNK

Sorry I’ve been slow to update the news here. So much has been happening. My wife Maria has joined the team to make animations together. Yesterday we launched a collaboration Crypto Art piece with Bootsy Collins called “CRYPTO FUNK”. We had two ClubHouse sessions on Club Crypto Basel with Lady Phe0nix and Coldie and we’ve made 4 other videos together using all music Bootsy gave us to jam with. The reserved price has been met and bidding is currrently at 8ETH ($16,000). Since I last updated I also released a piece called “Bot Battle Beats” on Foundation which I am super proud of. It is a rhythmical fight between two robots where every kick, punch and swoosh helps create the beat.

BEEPLE REMIX NFTs

THE AUCTION IS LIVE

ECLECTIC METHOD - ABSTRACT BEEPLE RAP

SONG A DAY MAN - BEEPLE 500

BEEPLE (Mike Winklemann) has given Song a Day Mann and I permission to release our remixes of him as NFT Art pieces. The Auctions begin simultaneously Tuesday 19th January 2021 at 10AM EST - 4PM CET on OPEN SEA…….

Vitalik Databank and 2x NYE

I hope you have all had a fantastic holiday. I just released my latest piece of NFT Crypto Art on Rarible. The piece is called Databank and it's bunch of glitching hip hop computers with an exclusive instrumental. My first piece of NFT Art was featured in Decrypt's 10 Companies that made a big splash in 2020 and keeping on a crypto tip I made a remix of Vitalik Buterin (co-founder of Ethereum)..

I'm playing a set for ESCHATON's NYE Party and also at 1AM EST USA Time I'll be doing a live stream for the Token Smart NYE Party. Currently working on Episode 3 of Orgmentid which is all about aliens.

Have a fantastic New Year!

#CRYPTOARTSHARK

This coming Monday December 21st 2020 I am releasing my second ever audio visual NFT Art piece, my first one sold out all 20copies in 70 minutes. The piece will be available on my RARIBLE PAGE at 10am EST USA Time Monday Morning.

Crypto Audio Visuals

I’ve just released my first ever piece of Crypto Art on Rarible. Mecha Tunnel is an Audio Visual Loop but only purchasers of the limited edition NFT get to here the audio and get copies of the stem files. I’ve also deleted the original files from my computer making it a self destructing piece of art with the crypto copies the only copies now in existence.

Recently I’ve start making an original series of sci fi short stories with Maria Wilson two episodes are out already and third episode about aliens is coming soon. Also I just did a remix of Ahsoka Tano’s return in the Mandalorian Star Wars show.

Bot Battle Beats

I've always wanted to make a kung fu musical. Rhythmical fight scenes where every punch, kick, swoosh and wood splinter forms part of the music. I've done a bunch of kung fu movie remixes but this is my first video creating all the fight choreography as well. This video is made remixing motion capture samples instead of movie samples.

The Hoo Hoo Trio

Here's The Hoo Hoo Trio performing their first recorded song "Feathers and Fur" named after their favorite jazz club where they performed this music video. The original was a lot longer but I've edited out Owl's 8 minute keyboard solo because it seemed excessive.

Sovalcaster

I'm delving deeper into 3D animations instead of copyright infringement. "Sovalcaster" is my new song and animation video with added drawn bits by Maria Wilson. Summery house music with an entrancing vocal laid over an animated tunnel of circles and morphing circular objects. You can buy a download of the music here and video here.

Dirt Beat

Tunnel Vision

I've been making video remixes from video samples almost full time for the last 23 years. I'm still going to be doing video sample based remixes but recently I started learning Cinema 4D so I can create some fully original videos. Here is my first shot at it. "Tunnel Vision" is a rhythmical tunnel of shapes, synth noises and the occasional bird.

Year of the Pig

I have a new album out : http://hyperurl.co/pig This is a music video for one of the tracks off it "Lowjacked Poney". It's a little different to my usual audio visual style and more a collection of nice images. I thought it was time to put out some of the music I've been making over the past few years.

I have a new album out today. This is a music video for one of the tracks off it "Lowjacked Poney". It's a little different to my usual audio visual style and more a collection of nice images. I thought it was time to put out some of the music I've been making over the past few years. Some of the tunes are background music from video remixes I've done and some are songs I made especially for the album. Anyone on my mailing list got a free link to download the album and it's out on all the usual streaming sites now.