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What is Bitmap City Vol. 2?
TLDR:
My love letter to this space: A pioneering DMT Fine Art collection built on photography and blends imagery, bitmap blocks, Pantone color sets, and web3 slang into each piece of art.
Fine Art Viewer:
ord.io/77127899
Mint on @mscribeio:
mscribe.io/nats/dmt-bitma…
The post's imagery shows the Fine Art progression from RAW photo to all three layers:
1⃣RAW Photography
2⃣Layer 1 (photography + bitmap)
3⃣Layer 1 + Layer 2 (Pantone Color)
4⃣Layer 1 + Layer 2 + Layer 3 (Web3 slang)
Longer Version:
Bitmap City Vol. 2 is an exploration of spaces: digital + physical, seeking to combine the highest form of human art—Fine Art—with the most advanced technology—Digital Matter Theory.
A few groundbreaking highlights
✅1st DMT collection built on photography
✅1st 10K DMT Fine Art collection
✅1st DMT w/Base art & Deployer on Block 9 450x rare sats
🟧History🟧
The idea for the DMT collection was conceived when I watched @TheBlockRunner’s Nov. 20, 2023 episode on DMT. Having successfully launched Bitmap City Vol. 1, I knew Vol. 2 needed to push things a step further and utilize DMT.
🟧Building🟧
✈️Low-altitude flights were booked on a prop plane to capture different topography—mainly looking for rural farmland, suburbs, and small cities.
🏙️Tickets to skyscrapers in NYC and London were secured to capture big cities from within their hearts.
🌆Thousands of Bitmaps were scoured and tested to see which would pair the best with the imagery.
🎨Countless hours were dedicated to painting and compiling the base imagery in photoshop.
📃A system for stacking complimentary layers was thought through and created.
🟧Art structure🟧
Each work of art is comprised of anywhere from one to three layers: bottom, middle, and top. With the help of the Merkle root as a randomizer, the layers are stacked on top of one another.
✅Layer 1 – Bottom Layer – Photography & Bitmap
✅Layer 2 – Middle Layer – Pantone Colors (Solids and Gradients)
✅Layer 3 – Top Layer – Web3 slang
🟧Artistic Vision🟧
Bitmap City Vol. 2 seeks to merge physical and digital worlds into a shard in-between space.
🟧Why DMT🟧
I needed to achieve the pristine quality of non-arbitrary data to represent the Digital space perfectly—something only available with Digital Matter Theory.
🟧Coding🟧
I joined with the @scarcedotcity team to help create the custom code from scratch—and we eventually chose the Merkle root to introduce maximum randomness into the collection.
🧡A thousand thanks to all those involved in this collection—from builders, to marketplace techs, to space's hosts, to community, to collectors—I appreciate you!!🧡
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