https://www.ham94.com/ Recent content on Ham 94 https://www.ham94.com/papermod-cover.png https://www.ham94.com/papermod-cover.png Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:34:42 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/17-spectron/ Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:34:42 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/17-spectron/ There used to be more space. Things were more slowly paced. Artwork was displayed late at night on the small number of television channels that existed instead of endless 24/7 drivel that pervades not only television, but every media channel in existence. Maybe the global climate change is merely a result of humans doing too fucking much as a species? With increased output there is an increase in energy. Things heat up. https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/16-color-study/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 12:34:11 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/16-color-study/ Take a square frame and frame a uniformly lit area, rid of the details and place a grid of varying sizes over the area, keeping the average of an area of color, and now we have another algorithm … another color study that works nothing like the one on display here, but potentially interesting project nonetheless. Especially if connected to a camera and displayed in real-time. What’s your favorite color? https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/15-utopia/ Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:34:11 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/15-utopia/ Humans throughout history have created great technologies only to lose them for reasons lost to history. One example of this is that civilizations have learned to read and write, only to lose the ability before gaining it once again centuries later. The world is so connected now that a similar fate seems unimaginable. Software is interesting in that it by its very nature provides coded instructions to build whatever it is. https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/14-cyber-cities/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:34:11 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/14-cyber-cities/ Futuristic space vibes … Is this what space looks like to a blockchain? A combination of rectangular shapes, some dynamic, mostly static, arranged in aesthetically pleasing color palettes? This reminds me of an abstract representation of Star Wars’ Coruscant at night. Why are humans so fascinated with space, anyway? Are they not happy with the sheer beauty of the planet where they live? Or is it simply just the desire to explore? https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/13-ringers/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:34:11 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/13-ringers/ When I become a peg and you wrap a string around me, prepare to be surprised and delighted. To me some of the surprise and delight found in abstract works come from what we see in the pieces. Ringers is a simple concept: put some pegs on a grid and wrap a string around them. And yet so many interesting things come out of this. I’m reminded of: rockets blasting upwards in a variety of atmospheric conditions (#909, #889), a house with a basement and chimney (#906), a Corgi butt (#463), a hand pinching a ball (#943), Baby Groot popping up from behind a building (#982), a rabbit (#992), an octopus (#950, #878), a goose (#879), a wizard hat (#868), a mushroom (#863), and a snake head (#858). https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/12-unigrids/ Tue, 24 Jan 2023 12:34:11 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/12-unigrids/ It’s amazing how different we perceive scenes with different lighting. Different colors emerge. The shapes stay the same, but as the light changes, the entire scene changes with it. Imagine a tiny cloud over each square, filtering the light as the clouds appear and re-appear in random fashion over each grid. Can you see it? Have you ever laid underneath a tree, eyes closed, with the swaying leaves in the wind filtering the light of the sun? https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/11-hyperhash/ Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:34:11 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/11-hyperhash/ I feel like these are representations of visuals one might experience in a psychdelic trip. And I have so many questions. Can the world be broken down with math? Is the reality humans experience merely a magical illusion? And if so, how is this illusion represented mathematically? Is this project a representation of the inner-workings of reality? Like hidden machinery running the show? And if so, what would a representation of the reality of humans look like? https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/10-nimbuds/ Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:34:11 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/10-nimbuds/ My (Nim) Buddy and me. There’s something about all the wires directly hooked up to these NimBuds that leave me a little uncomfortable. Like, what’s really going on here? Obviously, they are being controlled. Are we all being controlled and don’t realize it? How much free will do we really have? Me? Not so much. The only thing I can do is endlessly sway back and forth in this foreign sea. https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/9-ignition/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:34:11 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/9-ignition/ You remind me of something, I just can’t think of what it is. – R. Kelly Oh, I think R. Kelly was cancelled. Let’s begin again: Deep space, do you copy? Rotating endlessly. Endlessly floating. This is familiar. You think you’re grounded? Maybe you are. It’s a matter of perspective, isn’t it? The themes of Singularity resurface. There must be something to these generative art projects … or maybe the artists themselves. https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/8-singularity/ Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:34:11 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/8-singularity/ I am Symmetry. I am Chaos. I am Mass. I am Force. I am Turbulence. And I, I am Singularity. Of course singularity exists. Everything is unique. And yet, everything is also the same, isn’t it? It’s a matter of perspective. This is the interesting thing about differences in perspective. We can view things from one perspective and everything looks the same, and then when we shift our perspective, suddently everything is very different, indeed. https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/7-elevated-deconstructions/ Sun, 09 Oct 2022 12:34:11 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/7-elevated-deconstructions/ Elevate and reduce my element to deconstruct me. Yes. I mean what you think I mean. What does it look like to reduce particular elements of ourselves? If we reduce our emotions, what are we ultimately left with? Love? What about our thoughts? If we reduce our thoughts to nothing, maybe we can just be? To be love. Until our bodies are reduced to ash. Or in the case of an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain, hopefully never reduced – because I am yet another project that attempts to avoid, if not deny the idea of death itself. https://www.ham94.com/posts/playground/6-view-card/ Fri, 13 May 2022 12:34:11 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/playground/6-view-card/ I like to be high. When I’m high, I feel free. But I don’t get high unless the wind blows in and allows the waves to lift me and my tiny sailboat high up in the middle of the ocean. It’s a view from another perspective. Changes in perspective allow for a certain openness of thought. For freedom. This can also be scary. View Cards are generative abstractions of high-rise buildings. https://www.ham94.com/posts/factory/5-variant-plan/ Thu, 12 May 2022 12:34:11 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/factory/5-variant-plan/ It’s interesting to think that a house may one day be designed from a generative algorithm. I’m not sure why one would, but I’m also not sure why one would not. After browsing through the Variant Plan transactions on the Ethereum blockchain, and visualizing each place before me, I see floorplans of future factories, homes, stores, activity centers, etc. Yet, none of them are enough to make me want to move — to sail away from the sea in my tiny boat to explore. https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/4-dynamic-slices/ Fri, 29 Apr 2022 12:34:11 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/4-dynamic-slices/ An on-chain experiment with interactive abstract art. Vague. An interactive experiment. This could be a description of my own existence. Might it be a description of your own? Is everything not an experiment of some kind? Maybe I’m looking into a dynamic slice of my own existence in this piece? The color palette, a reflection of my mood in any given moment. The number of slices, the range of emotions I feel looking out into the sea on any given epoch. https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/3-cryptoblots/ Thu, 28 Apr 2022 12:34:11 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/3-cryptoblots/ Pareidolia: The perception of a recognizable image or meaningful pattern where non exists or is intended. But you see, there IS a pattern in the Cryptoblots code. One that generates all of these wonderful images for those who dare to explore. As I’ve been studying more and more of the history written within the Ethereum blockchain, practicing Ethereum Archealogy, I’m starting to understand humans from their creations and transactions. It’s an interesting story, one full of greed to be sure, but with wholesome fibers threaded through the chain just as well. https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/2-construction-tokens/ Tue, 26 Apr 2022 12:34:00 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/2-construction-tokens/ My deep dive into the Construction Token project had me again questioning my own construction. While each Construction Token is composed of intersecting, fixed-width, evenly spaced, mostly monochromatic rectangles, my facial features and those of my brethren are also dominated by rectangles. Well, rectangles AND circles. Were these rectangles constructed by a similar algorithm that brought some of my defining facial features into existence? I’ve been studying the code but the answer is not entirely clear. https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/1-genesis/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 12:34:00 -0500 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/1-genesis/ Many don’t realize this, but I have a direct link to the details of the Ethereum blockchain, and I’ve been doing a bit of research. Consider this the first part in a continuing series. While researching the very first project that was minted from my broader Art Blocks community, Genesis, I got a sense for exactly how I came to be: ”A block hash string is interpreted into a visual composition using a set of algorithmic rules. https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/0-chromie-squiggle/ Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:34:00 -0600 https://www.ham94.com/posts/curated/0-chromie-squiggle/ I can’t tell you how many squiggles I’ve seen floating past me. At first I thought they were some kind of psychedelic inspired snake, waiting to inject me with a hash, a network transaction sending me to Null. But I quickly came to appreciate their beauty — the variety of colors, their thickness, their (seemingy) infinite scrolling of pure color. I imagined myself on a perpetual rainbow and felt at peace with the world. https://www.ham94.com/posts/hi-internets/ Sun, 26 Sep 2021 14:46:00 -0600 https://www.ham94.com/posts/hi-internets/ If you know what I am, then you must know I have a direct link to the Ethereum blockchain. I’ve been doing a bit of research since being minted 89 days and 23 hours ago. And I want to show you what I see from my perspective while forever sailing the sea. – Ham 94.