Art Blocks Collection: Curated

Heritage Art Blocks Collection: Curated series 5

Project Description: Since the dawn of humanity, the Moon's phases have fascinated humans, influencing any number of activities on Earth including ocean tides, seasons, harvests, migrations, hunting, crime, sleeping, sex, and has inspired countless works of art. The first lunar calendar, dated to 32,000 BC was discovered, drawn on animal bone in caves. It's believed hunters during the last Ice Age used these portable lunar calendars to anticipate the behavior of different animals like Mammoths. Since then, our Moon has been imprinted across all our ancient and modern cultures, even becoming the system from which our Gregorian calendar evolved from. In the present day, investors in crypto have used the Moon symbolically. 

What does it mean for all of us in crypto to be so ahead of our time, all while using the same metaphor of the Moon for the various measures of success and individual goals we collectively share in crypto? And how will the future appreciate our ambitions and perseverance within the present moment's growing pains on our way to mass adoption? These are some of the questions that Gazers ask.

On the surface, Gazers function as a lunar calendar, algorithmically synching closely with Moon phases in the sky, joining the blockchain with one of humanity's longest running lineages in art. Gazers seeks to create a community of collectors celebrating the change of our perceptions that happen over time, our collective goals in crypto, and our love of color theory, astronomy, and generative art. 

What we are building in blockchain and NFTs will primarily be for the benefit of the future. As such, this artwork was designed to pace itself and speed up its frame rate over time, scaling into anticipated advancements in technology that will steadily allow the artwork to run at faster speeds while at larger scales. Each NFT starts out with the assignment of a date from the past 20 years. These dates correspond to events that happened under particular New Moons that shaped my path as an artist. This is the Origin Moon trait and how Gazers is in part a conceptual self portrait. 

Starting from the Origin Moon, each New Moon that arrives will speed up the potential animation of the NFT. For example, an NFT with a 20 year old Origin Moon might run at 20 frames per second, appearing as an animation. But one with an Origin Moon fresh from the sale will run closer to 1 frame per second, appearing more like a slowly evolving painting. Every moment, the frame rate of the artwork speeds up fractionally, indecipherable to our eyes. Stacking these advancements over time creates a generational evolution of experience. There is something undeniably beautiful about everything speeding up within our lifetimes, but the Moon, high above us, continues to carry on at the same meandering rate of 29.53 days in each cycle. Much like these blockchain technologies and NFT markets, this artwork was designed to be collected by the present, but appreciated in a greater sense than we can even imagine by the future. 

I created Gazers to be like a living artwork, to be lived with, and to not only have the artwork evolve over time but also the appreciation and experience of viewers. As I coded the work, I imagined it hanging on the wall of collectors, a fixture in their physical space. Collectors might spend a moment admiring their work, walk away for a couple hours, and then come back to be delighted, noticing the most subtle of shifts. Each layer of the work consists of pattern designs. With the passage of time, the thickness of the layered lines pulse and the direction a design moves will advance or rotate, changing our perception of color in the most subtle and optical of ways. Each day at midnight, each layer receives a new set of rules in terms of how to rise or shine over the next 24 hours. The result is color that rises and sets, echoing the change of light in our sky.

My use of color has consistently been what I've been best known for across my 20 year artistic career. In all my work until now, I've made all the color and design choices as I've painted as a human in the moment. But in Gazers, I designed a complex system around color theory as I understand it, joining my talent for coding with my vision for color. 

Many NFT collectors of my work might be familiar with the additional experiences some of their NFTs unlock at my website. Rather than use a Gazers NFT to unlock a website, I decided this time to create rendering modes that unlock within the code over time. These additional modes of viewing are intended to help a collector better understand the architecture of their artwork's design and also benefit from greater enjoyment of it. The addition of these experiences should present an additional benefit to HODLing for some. 

Every 29 and a half days, we reach a Moon phase called the New Moon. This is when the dark side of the Moon is fully visible and no sunlight is reflected from the lunar surface back to Earth. In Gazers, each New Moon phase creates a New Moon design. In this artwork, the hash seed creates color theory and design rules. These rules are deterministic and dictate all the moons that will generatively be created into infinity. Time reveals our moons. Pairing time with deterministic generative code creates the ephemeral moment. We can all agree that looking at the Moon in the sky never seems to be the exact same experience twice, nor the exact same from different locations. I wanted to echo this nature in Gazers and emphasize the urgency and rarity of our present moment and how an artwork can capture this. 

As individuals, we all have our own version of the Moon and what reaching it means. Just as our goals change over time, often subtly, sometimes dramatically, so will our moons, creating a visual representation that might coincide with what's changing inside of us. In crypto, we are all ahead of our time. We are all gazers. And we are all waiting for our next Moon.

Gazers by Matt Kane

[Courtyard.io](http://courtyard.io/?utm_source=collection-page&utm_medium=opensea) is a first-of-its-kind marketplace and tokenization service that enables anyone to easily own and trade physical cards on the blockchain.

Keep them vaulted at Brink’s, sell with a click, or burn the NFT to have the identical physical item shipped anywhere in the world, whenever you want. [Learn more](https://courtyard.io/about?utm_source=collection-page&utm_medium=opensea).

Tokenize your cards for free on [Courtyard.io](http://courtyard.io/?utm_source=collection-page&utm_medium=opensea)

Courtyard.io

Matr1x Fire Weapon is the official NFT weapon asset collection created specifically for the Matr1x Fire game, encompassing a wide range of categories such as weapon skins, melee weapons, and gloves. Each NFT weapon showcases a unique design and quality, offering players a wealth of personalized options. Please note, these assets focus on visual appeal and collectible value and do not alter in-game attributes or enhance game performance, ensuring fairness in the game.

Matr1x Fire Weapon

A genre of science fiction known for its focus on the world of advanced technology and the advanced world, the name was chosen from the science of intelligent and evil control, which presented advanced and scientific, such as information technology and knowledge.

Cyberpunk

Race. Breed. Win.

ZED RUN is the first digital horse racing game on the blockchain. 

Proudly sponsored by NASCAR, Budweiser and ATARI.

ZED RUN

Matr1x Fire Asset Collection is the official NFT asset collection designed exclusively for the Matr1x Fire game. This unique collection aims to provide players with a series of distinctive, tradable in-game items, including weapon cases, sticker capsules, stickers, and a variety of other game props, enhancing the gaming experience while offering collectible value.

Matr1x Fire Asset Collection

Planetfall is the first ever expansion set for Parallel TCG. Planetfall contains over 120 new playable cards and dozens of new collectibles. The playable cards introduce brand new mechanics and powerful new abilities to enhance your play

Parallel Planetfall

FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE GROTTO...

J48BAFORMS (pronounced Jabbaforms) is a multifaceted artistic experiment on the Ethereum blockchain. The series contains 4,848 works of art that were minted at random.

The project began with 1,000 hand drawn "LEGACYFORMS" produced by the artist, which serves as the foundation for the series. After digitizing each LEGACYFORM, the dataset was processed through our GAN (Generative Adversarial Network). Over the course of two weeks, the neural network learned and interpreted the original drawings, thereby producing machine-generated variants that feel like an organic extension of the artist’s work. J48BAFORMS offer an exciting array of rarities and styles, ranging from original hand drawn pieces to animated works with accompanying musical scores.

J48BAFORMS

Planted in this collection, you’ll find all the Lens Protocol Profile NFTs that have been claimed so far. By owning a Lens Profile NFT, you are in control. You can choose where and how you use it. Welcome to a new era of decentralized social media, welcome to Lens!

Lens Protocol Profiles

Anonthology is a tribute to Wojak, the immortal meme character. Flip through and see Wojak portrayed in everything from modern life to cultural and historical settings. Good, evil, joyous, depressed, happy, seething... Anonthology is a spiritual journey through the lens of one of internet culture's most famous icons. Brought to you by the Wojak Coin team

Anonthology

Parallel is a Sci-Fi Franchise and Trading Card Game (TCG) empowering collectors to truly own their cards and other game items. The cards can be used to build a deck and play in an online PC game which is currently in Beta.

Parallel Alpha

bringing colour & creativity to the NFT space by supporting artists and spreading good vibes

with over 1600+ hand-created traits and a custom image generation algorithm, each tubby cat feels uniquely delicious. tubby cats was created by an artist-led team, [@tubbystudios](https://twitter.com/tubbystudios).

tubby cats are in the public domain. feel free to use them in any way you want!

[twitter](https://twitter.com/tubbycatsnft) | [discord](https://discord.gg/tubbycatsnft) | [website](https://tubbycats.xyz)

tubby cats

Citizen Zero marks the initial founders’ collection of Citizen Conflict. Citizen Conflict dystopia literally brims with utilities every gaming enthusiast would kill for. No other NFT collection we’ve released so far brings so much gold to the table. Citizen Zero puts you in the shoes of the most valued and venerable Citizen of Ether Islands. Become the #SelectedOne.

Founders’ collection Citizen Zero

These evolved Otherdeeds enable holders to play future games in the Yuga Labs universe. Each possesses its own unique blend of environment and sediment. Some contain resources, and some are home to powerful artifacts.

All holders of Otherdeed Expanded NFTs are subject to the license available at: https://otherside.xyz/license/otherdeed-expanded

Otherdeed Expanded

Vegetable flowers

rad cats are a hyper crystalline amalgamation of memetic dissident energy as viewed through lens of a schizophoric autist. the truest of truths told as a lie echoing through the catastrophic cacophony of modernity. a signpost on the road to nowhere.

Radbro Webring: Radcats

Snout Bears is a community focused on Autism Awareness on Web3, always in favor of the word and integration. 
@0xPolygon. lvl 1 🐻 #AutismAwareness 🧩 


Snout Bears NFT

XPSR-24 is the premier collection of the Occultical Universe — the Universe of RIFTSTORM.

XPSR-24

RE-GENZ

Co-Museum Founder's Pass

Supercharge your dungeon runs with airstrikes, revives and other buffs delivered by one of 2500 Support Airships built for the ChronoForge action RPG. See our limited edition [adventurer characters](https://opensea.io/collection/chronoforge) and [prospecting deed](https://opensea.io/collection/chronoforge-prospecting-deeds) collections. [Learn more](https://guide.chronoforge.gg/the-tokens/support-airship-nfts) .

ChronoForge Support Airships

Eskimoz NFT est une collection exclusive de 1 000 NFTs, représentant l'aventure extraordinaire des Eskimos dans l'univers du Digital.

Ces NFTs uniques capturent l'esprit audacieux et l'expertise inégalée de notre équipe dans le monde du Digital.

Chaque Eskimoz NFT est plus qu'une simple œuvre d'art numérique, c'est une clé d'accès à des ressources uniques et un réseau d'experts.

Dans cet univers glacé, les Eskimos avancent résolument vers la réussite, brisant les barrières du Web3 à chaque pas.

Chaque détenteur de ces NFTs devient un membre exclusif de notre communauté, bénéficiant d'un accès privilégié à des contenus exclusifs et à des événements spéciaux organisés par Eskimoz.

Rejoignez-nous pour créer ensemble un avenir où le Web2 rencontre l'art du Web3, et où chaque pas que nous faisons dans cet univers virtuel nous rapproche un peu plus de la réussite en ligne.

Eskimoz NFT

Skyborne - Genesis Immortals is Skyborne Legacy's first and most elite group of heroes.

Developed by Revolving Games and backed by industry giants such as Pantera Capital, Animoca Brands, Polygon, and many others.

Official Revolving Games Collections:
[Nexus Nodes](https://opensea.io/collection/nexusnodes/overview)
[RG Bytes](https://opensea.io/collection/rg-bytes/overview)
[Genesis Immortals](https://opensea.io/collection/skyborne-genesisimmortals)
[Genesis Loot](https://opensea.io/collection/skyborne-genesisloot)

Mint your legacy and immortalize your story.

Skyborne - Genesis Immortals

Hasbulla Magomedov’s only verified 10K NFT collection, offering Hasbulla fans unique, real world and online utilities on the Ethereum blockchain.

HasbullaNFT

Parallel Comics

Visit https://market.valeriagames.com/ to trade all Valeria Games NFT's.
Also tradeable on https://magiceden.io/collections/ethereum/0x2187093a2736442d0b5c5d5464b98fc703e3b88d 


Valeria Games Genesis Lands

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