Show notes
Tools
- FXTender
- Great for newcomers - provides a list of curated drops (out of the 13k+)
- Extra set of tools, like the ability to follow projects
- Can buy and mint directly from the site
- Many iconic drops have writing from community members as well
- https://fxhash.netlify.app/
- The fxhash frontend works on a delay (i.e., for sales feed)
- Can see new projects hit the site in real time
- Live feed of pieces hitting the sales feed
- https://fxfam.xyz/
- Website created by zancan, good for seeing rarity across a release, who owns it, etc.
- https://alleditions.art/fxinsight
- Portfolio and collection performance tracking
- Content!
- The Waiting To Be Signed podcast
- https://www.rightclicksave.com/
- Great generative art and NFT writing, often covers fxhash
- https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/the-nft-collector-richard-kim
- https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/fxhash-the-collectors
- Features interview with co-host Trinity
- https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/fxhash-the-artists
- https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/what-is-generative-art
Grails / Top Iconic Pieces
- Gardens, Monoliths from Zancan (floor 27k tez)
- (and to a lesser degree (kinder)Garden, Monuments collab with Yazid, floor 1.9k)
- RGB by Ciphrd (project 2, floor 3.1k)
- Contrapuntos by Msoriaro (floor 1k)
- Dragons by William Mapan (floor 1.4k)
- After that the list starts to get up from debate but:
- Smolskulls by Mark Knol (project 14, floor 390)
- Loom by Andreas Rau (project 79, floor 715)
- Hypergiraffe by Piter Pasma (floor 700)
- Solace by lunarean (1700 floor)
- Waiting in Afton by mjlindow (only 50 pieces, floor 7k)
- Hollow by Jacek Markusiewicz (floor 1.5k)
- Fragments of a Wave by iRyanBell (floor 850 / 1200
- Uninhabitable by Iskra Velitchkova (floor 1k)
- Hashed Cities by Yazid (floor 685)
- Tych by Rudxane (floor 420)
- Farbteiler by Erik Swahn (floor 320)
“Starter” Collection pieces/advice
Artists
Lower-prices works from top tier artists e.g:
- Aprendizajes, Simple Things from Msoriaro (floors 145 and 150 respectively)
- Concrete from Andreas Rau (floor 100)
- Bingo (floor 68), Giant Steps (75 floor), Disrupt (84 floor) + others from Rudxane
- Antiflow from iRyanBell (collab with KBaP, floor 50)
- Gonzion and Angry Noise from Piter Pasma (floor 65 and 190)
- Caught in a Void (floor 70), Jardin (floor 210), Kunza (floor 85), Beyond (floor 170) from mjlindow
- iframes from ciphrd (floor 159)
- Hashed Arcs from Yazid (project 44, floor 273)
Artblocks artists with work on fxhash
- AB Curated
- AB Factory
Artists with historical value / connection to the genart or coding, etc.
- Reas - Casey Reas is one of the founders/creators of Processing, the creative coding language that is leveraged by many generative artists (though now primarily in it’s javascript version, p5.js)
- Ira Greenberg - Ira wrote the first book on Processing and helped to popularize it.
- QianQian Ye - one of the current heads of the Processing foundation
- Jeffrey Ventrella - early/OG digital and generative artist.
Podcasts mentioned:
Arbitrarily Deterministic: https://open.spotify.com/show/7oP4AzzO2TOSM6abbds6EL

