Goncha

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Einstein....

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Happy new year Barca fans 🎊

[-1899- @_Futbolero_]

Un jugador español gana el Balón de Oro y los medios de este país están de luto porque no lo ha ganado un brasileño que acusó a toda España de racistas. Es tremendo.

[Domino's Pizza UK @Dominos_UK]

yeah and pineapple is our highest rated topping

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

VAR of Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich

[-1899- @_Futbolero_]

Roban y están orgullosos. Su historia está manchadísima. No son los más grandes, son los más ladrones. Club vomitivo que representa todo lo que está mal en este mundo.

[-1899- @_Futbolero_]

La mayor banda criminal de la historia. Muy orgulloso de no ser de ese equipo.

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

💙❤️💙❤️
𝐅·𝐎·𝐑·𝐂̧·𝐀
𝐁·𝐀·𝐑·𝐂̧·𝐀
💙❤️💙❤️

[Torren @Torren__]

Un poquito de música chavales que ya es finde.

[-1899- @_Futbolero_]

Es la pura realidad.

[Torren @Torren__]

A mi me daría verguenza ser del Real Madrid.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Tavo @GustavoHCollado]

No se juzga a las personas por haber votado por morena y el peje; Confiaron en el pendejo (que señales de que sería un fracaso había, pero bueno).

Pero a estas alturas apoyar a amlo y pensar votar por morena es estupidez y la estupidez se juzga. Chinguen a su madre, imbéciles.

[Dalos Dov @Dalos]

I'm excited to announce I'm minting my first collection!

Thrilled to introduce to you: For Friends

For Friends will be a collection of 360 portraits that will combine generative systems of photography, coding, and AI.

Minting one piece every two weeks (ish), the project will take over 13 years to complete!

Can't state how excited I am about it.

Now, about the pieces:

The meme was absolutely right.

"Maybe The Real Treasure Was the Friends We Made Along the Way"

Each piece will be GIFTED to the friend being photographed 🎁

The friends I've made in the space have given me so much that it just felt natural to give back.

Each piece will consist of three parts.

- A part involving generative photography 📷
- A part involving generative coding 🧑‍💻
- A part involving generative AI 🤖

I'll try to give a short TL;DR for each.

― Generative Photography ―

I've been intrigued by the idea of instruction-based artwork for a while.

Duchamp and Sol LeWitt are just a couple of the various artists who have played with this concept before.

The base for For Friends is precisely that, an instruction.

I like to think about it as if it were an algorithm made for humans, where the magic relies on the interpretation each of us gives to what the instruction says (and what it doesn’t).

The prompt is:

“Take a medium close-up shot of a friend where the body and look are centered, facing at the camera, and where the background is blurry.”

Clear enough to know what to do. Ambiguous enough to play with the interpretation.

― Generative AI ―

Now, generative AI comes in.

We're living in the age of the AI revolution and wanted to incorporate this element into the equation.

At the same time, I wanted the background of the portrait to add to the story of the photograph (hence the medium close-up shot).

So what I decided to do was to add more background on the sides via generative AI filling. This part will be curated but not edited at all.

This way we'll be able to compare the difference between current AI outputs and future ones. I'm sure it'll be fascinating.

Truth is, even if AI looks amazing today, can't imagine what it will look like +10 years from now.

Also, in the end, all pieces of the collection will have a 13:6 aspect ratio, which I think balances the weight of the subject and the background properly.

― Generative Code ―

The final part is incorporating the coding part.

I created a short p5 script that The Friend needs to run to randomly select a color.

There are 360 pieces in the collection because each one of them will be assigned a hue of the HSB color system.

This color will be used as a filter and will be applied to the portrait, thus, finishing the piece.

It is now ready to be minted.

...

So in summary (and in fancy words),

For Friends will be an exploration of the evolution of technology over time, the visual narrative of ingenuous reinterpretations of a singular artistic instruction, and the unique intersection of the personal and the digital, encapsulating the essence of evolving friendships and my own artistic pathway.

Again, can't state how excited I am about For Friends.

I have no clue who will be in the space in +13 years, but I'm damn sure I'll be here to capture it.

You will definitely see some familiar faces in the portraits year after year 👀

The first and last token will be a portrait of myself, more than 13 years apart. Next week I'll mint the first one.

And that's it!

Thank you for making it all the way to the end, and looking forward to the first year of For Friends 🫡

[Goncha @Gonchaa]

@garyvee @veecon How can I get a ticket? I’m VF2 holder ��

[Goncha @Gonchaa]

Hey @garyvee the stream is going good!! The guys are amazing! Looking forward to win something 🦑

[Goncha @Gonchaa]

@VeeFriendsCards Sympathetic Squid 🦑

[VeeFriends Cards @VeeFriendsCards]

🚨CHANCE TO WIN A COMPETE & COLLECT BOX🚨

To enter:

1. RETWEET and LIKE this post.

2. Comment below which character you think we’ll pull a 1/1 of today, entries close at 4:00 PM ET.

Reply once with ONE character, and we’ll pick the first correct guess.

If we hit ANY 1/1 of that character, you win a Compete & Collect box! #VeeFriendsCards

[Goncha @Gonchaa]

Hey @CGCCards from @VeeFriendsCards Thank you for the slabulous stream 🚀💥

[Goncha @Gonchaa]

@VeeFriendsCards Sympathetic squid!

[Migueo @MigAndEstrada]

"Vivir es increíble" la frase de GNP Seguros parece no aplicar para la vida de mi hijo con cancer.
Porfavor lean post y compartan

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