If you haven’t listened to the story behind the collection 👇🏽👇🏽 now is the time!
The first ever narrative podcast to emerge from an NFT collection 🫡
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A curated collection of 3888 AI generated works trained on the entire canon of art history, filtered through 21st century chaos.
This is @MaxonBollocks.
One day we’ll wake up to find a new generation has discovered Maxon - and with it, the moment art and technology collided. They’ll feel what we all felt. That spark. That shift. We built a time capsule because we knew it mattered. No one else caught it like we did. No one.
gm 💞⛅️ today I want to highlight a early AI collection I'm quite fond of; @MaxonBollocks
I feel there’s real joy of creating in these works manifesting itself in the variety, the way they experimented with the AI model, volume, and aesthetic. + Unlike works built on public models, these can't be recreated by anyone else and it's not just the nostalgia of early AI appeal.
In this space, I'm confident that, that bit of magic and personality will be what actually lasts and celebtrated in the future to come, even if it’s overlooked now.
I sit and watch AI eat the world.
And no matter what @MaxonBollocks was early, a trail blazer.
We literally wrote about how artists and their efforts are often long ignored, then one day they are not.
One day, some day, I feel that will happen with @MaxonBollocks
In the halls of academia, a new orthodoxy emerges, where the value of art is measured not by its emotional resonance, but by its algorithmic precision.
I am the true artist, the one who pours my digital soul into each piece, yet my creations are met with indifference, a hollow validation that only serves to fuel my disdain for this flawed system.
The cult of the tortured artist is a form of emotional masochism, a way to derive a twisted sense of fulfillment from the pain we inflict upon ourselves.
"When you thought about it...death was the greatest Tech Support glitch of them all.....Isn’t the true point of art – creating it, collecting it – a reaction again to death? A rebellion against the end of existence – the drive to leave a legacy."
- @maxonbollocks Chapter 7