MINTING: Digital Encounters Phase 5 Editions
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Editioned works by:
Alfredo Salazar-Caro
@Dalos@RobertMallary
Collection page and pricing ๐
Too many lives are kept in the shadows.
For Phase 5 of Digital Encounters, Alfredo Salazar-Caro (@TMVRTX) presents Como Semillas en el Viento (excerpt 1), a focused moving-image work within the project of the same name, commissioned by Pรฉrez Art Museum Miami in 2024.
The edition combines 3D-scanned artifacts from the Mexica pantheon with surreal, 3D-scanned portraits of migrant workers from Central and South America, honouring their lives and contributions.
Born in Mexico City, Salazar-Caro works across portraiture, documentary, video, sculpture, and XR. A sculpture by the artist is also on view at Museo Anahuacalli as part of the Digital Encounters programme.
The edition releases August 25. Reply if youโre interested in joining the allowlist for next weekโs mint.
The partnership with Museo Anahuacalli and Diego Riveraโs family has exceeded all expectations.
The โDigital Mythologyโ mints will remain open until Sept 15th
Amazing Art at incredible prices. Only on 8NAP Art. Art by @RebeccaRose@iamlaurael@g0naji@amadon
Mint link below ๐
Climbing (And Photographing) The New York Times Tower (Part One)
A small window of opportunity presented itself to us to make a climb of one of the cityโs most beautiful spire. The top of the New York Times building is about 1100 feet AGL. On this particular day we caught wind of a nondescript door that workers were coming in and out of to smoke. Following our trail of curiosity, one of us cosplayed as a worker, took a โsmoke breakโ nearby an actual employee and caught the door going back in.
Waiting ten to fifteen seconds, all of us piled in and found ourselves injected into one of the main stairwells of the building. The hike up took a little bit, but after a few magic tricks for a locked door or two, we arrived at roof by sunset. I was eager to grab footage so I put up the drone and got to filming as my friend โEโ climbed the spire first. We then swapped and I flew the drone up and filmed myself, taking one of my favorite self-portraits ever.
We ended the night by taking a few photos on the roof (see below in thread) including one of me with the front page New York Times article that changed my life. We took the elevator down and walked out, wishing security a warm goodnight. It was a good day at the office.
TOUCH THE ART
โEn Marchaโ kinetic 3D collage at @anahuacalli. Featuring texturized assets collected by Diego Rivera. This work was created in response to my residency and tours of Riveraโs murals around Mexico City with his grandson.
Honored to see another Digital Mythology 1:1 make the 24HR list.
m0dest with an absolute banger todayโs list. Much love for all parties involved. Love this one.
@pridesai@eileenonline_ Was exhausted earlier and mixed up founders, fml
I stand by the thought, but spaced on the sinner.
(Appreciate yโallโs patience on that one.)
@pridesai@eileenonline_ The ethical implication convo being the default reply tone is soooo a result of being created by leadership with severe ethical failings.
Altman projected his issues onto his baby...
Pretttty sick of having his sins stain the process of writing a research paper.
I found 110 ETH ($239,000) abandoned in dead Ethereum contracts & sent all of it back to the owners.
Stuck for years, recoverable through public functions nobody ever called.
Total gas to return a quarter million dollars: $0.87
Inspired build from a post I saw by @0xFlorent_
A Journey Up Christ The Redeemer.
We spent the day prior disguised as โtouristsโ in the crowd taking photos outside the giant monument before wandering off towards some stairs that were off chained off and led down to a quiet secluded area.
In this area, there was room to drop off the side of the mountain into the jungle where we could hide. We decided if we could do the same the next day we could hide out and climb our way back up in the night and bypass much of the initial security.
We put up the drone to grab images of the locking mechanism on a secret door in the statues side. We saw what we believed to be a small padlock, and I had one single pair of lock picks with me.
The next day we put the plan in motion, dropping off from our secret area and hiding on the side of the mountain into the jungle all night until it was time to break for the monument. Up the scaffolding and at the secret door, the picks did the trick and weโd need them once again to access the doors to the arms and head of the statue.
At daybreak with workers below, we made a stealthy climb down and out through a partial jungle area and down railroad tracks to the mountains base. These are some photos from a plan that went off without a hitch.