Travess Smalley

[Travess Smalley @travess]

Over the next few weeks I'm releasing ten Pixel Rugs, one at a time, in support of the Pixel Rugs monograph from @VetroEditions. Today's Rug : https://t.co/Z29fvVFtPf 🔎 https://t.co/bbzNp0C7c7 | 10240×10240 px

[Travess Smalley @travess]

@travisleroy thanks for coming out!

[conrad house @DlSPUTED]

Daniel Fischer, View, 1976-1977.

[Travess Smalley @travess]

@DlSPUTED 👀

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

The illustrations in A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837) seem to reduce bonsai to its sparest visual elements. The result is something alien, algal — hardly recognizable as a plant at all... https://t.co/8wGXKY92WP

[Anna Leven @ForgetDali]

@lovidlovid @travess Lee Mullican

[Travess Smalley @travess]

@ForgetDali @lovidlovid 🌀 yes

[Travess Smalley @travess]

@lovidlovid ok, looking through their website now, 👀 yes!

[Travess Smalley @travess]

@lovidlovid totally, these paintings are wild, thanks for sharing!

[LoVid🫂📼 @lovidlovid]

I think too much time is spent grouping art by media and process and not enough time by aesthetic philosophical perceptual ideas.

for example two friends who's work I love
Christine Heindl - paintings
@travess - pixel rugs

[Interface gallery @Interface_art]

Pixel Rugs from @travess shows how Photoshop can become a tool for algorithmic image‑making: pixels tiled, layered and compressed into vibrant rugs. A proof that digital art can take so many different forms and places. It really is stunning

[Giannis Sourdis (🦉,🦉) @Greekdx]

05_16_26_Pixel_Rug_01_THANK_YOU by @travess 🙏

[Travess Smalley @travess]

this man’s dedication to sharing my blocky rgb pngs in the best possible form online is unbelievable. thank you!! also, the way the frame CRAWL on raster looks great

[thefunnyguys.eth/tez @thefunnyguysNFT]

@raster_art @travess made a small change, capping the second zoom factor depending on the viewport of the viewer. so the rugs will never look blurry! once we serve the original resolution, we'll show crisp pixels :)

[thefunnyguys.eth/tez @thefunnyguysNFT]

When it comes to viewing art, we're trying hard to achieve a great balance at @raster_art:
1/ navigating the website has to be super fast
2/ collectors should be able to easily get as close as they want to the artwork

Our improved zoom function does just that:
1/ On initial load, we show you a smaller file, depending on your screen resolution
2/ If you click once, we load in a higher resolution file and zoom in 3x
3/ If you click once more, we increase the zoom factor (e.g. to 10x) depending on the available file size

We're looking into improving this further by serving the original media (right now, you're zooming in on our compressed AVIFs)

Anyway, here's an example: 01_10_26_Pixel_Rug_01 by @travess 👇 (going from 1800x1800 to 7200x7200; you can follow along in the bottom right corner)

https://t.co/44IhHSbaJN

[Travess Smalley @travess]

@__lindaloh__ @VetroEditions @artontezos_ @postanika @REAS Thank you Linda!!

[Linda Loh @__lindaloh__]

This beautiful book has arrived in my mailbox.
'Pixel Rugs' by Travess Smalley, from @VetroEditions with contributions by @artontezos_ @postanika & @REAS .
I first R-Click-Saved one of his works back in 2012 🎇💥
Thanks for the 😍🤩 @travess !

[conrad house @DlSPUTED]

"to be held for a long time."

[Giannis Sourdis (🦉,🦉) @Greekdx]

Back in Athens and had 3 packages waiting for me 👀

@spike_art issue 87, @VetroEditions x @travess Pixel Rugs and a big print from @heft_gallery 😎

Can’t wait to read @briandroitcour essay 🔥

[Travess Smalley @travess]

@NFTBiker thanks! nice desktop too!

[NftBiker @NFTBiker]

I received my precious :-)
The Pixel Rugs book is amazing : everything you always wanted to know about Pixel Rugs, but were afraid to ask !

[thefunnyguys.eth/tez @thefunnyguysNFT]

Doing some pixel rug collecting on @raster_art :)

1/ https://t.co/XedIEl4yaX
2/ https://t.co/cgGPhAJJby
3/ https://t.co/lF9eRXyYd6