#arium

By Adept Icarus

Worldbuilding and playing in the world you build. No limits.

H3LIX

Visual Massage A collection of 300 1/1 gif art pieces.

The whole project was designed and created as a Virtual Space and a Web3 site where the 300 pieces are showcased and available to be minted directly into the Ethereum blockchain under a custom ERC721 smart contract.

The whole space interacts with the minting process so when a piece is acquired the frame of the door where it’s being exhibited illuminates and a white window appears in the external side of the room.

There are three different ‘h3lix’ with 100 pieces on each one. Since the first day, one is open but is not until all the pieces are minted that the pieces in the second ‘h3lix’ are unveiled. The same happens with the third one. 

The process for all the ‘Visual Massage’ series was repeated and developed over a year:

Giftillism.

The only element of these works is the main one of Digital Art: the white pixel, light.

Deconstruction of photographies into pure white pixels. No grayscale, the brightness is defined by the density of the white pixels.

The loop animation is created in video using the own shapes of the still image as reference.

The final format is gif, allowing these works to run seamlessly and generating a ‘Visual Mantra’ feeling using its main characteristic that is the perfect loop.

Series created from 10/2020 to 10/2021. Part of ‘Helix’ VR exhibition. Hosted by Arium 3D architecture and Sculptures: 234D Blockchain developer: dievardump

VR Space: https://arium.xyz/spaces/visual-massage

Web3: https://visual-massage.com/

Open Sea: https://opensea.io/collection/visual-massage 

My sites: Giphy - Twitter

Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty I could work on. I have an idea log a mile long and several partially drafted books, some have even seen playtesting.

I’ve been thinking about next projects a lot lately. It’s easy to say: Arium is relatively successful, so I should stick with the thing that’s proven and Arium all of the things. The next project sells the last one and so on. Conventional logic for a product line.

The trouble with this line of thinking is: I’ve got other things in me that need to get out into the world, and I’m an awful multitasker. My path to finishing A THING has always been to work on that thing until it’s done. If I change focus midway, often nothing gets done at all. Perhaps a little neurodivergence in this brain of mine?

So I agonize internally and poll friends and think about what to do next instead of getting something done now! Vicious cycle and all that. Arium: Evolve probably is the next thing… unless it’s my solo self-loathing werewolf rpg Rue From Ruin or my multiversal sword of wonder tarot-driven questing rpg Xiph.

By Adept Icarus

Worldbuilding and playing in the world you build. No limits.

H3lix

Visit it here: http://arium.xyz/spaces/visual-massage

The first 100 pieces in Web3: http://visual-massage.com/

First and only decentralized Gif Art Gallery.

300 Visual Massage pieces.

Humachine

Visual Massage #299 of H3lix.

Visit Virtual Gallery: https://arium.xyz/spaces/visual-massage

100 first pieces in W3b: https://visual-massage.com

· H3LIX ·

Inside this Multiplayer Gallery are living 300 Visual Massage pieces.

Jump inside it here: https://arium.xyz/spaces/visual-massage

Or check the Visual Massage works in Web3 here: https://visual-massage.com

Full info: https://twitter.com/ALCrego_/status/1485001774582882305