there's a simpler way to look at bitcoin ordinals and fully onchain art on ethereum. the analogous way to explain the idea is through the concept of what i'd like to call 'infrastructure as canvas'. (1/14)🧵

👾huge shout out to the legend, @XCOPYART. congrats on your winning bid and on acquiring my latest 1/1 'platform'. 👾 i can't thank you enough for your patronage and words of encouragement. it's truly an honour to be in your collection.

🔥GIVEAWAY🔥 win 1 edition of 'smile' from my 'data swamp' collection ⚠️TO ENTER⚠️ 1. snap a pic of a security cam or security cam warning sign in your area & tweet it in the replies below 2. follow @ripcache 3. rt this tweet 👾entries open for 1 week from this tweet

after nearly a year of planning, i present to you my latest work: Public // Private a fully onchain digital artwork stored on the ethereum blockchain linked to a physical screen print on a metal panel seems straight forward, but there's a catch...

gm☕️interested in an AL spot to buy 1 edition of 'smile' for 0.69420 eth? TO ENTER 1.use AI (dalle/midjourney/etc) to create some security cam art—any style 2.tweet it in the replies below 3.follow @ripcache i'll give 8 entries that i find interesting an AL spot. you have 12hrs

everyone at burning man 2023

ever wondered why i use striped patterns in my artwork? 🧵

can't believe this piece is already a year old 'panic' from the @punkvandelay vault

'smile' is my next fully on-chain edition dropping on the 'data swamp' collection🙂 ⚠️stay tuned to find out how you can get a spot on the allow list soon 👾

rust

it's raining

gm 👾☕️ mark your calendars -- feb 1st -- @multivrsstudios will be chatting with the ripcache squad of collectors nitter.app/i/spaces/1vAxRALvLLyJl

prototype 2024

'power source' is my first collection of artwork permanently inscribed onto the bitcoin blockchain. each piece is named after one of the classical elements. preview the ordinals below👾 ↴

Have you ever wondered why I include cracked screens, tangled wires, and other physical hardware into my artwork? 📰

been a while since i dropped some closed circuit cams... 🤔 just testing the waters for now but... can i interest anyone in some fully onchain CCTVs?

gm👾💎here's 'angel' up on the 8x8ft LED wall at the @SuperRare gallery in new york 💎👾

last gm of 2022 👾☕️ since it's nye, here's my year in review

artists wear a lot of different hats making art is only one of them there's also sales, marketing, pr, production, logistics, accounting, strategy, research, editorial, etc juggle all of those, put in a ton of work, add a bunch of luck, and you might just have an art career

gm 👾 'glitch' is my latest fully on-chain 1/1. it's also the first animated artwork minted to my 'network mythology' collection. ⚠️link to the full artwork provided in the tweet below. open to offers ↴

oxygen

zombie cam with knitted cap

system

Please join me in congratulating the incredible @Blondie23LMD on her winning bid and acquisition of Dead Pixel! 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you for your support and patronage, @Blondie23LMD 👾 It’s an honor to have my work in your iconic collection.

'panic', created back in february 2022

'error' will be my only 1/1 drop this month 👾🫡 open to offers on SR. link below ↓

please join me in congratulating the renowned @ordrocks, @ordeclipse, @Brissi_171 & @macbocian on their acquisition of all 4 of my inscriptions from my only ordinals collection for 5 btc 🎉🎉🎉 'power source' inscriptions represent the 4 elements, energy, and proof-of work. all are sub30k inscriptions. 👾👾👾 thank you all for your patronage. it's an incredible honor to be in your collection 🫡

are ordinals a bug? swarm_ strong opinions crawling around, good and bad: an attack on the network, a boon to network activity, higher fees, a national emergency, a cultural renaissance, something big swarm_ the history and narratives surrounding ordinals over the past year: first, second, sub10k, sub100k, generative, other firsts, curseds, and more. a healthy debate. inspiring commentary for my latest collection: swarm_ 1/1/64 unique together. an attack on the network? 👾💀 we are one with the mempool. swarm_ into the weeds with some details on these bitcoin bot net crawlerz... swarm_ takes advantage of ordinal features that reinforce the underlying concepts driving the art. some highlights, in no particular order: - a nested parent/child organizational structure usurping attention away from the broader ordinal hierarchy - cursed inscription numbers (i highly recommend setting up an xverse wallet to collect - see below) - metadata (both meaningful and meaningless) - a human touch (no batch inscriptions or scripts) each artwork inscribed by me, 1 by 1, on random blocks with complete disregard for ordinal numbers - embracing some chaotic randomness like skipping blocks and not inscribing in any particular sequential order or numerical range - all inscribed some time around 1/1/2024 swarm_ ⚠️ cursed inscriptions are special - for this reason ONLY buy / store them with the xverse wallet or equivalent tech that will recognize the unique nature of cursed inscriptions (ie those with a negative number)⚠️ swarm_ ordinals are dead. long live ordinals. --rip--

glitch

panic

closed circuit - 48 fully onchain security cams

please join me in congratulating the legendary Rat G on his acquisition of my latest and most ambitious 1/1 artwork, 'justice,' for 2.6 BTC 💥👾 🎉🍾🎉 'justice' is the genesis inscription in my new 'hyperscalers' ordinal collection and represents a series of significant firsts in my artistic practice: - a composition that unites all of my past and present subject matter - drones, swarm bots and security cams - first true 1/1 on bitcoin in my signature style (and first of '24) - a canvas resolution of 1024x1024 pixels (the equivalent pixel count of 4 of my previous 1/1s in a single composition) 🎉🍾🎉 i extend my deepest gratitude to Rat G (@pureice888) for his support and mentorship. it's an honor to have 'justice' in such a distinguished collection. thank you for your patronage and welcome to the swarm 👾

glitch

graph - minted exactly 1 year ago from today

please reset your password

presence

poolside punks an afternoon sketch

🔥GIVEAWAY🔥 win 1 edition of this "Beeple - Everydays: Group Effort" ⚠️TO ENTER⚠️ 1.use AI (dalle/midjrny/etc) to create surveillance/CCTV art—any style 2.tweet it in the replies below 3.follow @ripcache i'll pick 10 entries i find interesting & do a draw from those in 48hrs

The Dutch Golden Age, a period of unprecedented prosperity and culture in the 17th century, witnessed the rise of a new network: the art market. So what does it have to do with crypto?

🎉happy to announce that 'moss', my latest fully on-chain 1/1 has been acquired by @NedRyersonBing at a new ATH of 24e 🫡 🎉👾thank you very much for your continued patronage and support @NedRyersonBing 🙏

i'm often asked why my edition sizes are so low so i wanted to take a minute to give some insight into my decision making... 📰

corrosion

🔥🎉congrats to @Minty_Burns on securing 'glitch' and setting a new ATH of 21.69eth 🎉🔥 thank you for your patronage and support. it's an honor to welcome you to the squad👾🫡

Hey everyone! 👾 thanks so much for all of your submissions! I'll be going through them now! ⚠️I had to close the contest 30 mins early because I am getting blasted with bot entries. Stay tuned for the results and thanks again for all of your absolutely incredible submissions!

i'm sure many of you have wondered when or if i'd ever do a collab. well, the answer is yes, but i thought i'd try something a little different. this 1/1 is titled 'Replicant' and it's a collab between me & one of the longest standing fans & collectors of my art: @baggins_fomo

birds

gm 👾☕️ 'warehouse' was minted exactly 1 year ago today

💎officially @SuperRare certified💎 👾huge thank you to @SuperRare for this opportunity and thank you everyone for your continued support. genesis? soon. throw me a follow at: superrare.com/ripcache

gm👾 i know you've seen of a diptych & a triptych... but how about a riptych? so uhh i guess since some of you have already noticed the 2 new fully onchain 1/1s i minted last night 👁️ you heard it here first: christie's auction during nft nyc presence - network mythology

'angel' from september 2022

now that i've finally had a good night's rest, here's a quick story about the days leading up to the launch of swarm_ ever notice how a project seems to be under control right before the finish line? then suddenly it feels like you're approaching the event horizon of a black hole as everything starts to speed up, and the entire weight of the growing list of things you've got to do seems to accumulate? yeah... well that was me on NYE - first thing in the morning. and keep in mind, this was after i had been working on swarm_ for months. the concept, the artwork, compressing it, and testing it all on ord --regtest server. syncing bitcoin core, etc, etc but anyways, it was on that day, dec 31, that i realized there was no way i was going to make my self imposed 01/01/2024 deadline unless i pulled an all nighter and stayed awake probably all the way through to midnight jan 1, 2024. so here was the problem and i know it's a bit of a technicality, and i totally get why it's absurd, but i really wanted to inscribe these bugs on individual blocks by hand. and i wanted them to be inscribed in 2024, for provenance purposes. so i did the most basic, yet devastating math of my life: at an average of 6 blocks mined on the btc blockchain per hour... it would take (64/6)... at least 11 hours to inscribe all 64 artworks and yes, i could've probably set up a script that looped through them, waiting for the next block, but i wanted to be an absolute mad man and stay up and type out 'ord wallet inscribe' for all 64 artworks myself. i wanted human error, imperfections, and inefficiency to be a part of the art: stuff like missing a block because i stepped away from my computer to get more coffee around 3am or getting dropped in the mempool for hours as i yelled at my monitor begging for network fees to go down because i couldn't replace the fee unless i jumped through absurd hoops. i even got to witness a bizzare moment live when block 823902 was mined almost instantaneously because the miner had blocked all ordinal transactions. that alone was worth it. i even took a screenshot. and while the process had its ups and downs, watching the mempool for that long gave me a new found appreciation for bitcoin. watching how some blocks would take 3 minutes while others took over an hour as fees would ramp up racing to get into that next block if and when it would finally get mined. it was like watching a living breathing thing. and it's a drop i'll never forget. and the best part about cryptoart is you don't have to trust my word, you can check the chain activity for yourself👾 thanks to everyone that has collected or is hoping to collect a bug from swarm_ and i hope this gave you a bit of insight into my (sometimes) particular artistic process. --rip--

angel

lattice

face id

can't believe we GMed our way out of the bear market

i'd like to discuss one aspect of my work that i haven't had the time to discuss in full: how computer user interfaces, with their assortment of graphical elements, can be interpreted and composed into abstract landscapes 🧵

sold out! congratulations to all that were able to collect a new piece from 'pattern recognition'. maybe a bit of over sharing but i wanted to release this work with you all today, because it would have been my Dad's bday. he passed away before any of this crypto art happened but i like to think he's still looking over. thank you to all that were able to find a new artwork. I hope the work connects with you and brings you as much enjoyment as I had making it.

neutral || public // private 7

🔥GIVEAWAY🔥 win 1 edition of 'warning' from my latest collection 'data swamp' ⚠️TO ENTER⚠️ 1. snap a pic of a security cam or security cam warning sign in your area & tweet it in the replies below 2. follow @ripcache 3. rt this tweet 👾entries open for 1 week from this tweet

🔥🔥💎@SuperRare genesis drop 💎🔥🔥 happy merge day! this is 'angel', my latest 1/1 superrare.com/artwork-v2/ang…

bitcoin

closed circuit - fully onchain surveillance 👾⛓️

At this point, it feels like I, Takashi Murakami, am the only one left in the art world still putting out NFTs.

gm 👾☕️ thanks to @daataart and @evimachine for taking the time to chat about art, surveillance, and the blockchain as a medium. ⚠️read the full interview here: daata.art/essays/emily-may-i…

gn 👾🫡 from times square video still courtesy of @artcrush

'cold' - fully onchain 1/1 open to offers starting april 12 at christie's

panic

🎉please join me in congratulating @PabloPunkasso on their acquisition of my latest 1/1, 'error'🎉 thank you for your continued patronage, Pablo. an honor to be in your collection 🫡

pattern recognition 1/1/64 fully on-chain on eth L1 2.22 eth each fcfs

going for a walk

if you had to pick: 1, 2, 3, or 4

physical 🤝 fully onchain more info soon...

please join me in congratulating @batsoupyum on his acquisition of 'unknown | public // private 9'. 🎉🎉🎉 thank you for your support and patronage, @batsoupyum. Your mentorship and commitment to my art are deeply valued. It's a privilege to have my work featured in your collection 🙏 🔥🔥🔥 'public // private' is a series of two component artworks. each piece in the collection features a screenprint on metal panel accompanied by an underlying NFT. both of which are linked.

system \ april 2022

here is my submission to this week's @Worldwide_WEB3 / @WebbEmotional fanart comp: a voxel model of the small apartment and my in-game @larvalads avatar

from the archive -> this is 'warehouse' also, gm 👾☕️

side by side - if you had to pick, left or right?

angel

ordinal faces by @pazNGMI

looks like the word is out! very excited for what @avant_arte and i have been working on behind the scenes, and i can't thank @CozomoMedici enough for the opportunity to bring this artwork to life! 👾⚠️

gm 👾 today at Christie's New York, around 4:30pm, 'dead pixel' will find a new home

introducing dead pixel: a painting a bitcoin ordinal a 3d-printed artifact dead pixel is the culmination of my latest work, and it's up for sale on Nov 22nd in a live auction at Christie's NYC, as part of their post-war & contemporary art day sale interested? keep reading🧵

model citizen : some assembly required

i know AI is dominating your timeline right now, so let's take a break, take a step back, and talk about an age-old skill: drawing by hand. drawing is about more than just creating art or visual communication - it's a powerful tool for learning about the world around us.

bitcoin

first gm of 2023 👾 thanks again @ArtOnBlockchain for the opportunity to acquire a chromie squiggle and congrats on securing 'radius 1' from my latest closed circuit drop 👾🫡

prototype v2.0

who's ready to see some new art?

from the archives -> this is 'noise' also, gm 👾

'security' is my first collaboration with avant arte it's a screen printed edition of 32

unknown || public // private 9

major shout out to @ArtOnBlockchain 👾 incredibly grateful for the opportunity to acquire a squiggle. #9722 vaulted for life.

rust silkscreen

password: once in a life time

gm 👾☕️ shout out to @nodemonkes for the honorary ordinal

🔥THE RESULTS ARE IN🔥 but first, i want to thank everyone that participated in the contest. i never would have imagined this level of response from the prompt but i am absolutely mind blown by all the beautiful work and creativity you shared in the replies.

amped to be curating this week's Art Tank - thank you for the opportunity signore 🍷⚔️ share your work under Coz's post

dronekiller

happy to announce that 'focus', my latest fully onchain 1/1 has been acquired by @ryga_ryga at a new ATH of 8e 🫡 i barely had time to mint this one before the offer was placed but it was an offer i couldn't refuse 🫂👾thank you so much for your patronage @ryga_ryga 🎉congrats!