Issue #1
Hey folks, Greyblok here,
Welcome to the first issue of the Fully On Chain newsletter! 👋 I’m glad that you're here. I’ll try my best to keep these newsletters short and sweet.
For this first newsletter I’d like to quickly describe what the heck this newsletter is about? Firstly, it’s a place to share new on-chain artworks that I’ve found for the site. I’ll share news that I think is relevant and useful to us on-chain art nerds. I’ll give updates on the FOC website. I’d also like to showcase some notable art that I have found (both on-chain and off). And lastly I’ll throw in some random dope stuff I’ve found.
As for what this newsletter isn’t? It’s not a place to shill crappy projects and spam your inbox. I will NOT give financial advice. This won’t be a lengthy newsletter that is a burden to read through. And that’s pretty much it! If you have any ideas feel free to reply to any email. Without further ado, let’s get into it!
🎁 A gift for early subscribers!
Shhh, don’t tell anyone 🤫. Reply to this email with your Ethereum address and I may have something nice for you in the near future as a thanks for subscribing. 🫂
⭐️ New Projects
New projects (full archive) featured on Fully On Chain over the past week.
Fleeting Thoughts
Nadieh Bremer has been creating fantastic generative art over the past few years and it's good to see her creating a fully on-chain long-form generative art piece. Her use of fun and vibrant color palettes are evident in Fleeting Thoughts.
Coin
Jan Robert Leegte is an artist who uses "interface culture" as a source of inspiration when creating art. His pieces are a historical look-back into UI design. The Coin takes inspiration from older software design aesthetics and "tries to be something between a mint button, clock or spinner, and a coin".
The Great Traversal
Ahmad Moussa aka Gorilla Sun is a creative coder who spends his time creating new art and teaching others to do the same. The Great Traversal is his first drop on Alba but he has many other artworks that span across other chains. He has a fantastic newsletter too btw.
The Mesh
This is an older project that I recently discovered. The creator touts it as "A fusion of a social network, a DAO and NFT to create a kind of integrated on-chain experience". Put simply, it takes the NFT owners wallet data and creates an artwork based off the projects they own and when that owner has similar NFTs to other owners on The Mesh.
🤝 A Collaboration - “New Heights, Alone”
I’m happy to announce a collaboration effort with Wedda.eth! He is a friend who I have been chatting with over the last few months. I collected his earlier art work, The Lonely Man, because I love minimal art and I found this one powerful. When I heard he was doing a new collection series I let him know this could be a good opportunity to step into the on-chain art world. The project is called “New Heights, Alone” and has some nice perks aside from being fantastic on-chain art. It is stored as SVG, comes with a framed physical and also comes with 2 additional aspect ratios. Please check it out!
👁 Upcoming Project to keep an eye on
Artist 0x0000G is working on an in-chain generative art project. It outputs a static SVG artwork which reacts to its container size producing a unique visual at a given resolution. Take a look at this thread to learn more. (Buy at your own risk, NFA).
💻 Website Updates
I changed the homepage to have an emphasis on the newsletter. I think this is a more viable way to get information out to our on-chain art lovers (thanks for reading 🙂).
Also, some technical updates, I rewrote the whole website in Tailwind CSS for performance benefits. The site should load a lot faster than previously, and I’m hoping the performance gains help out on the SEO front.
Welp that’s it for this first issue! Thanks for reading! Did you like the first issue? Reply to this email and let me know. Looking forward to the next one!