memes

"Human thought, whether in word or meme, has long been molded by the fact that the Homo sapiens are a species of ape, living on a rock surrounded by a deafening void, circling around a slowly dying star." Bogna M. Konior

"A minted meme must not only being adaptable to new conditions, but interpreted, remixed and minted by them." MintFace

The Seize and Share (SAS) collection merely sees the original meme as an ingredient, ripe for remixing.

Seize and Share (SAS)

'A meditation on gn' recognises that the end of the day is as important as the start of the day.

The morning waves found throughout Ayla's work are replaced with a full moon.

NFT Twitter are kept waiting for the big reveal. The moon remains hidden... the clouds obscures the 'wen moon' promise until the very last moment.

gn.

'10k Seized' drives a stake in to the ground of the metaverse, exclaiming 'we buidl here!'

10k is a reference to the 10k Residence where many NFT community members moved in to a loft apartment and adorned it with art they had created and collected.

"gm日本" welcomes the residents of Tokyo to the metaverse by including Japanese characters, known as hiragana, in the meme.

The promise of a boom in NFT collection originating from Japan has remained a promise thus far.

'GreenGM' elucidates the simmering battle between rebellious phunks and apex predator punks, through a singular color replacement.

Green became the background color of choice wen v3 phunks were launched mid 2022.

The teal green overrun was met with a powerful tide surge reply of blue, that congregated around the artist 0xTjo.

Coincidence? Could be. Phunks vs Punks are one of the more fascinating societal dynamics in the NFT community that deserves more study.

'Birth of gm' time travels back to the beginning of gm... wen the timeline was so toxic at times, that women mostly remained anon.

Since then, the community has blossomed into a more balanced spectrum of thought and decorum.

'10k Buidling' brings turns on the lights of the metaverse, and welcomes anyone to move in to the 10k Residence.

There is never a dull moment on the 10k Loft Show so here we light up each of the lofts in the 10k Residence.

'Awakening ॐ' with the ॐ being arabic for om. The three panels represent a one arm bandit machine you might find at a casino.

The viewer is the player. Spinning again and again, hoping for a rare.

Yet each time, the reveal is a floor and the viewer experiences the loss through the flashing red eyes of the devilish floor pfp.

'Bicameral Hallucination' bleeds beyond the canvas of the original meme to reveal two hidden characters.

The left character from a left leaning political party and right character from a right leaning political party.

What is the bicameral mind influenced by? In this meme... it is AI.

The canvas extension was created with DALLE then animated to show the breakdown of thought, as if affected by an acid trip gone horribly wrong.

'Gas Country' riffs on a barely visible slice of the original meme that I immediately wanted to turn into a blueprint.

The blueprint includes the ever present Metamask fox and its inexplicable gas fees.

Welcome to Gas Country.

<Insert Meme Here> was minted BEFORE the original meme.

Immutable provenance will forever show that <Insert Meme Here> was minted first.

How is that possible? A placeholder <Insert Meme Here> image was minted, until the reveal of the original meme.

In a serendipitous turn of events, the original meme featured a 1980's space invaders style character.

Quantum theory alive and well on the blockchain.

You can visit the final meme on OpenSea retitled "ETH is Finite"

'Certificate of Mint' was a lot of fun to create.

The plastic wrapped actions figures of the 80's are an inspiration here, merged with the typical verifiers you see in Web3.0.

'Stored Digital Value' is a powerpoint slide that explains the difference between fungible and non-fungible.

Since this meme was minted, the future of fungible tokens looks increasing unclear. Prescient? Maybe.

'We Like The Line' does not condone the use of illicit drugs.

The Line encourages artists to 'get on the line' by adding their art to The Line.

The Line is a project to add one million artworks to a single line in the metaverse and at the time of minting this meme, over 10,000 artworks had been added.

'Hardware wallet and memes' introduces the LCD screen from a Ledger into the artwork.

The common tapping and clicking of buttons required to start buying memes overlaid for clarity.

The whirring of memes as they hit the mug a representation of the rush for fresh meme mints.

In contrast, this Seize and Share meme was the least supported of the collection and is now one of the rarest.

'Dreaming Honey' embraces the frens we made along the way in NFTs.

While our significant other may tell us we are 'dreaming honey', we keep turning up and saying gm.

'Line of gm' communicates the daily habitual greeting on NFT Twitter.

Replies of gm after gm are shown here through a repeated pattern made up of humans from the original meme.

The second meaning refers to the popularity of The Line with artists and the sheer number that joined and began adding their collections.

The Seize and Share (SAS) collection merely sees the original meme as an ingredient, ripe for remixing.

'!HUG' is a reply to !UGH wen someone has their wallet drained. Only 5 !HUGs were ever minted.

They sold surprisingly well given they were 0.06529... same as the original meme.

'Freedom to Tweet' is an urgent notepad scrawl addressed to the new CEO of Twitter Elon Musk after MintFace was locked out of his account.

Ten days later, the account was finally unlocked. 13 years of running the account without a ban, The Line popularity and sending links by DM, caused the MintFace account to go quiet.

10 days later, and after Elon had fired 50% of the staff, the admin panel was turned back on and MintFace account was brought back to life.

During that time, I learnt a lot about who missed the tweets and would miss MintFace is he was gone.

'My Precious ☑️' is commentary on the potential dangers of getting fixated on a precious blue tick.

My Precious can be interpreted to be a commentary on Elon's fixation with controlling the communication airwaves via Twitter.

It is also a commentary on how the robotic algorithm has captured all of us, including Elon.

The creature in the background becomes a troll ready to tear down Elon's efforts any moment.

'Lucky Kevin' says that you only get the best NFT opportunities if you have joined a private Discord.

The 1950s ad gets disrupted by Kevin's obtuse presence.

The graceful woman is being grabbed at by Kevin in the Discord, something that occurs all too often in Web3.0.

If you are not in the Discord, do you even mint bro?

The future of the FTX exchange was up in the air wen the original meme was dropped.

So the 'FTX' meme reads two ways. The sand rakers could be Binance attempting to save FTX.

They could also be attempting to bury FTX.

As it turned out, FTX had buried itself.

The original meme and 'FTX' meme were impacted by high gas on the day and a general contagion market fear.

We don't care. We like the art.