The Meme Ninja project aims to spread The Memes outside the NFT bubble.

"Memes Outside" examines the gap between our current online communities and the goal we have set ourselves to create a truly Open Metaverse.

"Memes Outside" was inspired by Kenneth Josephson's "New York, 1970" and Alex Bartsch's "Covers"

https://www.mmoca.org/learn/teaching-pages/kenneth-josephson/

http://www.alexbartsch.com/covers/

Memes Outside #19: Live - Dream - Act

The Decagon is the infinitely evolving, always unique, and eternally open membership token of the Decaverse. Designed by Kjetil Golid.

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This Open Edition is for anyone who has liked or used the "Memes Outside" images, concept or book and who would like to support the work.  In exchange, you get my undying appreciation AND receive the full set of images in this high-resolution poster!

It really makes a difference and all I can say is THANK YOU!!

Visit the entire collection at the link above.

Check out the Memes Outside book!  It's CC0 thanks to the owner of this token: https://seize.io/rememes/0x49fa3b13be7e28845d0cdead815dcfd083d4b28c/1

Memes Outside: Open Edition

Memes Outside #12: 6529 Operations Support SQ #12/42

The Meme Ninja project aims to spread The Memes outside the NFT bubble.

"Memes Outside" examines the gap between our current online communities and the offline world.

"Memes Outside" was inspired by Kenneth Josephson's "New York, 1970" and Alex Bartsch's "Covers"

https://www.mmoca.org/learn/teaching-pages/kenneth-josephson/

http://www.alexbartsch.com/covers/

Memes Outside #9: Free Autonomous Future Online

Memes Outside #17: The Engine

The Meme Ninja project aims to spread The Memes outside the NFT bubble.

"Memes Outside" examines the gap between our current online communities and the goal we have set ourselves to create a truly Open Metaverse.

My goal is to create one "Memes Outside" for every mint of The Memes Szn1

"Memes Outside" was inspired by Kenneth Josephson's "New York, 1970" and Alex Bartsch's "Covers"

https://www.mmoca.org/learn/teaching-pages/kenneth-josephson/

http://www.alexbartsch.com/covers/

Memes Outside #3: In Two Minds

Memes Outside #5: Hold the Line

With great (mimetic) power comes great (mimetic) responsibility.

Let's share The Memes and onboard the next 100 million people into the Open Metaverse.

This token can be displayed proudly as a commitment to not just seizing the memes, but to sharing them as well.

Responsibility to Meme

MEME NINJA is the ERC-721 contract for the Meme Ninja Project

Meme Ninjas share The Memes by 6529 outside the NFT bubble.

SHARE THE MEMES OF PRODUCTION!

A MEME NINJA

Memes Outside #20: I Love You More Now

Welcome to the MEME NINJA project.

FOR THE SGT PEPE REMEME please visit: https://opensea.io/collection/a-meme-ninja

Meme Ninja's spread The Memes by 6529 beyond the NFT bubble. 
We have The Memes.  We need more stories.

SPREAD THE MEMES OF PRODUCTION.

Memes Outside #40: "Web3"

MEME NINJA

Safe alone,
In my refuge

This is a single photo made in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.  A dark sky full of rain had just passed, and for a few brief minutes afterwards the water became a mirror to the sky.  

It speaks to the price and security of being alone in a world turned upside down.

Refuge 1 is a twin image to Refuge 2.

This image is stored permanently on Arweave

Refuge 1, 2021

This photo represents the core of who I am and what drives my photography.  It encapsulates everything.

I married into an amazing family.  For four generations they have been visiting this house to celebrate Easter.  They have a wicked chocolate habit.

This year, only three generations were able to attend.  

This photo was not staged - it was taken candidly.  Three chocolate wrappers grouped together with a fourth on a white plate, as if in the light.  

This is the second image from my A Thousand Words series, an open-ended 1/1 series of my best and most personal photos.  This is the first to be auctioned for sale.  Only one copy will ever be available, right here on Foundation.  

'Always with us' is stored immortally on Arweave:

https://jtern3ty2zk23xxh53sqafewybjmoulz56i7cgjjqav3u5gd6miq.arweave.net/TMkW7njWVa3e5-7lABSWwFLHUXnvkfEZKYArunTD8xE

A Thousand Words #2: Always with us

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"Memes Outside" examines the gap between our current online communities and the offline world.  It invites us to consider the history of offline art, cultural transgression and graffiti, blockchain technology and the ubiquity of our mobile phones.

"Memes Outside" was inspired by Kenneth Josephson's "New York, 1970" and Alex Bartsch's "Covers"

Image: single digital photo with post-production: brightness, contrast, cropping, minor distortion to better fit the 2:3 ratio

Rights: CC BY-SA

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Thank you for visiting!

Please come and say hi on Twitter @art_icu_late

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Chapter One

Summer school / A Grand Tour / An awakening through Art, leading to revelation.

***  
We need stories as well as ideas (I put a LOT of ideas into this piece).

Meme Ninja asks "what would summer.jpg do at work?"

Chapter One offers some non-canonical  backstory.

Share the memes outside our Web3 bubble.  

Meme Ninja: Chapter One

Christopher James: Editions are minted on my custom contract with the Token ID "ONEOFX"

These will be special releases as an accessible option for all collectors.

My "Sydney 2021" series documents five moments only possible during the loneliness, uncertainty, emptiness and community of the 2021 pandemic.  They are some of my best work to date, and one of the images includes commercial rights for the buyer.

This image is a colour, portrait version of the black and white square crop 1/1 from that series.  The black and white photo is timeless and is my favourite image from the series.  This edition contains the extra swirl of cloud and the rich colours of the overcast day. 

The Opera House is usually visited by thousands of visitors every day. 
 In 2021 the international travel ban and social distancing rules turned it into an empty monument.  The details are what makes this photo: the climbers, the single cloud under the bridge, the solitary person walking against the Opera House.  We each travelled our own journey in 2021; sometimes in small groups and often alone.

I'm releasing this as an edition to help fund my purchase of photography made in 2022 and to support further minting on my own Manifold contract.

Holders of a Sydney 2021: Edition will join the Articulate Family.  I make no promises of future utility but I will always remember my early supporters, and I plan on creating unique photography for decades to come.

Sydney 2021: Edition

Christopher James: Editions

A classic Sydney composition made in 2021.

The Opera House glows with a flat, stage-set light.  What is the purpose of an Opera House when performances have been cancelled?

This image is part of both my "A Thousand Words" open-ended series and my "Sydney 2021" series.

"A Thousand Words" is an open collection of my best and most personal work.

"Sydney 2021" is a collection of five images of the Sydney Opera House telling stories that were only possible during this historic time. 

I'm offering this image with unrestricted commercial rights to the owner, for as long as they own the NFT.

A Thousand Words #7: Sydney 2021

I make photos to beat the worry habit, and I make NFTs to participate in the decentralised revolution.  

'Bark Blocks Series 1: Paperbark' was the first photography collection ever minted to Verto Exchange.  It explores generative art through the lens of the natural world.  

'A Thousand Words' is an open collection of my best and most personal 1/1 photographs.  

'A Thousand Words #8: Paperbark' is the first crossover between these two collections, and will be the only 'Bark Blocks Series 1' photo minted outside the Verto Exchange series.  

It is the first token ever minted to my ART1K contract.

A Thousand Words #8: Paperbark

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**Hallucinated Histories**

This special series of videos is reserved for the most interesting series of outputs from my "This Is How I See The World" collection.  

After hours and hours of examining "expanded generation" of street images, I select a combination of rarer and more common generative compositions and sequence them into a false historical narrative of one place.

These frames appear to show a loosely coherent story.  In actual fact, all these images were generated by AI as being equally likely depictions of the world around the central photo.

"This Is How I See The World" will be an ongoing collection examining different AI algorithms over time.

**This Is How I See The World"

In "This Is How I See The World" I have made street photos from around Sydney, Australia, and invited AI algorithms to "expand" them without prompts.

This collection puts the focus on specific AI generation at specific times in history and shows us, the human viewer, what each AI imagines our world to be like. 

By grounding each piece in the real world and letting the image be the only prompt the AI receives, we are invited into an AI dream of reality.

Do we recognise what we see in this dream?  Do we like it, dislike it - or experience some other feeling?

Each piece includes a human hand to remind us that we are the ones who have agency, creativity and can "touch" the world around us.

At the same time we are trusting AI more and more to interpret the world and help us make sense of it.  Seeing the world through AI perspectives, and revealing how that changes over time, is a powerful way to reflect on our relationship to these tools and reality.

The composition of these images references the habit of holding up old photos of current locations to show how they have changed over time. 

In this case, we hold up the present reality to show how our tools imagine the places we live.

Hallucinated Histories: No Through Road

This is How I See the World

A place for context, history, stories and choices.

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“Memes Outside” examines the gap between our lives online and the world offline by placing digital art in dialogue with physical street art.

"Memes Outside: The Book" is an interactive photobook

To bridge our online, digital worlds into the offline, physical world we need to bring our memes out from behind the screens they live on. "Memes Outside: The Book" is a CC0 book that can be printed by anyone, anywhere.

It has been designed as a physical artefact that is intended to be personalised, or in the vocabulary of the blockchain "be made non-fungible".

The owner of this token is the brave and generous soul who has released this book into the world as CC0.

Inside its pages is the entire collection of "Memes Outside" with an introduction for your normie friends and QR codes taking you to each piece and further reading. There is also plenty of white space for you to draw and doodle in.

Memes Outside: The Book

In "This Is How I See The World" I have made street photos from around Sydney, Australia, and invited AI algorithms to "expand" them without prompts.

This collection puts the focus on specific AI generation at specific times in history and shows us, the human viewer, what each AI imagines our world to be like.

By grounding each piece in the real world and letting the image be the only prompt the AI receives, we are invited into an AI dream of reality.

Do we recognise what we see in this dream? Do we like it, dislike it - or experience some other feeling?

Each piece includes a human hand to remind us that we are the ones who have agency, creativity and can "touch" the world around us.

At the same time we are trusting AI more and more to interpret the world and help us make sense of it. Seeing the world through AI perspectives, and revealing how that changes over time, is a powerful way to reflect on our relationship to these tools and reality.

The composition of these images references the habit of holding up old photos of current locations to show how they have changed over time.

In this case, we hold up the present reality to show how our tools imagine the places we live.

"This Is How I See The World" will be an ongoing collection examining different AI algorithms over time...

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