SHILL Issue 25
Solana ecosystem zine
Solana ecosystem zine
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innovators, and people who break boundaries - it’s a place where one goes<br />
to feel truly alive. The Tongue Tied Society and the artwork on the cards<br />
represent all that makes us human, and in being human, we sometimes get<br />
tongue tied. This also ties into the legend we created behind the artwork.<br />
What do you see as your biggest accomplishment so far? Considering the<br />
project’s presence began in November on Twitter.<br />
I think that our biggest accomplishment is just being able to grow to this<br />
size and have the opportunity to connect with such incredible people. Our<br />
Discord is full of insanely talented members who choose to come and<br />
share their story with our community. It’s a daily occurrence that you’ll see<br />
someone sharing their career goals and accomplishments and asking for<br />
advice in our chat.<br />
We feel super lucky to be in a place where our members feel supported,<br />
safe, and open with us. While we aren’t a project that has tens of thousands<br />
of members on Discord and Twitter, we make up for it in the strength of our<br />
community ties. We do plan to keep growing and building our community<br />
as we get closer to launch but are keenly focused on maintaining a healthy<br />
and happy community.<br />
Now that we have the foundation of our community, we are looking forward<br />
to launching our website and announcing our official mint date soon!<br />
The Lit Jesus project has a team of artists working on their artwork that is<br />
then scanned to create NFT. You are working on a project of 5200. How are<br />
you able to hand paint this volume?<br />
In this collection, there are actually 100 unique, hand painted layers. It’s a<br />
generative project so the artwork is algorithmically layered to make 5,200<br />
one-of-a-kind cards.<br />
The developer on our team<br />
has created a program to build<br />
these unique cards based on<br />
the rarities of each layer that<br />
I assigned. Each of the layers<br />
were painted over the course<br />
of my career, along with many<br />
painted in the last few months,<br />
so a ton of time went in to paint it<br />
all. Many of the layers come from<br />
my large-scale oil paintings, so<br />
their original size can be around<br />
5ft (1.5m) tall, and other layers<br />
come from smaller paintings<br />
that I created specifically for this<br />
project.<br />
<strong>SHILL</strong> <strong>Issue</strong> #<strong>25</strong> 43
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