New Year's Reflection 2022
Happy New Year fx(Hashers)!
This post is a little different. Call it a reflection if you will. A look back on some of the big milestones I experienced in 2022:
Over the last year I fell in love with generative art — and fell hard. I’ve looked at every project on fx(hash) at least 2-3x each (all 20k+ of them), and launched fxGems back in April to help bring more curation to the space. There are now seven issues of fxGems on fx(text) and another twelve published on Substack that I’ll add to fx(text) next year (when I catch up to the appropriate months).
I taught myself how to code this year using Javascript and p5.js thanks to Dan Schiffman’s Coding Train YouTube videos and the book Getting Started with p5.js. I hadn’t coded anything since I was in middle school and taught myself Basic, so this felt like a big deal.
With those newfound skills, I released a few projects on fx(hash) including Jazz, which I took from a tiny snippet of code I wrote in January (pictured below) to later reworking it in March in a 48 hour sprint to release it just before the end of the fx(hash) Beta. I’m even more proud of the souped-up version Infinite Jazz that released on the first day of the fx(hash) Alpha, as well as Fractured Time. And I coded many more project than I’ve been able to share (getting work that final 10% to completion takes more focus than I had this fall as I continued to get more serious about curating), but hopefully I’ll release a few of them soon. Oh, and I published some short form work on Objkt, featuring alternate palettes, as B-Sides — including my first 1/1.
I also launched a new Twitter account and slowly built a following that’s about to surpass the follower count on my twitter main (even though my main has been around for fourteen years and I’ve only been using @HaiverArt for ten months, a fact that makes me cackle with glee). And, of course, there’s all of you lovely subscribers too; it’s been amazing to see this newsletter grow.
On top of all of that, I collected 96 pieces on Tezos, and was gifted a couple over on ETH — including a Friendship Bracelet. Because that’s the best part of this year: the community I found here, passionate about art and artists and collecting. Truly, it’s one of the most kind and giving spaces I’ve ever found myself lucky enough to be a part of, and I can’t wait to see what comes next in 2023. The best is yet in store!
Happy new year all!! 🥳
Haiver
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