A collection of on-chain, generative cumulonimbus teenagers, ready for their class photo. A fun follow-up to NimBuds (Art Blocks Project #10). 

Created using vanilla javascript, each unique NimTeen features random hair, colors, eyes, mouths, acne, bodies,backdrops and more. Each with its own personality.

NimTeens

A study of color in motion. Beams of light ebb and flow like ocean waves, their colors softly blending to form dreamy gradients.

Light Beams

*3 Minute Meditations* is a set of audio/visual generative-art NFTs designed to provide the listener with a short, meditative experience.  Each *3MM* starts with a **unique fundamental frequency** and composes harmonics on top of it. One of these harmonics is a **binaural beat** that ends in the **delta** or **theta** band (associated with **mediation**, **deep** and **REM sleep**).  The others take shape as a combination of **constant and arpeggiated tones** to form an entrancing soundscape that moves through **temporary dissonance** into **climactic harmony**.  The associated visuals are representative of the sound, and follow a journey that mirrors the **sonic meditation**.

** ***The focus of this piece is the audio, which must be enjoyed with headphones in order to properly realize its effects***. **

Listeners can watch the visuals as well, or close their eyes and **sink fully into the auditory experience**.

3 Minute Meditations

I feel like an imposter. Pseudo-anonymous as *ippsketch* while maintaining an engineering career and family life. I live on the edge of two worlds, immersed in self-doubt. Leaning into each space, I bring a part of each world with me, but wonder if what I bring is enough. I question my identity while learning to embrace it. Art, after all, is made by ordinary people. And I wonder, does anyone really know what they're doing?

*Imposter Syndrome* is an expression of my seeming dual existence and my feelings of not being enough in many aspects of life. But I do not mean for this to be entirely prescriptive to the work and often see other interpretations and meanings myself, such as anytime I straddle the edge of something new, when I'm on the fence and making a decision between two directions of my life, or if I consider the shadow or light I cast in the spaces and people around me. These pieces move me differently from day-to-day.

This work leans into minimalism. As trends in generative art push toward the visually complex and highly technical, I find my current focus on simple composition and compelling structure. I'm also drawn to broken symmetry, which echos my dual artist/engineer life and is also what I consider to be a visual representation of generative art - design and order on the one hand, random variation within constraint on the other.

Color palettes echo those used in *Bent*. Simple and bold colors with stark black and white support. Pieces are rendered in a default poster size (3:4), but are also adaptive to screen size so that they can fit any display. The work can be interacted with by pressing the number keys 1, 2, 3, 4 to see the steps of construction.

Imposter Syndrome

Paths is an animated journey across various subterranean and aboveground environments. To fully experience the project, you need to see it in high resolution with a capable GPU. Make sure that your browser uses your dedicated graphics card if any, and that you get a good frame rate. Control keys: 1-4 (change speed), 9 (fill aspect ratio), 0 (original aspect ratio), space-bar (play/pause)

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