Thick, carpet-like cloud layers have fascinated me for some time. I’ve been capturing videos of various cloud formations to study their texture and depth for a potential project. Recently, I began adding continuous sketches alongside the cloud footage. I look forward to taking this concept further by introducing 3D-rendered models down the road.
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Sculpting Towering Clouds
am back at the drawing board, developing cloud shapes for a set of new sculptures. At the moment, I am experimenting with how a cumulonimbus cloud system could be represented through sphere-based shapes. The towering elements are proving quite challenging. A fun fact from along the way: a single cumulonimbus can hold over a million…
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Scanning Cloudy Sky Videos
While tweaking the cloud scanner, I ran a proper first test on an aerial video I recorded earlier this year. The result is encouraging. The detection already works rather well, though the footage admittedly plays to the script’s strengths: the contrast between the clouds and the sky is visibly strong, exactly the condition under which…
Power Sculpting
I am working on a new sculpture, one that will bring together several elements, including power plugs. So I spent a couple of hours sculpting a power plug from scratch. Below is a behind-the-scenes peek: three screenshots from the process, each a stage further along. There is something quietly fitting in the exercise. A power…
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Last Bill Edition Got Spent
For three weeks, much of my time has revolved around a transaction I cannot take back. On July 21st, a fee bump I pressed in the wrong wallet fed the final Digital EUR bill of “Do Not Accumulate” to a miner as part of a 758-satoshi fee. The full account is on the blog. This…
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Digital EUR Featured by 100 Collectors
I am honoured to share that Digital EUR, the first currency in my Do Not Accumulate series, has been featured by curator Eleonora Brizi for 100 Collectors, the global membership network for digital art collectors, as part of their 5 Things to Know series. Eleonora has accompanied this movement as a curator since its earliest days, and it shows in the reading. She…
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Scanning Skies for Clouds
I am returning to a small project I set aside last year: a script that scans the sky for clouds and traces their contours. The work is far from finished, and the difficulties are instructive. Dark clouds and clouds sitting in shadow absorb so much of the blue spectrum that they become hard to separate…