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cave paintings of the digital era finds №003 gao hang was 10 when he first played counter-strike. the world inside looked real to him, and it stayed now he paints it: low-poly bodies, mushy textures, edges too sharp for a canvas references come from emulators and other people's gameplay recordings. a compressed game texture ends up as a 2-meter painting the way there is 4 steps: screenshot, photoshop, canvas, then airbrush and tape the images are simple enough that anyone recognizes them instantly. laughter comes first, then awkwardness, then something closer to nostalgia our patron said about this: many perceive such graphics as clumsy and outdated while the modern world chases hyper-realism in metaverses, the artist finds beauty in simplicity these smeared textures may not be perfect, but they hide true sincerity and nostalgia found by @not_jammm

GIVEAWAY 🫥 a small extra from our emoji art story the people we spoke to left 8 exclusive items for patrons want in? • be a patron • stay one until september 30 • nothing else → become a patron 🫥

Th💙 St🛵ry of Telegr🌟m’s New V❤️sual Wa🎮e a special research project by Nothing telegram made custom emoji possible, then people built a whole universe around them we talked to srnk, Bogdan Lebedev, sasha svoloch, DripTech and Nidgus about emoji art, the people behind it, and how it all came together → READ IN ENGLISH → ЧИТАТЬ НА РУССКОМ 🫥

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Silicon Cities by Heiko Hellwig · · · he explores and reveals the core of digital society. it is a society where we can no longer fully understand how information moves, which channels it takes, and which kinds of information belong where this series captures the complexity and hidden nature of digital machines, which feels both aesthetic and frightening at the same time their structures resemble modern megacities and bring to mind futuristic highway networks from science fiction movies #weeklyvisuals 🫥

La Confession Booth: the film we filmed everything that happened inside the booth watch → 🫥

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the vote is closed 🫥 patrons from nothing club picked 2 projects out of 6 • benjamingotbenz GoPod (WAVES): a synthesizer built inside an old iPod • Vitalia Son Cute Weapons: everyday objects turned into weapons $4,000 total. they start working now, and patrons see the full process first: drafts, updates, the work when it's ready and the main thing: patrons became part of this and will be mentioned on the works next round is coming join nothing club 🫥

first vote / nothing club 🫥 as you know, our fund supports artists. patrons decide who gets the money, and the first round just opened 6 artists came with their projects: • Timur Zima: a full tarot deck, 78 cards redrawn by hand • Rei Delos-Reyes: an autobiographical art book about becoming an image-maker • benjamingotbenz: a synthesizer built inside an old iPod • Mikle Pitersky: the street lettering of Paris, before it disappears • Vitalia Son: everyday objects turned into weapons • Soreab: an album made from field recordings of his childhood home our patrons will pick two artists from this list to get the funding for their project that's how people from our community become part of the artists' works each of the chosen ones will carry the same line: patrons made this happen 🫥 there's still time to join and vote become a patron 🫥

interview: Nikita Ko we talked about skating in the wilderness, filming himself to stay calm when things went wrong also about half a year alone in a canyon in Montenegro, and everything that nearly killed "Raising Dust" "my life is my film, and i'm definitely the main character in it" full interview → 👽

Nikita Ko meet the new Nothing resident filmmaker and skater writes music for his films ⚪️👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻⚪️👻 👻👻👻 👻profile 29, born in Moscow raised in the Balkans made Raising Dust, a documentary about skating in the mountains of Montenegro and the Alps looks alone, films what happens along the way writes his own soundtracks field recordings, bass, synths ⚪️👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻⚪️ "nothing means there is still space for anything to happen" inst 😄

someone sold nothing for $18,300 finds №002 in may 2021 italian artist Salvatore Garau sold an invisible sculpture at auction in Milan. the buyer got a certificate and instructions: display it in a 5x5 ft empty space at home even a vacuum has weight, he said 5 years earlier Tom Miller built an invisible structure in a public square in Gainesville, Florida. he called it Nothing when the sale went viral, Miller hired a lawyer: "i should be credited with Nothing, and Gainesville, Florida, not Italy, is where Nothing happened first" the letter was sent. the suit was never filed. Garau never responded our patron said about this: two artists, thousands of miles and five years apart, both decided the most valuable thing they could build was nothing at all one made $18k off it, the other just wanted credit somehow even nothing has an ownership dispute found by @ne_david

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Default Mode ( ꩜ ᯅ ꩜;) new essay with @spaceheadtr you pick up the phone to check one thing. you surface 40 minutes later and can't name a single image you saw 1) why the feed hunts your empty seconds 2) why doing nothing was never nothing read →

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