{"id":14762,"date":"2022-10-27T20:31:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/art\/breaking-snowfro-just-announced-first-art-blocks-project-since-chromie-squiggles\/"},"modified":"2022-10-27T20:32:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:32:10","slug":"breaking-snowfro-just-announced-first-art-blocks-project-since-chromie-squiggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/art\/breaking-snowfro-just-announced-first-art-blocks-project-since-chromie-squiggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Snowfro Just Announced First Art Blocks Project Since Chromie Squiggles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since its November 2020 launch, Art Blocks has established itself as the preeminent platform for generative art within the NFT landscape. Artists worldwide, including Tyler Hobbs, Dmitri Cherniak, and Kjetil Golid have looked to the platform to host their collections. But what led to its rise?<\/p>\n

10,000 colorful squiggles.<\/p>\n

Art Blocks\u2019 CEO and founder Erick Calderon \u2014 better known by his handle Snowfro \u2014\u00a0created the Chromie Squiggle NFT collection in 2020 to help showcase the potential of Art Blocks as an art platform and creation tool. Since then, the collection has seen trading volumes in excess of 55 thousand ETH on OpenSea. Art Blocks has even adopted one piece from the collection as its official logo: Squiggle #7515, to be precise.<\/p>\n

And on Thursday, October 27, Calderon announced his first Art Blocks project since these notorious Squiggles: Friendship Bracelets. The collection hopes to reconcile the value of these pieces with how children perceive the value of friendship bracelets, according to an embargoed press release shared with nft now.<\/p>\n

Behind the bracelets<\/h2>\n

The Friendship Bracelets collection is a free generative art project that pairs creative coding with a spectrum of colors to create a \u201ctoken of special friendship\u201d that resembles the embroidery floss mementos from childhood. Calderon partnered with artist Alexis Andr\u00e9<\/a>, also known as MacTuitui online, to bring the idea to life.<\/p>\n

Above all, the Friendship Bracelets collection is intended to celebrate the Art Blocks\u2019 community, not to mention the sheer power of friendship. \u201cOne of the things I admire about the Web3 space is the easy and intense relationships that can form over things like art, tech, and the future,\u201d Calderon said in an interview with nft now.<\/p>\n

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One of the preliminary Friendship Bracelet Drops inspired by the Marfa Sunset. Source: Erick Calderon, Alexis Andr\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Anyone and everyone who\u2019s contributed to Art Blocks\u2019 current success via the purchase of a piece from the platform is eligible to mint two Friendship Bracelet NFTs for free, save for gas fees, of course. To be precise, eligibility is contingent on the owner\u2019s crypto wallet containing at least one Art Blocks piece at the time of mint.<\/p>\n

Along with a Friendship Bracelet NFT, minters will receive illustrated instructions on how to make physical bracelets that match their digital ones. Minting will start on October 27, and remain open until January 10, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. ET. Once each Friendship Bracelet NFT is minted, holders can keep them and craft IRL bracelets, trade bracelets with other members of the Art Blocks community, or sell them on the secondary market.<\/p>\n

\u201cParticipating in this project is a signal, both online and IRL, that you\u2019re a participant in this evolution of art + community. You are pushing the best ideas forward,\u201d Art Blocks said to its community in a statement to nft now. \u201cYou are the reason all of these imaginative projects come to life. Our community is what makes all of this possible. So, to say it plainly, we appreciate you, and we hope that you\u2019ll accept this bracelet as a token of our special friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n