HumanAfterAll
selfies in the world sculpture garden
link & thread ↓
how?
the frontend uses your webcam + in-browser machine learning inference to track your face in real time
your face is then dithered and those dithered cubes extruded
your obfuscated face is then stored fully on-chain
(example, GT wearing hat & sunnies, token #0)
why?
this idea has been with me since NB shared this post
and seeing Dali's incredible derivative of it from a few years later
1971: When Presidential CryptoPunks Made Headlines
"A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS—Try guessing whose well-known face has been precisely blurred by a computer."
Abraham Lincoln (1971) by Leon D. Harmon
"The picture was divided into about 200 squares, each an even tone from one of 16 shades of gray. If you don’t recognize the portrait, try squinting at it from 15 feet away. Studies of the information content of a picture are under way to help Bell design picture-phone systems and techniques of computer picture storage. Oh, this is Abraham Lincoln."
combined with my take on the wonderful satoshi scultpure by valentina picozzi
New sculpture of Satoshi Nakamoto
The presumed pseudonym of the creator(s) of Bitcoin, as an ode to this anonymity, the sculpture vanishes when viewed head on
from close up, the image just looks like pixels
but step back and you may see a face
likewise, with the animated 3d version - at times it looks inhuman
but zoom out, wait, and you may see that face again
thematically, it's a follow-up to protohands, using the same machine learning algo
it's also somewhat a snapshot of the meta at the moment: black & white pfp projects
serc with normies
han with artifical after all
jack with avvatars
all ai or algorithmically created
but what about the humans
we've seen a big change on CT of late with people using their real faces as their pfps
well this is for you
wear a hoodie, glasses or any other disguise if you wish
but the choice is yours
will you reveal yourself to be human after all?
token #2 by @halecar2 🙏
a tribe of 53
53 wonderful humans, in all their shapes & sizes
with some in disguises
week 4 done
to everyone that participated over the last month, thank you so much
i'm exhausted
gonna go for a much needed trail walk
and contemplate whether to continue
