Installation view of Obama’s Last Night in Office (left, 2017) and Biden’s First Day in Office (right, 2022):

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NFTs allow artists to market digital works directly, which is really convenient. Previously, I would have made prints or paintings from works that begin as Photoshop renderings in hopes of selling them. When an artwork exists as an NFT, however, the blockchain provides an undisputed claim (and potential trail) of ownership, which is pretty exciting. Moreover, whenever an NFT is resold, the original creator can get a small percentage of all future sales.

The process of “minting” a digital work or artifact as an NFT comes with a very real cost, however, and ultimately I didn’t want to invest that level of money into an experiment. So here are my three “Almost NFT” designs, available to anyone and everyone as a free download. Scroll down below the triptych to access the high-res versions. Note: these are designed at the larger iPhone 10 screen size (1125 x 2436px), but can be used on most any version.

Like my other RGB and Sometimes Y work, these screens begin with a screenshot from the ongoing RGB feed, which you can view here. The feed presents tweets in near realtime from the Twitter public timeline that mention to words red, green, blue, and yellow (in any context). From left to right, the backgrounds above were captured:

• June 6, 2021 at 6:43pm CST
• June 25, 2021 at 10:52pm CST
• June 28, 2021 at 3:19pm CST

From there, I added an RGB star, gradients, shadows, and the transparent cube pattern for additional texture.

Free to Download!

Grab any or all of the individual designs below for use on your own phone:

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As with all RGB and Sometimes Y pieces, the color sequence of this image was generated by a real-time search for the color labels “red”, “green”, “blue”, and “yellow” over Twitter’s public timeline. Green and yellow are normally the least common colors to appear, which makes this palette particularly unique. It was captured in January of 2017 following President Trump’s executive order on immigration. There was heightened conversation regarding “green cards” on Twitter, resulting in the rare shift of the color feed’s palette to favor green.

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Installation view of Obama’s Last Night in Office (left, 2017) and Biden’s First Day in Office (right, 2022):

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Design mockup above / alternate view photo below:

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RGB Landscape No. 9, acrylic enamel on canvas, 24″ x 30″, 2015.

RGB Landscape No. 10, acrylic enamel on canvas, 12″ x 16″, 2015.

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Floor detail, with RGB and Sometimes Y, Sudoku Series Sculpture No. 1 in the background.

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You Can Google That, You Know, shown on display in the Closet Box at Box 13 Artspace in September of 2012.

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RGB and Sometimes Y: Packing Object No. 1

RGB and Sometimes Y: Packing Object No. 2

RGB and Sometimes Y: Packing Object No. 3

RGB and Sometimes Y: Packing Objects (All Three)

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