You will find my signature collections, my experiments and my outright mistakes... all tokenized and forever memorized. While established artists minted cautiously...I minted my face off between 2021 and 2025. I needed to find my artistic feet while also navigating the permanence of blockchain recording. You get to see that creative struggle in all its mediums and forms...while also fearlessly telling a story of a man disconnected from his son... in the hope that the blockchain would one day provide a record that he was never forgotten.

The Timeline so far

• 2021
• 2022
• 2023 soon
• 2024 soon
• 2025 soon

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2022

Artist Commentary

My first sovereign smart contract was created in 2022 as Manifold opened up its sovereign services to all artists. On February 18th, 2022 I minted Geodetic Moment Light and Dark. Each was an illustrative study of the Geodetic marker after a conversation with Apocalypse where he mentioned the potential power in the form from my last collection 'Geodetic Moments'.

Geodetic Editions minted February 18th, 2022

The Geodetic editions were never sold. They were gifted to artist and collectoor frens I had gotten to know via Crypto Twitter (CT). Once invited to receive the gift, they would choose a 'light' or 'dark' edition. Those frens and their respective wallet addresses now form a networked group of who showed up for each other early in the NFT era.

Moving the art on-chain

Two years later I would learn how to vectorize the 'Geodetic Light' and 'Geodetic Dark' artworks so they could be stored permanently, on-chain. The cost to write the vector code in Base64 on-chain, was almost a thousand dollars for the two artworks. Worth it for the permanence that on-chain art offers. The Geodetic is now stored immutably forever.

10K Project Edition (framed) minted May 7th 2022

The 10K Project is a love letter to the first 10,000 frens who followed @mintfaced on Twitter in 2021/2022. Each of their pfp's immortalised in a single artwork including all 10,000 profile pictures. Many are now from defunct pop collections, alongside Punks, Pudgy's and normies yet to move into crypto. A piece that represents the tokenized culture that was forming for the first time.

Those who collected a 10K Project edition were able to gain access to 10k Virtual Residence with apartments to show their digital art in the metaverse.

10K Project (unframed) 1/1 minted May 8th 2022

Dr. Matt Hirschey from Duke University helped me with the scripting for the 10k Project. The royalties from the special 1/1 unframed 10k Project artwork will be automatically split 50:50 on sale thanks to the permission less automation that smart contracts offer.

The MINTΞD Book

The MINTED Book documents artists who minted their creativity on the blockchain during 2021.The book is available on Amazon

The Line Metaverse

The Line is an art centered metaverse with the expressed goal of showing 1 million artworks in a single line. 1000+ artists have added over 20,000 artworks to date.Read more at theline.wtf

XNouns PFP

XNouns are Nouns with the X factor. Every 8 hours 8 minutes and 8 seconds a new XNoun is born. XNouns are well known enjoyooors of XCOPY artworks.View on XNouns.xyz

XLIFE Memes

The XLIFE collection documents the machinations of memorable crypto moments through the lens of XCOPY.View collection on OpenSea

Seize and Share Memes

The Seize and Share collection reimagines popular 2022 memes by documenting moments of historical note throughout the 2022 calendar year.View collection on OpenSea

2021

Artist Commentary

I first joined crypto in April 2021 after joining the crypto social network BitClout, and seeing Bored Ape Yacht Club launch. I was too risk averse to connect my wallet to the BAYC site. Instead, I decided to mint one of my own photos, titled 'City vs Nature'. It was unusual for the time as minting photographs was frowned upon. Minting photographs as editions was almost unheard of. 'City vs Nature' is the 518,231st token to ever mint on Rarible.

City vs Nature (5 editions) minted April 25th 2021

Minting on Rarible

The next three tokens were also minted on Rarible where gas fees were paid up front. Just 69 days later on July 5th 2021, and the total number of tokens minted had over doubled. I minted a pixelated selfie titled 'Ryan Jennings' TokenID #1114883, a pixelated portrait of marketing legend 'Seth Godin' TokenID #1114871 and a tokenized meme of Gary Vee saying good morning before 'gm' had been invented on TokenID# 1121659. None of these tokens were listed; they were MintFace experimenting on the blockchain before the ENS name MintFace had been acquired.

Pre MintFace Minting experiments

Minting on foundation in 2021

I managed to get an invite to join Foundation and mint to their shared smart contract. My first art photograph was minted there on September 25th 2021 titled 'Mountains on Mountains'. I had a great time going through my old collection of 66,000+ photos taken with my Canon 20D throughout Europe. I eventually landed on these four to mint for provenance. The title 'Mountains on Mountains' referenced a moment where I was just metres from the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro in 2007. I was confronted with this huge 10+ storied size glacier and struck by the metaphor that there is always another mountain to climb. Norcal Guy acquired the 1/1 and looking at the photograph, and what I'd accomplished, still makes me happy today.

I minted another 6 photographs to Foundation in 2021. Two are titled 'gm' and 'gn' (available) and represent a time in my late 20s travelling through Africa and feeling absolute freedom. 'True Identity' is a collection of masks I spotted while in Florence. It speaks to the many masks we all wear in life; now in the vault of friend and mentor Apocalypse. The last three artworks were shot in my hometown from the top of a hill, and where the Geodetic art movement took root.

Minting on OpenSea in 2021

I was inspired by Justin Aversano and his Twin Flames collection of 100 twins. The format of minting 100 photographs around a singular thematic had pulled me in. I had already published a book based on 100 business interviews... the number felt right. There was a special place near me called 'Sugar Loaf hill'. It is peaceful yet hardly visited. During the pandemic lockdown,I decided to take a photo of each walk up the hill, initially with my iPhone, and then with my Canon 80D. I also recorded the weather conditions and my own frame of mind in the metadata. I started the 'Geodetic Moments' collection in August 2021 and by 2022 the collection of 100 was complete.

Geodetic Moments

"Look to the horizon and measure where you stand. Geodetic Moments explores how small shifts in our position can dramatically change what we see. Look forward and see what’s possible." MintFace

Looking back now, I view the collection as a study... a search for new meaning...and the discovery of the geodetic form factor. The collection formed the basis for everything that followed.

Year 2022

I'm publishing a book about Geodetic Moments and the central theme of 'place'.I am inviting you to record an on-chain message about what ‘place’ means to you to go in the book. Your message will be permanently stored both on the blockchain and in the book.

Create Message
💌 Write 1-2 sentences about what place means to you
🤖 Convert your text message to Hex so robots can read it using this tool

Convert Message
⬛️ Remove spaces. Make sure output delimiter is set to 'none' in the Hex text.

Send Message
🦊 In Metamask, turn on 'Show hex data' field in advanced settings so you can send the message.

Send Message
🤑 Send 0 eth to geodetic.eth and paste Hex data into Metamask field.
🤖 Add '0x' in front of your message in Hex text so it can be sent ok.

Send Message
8. DM me on Twitter @mintfaced to say you've sent the message. Include:👉The Etherscan transaction URL
👉The Geodetic Moment # you own.I will decode and add your message to the book.