Don't Bite The Apple Eve...[Of Destruction] Artwork Reboot from 2018.
STARCHILD PROJECT -X: The Dystopian Daydreamer.

Have got into the mode of reflecting on old artworks created that had depth of meaning, this one in particular has that, originally made as a possible piece to accompany a mate's poetry, it seemed appropriate given the Dystopian vibe that COVID19 Lockdowns and The Pandemic has brought about.

Dystopia: A fictional community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is often treated as an antonym of utopia, a term that was coined by Sir Thomas More and figures as the title of his best known work, published in 1516, which created a blueprint for an ideal society with minimal crime, violence and poverty. -Wikipedia

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• n. An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror.
• n. A work describing such a place or state.
• n. Malposition; dislocation.
  
  

Build & Destroy

The dawn of the Digital Revolution in this The Age of Digital Information and Technology was bench-marked by the birth of the internet since, it has enabled a global state of connectivity that was possibly never imaginable during the early history of civilised man.

As we embrace the emergence and global adaption of cryptocurrency and digital money and what would be the onset of the 3rd Industrial Revolution, there is a definitive dividing line present.

As if a child learning what it means to be functional amidst mess, it is the decision to clean up or simply continue existing amid the mess and chaos created by the simple pleasures of existing.

There are all but two options, to build Utopia or to pave the road to Dystopia. It is said that it much easier to make a mess as opposed to cleaning one up, so suffice to say the road to Dystopia is easy. 

What relevance to such thoughts play in the cryptoverse?

We have been given a wonderful opportunity, that one chance in a millenia that mankind's technological advancement has provided humanity with the means to an end.

This opportunity presented itself to the world in the form of Bitcoin, and now is omnipresent in the countless (12,000+ and counting) cryptocurrencies and digital tokens that have arisen from the trail blazed by Master Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin.

Previously having defined the difference between a cryptocurrency and a token, the main key factor being that what defines and separates an actual cryptocurrency from a token is it's real world case use, for this reason we have 1000's of tokens and only several actual cryptocurrencies, that could become adaptable for real world use and as is the case with Bitcoin, Ethereum and lesser valued crypto such as DOGE, coin there are attempts at adaption into commercial use of cryptocurrency for transaction purposes in everyday life.

What we are living in is an attempt at building and facilitation of creating Utopia, that means to an end is providing escape from the monster which ravages the world that is poverty, now finally the avenue for an actual wealth shift presents itself and has been grasped by a few which is turning into the many.

The functionality of Non Fungible Tokens.

One of the most used buzzword acronyms of 2021, in the cryptospace, hands down would have to be NFT. still to this day there are countless people who ask, what it is? what does it do, what does it mean? and how can it help them? As well as a plethora of other questions and statements.

At times it is tiring to reiterate the same references and documentation that people in the know already, already know, and then on the other hand it is a compliment and some what an unspoken duty for us to describe in as great detail as possible in as few words as possible the answer, praying that the listener gets it and just accepts the role of due diligence to go forth and research further of their own accord.

With all these cryptocurrencies on offer in the form of alt-coins and tokens we must take into account what gives tokens value and why NFTs are way ahead in the race for value attainment of digital and virtual assets.

It is easily seen in project asset components of collections such as crypto punks, with pieces still fetching millions of dollars long after the drop, and pieces exchanging multiple owners doing the rounds among high end collectors.

This brings the question of functionality, sure enough the artworks are cool, but when a clip art rendition of rock becomes viral and sells for millions, we need to stop and wonder, why on earth?

This leads to out-of-the box theorising, what if?


What if we could program the smart contracts of NFTs, which we can, so that's not a questionable possibility, it is a fact, let's backtrack one moment. 

Do most people really know or understand what a smart contract does? Do you know how powerful the code is?
Let's use an analogy, imagine you could fill a modified concorde full of money and send it to a mate in another country then without them doing anything have that package split along the way and allocations also drop and land at their pre-determined destinations still travelling at hypersonic speed, and let's say for example part of that division and allocation of funds was to go to a charity, this could also be automatically deducted and dropped without stopping or digressing from course.

This is just one parallel. In reality smart contract coding is responsible for handling the transfer of literally billions and trillions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency all done within seconds and then however long the computational speed of the transaction takes to actually liquidate the finances to the receiver.

This is one part is why some people should be skeptical on flash loan code use, unless they actually understand the way smart contracts and solidity code works, it is not something to "play" around with on any given day.

The hundred trillion dollar question that plagues humanity who doesn't believe in cryptocurrency and bitcoin, what gives the token value? Why is it worth money?

With Bitcoin it all started with the belief that the invention and advent of such a digital technology and it's introduction to society would be of great benefit to humanity. This belief coupled with already existing tangible, financial wealth lead to the creation of value, it isn't a set of megabytes and metadata that was discovered and found to be like gold, as with all things the people's belief that it would change not only their lives for the greater good but also the lives of others...wait a minute that sound's like Jesus or a Godlike deity.

That's correct people, what difference is there from the belief humans have placed on the intangible, seemingly valueless yet invaluable tokens of worship?

Will just let that sink in...

"Don't Bite The Apple Eve [of Destruction]" symbolises the reckoning and desire, consciously being trapped in a lust forgiveness yet still wanting to devour the world before it's too late.

Too late for who though?

Acrylic, paint pends and watercolor on sticker paper 2019

Since childhood we have been conditioned from how to use cutlery to make a mess, clean it up, now it is time for counter conditioning, no longer do banks and financial institutions guide our financial decisions and dictate the potentials and possibilities of our dreams and destiny.

In the words of the late Robin Williams (RIP) as John Keating in "Dead Poets Society";
"...Carpe Diem. Seize the day, boys [and girls]. Make your lives extraordinary."

NFTs can be made functional. Although there may exist AML in crypto, we knew that already, it exists everywhere, it's not going to be present in one aspect of finance and commerce and be absent in others, where there is opportunity people will take that opportunity and run the risk of capture for the booty that awaits on a successful heist.

It is apparent this dividing line of those who would attempt to make Utopia and those who would as easily give up and allow the Dystopians to win, this can be seen with what is utility tokenisation of blockchain technology and The Internet of Things.

What is Utility tokenisation? A utility token simply put is a token of value that has a predetermined use or purpose in the real world, there are more and more NFT projects being released now that are attempting to assist charities. 

Just scrolling through the twitter #NFTcommunity feed and this gave me hope that my idea is not just mine, and the vision to possibly assist in a greater #SaveTheWorld ideology is one shared.

The implementation of this idea to utilise NFTs as the main tool for fundraising is;

Applied Functionality & Creation Of Utility NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens) will dedicate an entire document to just this topic in the not so distant future as my charity project is about to be listed for crowdfunding via hostengine.io which covers this very topic of Utility, Functional Fundraiser NFTs.


The aim of this particular piece which I've written this entire paper and essay around, was to embrace AI software technology and mix it with my current style of art & design creation in open source, to enable the crafting of utility NFTs for Charity Fund Raising faster, with the same skills and design efforts but just less time consumption in creating and production to allow for time to be better spent promoting and marketing the concept and ideas to the general public and the DeFi community.

The Reboot 2021 Edition

This is the first of many series and collections created with use of AI software and my digital arts, graphic design and multimedia design skill, it is also the first time to create custom smart contracts and self mint the tokens of value assigning all the metadata and file attributes for both the file and the NFT. These NFTs will be hosted via my own IPFS node, and this got me to thinking about why we rely on IPFS cloud storage which is only associated with blockchains via link to the token and not actually blockchain technology, which leads to the thought that this tech is still very new, if we need to associate cloud storage that isn't immutable blockchain technology to the token of value which is immutable. That can be topic of another discussion.


Having just finalised my outline for first listing on Host Engine, I'll be releasing another blog post on the Host Engine blog started under the DeFi.Sciple banner on Publish0x and outlining personal ideas on the direction NFTs will go based on how powerful both smart contracts are and the format of value storage of Non Fungible Tokens.

Here are the first 25/88 2D stills

This is the link to the entire collection.
https://opensea.io/collection/starchild-projectx-the-dystopian-daydreamer

This piece was both a subversive free-scripted piece to outline a few innovative implementations of NFTs, and highlight the theory that immutable and Non Fungible data will be tokenised and have custom smart  contracts linked to them, and also a means of promoting my new personal developments with use of Artificial Intelligence software combined with opensource project Krita Painting App on Linux OpenSUSE. 

I'll be following up with an actual paper on Non Fungible Tokens of Value and Immutable Data, since people seem to be of the understanding that NFTs are only limited to multimedia and in-game assets and funky fun looking collectibles associated with digital and physical art.

As always thanks for stopping by and reading my thoughts, and viewing my work and where I'm at right now, looking forward to dropping more jewels both in the written word and the pixel poetry on the Publish0xenz . 

Peace til then,
Take care always.