March 22, 2022
Artist Spotlight: Tyler Hobbs and Proof Collective's Grail #19, Wall
Tyler Hobbs , the NFT artist of Art Blocks fame, walks PROOF Collective COO Ryan Carson through his process in creating the photorealistic image of "Wall" in Grails by PROOF Collective , revealed to be entirely generative. LI...
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Tyler Hobbs, the NFT artist of Art Blocks fame, walks PROOF Collective COO Ryan Carson through his process in creating the photorealistic image of "Wall" in Grails by PROOF Collective, revealed to be entirely generative.
LINKS
- Connect with Tyler Hobbs: Website | Twitter | Discord | Facebook | Instagram
- Connect with Ryan Carson: Twitter
- Grail #19: Wall by Tyler Hobbs | PROOF Collective
- Tyler Hobbs – Designing NFT Generative Art with a Traditional Touch | Modern Finance
- Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs | Art Blocks
- PROOF Collective
- Virtual Studio Tour & Interview | Tyler Hobbs
- Open Source NoSQL Database | Apache Cassandra
- Is Cassandra to Blame for Digg v4's Technical Failures? | Quora
- Texture Study: Dormant Grass | Tyler Hobbs
- (The Story Behind) Wall - Proof: Grails | Tyler Hobbs
- Source Code for Wall (2022) | GitHub
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II Full Frame DSLR Camera | Amazon
- The Best Camera Is The One That's With You by Chase Jarvis | Amazon
- Incomplete Control by Tyler Hobbs | Bright Moments Gallery
- Grail #10: Iteration 0 by Gossamer Rozen | PROOF Collective
- Grail #18: 횡단보도 by Dmitri Cherniak | PROOF Collective
- Grail #04: I've Got Your Cat, Please Follow Me. by Kiszkiloszki | PROOF Collective
- Why Social Media Is an Emotional Challenge for Artists | Tyler Hobbs
- Miami Art Week 2021 | The Digital
NOTES
- For those who didn't catch his last appearance on this show, who is Tyler Hobbs? [00:28]
- For that matter, who is this Ryan Carson fellow? [01:26]
- Tyler explains how his background in art intersected with computer science. [01:59]
- Did Tyler kill Digg? [03:38]
- How Tyler found the focus that would differentiate his style from everyone else's. [05:14]
- The moment Tyler realized art was a feasible career. [07:14]
- How Kevin piqued Tyler's interest in the Grails project, and how Wall came to be. [08:18]
- How many real-world walls in Austin did Tyler scout before coming upon the one that would serve as his muse for this project? [11:25]
- The code Tyler used to create Wall. [13:16]
- In creating this piece to be as photorealistic as possible, how much of it had to be brute-forced, and how much was Tyler able to surrender it to the algorithm? [14:30]
- What is Tyler's camera of choice? [16:18]
- When it comes to the tokenization of physical artwork, what does Tyler believe will become the industry's standard protocol? [16:53]
- Grails Tyler minted, and why. [19:05]
- Was Tyler able to correctly guess any of the Grails? [20:12]
- How many hours did it take Tyler to complete Wall? [21:00]
- What impact will Wall have on Tyler's future output? [21:49]
- From where does Tyler tend to get the most -- and least -- useful feedback? [23:27]
- Why you should take the time to peruse Tyler's essays at his website. [25:31]
- Is there any chance Tyler would paint a mural of Wall on the wall it depicts? [26:19]
- What do the next three years look like for Tyler? [27:50]
- Can we look forward to more projects like the Incomplete Control collaboration with Bright Moments Gallery from Tyler? [29:36]
- Parting thoughts. [30:51]