You know those moments, where everything is too real. The weight of it all, the compounding demands, a massive disruption or one minor...

Where my last article talked about the foundations of the avant scene in regard to it’s genesis from Milady and the Hashlips layered and ‘Traitmaxxed’ aspects of their design process and aesthetics, there is another facet to the scene in the form of AI works. Quoted as an original inspiration for Bosch of Little Swag World, and cited as a precedent in the Avant NFT Wave by Charlotte Fang, let me introduce J48BAFORMS: an incredibly important collection by Grotto Labs that was

It’s extremely hard to talk in concrete  terms about a scene that is still emerging. It’s also much harder to pin it down when it is emerging online and the information is haphazardly scattered across Tweets, X Spaces, Discord servers, private DMs and group chats. It should be of no surprise then to find out this week that people have no idea about the scene I am a part of: the ‘Avant’/’Gay’* scene – a collection of artists making works mainly on Solana, held together by a va