By Van Arman x Mindshift x ricky · 128 works · released 2022-08-15
miniPODs is a 128-piece collection that was airdropped rather than sold, growing out of Pindar Van Arman's podGANs, one of BrainDrops' three launch collections. The project was told as an emergent phenomenon: miniPODs coalesced in wallets that already held two or more podGANs, as though gatherings of podGANs had drawn others to them and fused into something new. Each miniPOD carries a podType, with 15 varieties including diffused, liquid, chromatic, rainbow, plasma, glitched, inverted, and halftone. The most common, the diffusion miniPODs, nod to diffusion-model experiments by collaborators Mindshift and RightOnRicky, while four one-of-a-kind miniPODs (cyan, yellow, magenta, and golden) were built from many stacked layers of AI processing. Its small supply and airdrop-only distribution made it one of the platform's scarcest collections.
Pieces: #0 … #127. Data: https://braindrops.art/api/v1/collections/minipods