The hundred COLORGASMS were minted with their images kept on Arweave — a good enough home, but not this one. This page follows them moving into Ethereum itself, one piece at a time, until nothing about them depends on a server anywhere.
THE FILE
Each piece is 4320 by 7680 pixels and some seventy megabytes as it leaves the machine — far more than a block will take. It is re-encoded to AVIF at that same size, with the colour kept at full resolution rather than thinned, so the edges stay as hard as they are in the original, and brought under a megabyte. Nothing is cropped and nothing is scaled down: the same picture, written in fewer bytes.
THE STORAGE
The file is cut into pieces of 24573 bytes and each piece is written into the code of a contract of its own — the cheapest durable room the network has. One transaction per piece, thirty or forty for a whole artwork. When the last one lands the key is sealed, and sealed is final: those bytes cannot be changed again, by me or by anyone. A second, much smaller transaction then ties the artwork to its number, with the text that belongs to it.
STORAGE COST
This page tracks all the eth spent in gas cost during uploads.
THE REDEEM
Once a piece is stored, whoever holds the original can trade it for its onchain twin. One transaction: the old token is burned and a new one is minted to the same wallet, keeping the name and the number it always had. From then on the image and everything written about it are assembled by a contract, at the moment anyone asks for them. No order and no queue: every piece that is stored can be redeemed by whoever holds it, whenever they like.
THE BOARD
Dimmed — not stored yet.
Lit — stored, ready for its holder.
Outlined — in the wallet you connected.
Marked — burned and redeemed, fully onchain.
The contracts:
storage,
redeem,
renderer. The edition:
CLGSM.