Hedz
Starting with FiatHedz in April 2022, then RentHedz in September 2022, Hedz is an evolving brand of boundary pushing digital art collectibles by JeffJag
FiatHedz (2022)
This is a SOLD OUT collection of 666 grotesque AI Generated and hand illustrated images of the corrupting effects of money on our collective personalities and culture.
"Fiat is Ded" is the statement of the FiatHedz collection proclaiming cryptocurrency as the future of finance and the best way to facilitate our inevitable future of widespread digital ownership via the blockchain.
FiatHedz was generated using Midjourney v2 in April 2022 then each and every one of the images was painted over and post processed in Procreate. Not a single image is raw AI in the collection.
Metadata traits include "Identity", "Pedigree", "Society", and "Valuables." These traits help collectors sort the work by visual theme. Lastly, "Generational Wealth" traits show that some artworks were updated after being collected. Overall, determining these special traits and their rarity was a big part crafting this collection. I did it with a love of collectibles as both an artist and collector.
FiatHedz #137 pictured.
RentHedz (2022)
This is a SOLD OUT collection of 313 detailed AI Generated, layered and composited, content-aware filled images. RentHedz was created during a time of depression in my life, and helped me express how I had been "living in my head" and helped me to heal. Another major benefit of this collection was that I was able to donate 25% of revenue to The Gathering Place through the Giving Block at the contract level via NiftyKit. I hope it did some good.
RentHedz was crafted using generations from Midjourney v3 and Dall-e in Aug-Sept 2022. Each image features a unique background of AI generated star fields from Dall-e composited onto a color corrected, digitally painted and manually altered generation from Midjourney v3. Not a single image is raw AI in the collection.
Metadata traits include "Zone Zone", "Unit Features", "Utilities Access", and "Building Amenities." These traits help collectors sort the work by visual theme.
This collection also features small AI generated (pre-LLM/chatGPT) poems in the bottom of the description for each artwork.
RentHedz #207 pictured. Here's it's unique AI generated saying :: "That's not my face. I'm not that ugly. I don't know what you're talking about."