manifesting creativity

welcome to issue #09 of moments, our bi-weekly newsletter. if you’re new here, this is the space where we share product updates, news from our community, and a curation of the best things we’re seeing online and offline. and if you’ve been around for a while, thanks for being a member of our community. you’re among a select group of cherished friends, family, and early supporters.

we’ve been working on a few really exciting updates recently– an android app 👀, an exhibit launch, a weekly competition, and more.

last week was one of the biggest yet for primitives. we launched on the google play store (app status!) you can download primitives ➕ as an android app now for all the same features you love, right on your home screen.

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unleash you creativity 🎨 primitives: now live on android

a few more highlights:

• weekly showcase is live 📣 – new creative prompts release each week — let them inspire your work, then submit a moment for a chance to be spotlighted to our community. an all-new way to unleash your creativity.

• upgraded chat 💬 – you asked we listened. the chat experience has been re-built from the bottom up with blazing speed, notifications, links, and beautiful new gradients. try it out :)

our featured creator this week is sound designer jeremy sollod. a new york-based creative, jeremy spends his time melding audio with visual language, producing abstracted works that call to mind fractal patterns, geometry, and pulsating rhythm. we chatted with jeremy about his journey into sound production, the future of digital art, and manifesting creativity.

tell us about yourself

i'm from new jersey, about 10 minutes from the george washington bridge. growing up new york city was my playground - for better or worse. i value it — webster hall at 12 provided some interesting cultural exposure.

have you always been into being a creator and making art? do you have a favorite medium?

at 12, i started playing guitar and using sony acid pro, which is an ancient program. that was the beginning for me. in high school, i took up graphic design and i eventually went to college for music, but that was after going to business school.

also, since i have 16+ years in audio, that's definitely my foundation. but i've been enjoying making visual content just as much as i have, audio recently.

what inspires and/or drives you?

it's funny, for my whole life i've been told that i can't be creative, because it's not possible to monetize it. and for whatever reason, that notion fuels me, because i've proven time and time and again that you can, it's just a matter of the hustle.

what does being a creator mean to you?

for me, i tend to over deliver, because i believe everything i make is a reflection upon myself. so if i were to put bad work out (“bad” being relative to my thought process), then that's a reflection of me. being a creator is the ability to manifest or synthesize things that are yours that you're influenced by, like circumstantially and by individuals.

how did you feel about minting on primitives for the first time?

honestly, it was the easiest way to mint. it's true. it’s just so difficult to mint in general. meanwhile, you’re allowing people to drag and drop media and boom. how many do you want? just now i noticed that you added another option to set a value for your mints too? that's dope!

how do you see the future of digital creation and the merging of digital and physical art practices?

it's inevitable? what's happening is that people were once focused on their “niche” but now you (seemingly) need multiple disciplines to stay relevant as a creative in any capacity, whether that be through a team, or you expanding your skill set. and not to mention, you have to have some understanding of branding and marketing yourself. it's a lot. but it's worth it. no one said it was gonna be easy. and it's about to get weird. tech wise.

can you expand on that? what do you imagine the future of digital creation looks like?

i think during covid, people made a choice to either do nothing or to hustle and get in front of the curve. so, for example, i studied a lot during that time and i'm certified as a developer in touch design. and that program allows for pretty much anything motion driven to be done. literally, you can do anything without scripting lines of code, it's node based. so you can control drones and sensors, the sky's the limit — it's daunting, profound, and terrifying. but it's what's coming next.

want to own one of jeremy’s moments? head over to his portfolio on primitives and request a few to add to your collection.

hold your calendars: on may 4th, we’re presenting seen, our first exhibit showcasing the works from five nyc-based artists within the primitives community. seen will celebrate creativity, community, and emerging technology among our diverse creators.

featured artists will include: billie fabrikant, Lv<^, yekaterina gyadu, alex mamorsky, and zachary s. laine. each creator’s unique style is connected by their interest in blurring the boundaries between physical and digital art creation and curation. this event will also mark the launch of an accompanying online digital exhibit on primitives. we’ll have original pieces and moments available for purchase as well.

what else has been on our minds? ice spice at it again, compression, a viable twitter alternative (?!), and music to work to.