Founder of @artblocks_io. Creator of the Squiggle. Art + Blockchains keep me busy. Shoutout to @larvalabs for lighting the fuse.
Houston, Texas, USA
Joined July 2017
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LIFT (together) with @ArtOnBlockchain, a running leaderboard
location: @glitchmarfa
city/state: Marfa, TX
date: October 22, 2026
current world fastest LIFT: @Dalos - 1.18 seconds
zombies: 4
racers: 5
normal: 229
editions: ultraviolet (1), gold (2), ice (3), radioactive (3), polished chrome (3), ember (6), black chrome (6), standard (214)
Many of y’all helped me lift the rock last year with the original LIFT (a self portrait) release and then again during @artblocks_io Marfa Weekend at the wonderful exhibition that @glitchmarfa put on to celebrate the project.
Tonight we are debuting LIFT (together), a 1/1 interactive self replicating artwork that invites you to generate a character, compete to see who can lift the rock the fastest, and permanently live inside an ever evolving artwork celebrating collective human perseverance (and sometimes defeat).
Excited for y’all to give it a whirl. The goal is that this artwork travels to give new audiences an opportunity to experience my work and also digital/generative/blockchain art in a way that feels intuitive and participatory.
Thank you again for being a part of this and grateful to the entire glitch team all the wonderful humans involved in bringing this experience to life.
roughly two years ago
@artonblockchain shared an idea with me for an onchain generative artwork
it was titled:
LIFT (a self portrait)
the collection was deployed on @ethereum in august 2025
powered by @artblocks_io contracts
LIFT (a self portrait) consisted of 1,000 procedurally generated, fully onchain artworks and video games, each playable through a Game Boy Advance emulator or physical cartridge
at the center of each game
was a character called 'pixel man'
a procedurally generated self-portrait of snowfro
who was asked to lift a heavy boulder with the assistance of his onchain friends, while overcoming obstacles and opposing forces
over 300+ artists and friends of @artonblockchain were invited to create onchain pixel supporters for the project, which populate across all the 1,000 unique artworks
importantly
the network snowfro built around LIFT (a self portrait) was always meant to be a starting point
the beginning
snowfro had a much larger network he wanted to build
designed around the second chapter of his LIFT universe
tonight in marfa TX
our team at @glitchmarfa is honored to present snowfro's second chapter
in partnership with @LACMA and sponsored by @Fountainxyz
the new collection is called LIFT (together)
LIFT (together) is an interactive artwork and system designed by Snowfro combining a physical pedestal, offchain software, the @ethereum blockchain, and a global competition
the system invites anyone to walk up to the pedestal
design their very own pixel supporter
engage in a game of speed
and help lift snowfro’s rock
upon completion
the system generates a 1/1/x onchain exhibition poster on @ethereum
each onchain poster is also unique artwork, incorporating your designed pixel character, procedurally generated assets, and elements using @ethereum entropy
a small number of artworks in the collection may also find *rare* and *very rare* artwork attributes
each exhibition poster is also a record of location, printed on each artwork
over the next decade
the LIFT (together) pedestal will travel across the world
allowing collectors across different geographies and institutions
to join snowfro’s onchain network
and tonight, the journey begins in marfa, TX
join us at @glitchmarfa ❤️
gm
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Ed Catmull then pioneered texture mapping and the z-buffer, co-founded Pixar, ran Pixar and Disney Animation, and shared a Turing Award. The same mind behind Toy Story is behind the curve in your Squiggle.
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Lots of creative coders out there make incredibly compact algorithms that produce visually stunning outputs. I thought this would be a fun way to physically share a full algorithm versus the output itself. Hope to see other folks make and share some cool stuff this way.
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Anyways I created the Squiggle in 2018 as a proof of concept of the variability that can be achieved via blockchain generated/derived entropy. But after spending years fiddling with it, it started to stand out as a recognizable unique and easily identifiable mark. Never could have imagined it would have become what it is today but grateful for all of the folks that have supported the Squiggle and my work over the years.
Now Meta, one of the world’s largest companies, is using something incredibly similar, and it validates that moment around 2020 when I decided to lean into the Squiggle and its near infinite variations as an artistic release, becoming my signature as an artist and technologist. Since then many have used Squiggles as their logos, email signatures, embroidered on clothing, profile pics, products, stickers, and even tattooed them on their body (!!) not to mention collected by thousands of people and at last count 12 museums around the world. Grateful they’re still part of the conversation after so many years. And here’s to many more.
And yeah Catmull-Rom FTW 🙌.
It was named for Edwin Catmull and Raphael Rom, who described it in 1974 in "A Class of Local Interpolating Splines." At the time, the University of Utah was basically where computer graphics was being invented.
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Im getting tagged a bunch that Meta's new Muse logo looks like a Squiggle 🙌. First time I saw it I thought it was @benroy posting too lol. The algo can draw nearly the same shape so I thought I’d share a little history on the process that the Squiggle curves are built on…
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You can try them yourself by replacing the token hash on the live view of any Squiggle
squiggle.snowfro.com/?hash=0…
squiggle.snowfro.com/?hash=0…
Thanks @petehalvorsen and @bensicard for the ping 🙌.
I ordered a @Pebble Time 2 watch in the spring because it is totally open source and has a super long battery life and finally got it in last week so naturally I made a Squiggle watch face for it.
You can find it under "Squiggles" in the Pebble app store.
Artists I encourage you take a look and see what you can build on there there as well. I know it isn't novel to be able to make watch faces but the level of granular control you have is quite refreshing plus it's an opportunity to share your work with a new audience.
Anyways just search "Squiggles" in the Pebble app/watchface store to install on your device.
cc: @squiggleDAO @artblocks_io
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