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Hey, it's me: Castelli. I'm a digital fashion designer creating narratives for a safer digital world.

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Hey Guys, It´s been a while and I just immersed myself in the past few days into coding and learning effects inside P5.js to upgrade the digital looks I made for my project ''An Almost Finisehd Dance''. Finally came up with an effect that mimic the crochet technique IRL with lines basically weaving and interlinking each other to the final product: a crochet clown look that resonates and represents a lot of my childhood moments with my grandma, like painting in the quiet living room while she was doing crochet pieces. Tell me what you think 🙃
Shades ''666'' made for the final piece ''An Almost Finished Dance'' showcased at New Codes hosted by @lens/verticalcrypto and @lens/pronounceddrop. It´s been already one week since we exhibited and already missing the residency classes. I used to wear sunnies when I was a little to take photos of me smiling and painting/drawing cause I tought that was artists was supposed to do 😂 but little did I know I would be much more in love creating digital accessories. workflow: shades sculpted in Blender, flower print painted with Geo Nodes by Nenghuo, shading in two tones (icy blue and flame orange), AR filter with Lens Studio, importing shades as OBJ and working with facial tracking mask + shaders.
A week ago today we hosted our Digital Fashion Showcase of VERTICAL RESIDENCY and @lens/pronounceddrop at NEW CODES event at the Royal Institution in London The works of our residents were showcased in one of the most historic buildings in London, and showcased some of the works in holographic projections powered by MAD GLOBAL. 23 final works from our exceptional residents, synthesizing their 8 weeks of intensive training. A special thanks to @lens/lensprotocol for the partnership in bringing the first DFR to life! Some snaps of the event ↡
Two days of a very beautiful exhibition at The Royal Institution at Mayfair with New acodes, MAD Global hosted by @verticalcrypto.lens.lens x @pronounceddrop.lens.lens showcasing the final work of the residents and followed by its auctioning - starting today at 6PM UTC. 🩰 An Almost Finished Dance 🩰 An infinite 3D dance between mental health state and creative process. A continuous cycle of repetitions, immediate relief, pleasure, and compulsions that are trigerred by intrusive thoughts even in beautiful things like ballet causing us to reflect while counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 mentally in a choreo. Bringing themes like OCD, mental health and our complex creative minds reflected in am URL environment. A personal life experience that I share now. With you. 🩸THANK U @verticalcrypto and @pronounceddrop for this opportunity that forever changed my brain chemistry. For real. Also big thanks to the mentors and my fellow residents that showed how this community supports each other.
Explorations of the harmony between digital clothes and nature through storytelling for the final project of the @verticalcrypto.lens x @pronounceddrop.lens residency. Can we utilize digital clothes as a grounding force, instead of a disconnecting one in this digital era? We will find out soon. 🌱
Where Gen Art and Digital Fashion collide… Bringing the puzzle pieces together from our two months together has been challenging but exciting. Using my new found love for GenArt that is still very much like a two-year-olds finger painting as a light source, I added an underwater like feel to my 3D digital fashion piece. The final animation will be on display at the New Codes Digital Fashion Summit in Mayfair London 30-31 October 2023 As part of the @verticalcrypto.lens x @pronounceddrop.lens Digital Fashion Residency Exhibition🫧 A WIP 2Matic
Confronting Habitat - All about the contrast Snippet from my work in progress for the Digital Fashion Residency upcoming showcase this october 30-31 by @verticalcrypto.lens x @pronounceddrop.lens 💫
Excited to share a behind-the-scenes WIP of my final project for the VERTICAL x DRAUP Digital Fashion Showcase! I used MidJourney as a starting point for my project, generating images based on conceptual visuals I imagined for visual reference in my design process. Here is just one 🪲 Thank you @pronounceddrop.lens and @verticalcrypto.lens for all the effort put into this showcase and residency as a whole🩸It has been an incredible past six weeks and I am beyond grateful to have had this opportunity. And thank you to my fellow residents for the kindness, laughs and support throughout these last few weeks. If you plan to be in London October 30-31st, you can check out our exhibition IRL at the New Codes Digital Fashion Summit. Will continue sharing process from this project every day leading up to the Digital Fashion Residency exhibition. Looking forward to the final reveal! 🪲
Hi everyone, Following up on my last post, I’d like to share this second work in progress with you. A glimpse of my upcoming work for the final Verticalcrypto Art X Draup Residency. Thanks to one of my great mentors @bassil.lens_taleb Free Follow to collect
WIP for the upcoming exhibition in London, Digital Fashion Residency Program hosted by @verticalcrypto.lens with @pronounceddrop.lens A dance of an infinite cycle between compulsions and repetitions that causes imediate reflief and are triggered by intrusive toughts even in beautiful things like ballet. Choreo an self discover in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Counting together, with you.
***Our @lenster.lens takeover is back in partnership with @pronounceddrop.lens !!*** *Ahead of our Digital Fashion Residency Showcase next week, our residents will be posting WIPs and previews of their works!* **When? Wednesday 25th October (tomorrow)** **From 9am to 12pm EST** You'll be able to collect the posts directly from here and have a sneak peak of what to expect next week! We can't wait to show you what our residents have been working on!
GM! A week from now we will be presenting **The Digital Fashion Showcase** during New Codes Digital Fashion Summit in London The Digital Fashion Showcase will feature the works of our resident artists from the VERTICAL RESIDENCY x @pronounceddrop.lens Digital Fashion Program For the first time, we will be exhibiting the work of the residents IRL *on the 30-31 October 2023 at the Royal Institution in London’s Mayfair district.* Alongside the showcase, this two days event has a full line up of talks and panels with some great speakers across fashion, art and tech. We have a referral code for 2 day tickets which grants you 50% off the original price! Link to the referral ticket: https://codes.fashion/ @lensprotocol
GM digi friends! Step on me 👡🩸collectible heels dropping a closer look to the Rubber (wo)men avatar killer heels with her form and shape sculpted in Blender. It brings our relation to self-sabotage during our creative process and how we cope with it trying to hold ourselves together. Hope everyone is doing good and don’t be too harsh on yourself 🫰🏻
Work-In-Progress Collectible Up until around 2006, Goyard hand painted their patterns on the Goyardine canvas. Although this pattern is equally as good, or better, now with machine printing - we find value in hand made things. Does this apply to code as well? In this work-in-progress, I am exploring the value of hand-coded digital fashion. This could be made in AI, and this could be coded with AI. But it isn't. It's hand-coded. 1 MATIC Follow to collect Limited edition: 20 Part of my explorations during @verticalcrypto.lens @pronounceddrop.lens residency
Introducing my latest digital collectible and first post on lens! A fusion of AI-generated art, crafted and upgraded in CLO 3D and meticulously edited in Photoshop. This chrome-textured bag, adorned with my brand's logo is Inspired by the limitless possibilities of technology and the digital craft, this digital bag reflects the convergence of physical and digital realities. @pronounceddrop x @verticalcrypto Residency Follow to collect ♥ Limited Edition - 5 Matic @lensprotocol 7th Cohort
I just minted https://lenster.xyz/u/addai_davis.lens #lens #genesispost The Chronicles of A Bola (Waste) Girl Since 2015, I have refrained from purchasing new clothing, instead focusing on crafting, upcycling, and mending my garments to address concerns about clothing waste. My commitment to sustainability was reinforced during a research trip to landfills in Ghana. While at the Royal College of Art doing a masters in footwear, I developed an innovative concept centred on waste dictating design. My goal is to create purposeful fashion items with minimal reliance on new materials or, in some cases, using digital counterparts instead. Presently, I am deeply engaged in exploring the demodulation of footwear and accessories, employing data analysis to understand consumer behaviour. I also harness immersive technologies and AI for digital designs and prototyping. My artistic inspiration stems from the heroic narrative of Yaa Asantewaa, an 18th-century Ghanaian warrior who resisted colonialism. I channel her spirit into combating waste colonialism. My core philosophy revolves around beautifying waste, transforming it into coveted commodities. My proficiency in immersive technologies, AI, and world-building empowers me to push the boundaries for a more sustainable fashion future.
Hi everyone! Excited to be here, and to share my first collectible post with you. This is a work in Progress, that was inspired by one of our awesome first classes with @JamesMack.lens. Done in Clo3D, Midjourney and Runway… will evolve and more to come… Thanks to @verticalcrypto.lens X @pronounceddrop.lens #process and my fellow residents! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Free Follow to collect
Hey friends, it’s already October and I’m getting ready to be digitally spooked 👻 I love watching horror movies as a way to experience adrenaline and immediate relief through the soundtracking, textured elements and colorgrading (specially red and black). I have always experience arts in a different way because of sensory sensitivities and compulsions/repetitions that are triggered because of my OCD, so I decided to merge cinema and fashion inside of a very personal project that shows vulnerability but at the same time it’s relatable. It’s week 5 of @verticalcrypto.lens x @pronounceddrop.lens and I’m so inspired by the classes, new techniques and my fellow classmates that are doing wonders to shape my vision sharp like a knife 🔪 Here you can see on of the avatars and digital look that I created for this project that it’s a delicious fashionable nightmare 🩸 so you can collect while following my journey. Hope you enjoy and feel free to drop in the comments feedbacks and “what’s you favorite scary movie”
hello frens, fellow residents, virtual fashion ppl and all, happy tuesday 🧸 #digisapiens collection that I'm cooking now is progressing quite well, designed more than 60 avatars by now, since the kickstart of the @verticalcrypto.lens x @pronounceddrop.lens residency, in the last 4 weeks, had the chance to listen and engage with so inspiring minds via classes, and the body of the avatars is shaped in that direction, I'm sharing one of the VRM avatars visual as a collectible for my followers for free, for 5 days🫵🏼 it's 22th fit, designed in CLO, thanks to all the lectures but especially @janeomukoro.lens to help in her spare time, I'm downloaded the software 4 weeks ago, trial is almost ended lol hope you enjoy that, and any notes you want to drop as a comment is quite appreciated as feedback all the other 3D beings that we designed at DFW in last two years could be seen at www.d--f--w.com/fashion #vrm #avatar #digitalforgeryworkshop cheers🫠💖
Celestia- the origin Exploring the origin story of "celestia" a digital identity A work in progress into my project, an intro to the final project that I would be presenting for @verticalcrypto.lens x @pronounceddrop.lens residency. -1 MATIC -follow to collect @lensprotocol.lens @bradorbradley.lens
GM! A new weeks means a new exciting schedule at the Digital Fashion Residency w/ @pronounceddrop.lens A reminder that all our content is recorded and made available on our YouTube channel for anyone to have access to! Who's ready?
hi there 🥸 trying to take a deeper dive into Lens after @verticalcrypto.lens @pronounceddrop.lens class with @bradorbradley.lens Excited to see this dinamic. I'm a digital fashion designer that explores digital identities focused on women, queer and immigrant people trying to built safer narratives in this crazy realm. Follow me to collect this piece I created to celebrate older women and how they influences us with independence, autonomy, wisdom and abundant tear drops of joy.
Meet our Digital Fashion Residents of our 7th Cohort in collaboration with @pronounceddrop.lens Kay Akiko @kayakiko.lens is a Digital Fashion Artist based in Japan. She is a graduate of Bunka Fashion College Specialising in Houte Couture. Her skill set ranges from Adobe Suite, Marvelous Designer/Clo3d, Lens Studio and Substance Painter. Welcome to the 7th cohort!
GM! We're starting Week 3 of the Digital Fashion Residency program Find our schedule for the week below with classes by @bradorbradley.lens, Fil from VERTICAl and more great mentors! A reminder that all our content is recorded and made available on our YouTube channel for anyone to have access to! Let's go 🌩️
**We’ve launched the Digital Fashion x** @orbapp.lens **community in collaboration** @lensprotocol We are sharing educational content, discovering artists working in the field, collaborating, and staying inspired Whether you’re a designer, artist, collector or just curious make sure you download Orb and join our community! https://orb.ac/community/64f84261e47dd665573e036d