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nft.aesthetic.computer #

Canonical portal for Jeffrey Scudder's NFT record across Ethereum, Tezos, Bitcoin, and Base. Two audiences: collectors (history, provenance, live holder view) and the papers research stack (stable JSON endpoints that papers.aesthetic.computer platters can cite).

Information architecture: CREATED (works Jeffrey / Whistlegraph made) and COLLECTED (works by others held in the studio wallets), plus a network view of wallets holding across collections.

Static site — index.html fetches everything at runtime from ./data/. No build step, no external JS. Styling follows the papers.aesthetic.computer conventions (same tokens, Berkeley Mono / YWFT Processing via the aesthetic.computer webfont CSS, shared papers-theme light/dark override).

Data contract (platter interface) #

The files under data/ are stable endpoints. Papers and platters cite them by URL; do not rename or restructure without versioning.

  • data/catalog.json — { generated, snapshotNote, artist, wallets, verifiedAbsent, created, collected, external }.
    • created[]: { id, name, chain, standard, contract, secondaryContract?, mintContracts?, year, supply, status, notes, links, dataFile }; status ∈ released | returning | planned | to-document.
    • collected: { caveat, wallets: [{ name, addr, items: [{ name, qty, contract?, group? }], note? }] } — point-in-time net-balance reading of Etherscan history (2026-08-31); partial history, verify before citing quantities.
    • external[]: same shape as created plus role: "external-context" and creator — collections that are not Jeffrey's but explain the network (currently a2p-v2, creator 0x1d05cf…5ad6; its dominant holder 0xa741d850…cfcf also holds a full Ten Whistlegraphs set).
    • verifiedAbsent[]: chains checked and found empty (Solana, both wallets, zero NFT-like tokens, 2026-08-31).
  • data/rdp-holders.json, data/ten-whistlegraphs-holders.json — holder snapshots for created collections; data/a2p-v2-holders.json — external-context holder snapshot. Schema: { totalTokens, holders: [{ addr, editions, self, lastActivity, days }] } — days is days since the wallet's last on-chain activity at snapshot time; self marks artist-controlled wallets.

Card imagery — reliability model #

Every CREATED card with real artwork renders baked local images first (same-origin assets/*.jpg, cannot be blocked); live indexer fetches only upgrade those in place when they succeed. Live <img>s walk an IPFS gateway chain via onerror (ipfs.io → dweb.link → w3s.link → nftstorage.link, verified working 2026-08-31; cloudflare-ipfs.com is dead, 4everland.io stalls) and end the chain at the baked local copy. API fetches get a 12s timeout + one retry.

Root causes found on the live site (2026-08-31):

  1. Feral File API 403s any request carrying an Origin header — every cross-origin browser fetch fails while curl succeeds. Ten Whistlegraphs is therefore static-only (assets/ff-*.jpg, baked from the API's series thumbnailURI + /public server-side).
  2. KidLisp displayUri is interactive HTML, not an image — an <img> pointed at it never renders. The live loader now uses thumbnailUri only.
  3. KT1BoKMQ… is a shared minting contract — without firstMinter=tz1gkf8… the card showed other artists' tokens. The live query now filters.
  4. Single-gateway ipfs.io fragility — now the 4-gateway chain above.

Sources per card:

  • Radical Digital Painting — assets/rdp-painting-*.jpg (DO Spaces CDN via the local rdp.jas.life pages). Live tokenURI blocked while rdp.whistlegraph.com is down (see To document).
  • The Longest Whistlegraph Ever — assets/lwge-title.jpg (Rhizome microsite title card; long.whistlegraph.com is dead).
  • Ten Whistlegraphs — assets/ff-*.jpg, static-only (FF API CORS, above).
  • hic et nunc works — assets/hen-*.jpg baked + live tzkt upgrade (firstMinter + h=n contract; displayUri preferred because h=n thumbnailUri is usually the generic placeholder).
  • KidLisp Keeps — assets/kidlisp-*.jpg ($cow/$mtz/$roz/$berz thumbnails) + live tzkt upgrade (contract.in both mint contracts, firstMinter filtered, thumbnailUri only).
  • Bitcoin Ordinals — no media: verified empty (below).
  • Planned collections — inline SVG placeholders in the palette.
  • Network / collected wallets — deterministic JS identicons; known reverse-ENS wallets (whistlegraph.eth, 4esthetic.eth) try metadata.ens.domains with identicon fallback.

Refreshing snapshots #

cd whistlegraph/codes
ETHERSCAN_API_KEY=... node bin/holders-probe.mjs <erc721-address> > out.json

The key lives in the vault (reference_blockchain_api_keys — encrypted .gpg). The probe defaults to the Ten Whistlegraphs contract; pass any ERC-721 address. After refreshing, update generated and snapshotNote in data/catalog.json.

Going live #

Needs DNS + Caddy for the nft subdomain on lith — follow the "lith DNS recipe" note (tls { protocols } gotcha). Serve this directory as the static root. Do not edit lith's Caddyfile casually; that's a deliberate deploy step, not part of editing this site.

To document #

  • Bitcoin ordinals — the three known ordsies taproot addresses (minter / receiver / test) were checked 2026-08-31 via ordinals.com and blockstream.info: zero inscriptions and zero transaction history ever — the addresses were never funded, so nothing was minted or sent onward from them. If inscriptions exist they live in a wallet not yet identified; find it. (Hiro's Ordinals API is deprecated — HTTP 410; ordinals.com address pages + blockstream.info are the working probes.)
  • screenshots-14 contract — identify and record.
  • Further Tezos contracts — whether anything beyond the two KidLisp mint contracts (KT1EcsqR…, KT1BoKMQ…) and the h=n corpus matters; aesthetic.tez is firstMinter of 222 tokens total.
  • RDP metadata hosting is broken — the on-chain tokenURI for 0x5381f5…64dd points at https://rdp.whistlegraph.com/json/<id>.json, and that hostname no longer resolves (checked 2026-08-31). The metadata
    • images survive (DO Spaces bucket radical-digital-painting, local system/public/rdp.jas.life, Wayback /json/* captures) — re-point DNS or re-host to repair.
  • LWGE metadata hosting is broken — both contracts' tokenURI (0x449dc3…1894 minted ×5, 0x7aa86a…2ccc deployed-unminted) point at https://long.whistlegraph.com/<id>.json, which no longer resolves and has no Wayback captures. The 19 GB media archive exists in Dropbox (Whistlegraph/The Longest Whistlegraph Ever (so far) Media Archive.zip) and the Rhizome microsite is still live — re-host to repair.

Documented since last pass: a2p-v1 (0x3892f7…9716, held ×2–3 by 4esthetic.eth — now in COLLECTED); KidLisp Keeps mint contracts; hic et nunc corpus; LWGE contracts; Solana verified empty.