Nullish: Event Horizon and the Nullish Passport
Nullish rebuilt Jean-Pierre Luminet's hand-drawn 1978 black hole in p5.js for Event Horizon, 1,000 audiovisual pieces on block 9 sats.
Nullish's latest Bitcoin project starts from an image made in 1978. Event Horizon is a 1,000-piece audiovisual collection inspired by Jean-Pierre Luminet's black hole simulation, which Luminet calculated with punch cards and an IBM computer and then rendered by hand, dot by dot, in black ink. Nullish rebuilds that process in p5.js, tracing light around a dark gravitational shadow point by point, and every piece is inscribed on block 9 sats.
Each piece also works like a small instrument. A built-in menu exports high-resolution stills, switches the sound on and off and toggles between screen-fill and square views, while the seed assigns one of six generative soundtracks, each layered from a single synth. The collection went live on his own launchpad on July 23 and sold out the next day.
Since then his attention has turned to the people holding the work. The Nullish Passport, announced on August 4, links a collector's Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets into one account, reads Bitcoin holdings from his own node and ord index, and lets each holder pick a single claim wallet. It only ever asks for signed messages, never transactions.
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