There’s a fairly limited collection of early gen art NFTs depressed by this bear. The collector play will seem obvious 5 years from now.

Yeah ive come around to accepting this. Was close to pulling the trigger on a Squiggle back in May but didnt (regret it!)

Generative art is flying atm, so gonna wait it out for a bit.

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TBH I think you can pick up pieces from several OG projects for far less than a Squiggle.

Ooh plz share?  The only art blocks i own is Chimera

Ooh boy. I’m shilling NFTs.
Ok I’ll drop a list and some thoughts here later tonight/tomorrow.

There are a few that stand out to me. Some are: Apparitions by Aaron Penne, Para Bellum by Matty Mariansky (<1 floor), Alan Ki Aankhen by Fahad Karim (<1 floor), Primitives by Aranda\Lasch, and Scribbled Boundaries by William Tan (<1 floor).

There are non-AB pieces that I think are worth collecting as well. An example is Petra Cortright's Room.
https://opensea.io/collection/simco-drops-petra-cortright-room
This is an early small collection that has a unique and unmistakable aesthetic.

Terraforms by Mathcastles is a larger collection, but just hits right, IMO.
https://opensea.io/collection/terraforms
First First NFTs are whimsical and by 0xDEAFBEEF.
https://opensea.io/collection/firstproject

FeralFile is much more uneven, but IMO there's some good 2021 FF stuff.
Small collection and a less-polished aesthetic:
https://opensea.io/collection/feral-file-001-social-codes

IMHO the late Herbert W. Franke's small Math Art (1980-1995) collection isn't cheap, but isn't going to be going lower. https://opensea.io/collection/math-art-1980-1995-by-herbert-w-franke

Sorry, busy day.
IMHO any early Art Blocks are worth collecting. The time has passed, and interest is unlikely to wane. Curated has a nice complete collection of the first 8 series:
https://gallery.so/curated/2GUl358yzM6noDRcXcjpjGWUsK3
There are several in these series with a >1 ETH floor.

Agreed. I picked up ACoFC and AKA yesterday.

Trossets (right around 1e), Ancient Course of Fictional Rivers, Alan Ki Aankhen are some of my personal favs. If you can stretch a little higher, Edifice is a beautiful collection.

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Thanks! IMO Paper Armada is more successful. It sticks with you. You remember it. You can recognize it. Pieces of Me is organic and attractive, but can get lost in the shuffle. PoM is a very small collection, though, so I grabbed one.
MA was one of the first banner-optimized aspect ratio NFTs. I plain like them.

You have a great collection. I see a few affordable Art Blocks collections in there. What‘s your opinion of Paper Armada and Pieces of Me? I also like the look (and price) of Mechanized Abstractions.

Hehe thanks.  And ofc we all know NFA (or everyone should know!)