MadArt — The Midjourney Experiments
Eighteen months of generative work by Mad Bitcoins, organized into eleven named collections with critical essays, plus six cross-collection readings that look across the whole archive of 9,481 images.
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Eleven themes Thomas could not stop returning to
Each collection groups images sharing a clear subject and runs at least forty deep. Click through for the essay and the curated gallery.
A Raccoon Bestiary
Samurai, speedracer, breakfast — the recurring raccoon as Mad Bitcoins' self-portrait.
Down the Rabbit Hole
Lewis Carroll, filtered through Bitcoin: white rabbits, mad hatters, fly goggles, pocketwatches.
The Bond Sequence
James Bond in a top hat and fly goggles, walked through every visual style available.
Mickey, Inverted
The Disney mascot rebuilt in cyberpunk, tron, techno, and Orwellian palettes.
Cubist Skylines
Buildings reduced to color planes — blue, pink, yellow, sometimes Gaudí — repeated until they sing.
The Capitol Burns
American political ruin rendered as postcards, mosaics, and propaganda.
Imagined Battles
Captain America fighting Yodas, Wookies smurfed, every franchise crossed against every other.
Iron Bulls & War Robots
Mechanical bulls, war-helmet robots, and the iconography of force.
Evolutionary Diagrams
Line-drawn taxonomies — the look of a 19th-century natural-history plate, generated 100+ times.
The Howard Stern Mythos
Stern as Doctor Doom, as Spider-Man, in the air with mini-discs — a private pantheon.
Satan Smoking Weed
A single irreverent figure run through Monet, Soviet propaganda, and card-game tableaux.
A random walk across the collections
Twenty images, redrawn at random on every page load — click any one to read its collection essay.
Reading the archive as a whole
What 9,481 prompts have in common, where the collections diverge, and three critical readings from distinct perspectives — film theory, painting, sociology.
What These Images Are About
The dominant obsession revealed in 9,481 prompts is not what the table of contents announces.
Read full essay →Threads That Run Through Everything
Fly goggles. Top hats. Samurai armor. The neon under-light. The moon as stage.
Read full essay →Where Collections Diverge
Two cycles next to each other reveal what each refuses that the other accepts.
Read full essay →A Film Theorist's Reading
Square framing, German Expressionist lighting, no chase scenes. The archive as a director's reel.
Read full essay →A Painter's Eye
Hopper, Klimt, Posada, the calavera tradition. Where art history sits underneath the work.
Read full essay →A Sociologist's Reading
What 9,481 prompts reveal about American Bitcoin culture, generation, and gender pattern.
Read full essay →The full archive
All 9,481 images, including the 7,415 that did not cluster into a named collection. Browse if you want to wander.
Browse the full archive →