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Mad Bitcoins · 9,481 pieces · Aug 2022 – Mar 2025
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The Essays

Eleven collection essays, six cross-collection readings. Each essay is paired with its gallery.

Collection essays

One per named collection

Collection · 700 images

A Raccoon Bestiary

Samurai, speedracer, breakfast — the recurring raccoon as Mad Bitcoins' self-portrait.

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Collection · 371 images

Down the Rabbit Hole

Lewis Carroll, filtered through Bitcoin: white rabbits, mad hatters, fly goggles, pocketwatches.

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Collection · 244 images

The Bond Sequence

James Bond in a top hat and fly goggles, walked through every visual style available.

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Collection · 148 images

Mickey, Inverted

The Disney mascot rebuilt in cyberpunk, tron, techno, and Orwellian palettes.

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Collection · 138 images

Cubist Skylines

Buildings reduced to color planes — blue, pink, yellow, sometimes Gaudí — repeated until they sing.

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Collection · 67 images

The Capitol Burns

American political ruin rendered as postcards, mosaics, and propaganda.

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Collection · 94 images

Imagined Battles

Captain America fighting Yodas, Wookies smurfed, every franchise crossed against every other.

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Collection · 83 images

Iron Bulls & War Robots

Mechanical bulls, war-helmet robots, and the iconography of force.

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Collection · 138 images

Evolutionary Diagrams

Line-drawn taxonomies — the look of a 19th-century natural-history plate, generated 100+ times.

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Collection · 40 images

The Howard Stern Mythos

Stern as Doctor Doom, as Spider-Man, in the air with mini-discs — a private pantheon.

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Collection · 43 images

Satan Smoking Weed

A single irreverent figure run through Monet, Soviet propaganda, and card-game tableaux.

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Cross-collection essays

Readings across the whole archive

Cross-collection · essay

What These Images Are About

The dominant obsession revealed in 9,481 prompts is not what the table of contents announces.

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Cross-collection · essay

Threads That Run Through Everything

Fly goggles. Top hats. Samurai armor. The neon under-light. The moon as stage.

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Cross-collection · essay

Where Collections Diverge

Two cycles next to each other reveal what each refuses that the other accepts.

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Cross-collection · essay

A Film Theorist's Reading

Square framing, German Expressionist lighting, no chase scenes. The archive as a director's reel.

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Cross-collection · essay

A Painter's Eye

Hopper, Klimt, Posada, the calavera tradition. Where art history sits underneath the work.

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Cross-collection · essay

A Sociologist's Reading

What 9,481 prompts reveal about American Bitcoin culture, generation, and gender pattern.

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