FINAL EDIT: We are now organizing in this thread: https://slrpnk.net/post/40411722

EDIT 2: There’s apparently a page on Canvas where teams can propose where their template will be on the canvas, which may help ‘reserve’ a spot for us.

EDIT: Now is the time to propose your templates! Pixelorama is a great free pixel art tool to use for it. Try to get your proposal in by July 16th so we can decide which to do! :)

The Canvas event is the Fediverse’s take on r/place, I.E, a collaborative artwork where every participant can place down a single pixel every 30 seconds.

This limitation means the only way to assemble a larger piece of art is for people to come together in groups to collectively decide what they’ll be drawing (usually with a pixel art template someone proposes), where it will be on the canvas, and communicate with other groups working on neighboring artworks so as not to impede their efforts, or even to negotiate mutual aid treaties to help maintain each other’s art from potential hit-and-run attacks.

SLRPNK participated in 2024’s Canvas event, which @Five@slrpnk.net documented in one of our previous Monthly Meta’s. There’s also a fun timelapse from last year’s Canvas event here.

If there are any Solarpunks interested in participating this year, this thread might be a good place to organize and collaborate :)

The Canvas Event will take place at this link On July 18th 04:00 UTC, and run for 48 hours. Here is their official post about it for more details.

  • terradragon@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    It looks much neater now. Thanks for the touch up. I’m happy to hear that you liked the idea, though I think one drawback would be that if someone sees it on the canvas, they wouldn’t know it’s from slrpnk. So probably not the best for publicity.

    Maybe we can wait a little bit for others to give their opinions

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      3·
      16 hours ago

      That is true… Perhaps there’s a way we could manage both?

      My template is fairly small, and much of it is empty space, which means we should be able to complete it fairly quickly. We could then begin assembling your design near it, and I think I might be able to ‘claim’ space on the canvas template image for both.

      If we begin to run out of time, we could leave the banner parts uncolored, meaning we’d only have to draw the banner outline, letters, and flower, which would cut down the number of required pixels quite a bit.

      Edit: Also, tried messing around with the colors of the banner, in case we do have time to fill them

      • terradragon@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        16 hours ago

        Super! Now the banners look more on-brand lol. Great work. It would be nice to have milestone-based series of these templates. Like what are the first 20% of tiles to place. The next 20%. And so on. Itll help us sort of claim a spot early on if we only focus on an outline first. I wouldve done that part but its super late right now.

        • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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          14 hours ago

          It would be nice to have milestone-based series of these templates. Like what are the first 20% of tiles to place. The next 20%. And so on.

          That’s a good idea, I’ll see about working on that.

          I made a team account on the Canvas pre-planning template and added our templates to a blank spot that no one else has claimed yet (I can also still edit them or move them around).

          https://chocolatecakecodes.goip.de/cotemplate/ui/template/20260520-Canvas26_main

          Now that we’re closing in on the opening and we’re pretty well decided on what we’re drawing, I’ll likely create a new thread for us to collaborate from, describing how to start and hopefully with a couple step-by-step 20% templates too.

          There’s also a Matrix chat that canvas created for teams to organize with each other and collaborate on, but I’m not sure how many of us have Matrix accounts, since we mostly use XMPP.

          I was thinking that perhaps it would be best to move closer to the Pawb.social templates, as I suspect we could rely on them for help somewhat in a mutual aid pact, since we’re both lemmy instances. Thoughts?

          Also @tburkhol@slrpnk.net.

          EDIT: I think I’ve successfully negotiated a spot above the Pawb.social and yiffit.net logos, since they were active on the matrix group. They were really chill about it, and I think it’ll be greatly beneficial to have allies near us that are cool with us being there, are easy to contact, and may even help us out (and if we have the spare pixels, we can offer them mutual aid as well).

    • tburkhol@slrpnk.net
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      18 hours ago

      Could put ProdigalFrog’s SLRPNK/logo in the center, vs sunflower? Lay the whole thing on Vegafjord’s flag, just to tie in everyone who’s put an image out there.

      Either way, somebody should make a team & let the rest of us know where to start. Plus maybe a new sticky with the final details.