# NimTeens by Bryan Brinkman

## The work and its context

NimTeens is project 408 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug nimteens-by-bryan-brinkman and credited to Bryan Brinkman. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 400 of 400 invocations, runtime js@n/a, and the official description: A collection of on-chain, generative cumulonimbus teenagers, ready for their class photo. A fun follow-up to NimBuds (Art Blocks Project #10).   Created using vanilla javascript, each unique NimTeen features random hair, colors, eyes, mouths, acne, bodies,backdrops and more. Each with its own personality. [^S01][^S02]

Those figures are current index observations retrieved on 2026-09-19, not a reconstruction of the original public sale announcement. Atlas position is a catalogue ordinal and is not the on-chain project ID. The live collection page and the Hasura projects_metadata row agree on title, slug, contract, and project ID after a filtered query that used the exact slug. [^S01][^S02]

Contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069. Aspect ratio indexed as 1.0. Website http://www.nimteens.com.

This essay treats the stored artist program, four independently identified outputs, and a freshly checked AB5D holding (or an explicit collection gap) as primary evidence. Metadata traits are cited only when they were returned for the same V2 contract token IDs that were visually inspected. They do not replace looking at the pictures. [^S04][^S09]

## Conception and development

The official project description is the development account used here. Interview or dossier sentences that name a different slug are not treated as statements about this series. A collection of on-chain, generative cumulonimbus teenagers, ready for their class photo. A fun follow-up to NimBuds (Art Blocks Project #10).   Created using vanilla javascript, each unique NimTeen features random hair, colors, eyes, mouths, acne, bodies,backdrops and more. Each with its own personality.

The development account used here is the specific source named in the citations, not a paraphrase of an artist-dossier page. Where that account is an official project description written in the artist's voice, that limit is stated rather than upgraded into an unpublished studio diary. Where an interview exists, the sentences that actually name NimTeens are the ones relied on. [^S07][^S01]

Secondary pages that only repeat the marketplace listing are not treated as independent conception sources. [^S02][^S07]

## How the work was constructed

The complete artist program for slug nimteens-by-bryan-brinkman was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 49283 bytes with SHA-256 3215a3c59fb5e75f8ecb3e25ace1cb7cc7bde452bd168efa906cfac585815ec3. Runtime on the project record is js@n/a. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. [^S03]

The stored generator is 49283 bytes, SHA-256 3215a3c59fb5e75f8ecb3e25ace1cb7cc7bde452bd168efa906cfac585815ec3, runtime js@n/a. Detected source markers: draw, tokenData, hash. Named functions include addBG, addBlob, addBlush, addBrinkBG, addBrow, addCanvas, addClassicBG, addCloud, addComb, addCurtainBG. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 196,146,94). File size 2658075 bytes. Indexed features: Emo False; Tie none; Bald False; Wink False; Frames False; Pimples 16; Backdrop Fractal; Eyelashes False

Visual claims come from inspected media-proxy PNGs plus indexed token features.

Seed handling is visible in the retrieved program: tokenData.hash is read in source. Time and interaction behaviour in code is: Loop behaviour inferred only from source keywords. The inspected PNG is a static frame. A handler found in source is not the same thing as a control that was pressed in a live renderer during this session; tested controls are listed only when an actual key or pointer action was performed. [^S03][^S10]

External dependencies are those declared by script_type_and_version plus any library identifiers inside the file. Public visibility of the stored script does not grant a right to redistribute the raw artist source in this package, so the analysis cites functions and byte length rather than reprinting the program. [^S03][^S06]

## The mint

Indexed chronology for project 408 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2023-01-06T16:38:35+00:00. activated_at is 2023-01-06T20:33:11+00:00. start_datetime is 2023-01-13T18:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2023-01-13T18:24:35+00:00. Invocations stand at 400 of a maximum 400, with complete=true on the retrieved row. [^S02][^S04]

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 3.91 hours; activation to start_datetime is 6.89 days; start_datetime to completion is 24.6 minutes; first mint to completion is 7.07 days. These are differences of indexed clock fields, not a claim about when a web storefront button became visible to every collector. A first mint that precedes start_datetime is treated as an early or reserved mint unless a separate allocation record is produced. [^S02][^S04]

Indexed clocks: first 2023-01-06T16:38:35+00:00, activated 2023-01-06T20:33:11+00:00, start 2023-01-13T18:00:00+00:00, completed 2023-01-13T18:24:35+00:00. Early first-mint timestamps are not labelled reserved without a separate allocation record.

Historic per-token ETH prices for the original public sale were not recovered from a primary price table during this session and remain unresolved. Any floor price visible on a marketplace page in 2026 is a current listing observation, not the 2021 ask. [^S01][^S02]

## Copyright and licensing

The project record stores the artwork licence label 'NFT License 2.0'. That label is not a Creative Commons version string and is recorded as a custom or unknown artwork term. Code rights for the artist program are not separately labelled on the same field; they are treated as unknown rather than assumed identical to the artwork deed. [^S02][^S06]

Artwork label copied exactly as 'NFT License 2.0'.

Third-party runtime js@n/a is a separate rights object from both the artwork outputs and the artist source. p5.js, three.js, and ordinary browser JavaScript each keep their own licence texts. This package does not redistribute those libraries. [^S03][^S06]

Original essay prose in this package is dedicated CC0-1.0 by the research operator. That dedication does not change the artwork, code, or dependency licences.

## Close reading of examples

NimTeens #0 is token 408000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-01-06T16:38:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 196,146,94). File size 2658075 bytes. Indexed features: Emo False; Tie none; Bald False; Wink False; Frames False; Pimples 16; Backdrop Fractal; Eyelashes False Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Emo False; Tie none; Bald False; Wink False; Frames False; Pimples 16; Backdrop Fractal; Eyelashes False.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

NimTeens #1 is token 408000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-01-12T17:00:59+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 202,180,110). File size 2292032 bytes. Indexed features: Emo False; Tie none; Bald False; Wink False; Frames False; Backdrop Brinkman; Eyelashes False; Blink Rate 14.2 seconds Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Emo False; Tie none; Bald False; Wink False; Frames False; Backdrop Brinkman; Eyelashes False; Blink Rate 14.2 seconds.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

NimTeens #10 is token 408000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-01-12T17:01:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 122,191,168). File size 2519181 bytes. Indexed features: Emo False; Tie bow; Bald False; Wink False; Hands Point Up Back; Marks <\3; Frames False; Eyebrow True Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Emo False; Tie bow; Bald False; Wink False; Hands Point Up Back; Marks <\3; Frames False; Eyebrow True.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

NimTeens #20 is token 408000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2023-01-12T17:04:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 89,153,167). File size 2816068 bytes. Indexed features: Emo False; Tie none; Bald False; Wink False; Frames False; Pimples 4; Backdrop Fractal; Eyelashes True Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Emo False; Tie none; Bald False; Wink False; Frames False; Pimples 4; Backdrop Fractal; Eyelashes True.  [^S04][^S05][^S09]

The AB5D header candidate is token 408000024 (edition 24), currently indexed to 0xdd19308a9731cdecb67e0d80ca6823394208c045, which is one of the three linked addresses returned for username ab5d on 2026-09-19. That ownership match is a present-tense index observation, not proof of continuous custody since mint. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 2400x2400px, mid-tone and strongly coloured (mean RGB 119,190,197). File size 2126795 bytes. Indexed features: Emo False; Tie none; Bald True; Wink False; Frames True; Eyebrow True; Pimples 1; Backdrop Lasers [^S08][^S04][^S09]

Motion, interaction, and audio: Loop behaviour inferred only from source keywords. The inspected PNG is a static frame. The static PNGs document halt or preview states. They are not by themselves proof that a live loop is still running, nor proof that a work is silent. No soundtrack was heard from these pages during this session. [^S09][^S10][^S03]

## Significance and limitations

NimTeens is project 408 by Bryan Brinkman on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069. The close readings above are the evidence for what the stored program outputs.

Unresolved research questions that remain after this pass: (1) What was the exact public-sale unit price in ETH at start_datetime, supported by a contemporaneous primary source rather than a later floor? (2) For tokens whose live renderer was not stopwatch-timed, what is the measured wall-clock period of one full cycle or one completed progressive draw? (3) What contemporaneous primary source records the original public unit price in ETH? (4) Incomplete Control aside, do any of the three current AB5D wallets later acquire or dispose of the header token used above after 2026-09-19? [^S02][^S08][^S10]

This package is a draft for human review. Structural validation tests file shape, not the truth of seeing or of licence interpretation.

[^S01]: Art Blocks. [NimTeens by Bryan Brinkman collection page](https://www.artblocks.io/collection/nimteens-by-bryan-brinkman). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S02]: Art Blocks Hasura index. [projects_metadata record for nimteens-by-bryan-brinkman](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S03]: Bryan Brinkman. [NimTeens on-chain artist program](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S04]: Art Blocks Hasura index. [tokens_metadata for sampled NimTeens token IDs](https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S05]: Art Blocks. [Canonical token pages for sampled NimTeens outputs](https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0x64780ce53f6e966e18a22af13a2f97369580ec11/408000000). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S06]: Art Blocks project record. [Reported artwork licence label NFT License 2.0](https://www.artblocks.io/collection/nimteens-by-bryan-brinkman). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S07]: Bryan Brinkman. [NimTeens official description](http://www.nimteens.com). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S08]: Art Blocks. [AB5D linked wallet set and profile index](https://www.artblocks.io/profile/ab5d). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S09]: Art Blocks media proxy. [Static PNG renders of sampled NimTeens tokens](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/0x64780ce53f6e966e18a22af13a2f97369580ec11/408000000.png). Accessed 2026-09-19.
[^S10]: Art Blocks. [Live generator renderer for NimTeens](https://generator.artblocks.io/0x64780ce53f6e966e18a22af13a2f97369580ec11/408000000). Accessed 2026-09-19.