Skip to content

Daily NASA Drop

VEXA Cosmic Crew: Shills' private Normie collection warping daily NASA feeds.

New drop every day
To be published one day

Today's drop is loading...

Source Normie
Animated
Loading Today's Drop
Still
The Quest

Every piece is a step toward WE Way Labs and Gallery.

A gallery and artist support organization I'm building for the future, funded by this collection as it grows. Not for me. For the artists who come after.

Shills, founder of WE Way Labs and Gallery Shills, founder

NASA source: (APOD)

How this piece was made
NASA
Astronomy
Picture of the Day
+
1 of 8
Crew Normie
Drawn at Random
+
SMOKE
Live Simulation
Seeded by Identity
=
VEXA
Crew Cosmic
Daily Piece
The Archive

Every signal that came before.

The world builds in public. Check back daily.

The series began July 23, 2026. Everything dated earlier is an example, not a real drop.

The Signal

NASA speaks in data. VEXA speaks in color.

Custom-built code pulls the NASA APOD image and runs it through VEXA's smoke training data: the same hand-shaped visual language that defines the portrait series. No generative AI. The output is what the data feels like, translated into smoke and form.

The Accumulation

A color world that did not exist yesterday.

Nothing here is planned in advance. The palette that emerges from 30 drops will be different from the one at 100. This is a living record of VEXA's color intelligence evolving in real time, shaped entirely by what the universe is saying on any given morning. Come back. Watch it grow.

The Vessel

Every signal needs a body to move through.

These are pieces from Shills' own VEXANORMIE collection. Their shape is never drawn directly; only felt, bent into the color the signal becomes. The number in the corner of every piece is the only trace it leaves.

About the data

NASA imagery is sourced via NASA's open APIs (APOD · EPIC). Only public-domain images are used: APOD sometimes features photographs owned by individual astrophotographers or observatories, flagged by a copyright field on the image. Those are automatically filtered out before anything is generated. Copyrighted images are refused at the source; only public-domain NASA imagery can ever enter a piece.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA.