#NFT 2021

[a-h-87769877]

When I heard the audio for this song at 7am today I was like “man, that sounds like 2003… through the lens of 2024.” I stand corrected, it’s 2002.

I was not expecting Eminem to sample the Steve Miller Band’s 1982 classic Abracadabra… that beat works though.

[scopophilic1997]

scopOphilic_micromessaging_617 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally.

For the next six days, we’re going to take a trip across the Atlantic Ocean to Africa and across the Sahara Desert to the incredible and historic country of Egypt. These works explore some of the oldest MicroMessaging known which was done as scratching graffiti. And the visit to Egypt will finish with some modern-day MicroMessaging from Cairo.

Ancient MicroMessaging from Abu Simbel. Please don't damage historical structures.

[emmafrostcovercollection]

Uncanny X-Men #129 (2021) - VeVe Exclusive NFT Variants

[outrundis]

lmao, remember NFTs?

[marklikely]

hey what is going on in tech right now that we keep having to do this "new buzzword dominating every conversation you have" thing every year

[voidkross]

Rainbow Punxxx 2021

March of last year I started minting NFTz on $matic blockchain on a site called screensaver.world, it was a very magical time for me. It was the first time I experienced true autonomy as an artist. Free to experiment and just do whatever my heart desired and strangers from across the world got to know the identity I created to explore this lust for creation. An artist was born: Voidkross

this blog is going to serve as the voice and visual diary of Void K. Ross

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[jyou-no-sonoko19]

Just imagine if the film Ritchie Rich (1994) were released today. Where the whole concept is ‘kid is very very rich, but kid is lonely, boohoo’.

Back then kids were like “Oh the escapism! Wish I had money to do all that, just on a whim! But also, he’s a soft boy who needs someone to play his money games with.”

I feel like kids in 2023 would be like “hang the fucker and feed several nations”.

[emmywalka]

THE GREAT CRYPTO CLEANSE OF 2022. WHO REMEMBERS HOW IT STARTED? RIGHT CLICK SAVE THIS AND SHOW TO YOUR GRAND CHILDREN

[cyberocelot29]

IYKYK

[dergarabedian]

Una obra NFT de Refik Anadol se exhibirá en Buenos Aires

Una obra NFT de Refik Anadol se exhibirá en Buenos Aires

La obra “Machine Hallucinations: coral”, del artista digital Refik Anadol se presentará por primera vez y de forma gratuita en América latina. (more…)

[h0]

i know that this remix was SPECIFICALLY manufactured to lure boxxy into being intimate with a 4chan user so he could dox her but like... iconic remixed fucking hell

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Dead NFTs: The Evolving Landscape of the NFT Market” is a new report from dappGambl, a community of experts in finance and blockchain technology. Upon analysis of 73,257 NFT collections, the authors found that 69,795 have a market cap of zero Ether (ETH), the second most-popular cryptocurrency behind Bitcoin. In practical terms, that means 95 percent of NFTs wouldn’t fetch a penny today — a spectacular crash for assets that reached a trading volume of $17 billion amid a frenzied bull market in 2021. The study estimates that some 23 million investors own these tokens of no practical use or value.

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The “Dead NFTs” report observes that the nearly 200,000 NFT collections “with no apparent owners or market share” identified by the study caused carbon emissions equivalent to the annual output from 2,048 houses, or 3,531 cars.

[scopophilic1997]

scopOphilic_micromessaging_618 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally.

Ancient MicroMessaging from Abu Simbel. Please don't damage historical structures.

[toolusingmammalgirl]

Disconnected Thoughts on Art Reproduction:

Hokusai's Great Wave fascinates me because, unlike almost every other artwork in that bracket of fame, it was never a bespoke piece that was only later reproduced. It was a commercial print right from the start, and while versions of it can be identified as belonging to different print runs, there is no meaningful 'original' aside from the long-since-discarded printing plates.

Even better, this state has been imposed on artworks that were once unique. In 2021, the art collective MSCHF bought an Andy Warhol sketch at auction for $20,000, made 999 meticulous forgeries of it, shuffled them to destroy any record of which was the original, and sold each piece for $250 as Possibly Real Copy of 'Fairies' by Andy Warhol, by MSCHF.

As with many smartass art collectives, MSCHF's projects range from eye-rolling to kinda clever to brilliant, but I think this is their magnum opus. It has exactly the kind of unwieldy literal title I adore. The original work has been arguably destroyed, but in a way that Warhol would applaud. It's the most pointed way to ask art buyers, do you care about the actual artistry of the work or just the bragging rights of owning the original?

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Artistic domains where reproduction is trivial are often prone to the Superstar Problem: Why would I listen to the world's 50th-best cellist when I can stream all the Yo-Yo Ma I want just as easily? NFTs were pitched as a solution to this, marking the original or master copy of a natively-digital work to let it retain value. But even if the crypto market didn't have its own 2008 every few weeks, I don't want fine-art auction houses to be the future of digital art, especially when there are already plenty of existing ways to mitigate the problem. A fursona, a tabletop-game character, a niche Blorbo, etc. are all bespoke value-adds that enable a much greater range of artists to get commissions. But these require a culture of art fans who don't care about flipping it at Christie's, often overlapping with fannish cultures where plenty of artists operate at all experience levels.

I don't have any tidy conclusions for this, but I just want to say that an earlier version of this process - "paint me a biblical scene, and put me in it to flex my wealth and piety" - culminated in one of the funniest artworks I've ever seen, Francisco de Zurbarán's Christ Crucified (With Donor):

[sulthan-nft]

Pura Ulun Danu Batur, Bali - Indonesia

This is my first image minted as NFT on March 9th, 2021. This image is still available on Rarible NFT marketplace. The link is here:

https://rarible.com/token/0xd07dc4262bcdbf85190c01c996b4c06a461d2430:245364?tab=history

This photo was taken around 2014 and selected as an NFT, because I thought it was an interesting subject to be remembered and stored forever as NFT token in the Ethereum blockchain.

[sisionscreen]

I absolutely do not endorse this but if there are any NFT people among you, you could technically get Sisi (2021) dresses as NFTs now. From what I can see, so far this only includes three dresses, all from the first season. They are plannung five more drops á three dresses. By buying one, you get access to an exclusive behind the scenes video.

I will not buy one but if anyone is willing to share if there is any new information in this behind the scenes video, I would be grateful.