FOUR YEARS AGO, PEOPLE WHO MADE $69 MILLION FROM NFT ARE STILL MAKING MONEY

Author:Cookie

 

beeple, the man who sold one NFT at $69 million a day, has been seen as the symbol of the golden years of the NFT。

Although NFT is brilliant no longer, beeple and his team have been active in NFT circles. At this year's Basel Art Fair, he brought back a gold dog, Regular Animals, to the current cold NFT market。

Yesterday, a number of Regular Animas sold on OpenSea at a price of more than 10 ETH (approximately $35,000), which was distributed free of charge at the Basel Art Fair, bringing the total to 256. At this price, beeple sent nearly tens of millions of dollars worth of NFTs at the Basel Art Fair。

the project that he and his team are bringing to the Basel Art Fair is Regular Animas' "Conventional Animals". It's a bunch of machine dogs, as shown by the figure below, who look a little fucked up because they have human faces and are well-known individuals, such as Mask, Andy Warhol, Zuckerberg, Picasso and even Beeple。

Of course, it's not just the visual effect of looking at people, but the robot dogs use their head cameras to observe the surrounding environment and use an evolving visual algorithm to create art。

And the celebrity role played by these machine dogs was not randomly chosen because they influenced the way humans see the world, whether through algorithms, art or politics. We, as human beings, see the world through these perspectives, as do these machine dogs. At the Basel Art Fair, these robot dogs and humans observe each other, and one moment after another, they become the works of art created by the robot dogs, which are also like their autobiography。

Interestingly, Regular Animas also has an entity series of 1024. On eBay, someone's been sold for $6,500. The market has given NFT a price far more valuable than an actual painting, reminiscent of the "The Currence" series of Damien Hirst years ago, allowing holders to choose between the entity and NFT。

Before the NFT field was so successful, the beeple created art every day since 2007, but never sold more than $100. And when he did, he didn't waste as much as some artists or money-crunches, he owned a studio/art gallery of about 460 square metres, formed a team of dozens of 3D artists, engineers and researchers (and even former Boeing engineers) and invited Carolyn Christov-Bakragiev, former director of contemporary art at Riveri Castle, as a consultant, to constantly exhibit and create new works of art around the world。

This beeple show not only gets attention in the money ring for price, but also gets traditional media coverage like WSJ。