Posted on 03/21/2021 2:46:20 PM PDT by simpson96
“We didn’t need a preview.” So said Twobadour, one of the players behind the purchase of the all-digital work by artist Beeple (aka Charleston-based digital artist Mike Winkelmann) at Christie’s last week, when asked if he had actually looked at the lot before his company paid $69 million for it.
Despite this stomach-turning auction price, Twobadour claimed that the investment was destined to appreciate in value into the future: “This is going to be a billion-dollar piece someday.”
I’ll take his word for it that he knows Beeple’s oeuvre so well that he didn’t need to review all the images contained in Everydays: The First 5,000 Days. But does the public know what’s in Beeple’s opus? That’s likely to determine the piece’s reputation in the medium and long term, as observers and a baffled public wrestle with what the Beeple phenomenon really means.
The work is, in effect, a large, square image file (21,069 by 21,069 pixels). It’s a digital mosaic composed of images that Beeple has released on the web, one a day, since May 1, 2007.
You can zoom in a bit to the tiled image of Everydays on the Christie’s site—but not that much. To really see the works and get a sense of Beeple’s vision, you have to go to his website. I went and clicked through all 13 years of work. Going through it all took about a day.
Here’s what I found. Essentially, there are four different Beeples at play in Everydays. None is likely to age well.(snip)
I’ve said that the Trump-is-a-Poopy-Head/Cheeto Mussolini genre of art that flourished in this time period is going to have the shelf life of Taco Bell leftovers.
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$69 million. The Woo Tang Clan was robbed.
As a matter of fact...
An NFT just sold for $69 million at Christie’s and was paid for in cryptocurrency
We are rapidly approaching $50,000 “Full Body” Lattes at Starbucks.
It’s a piece of sh...art...
One minor accident away from being the world’s most expensive corrupted file....
Silver is actually selling for 30% above spot.
The a fat nerdy chinese kid and his imaginary friends from August 23, 2007, seems to have arrived at an awkward time.
Bingo.
Could this farce come under the heading of MONEY LAUNDERING ?
The smart guy was Beeple. The fool was the people who bought the art, thus proving that “A fool and his money are soon parted”.
Leftists conning liberals. LOVE IT!
Does anyone actually buy this crap?
The same people who buy Hunter Biden’s “art”.
If someone wants to buy fake paintings with fake money I don’t think it constitutes money laundering. Comedy maybe. Tragedy perhaps. A giant con, probably. Just not sure who at the table the mark is, so it’s probably me.
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