Beeple

Beeple (aka Mike Winkelmann is an american graphic designer who creates a variety of digital work including short films, Creative Commons VJ loops, NFTs and VR work. He has done work for big companies such as Apple, Space X, Coca-cola, Adobe, Samsung and has worked on concert visuals for music artists Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Imagine Dragons, Katy Perry, Zedd and many more.

Beeple’s work has also featured on Louis Vuitton’s Women’s Spring 2019 collection as well as window displays for their stores. He also collaborated with them to build a custom handbag including bendable LED screens that featured in his videos.

Everydays — The 2020 Collection

The World’s First ‘Major’ NFT Art Exhibition Is About to Take Place in Beijing, Headlined by Beeple, Fewocious, and Mad Dog Jones

Everydays the 2020 collection focuses on society’s alternating obsession and fear of technology. Showcasing digital images which incorporate the old with the new and mixing natural landscapes with objects/living things which do not match and would not work together.

“As generational tastes shift, we felt it important to support an exhibition that showcases a demographic’s interest that has had little previous institutional examination,” “We hope this exhibition will help propel the dialogue surrounding crypto-art from the fringes into the mainstream.” – Elliot Safra, a partner at AndArt Agency.

This work by Beeple uses the same concept as the work we want to produce as a group, focusing on the generational change in the world and universe.

Everydays – The First 5000 Days

His work Everydays—The First 5000 Days was for sale in the first entirely digital art auction. The work currently sits at $3.5 million.

‘The First 5000 Days’, the 1st purely digital NFT based artwork offered by a major auction house has sold for $69,346,250, positioning him among the top three most valuable living artists.

Highest prices ever paid—at auction or private sale—for an artwork by an artist living at time of sale:

Adjusted price(in millions of USD)	Original price(in millions of USD)	Work	Artist	Date	Venue	Ref.
131	110	Flag	Jasper Johns	2010	Private sale	[1]
125	100	For the Love of God	Damien Hirst	August 2007	Private sale	[2]
92	91.1	Rabbit	Jeff Koons	May 2019	Christie’s	[3][4]
93	90.3	Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)	David Hockney	November 2018	Christie’s	[5]
103	80	False Start	Jasper Johns	October 2006	Private sale	[6]
69	69.3	Everydays: The First 5000 Days	Beeple	March 2021	Christie’s	[7]
65	58.4	Balloon Dog (Orange)	Jeff Koons	November 2013	Christie’s	[8]

Beeple created a new artwork every day for 13 years, creating the artwork Everydays – The First 5000 Days.

An NFT Artwork by Beeple Just Sold for an Unbelievable $69 Million at Christie’s—Making Him the Third Most Expensive Living Artist at Auction

Grimes

Grimes is well known for her music but also her NFTs. She combines the styles of gamer fantasy, anime and manga and science fiction among other genres.

WarNymph Collection

https://niftygateway.com/collections/warnymphvolume1

WarNymph is the Goddess of Neo-Genesis. She battles outdated ideas and decay in society that threatens the future and sheds her old skin of corruption. The baby angel (Cherub) is a version Grimes including her iconic tattoos. The cherub exists in a virtual world within the themes of mythology and future creating an extension on the expanding metaverse.

She creates this by using a human form (Grimes) and merging a photogrammetry scan (using photos to map and take measurements) and a retopologised mesh that was made into different forms. Essentially making a digital version of herself.

This project explores the idea of identity in the vitual world and the fluidity with being able to create ourselves into different avatars and make new worlds.

Pieces which include new music or themes from new music from Grimes:

This first limited edition NFT release is her earliest visual form and is only the start as she plans on creating a mythical universe called Oth3rkin and WarNymph is part of it.

This work from Grimes showcases what we want to do as a group for our NFT, creating a future universe where technology is a big part of the change. The machines she uses in her work look alien to us in the current world but will be the new normal like the evolution from paper to typewriter to computer and now laptop.

https://www.businessinsider.com/grimes-nft-art-warnymph-sells-for-millions-20-minutes-2021-3