Mike Winkelmann, alias Beeple, is a newly minted multi-millionaire. This wouldn’t have been possible before the creation of NFTs. Beeple has been posting daily digital art images on since 2007. He has gathered 2 million followers on Instagram, and his bio reads, “art shit for yer facehole.” Still, his primary income for most of that time came from his design work for companies and other artists, not the content that he posted on his own account. Suddenly, thanks to NFTs, that all changed.
“Everydays – The First 5000 Days” is a staggering composite of 5000 digital images that Winkelmann has created over the past decade and a half, and it was just sold by Christie’s for $63 million.
Even Winkelmann acknowledges that NFTs are the latest bubble in the art world, but it is nonetheless an historic moment for digital art… and a crazy story.
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Jeffrey Xiao · March 15, 2021 at 5:34 pm
This is so cool! I think it’s about time that these works get recognition – and I wonder what other works NFT’s will bring and highlight. Maybe this is the start to a boom for more digital art?
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