I’ve had enough of negativity for one week, so instead of 3 Duds & A Stud, today it’s just the one best discovery — cute trippy 2. This adorable alien anarchist is from a series by the musical group Pussy Riot and went for 10eth last Friday. ($36k today.)
Their ACAB Collection — All Cops Are Bastards for you n00bs — is a series of cute hand-drawn animations plastered over the 333 pages of court filings from the ‘hooligan’ charges faced by the group for unlawfully playing their music in a church. (Or, rather, living while lesbian under Putin.)
With a name like Pussy Riot, it’s clear they intended shit to be stirred, but only because it needs to be. They’re a group of a dozen or so female musicians slash performance artists who for the better part of the last decade have been fighting for women’s and LGBTQ rights in Russia, which sounds like a recipe for Siberian exile to me, so I’m glad to know they’re alive and well and making bank off napkin doodles of knuckle dusters and fascist-eating, Batman-villain-colored Pomeranians.
I love the way the use cases for NFTs are expanding — I’ve seen them used as fundraising mechanisms for digital communities, startups, charities, and now political revolutions. Unfortunately, as much as I love to see it personally, this may very well be the nail in the coffin for the unregulated Wild Wild West 3.0.
I mean. Financial freedom to the commoners? When has that ever ended civilly?
