Our Stud of the Week is Tom Fry’s Anguish which sold for .9eth yesterday. Turns out snapping a picture of an already excellent painting and editing it into 60+ unique animation frames is a surefire recipe for a gallery-ready GIF of a glitching matrix worthy of far more than the ~$3000 USD it sold for.
If you’re one of 10 people watching my video series, On OpenSeas with el Prof, you know Basquiat rip offs are my bread and butter. The balance of minimalism and busyness reminds me of the dizzying fractals on the cathartic tail end of a bad trip. And I love the as-of-yet underutilized practice of bringing static paintings to life online. It adds a layer of emotion and is one of the cooler prospects of the NFT art landscape.
However, as always on OpenSea’s art category, the standouts are the exception to the rule, and this week was no different, with some astonishingly awful sales, per usual.
The top 2 came from the same collective, Art Blocks Playground, and, in fact, the same collection, SnowFro’s Chromie Squiggle. No offense, but doesn’t spending 1342.5eth (over $4m US goddamn D) on two randomly generated children’s scribble seem like irrefutable proof the simulation is malfunctioning?
Finally, Dud of the Week number 3 is called Nerd Diagram Porn #1 and went for 15eth. It is a reference to both a meme and a technology presentation on upgrading a well known blockchain network.
If you’re one of 10 people watching my video series, On OpenSeas with el Prof, you know Basquiat rip offs are my bread and butter. The balance of minimalism and busyness reminds me of the dizzying fractals on the cathartic tail end of a bad trip. And I love the as-of-yet underutilized practice of bringing static paintings to life online. It adds a layer of emotion and is one of the cooler prospects of the NFT art landscape.
However, as always on OpenSea’s art category, the standouts are the exception to the rule, and this week was no different, with some astonishingly awful sales, per usual.
I gag at the thought of how that capital could be better deployed to solve the world’s problems, but I’m also a free-market kind of guy. I’d rather set cash on fire and do my part to curb inflation than purchase trinkets like this. If you have millions to blow, I don’t know — at least blow it on me?
