Minty.Art Newsletter #28 - $70m Auction, Halsey, and Rob Gronkowski
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Welcome to this week’s Minty round-up covering some of the most significant events in Crypto Art and NFTs.
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Beeple’s Everydays Project $70M Sale
Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple @beeple has recently auctioned off his digital artwork titled Everydays: The First 5,000 Days for $69.4M. The auction broke two recorded for the highest price in an online-only auction and the highest price for any winning bid placed online.
Beeple responded to the sale, “Artists have been using hardware and software to create artwork and distribute it on the internet for the last 20+ years but there was never a real way to truly own and collect it. With NFTs that has now changed. I believe we are witnessing the beginning of the next chapter in art history, digital art”. To see more information about the auction, visit Christie’s Auction house website.
Halsey NFT Art Collection
American singer and songwriter Halsey @halsey is set to auction her first NFT on March 17th. The series ‘People Disappear Here’ features 3D animations of characters inspired by figures from her sleep paralysis nightmares during quarantine. The collection features seven original hand-painted artworks and one digital animation of the full painting.
“After seven years of bed surfing hotel rooms around the world, adjusting to my own pitch-black cave in California had a little bit of a learning curve." -Halsey. A portion of the proceeds from the auction will be donated to My Friends Place, a charity assisting homeless youth, and Carbon 180, an NGO dedicated to tackling carbon emissions.
Aphex Twin 100K NFT Auction
British musician Aphex Twin @AphexTwin has dropped a surprised NFT auction that sold for 72 Ξ (just under $130,000). The 1 of 1 edition artwork titled ‘/afx\/weirdcore\<blockscanner>’ is an audiovisual collaboration between Aphex and visual artist Weirdcore @weirdc0re
The piece was sold to AOI @artoninternet who had previously won a high stake bidding war, on the piece ‘SURFACING’, for 66 Ξ (just under $120,000). Aphex Twin tweeted, “We will spend a portion of the money on planting trees and either donating to permaculture projects or setting them up ourselves”.
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Roger Dean NFT Drop
English artist William Roger Dean @_rogerdean is releasing three exclusive limited-edition digital pieces as part of his first NFT bundle. Titled the ‘Allurium’ series, the collection features the ‘Floating Islands’ artwork, originally painted in 1993 and served as the cover of Yes’s offshoot band ABWH Live at the Shoreline album.
https://www.rogerdean.com/roger-dean-allurium-series/
“There has been a growing volume of hearsay and rumour about this technology (NFT’s). It sounded strange and interesting, so after a number of approaches from friends and colleagues, I decided to try it out. The best way to learn about it seemed to be, to have a go” - Roger Dean
Rob Gronkowski NFT Card Collection
Robert James Gronkowski @RobGronkowski, nicknamed ‘Gronk’ is an American football player who is dipping their toes into the world of NFTs with his debut card collection. Gronk’s NFT trading card collection launched this week and was a major success, totalling $1.2 million in sales
The special edition (1-of-1) GRONK Career Highlight Refractor Card commemorates all of Gronks four championships and was purchased by an unnamed collector for 229 Ξ (approximately $400,000). See more information about Gronk's NFT trading cards on his website.
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