XCP Drop, OBJKT Feature, TEZTRASHONE, Weekly Highlights, *NEW* Featured Artist
Don’t let your happiness hinge on waiting for other people deciding to prioritize you.
Hey all - it’s been a long crazy week. Here is a recap of shenanigans:
XCP Drop: Pepe Ca$h Grab
After months of lurking, connecting, and being persuaded by Max Capacity, Robness, and Scrilla himself - finally my first XCP drop of a fake common card on pepe.wtf is live!
This piece is a nod and poke at people who go after artists saying whatever they are doing to try to sell art is a “cash grab”. What does that even mean?? Anyone trying to do anything for money is a cash grab, and why is it so demonized when artists do it? The bigger question I always ponder is why is it so horrible to some people for artists to make money doing what they are good at and love?
We are exploring a new economy and technological ecosystem and questioning old ethos with cryptoart. With any new technology, a lot fear arises. I’ve come to understand though that fear is not of the new tech itself - tech is inherently neutral - but of negative aspects of humanity being amplified with the technology.
Greed is a human failing that causes many issues prevalent in our world today, but the drive and ambition of an artist to sustain and thrive from their creative endevours setting their own narratives is NOT the issue. What is the issue is people trying to control artists actions and what messages they put out.
So I’m proud to mint my first piece on XCP and even more proud to lay a message clear with my art. Burn down the old, tired unsustainable systems and celebrate the new. <3
PS - anyone interested in XCP, while I’m still new and learning - Robot Loves Coffee has a great tutorial for starting off to learn. To purchase the card there is a tutorial right on the pepe.wtf page <3
OBJKT Front Page Feature
After 2 years almost on Tezos ecosystem, and earlier support of HICETNUNC and Objkt, multi time meme/art movement instigator (dickspo, smols, aubjkt4aubjkt, teztrashx2, etc), even a bonafide Tezos coin influencer at one point on social media (2021 jokes) I have received the honor of being featured on the front Page of OBJKT. Special thanks to Cabline for seeing my contributions to the culture of Tezos, no matter how silly and controversial they are. <3
TEZTRASHONE
Speaking of tezos, a quick shout out to a new event coming to tezos thought of by MindYourMatter - many artists minting some 1/1 art on objkt as a response to the new objktone curated marketplace.
Weekly Highlights
Everything is getting crazier and crazier for me, so to make separate categories in this newsletter of everything that happened maybe difficult. So instead I will do a weekly highlight list of dope shoutouts or features or whatever impacted me a lot this week!
Rebel Yell in Paris!
Fake (foma) Mag Feature!
I didn’t know I would be in this issue, but I’m honored. A quick read + yes there is some uncomfortable topics in here which I whole heartedly feel need discussion. Why is a loud feminist endorsing this you may ask? Cause gender issues is not a binary insular woman-only topic. 🖤🔊ISSUE ONE OF FAKE IS LIVE. "HOW TO BE A MAN" LINK: 👇👇👇👇👇 https://t.co/gg8D5saKBH 👆👆👆👆👆 Articles by: @CurrencyDesign @SaschaBailey See below for all contributors. #art #nft #andrewtate #transmaxxing #incels #FOMA https://t.co/zlFWOPuvZHFOMA @fomamagDope artist Hopi onboard to Makersplace!
Vertical Art Crypto Feature!
Taking a break and going to EDC in Mexico City for a night!
Point out yet again after all I’ve done, still not onboarded to SuperRare! It just makes me GigaRare!
NEW works on Makersplace!
Glitch being cute - aka Life is Hard:
Weekly Feature Artist - CryptoFangs
While ofc I love sharing everything I’m doing, I want to bring to you dope art from other dope artists too. SO! *drum rolls* New weekly featured artist! This week I would love to share with you CryptoFangs. He is a long time friend in the space, I’m an early collector of his work, and it’s unique and innovative.
Blending video and performance art with glitch aesthetics CryptoFangs is an experimental filmmaker known and loved in the underground glitch community. Esoteric and cerebral is probably the simplest way to describe this complex work layered in symbol storytelling. Here are some pieces that are dope af: