The ending of The Graduate (1967) was accident.
Director Mike Nichols told them:
“Look, we stopped traffic. I can’t do it over and over. Just get on the bus and laugh’
“They looked at me terrified, I scared them. It was too late. They were terrified.”
@Renegade_Joey You really think it’ll be gamestop though? I doubt the company that wins the race will want to split profits with gamestop (unless gamestop acquires). But I agree, the barrier to grading is far too high, and AI grading should be standard.
A digital artist from South Carolina has released his new project — an art installation featuring autonomous robot dogs with hyper-realistic masks of public figures.
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Congratulations to my brother @beeple for the epic work at Art Basel and all the amazing artists at Zero10 @eli_schein and everyone pushing hard to bring digital art to the fair! 4 years ago, a small booth — and now great scale with wonderful works across disciplines! Let’s go!
Some things I cannot get over from today’s Basel VIP day, I’m just gonna type once and rip bc I’m eager to get these memories out:
Best mic drop moment for digital artists I’ve ever seen. The exhibition looked so damn good, our energy was so high it made the other half of the fair feel vapid. Perennial Basel VIP goers walked a fair booth after booth of what is honestly repetitive “trad” art and then BOOM, they’re instantly stimulated by the masterfully organized Zero to 10 exhibition. They’re hit with the largest crowd they never expected, many of which was anchored by 50-100 crypto friends rekindling, and ready to lend their knowledge to explain the works in front of them like they’re the artists.
Speaking to Scott Winkelmann (@beeple bro) about how incredible it was to see all the smiling faces videotaping Regular Animals. He mentioned 50+ inquiries for buying one (they sold out before i walked in). It will be the most viral piece in all of Art Miami.
Coin Laundry by @XCOPYART with incredible representation and support by @miminguyenmimi and @shape , so busy at times, it was all hands on deck from @bonafidehan@pravijn and anyone who knew what was going on to onboard attendees with their soap.
Sergey Brin was there and seen admiring @dmitricherniak’s Floor Ringer, the booth looked stunning huge congrats @Vince_Van_Dough@anikojay and all who repped.
@ArtOnBlockchain and @jeffgdavis smiling ear to ear, happy to be recounting the story of Art Blocks with a passion no other gallerist has had before. Snowfro, the apex collector turned innovator in the space coming full circle to showcasing and selling AB minted Quines by @larvalabs .
@CaballeroAnaMa reciting her beautiful and poem in front of 100s of fully engaged listeners, a wonderfully intimate break during the day.
The amount of questions and genuine interest I felt from bankers and their groups of clients awing at the method and output @tylerxhobbs works, and seeing @leyla_solos team handle the interest with the perfect tact.
@sofiagarcia_io@micolmicolmicol@fellowship working a central pillar of the fair, selling all the @ix_shells works on display, one of my favorite place to watch reactions from throughout the day.
@jackbutcher crushing it as the labeled “manager” and helped his guests Self Checkout and unknowingly mint their first NFTs. The most engaging of conceptual art many ppl can microbuy ($1, can do online too)
@mpkoz giving the most intricate and interesting of details on the masterful work he produced with @heft_gallery@eli_schein and @redbeardnft with such hospitable charm working the entire exhibition floor. Making intros and giving full context tours. Truly amazing work my bros, I’m so happy to see the 10/10 execution.
I’ll look to end by saying i don’t care what the culturally deficient say about us, digital art is the artistic movement of our time. I just witnessed the “cool”, elite crowd of society come into our corner of the Art Basel fair and smile with intrigue as they realized why our generation is not going to be buying $60m Rothkos.
Our internet native generation deserves this movement. It’s uniquely ours and it’s real as fuck, in the deepest of bears. It wasn’t passed onto us as inheritance, it grew from twitter telegram and discord. It is extreme ownership of what is truly ours, and these Basel VIPs don’t even know (yet) how based it feels to enjoy the true sovereignty of this movement.
I didn’t plan to go every day, but now i feel a sense of pride i want to enjoy more days of the week so i will happily be there daily. I need to get my time with @yatreda@mayaonthenet@joepease !!
This was a perfect exhibition in my book. 🫡🫡