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Do you know Most "artist" NFT projects share one thing in common :
The art was made FOR the NFT.
I mean, they haven't been building or drawing until they started planning the NFT collection.
@thebeaksart is actually very different, the art existed for 20 years before @DKashtalyan thought of moving to web3.
This actually matters more than most of you realize.
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WHO IS THE MAN BEHIND @thebeaksart?
Let me tell you about @DKashtalyan real quick.
In a "this man has been in the building since before there was even web3" way.
•New York Times
•Harper's Magazine
•MIT Technology Review
•25-metre murals in Romania
•Gallery shows in Taipei, Warsaw, Barcelona
A two-decade run in PRINT and on WALLS before he even decided to build in web3, btw
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Here's what actually gets me about Dima's journey.
The man actually spent years climbing scaffolding in Eastern European cities, painting massive murals that most people only ever saw once, walking past on a Tuesday morning, looking up, and moving on.
There are no collectors yet, no KOL shills, no mint, no royalties, and no floor price.
But just a wall, the work, and the belief that the image actually mattered.
That's the idea behind @thebeaksart.
There are a lot of things you can fake, but you definitely can't fake a track record like this at all.
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So what is @thebeaksart exactly?
The Genesis collection details
1,111 Supply
Minting on Ethereum
Launching on OpenSea.
The mint price and date are TBD.
According to Dima Kashtalyan, each piece of the collection is described as surreal, precise, and deeply symbolic.
If you've seen Dima's editorial work, you'll understand that it tracks perfectly.
Dima Kashtalyan's style isn't loud at all, It's unsettling in the quietest way possible and it's that kind of image that sits in your head for days.
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So Everyone keeps asking "what's the utility?", "Why am i buying this?"
For this one, You are asking the Wrong question my brother
The right question you should ask should be, what does it mean to own the first on-chain chapter of an artist who's been published by institutions that reject 99% of submissions?
Well, @thebeaksart isn't just a random NFT project with a roadmap bla bla bla when most projects won't even follow the road map, It's like you are owing a body of work with a history.
Okay, try to imagine this with me:
Surrealism, but surgical, Not the melting clocks type btw, like the kind where a bird's anatomy becomes like a city, and Where feathers become architecture, Where the eye also stares back at you.
That's exactly the visual language @DKashtalyan is building with @thebeaksart, and this came from 20 years of knowing exactly where to put a line.
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You are probably wondering , how can i get whitelisted , how do i position for owning @thebeaksart collection before it hits the secondary?
Well, there are different ways, which are :
1. Art contest is ongoing and I'm gonna be real here, you gotta bring your A game here haha, so many talented community members have been creating exceptional arts, so Goodluck
2. Creator contest, i mean UGC, already live on @Duce_ai, bunch of creators are on this too, exceptional ones of course, Goodluck too
3. UGC collaboration with different top communities, and also whitelist collaboration with different communities, try your luck out if they collaborated with any communities you are part of.
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So yeah I'll be real on this
The mint price and date are TBD.
but after years in this space, one thing holds true to me, the projects that last were never the ones with the most hype, most times they're the ones where the founder is active and hard worker and art still got many to stay when the hype is gone.
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Links
website- https://t.co/x7sos3uzma
X-@thebeaksart
Founder's X-@DKashtalyan
Advisors - @ssheyii, @MartKAD
Instagram-https://t.co/RUdmCDGgtE
Behance- https://t.co/hMYTtVWlWU
Linktree- https://t.co/x4YZwNP6bb
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