I was gonna watch out for that feedback.
Nothing wakes you up like that though.
Very special show today, holy heck,
Roger's already here, love to see it.
We are doing this new time, new format,
one hour shows at 9 a.m. PST,
but we're back with one of our favorite
recurring segments today.
Top five artists this week with the one,
the only, Signor Dickerman.
The man behind 24 hours of art
and many other awesome things.
But yeah, go ahead down there to the bottom right
and do all of your friends on this app a massive favor.
Let them know where we're gonna be, share it out.
They don't wanna miss this.
Roger always brings some incredible alpha
and interesting conversation around what is happening
in the NFT art world, crypto art.
So you don't wanna miss it.
And NiftyQ, GM, how are you?
GM, sir, rolling out of the show, happy to be here.
Happy Dab Day to all of the Jupiter people.
Yes, Jup Airdrop, I mean,
that's a thing worth mentioning, right?
Solana continues to see some awesome, awesome growth.
Yeah, and NFTs are benefiting over there.
I do love that we're calling them Jupiter people.
Also, a lot of predictions on what it would do
to the NFT market, I'm always interested in this.
We talk about what the potential blast airdrop unlock
or the blast ecosystem piece is going to do
for potentially Ethereum NFTs or others.
When that 2 billion gets unlocked
or whatever the amount is now.
Yeah, I'm interested in looking at these floor prices
post airdrop, so looking at it.
And Biggie Poppins, GM, welcome to you.
I'm fantastic, my brother.
How about yourself, dude?
I'm trying to get my setup going here.
Excited to be talking with all of you,
especially Roger coming back.
Sounds like you're mid traveling.
Are you running around Mexico right now?
Yeah, I'm currently in Puerto Vallarta with my family.
And man, I wish I could do the show like this all the time.
No, honestly, it's pretty cold where I'm originally based.
So getting some sun and just being near the water.
It's, I don't know, man, it's a blessing, dude.
It helps much more than touching grass, in my opinion.
Currently, though, I'm coming at you from the pool.
All right, well, yeah, making us a little bit jealous.
Are you doing NFT live naked?
Always, sir, always naked.
Look, dude, I was naked way before the NYC was naked.
Look at my bird for crying out loud.
The head on fire and the eye condition does not count.
Everyone should be naked.
It's how God intended, sir.
We need to go back to our roots.
All right, strong start to the show.
Y'all welcome to GM Web 3,
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and any universe for obvious reasons,
but primarily because of all of you find people
who show up consistently in support,
and especially the ones that share out the space
and comments and engage with the show.
But yes, we do have a very special guest here with us today,
of course, Roger Dickerman from 24 Hours of Art.
So we'll be getting into that whenever he wants, really,
whenever he wants to jump up here.
And also, you know, we'll do our best to also cover off
on some of the latest and greatest headlines
But really the top focus of today's show
What's happening with crypto art?
Who are the top artists of the week and why?
So again, you know, this has been
a favorite recurring segment of ours,
getting to host Roger up here to do his thing.
And, you know, we took a little break
with the new year starting up.
He's been a very busy man.
If you're not familiar, he's watched his community
I don't know, taking it to the next level
with his collection, 24 Hours of Art.
I'm getting in the mix over there,
excited to collect one of these,
I guess, Genesis pieces in a way, or the first year,
since I guess it's gonna be a yearly format.
But, you know, I'm sure he can tell us more
since we got him here now.
So GM Roger, how are you?
What's going on everybody?
It's been a little while since we've been back here.
I've missed this, I've missed you guys.
And endlessly grateful, of course,
that you're part of the community too.
It's good vibes all around today.
Oh yeah, it's been way too long.
So I'm very glad that you've agreed to come back
and maybe start these up.
We'll see if we can keep it on that biweekly cadence.
Understanding, you're a very busy man right now,
but that's kind of the goal with this specific segment,
is to try and do it every other Wednesday.
Top five artists this week with you, the one the only.
And yeah, man, I mean, let's go ahead
and since it has been a minute,
catch people up on what you've been doing.
You know, before we really get into
the top five artists of the week,
you've been working on something,
you've been watching something,
and it's been going pretty well as far as I can tell.
You've got a very active telegram group.
Well, so, I mean, first of all,
there's too many people to name individually,
You know exactly who you are.
I'm just scrolling down and looking at you like the,
what has happened has been really unique.
I mean, obviously, you know, believe in what I do, right?
That's why we do it literally every day
and made the decision to take it up a notch
and to get more serious and thought long and hard
about the right number of people, right?
Does that mean going super broad, subscription-based?
Does that mean going super narrow and a high-end report?
And in the end, what felt right for this year
was to go right to the heart of Web3.
I call it like a collaborative win-win.
Try to hit the sweet spot, match it right to a concept,
which is the everyday tracking.
And it looks like when all is said and done,
we're gonna top out at around just over 300 unique collectors,
I mean, the distribution has been amazing.
And you think about it, we launched this thing December 28th.
So December 28th, right smack over the holidays
was the opening of the 366 token mint.
which is a month and three days past that,
we have 15 left, it was 15 left out of 366.
Now, it's been mind-blowing the pace that this has gone at.
It's just been, it feels like literally creating a report.
Slow and steady, one a day, then six the next,
then two, then eight, then three, then four.
And we're just going and going and going.
And what's really happened is,
I mean, you guys know as well as anybody, right?
The nature of NFTs is usually
when there's not an immediate sellout,
you see people exit the token,
people fight at the floor.
It's just kind of the nature of what the space is.
There's been literally one secondary sale, one.
And there are three lists that I believe,
and it means, I mean, everyone's in the telegram,
I'd like to believe we're going to be delivering value
day over day for the entirety of the year
and then some, dot, dot, dot.
Anyway, I think you can hear it in my voice.
I'm pretty, it's a special time,
looking at the end in sight.
And it's really a new page turn
and we're just getting started.
So yeah, thank you for asking.
Thanks for letting me recap it.
It's pretty exciting and it's incredible
watching you build, doing this journey.
And just to take it back another step,
I think most people here are probably familiar,
but just in case you're not,
he's been doing the 24 hours of art reports daily.
Like he said, here on X for,
I guess a year or so, very consistently,
providing a tremendous amount of value.
And so really, you've been doing this
very sort of methodically, step by step,
growing this community and very strategically,
very thoughtfully, which is why I had the support.
You very graciously agreed to hop on this show with us
and then start up this segment.
And then on top of that, you were actually,
like that initial conversation
was probably one of my favorite interviews
that we've ever done on this show out of almost,
So yeah, a lot of reasons why I have a ton of respect for it
and I like the way that you're building
and I'm very, very happy to be part of it.
I mean, there's a little bit of alpha for you upfront.
If you wanna be in on a very, very,
I don't know, super powerful group.
I mean, it's a really awesome group of individuals
that have collected in this community for 24 hours of art.
So if you wanna be in on it,
I don't really know how you think of it.
Like, I don't know if you consider it like an alpha chat
I don't know if you put terms on it.
Do you define the relationship?
Like, do you just think of it as a community generally
or like an art community?
You know, someone who motivated me a lot
and is an honorary in the endeavor is Sam Spratt.
He motivated me a lot with the monument game.
And really I've been using this term sporadically
but I started to use it a lot more
seeing him execute that game so well, the magnifying glass.
I'm a big believer that a creator, a brand builder,
an artist, whoever, you have a magnifying glass.
And if you train that magnifying glass on something
for a prolonged period of time with focus,
great things are gonna happen, right?
Just, it's just a matter of the time scale.
But if you keep it trained and you don't get distracted
and go, great things are gonna happen.
And I watched Sam do that with the monument game,
participated heavily in the monument game.
And coming out of it, I mean, really 24 hours of art
had started not all that long prior to the monument game.
And the game was something that I was tracking
during the early stages of the report.
So, you know, the decision to do this at a high level,
I wanted to train my magnifying glass
on something really special.
And ideally do it with, you know,
I like collaborative win-wins.
I wanted to do it with people.
So that's what this is for me.
For me, it's three things.
It's art, it's information, and then it's access.
So the art and information were clear from day one.
Art was what it sounds like, one of one of 366.
We, I mean, the creative sessions are insane.
Work closely with an artist named Justin Wedge
Put a lot of love into the tokens, the token designs.
It's a true one of one of 366 collection.
And then we get to evolve it again at the end of the year.
And I don't know if people have paid close enough attention
to that, but I think these tokens are gonna be
Information is the telegram, the community reports
We're gonna, I'm working right now as we speak
on the first ever monthly recap.
I've been very interested in rolling up information,
giving people a bird's eye view,
a bit of a macro look at the major events of the month.
Kind of like we do here for a given week, right?
Top five artists this week.
Take a look at that sort of meaningful stuff.
So that's the information lane.
The one that I chose not to lean into off the jump
for speculation reasons, and it's worked out,
knock on wood, it's worked out really, really well.
I decided not to lean into access at all.
I was debating in my own mind,
do we try to hit some form of a release schedule
Decided not to go down that road.
And I said, you know, I still intend to do fun things.
It's just, I'd rather that be surprise and delight
versus the selling point.
Because we know how speculation works in the space
that can get out of hand.
And I wanted, you know, the right people aboard
and let's go surprise and delight style.
So, you know, we started lightly.
We got a rip cash allow list
and the Rope Ryanisto allow list.
Gonna be doing something else.
Gonna be giving away a one-of-one artwork
Those kinds of like, that's the magnifying glass stuff.
You know, everyone knows me.
It's like, let's stay agile.
Let's see what fun comes around the corner
and let's see what kind of stuff.
Again, I didn't promise anything.
So we're all just on this little magic carpet
and that's the fun of it.
Yeah, very smart not to over promise.
But, you know, obviously very excited
to see where this magic carpet ride goes.
And yeah, I think April 8th is my day
somewhere there in early April.
You can see what some of these daily tokens are looking like.
And Roger, of course, if there's any other things
that you want us to be pinning up there
so that people can find this.
Again, if there's only 15 left,
you might wanna try and get in.
It's not the cheapest bit,
but I think for the value of the community
that it's probably a pretty solid investment
if you really like fine art, NFTs,
and crypto art in general.
That's what it's all about.
It's not really for necessarily just trading
and flipping or meme coins or anything like that.
But if you are really into the art side of crypto and NFTs,
then this might be a solid community for you.
Nifty Q and Biggie, thanks for joining us up here.
Do you have any quick thoughts or notes or questions
before we kind of hop into some of the things
on what's going on with 24 hours of art?
I'll let you all cook, man.
Well then, let's cook indeed.
I do wanna hit a couple things real quick
and then we gotta get into it
because we've only got about 40 minutes here
to get through the top five artists of the week.
But first, ladies and degenerates,
and if you can hear my voice,
go on down there to the bottom right corner
where the speech bubble is, drop some comments,
make sure to share out the room.
It brings an amazing list of artists
to be watching, builders in the space,
true craft people that are absolutely killing it
and brings a whole lot of awesome conversation too.
So share it out, let your friends know
and we appreciate you that do actually take the actions.
So Roger, a couple things up front worth mentioning,
the Jupiter airdrop is today.
That's a big thing happening on Solana.
Also, Claire Silver apparently has a drop happening
how is it, brain drops, yep, brain drops.
So that was one that I happened across
Are there any just like big news stories
that you've been watching or other things
or if there's nothing else that interesting to you
and you just wanna hop into the top five artists
No, yeah, let's go, yeah, current events, right?
The stuff that's not necessarily going
to make the top five this week,
but stuff to be aware of.
It started here in 41 minutes on brain drops.
Claire Silver, for those who don't know,
was the brain, I mean, an amazing artist in general,
but was also the first ever release via brain drops,
which has become a nice established brand now.
That first ever release is called Genesis by Claire Silver.
It's performed quite well over time.
And this release interests me so much.
Now I wanna make something very clear.
I want Claire Silver to succeed.
I believe she will, okay, let me make that clear.
this is a really interesting drop range.
It's a really interesting release range.
It's 500 editions, 500 one of one of X at one ETH each.
So this is a 500 ETH release.
Now, Claire has the ability to pull this off.
I think it's an entirely justifiable primary price.
Yet I was framing it funny enough on a spaces yesterday
for the Sotheby's auctions.
I've been framing this and we've been joking
in the 24 hours community about the bull bear, right?
This is not a bull market yet.
We're still in the bear, but it's feeling like you,
but you do feel bullish at times.
You see those clear shining examples
So we're calling it the bull bear.
Now we've seen these low price,
we're gonna get to on my list.
We've seen low priced releases succeed.
I think a lot of the trading or speculating population
likes to play those kinds of games.
This is a robust release.
500 ETH is serious in the bull bear.
Again, I think Claire can pull it off.
I think it's justifiable.
I think she will pull it off.
My eyes are down the road a little bit.
I wanna see just how bullish this bear is
about a month out when this settles.
So almost like I'm rooting for it a day.
I think it's gonna happen,
but I'm living in three, four weeks from now.
That's what I'm so curious about.
And I think if this kind of collection holds up well,
it's a really good sign for what this year holds in store.
Yeah, we like to cover or talk about barometers a lot,
especially Huda, who's one of our favorite co-hosts
and contributors that's been really getting involved here
with us on the Web3 Network.
He works at Crypto Slam as an NFT analyst,
and he's always incredible about pointing out certain moments
or collections or things like that
that become indicators of where traders are at
or where the market's at in general.
So yeah, to your point, this seems like a solid barometer
to get a sense for where the art market is at.
Yeah, it's not cheap for a collection of that size,
To be able to hold that is gonna be tremendously difficult.
Obviously, we all are rooting for her to succeed with it.
But yeah, what does the secondary look like?
And like you said, just kind of watching how it performs
over the coming weeks and maybe month or two
will be very interesting.
All right, anything else?
Otherwise, I feel like we gotta get into it
because I know you always bring the heat.
You always bring some really interesting things
to talk about, and we've only got about 40 minutes here.
So I do not wanna shortchange ourselves
on the top five artists this week.
Throw up some mother heckin' emojis, throw up some hundos,
share out the space if you're ready for it.
Let us know that you're ready for it
because, yeah, I'm definitely ready, Roger.
That's my way of saying, yeah, I'm ready.
I'm gonna start this, you know I always like
to throw bonuses in there, right?
By the way, one shout out to Christie's
just wrapped a nice charity auction for Giga.
Just amazing cause, good effort, amazing artists involved.
So, you know, again, something else
in the Claire Silver category, not gonna make a list.
Nevertheless, they deserve a shout.
It literally just closed.
Amazing artists in there.
Luis Ponce and Mario Clingaman,
a bunch of artwork sold really well.
So just wanna give a nice round of applause to Christie's.
Also, clap it up for Sarah Script and Jimena.
Both have had tremendously awesome, successful mints
in the last couple of days.
Sarah over there on bass with Bass Diamonds,
Jimena with Rari Chain doing some of her beautiful,
colorful work over there.
So shout out to them too,
while we're doing the shout out thing.
You trying to spoil my list?
Is that what's going on here?
I had, you know what, I had a feeling one or two
of those may be included.
If so, you know what, maybe I'm just prophesying the future.
I love it, all in good fun.
Big shout out to them both and let's roll.
So I wanna give you one more bonus.
How about that before we dive in?
I'm gonna give you one more bonus
as to how crazy this week that was.
I tweeted this was the hardest list to put together.
This was the hardest list to put together.
You know who's not on this list?
X copy's not on this list.
And I just wanna comment on something crazy
that happened the other day.
Now obviously X copy goes back years.
No, no, it didn't hurt me.
It's actually, I got to kick my feet up
and watch a wallet exit six rare X copy editions at once.
It was over the course of a couple hours.
So it wasn't, to my knowledge, it wasn't a hack.
Although the first one when it was released,
it was like, wait a second, what's going on?
It's like, oh no, are we having a wallet drain here?
And then it lasted for several hours of good fun.
And it seems to just be legitimately somebody
who didn't want their X copies anymore.
But they happened to be a number of sought after editions,
One was Ghouls out of three.
And out of three edition X copy,
very rarely changes hands.
And that was Ghouls, speaking of Rarible, from Rarible
back in the day, September, 2020.
And that sold for 20 wrapped teeth.
The totality of these six editions sold for 76 and a half
wrapped teeth over the course of several hours.
So that was, it was a wild X copy day.
When one of those types of editions sell,
typically that breaks into the highlights of the report,
we had six on the same day.
And oh, by the way, a seventh, not of that wallet,
but resist a seventh sold later that day.
So there were seven rare X copy editions on one day.
And that's not on the list.
It's not on the top side.
It's great also just to hear that anecdotally.
I mean, obviously X copy is like one of the top artists
So it's not surprising that there's still people
trying to buy his work, but I have been hearing rumblings
that, you know, you called it like the bull bear,
but that, you know, even like a lot of art blocks projects
are struggling to find any sort of interest
So maybe if we can get to it at the end,
we can just talk about, you know,
where's the art market at more generally speaking.
And are you concerned that maybe there's a lot of saturation
at this point, but yeah, I don't want to derail it.
I know we're just getting into it here, just warming up.
I'm here for the questions.
I'll blitz it, let's leave at least 10
because I think it's great topical matter.
All right, top five lists.
We're going to start from five and count our way to one.
Fifth on the list, not on blockchain right now.
Well, there are a couple of examples I can give you
So it fills out this topic nice and makes it robust,
but the list begins with a global event.
And that global event took place in Barcelona.
And the artist that is coming in fifth
over in Barcelona took over,
followed in the footsteps of Gaudi,
projected in beautiful fashion in Barcelona
with tens of thousands of people in attendance.
a work that carries Gaudi's legacy into the future
by merging AI with the natural forms of the house.
I find the art to be beautiful.
I don't think that's debatable, at least not in my world.
It was live streamed globally.
Feralphile, which is a company
obviously with NFT involvement, was involved in this.
So it was a beautiful thing to see
a very established artist in Sofia Crespo
have essentially what turned into an international event
I found that to be really significant.
We can count on a couple hands
the number of events that we've seen
that reached that type of a scale.
We've seen Rafik Anadol hit that type of a scale.
We've seen several others hit that type of a scale.
And I think it should be celebrated.
And I think it was very cool
that they made the live stream available.
Very cool that so much footage was shared from the streets.
I know Ana Maria Caballero was over there.
I know Pablo Feral was over there.
I know there were several in the streets
just really taking it in and enjoying that moment.
kind of why I felt comfortable
putting this item on this list.
And usually this is market related,
but there was also Sofia Crespo and Entangled Others.
That's with her and her husband and partner.
They create some fabulous art just closing at Christie's
in the charity auction for four and a half East.
And oh, by the way, there was Sofia Crespo
with I believe it's an addition of eight
all privately being placed,
selling to WCC, Woodmere Cap Club
earlier in the week as well in a private transaction.
All about Sofia Crespo, number five on the list.
All right, I think I found her
and I pinned a few things up top.
Please confirm that's the right work.
Yeah, it said Barcelona's on pretty sure it is.
a large scale experiential piece
very similar to Rafik sort of in that way.
Yes, Sofia and Entangled Others are absolutely
at the cutting edge of what is possible
with an AI these days, right?
So I just would highly suggest diving off
into both works that sold recently.
You'll get two different angles into Sofia Crespo.
One that's coming in through her individually,
one through that beautiful partnership
I love how people have started to use
these famous gaudy monuments as canvases for these works.
Like what do you call this?
Like this is a thing, this is a trend.
They've been doing this on one of these,
this specific sort of like apartment building
that I've actually visited when I was studying over there.
I've seen them doing this a couple of times now.
Is there a term of art for this type of activation
or display where you're integrating it into the architecture?
I think loosely speaking, projection mapping, right?
Right, you call it projection mapping
and then of course it's how deeply the artist
or the creator goes in terms of really making it shine
relative to the architecture.
There you go, number five.
And again, we will be pinning these up in the Xbox
as we go along so you can always fall along up there up top.
All right, number four, let's do this, let's roll it.
Number four, now you know I like to go all over the place.
You know I don't like to just give you the obvious examples.
All very impactful, all very meaningful.
The number four artist is Jedi Wolf.
Now you might say to me, Jedi Wolf is a collector.
Well, if you want to read his latest thread,
which maybe we can get pinned up there,
I would contest that he shares at least a piece
of an artist's brain with how he is putting together
this exquisite under the GAN collection.
Now, I am of the opinion that this collection,
similar to how, let's see, we could go to an example
like Rudy A, right, in the art blocks community.
If anyone's followed along with generative art
and the various moves that Rudy A has made,
you see Rudy A now incredibly wealthy
on the back of being early to art blocks,
being convicted in art blocks,
compiling a monstrous collection
and being in a position to now sell
some of that collection, right?
But you could look at it the other way.
You could hold it forever
and you'd still be incredibly wealthy.
It just depends on that person's ultimate goals.
Jedi Wolf is compiling an early AI collection
focusing on 2017 and 2019 works
that I'm looking at today and I just think it's obvious.
I just think the writing is on the wall.
I think the trend is going in the right direction.
AI is such a part of our future
any way you wanna look at it.
I think Jedi Wolf and the Under the GAN collection
will be that defining collection
where people look at it and they're just stunned
by the amount of meaningful pieces
that he's been able to acquire.
It's already been written.
That collection could end today
and it already has that type of a status.
What it added to it basically overnight yesterday
is it's coup de gras, right?
He's charming a Jedi Wolf kind of like the final move
that needed to be made to make the statement
and exactly the way that he wanted to make the statement.
And in one fell swoop, he acquired two, not one, but two.
Now one would be a lead report type occasion.
He just happened to acquire two, Lost Robbies
First released at Christie's Art and Tech Summit.
Their first ever in London.
It was a free claim originally in the year, I believe 2018.
It was in partnership with Art Nome and Super Rare.
They said here to use 300 plus attendees
of this Art and Tech Summit, have these artworks.
Some people term them ugly.
They're obviously early AI models.
That's up to you, but they're really cool.
All but about 26, I believe, never claimed it.
They're called the Lost Robbies for that reason.
So right about that number 26 exists today.
I tried to track down the exact blockchain data
at least a several hundred thousand USD changed hands.
It's a mixed deal, so it includes NFTs as well.
I took a crack at, you know, I'm a sleuth.
I took a crack at exactly what I thought the details were
relative blockchain transactions.
He said it wasn't exactly there.
It was a little inaccurate.
I don't like to publish that stuff.
So what I'm saying here and now,
at least several hundred thousand USD changed hands
A Lost Robby for context last sold January 4th for 150 ETH.
That puts you right in the ballpark of expectations.
That's number four, Jedi Wolf.
All right, I think I found the thread pinned up top.
So is Jedi Wolf part of the cabal?
Is he part of the NFT Illuminati?
You know, Jedi Wolf, I don't look at it that way.
Now, Jedi Wolf has gone on to form his own cabal
along with a number of founders and it's the X copy cabal.
It's the Doomdow, which I think the early days
of the Doomdow seem to tap into the promise
of how a Dow theoretically could be constructed for good.
I think we've seen some Dows fall apart at the seams.
I think we've seen some Dows or the jury still out.
I think we've seen a very select few
You have the right people behind it.
And the Doomdow was in support essentially of X copy
and collecting enthusiasts around X copy's career.
So if Jedi Wolf is part of a cabal, it's the Doomdow.
And go check out that thread if you wanna learn more
and maybe start your path into the NFT cabal.
No, that's pretty awesome.
Yeah, I don't know that you've highlighted
a collector like this on these lists yet.
I have to try to break brains every time I come.
Keeping it fresh, keeping it interesting.
And yeah, again, I hadn't actually,
I don't think I was familiar with Jedi Wolf.
So that's also one of the amazing things
is that you always manage to bring in some surprises
or new people into the mix that, that's the service here.
You discover all of the most awesome things
that maybe were just beneath the surface
or you weren't actually aware of.
So, all right, there you go.
I see some very special people in this room.
Number three on this list is Jimena.
And you mentioned Jimena earlier,
and I'm gonna double and triple and quadruple down.
There's someone else special in this room
and his name's Ed Balloon.
I'm gonna get to you in a second, Ed.
But really, this is the launch of Rari.
This is the resurrection of Rarible,
and it happens to come at a wonderful time
to pair with the exceptional art of Jimena.
And you just see, you know, I went to bed
and essentially published my report early in the morning.
There were 5,000 at that time,
open editions minted at 0.0088th.
In the next several hours, that closed at 13,404,
open editions minted at 0.0088th.
Oh, by the way, over 117th.
Obviously has been out there spreading good vibes,
just the tweets that she's putting out on the back of this.
Hey, this is what we're all striving for.
This is meant to be celebrated.
I'm throwing another dash of monstrous vibes
over to Jimena right now.
And to Rarible, the resurrection of Rarible,
putting their foot down on behalf of Artist Royalties
and a number of other things,
they seem to be headed in the right direction.
And oh, by the way, here comes Headless Ken
and Ed Balloon, 737 open editions at 0.02.
Congratulations to Ed as well.
So Artist number three is Jimena.
I think it could easily be shared here today
with Ed and Rarible as well.
I mean, how good does it feel
to have some of our favorite community members
highlighted on such a special list,
such an important list, I will say.
So yeah, I mean, some of our favorite people right there.
Jimena and Ed are both absolute OGs
and their paths have been an inspiration,
I think, to many of us in this very space.
So it's awesome to see them continue to cook
and do what they're doing.
So yeah, I mean, I couldn't be more happy
And I found something from Jimena pinned up top.
I'm gonna go tap in on Ed to see if I can pin anything.
But again, if there's anything else, Roger,
that you think we should be pinning,
please feel free to do so.
Number three, Jimena, Ed, and the Rari chain,
which we've covered a little bit yesterday.
We're doing Alt Chain Alpha,
and we really haven't been covering that much
of what Rari Chain's been doing
other than these art drops.
But it does seem like maybe there's some interesting stuff
Rarible, of course, was the first marketplace, really,
to launch with token, its own token,
and incentives for creators and builders.
So we've always been rooting for Rarible to pick it up
and hopefully succeed, and they've been pivoting quickly.
Maybe Rari Chain is gonna really do amazing things,
but this seems like a strong start.
Ladies and degenerates, if you haven't shared out the room.
By the way, this is GM Web 3,
the greatest morning show ever invented,
and we're joined here by some of our favorite
co-hosting contributors, including our sort of,
I don't know, biweekly contributor up here,
Mr. Roger Dickerman of 24 Hours of Art,
who we absolutely love and adore doing an amazing service
for the whole crypto art community
with his 24 Hours of Art and a service
to this Web 3 network by coming in here every so often.
Again, trying to keep that biweekly Wednesday cadence
to do these very special top five artists this week.
That's what we're getting into right now.
We've already, we've done number five.
We just did number three.
We're getting down to the top two artists this week.
So take those actions, use your thumbs.
Doesn't cost you a thing.
Let your friends know where we're at.
Go ahead and share it out,
or at least drop some dank memes
or some eggplant emojis in the comments.
Whatever tickles your fancy.
All right, Roger, I'm ready.
You led with some Solana mentions,
and that's exactly where we're going
with number two on this list.
Number two on this list is Rope Rianisto.
Rope Rianisto is the number two artist on this list
releasing the 5,000 edition Solana collection, Smile.
And if you haven't looked at it,
and I relayed this to Rope,
and I think he quite liked it,
and someone else told me it's what every artist hopes for.
I said, this is a collection
that makes me 50% uncomfortable at all times,
but nevertheless, throughout any stage of discomfort,
And I think that was the intent of the collection.
And by the way, I challenge you.
I challenge everybody in this room.
Scroll through Rope's Smile collection
and see how long you can take it
before blinking or turning away from the screen.
It is just, he really strikes a sweet spot.
And today's report actually provide a long quote
from Rope about the context of what he was going for here.
I really appreciate his thoughtfulness.
I interviewed him recently in a long-form interview
on the Future of Art podcast,
if you want a window into his brain,
which is a wonderful brain at that.
But back to the release, 5,000 editions, 0.2 Solana each.
That's 1,000 Solana total in primary.
So a little over 100,000 USD.
Now, since its release, not even 24 hours ago,
we have seen 3,655 sales.
We've seen almost as many sales
as makes up the entire collection itself.
We've seen almost 5,000 Solana in volume.
Smile is out there cooking.
Now, I'd be remiss to not mention
someone who predates this week,
but absolutely belongs in this conversation.
It's maybe a walk then run situation,
or in this case, maybe run then run or drive then drive.
The rubber collection by Pop Punk
belongs in this discussion that was 1,000 editions
at a quarter Sol each, 0.25 Solana each.
It is now done over 20,000 Solana in volume
and holds a 16 Solana floor.
There's been a bunch of hyperbole thrown around
and comparisons thrown around,
but basically a great collection,
a high effort collection by Pop Punk,
one that he's thrown his entire self behind
So number two on the list is going to be Rope Rynisto
behind the smile collection,
but following directly in the footsteps
of someone else we love, and that is Pop Punk.
Love it, and I did find Rope and pin that up there.
Wasn't familiar with that one.
We've been covering rubber.
I don't want to derail it too far into this
since really you're trying to hire Rope here,
but you know, rubber is one that we've been talking about.
I'm curious though, why you call it a high effort project.
It appears to be pretty straightforward mid journey AI
generated art and yes, they look beautiful,
but to your point, a lot of people comparing that
with Fidensa's, which clearly it's derived from
and it in no way resembles the craft of generating those.
I'm just curious why you specifically think
rubbers is a high effort project.
That's interesting framing.
So let me, I think high effort and only saying high effort
is the wrong way to frame it.
I find Pop Punk high effort, right?
So I know Pop Punk for a little bit now.
I've done some interview stuff with him,
been able to just understand a little bit better
who he is and how he thinks about things.
I think Pop Punk is high effort, right?
Now you made a very critical distinction
because you get the low effort comparisons thrown around
and you know, before educating, it's easy to do that.
It's easy to just look at a visual
and assume the tools, mediums and processes
Again, this is not Fidensa, they are different.
Pop Punk doesn't like that comparison, right?
It's not an on the nose one.
Now, you know, when I say high effort again,
I'm referring to Pop Punk and I think his aesthetic,
I very much respect his aesthetic and his eye.
And so yes, he is absolutely using AI tools
You can look at that whichever way you want to,
but I think the final product that came out of it,
I do quite like the output.
Separately from speculating on price,
I do quite like the output he was able to achieve.
I mean, they're obviously aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
When I, like even myself working with AI tools,
I usually like to think of it
as like one part of a creative process.
I don't usually like to think of just, you know,
using chat GPT to create a prompt
and then throwing that prompt into mid journey
and then generating outputs.
I don't usually find that to be a very, I don't know.
It doesn't feel to me necessarily like that high effort
because you can basically just take that same prompt
and start generating those within, you know,
a couple of minutes or an hour.
And in fact, I've heard that with the rubbers,
he actually even like didn't even change the name
Like basically just took them straight out of mid journey
and there wasn't much processing or craft beyond that.
So that's why I bring it up.
I think there is a lot of hyperbole right now around them,
but I do not disagree with you.
I think that they're very good looking
and that's why they've done what they've done.
I mean, you can at least even just look at the results
and even just the strategy of launching
that type of project right now on Solana
as being very successful.
it doesn't even matter how I critique it right
because people fucking love it.
Yeah, and again, I think it's a good clarification by you.
And so my high effort commentary
is related to PopPunk himself.
I like how PopPunk carries himself.
I like how he deep thinks about subject matter.
I like, you know, even how he is spearheading
this collection from launch to present date
in the commentary around it.
And, you know, and let me sort of edge out of the commentary
around the AI usage itself, right?
I'm not gonna claim to be the technical wizard there
that wants to parse that apart,
but I like all of the other stuff around this collection.
And as we know, within this broader space,
a lot of times it's that other stuff that carries equal
or even more weight sometimes.
We're down to the last one.
Number two, Rope Renisto.
I think, I don't know if I'm saying that right.
Hopefully I'm not totally butchering it.
Smile is now trading on secondary.
And we are down to the last one.
The number one top artist this week.
Normally, I think we do a giveaway if people can guess.
You know what, I'm big on say.
So I'm gonna do a giveaway of a say NFT.
This might be a way to onboard some new people.
Maybe there's some people in here
that don't even have a compass wallet yet
or haven't even experienced the joy
of collecting NFTs over there on say yet.
So you know what, I'm gonna give away a say NFT.
Let me find one right here.
But this is how it works, fam.
All you gotta do is go down to the comment section.
And before Roger officially announces it,
because I will be paying attention to timestamps.
Don't you worry, you can't just hear it
and then go comment, I'll be watching.
But if you can guess who is the number one top artist
this week, according to Roger Dickerman
and his list here of who's trending and why,
then you will win a, you know what,
I got these cute little Sangus.
I think they're the cutest, coolest penguin PFPs
I'm gonna give a Sangu away.
Nifty Q isn't a fan, I don't care.
I'm gonna give a cute as heck little Sangu PFP
over there on say away to one person,
We're gonna try and kill a few seconds, a few minutes here
before we announce it to give you a chance to guess
and see if anybody gets it.
All you gotta do is go to the comments,
guess who you think is the number one trending artist
this week before Roger says the word
I wanna, if anyone gets it, I'm going to be very impressed.
And we have some very sharp minds in here.
Chikai, I see you in here.
Ryan Copmans, I see you in here.
We have some very sharp minds in here.
I wanna see some guesses and I want someone to nail it.
And again, it will be a very good moment if someone does.
So in the meantime, while we buy a minute or two here
to give people a chance to do their thinky think,
I don't know, that sounds weird,
to put on their thinking caps, go comment.
Do you have any commentary on say at all?
Has it even like, has it even, has it even, I don't know,
like gotten through to your filters yet?
Obviously there's not a whole lot of art over there yet.
So I imagine it's really not been much of a focus,
but I'm curious if you've thought about it at all
or had any sort of exposure yet.
Not yet, that's the honest answer.
A lot of stuff flying around, a lot of stuff going on.
The verbiage has crossed my path,
but I really have not taken that deep dive yet.
Yeah, you know what that means?
All that does is scream opportunity,
which we've been already talking about
for a better part of a month, month and a half now.
Roger just basically told you
where the Blue Ocean open playing field is,
the place to go and be first and early
and create something totally unique.
There's literally, as far as I know,
only one like pretty legit art project, art PFP over there.
And it's called outlines right now, Roger.
So it may be worth checking that out.
It had a very successful mint this week
and it's from a legit artist who's worked with
some like big hip hop artists
and a bunch of other established people.
So yeah, that one's called outlines.
But other than that, there's one coming up called alive
that's gonna be an early art project.
But there's really nothing over there
as far as like fine art goes at all.
So again, for any of the artists out there,
and you're looking for opportunities to be early,
Sei is absolutely one of those.
And I'll just throw this in there for your thinking, Roger.
One of the things that we talk a lot about is,
where can you zig when other people are zagging?
Where's the opportunities?
Especially with all these all chains popping up
and somebody was making the comparison to like,
well, what if Sei just becomes like Tezos
where they've got incredible projects and creators
but there's not really any collectors or traders over there?
Or, you know, aren't you worried that Sei could just
kind of be a flash in the pan
and not really become this vibrant ecosystem?
And one of the things that we've found
that differentiates these ecosystems
is they have both the collectors
and the artists and the creators, right?
And so Sei does have the DeFi.
Usually what that looks like is you have to have
a robust DeFi ecosystem within that network.
And so Sei is largely built on DeFi and has that already.
And so the fact that it's getting the culture
and the creator focus and it's building that so quickly
makes me feel like it's incredibly bullish
because that was one of the weaknesses with Tezos
is basically artists kind of didn't really want
to court traders very much over there early.
And so it never really developed as much of a robust trading
or DeFi ecosystem or any of that.
So anyway, that's a different,
and one of the reasons why we're kind of very bullish
on Sei is it seems like it's right now balancing
having creators, having royalties, having culture
with having that sort of DeFi trader focus as well.
So just something to think about.
But all right, if you haven't already,
this is the last call, go ahead and guess
who you think is the number one top trending artist this week
according to the man behind 24 hours of art,
Roger Dickerman in the comments, and if you guess it,
you win a Sangu cute little penguin PFP over there on Sei.
But once he says the name, you can no longer win.
So Roger, I've tried to buy some time
and fill up some time here to give people a chance.
But at this point, it's pretty much up to you.
The number one artist of the week.
I'm gonna tell a story, okay?
We're gonna tell a story.
This is the most mind blowing story you'll hear today,
The date is May 21st, 2021.
Now to frame that up, that is the conclude,
what I would call the tail end
of the face melting white hot art bull run
And what this artwork is,
is Beeple's only super rare artwork to date,
and it's a collaboration with Time Magazine.
It's called Time, The Future of Business by Beeple.
Now the art market is cooling off at that moment.
It's about to go into a long slumber
But things are still pretty spicy at the time.
And an artist and collector named Han, H-A-N,
Han RGB is his Twitter handle or X handle,
ends up stepping in and collecting.
I was a bit surprised at the time.
I said, damn Han, he collected the artwork
for 126 and a half ETH, which at the time,
mapping that ETH out was $320,741.
So Han puts his conviction behind that artwork,
Time, The Future of Business by Beeple.
Now, not even six months later,
on October 6th of the same year, 2021,
there was a very hot fund,
a very hot fund had come into the art space,
had been swinging around for a number of months at the time.
That fund is of course Starry Night,
the now liquidated or in process
of being liquidated Starry Night.
But at the time, they were very much the toast
Han sold that artwork less than six months later
to Starry Night for 675 Ethereum,
mapping it out because ETH had appreciated
after taking a nap over the summer,
Not bad Han, but wait, the story is not over.
Han will take a step back for over two years
I'm just, I'm obviously playing up this side of the story.
But nevertheless, Sotheby's gets their hands
on the liquidated Starry Night collection.
They've been privately placing artworks
and they do their first major public event,
all framed around called Grails, Starry Night, 19 Lots.
And oh, by the way, one of those lots,
people, time, the future of business
in that liquidation auction.
We see the bidding going,
was doing a live space at the time yesterday
with the great Brian Brinkman,
and we're commenting and we're seeing the bidding going.
And oh, by the way, somebody stops by our spaces
after we see the bidding close at $177,800.
I get a DM from my friend Han,
and Han says, hey, I have a story to tell.
Guess who collected that artwork on January 30th, 2024
for $177,800, but the very same Han.
So let me recap this for you in blitz fashion.
Han wakes up one day in May of 21,
buys that artwork for $320,000.
Less than six months later, sells at the Starry Night
Two and a half years later, steps in again,
recollects the artwork for $177,000.
That is your number one artist slash collector today, Han.
All right, I wanna make sure that I get this right.
So it's Han RGB, I believe.
Okay, let me go ahead and make sure I pin that up top.
And dude, I just love the way that you,
you don't just come in here with like a list.
Like you think through this stuff
in so many different levels,
and then you've got the whole narrative aspect of it clearly,
you know, in your algorithm for how you're selecting,
you know, the narrative is a key component
to how you're deciding, you know,
like what's the most relevant,
interesting things that are happening.
So yeah, I just, you know,
yeah, I'll clap it up for the storytelling.
Clap it up for the way that this man paints a picture for you
and contextualizes all this and why it matters.
Because context is ultimately important.
It's one of the most important things
I actually don't think the art
can exist without its context, right?
It's like one of those things,
like you can create beautiful things by yourself in a room,
but until you put it out there into the world
and it's consumed by contemporaries
and thought about and derived into other things,
it's like, it doesn't actually matter.
It doesn't mean anything really.
Like, yes, you can say like art can just be art
and be a purist about it,
but truly until it's in a context
and it can be contextualized within a movement
and within its time period,
it doesn't really matter much.
And so that's what's so special
about what you're doing here.
And again, why I'm so happy
and honored to be a collector
and part of this 24 hours of art community
Because the main reason I entered the space
in the first place was for the movement,
the creative movement, the global,
the emerging global creative class
and what this technology can do
to support artists at global scale.
And I truly believe that you're doing a service
to this whole movement and to crypto art
with all the work that you're doing here.
So yeah, just clap it up, give them some love.
The number one artist slash collector now,
because we're now adding in collectors this week.
Again, it's never gonna be old.
It's always gonna be fresh.
So yeah, clap it up, give them some love.
Now we gotta go see if anybody guessed it right.
I'm guessing people didn't,
because you threw a curve ball at them.
Again, they're probably guessing artists.
There's one person who got, now you have to figure out.
Now listen, I'm gonna give a shout out,
but I'm gonna throw up a question mark.
Late Bloomer, L8 Bloomer, handle L8 Blummer,
First I'm gonna give a shout out.
Now, Late Bloomer has created an everyday
on behalf of 24 hours of art out of pure passion
and nothing else has made that clear time and time again,
every single day of this year,
and is stated to doing it until the project sells out.
Now, L8 Blummer has motivated me,
inspired me, almost every single day
that I see something come through.
So I'm just giving all the hugs through the airwaves
and I've appreciated the level of thoughtfulness.
Now, what I'm gonna say on the other side,
you did throw in a couple guesses.
I'm just impressed that anybody would have guessed
and the fact that there's only one makes it easy too.
And plus, you know, it's a Sangu.
They're not like crazy expensive.
maybe because they're the cutest penguin PFP on say,
make sure to send me a say wallet.
recommend Compass Wallet.
That's the easiest way that I think a lot of us
are currently navigating the say ecosystem.
So get a say wallet and I will get you your Sangu
and congratulations to you.
But yeah, Roger, we're running out of time.
I also need to pin up top our link to NFT Live,
because if you don't know what this is, fam,
we do this show, GM web three here on the X space.
It's four days a week, Monday through Thursday.
And then we hop straight out of here over to YouTube,
where we keep the conversation rolling.
We're definitely gonna be digging more
into this list over there talking about crypto art
and everything that Roger delivered on this stage
with us today over there.
So yes, NFT Live is gonna pop off here in just a minute.
Biggie Poppins will be there.
It's Wednesday, so no DP.
So I'm pinning that up top right now.
But yeah, Roger, in these last couple of moments,
anything else and also any comments,
I am very curious if you have just general thoughts
on the state of the crypto art market.
You mentioned it's a bull bear.
We're not really full bull yet,
but I have heard rumblings of not a lot of liquidity
or interest in like art blocks projects
and it's hard to sell anything right now.
So yeah, I don't know if you got any other last thoughts
or things that you wanna leave us with.
Yeah, I think that's the thought in general, right?
I think it's easy to see something in a moment
and say we're back and it's easy to see something
in another moment and think,
oh geez, like this, we're in trouble, right?
And I think we're fluctuating
across these moments right now.
The bull bear, I wanna leave everyone with the bull bear.
We're gonna adopt that as the mascot of 24 hours of art.
I think it's the right mentality to have.
And what the bull bear means to me is that
no matter what the time and place,
there's always sort of a highlight or something to look at
that represents a possibility, right?
That represents a framing or a hopefulness.
And I think the most important thing,
the bar is raised and it's continuing to rise.
And I think that's a good thing.
And you're still gonna see things of all shapes and sizes
and intents succeed, of course.
There's no question that we'll continue to go on
But overall, most of the stuff that you're seeing stick,
it is really well thought out.
And you can see those examples spread out.
You can see it, you can go across like we did today.
We rotated amongst artists and collectors.
You can even go to brands.
You can go to the Sotheby's
and how well they've run the Starry Night Liquidation.
There are a number of individuals and brands
and players in the space that are elevating the bar
that we interact with on a daily basis.
And I think that is a very promising
Albeit frustrating at times,
because we can always get stuck
and rooted in a past expectation,
a past moment when we thought, hey, this is easy.
But you listen, none of that's real life anyway, right?
That represents a moment,
but not the totality of the experience.
There's always gonna be something to get excited about.
I think everyone in this room is more than capable
of meeting it, like Jimena did, who's still here with us,
like Han did, like Rope did,
and like many in this room will continue to do.
Fungible, I see you in Shiller, Chikai,
I see you, Kayvon in Maker's Place,
Wolf, everyone's out there doing the thing.
So anyway, that's a little rallying cry.
There's something here for everyone.
Look for it, find it, throw yourself all in.
And I did pin up top the latest edition of 24 Hours of Art.
I believe in Roger's bio,
you can find the link to 24 Hours of Art.
There's only about 15 left in this Genesis collection.
And if you are really into crypto art
and you wanna embed yourself further
into an amazing community of collectors, creators,
builders, believers, check out 24 Hours of Art.
Thank you to Roger Dickerman.
Thank you all for joining us.
The link for NFT Live is also pinned up top.
That's where we're heading right now.
It's the longest running show in all of NFTs and Web3.
And it's gonna be a great time.
I hope you have an amazing day.
I've been gifted, y'all been beautiful.
Shout out to our top five artists this week.
Number five, Sofia Crespo.
Number three, Jimena Buena Vida.
Number four, Rope Rynisto.
All right, we'll see you on YouTube.
NFT Live starts in just a minute.
See, I do what they want to do and can't do
but gonna wish they did what I'm done
and what is right on my face.
Give the truth from second place right after I won.
I'm from like a man but talking like a son in this way.
I can still be a little something to everyone.
And with that elegance, I brought clowns
to lead shits with all the relevance.
Boys positioned in the brush of the prevalence
I'm spoken with just the unbelievable evidence.
It is then, it's the vintage,
and it has been ever since.