Today we release the next crypto banknote design in Tom Badley’s Deplorables series – a banknote family for the fictional country, Republica de los Deplorables. This design honours Ross Ulbricht Ross William Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road website – an online black market and the world’s first darknet market. Of course, it’s appropriate…
Today, banknote artist Tom Badley releases the second NFT from the Deplorables series, featuring whistleblower Edward Snowden, exclusively available on https://opensea.io/assets/0x677d8fe828fd7143ff3cee5883b7fc81e7c2de60/293 The Deplorables is a series of banknote designs that celebrate popular figures who reveal secrets and advocate privacy, transparency and truth. The first, 0.5 ETH, features Julian Assange, available at KnownOrigin. The designs feature…
The International Digital Arts Festival This year on the 26th-27th of June the UK saw its first blockchain art dedicated festival (international digital arts festival). Held in central Manchester, the event hosted some fantastic and original art all centred around the digital format. Manny blockchain art projects contributed art to the event. the skill displayed…
Maximillian- Late night humans https://opensea.io/assets/0x677d8fe828fd7143ff3cee5883b7fc81e7c2de60/142 This article sets out the reasons the art world needs blockchain art and NFT’s(non-fungible tokens). As well as covering some things that I believe as an industry we need to watch out for and work to solve. Blockchain has long been a clear fit for digital art and art in…
Ernesto Romano creates work the mirrors what he has inside literally. His recent work are all x-ray scans of his own body below we see the work royal blood.
Sarah has lived a life of contrast hailing from South Africa, she had constant artistic influence around her. This beautiful landscape, however,
Originally of Chinese descent, Benjamin Lee lived most of his young life in Toronto, Canada. There he studied in Photographic Arts at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. After graduating at the top of his class of 1972 he traveled for 10 months through Europe. After his travels, he received a grant from the Canadian Arts Council…
All of us consume fantasy reality’s in one way or another, but how many of us create one? Malena Santos also known by her online alias Zyralynn. One such rare individual who has the capability and creativity to not just produce detailed and technically brilliant artworks. But also, the deep concepts required to make art…
Who is Pepe? Well, Pepe is a frog… why do we care? Pepe despite all of the bad press association with trump and school shootings is cartoon frog whose origins are just that of an internet comic. But why are we talking about this alt-right Nazi frog? (I hope the sarcasm hasn’t gone unnoticed)…
With the upper echelons of the art world and wealthy investors being able to decide, as it was, who will be the next big thing, it becomes harder and harder for new artists to make their way through the maze that is their career path, the career of being a respected and full time practising artist.