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JPG File Sells for $69 Million
by 8DonCo Fri Mar 12, 2021 12:02 pm
JPG File Sells for $69 Million, Sets Record for Digital Artwork Sold at Christie's
A JPG file made by a digital artist known as Beeple sold for a record $69.3 million on Thursday at Christie's auction house.
According to The New York Times, the artwork, a digital collage titled "Everydays — The First Five Thousand Days," became the most expensive ever non-fungible token (an asset that uses blockchain technology to allow definitive ownership of digital commodities) when it went under the hammer this week, with the winning bidder using Ethereum cryptocurrency to pay for the file.
Despite being listed for $100 at the start of the two-week auction, the file received more than 180 bids in the final hour. The uptake in interest ultimately pushed the price up from under $30 million to over $60 million in the two-minute extension granted by the auction house. As a result, Beeple's digital asset became the third-most-expensive piece of artwork to be sold by a living artist at auction.
"Artists have been using hardware and software to create artwork and distribute it on the internet for the last 20 plus years but there was never a real way to truly own and collect it," Beeple said in a statement after the historic auction sale, per NPR. "I believe we are witnessing the beginning of the next chapter in art history, digital art."
A JPG file made by a digital artist known as Beeple sold for a record $69.3 million on Thursday at Christie's auction house.
According to The New York Times, the artwork, a digital collage titled "Everydays — The First Five Thousand Days," became the most expensive ever non-fungible token (an asset that uses blockchain technology to allow definitive ownership of digital commodities) when it went under the hammer this week, with the winning bidder using Ethereum cryptocurrency to pay for the file.
Despite being listed for $100 at the start of the two-week auction, the file received more than 180 bids in the final hour. The uptake in interest ultimately pushed the price up from under $30 million to over $60 million in the two-minute extension granted by the auction house. As a result, Beeple's digital asset became the third-most-expensive piece of artwork to be sold by a living artist at auction.
Image credit: Mike Winkelmann/Beeple (via Christie's)
The JPG file created by Beeple — real name Mike Winkelmann — was billed by the auction house as "a unique work in the history of digital art." The collection consists of a colorful collage of images that the artist has posted online each day since 2007, resulting in 5,000 individual images from 5,000 different days (hence the name of the art piece)."Artists have been using hardware and software to create artwork and distribute it on the internet for the last 20 plus years but there was never a real way to truly own and collect it," Beeple said in a statement after the historic auction sale, per NPR. "I believe we are witnessing the beginning of the next chapter in art history, digital art."
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Re: JPG File Sells for $69 Million
by Rice Fri Mar 12, 2021 12:08 pm
nhiều lúc có nhiều thứ giá trị kỳ ghê, trong khi mình nói: cho cũng không thèm lấy
cái twit đầu tiên của Jack Dorsey, lúc đó ổng đang test, giờ đấu giá có người trã $25 Mil, hết hiểu MAN!!!!!!!
cái twit đầu tiên của Jack Dorsey, lúc đó ổng đang test, giờ đấu giá có người trã $25 Mil, hết hiểu MAN!!!!!!!
Rice
Re: JPG File Sells for $69 Million
by ga10 Fri Mar 12, 2021 12:09 pm
Some people just have too much money and don't know what to do with them.
ga10
Re: JPG File Sells for $69 Million
by 8DonCo Fri Mar 12, 2021 12:14 pm
Rice wrote:nhiều lúc có nhiều thứ giá trị kỳ ghê, trong khi mình nói: cho cũng không thèm lấy
cái twit đầu tiên của Jack Dorsey, lúc đó ổng đang test, giờ đấu giá có người trã $25 Mil, hết hiểu MAN!!!!!!!
ga10 wrote:Some people just have too much money and don't know what to do with them.
tại mình không có đầu óc về Art, nhiều bức tranh quẹt quẹt xanh xanh đỏ đỏ vàng vàng bân bạc triệu
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Re: JPG File Sells for $69 Million
by ga10 Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:35 pm
Vậy đây 0 phải là bức tranh mà là cái file which combines 5000 art images that this person posted. I assume they can click on each one to see the bigger picture?
ga10
Re: JPG File Sells for $69 Million
by nhatrangdep Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:39 pm
nhìn vô thấy đủ thứ màu hem có gì xuất sắc cã
nhatrangdep
Re: JPG File Sells for $69 Million
by HangHang Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:26 pm
nhatrangdep wrote:nhìn vô thấy đủ thứ màu hem có gì xuất sắc cã
Xuất sắc ở chổ :
Có nhiều màu sắc khác nhau lí rí nhưng rõ ràng là gì nếu nhìn kỹ .
Có nhiều hình dạng khác nhau nhưng rõ ràng là gì nếu nhìn kỹ .
Có nhiều người chũng tộc khác nhau nhưng rõ ràng là gì nếu nhìn kỹ .
Trong tranh có nhiều tranh ảnh khác nhau nhưng rõ ràng là gì nếu nhìn kỹ .
Phố xá xe cộ qua lại V.V. và v.v.....
Những cái này cộng lại khg thễ nào đếm được , nếu muốn ̣đếm tốn rất nhiều thời gian .
Suy nghĩ cũa ông này khối óc vàng nghệ thuật .
Nếu ai khg tin những gì tui nói thì từ từ phân tích những gì tui viết .
HangHang
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