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"Art" World Lunacy!
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"Art" World Lunacy!
An online sale of a single pixel, as a part of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by the digital artist [sic ] Pak,
sold for US$1.36 million (A$1.76 million) at auction house Sotheby's.  A non-fungible token is a
form of blockchain-based digital asset that has exploded in popularity in 2021, with prices soaring
as collectors and enthusiasts rush to buy the items, which only exist in digital form.

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This NFT called "The Pixel"  —an image of a single pixel, was also up for auction, fetching A$1.76 million
after a 90-minute bidding battle.  The pixel was a part of a total of US$16.8 million (A$21.8 million) digital
"art" sale, the auction house said on Wednesday.  

Last month, an NFT "artwork" sold for US$69.3 million (A$89.8 million) at Christie's, in the first sale ever
by a major auction house of a piece of art that does not exist in physical form.

And check out this load of absolute bullshit...

Max Moore, contemporary art specialist at Sotheby's, said the sale was targeted towards "crypto-native"
collectors. "These new crypto investors have a very different aesthetic and a very different taste profile
than a traditional collector would and so it's important to provide a mix and a range of collectibles at Sotheby's
to attract a wide variety of audience," he said.

—Their "different" aesthetic is simply that they don't have one LOL.  And their... uh... "taste" is apparently
sourced from their anal sphincters.

Meanwhile today in sub-Saharan Africa, another 15,000 children under the age of 5 years have died due to
a lack of potable drinking water and cheap antibiotics.
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"Art" World Lunacy!
(04-15-2021, 05:20 AM)SYZ Wrote: An online sale of a single pixel, as a part of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by the digital artist [sic ] Pak,
sold for US$1.36 million (A$1.76 million) at auction house Sotheby's.  A non-fungible token is a
form of blockchain-based digital asset that has exploded in popularity in 2021, with prices soaring
as collectors and enthusiasts rush to buy the items, which only exist in digital form.

[Image: Screenshot-2021-04-15-This-grey-single-p...lion-1.png]

This NFT called "The Pixel"  —an image of a single pixel, was also up for auction, fetching A$1.76 million
after a 90-minute bidding battle.  The pixel was a part of a total of US$16.8 million (A$21.8 million) digital
"art" sale, the auction house said on Wednesday.  

Last month, an NFT "artwork" sold for US$69.3 million (A$89.8 million) at Christie's, in the first sale ever
by a major auction house of a piece of art that does not exist in physical form.

And check out this load of absolute bullshit...

Max Moore, contemporary art specialist at Sotheby's, said the sale was targeted towards "crypto-native"
collectors. "These new crypto investors have a very different aesthetic and a very different taste profile
than a traditional collector would and so it's important to provide a mix and a range of collectibles at Sotheby's
to attract a wide variety of audience," he said.

—Their "different" aesthetic is simply that they don't have one LOL.  And their... uh... "taste" is apparently
sourced from their anal sphincters.

Meanwhile today in sub-Saharan Africa, another 15,000 children under the age of 5 years have died due to
a lack of potable drinking water and cheap antibiotics.

There are many bizarre and crazy people with too much money and no sense of world problems...
Never try to catch a dropped kitchen knife!
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I take it back, half the population does have an IQ lower than one hundred. Some are into negative numbers. Others don't understand the question.
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Obviously the pixel was purchased by a member of the More Money Than Brains Club.

My daughter is a digital artist, and judging from her current opinion about NFTs she's just about ready to pick up an actual pen again -- for the express purpose of disarticulating the hand bones of the nearest blockchain scammer.
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No wonder John William Godward committed suicide.  Dodgy
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Hmm... was this perchance, posted on the internet on April 1st?   Consider
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Jackson Pollock looks down and laughs.
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Jackson Pollack couldn't hold a paintbrush to these guys!

Well, okay, I guess he could, but you know what I mean.
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There was, some 20 years ago, a thing where people fundraised with pixels. If they needed, let's say 1000 dollars, there would be 1000 pixels for sale and when you donated something, that amount got blanked out. That was the forerunner of "fund me" and such.
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