Let us not forget ‘Everydays – The First 5000 Days’
Almost a year already, Beeple’s “Everydays – The First 5000 Days” sold at Christie’s—a first-of-its-kind auction, sold as an NFT for $69 million…
Almost a year already, Beeple’s “Everydays – The First 5000 Days” sold at Christie’s—a first-of-its-kind auction, sold as an NFT for $69 million.
The First 5000 Days
Mike Winkelmann—professionally known as Beeple in NFT cryptocurrency space—started creating and posting his digital artworks online in May 2007. Everyday!
Some who didn’t know, the “Everydays – The First 5000 Days” is a digital artwork made by Beeple. On May 1, 2007, he used his imagination and put his ideas and creativity for five thousand days—straight, and for five thousand artworks comprised into one based on his reaction, arguments, and the way he sees the world in the form of art he created.
Not missing a day ever since he started creating each digital picture collated as one, he took his artwork to emerge in digital art history.
Sources
- Christie’s : Show tooltip Beeple (b. 1981) EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS
- Everydays: the First 5000 Days – Wikipedia
- Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million – The Verge