Mike Winkelmann

understand this.

Human One by Beeple, bought for $28.9 million.

Today it's worth $37,000.

Neymar's two board apes bought for $1.1 million.

Not that one.

Go back up.

That one, the human one by Beeple.

I bought that for $14 million.

Et, euh, et c'est un mix de rencontres avec des artistes.

La semaine prochaine, on est dans le studio de Beeple.

Euh, on a eu Kaze, euh, il y a deux semaines.

Euh, on a fait hier, on a fait un MA, donc les gens avec plein de questions.

Plus gros, mais moins fou.

'fin, d'après ce que m'a dit Eli, justement, euh, de discussions qu'on a eues.

C'est, voilà, y aura pas les, les Beeple et les machines à laver et tout ça.

Donc on va-- on sera-- ce sera un peu plus sobre, un peu comme je pense, on a-- ce qu'on a vu à Bâle d'ailleurs, la, lors de Zero Ten, mais ça va quand même être plus important.

I'll go out on a limb and say that Joe Cocker's cover of Little Help From My Friends is better than that.

I'm kind of anti-Beeple, so I'm all right with it.

I'm pretty anti-Beatles, so I'm cool with that, too.

Tina Turner.

To say a little bit more about this, like this initial donation, it just focuses on work that's at the intersection of art and pioneering computer works from the 1960s.

So this is, to name a few of the pieces that are going in, it ranges from Keith Haring, Rafiq Anadol, Beeple, Tyler Hobbs, Frank Stella, Harold Cohen, Vera Molnar, Rebecca Allen, Manfred Moore, kim assendorf robert alice justin avarsano nancy baker kyle eric calderon mitchell chan deaf beef dimitri cherniak larva labs lou yang william mappan my man lauren lee mccarthy sarah mahias uh casey rios yatreda yuga labs and yeah on top of that we've also got um We're putting in a CryptoPunk, a hoodie CryptoPunk.

And there's also going to be a set of 12 folds that go in as well.

So this is something that's taken like three years to put together.

It's just like good ideas will rise to the top.

Yeah, it's a great take.

And you got me thinking about it because while Beeple was an artist prior to bringing his work on chain, he didn't come by way of one of these curated platforms.

He created art for 5,000 days in a row, right? He put in, he did the work, Jack Butcher, like he, I think it was Chex's first on-chain, I don't, it doesn't matter, but he was, you know, an artist, a graphic designer, an artist, a marketer, and launched, and he's continued to, but he, quite frankly, is, he used the internet marketing machine.

However, like the total for the community was like other communities, right? Like 71% went to ApeFest attendees and holders of Apes and Mutants, and then I just don't want to give wrong information.

I think 1% was given out at Beeple's.

Essentially, that's where the 71% comes out or at ApeFest for the distribution of IRL and then also what was bought at the pop-up.

There was a chart.

Gucci, Figgy was talking about the Mudwater playing mat, which it's really nice, high quality.

The deck case, also high quality.

The downside with getting Figgy and Beeple to sign the mat is now he can't play with it.

So he's going to have to track down another mat to play, but no, I kid.

have a question real quick to you.

Did he just say that if we send in a signed Beeple box, we wouldn't get that exact same box once it gets there?

Yes, but it would be one in the same condition.

So

So there was a game mat, some other stuff in the goodie bag.

Also down bad because wasn't even thinking, wasn't in the right frame of mind when I, when I get, you know, on the show today, but it was not in the, uh, um, I was not in the frame of mind to like, how can I maximize this free stuff I'm getting at this thing? Shout out to the people who got the boxes signed by Figgy and Beeple.

That was the play.

That was the play if you're gonna collect these boxes and not flip them.

Even if you were flipping immediately, I'm certain, 100% certain those will drive a premium.

Diego, where were you Saturday night? Why weren't you in my ear saying to get the Beeple autograph? i i did think about it i didn't run into people i did not get diego an autograph but i if he was in my ear telling me i should have got that autograph i might have thought to have him sign the box that that's my big miss is i failed to um fail to get the people's signature on the people and figgy on the uh the box of mud water anyways back to Back to the rest of 8 Fest before we jump into Mudwater.

And again, Joey, just a reminder, if you've got a 9 o'clock or something, we'll get to you a while before then.

I just want to knock the rest of this stuff out.

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I've been there, it's so fun, uh, for the Beeple opening.

It's at People's actually.

Um, but there is, uh...