Something changed when XCOPY released the happy, cheery summer.jpg in August 2021…and something changed again when XCOPY released Remnants. Inside you are two wolves. One wolf, gets the inside joke of using a 1 of 1 Grifter as your profile picture. The other, realises that Remnants is perhaps the most distilled voice of XCOPY to date. Which wolf are you?
The secret to Gabriella Morton’s success is refined conceptualisation of an idea. Each artwork stands as evidence of her wrestling with the potential of scene, saying and shared experience. Klutch, Grant Shannon, Shalin and Norcal Guy have also recognized the immense future potential that Gabriella is hinting at.
World building is often thrown around in cryptoart yet few have the patience to bring it to life over the multiple years it takes. Apocalypse is the exception. Read the ‘On The Run’ screenplay for the 2025 short film…that is the crescendo for a release of characters over the last three years 2021-2024.
The Artist: andginja Andginja is a talented photographer and visual artist based in Lisbon, known for capturing the vibrant essence of urban life and architecture. His photography collection from Lisbon highlights the city’s unique charm, blending traditional Portuguese aesthetics with modern perspectives.
MintFace is a Geodetic Reality Futurist who lays down a path for another person to one day pick up on. The image-laden pathway creates a legacy… and in doing so, becomes a way to understand the grit of the path less travelled, for those who choose it or it chooses them.
The Artist: Matty Furious Matty Furious joined SuperRare in November 2018, one of the first 50 artists to mint there. Matty’s art heralds the tokenized echoes of the early electronic device and Internet era. The blue screen background of ‘Shakespeare CHAN’ or the playing card computer poker hands of ‘Gamble Your Life Away’ take us […]
Unorthodoxy thrives in the suburban streets turned theatrestage by Ben Zank. The suited and booted protagonist is found contorted in and around the surfaces of suburban lives that 99.999% of the rest of the residents have never considered, let alone attempted. That is what makes Zank’s work sizzle. We are forced to ask ourselves ‘what is happening here?’ Tans, yellows, oranges and pine green are a recurring palette across many of Zank’s work.
Romantic Cyberpunk artist Danguiz, hurtles us into the future to ponder what it might mean to exist in the 22nd Century and beyond. With Blade Runner four decades in an our rear vision mirror, many dystopian aspects of its forecast have already come to pass. Yet there is hope within the scenes Dangiuz creates. The cat reminds us that we still care for the animals, despite an inundation of super-sized pixel displays.
Connecting humans together are the three words that speak most clearly when I hear the name Justin Aversano. He travels, spends time with the subjects of his portraits, and when the feeling takes him, snaps the shutter and preserves the proof on the blockchain. Aversano has inspired many photographers since Twin Flames to mint a well rounded, large collection of photographs that say more as a collection than independently.
The ironic smiley faced leader of gloom began on June 22nd 2021 with the release of ‘Brutalized Police Car.’ The rebellious spirit has continued through the release of the collection titled ‘Gloomerican Dreams’ with 489 co-conspirators participating in the on-chain riot broadcast on Gloomtube.