24 Hours of Art: January 10, 2025

These Are Their Thrones

Pepe Toilets NYC #59 and #60 by Oveck

'Pepe Toilets NYC' by Vincent Van Dough releases a 1/1/69 collection in collaboration with 23 artists (and 69 bathrooms).

The renditions swiftly sell out for 0.1 ETH each and 6.9 ETH total, while the secondary market sees 22 sales for 4.2 ETH. Current list is 0.13 ETH.

Via Vince Van Dough:
"big thanks to all who collected, enjoy your thrones"

Checkmate

Jack Butcher captivates Rodeo by changing the metadata of all 26 artwork posts and almost 160,000 mints to an identical Checks image.

Via philbirt:
"wow this looks different than I remembered"

Collection: Highlights

On the 69th Day... by Tustont

  • Primary (The Memes by 6529) - 'On the 69th Day...' by Tustont: closes at 158 mints for 0.0659 ETH each
  • TODAY (The Memes by 6529) - 'Vault Core' by Stefan große halbuer

*Incoming Notables

Saturday, January 11 | Monday, January 13:
'PXL DEX' by Kim Asendorf: 1/1/256 collection, Saturday Allowlist, Monday 1 ETH each public phase, website URL coming soon

1/1: Highlights

Portrait of the Zeitgeist by DocT

  • LIVE (Foundation) - 'A Cube' by Mari: 0.5 ETH bid, ends Sat

1/1/X: Highlights

Winds of Yawanawa #177 by Refik Anadol

  • 'Winds of Yawanawa' /1k by Refik Anadol: 6.6 WETH to MemesAreHot
  • 'Themes and Variations' /500 by Vera Molnár with Martin Grasser: 1.955 ETH toFedKassad
  • 'Synthetic Dreams' /1k by Refik Anadol: 1.35 ETH
  • 'alignDRAW' /2,709 (Fellowship) by Elman Mansimov: 1.3 WETH
  • 'Pebbles' /1k (NextGen 6529) by Zeblocks: 0.9701 WETH
  • 'Singularity' /1,024 (Art Blocks) by Hideki Tsukamoto: 0.9 WETH to carlos104
  • 'beef brothko' /666 by die with the most likes: 0.85 & 0.85 ETH
  • 'Interwoven' /100 (Cactoid Labs with LACMA) by Emily Xie: 0.8001 WET

Edition: Highlights

Afterburn by XCOPY

RD Report

Concept leads an otherwise slow day in the digital art market.

Jack Butcher is firmly on the "throne" (cheers VVD) of thought leadership in Web3.

Once upon a time, Pak had that title. Before you pitchfork me for drawing that comparison, there is a distinct similarity and a distinct difference between the two.

Similar is their control of audience and unparalleled surprise and delight based marketing containing multiple layers (and thus serving multiple layers of audience).

Different is their distribution of value. Thus far, Butcher has operated through a shared lens, in many cases outright free minting, only to pour endless effort into creating something larger (and valuable) for his audience. Pak did not operate through that lens.

I often think about the pursuit of win-win scenarios as a superpower of this stage in blockchain based artistic expression. Butcher is a master of it. It affords him a deserved benefit of the doubt as he builds and plays in the real-time public eye.

Today Reported:
Sales thresholds of (USD) $10k+ Collection, $1k+ 1/1, $2.5k+ 1/1/X, and $1k+ Edition artworks

Under threshold and interesting to me is 'QUITTING TIME' 1/1 by DK selling for 0.19459 ETH to baiwei.eth.

2025 Subscriber Corner

The eighth ART of 2025 plays with the concept of Anna Ridler's Price Per Stem, positioning Winds of Yawanawa as the peonies (read yesterday's headline story for full context). Fidenza "Rose Colors" are lightly homaged as a final touch on a floral day.

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