FEATURE: Artist blows up Lamborghini to make NFTs — in protest against crypto culture (via Timccopeland)
Artist Shl0ms has blown up a $250,000 Lamborghini to protest against crypto’s focus on getting rich.advertisement
The pseudo-anonymous artist chose a Lamborghini because, “the Lambo is a pretty potent representation of people simply engaging with crypto because it’s a way for them to make money off other people as quickly as possible.”Shl0ms agreed to be interviewed on a video call through a live filter that translates their face into a Matrix-like pixelated representation of a green image on a blue background — constantly shifting, constantly updating.
, where the actual data file itself contained folders within folders that replicated the same fractal. In a sense, the piece contained 730 copies of itself.And it was this type of examination of the intersection between the physical and the digital that led them to blow up a real object to turn its fragments into NFTs.Taking inspiration from artist Marcel Duchamp’s artwork of a urinal with a signature written on it, Shl0ms recreated a similar object before smashing it to bits.
They added that Ritholtz Wealth Management COO Nick Maggiulli asked whether it would be “chaotically destroyed or methodically disassembled?” and posed that question to their Twitter following. A poll was soon issued and Shl0ms’s followers narrowly chose “chaos” over “order.”on Twitter at the time, adding, “In fact the DAO will only allow people who hate lambos, that will be our aligning ethos.”
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