So, Beeple is now the second most expensive card that can't be changed into . It runs. It seems like each ensuing day following Christie's historic $69 million sale of digital artist Beeple's "Everydays: The First 5000 Days" has uncovered another extremely . $form.find('.invalid-email').show().siblings().hide(); There was a showing-off factor, Watkinson said. THE FIRST 5000 DAYS Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, is a South Carolina graphic designer and motion artist who has famously been creating a picture every single day for the last 13 years - not missing a single day for 5,000 straight days. A digital collage called "Everydays The First Five Thousand Days" by the artist Beeple sold for almost $70 million by Christie's in an online auction Thursday. Theres already been pushback against the rise of NFTs. [15] Some of the earlier images are hand drawn and not computer produced. var $email = $form.find('.signup-email'); The final auction price of $69+ million USD was not the only record broken in relation to the sale. For comparisons sake, minting an NFT isnt quite identical to an artist sending a digital photo of a new painting to a dealer to confirm authorship, integrate the piece into their inventory, and begin drawing interest from collectors but its not terribly far off, either. A collage from the artist Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, who composed a new piece of digital art every day for 5,000 days starting in May 2007 and has collected them in a work. if (!window.jQuery) loadJQuery(); //exdays*24*60*60 He predicted that the work would be regarded as "either as the moment before the short-lived cryptoart bubble burst, or as the first chapter in a new story of art". Todd Levin, a New York art adviser who saw Leonardos Salvator Mundi sell at Christies for $450.3 million in 2017, said he had mixed emotions about the Beeple sale. + '<\/style>' // Signup validation return; } else { var ouibounceScript = '