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As the vaccination roll-out continues, many of us have begun making mental bucket lists of the activities and places we’re eager to return to once it’s safe to do so. For some, that might mean hitting your favorite dive bar with friends you haven’t seen since last year. For others, it might be a long-awaited visit to family members. And, for a select few, it might just be standing in an open field in the hot, beating sun for the entirety of the day before paying $10 for a water bottle, losing your friends, and realizing your phone is dead in the middle of a mosh pit of strangers.
Posted: Mar 12, 2021 11:45 AM ET | Last Updated: March 12
Detail from Into the Ether-Verse - Snail Sphere 2.0 by Joren Cull. The Toronto-based artist began selling his work as NFTs in February. (Joren Cull)
On Thursday, Christie s sold a work called
Everydays - The First 5000 Days for $69 million US. Beyond vaulting the creator, a digital artist known as Beeple, into the Most Expensive Living Artists Club right behind Hockney and Koons, the sale made history because the piece, an NFT, is the first of its kind to be moved through an old-school auction house.
Over the last several weeks, that term NFT has become as unavoidable as it is confounding, as sales in crypto art have boomed, making people millionaires in as much time as it takes to scarf down a grilled cheese. There s the story of an artist from Thunder Bay, Ont. (Mad Dog Jones) earning more than $4 million in one drop a sales record that was then topped by pop star Grimes, who made around $6 million in a dr
Donna Summer
Jason Forrest is an American electronic music producer known for noisy experimental electronica and breakcore incorporating many ideas of mash-up and rock and roll. Largely produced and performed on a single computer (including live shows), his songs tend to be constructed from digital samples of found sounds and other artists music. Until 2004 he recorded under the name
Donna Summer, an allusion to disco singer Donna Summer.
In 2005
RES magazine named Forrest s Steppin Off video, by director Jon Watts, music video of the year. In 2006
Res magazine named Forrest s video
War Photographer, directed by Joel Trussell video of the year, and online magazine