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3D Magnetic Customizable Portrait
Warren Buffett - Filthy Fiat
Christie’s (New York) Auction Dates: December 3 - 18, 2024
Physical:
1/124” x 32” customizable size
Dibond, magnets
Customizable portrait using magnets to move pieces of the face in any combination. Multi-level 3D spacers create depth options for each individual piece ‘Living art’ experiment with collector will record future configurations on the blockchain.
Click here to learn more about the physical artwork (Christies.com)
Digital:
1/1 DigitalRecursive Ordinal (combining multiple inscribed assets together to build the composition) inscribed directly onto a single satoshi on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Click here to view the digital artwork (Gamma.io)
Filthy Fiat
An experimental digital and physical art project aimed to entertain and educate about the fragility and nastiness of fiat currency.
I never planned for this project to happen. The fact that it did happen is why I am creating this project. I want to tell the story of the impermenance and fragility of fiat currency, and explaining it all through my own experience.
For more filthiness, visit filthyfiat.money
Decentral Eyes
Decentral Eyes is a bold and visionary portrait series that pays homage to the pioneers of blockchain, celebrating their profound influence on the evolving landscape of decentralization. Rooted in a passion for visual storytelling, this body of work reimagines the aesthetics of pop art, the narrative intensity of comic books, and the avant-garde spirit of Dadaism—fusing them into a strikingly original artistic language.Through a meticulous collage process, each portrait is composed of fragmented imagery, seamlessly woven together to create a singular yet decentralized composition. This layered approach mirrors the very nature of blockchain itself—an interconnected network of individual elements forming a greater whole. Pushing the boundaries of traditional portraiture, these works are rendered in stereoscopic 3D, immersing the viewer in a dynamic, multi-dimensional experience.
A definitive crypto art series, Decentral Eyes stands as both a tribute and a testament to the visionaries shaping the future of digital sovereignty.
PORTRAITS CREATED INCLUDE:
Vitalik Buterin
Andreas Antonopoulus
John McAfee
Dalai Lama
Edward Snowden
Tyler & Cameron Winklevoss
Julian Assange
Warren Buffett
Alan Turing
Snoop Dogg
Gary Gensler
Michael Saylor
Jack Dorsey
LINKS ︎
1/1 WORKS ON SUPER RARE
2019 EXPLAINER
ARTICLE ABOUT THE VITALIK BUTERIN - DECENTRAL EYES GENESIS
Vitalik Buterin
Andreas Antonopoulus
John McAfee
Dalai Lama
Edward Snowden
Tyler & Cameron Winklevoss
Julian Assange
Warren Buffett
Alan Turing
Snoop Dogg
Gary Gensler
Michael Saylor
Jack Dorsey
LINKS ︎
1/1 WORKS ON SUPER RARE
2019 EXPLAINER
ARTICLE ABOUT THE VITALIK BUTERIN - DECENTRAL EYES GENESIS
Build Your Own Edward Snowden Decentral Eyes Portrait
Drag and arrange the pieces.
Make something.
All images are property of Coldie. You may make your own collage for personal enjoyment, but may not sell it or otherwise reuse any of these elements without the prior written concent of Coldie.Share your portrait socially and tag Twitter: @Coldie Instagram: @coldie.art
GANdinsky
Coldie x Kandinsky AI mash-up
In 2019 created a small series ‘GANdinsky’ where I sourced Wassily Kandinsky's artworks and fed them into a generative adversarial network (GAN) to create generative art. I then collaged the aggregated imagery to create 3D animated works featuring both artist’s signature styles.
“Kandinsky is one of my favorite artists of all time and it is an honor to work with his art in a new way using generative AI technology not available during his lifetime. The whole time I was creating this art, I made decisions that I believed Wassily would agree with, as if he was sitting with me the whole time collaborating.” - Coldie
CLICK HERE TO SEARCH GANDINSKY OPEN SEA COLLECTION
PROOF OF WORK (2018)
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A PHYSICAL 2018 PROOF OF WORK LIMITED EDITION PRINT
Originally minted as an ERC-20 token on R.A.R.E. ART LABS on September 26, 2018, Proof of Work was the genesis artwork that would grow to become an iconic crypto art in the early NFT movement.
Digging for NFT Gold
Over the years, there have been sleuth collectors in the crypto art community who are very good about researching Ethereum smart contracts, HASH that hold image link information and bread crumb trails that help piece together what was happening years ago on R.A.R.E ART LABS. One such collector is NooNe.NooNe explains his trip down this early crypto art rabbit hole to find evidence of the genesis Proof of Work artwork token.
“When I found out that some of the pieces from RARE Art were possibly unsold and locked in the smart contracts or burnt, I immediately started a quest to understand what treasures had been lost forever. I explored all the different pieces in the main wallet and tracked if any of my favorite artists minted in the marketplace; I found multiple pieces from XCOPY and Hackatao; my head was about to explode! I thought it could not get more exciting at this point, but I was wrong! I did not find any mints from one of the artists that I admire the most: Coldie! I went onto the RARE Art discord hoping to find something there and so I did – scrolling through the conversations between OG artists, there was what seemed to be one of the very early Proof of Work by Coldie. It felt incredible to discover a master piece that NooNe knew about, a hidden gem trapped in space and time!
P.S: I have been since lucky enough to purchase the physical peace of the unsold NFT.”
PROOF OF TOKEN RELEASE
July 29, 2018 on R.A.R.E. ART LABS
https://twitter.com/rareartlabs/status/1156010281308344320
The Backstory
I grew up in the gold country of Northern California. All my life I was surrounded by gold rush culture and references to what took place all around the town I grew up in. Part of this included going to the site of where gold was found in Coloma, CA. The energy and history of places like this has always resonated with me, and to this day I feel a deep connection with gold rush history.
Around 2012 I was getting into spray painting and wheatpaste art which is a process of using a glue-like materials to plaster paper artwork on walls much like street artists like Shepard Fairey are known for. One of the first I made for this was a gold miner with a gasmask on. At that time, cryptocurrency had not been introduced to me, but the basis of the idea of toxicity and mining had been formed. This is the only photograph I have of the original art wheatpasted under the freeway in the drainage tunnels. The gas mask and gold in pan are covered in glow in the dark paint, so it will shine forever in the dark.
It has since been locked up due to homeless people digging for gold and eating away the sides of the tunnel that were not concrete, which I think is totally rad they were looking for gold down there. So now this artwork will be in a living time capsule forever.
