XCP Drop, OBJKT Feature, TEZTRASHONE, Weekly Highlights, *NEW* Featured Artist

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Hey all - it’s been a long crazy week. Here is a recap of shenanigans:

XCP Drop: Pepe Ca$h Grab

After months of lurking, connecting, and being persuaded by Max Capacity, Robness, and Scrilla himself - finally my first XCP drop of a fake common card on pepe.wtf is live!

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This piece is a nod and poke at people who go after artists saying whatever they are doing to try to sell art is a “cash grab”. What does that even mean?? Anyone trying to do anything for money is a cash grab, and why is it so demonized when artists do it? The bigger question I always ponder is why is it so horrible to some people for artists to make money doing what they are good at and love?

We are exploring a new economy and technological ecosystem and questioning old ethos with cryptoart. With any new technology, a lot fear arises. I’ve come to understand though that fear is not of the new tech itself - tech is inherently neutral - but of negative aspects of humanity being amplified with the technology.

Greed is a human failing that causes many issues prevalent in our world today, but the drive and ambition of an artist to sustain and thrive from their creative endevours setting their own narratives is NOT the issue. What is the issue is people trying to control artists actions and what messages they put out.

So I’m proud to mint my first piece on XCP and even more proud to lay a message clear with my art. Burn down the old, tired unsustainable systems and celebrate the new. <3

EMPRESSTRASH.xcp/eth/tez🌈🖤 @EmpressTrash

Pepe Ca$h Grab first mint on xcp and on @pepe__wtf :B This has been a long while coming - tysm @maxcapacity for teaching me the ways and for @ROBNESSOFFICIAL + @ScrillaVentura for encouraging me for months. 50/69 .0008 $btc or .011 $eth

11:40 PM ∙ Feb 27, 2023

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PS - anyone interested in XCP, while I’m still new and learning - Robot Loves Coffee has a great tutorial for starting off to learn. To purchase the card there is a tutorial right on the pepe.wtf page <3

OBJKT Front Page Feature

After 2 years almost on Tezos ecosystem, and earlier support of HICETNUNC and Objkt, multi time meme/art movement instigator (dickspo, smols, aubjkt4aubjkt, teztrashx2, etc), even a bonafide Tezos coin influencer at one point on social media (2021 jokes) I have received the honor of being featured on the front Page of OBJKT. Special thanks to Cabline for seeing my contributions to the culture of Tezos, no matter how silly and controversial they are. <3

objkt.com @objktcom

The artist who is currently highlighted at the top of the front page is @EmpressTrash, a multi versatile visual artist & nomad with her rottweiler Glitch! Learn more about her art in this thread 🧵

7:59 AM ∙ Feb 24, 2023

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TEZTRASHONE

Speaking of tezos, a quick shout out to a new event coming to tezos thought of by MindYourMatter - many artists minting some 1/1 art on objkt as a response to the new objktone curated marketplace.

𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒅_𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓-◇♡♤♧ @Mind_yourMatter

Gm, #TezTrashOne

5:05 PM ∙ Feb 26, 2023

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Weekly Highlights

Everything is getting crazier and crazier for me, so to make separate categories in this newsletter of everything that happened maybe difficult. So instead I will do a weekly highlight list of dope shoutouts or features or whatever impacted me a lot this week!

Weekly Feature Artist - CryptoFangs

While ofc I love sharing everything I’m doing, I want to bring to you dope art from other dope artists too. SO! *drum rolls* New weekly featured artist! This week I would love to share with you CryptoFangs. He is a long time friend in the space, I’m an early collector of his work, and it’s unique and innovative.

Blending video and performance art with glitch aesthetics CryptoFangs is an experimental filmmaker known and loved in the underground glitch community. Esoteric and cerebral is probably the simplest way to describe this complex work layered in symbol storytelling. Here are some pieces that are dope af:

Cryptofangs̵̛͑̓̑͛ 🦄👽🍄🌈 @cryptofangs1

"It´s not a Valkyrie tired of war" app.manifold.xyz/c/tiredofwar Edition of 10 Only 0.02 $ETH This sales will continue helping my mom´s recovery and medical bills, thanks so much for sharing.

11:51 PM ∙ Feb 26, 2023

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Cryptofangs̵̛͑̓̑͛ 🦄👽🍄🌈 @cryptofangs1

"Gilded Warrior" 1/1 4K video 1:02 min. gallery.manifold.xyz/cryptofangsbig Buy Now 0.2222 $ETH Original music by our beloved friend Holly Overton