Digital Artist | Founder of Euskal Ridge Capital | Former Director of Curation & Artist Relations
@niftygateway
| Co-Creator
@lifeofmuga
| Curating Crypto
Had the pleasure to be the fly on the wall on a few of our calls with Pak in preparation for this drop on
@niftygateway
While sales numbers make the headlines
@muratpak
is truly focused on the narrative, execution and being innovative 🤛🏼👏🏻thoughtful and present ⭕️
Today marks my last day at
@niftygateway
Instead of writing a cookie-cutter tweet, I prefer to offer you a glimpse into who I am. I think this will help you understand how I got to this decision. This will likely be a super long post, so I apologize in advance, but if a handful
My last available artwork in the primary market anywhere!
Encuentro paz en la inmensidad de la oscuridad🇪🇸🇲🇽 (I find peace in the vastness of darkness ) 🖤💀🙏
The final collab for today is with Des Lucrece. We've recreated his signature character in 3D & it is also the first time we incorporate traits we reserved for the pfp project. Working with Des has been a breeze and all I can say is that awesome things are brewing🖤🧿
Getting closer and closer to revealing the project I have been working for months now with
@zigor
. We are really pouring our souls into it and hope everyone enjoys it as much as we have. I will try to not spam you a ton here so please follow 👇for updates!
I am really proud of my bro
@DesLucrece
, An artist I met after I fell in love with his Happy Track artwork that I collected and someone who i've had the honor to call a friend since. I know he has big plans and I am here to see him win and take his brand to the next level 🖤🚀👏
Incredibly proud of the outcome of our
@niftygateway
x
@CyberBrokers_
event during NFT NYC. Both teams worked tirelessly to bring this idea to reality 🖤🚀 Thanks to everyone that stopped by!🤛
never forget those who helped you get started/believed in you however successful you’ve become. A support system is always instrumental to reach milestones
A few collectors on tomorrow's drop will be able to claim this NFT as my thank you for supporting fellow artists. More details will be provided by the
@niftygateway
team prior to the drop 🙏💀🖤
On Monday subscribers to the
@lifeofmuga
newsletter and existing collectors will receive a live link to mint the claim card for our first physical collectible
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Mint will be available to the general public on February 8th at 1PM Pacific!🖤LFG!🚀
Sharing our
@lifeofmuga
collaboration with fellow artist
@DesLucrece
this piece was released as part of our first Lagunak series on
@niftygateway
that dropped on June 6th 2023. One of the nicest dudes in the space and someone I am lucky to call my friend 🤛🖤
I't feels amazing to be in this space both as an artist and as a collector. The friendships I have made here will last a life time. Someone I have been fortunate to cross paths with is
@Coldie
which I am proud to rep and support any day 🤛
oh I also got this amazing 1/1 2day 🔥
Next Friday I will release my first explorations with AI on Nifty.
What is it? 101 AI generated Images
How long did I work on this? About 2 weeks
How many iterations did it take? 808
What was the goal? I was trying to understand if I could develop a style via repetition and
Today is the day! Months of planning and taking this from concept to reality.Our collaboration with
@ALIENQUEENNFT
Minting today on
@niftygateway
at $99 per edition. OE open for 24 hours. The outcome for this drop dictates what happens in phase 2 😉 Link in the comments!🙌
The last edition piece my drop tomorrow on
@niftygateway
is "A tribute to Yayoi"
Yayoi Kusama is an institution that has challenged the art scene for decades and has continued to remain a tour de force to this day into her 90's and I enjoy every bit of her work 🔴
5 editions
I am grateful for the people i've met in this space. I've been in it since 2013. Ideals change, bags change, markets pump, markets dump, projects rise and fall but between memes and mints a ton of incredibly people make make it all worth while on the daily 🤛
When I asked
@money_alotta
how he wanted to be portrayed on the cover of the curating crypto podcast he sent me a few iconic movie scenes with his face photoshopped in. We settled on John Goodman in
@TheBigLebowski
. He was nervous about being interviewed in english but those
My wife decided to take a break from work to spend some time with our younglings during the pandemic. I figured I would test how liquid NFTs in my collection could be and put the proceeds to work by investing to match her income. Week 2 and I am already 1/4th there 😅🚀
I've been in NFTs for 5 years now and I am still absolutely mortified about reaching out to fellow artists for a collaboration 🥲 If i've ever reached out believe me that I spent 5-10 minutes debating clicking the send button and I probably deleted my message 5 times 💀🫠
I was just reading a group DM with fellow artists from 2019. Artist supporting artists, artworks selling below $100 a pop an everyone was beyond excited. No influencers asking for a cut, no bitterness just good vibes. Magic 👏🏻🖤
Big thanks to everyone who showed up to my drop today, your support means the world to me! I'm grateful for all the messages pre/post drop. Also, congrats to those who snagged an exploration! I heard there were 2000+ purchase attempts in the 1st minute. Reveal is set for Monday🙏
One thing
@zigor
and I want to do with
@lifeofmuga
is to collaborate with other web3 artists.Thus far we have 8 confirmed collaborations for digital/large scale sculptures.More details will be shared soon but here's a mockup I made that I shared with some of the confirmed artists
345 editions minted thus far and one of those tokens reached the low cap mint limit in under an hour. I wonder what happens Friday when the tokens reveal the collaborations 👀 A big thank you to everyone who has placed their trust in us and our collaborators!🙏🖤
I am really enjoying receiving pictures of Mugas in their new homes.
@zigor
& I have been working really hard the last couple of years on this project and we are really excited for this next phase 🖤🙏🚀 Keep an eye on the
@lifeofmuga
account for news soon ⏰
"The battles within"
The second piece on my
@niftygateway
drop tomorrow. I am hoping this starts a conversation around
#MentalHealth
health and how we need to be mindful and perceptive of those quietly asking for help.
20 editions hoping it reaches a wider audience 🙏
Until next time Philippe 🖤 A larger than life personality that hid such a noble and thoughtful human being that always reminded us not to take things too seriously. Crypto art has lost an incredible human, artist and friend. Continue to be a bad ass upstairs 🤛🙏
I haven’t minted as ekaitza in exactly two years today! I’ve been focusing on my role at nifty and my
@lifeofmuga
project with my brother
@zigor
but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been creating. I will share some details soon on a $1 mint. 🙏🏼 thanks for always being there for me.
getting really excited about the launch of
@lifeofmuga
The anticipation brewing…I missed it man 🙌🏼 Will people remember me after a year of not minting? I guess we’ll find out August 31st 🫢My most ambitious project by a mile and grateful to have my bff
@zigor
along for the ride
This will be a lengthy post but will have all the info around the 1. Abiapuntua card 2. the burn and 3. claiming your physical toy. This post will be pinned.
So what happened today? We released 69 additional Muga physical toys. If you have been following the
@lifeofmuga
Ambitiose posterum (Exploracion de texturas) available on
@SuperRare_co
!
This nymph I rendered at 300 pixels per inch so probably worth zooming in to see the detail of the mesh against the curves and folds🙏💀
🚀
If you were looking to buy a
@lifeofmuga
physical toy we are now live!
and here's the link for you to get started
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but first what am I minting?
You are minting a claim card for a physical MUGA collectible made by myself and
@zigor
A 🧵👇 1/8
Congratulations to
@SuperRare
user Jonathan for snagging my Genesys piece for 5 ETH ($9,569) an artwork I hold dear to my heart originally collected around a year ago by the one and only
@SuperRareRoses
for $31. Generating a royalty payment of 0.5 ETH ($960). Thank you all 🖤🙏