Andy Schwetz @ilovedecay Twitter profile

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Andy Schwetz

1 year

Why is the beauty of decay art? In this thread I would like to tell you a little bit more about the approaches and backgrounds of my art of suffering and why I believe this niche has a place in art photography. Because it is not always obvious....

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

I just want to tell stories without speaking

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

tomorrow i open a new chapter of my artistic journey

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

The dark diaries of A(I)laska

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

At night in the harbour with the artificial souls

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

photographs I took in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone between 2017 and 2021

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

Photography NFTs 💥

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

7 months

another story of dystopia

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

3 years

1/15 This is me and this is my mission 🚨🚨 "I walk unknown paths through a Secret World on the trail of the beauty of decay and untold stories to make them immortal through the Blockchain"

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

10 months

I photographed the autumn in the Chernobyl Exclusion zone

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

An autumn morning in Pripyat

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

8 months

what a wonderful surprise 🥹 mille Grazie @CozomoMedici for starting the Auction for Dusty Splendour. This really makes my day 🤌

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

9 months

I'm exploring my photographic imagination

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

so after the recent success I want to collect a bit. Can't do big steps for now, but if I can support some Artists with buying they dope editions, I would be happy so yes, please shill me your editions 😄 PLEASE! no links, just image and price recommendations also welcome

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

gm frens

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

gm my frens 🫂 a new morning is here, grab a hot cup of roasted coffee at clowns diner

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

Wow nearly forgot the GM today 😵 GM I built a garden bench today. It will always remind me that I am a photographer and not a craftsman. What were you working on?

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

ok im 3 pieces away from being completely sold out on @foundation again 😱 this are the final 3 all available in my Collection GARDENS OF TIME

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

gm frens hows everybody doing today?

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

15 days

it took almost 1000 days I'm finally an independent Artist on @SuperRare 💎 Thank you so much @PalomarRo Let's go on a journey together. Behind the closed doors and the secret corners of this world. I'm ready

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

an american mind journey never ends

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

3 years

i cant not believe what happened. 🤯 I am just somewhere between tears of joy and complete overwhelm! @DeezeFi has just placed a bid for "Fade in Italy" For me it's more than just a bid. He is someone I have looked up to since I started my NFT journey in April.

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

FOR BETTER DAYS an Open Edtion of hope and love 🌹 Available now 0.033 ETH This is an incredibly important piece for me,and I'd love to share the story behind it. Even if it is not easy for me to talk about it 1/10

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

👋👋👋 I wanna collect more editions, cause I think it's a great way to support each other as artists. let's make a collection of photography editions. ➡️Post your Edition Piece here with the price ➡️RT this tweet so we get more attention ➡️ Support work and frens you❤️as well

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

gm gm frens 💚 Offbeat Owned by @CozomoMedici

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

3 years

MANICOMIO - available 10/01/2022 on @withFND A rare glimpse into Italy's former mental asylums. This collection is not only a photographic tribute to Photographer Raymond Depardon and his eponymous photo series but also a very personal work 1/n⬇️⬇️

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

1/n Andy Schwetz Editions Vo. 1- For Ukraine 🇺🇦 My first edition is online. Sadly for unpleasant reasons, but it is time to act - NOW! Therefore, the proceeds will be used for the transport of necessary things, which I am organizing with friends at the moment. Please read

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

3 years

THIS day is the beginning of the rest of my life After crying and jumping around my apartment like a little boy, I can finally announce that @caktux 🌵💚 has placed a bid on my piece "infinitum". I can't tell you how much this means to me and my family

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

7 months

I have decided to create a list for photography on Solana which will include photographers as well as collectors. If you want to be on the list, just reply to this tweet and I'll add you. share it with pleasure so that nobody misses it This way we can all connect more easily

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

gm gm frens 💙 Esherized available on foundation for 0.3 ETH The piece was also exhibited at the photo swiss 2022.

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

10 months

gm frens 📸 Stranded Poland, 2021

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

☢️☢️☢️ CONTAMINATED VOL.2 ☢️☢️☢️ After 2 years the 2nd part of CONTAMINATED is finally available. in this thread you will find everything you need to know. Hard Facts ➡️ 40 photographs ➡️ Manifold Contract ➡️ 0.25 Auction price 1/7

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

Change reigns in the GARDENS OF TIME. New things grow and old things disappear. 🌿🌱 Here is a detailed walk through all the NEW and currently still AVAIABLE works. Take your time and linger a little. You can find the Link at the End Price: 0.3 ETH 🧵⬇️ (1/20)

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

3 years

Wait....what ??!! I can't believe 😱😱 did this just really happen and someone collected ALL(!) 7 remaing pictures of CONTAMINATED ?!! I'm already in my bed, but whoever the hero(s) were. I love you so much !🥺😭 im totally out of mind right now....

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

11 months

overgrown forgotten churches in Europe 🇪🇺🌿

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

gm frens faded glory

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

3 years

This day was probably the most incredible day in my NFT career so far. First @DeezeFi , one of my most appreciated people here, placed a bid on a work of mine and later in the day the legend himself @CozomoMedici placed a bid . i am still full of gratitude🥺

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@CozomoMedici

3 years

@bryanbrinkman OFFBEAT by @ilovedecay

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

gm photographer & collector frens

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

gm gm frens 🤖

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

🚨🚨🚨 My new 1/1 work "time goes by" is now available in my ongoing 1/1 Collection "Postcards from the Dust". This piece will also be exhibited alongside my work "Esherized" at the PhotoSchweiz22. Available for 0.5 ETH Buy now or 0.3 ETH reserved price.

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

AN AMERICAN MIND JOURNEY 🇺🇸 🫡 is now available on @foundation A tribute created with AI to the 50s and 60s around Route 66 and Las Vegas and the rockabilly subculture. 🔺ERC 721 @manifoldxyz contract 🔺12 AI Art pieces 🔺0.1 ETH reserved price More and the 🔗⬇️ (1/8)

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

gm my lovely frens 🏜️

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

GARDENS OF TIME 🌴 💚 08/08/22 12pm ET 18:00 CET An expressive photo series dedicated to nature and its reconquest over man-made structures. Dive into a world between beauty and dystopia. ▶️ 20 Photographs ▶️ ERC-721 Manifold Contract ▶️ 0.3 $ETH reserved price THREAD 🧵

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

GM Frens ✌️ Have an incredible day!

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

WE❤️DECAY - The Editions | out now!🚨 With "keeper of the memories", the first piece in an edition of 69 is available for 0.045 ETH I would like to dedicate this edition to all of you. Thx to all of you I am at a point in my life where I feel real confidence again 🔥 1/4 🧵

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

Esherized is my newest minted piece in my "Postcards from the Dust" Collection on Foundation! As a reminder, all images in the Collection are true 1/1 and will never be available as prints, except for the collector himself. Books/magazines are excluded.

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

11 months

gm 📸

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

gm fine people

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

while I'm trying to make the official drop tweet about “ an american mind journey“ , there are already 6(!!) auctions live I'm out of words now 🥹🥹🥹 thank you: @TapirOne , @ReggieGrarbs , @painter_crypto lfg?..LFG!

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

gm frens I recognise I don't show you latley any of my post photographic ( yes I use the term now) works but in the background I'm working like an maniac on different projects And I decided to mint one of them tommorow. more details later 💙

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

3 years

Female photographer wanted !! ♀️ I would like to collect another work from a female photographer (max 0.15 ETH). Please show me your work. ➡️Only the piece and price. ➡️no link no mass tagging from other artists. males are very welcome to give me a recommendations Thank you🌞

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

3 years

Patina is out now!!! 🔥🔥 The first 25 photographs of abandoned classic cars. Discovered in barns, woods, abandoned places, or just on the side of the road. Hidden for many many years. Captured around Europe in over 9 years. Price 0.25 $ETH per piece.

Patina - Chasing Rust - Collection

Cars are not only vehicles that take us from A to B. They bring us to the most beautiful places or they accompany us when we pick up our date at home. Cars are always connected with memories and...

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

6 months

CHERNOBYL MONOTONES 🩶 a collection of photographs of my rare black and white work from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone! Dropping tomorrow, January the 11th, 2024, 6pm UTC (1:00 pm EST) on @exchgART 7 1/1 photographs 2 SOL - buy now More details tomorrow 👀

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

The Gardens of Time My photographs about the reconquest of nature 🌿

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

8 months

around Reactor 5 in Chernobyl

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

6 months

Colours of Chernobyl

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

gm Kings & Queens 👑

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

I document my imagination

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

10 months

GM frens 📸 "Worthless" does not exist in my mindset.

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

3 months

Is it enough to be an artist in Web3? a little personal grief 🥲 When I arrived here in 2021, my thought was "Awesome, there's an opportunity here to finally focus on art and build a career out of it" In 2024 I no longer feel any of that. Actually, you have to do everything

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

10 months

telling stories through synthetic photographs gn

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

happy to announce that my work is selected to exhibit at #NFTNYC2023 My mother shed a tear when I told her. That someone from our family makes it this far makes her and my Dad incredibly proud.... This is just the beginning mom

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

even if I would sell 1000 AI Pieces and just 1 photograph, I will never stop with it. I dedicated my life to photography. it's the most beautiful and intense way to express myself

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

first goods leave Germany tomorrow. We also brought for 1200 Euros First Aid Kits and Painkillers. The next Trip is planned on Saturday. Thanks, everyone for your support frens, and for collecting my Editions This isn't life-changing money, its live-saving money 💙💛

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

9 months

When nature takes it back 🌿

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

10 months

gm frens 📸

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

7 months

gm frens 🥶 absolute winter madness in Munich. no Flights and Trains atm. maybe take a little walk with the camera later and look for some bizarre winter scenes

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

if you wanna reach for the sky, you have go through hell and back 🔥

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

gm 1/1 Artists and Collectors I will stay on this side. The Art side. This salty tweet is sponsored by your decay papi 😘

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

5 months

WTF just happend 😱 An anon wallet just bought an Edition of Pharao, bought an Edtion of Deceleration AND also placed a bid on Monotone. Over the moon here, because thats also my first bid on Solana !! Current bid 1 Sol Who ever you have, you absolutley just made my day!!

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

9 months

good morning wonderful people 💚

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

my photographs of a abandoned Italian dream castle

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

gm frens ❤️ how everyone is doing? after the American mind journey just a little experiment for now

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

gm frens 🫡 working on certain things. but still a bit guns shy when it comes to minting. here is a brief overview for the next week's: - new Photo and AI 1/1s (January) - CONTAMINATED PT.2 (February) - New AI Collection ( February/March) so better have notifications on ❤️

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

10 months

gm frens 📸 special to all the people who keep the photography fire alive failed & censored (No Man´s Land | Italy 2022)

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

the beauty of abandoned Italian architecture 🇮🇹

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

I am really happy to announce that @Giga_Chad_Pepe has just added 2 pieces from MANICOMIO to his collection. 💥 I am glad that this project is getting attention again, as it is a really personal one. Thank you Chad for believing in me and my art 🙌

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

GN Frens I am mentally drained. I'm a bit proud of myself, but I thought I could make a bit more of a difference. I might have overestimated the value of my work here in the Space a bit. Sorry, these are just very difficult days.

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

GM Frens 💚🫒

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

GM frens 🫡 i got a lot of dms asking if there will be more works from an American mind journey. I can only say that I have only minted half of it. stay tuned....

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

5 months

I'm already awake ?! Has @TapirOne still fever ?! Or did he just really started the Auction on Gas Wars 😱 Ily 🫂 Feeling almost surreal. First Auction on No Man's Land is live. Current Bid 0.1 Eth

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

gm frens 🌞 So today I turn 40. Accordingly, the reception was already this morning 😂 Thats true love 🖤

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

I mint my first piece in my new ongoing 1/1 Collection "Postcards from the dust"👀 not a fairy tale The main hall of a castle which is probably the most beautiful abandoned place that exists. I have to namedrop here , but this castle was once owned by the #houseofmedici 🙈

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

gm frens Its wonderful to see how artists and collectors still do what they do, while the market struggles. We are more than just a chart, our stocks are allways high 📈

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

I'm obsessed with creating weird coffee machines 🤷

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

7 months

My first Solana work is now available on @exchgART 💥 one more light available for 5 SOL. Edition: 1/1 This is a really special work for me to which I have an emotional attachment. The work is also the start of my collection "Observations of Fragility"

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

Guys, I think I'm dreaming right now ... 🤯 Now @samking_uk has also started the auction for Time(goes by). 3 pieces on auction now This day is killing me...in a positive way. I can't express how good I feel right now 😮

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

No disrespect. But i will NEVER give out my work for free in mass. Every work i created i put my heart, sou, health l and my earnings into it. And i feeding people from it. We have to be careful, that we dont went in a wrong direction now frens. Action - > Reaction - > Expection

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

@punk6529 Very pessimistic but true story about how short life could be: I fren calles me some years ago, for meet each other. I was tired and twll him a excuse. About few weeks later he died on a heart attack with 40 I will never forgive myself. Life is too short for missing out anything

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

WE❤️DECAY - The Editions UPDATE 🚨 From now on 3 pieces are available in editions of 20, 15, and 10. I also have a raffle for all collectors 👀 Read the🧵

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

gm frens 🫂 If I create something, no matter how, and others like it even include it in their collections, haven't I done everything right as an artist? Where does art end and where does it begin and who defines that? AI art is like techno music. in the beginning there was a

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

3 years

gm frens 🌞

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

3 years

Are you guys kidding me today ?! 🤯 Il signor @CozomoMedici himself has just started the auction for "Offbeat". Also another work from my second home Italy. 2 legends at one day...what is happening here? I am so grateful and it makes me incredibly proud. Mille Grazie 🙏

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

an American mind journey - unpublished

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

9 months

good morning photography lovers 🩵

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

3 years

If you were on the train and a guy suddenly cheered loudly, it was me, because @benslatereth has placed a bid on "persiam dreams". Thanks a lot ser 🎉🙏

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

3 years

I was lying in bed and was about to sleep. Briefly checked Twitter. Got up again. Now I own a @Cryptoon_Goonz Life is crazy 👀 GN

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

2 years

only where i find peace....

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

1 year

AN AMERCIAN MINDJOURNEY EP. 2 🇺🇸 ✨04/21/2023 7:00 pm CET (1:00 pm EST) at @foundation ✨15 new post-photographic AI Pieces of my Sold Out Collection "An Amercian Mindjourney" ✨0.12 ETH - Buy Now (gas friendly solution) Learn more about the whole Project ⬇️ (1/10)

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Andy Schwetz

@ilovedecay

8 months

gm photography lovers 📸 the rusty snake Germany,2021 Project: No Man's Land

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