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2hrs left until I close submissions
I’m buying work from
#tezos
artists I haven’t come to know yet and giving those pieces to my collectors for Christmas
Yesterday I bought 72 editions of 27 pieces. From .666tz to 100tz each
Please share this post with deserving artists
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The Grotto and I have been celebrating Flam3s of the Macab33s all week
But, we're coming up on Christmas & I wanted to do something different...
I'm going to buy 2000tz worth of tezos art from artists I don't know yet --- and, on the 25th, I'll give it away to the Grotto
I said my goodbyes to the Hic et Nunc minting contract today
my mints
thr33som3s: 258
Val3ntin3s: 86
quadsom3s: 211
Madn3ss: 256
3p3hm3ra: 8
collabs: 3
I wouldn't be where I am with
#tezos
and the HeN contract. Many thanks.
If you are waking up to a bunch of Val3ntin3s in your wallet
take a few seconds to READ THE DESCRIPTION. see who it is that sent them to you. either you're friends, or you collect the same art.
you were SPECIFICALLY PICKED by my collectors to receive those gifts
share this tweet with artists you know who are selling their work on
#tezos
no need to follow me or anything (yuck)
Just share an image of the work in a reply along w/ the location on
@objktcom
ex: /asset/thr33som3s/82
or /asset/hicetnunc/757843
NO LINKS! twitter will bury it
I had to do it. 400tz is an absolute steal.
I am so proud to own what I consider to be the rawest, most amazing HEN mint of them all. The beautiful HEnesis piece of my friend
@clokdhd
. I've lusted at it for too long. now, it's mine
today marks my second anniversary of my first ever mint on
#tezos
@_dotpigeon
#001
2 years, nearly 867k editions sold, more than 300k ed burned.
the single greatest collector culture in the space.
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE for giving me a great life!
thr33zi3s is my first collectible project on ethereum
100 mints, procedurally generated...
ready for it???
all 100 are HAND PAINTED between today's drop and the reveal on 1/14
I am painting the unique attributes designated by a formulaic interaction with the operation hash...
The hushed whispers of the rumor mill are true
@toadswiback
and I have pulled off the unthinkable, our very own weekly podcast
Lend us an hour for the 1st episode, available where you get your pod fix
Link follows
On a day The Grotto community is recognized by the
@TezosFoundation
+
@misanharriman
, I feel the full magic of the nft universe
Forever linked through DP001,
@_dotpigeon
and I finally met IRL in June, a particularly notable memory today
This is pure joy:
I'm opening my studio on Friday to those who are in town for NFTNYC
see my physical works
be wined. be dined. Grotto style
and you get to paint with me
RSVP form follows -- limited guaranteed canvas
🧵🪡
last night, for the 5th time in 6mos, my Genesis,
@_dotpigeon
#001
sold for over $10k
what makes this sale significant?
let's look through some of the raw numbers to figure that out...
(how could I have known to declare my 1st piece "Iconic"?)
excited to offer (for only the 2nd time ever) a public option on an eth Op3n 3dition:
25.5M $pepe per mint
12 hr onsale today 4:30pm - 4:30am edt
apr3s moi l3 d3lug3
mint at
Val3ntin3
#001
GIVEAWAY
highest utility!
last hour to get your form in
Rattro is giving away his 3,666 editions
split amongst all entries --- only rule NO GROTTO MEMBERS
you CAN own other thr33som3s pieces and still claim
The Grotto collectors have decided to give away their LAST 1094 editions of Val3ntin3s. there are 12 different
open to ANYONE - in or out of the Grotto
form closes at 11:59pm est Sunday 2/20
(read and follow rules)
1094 ed spread across all entries
Might be a long post. Bear with me.
I’m gonna type this all out just to get it out of the way as I am so busy in the 48hrs ahead of my opening.
2 years ago a collector came into the Grotto and ended up spending around 550tz on my work over the course of a month. (That was
thanks to all of you who make the
#tezosnft
community such an eclectic bunch of weirdos
and thanks to everyone who has embraced my work and the culture we've built in The Grotto
happiest of holidays --- and, let's keep the Flam3s of the Macab33s burning (3 nights to go!)
I just got back to NYC this morning and it smells like TRASH and PISS. Yay summer!
to celebrate, I'm doing a surprise drop, a
@ROBNESSOFFICIAL
#teztrash
drop to boot. (including my first scheduled public drop on
#tezos
in over a year)
check the 🧵🪡
The amazing support The Grotto and their families and firends showed me these last few days is so deeply appreciated
All of you do so much, put such effort into making this the best community I've ever been a part of
Thank you so, so much. None of this is possible without you
I'll spend the weekend buying pieces that catch my eye, that I think would make nice christmas gifts for The Grotto
I'll spend at least 2000tz out of my main wallet... and a few hundred of my collectors will be exposed to some cool stuff.
We'll run this through NOON est Sunday
For the 1st time ever...
I'm doing something for the culture.
EXCLUSIVELY FOR $PEPE HOLDERS
69 minute Op3n 3dition --- 7pm edt tonight 4/20
mint via my site
111,333,420 $PEPE per
a long ass 🧵🪡
There's been a lot of talk... maybe, too much talk.
so, how does this show
@vellumla
work? what am I selling? where does it fit into my broader project? how can you have a chance at buying some? why would you want to?
this post isn't for the Grotto... they
Conceptual.
Performance.
A specific reason to exist on the blockchain.
A statement piece in a sea of mediocrity.
Hand-churned...
So many reasons I needed to step up and add this terrific piece by
@madebyoona
to my collection.
an emotional moment to learn of my inclusion in the inaugural exhibit of the
@TezosFoundation
PAC
@misanharriman
, this honor is not taken lightly. the Grotto and I thank you & the Foundation for seeing us
I thank the other 30 artists in the exhibit for all they do for our scene
This is the point where I say:
Bidding is live on the
@SuperRare
@nft_yearbook
special thr33zi3s edition
a bid is in at 10eth.
22.5 hrs to go...
I'll let you know tomorrow, I guess
Rattro, one of the biggest collectors in the Grotto, bought 3,666 Val3ntin3s Inserts to give away... but, he wants them to go only to those of you who aren't in the Grotto.
Because of the quantity involved, these will have THE MOST UTILITY of any of the Pink Inserts given away
happy to show the artwork on the open editions you all ordered last week
87,768 Black
87,327 White
purchased via Grotto presale.
1988 Tom Niedenfuer Judy Garland
batch drops go out to all of you tomorrow morning.
thank you!
This week marks 20 months since I started minting my work
I've sold 411,037 NFTs via Open Edition drops
I'm proud that I've never once found myself in a position to tweet to justify their price or my reason to offer them
OBJKT only tracks sales of their own "collections" on daily leaderboards
but, they track all buying activity on their site
(as I haven't dropped primary on a tezos "platform" in 367 days, the Grotto is used to flying under the radar)
today is just a typical day for us
it's late. I've got to rest because I have 7 days of painting ahead of me!!!
we can recap tomorrow, maybe ------------ but
THANK YOU ALL, SO MUCH. THIS SUPPORT MEANS EVERYTHING. Truly!
Temple came hard at the end!
Just minted my final painting of 2022... a special reward for those collectors who managed to complete all the required burns last week.
There are multiple stories to be told when we talk about the Maccabees... just as there are many different parts of the thr33som3s narrative
Let me just say this
to clear it up
there's been a lot of talk.
but, I challenge any NFT Artist to best me on the mic.
bring on the podcasts... bring on the Spaces... bring on the wedding toasts... bring on Pentecostal Sunday service
I'll eat your children.
Ok, I'm in. Picked up the first of what will probably be many
@basedfishmafia
They took me on a boat in Miami! and, they've come into the Grotto -- so.. Now, I'm all the way in.
thr33som3s collectors
It has come to my attention, that I have priced my art too low. Could you please be kind enough to return the 28,000 tez you have made off of my work since June 1st?
Kindest regards, thr33som3s
blatant disregard for a collector community fr someone at the very top of the space does not bode well
All artists working in a non-curated platform need to learn a lesson from such petty takes
@jjjjjjjjjjohn
is skating on thin ice & is apt to drown others with this attitude
In the last 3wks, the Grotto has seen 4 major cards trade on the secondary market.
thr33 thr33 Swipe to Opens for 1500, 2100, and 3161tz
And a S2 Dot Pigeon
#001
for 2000tz
8767tz ($37435) total sales —- total original cost 1tz.
exactly 33,333.04 thank yous to my dear friend and collector,
@PoopblotGateway
for those of you that know me and my love for numbers in the Grotto.... it's a very special sale.
spent the evening in The Grotto physically revealing thr33zi3s --- it's an absolute joy to share this project and these particular paintings with such an astounding group of friends.
there's no community in the space like the Grotto
we'll do it again tomorrow night at 8pm edt
An explanation:
Why deal with all the nonsense here publicly?
Why waste my time less than 36hrs before my first ever solo exhibit at a fancy LA gallery?
Well, this IS the art. I've created an entire world populated not only with hundreds of paintings of baseball players from
ohhhhhh boy!
didn't even realize it's out. but, the newest episode of Die With The Most thr33som3s has DROPPED!
join me and
@toadswiback
on our weekly roadtrip. today, we pick up
@Xer0x_NFT
for his takes on the wasteland.
I coulda spent all night on this one
peep X's drip
In January, I traded the first painting I ever did as thr33som3s (Loyal to Leathers) to one of my biggest collectors for a mutant ape and .5eth
Tonight, I sold the mutant for 40eth & turned it into $ape to be ready to purchase a thr33som3s Grotto campus in
@OthersideMeta
Alright, feeling crazy!!!
If I make it to 100k followers tonight, I will send pieces of both my kids’ placentas to one lucky follower who RT’s this.
Deadline 12am edt.
Pretty important milestone yesterday as a Swipe sold for 1eth on secondary.
The 175 Swipes were given away to collectors back in august ‘21 to celebrate the moment I deleted my LinkedIn acct
Today, they serve as the only method to enter the full Grotto experience
(It’s the
look ---- I'm in a different position than most collectors. So, I don't mind paying secondary for stuff.
and, flippers have to make a living somehow ---
BUT FUCKING BOTS... the
@hicetnunc2000
platform will never do anything about it. so, it's on artists to take care of it
Not complaint, only observation
I don't think most of you really understand that I'm 4 days into 7 days of thr33zi3s painting madness
100 unique individually painted cards w/ 123 different traits, up to 10 traits per card
each trait on each card individually painted
Hey Grotto!!!!!
it's our first Opening Day in FOREVER....
how about you show the rest of the world what we've done so far???
comment with a pic your ONE SINGLE favorite thr33som3s in your collection
let's fucking show them off!!!!
I'm proud to announce I'll be dropping a special edition mechanic to celebrate the
@manifoldxyz
Open Editions
Play along as each of your favorite artists drops their MOE in 2023
a year long competition 3v3nt kicks off Monday
Form drops in Grotto tomorrow!
24 hours from now, the doors at
@vellumla
will open to Dialogu3, my solo exhibition.
I’ll be showing both my physicals and a huge selection of my pieces digitally for the first time together in the same space.
Dozens of Grotto members are making the trek to LA as we speak.
thr33zi3s
#071
has been stolen ---- someone hacked a Grotto member and took his eth & nfts last night
in the meantime let's put an embargo on
#071
. LET'S NO ONE IN THE GROTTO BUY
#071
, no matter how low it goes
I won't reveal
#071
, leaving a worthless placeholder
This weekend we dropped ep5 of thr33som3s Left to Focus on Podcast
this may be the KEY episode if you're trying to figure out HOW to get into the Grotto and what it all means with the talk of salaries and Fr33 Ag3nts and Franchis3s
always a fun hang
if you told me a year ago...
that I'd have 30+ collectors in Indonesia... who have IRL Grotto MEET UPS... & are the best, most loyal collectors of thr33som3s NFTs on the planet...
I would have thought you were insane because I wouldn't have known what an NFT was
🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩
Anyone who isn’t quite aware of the beauty
@_KidEight
is dropping on the world
If you knew what a fucking badass and legit human being he is, even off of that you’d wanna own his art. But, then he throws down the single best looking PFP in the game!
Who goes back to apes now?
real talk
I DON'T want you to collect me casually. I'm not selling jpegs. I want you to come ready to give your life over to me and the project
true
my mechanics are set up as a barrier to entry, because we're dealing with A LOT of art when you come in
but, figure it out...
Don’t want to cause too much of a commotion…
But, 15 invites to the
@333Grotto
will sent out to some patient waitlist entries at 7pm est tonight.
Getting ready for Series 8 drop on Monday!!!! (There will be a public option for this series!)
I thought I’d open up a conversation about my new thr33zi3s project since auctions will be ending tonight.
A quick half hour to discuss the mechanics and maybe a little utility. Shhhh
OK!
NOTE TO SELF: no more stoner devs!
Survived 4/20 & we're still GREEN 🐸
7pm edt Saturday 4/22
ONLY FOR $pepe holders. (go swap into it now if you're not one!)
limit 10 per transaction
only 69 minutes Op3n 3dition
celebrate
#EarthDay2023
It’s not often I can happily endorse a project for its utility aspect…. But, I think it’s safe to say my boy
@toomuchlag_
has things nailed down. Still cheap AF on day 3.
gm LAST DAY! Sale opens 12PM PST/ 3PM EST
➡️ Create 1 Hero NFT from 1 single Spirit
➡️ Heroes will give EXP over time
➡️ Non purchased Spirit do not get minted
➡️ Merge creates scarcity
Last chance to get your Spirits on primary is today!
so...
a billion thanks to all who participated in the pack drop tonight
what most of you aren't seeing... is the MADNESS of trades that the Grotto (my collectors) are tossing around between themselves to complete their sets
it's a fucking beautiful thing to see a real community
After two weeks collecting so much amazing work by the artists of
@hicetnunc2000
I’ve come up with one rule
Do not buy art from any artist who doesn’t have a solid collection of their own!
As artists in this space, WE should be collectors all the same
#NFTCommunity
#hicetnunc
so, yesterday, in Jakarta, one of my favorite groups of collectors got together (as they do from time to time) to talk about ol' thr33s and the project and things of that nature
yesterday was extremely special, as it marked the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of these Indo Grotto Meetups!!
1yr ago today, my eth genesis piece was purchased by
@ABBBBBB_NFT
for 7.3182eth
I can barely explain the depth of support from the Grotto -- from day1 collectors to ABB to the newest wave who have just found me and are diving in
you've all given me a great life! thank you
Nice to have
@Mad_Dog_Jones
stop by the apartment today
Ok… it’s not MDJ, it’s my plumber! But, when I showed him the paintings he swears he looks more like MDJ than MDJ
Check out
@mattmedved
with some major quotage in the
@nytimes
today! Gotta love him comparing NFTs to baseball cards.
Imagine someone truly creating baseball cards as NFT art. Oh, the possibilities
It's fitting that a new ATH sale for Series 2
#001
DotPigeon happens on the one year anniversary of its mint
congrats to
@SteveCoh
on the purchase
and special congrats to
@KickFlipClub
who bought it for 1tz 1yr ago and just sold it for 2650tz
seeing as we're at just about the 1yr anniversary of Marlenes and the debut of my Painting Utility, I wanted to pay a little mind to how we pulled it off and what the outcome was. follow the 🧵🪡
1st, I dropped "BLACK & WHITE" paintings as open editions
@NFT_NYC
@SANJAY_SICKO
@josiebellini
@coin_artist
process glimpse - All my work is 100% hand painted gouache, no digital beyond the photo. With NFTs & my unique takes on utility I can bring my collectors into entirely new experiences with my art. I minted these 3 studies that brought me to my final Kaiju piece.
You're going to hear it til you puke today
I get it.
so, WHAT, exactly, is an INSERT?
they are paintings that are INDEPENDENT of the main assets of my project, the interwoven baseball TEAMS
Inserts can stand alone. They can lead the conversation down a new narrative path
we've had quite the year, haven't we?
today marks a year since I first minted and sold out
@_dotpigeon
#001
on the old HicEtNunc
no better way to celebrate than our first solo drop on
@niftygateway
drawings start at 6:30pm edt, along with 24hrs of thr33zi3s auctions
Little bits and pieces of the process to move from 100 blank canvases waiting for their painting orders from the blockchain….
I knew my subject, but had no clue the context I would paint for each
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ok... everyone check their wallets
if you submitted your form and weren't cheating, you got a sizeable airdrop
now, will you SELL, HOLD, or UTILIZE??? the grand thr33som3s dilemma!
enjoy!