}); + '<\/div>' // Append ouibounce to page + '' Everydays - The First 5000 Days, by artist Beeple, made history on March 11 by becoming the first virtual Non-Fungible Token (NFT) artwork to to be sold by a major auction house, for a staggering $69.4 million, snowballing from a starting bid of $100.Christie's reported that 22 million people tuned in "for the final moments of the historic sale". I do view this as the next chapter of art history.. }); Tim Schneider, Description: I made a picture from start to finish every single day from May 1st, 2007 - January 7th, 2021. Now, as the auction on "The First 5000 Days" - a digital art piece by the popular Beeple, closed for a whopping, record-breaking $69,346,250. hide caption. (While thestandard NFT smart contract, known as ERC-721, does not include a built-in resale royalty, almost all platforms provide one in their own terms of service.). Fast forward more than 13 years, and he has amassed an extensive archive of digital imagery that he recently brought together to create Everydays: The First 5,000 Days, a monumental digital collage of these daily . ET Friday. (Monegraph ceased operating a few years later.). If. It was a remarkable event in the cryptocurrency space because the collections were sold as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are unique files that live on a blockchain and are able to verify ownership of a work of digital art. Maria Vogel, var $form = $(formElement); onSuccess(); setNewsletterCookie('closedSignupBar', 1); "Everydays The First 5000 Days," a composite work by the artist known as Beeple, will be for sale at Christie's. He started working on "Everydays" 13 years ago, with pen and paper, but. I am currently on my 14th round of everydays. The origins of Beeple's work, titled EverydaysThe First 5000 Days, dates back to May 1, 2007. document.cookie = prefix + cname + "=" + cvalue + ";" + expires + ";path=/"; Beeple, Everydays: The First 5000 Days. //if any of these cookies are found, we don't show the modal. The price was five times the previous record for a CryptoPunk, set last month. [14] Some of the images involve figures from pop culture, including Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump, and are arranged chronologically. '