crystalline work by John Gerrard

• Mint Date: June 18
• Supply: 8,760
• Price: $100
• Chain: Ethereum (Mainnet)
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Irish artist John Gerrard, known for his physical art installations and Pace x Art Blocks NFTs, will soon launch crystalline work, a generative collection that will take one year to complete.

Like his previous releases, it involves 3D art but with one big difference — all of the pieces are created in real-time by a virtual robot.

This artificial critter is said to be left alone on a barren platform at the North Pole and tasked with building 8,760 worlds of ice over the next year (24 per day) starting on the summer solstice.

Kinda like a modern myth of Sisyphus but with R2D2 beeps of agony echoing in the background.

These interactive ice worlds will go up for sale as the robot finishes them, and you can already see previews on the drop site.

It’s a drop that plays with time (big fan of those), by an artist who’s sold out multiple times in recent years, and it’s bringing some cool alien crop circle vibes.

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CTRL – N0 0rdinary Kind

• Mint Date: TBD
• Supply: 7,680
• Price: TBD
• Chain: Bitcoin
• Link

You see that above?

Yeah, that’s a condom wrapper with a PFP inside. Because if you’re gonna fuck the (financial) system, you better stay safe while doing it.

At least that’s what CTRL believes, which had its limited genesis mint last year centered on the Bitcoin ideal of individual sovereignty.

Now they’re looking to further develop the IP with N0 0rdinary Kind, a set of PFPs created by British artist Penny, known in the London art scene for his stencil artwork.

A lot is going on with these:

Gamified Reveal: After mint, you can “rip” the condom wrappers (via transactions) to partially or fully reveal the PFP art, allowing you to play with rarity when trading

Runes Game: Ripping these wrappers yields the upcoming NO•ORDINARY•KIND Bitcoin rune which will be used to play KARDS, a poker-style game

Recursion: All PFPs descend from 2 Rare Sats (I don’t really care for sat rarity) including the project’s first inscribed one

Allowlist game featuring a side-scrolling platformer

Plus there’s the PFP art that’s reminiscent of 2022’s Cyberbrokers, and I could see it striking a chord with people.

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Whispers & Closed Doors

• Mint Date: June 18
• Supply: 13
• Price: Auction
• Chain: Ethereum (Mainnet)
• Link

The Art Of This Millenium (AOTM), a platform co-founded by famous NFT collector Vincent Van Dough, recently announced its next curated exhibition, Whispers & Closed Doors.

It celebrates crypto’s cypherpunk roots with 1/1s from thirteen artists, some of which you’ll probably recognize.

There’s a little something for everyone, including deep-fried fluorescence from ROBNESS, a calming Drifter photograph, and a tutorial on anonymity from Sabato.

As a low-supply set of auctions I don’t expect this to hit a wide crowd, but that hasn’t stopped collectors in the past.

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