Mike Winkelmann, known as beeple, is a graphic designer from Appleton, Wisconsin. Mike began making short films in college which were mostly live action. In the past five years or so, he has moved on to creating more abstract art, focusing on 3D Animation and VJ Clips. He has been creating and putting art online every single day for the last 2600+ days. This is all inspired by his will to learn and get better at what he does. He has also created a series of short films and a series of VJ Clips released under Creative Commons that have been used by the likes of Deadmau5, Skrillex, Zedd, Avicii and more.
Beeple Wisconsin, (Born 1981) Cadbury Warfare, Resist!, Xmas AF, and The Great Pumpkin Four offset prints The four prints represent four holidays: Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Easter. Biography from the Archives of askART: Mike Winkelmann (born June 20, 1981), is an American digital artist and graphic designer that is known by the name Beeple. For over a decade he has been an active participant and one of the originators of the 'everyday' movement, producing and uploading an original piece of art everyday to various social media platforms. In February 2021, Crossroads an animated Non-Fungible Token (NFT) by Beeple sold for $6.6 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) on Nifty Gateway. The piece made history as the most expensive single NFT ever sold. Everydays On May 1, 2007, Beeple, posted a new work of art online. He did the same thing the next day and the next, and the next one after that, creating and posting a brand-new digital picture, or ‘everyday' as he called it, every single day for 13-and-a-half years. Now those individual pieces have been brought together into a single collection EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS. Minted exclusively for Christie's, the monumental digital collage will be offered as a single lot sale concurrently with First Open from 25 February to 11 March. Marking two industry firsts, Christie's will be the first major auction house to offer a purely digital work with a unique NFT (Non-fungible token) — effectively a guarantee of its authenticity — and to accept cryptocurrency, in this case Ether, in addition to standard forms of payment for the singular lot. In an interview published on The Verge on January 3, 2020 before he completed the project, Beeple stated: "The Everyday project is making one picture from start to finish and posting it somewhere on the internet each day before midnight. That's the only ritual I adhere to. Beyond that, where I do them, when I do them, how long I have to do them, and who's around me when I'm doing them is all completely dictated by what's going on that day. Normally, I just do them at night after the kids are in bed, and I'm alone in my room. But I've done them all over the place and in all different circumstances: airports, cafes, emergency rooms. I look at it more like brushing your teeth. You don't have a big ritual around it; you just go in and brush your teeth." Themes A lot of Winkelmann's work features popular Disney characters in futuristic/dystopian settings and situations. In December of 2019, he posted a short animation of a robot dog with a Baby Yoda head eating the entrails of babies on Instagram, titled 'Stray Baby Yoda Dogs." He also posted an Everyday animation of a giant human body blob with Mickey Mouse's head. The blob is stationed with giant feeding tubes protruding from the giant stomach as workers in hazmat suits walk around and fiddle with the computers attached to the blob's dock. He titled the October piece "Disney +" and posted it on Twitter. On the appearance of these recurring pop culture themes in his art, Winkelmann commented: Disney is this massive omnipresence, especially in the last week, how much Rise of Skywalker shit you see everywhere. I was on an airplane yesterday, and the napkin they brought me had a fucking Rise of Skywalker logo on it. Every fucking thing, just everywhere. Taking and reappropriating some of their IP and brands, I find fun. I think it's interesting to imagine if you took these characters and infused them with AI far into the future, and they had a life of their own, what would they do and what could happen?Like with the Baby Yoda robot dog. What if, in the future, you could buy a Baby Yoda puppy, and it knew to play with kids. But then it got screwed up, and it got confused, and the algorithm got messed up, and it started eating kids, and it got stray, and there were these attacks of stray Baby Yoda robots that used to be toys, but they got so much AI in the future that they got loose, and they're fricking eating kids. Beeple also creates a lot of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg-related art. In October of 2019 as one of his Everydays, Winkelmann uploaded an animation on Instagram of a robotic, breasted spider with Zuck's head. The spider Zuck walks through what we assume is the Facebook factory, with giant headless silver women-without nipples-swaying to and fro. Beeple titled the piece 'ZUCKERBORG'S NIPPLE FREE TECHNO-UTOPIA'. Mediums Winkelmann uses Cinema 4D for most of his digital artwork. He has sorted his Everydays by rounds, each round is a collection of the work created within a certain period of time and medium. His first round starts with illustration and progresses to photography and Cinema 4D. On June 4, 2019 Beeple made an appearance at the NAB Show where he live-streamed creating his Everyday for June 4. Album ArtBeeple has also created many album covers including Imagine Dragons' 2017 album Evolve. He has also animated music videos for Flying Lotus' 2010 Kill Your Co-Workers and Brainfeeder's We Are The Transparent Machines™. VJ Loops Winkelman creates free video jockey loops that he uploads online across his various social media accounts. His Youtube channel has over 250 vj loop videos uploaded. He also posts them on his official website, beeple-crap.com. Beeple has created concert visuals for popular music artists including: Justin Bieber One Direction Katy Perry Nicki Minaj Eminem Zedd Deadmau5 Wiz Khalifa Virtual Reality In 2017 Beeple created a virtual futuristic Las Vegas. The Vegas: Alter Your Reality project features what Beeple calls a 'virtual playground'. In a 2017 interview discussing the project with Visit Las Vegas, Winkelmann commented The biggest [challenge] for me is that … there isn't framing. The person can look in any direction. That changes a lot of the little tricks you can do. One of the main things I want people to take away from my piece [is a] sense that everywhere you look, there's something happening or something changing. [Vegas] is such a dynamic place; it always feels different and new. You could see the piece again and have it be different to you each time. Fashion Week (2019) Winkelmann's futuristic art from his Everydays collection was even featured on the runway of Paris Fashion Week on October 2, 2019. The event was held at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Beeple's art was displayed on 13 of the 45 pieces for a Louis Vuitton spring/summer collection. Source: Everipedia, March 2021
Beeple Wisconsin, (Born 1981) Extraction (bitcoin) offset print Biography from the Archives of askART: Mike Winkelmann (born June 20, 1981), is an American digital artist and graphic designer that is known by the name Beeple. For over a decade he has been an active participant and one of the originators of the 'everyday' movement, producing and uploading an original piece of art everyday to various social media platforms. In February 2021, Crossroads an animated Non-Fungible Token (NFT) by Beeple sold for $6.6 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) on Nifty Gateway. The piece made history as the most expensive single NFT ever sold. Everydays On May 1, 2007, Beeple, posted a new work of art online. He did the same thing the next day and the next, and the next one after that, creating and posting a brand-new digital picture, or ‘everyday' as he called it, every single day for 13-and-a-half years. Now those individual pieces have been brought together into a single collection EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS. Minted exclusively for Christie's, the monumental digital collage will be offered as a single lot sale concurrently with First Open from 25 February to 11 March. Marking two industry firsts, Christie's will be the first major auction house to offer a purely digital work with a unique NFT (Non-fungible token) — effectively a guarantee of its authenticity — and to accept cryptocurrency, in this case Ether, in addition to standard forms of payment for the singular lot. In an interview published on The Verge on January 3, 2020 before he completed the project, Beeple stated: "The Everyday project is making one picture from start to finish and posting it somewhere on the internet each day before midnight. That's the only ritual I adhere to. Beyond that, where I do them, when I do them, how long I have to do them, and who's around me when I'm doing them is all completely dictated by what's going on that day. Normally, I just do them at night after the kids are in bed, and I'm alone in my room. But I've done them all over the place and in all different circumstances: airports, cafes, emergency rooms. I look at it more like brushing your teeth. You don't have a big ritual around it; you just go in and brush your teeth." Themes A lot of Winkelmann's work features popular Disney characters in futuristic/dystopian settings and situations. In December of 2019, he posted a short animation of a robot dog with a Baby Yoda head eating the entrails of babies on Instagram, titled 'Stray Baby Yoda Dogs." He also posted an Everyday animation of a giant human body blob with Mickey Mouse's head. The blob is stationed with giant feeding tubes protruding from the giant stomach as workers in hazmat suits walk around and fiddle with the computers attached to the blob's dock. He titled the October piece "Disney +" and posted it on Twitter. On the appearance of these recurring pop culture themes in his art, Winkelmann commented: Disney is this massive omnipresence, especially in the last week, how much Rise of Skywalker shit you see everywhere. I was on an airplane yesterday, and the napkin they brought me had a fucking Rise of Skywalker logo on it. Every fucking thing, just everywhere. Taking and reappropriating some of their IP and brands, I find fun. I think it's interesting to imagine if you took these characters and infused them with AI far into the future, and they had a life of their own, what would they do and what could happen?Like with the Baby Yoda robot dog. What if, in the future, you could buy a Baby Yoda puppy, and it knew to play with kids. But then it got screwed up, and it got confused, and the algorithm got messed up, and it started eating kids, and it got stray, and there were these attacks of stray Baby Yoda robots that used to be toys, but they got so much AI in the future that they got loose, and they're fricking eating kids. Beeple also creates a lot of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg-related art. In October of 2019 as one of his Everydays, Winkelmann uploaded an animation on Instagram of a robotic, breasted spider with Zuck's head. The spider Zuck walks through what we assume is the Facebook factory, with giant headless silver women-without nipples-swaying to and fro. Beeple titled the piece 'ZUCKERBORG'S NIPPLE FREE TECHNO-UTOPIA'. Mediums Winkelmann uses Cinema 4D for most of his digital artwork. He has sorted his Everydays by rounds, each round is a collection of the work created within a certain period of time and medium. His first round starts with illustration and progresses to photography and Cinema 4D. On June 4, 2019 Beeple made an appearance at the NAB Show where he live-streamed creating his Everyday for June 4. Album ArtBeeple has also created many album covers including Imagine Dragons' 2017 album Evolve. He has also animated music videos for Flying Lotus' 2010 Kill Your Co-Workers and Brainfeeder's We Are The Transparent Machines™. VJ Loops Winkelman creates free video jockey loops that he uploads online across his various social media accounts. His Youtube channel has over 250 vj loop videos uploaded. He also posts them on his official website, beeple-crap.com. Beeple has created concert visuals for popular music artists including: Justin Bieber One Direction Katy Perry Nicki Minaj Eminem Zedd Deadmau5 Wiz Khalifa Virtual Reality In 2017 Beeple created a virtual futuristic Las Vegas. The Vegas: Alter Your Reality project features what Beeple calls a 'virtual playground'. In a 2017 interview discussing the project with Visit Las Vegas, Winkelmann commented The biggest [challenge] for me is that … there isn't framing. The person can look in any direction. That changes a lot of the little tricks you can do. One of the main things I want people to take away from my piece [is a] sense that everywhere you look, there's something happening or something changing. [Vegas] is such a dynamic place; it always feels different and new. You could see the piece again and have it be different to you each time. Fashion Week (2019) Winkelmann's futuristic art from his Everydays collection was even featured on the runway of Paris Fashion Week on October 2, 2019. The event was held at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Beeple's art was displayed on 13 of the 45 pieces for a Louis Vuitton spring/summer collection. Source: Everipedia, March 2021
Beeple Wisconsin, (Born 1981) International Ape Station offset print Biography from the Archives of askART: Mike Winkelmann (born June 20, 1981), is an American digital artist and graphic designer that is known by the name Beeple. For over a decade he has been an active participant and one of the originators of the 'everyday' movement, producing and uploading an original piece of art everyday to various social media platforms. In February 2021, Crossroads an animated Non-Fungible Token (NFT) by Beeple sold for $6.6 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) on Nifty Gateway. The piece made history as the most expensive single NFT ever sold. Everydays On May 1, 2007, Beeple, posted a new work of art online. He did the same thing the next day and the next, and the next one after that, creating and posting a brand-new digital picture, or ‘everyday' as he called it, every single day for 13-and-a-half years. Now those individual pieces have been brought together into a single collection EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS. Minted exclusively for Christie's, the monumental digital collage will be offered as a single lot sale concurrently with First Open from 25 February to 11 March. Marking two industry firsts, Christie's will be the first major auction house to offer a purely digital work with a unique NFT (Non-fungible token) — effectively a guarantee of its authenticity — and to accept cryptocurrency, in this case Ether, in addition to standard forms of payment for the singular lot. In an interview published on The Verge on January 3, 2020 before he completed the project, Beeple stated: "The Everyday project is making one picture from start to finish and posting it somewhere on the internet each day before midnight. That's the only ritual I adhere to. Beyond that, where I do them, when I do them, how long I have to do them, and who's around me when I'm doing them is all completely dictated by what's going on that day. Normally, I just do them at night after the kids are in bed, and I'm alone in my room. But I've done them all over the place and in all different circumstances: airports, cafes, emergency rooms. I look at it more like brushing your teeth. You don't have a big ritual around it; you just go in and brush your teeth." Themes A lot of Winkelmann's work features popular Disney characters in futuristic/dystopian settings and situations. In December of 2019, he posted a short animation of a robot dog with a Baby Yoda head eating the entrails of babies on Instagram, titled 'Stray Baby Yoda Dogs." He also posted an Everyday animation of a giant human body blob with Mickey Mouse's head. The blob is stationed with giant feeding tubes protruding from the giant stomach as workers in hazmat suits walk around and fiddle with the computers attached to the blob's dock. He titled the October piece "Disney +" and posted it on Twitter. On the appearance of these recurring pop culture themes in his art, Winkelmann commented: Disney is this massive omnipresence, especially in the last week, how much Rise of Skywalker shit you see everywhere. I was on an airplane yesterday, and the napkin they brought me had a fucking Rise of Skywalker logo on it. Every fucking thing, just everywhere. Taking and reappropriating some of their IP and brands, I find fun. I think it's interesting to imagine if you took these characters and infused them with AI far into the future, and they had a life of their own, what would they do and what could happen?Like with the Baby Yoda robot dog. What if, in the future, you could buy a Baby Yoda puppy, and it knew to play with kids. But then it got screwed up, and it got confused, and the algorithm got messed up, and it started eating kids, and it got stray, and there were these attacks of stray Baby Yoda robots that used to be toys, but they got so much AI in the future that they got loose, and they're fricking eating kids. Beeple also creates a lot of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg-related art. In October of 2019 as one of his Everydays, Winkelmann uploaded an animation on Instagram of a robotic, breasted spider with Zuck's head. The spider Zuck walks through what we assume is the Facebook factory, with giant headless silver women-without nipples-swaying to and fro. Beeple titled the piece 'ZUCKERBORG'S NIPPLE FREE TECHNO-UTOPIA'. Mediums Winkelmann uses Cinema 4D for most of his digital artwork. He has sorted his Everydays by rounds, each round is a collection of the work created within a certain period of time and medium. His first round starts with illustration and progresses to photography and Cinema 4D. On June 4, 2019 Beeple made an appearance at the NAB Show where he live-streamed creating his Everyday for June 4. Album ArtBeeple has also created many album covers including Imagine Dragons' 2017 album Evolve. He has also animated music videos for Flying Lotus' 2010 Kill Your Co-Workers and Brainfeeder's We Are The Transparent Machines™. VJ Loops Winkelman creates free video jockey loops that he uploads online across his various social media accounts. His Youtube channel has over 250 vj loop videos uploaded. He also posts them on his official website, beeple-crap.com. Beeple has created concert visuals for popular music artists including: Justin Bieber One Direction Katy Perry Nicki Minaj Eminem Zedd Deadmau5 Wiz Khalifa Virtual Reality In 2017 Beeple created a virtual futuristic Las Vegas. The Vegas: Alter Your Reality project features what Beeple calls a 'virtual playground'. In a 2017 interview discussing the project with Visit Las Vegas, Winkelmann commented The biggest [challenge] for me is that … there isn't framing. The person can look in any direction. That changes a lot of the little tricks you can do. One of the main things I want people to take away from my piece [is a] sense that everywhere you look, there's something happening or something changing. [Vegas] is such a dynamic place; it always feels different and new. You could see the piece again and have it be different to you each time. Fashion Week (2019) Winkelmann's futuristic art from his Everydays collection was even featured on the runway of Paris Fashion Week on October 2, 2019. The event was held at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Beeple's art was displayed on 13 of the 45 pieces for a Louis Vuitton spring/summer collection. Source: Everipedia, March 2021
BEEPLE (B. 1981) PILGRIMAGE smart contract address: 0x44541D1fF5E8A1ED22566dF771995fff9139F122 token ID: 1 wallet address: 0x7F4aC8E22fc3dC68C2D0c4F0A3a2849Bf685ABD2 single-channel video 00:00:52 minutes (1080? x 1920 pixels) Executed in 2021 and minted on 2 June 2022. This work is unique and is accompanied by a non-fungible token. Estimate on Request
Beeple (b. 1981) EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS token ID: 40913 wallet address: 0xc6b0562605D35eE710138402B878ffe6F2E23807 smart contract address: 0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a35bbf0756 non-fungible token (jpg) 21,069 x 21,069 pixels (319,168,313 bytes) Minted on 16 February 2021. This work is unique. In May 2007, the digital artist known as Beeple set out to create and post a new work of art online every day. He hasn’t missed a day since, creating a new digital picture every day for 5,000 days straight. Individually known as EVERYDAYS, collectively, the pieces form the core of EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS, one of the most unique bodies of work to emerge in the history of digital art. Consumers of internet culture will already be familiar with the prolific digital output of graphic designer and motion artist Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple. The South Carolina-based artist’s visionary, and often irreverent, digital pictures launched his meteoric rise to the top of the digital art world. He’s attracted 1.8 million followers on Instagram and high-profile collaborations with global brands ranging from Louis Vuitton to Nike, as well as performing artists from Katy Perry to Childish Gambino. In EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS, the artist has stitched together recurring themes and color schemes to create an aesthetic whole. Organized in loose chronological order, zooming in on individual pieces reveals abstract, fantastical, grotesque, and absurd pictures, alongside current events and deeply personal moments. Society’s obsession with and fear of technology; the desire for and resentment of wealth; and America’s recent political turbulence appear frequently throughout the work. The notable difference between the pictures from Day 1 (1 May 2007) and Day 5,000 (7 January 2021) reveals Beeple’s immense evolution as an artist. At the project’s inception, EVERYDAYS consisted of basic drawings. Once Beeple started working in 3D, they took on abstract themes, color, form and repetition. In the last five years, however, his digital pictures have became increasingly timely, often reacting to current events. “I almost look at it now like I’m a political cartoonist,” Beeple explains. “Except instead of doing sketches, I’m using the most advanced 3D tools to make comments on current events, almost in real-time.” A selection of EVERYDAYS 8-Nov-16 WOW. 7-Jan-17 FULL CIRCLE 31-Jan-18 COMFORT ZONE 11-Jan-19 START AGAIN 21-Jan-19 INFINITY AND BEYOND 17-Sep-19 TOTAL ALIGNMENT 7-Oct-20 MIKE PENCE: LORD OF THE FLIES 11-Oct-20 VIBE CITY 26-Dec-20 SPACE EXPLORATION 7-Jan-21 DAY 5000
