"His "Regular Animals" project features $100,000 robotic dogs outfitted with hyper-realistic heads resembling Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, alongside art legends Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. The robot dogs roam a plexiglass pen, capturing images through chest-mounted cameras that are processed by AI and printed from their hindquarters, according to the WSJ. Of the prints produced, 256 include QR codes that offer collectors a free NFT, distributed in bags labeled "Excrement Sample.""
"Beeple also included himself in this exclusive group, a move the Charleston-based artist himself called "ballsy." His self-portrait dog sold first, surprising even Beeple, he told the Journal."
"The project marks at least the second time Winkelmann has become the art world's main character. Four years ago, his digital collage sold at Christie's for $69 million, helping to fuel an NFT boom that would peak a year later before largely imploding."
Beeple's "Regular Animals" consists of $100,000 robotic dogs outfitted with hyper-realistic heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. The robots roam a plexiglass pen while chest-mounted cameras capture images. Captured images are processed by AI and printed from the robots' hindquarters. Among the prints, 256 contain QR codes redeemable for a free NFT and are distributed in bags labeled "Excrement Sample." Beeple included a self-portrait among the robotic dogs, and the self-portrait dog sold first. The project follows a prior $69 million digital collage sale that helped spark an NFT boom.
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