Beeple Breaks Worldwide Records for Digital Art - a podcast by Other World Computing

Beeple (aka Mike Winkleman) broke worldwide digital art records when his collage entitled, “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days,” sold to NFT Buyer Vingnesh Sundaresan aka @Metakovan for $69.9 million on March 11, 2021. The following week, in a down to the wire bidding war, Beeple sold another piece of his artwork, this time to Justin Sun, founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency platform Tron, for $6 million. (By the way, 100% of the profits are being donated to help offset NFT's carbon footprint.)



Our host, Cirina Catania, has been a Beeple fan for years and was very pleased when he agreed, at NAB 2019, to take a break from his presentations in the Cinema 4D booth to speak with her. They had an interesting and very candid conversation about his life as a creator, family man, and … well… a bit of a rebel behind his prolific Cinema4D art.For those of you not familiar with the “Everydays,” here’s the scoop. Every single day without fail for the last 14 years, Mike has created new work and uploaded it for the world to see. He’s now behind some of the world’s most admired digital works. 



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In This Episode00:01 - Cirina introduces Beeple (aka Mike Winkleman). Mike broke worldwide digital art records when his collage entitled, “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days,” sold for $69.9 million on March 11, 2021. The following week, in a down to the wire bidding war, Beeple sold another piece of his artwork for $6 million.02:38 - Mike talks about his first NAB experience and his Everyday Live, where he created art pieces for 3 days.04:30 - Mike shares the workflow process for his art.10:25 - Mike talks about his film, Stuxnet, and the production of that film. He also talks about his upcoming film about money.15:54 - Mike visually explains the images that he was creating in NAB 2019.21:53 - Cirina asks Mike how people can get started in digital arts.



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Cirina Catania at NAB 2019. We’re here with the OWC Radio Creative Club and with this amazing artist by the name of Mike Winkelmann, who you probably know as Beeple. I happened on Beeple’s art several years ago on a site called Beeple Crap.That is correct.



And I thought, “Oh my gosh, this guy’s calling his art crap. And it is some of the best stuff I’ve ever seen.I appreciate that.



Tell me, what are you doing here at NAB?I am doing my Everyday live at the Maxon booth for three days. This is the third day. This is the first NAB I’ve been to. It’s been an exhausting couple of days here.



It’s never-ending, right? It’s a lot to take in. 



Absolutely never-ending. Tell people what the Everydays are.Everydays is just a picture that I do from start to finish, every single day. I’ve been doing it for almost 12 years. They use Cinema 4D as the primary tool that I use to make the pictures each day. That’s the biggest piece of it. It’s a 3D environment that you can light things and animate things, and change the materials. So I set up pictures and try to make a picture every day.



You’ve not been getting much sleep. But you’ve done this now for 12 years non-stop every day, thick or thin, healthy or sick, with your family, traveling, NAB. It’s pretty amazing. I encourage everybody that’s listening in to go to your site, Beeple-Crap.com.

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