'This is what my Snapchat on a night out looks like.' The Weeknd's Super Bowl performance is already sparking some amazing memes and lots of chatter online. Here are some of the funniest tweets about the show.The Weeknd sent fans into a frenzy on Twitter, Sunday night, after revealing a new track on social media. Earlier in the night, he teased that something would start tonight. The Weeknd, who once sang about Angelina Jolie’s lips on Party Monster, might have finally gotten his dream girl. They were photographed again arriving at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, leaving the Italian restaurant in the same black SUV. They were previously seen enjoying a meal at the same spot a few months ago in June.The Weeknd, who once sang about Angelina Jolies lips on 'Party Monster,' might have finally gotten his dream girl.
The Weeknd dropped a one-minute and forty-one-second teaser for the track afterward.The Weeknd releases his much anticipated single Take My Breath, the first from his forthcoming album as announced in his GQ global cover story this week. The sonically-charged track exemplifies The Weeknd’s ability to consistently evolve his sound and his knack for story-telling through his music.The 'Save Your Tears' hitmaker and the house music trio – comprising Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello – have shared a snippet of the track in a new clip shared to social media.The video features a darkly lit close-up of the 31-year-old singer's face with sunglasses on, before their names and the song title flashes on the screen.Both The Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia shared the same caption: “this week."The 'Take My Breath' singer recently revealed that the 'Don't You Worry Child' hitmakers were among the artists who have inspired his upcoming follow-up to 2020's acclaimed 'After Hours' LP.And it doesn't look like it will be long before the record is released.Referring to his upcoming HBO series 'The Idol', the music star revealed: “e’re just kind of figuring out when to put it out. It’s been really cool, because I’m working on this album this summer simultaneously with the writer’s room for the new TV show."The Weeknd – whose name is Abel Tesfaye – also recently teased that it will feature tracks about “some people that are near and dear to me, some people that inspired my life as a child, and some that inspire me now.”While the collection has also been hailed as a party record.In a recent cover interview with GQ, the magazine described the LP as: "Packed with party records. Like real-deal, illuminated-white-tiles-on-the-floor party records.
Beeple’s work, a huge collage made up of 5,000 images made over the same number of days, may have artistic value, but it is the NFT associated with it that gives it economic value. “They function as a guarantee of authenticity,” Ordovás explained. The authenticity of Beeple’s work was guaranteed by a non-fungible token (NFT), a unique digital certificate that is linked to a file.In a world where everything can be replicated with a simple copy-and-paste, NFTs lend uniqueness to an image, and endow it with exclusivity. This sale was a milestone not so much for the price, but for being the first time a major auction house had offered a purely digital work of art that would be paid for in cryptocurrency and auctioned online. There was no heated bidding, and nothing went under a noisy hammer, but large sums were still changing hands: the artist known as Beeple sold his work “First 5000 Days” for $69.3 million.“It was the third highest price ever achieved by a living artist,” said Beatriz Ordovás, director of the postwar and contemporary art department at Christie’s Spain.
De Filippi has an optimistic view of the technology, and believes that it has enhanced the work of artists such as Beeple by replicating the limitations of the physical world to drive up prices: “NFTs have artificially created a form of digital scarcity and this enhances the value of a work,” she said. NFTs have ended that discrimination,” explained Primavera De Filippi, a researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society and the French National Center for Scientific Research. “Digital artists couldn’t sell their art like those working in the physical world.
A few days later, the Nyan Cat meme (a cat with a rainbow trail) reached $600,000. The first tweet by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey was sold in the form of an NFT for almost $3 million in March. 'The First 5,000 Days,' by an artist known as Beeple, sold at Christie's for $69.3 million on March 11, 2021.The value of the digital art market grew by 299% last year, according to the NFT 2020 Report, and that is just the tip of the iceberg: the luxury market, video games, music and sports teams also want a piece.
The number of people using NFT markets fell 80% from a peak of 650,000 at the beginning of the year to about 128,000 the first week of August. Activity associated with NFTs has varied greatly across all trackable metrics. “Many of us who have been watching this world have been caught by surprise by this fad,” he added, placing the tipping point at the beginning of this year and the sale of Beeple’s NFT.The ever higher prices, however, are now starting to signs of an overheated market. Many believe this growth is not organic.“There is clearly speculation,” said Andrés Guadamuz, a professor at the University of Sussex and expert in digital intellectual property rights.
It’s like saying gold is a fictional asset because you can’t go buy bread with gold bullion.” CryptoPunks on display in New York in May. “You can’t make a purchase with Ethereum, but you can exchange it for legal tender whenever you want. “This is very real,” disagreed the researcher Primavera De Filippi. “Ethereum is a very unstable cryptocurrency,” Guadamuz pointed out, “and as such the astronomical prices we are talking about are, to some extent, illusory.” The see-sawing prices of Ethereum and its lack of real-world uses pushes investors to make risky bets, which are increasingly disconnected from physical reality, like playing poker with Monopoly money. The market has ended up proving the latter opinion correct, as in August NFT sales set a new record ($206 million).What happens next is anyone’s guess. Some saw this as the death throes of NFTs, while others believed they only proved their extreme volatility.
“The very wealthy are willing to spend lump sums of money on status tokens, such as NFTs,” said the economist. But in the crypto-art herd, not all cattle are created equal. “A lot of the action is driven by herd-chasing,” Michell added. The gamble is risky because market trends are not driven by relatively predictable behavior such as a company going bust or the progressive career of an artist. “Trading in new and relatively unknown instruments, such as NFTs, is not so much a form of investment as a bet,” said Jo Michell, Associate Professor of Economics at UWE Bristol. But the newness and unfamiliarity of the technology makes it much riskier.
“They are unique, can be owned, sold, destroyed and tracked over time. “People are excited about them because they have certain properties of the real-world objects that we’re used to,” he explained. Collecting is based on this process, from stamp collecting to the tulip mania bubble of 17th-century Holland, when tulip bulbs were sometimes traded for mansions, in the wildest example of how collecting can generate economic distortion.Matt Stephenson is a PhD candidate at Columbia University and researches behavioral economics and NFTs from a psychological perspective. The emotional attachment we have to certain items, and the social status we imbue them with, affects our understanding of their value.
Each avatar, with a cartoon aesthetic and unique characteristics, went on the market for around $200. The site launched on April 30 and put 10,000 images of primates up for sale. He had joined the Bored Ape Yacht Club, a website selling NFT-linked avatars. It was all a little weird, Swenson thought, until the 25-year-old Florida salesman bought his own monkey avatar. Value, therefore, has a strong social component.In early May, Kyle Swenson’s Twitter feed started filling up with monkeys: monkeys in sunglasses, monkeys in Hawaiian shirts, monkeys in sailor hats, with frozen smiles and funny faces. “Cognitive psychology suggests that humans can distinguish between virtually identical objects based on an intricate set of socially accepted interests, beliefs and intentions,” he said.
In a way, they are like baseball cards, only with a lot more money at stake.Swenson has two Bored Apes, two Bored Ape Kennels, some Goatz, some Pudgy Penguins, some Alien Boys. While the rarest apes reach astronomical figures, more common specimens are more readily available. Today they can only be purchased second-hand on the Open Sea platform, and the cheapest one goes for about $45,000. Most users bought several to resell or exchange them.
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The first, and most successful, were the CryptoPunks. The Bored Apes are the latest to catch on. Just as there were once soccer and Disney movie stickers at a newsstand, there are NFT collections of all kinds on the internet.
“When you buy a primate you join a community,” explained Swenson, who also founded the Bored Ape Gazette, the newspaper of record for this community.
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