Pop culture icon Madonna and the digital artist Beeple announced a three-video NFT collaboration today featuring a naked, CGI Madonna giving birth. It’s called “Mother of Creation.”
Madonna—whose current Twitter profile picture is her Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT—shared in a video with Beeple that the pair began collaborating on her first-ever NFTs a year ago.
“We set out to create something that is absolutely and utterly connected to the idea of creation and motherhood,” Madonna said of her NFTs, which are unique blockchain tokens that prove ownership of an asset, in this case a video.
INSANELY HONORED to have collaborated with @Madonna on this project. Excited for the world to see this one… 🙏🙏🙏 https://t.co/Tt2g0O1bqm
While the Madonna x Beeple NFT videos might seem, at first, bizarrely erotic, Madonna explained that the art, which will be auctioned on SuperRare Wednesday, has a pretty straightforward meaning.
“The opening of each video is essentially me giving birth,” she added. “I’m doing what women have been doing since the beginning of time, which is giving birth. But on a more existential level, I’m giving birth to art, and creativity, and we would be lost without both.”
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Notably, Beeple recently said in an interview with Decrypt that the next era of NFTs will focus on “emotional connection and utility” rather than on “rampant speculation.”
Beeple’s NFTs with Madonna touch upon emotional connection—to oneself, to nature, and to technology.
A still from Madonna's NFT collection.
“Mother of Nature,” one of the NFTs, carries plenty of emotional weight through its audio. But in classic Beeple fashion, the visuals are surreal and disturbing. The result is a contrast between the softness of the female form and stark sterility of a research laboratory.
“Mother of Evolution” shows how even in times of chaos, or apocalypse, rebirth can still occur, while “Mother of Technology” offers a darker take on humanity’s relationship with technology.
While NFT market activity has at times appeared to be uncoupled from crypto prices—particularly when NFTs have surged as the crypto market declined—that’s not the case right now. With crypto prices in the red nearly across the board this week, the prices for top NFT collections are likewise falling fast.
The floor price—the cheapest available NFT listed on a marketplace—for many of the most valuable NFT projects has fallen by 20% or more in terms of U.S. dollars over the past 24 hours. Even when...
According to the project’s website, the NFTs’ proceeds will be donated to three charities—The Voices of Children Foundation, The City of Joy, and Black Mama’s Bail Out—focused on, respectively, helping Ukrainian children, female survivors of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and incarcerated black women.
Crypto platform MoonPay also will be donating $300,000 as a part of the NFT launch—$100,000 to each charity.
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Tradable NFT stickers are launching on Telegram via The Open Network (TON).
Open Builders—the team behind viral tap-to-earn game Notcoin—and the DOGS meme coin community announced Tuesday that they have teamed up to open Sticker Shop. The Telegram mini app will sell limited edition digital sticker packs purchased via Stars, the messaging platform's native in-app currency that’s tied to Toncoin (TON).
Purchased stickers can be shared in chats and bought and sold via marketplaces (such as Getgems)...
The Pudgy Penguins floor price broke through $100,000, up more than 20% in the last 24 hours, as excitement and speculation surround the Ethereum NFT project and its upcoming token airdrop on Solana.
The collection of 8,888 Penguin NFTs broke an all-time high mark last week when it began trading around $62,000. Shortly thereafter, the project’s team announced that an ecosystem token—PENGU—will be launched on Solana in the near future, rewarding holders of the Pudgy Penguins ecosystem and beyond...
9dcc, the on-chain fashion label founded by pseudonymous crypto personality and investor gmoney, is preparing to release its latest project, the 9dcc Black Box, on December 18.
The drop, limited to 2,750 NFTs minted on Ethereum layer-2 network Base, is being billed by the crypto-native luxury brand as a blend of fashion, blockchain technology, and mystery.
Each 9dcc Black Box promises a mix of digital and physical rewards. Buyers might find an item from the label’s Collection-01, which ranges fr...
