Self Help

Knowing how the man behind the project got up, worked on all his obligations and made a piece of art every day might inspire you to try it too.

“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

— Ray Kroc

Let’s kick off with a recent story that took the art world by storm. A very impressive piece of work. To save you the bother, click here to see the art. Digital online art arrived unknown and sold for a record-breaking $69m! He made a piece of digital art every day for 7 years. Yes, every day for 7 years. And he still hadn’t finished it!

What is a Beeple?

You may have heard a story recently about Beeple. It’s actually a man behind the name. Precisely, Beeple-crap (yes this is the name!) is a website crammed with digital art. The artist called Mike Winkelmann, a graphic designer, lives and works in Charleston, SC.

Most of us hadn’t heard of him before this record-breaking artwork hit the headlines. Which makes one think where did he spring from? Mike has been around for a long time. His The First 5000 Days masterpiece began in 2008 By 2015 he’d completed 2,900 pieces of graphic art images.

He moved to Charleston, SC in 2017. He lives with his wife and two children. He creates concert visuals, short films, and VJ Loops. And has made a lot of money from his art.

Beeple alone has sold $102.2 million in art. With just 842 works that have come to the market, that means the average Beeple NFT is work $121,422. ~ Sarah Cascone

Picture a Monet Lilies painting. You can stand in front of it and admire it. It is a physical object. It has a physical provenance, evidence, which is a record of the artist and all the owners of the painting. To prove the item is not a forgery.

Beeple’s Everyday project has a digital provenance, recorded on blockchain, a digital ledger, as a unit of data. Blockchain certifies an item is unique.

Cryptocurrencies and NFTs are chalk and cheese.

A fungible item would be crude oil or cryptocurrencies which have fixed prices.

A non-fungible token, like Winkelmann’s work, is a unique collage of graphic digital art. It doesn’t have a fixed price. Buyers bid on the piece. The owner knows they have a digitally authenticated NFT artwork called The First 5000 Days by an artist called Beeple. The rest of the world also knows because the digital profile with a digital signature is used to track its ownership.

If you are interested in the man himself, you simply have to watch this humble artist give a presentation that is so informative and uncomfortable, yet delivered in a disarming and entertaining way.

beeple — Everydays from FITC on Vimeo.

He describes his work as crap; I think he means stuff, but he prefers to use his word. He confesses there is nothing deep in his art.

Most days he left his project work to the end of the day because he knew it would consume whatever time he had left before midnight. He even had an Everyday alarm to make sure he remembered.

His wife respected his need to create. Although she might have felt miffed when he insisted on completing his art on the day his daughter was born. He says he would have liked to ask her to hold their child in!

Inspired by the occasion, his design started with a sphere and he pulled some arms, legs, and a head out of it and got the task done. Then they went to the hospital.

Keep the momentum going

Some days are just about keeping the momentum going, but most days he was learning something. One tiny thing. He wanted a quantifiable daily delivery. In his words:

“Not, I’m gonna kinda work on my book today. I wrote two words, I’m done for the day.”

His reasons for the Everyday project comprised a list of activities:

• Idea generation
• Outline/sketch ideas
• Weed out rubbish ideas
• Keep great ideas for future projects
• Speed improves when you do something every day
• When you promise to do something every day, you do it

Give to get

Winkelmann gives much of his work to creative commons. He finds it pays off to give his work away. People watch his VJ (video jockey) clips and reach out to him to commission pieces. He makes VJ clips branded to the customer.

He did the Katy Perry ‘ROAR’ video. He called it popcorn crap. This could be a compliment, seeing as he calls most of his work crap.

We’ll finish with a heart-pounding VJ clip, the polar opposite of Katy Perry’s with a powerful message.

MANIFEST VJ PACK from beeple on Vimeo.

Did you strut your stuff to the MANIFEST VJ PACK?

Ten years of completing a piece of art every day has improved the man from Charleston, South Carolina’s skill set. Improved it to the tune of $102.2m.

The First 5000 Days aka the $69m Beeple Opus, is the third highest price paid for art by a living artist. His graphic/digital imagery is the highest earning for an NFT to date.

The man behind The First 5000 Days profited every day he got up and improved his skills that little more. He made much of his work available to the masses. This approach paid off in the long-term. His humble and generous way of living brought him riches beyond imagination.

The skills and knowledge Mike Winkelmann gained will continue to reward him and delight his audience for lifetimes to come.

What will your first 5000 days bring?

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. John Ruskin

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