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Now Runway: Dive Into Zara’s Latest Fashion Capsule Collection
Welcome back to Now Runway, where we report to you from the frontlines of the digital fashion and luxury revolution. From Zara dropping a Spring inspired digital line on Zepeto to a new dreamy metaverse for our ever-growing digital wardrobes built by The Fabricant, here’s what you may have missed this past week. Zara x Zepeto: Fairy Magic Idols Credit: Zepeto Spanish fast-fashion brand Zara has introduced its latest fashion capsule collection, Fairy Magic Idols, which combines physical and digital aspects. This collection blends fantasy elements with spring-inspired features such as flowers and butterflies, integrating them into modern fashion through […]
18 AI Art Generators That Will Up Your Creative Game
In the rapidly evolving world of digital art, a new wave of creative expression is currently being empowered by the integration of artificial intelligence. These AI tools and plugins are broadening and democratizing the canvas of creativity and quickly shaping the landscape of the NFT space in the process. Artists like Claire Silver and Pindar Van Arman have emerged as leading advocates of AI art in the Web3 community, and platforms like Brain Drops have emerged to cater to the growing movement. As AI art continues to grow in popularity and accessibility, it has prompted a wide range of intellectual […]
Vincent Van Dough Talks Disrupting Galleries and the Power of Pepe
The pantheon of pseudonymous NFT collectors features no shortage of enigmatic characters, but few enjoy the crypto-native cult following of Vincent Van Dough. Regarded as a major proponent of the digital art ecosystem, the 2023 NFT100 honoree is well known for his NFT spending sprees and eclectic projects, which now include the web3 gallery Art of This Millennium (AOTM), the Notable Pepes series, TungstenDAO, and more. While he has been active in crypto since 2013 and was among the original claimers of CryptoPunks, Van Dough’s current alias dates back to 2021. In an interview that year, he claims to have […]
Jack Butcher Unveils Checks Elements NFT Collection
The Alpha Jack Butcher, of Checks VV and Visualize Value, has announced his newest project. Checks Elements is a 152-piece, generative art collection of hand-drawn monoprints and non-fungible token pairs, which he says explores “the ever-evolving relationship between consensus and truth.” The collection will feature four elements: Earth, Fire, Water, and Air. Three of the four elements will be auctioned off at Christie’s on May 16. Thirty percent of the auction proceeds will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Each digital piece will come with a 30” x 42” physical counterpart made by master printmaker Jean Robert Milant. […]
Upcoming Drops: May 15-21
Let’s face it: The NFT space moves really fast. Considering how quickly things can change in the metaverse, a week in NFTs might as well be a month IRL. Don’t get us wrong — the more people onboarded into the space, the merrier. But because of the constant influx of great art and ideas, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with all the news, launches, and general happenings. Well, you can put the days of endless Twitter and Discord scrolling behind you as we pull together a weekly list of upcoming NFT drops you definitely don’t want to miss. […]
Tessera and Escher Will Cease All Operations
In a sudden announcement today, Andy Chorlian, Co-Founder and CEO at the Fractional Token Company, revealed that Web3 platforms Tessera and Escher would begin slowly winding down operations in the near future. Launched in 2021 under the name Fractional Art, Tessera made a name for itself as a Web3 service that specializes in the fractionalized ownership of NFTs, allowing fans to own a piece of blue-chip NFTs like Bored Apes or CryptoPunks. The platform also powers Nounlets, an experimental NFT initiative that allows for the collective ownership of a single Noun. Escher, which launched in March 2023, was designed as […]
Why foobar Built Delegate Cash (and Why Web3 Needs to Do Better)
Few individuals in Web3 have contributed as much to the space as 0xfoobar has. The machine-learning specialist turned software developer, auditor, and founder is a prolific voice in the NFT scene, highlighting security flaws in project contracts and advising the community on the space’s most popular trends. He’s also one of its more steady-handed pragmatists, viewing Web3’s evolution on a long-term scale. While foobar has had a hand in several Web3 endeavors over the years, his most well-known accomplishment may be the creation of Delegate Cash, a service that allows users to create and assign hot wallets as a delegate […]
Alpha Centauri Kid and OSF on Art and Doing Web3 Events Right
IRL events in Web3 can be a tricky thing to get right. Whether it’s exorbitant ticket prices or gatherings that feel more like an excuse to throw a party than a way to appreciate and support artists and their work, NFT enthusiasts can have a hard time navigating the off-the-laptop realm. So it’s refreshing when an organization hones in on an immersive gallery experience that puts the art front and center. It was with this in mind that the fine art institution HOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art) unveiled Beyond the Screen on May 5, an exhibition celebrating digital and […]
Upcoming Drops: May 8-14
Let’s face it: The NFT space moves really fast. Considering how quickly things can change in the metaverse, a week in NFTs might as well be a month IRL. Don’t get us wrong — the more people onboarded into the space, the merrier. But because of the constant influx of great art and ideas, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with all the news, launches, and general happenings. Well, you can put the days of endless Twitter and Discord scrolling behind you as we pull together a weekly list of upcoming NFT drops you definitely don’t want to miss. […]
Now Runway: Web3 Meets High Fashion at The Met Gala
Welcome back to Now Runway, where we report to you from the frontlines of the digital fashion revolution. TikTok and Instagram were atwitter with all of the red carpet fashion this past Monday. For those of you that are strangers to fashion, this red carpet was none other than the one rolled out for The Met Gala. Held annually on the first Monday of May, the star-studded fashion-forward affair marks the opening of the annual fashion exhibit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute in New York City. In this edition, we’ll provide a Web3 perspective on the gala […]