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The Fakes Museum

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Inspiration/Origins: First Off, Huge shoutout to Grim R of Grims Gallery. He’s been doing this long before I did. It was actually the first place I visited/researched when I was deciding on making a museum. The first thing I noticed however is that a spacious parcel can barely hold enough fakes to cut it for a museum. So I started devising a plan to secure 2, possibly 3 spacious parcels side-by-side. Especially considering that you can eventually connect parcels.     I like to do firsts, and to my knowledge no one else had a side-by-side parcel museum. This museum would also serve as my tribute/contribution to the Fake Gotchi Project as a place for artists to get exposure, as well as advertise my own NFTs. I already have land rights tied to my NFTs, so if I was to make this a desirable, popular spot- then land rights for the museum could also get tied into NFT rewards. Ultimately for the holders of my four utility Fake Gotchis. Considerations: The idea for the approach to this...

Americaan Gotchi

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  Americaan Gotchi is a piece that closest represents what my animation style is(found here ). Thick lines with masks that reveal localized animations, typically stop motion sometimes 'treated' video clips. The majority of my Fake Gotchis have been pixel based animations, this is a reprieve from that.  The Concept: The idea came to me one night as I was smoking and watching the stars outside of my apartment. I was thinking really hard about the Gotchi Lisa and what other famous painting could make a similar transition into the Fake Gotchi's Collection.  Americaan Gotchi hit my all at once, especially once you realize that we have pitchforks already in the universe, that gothic to gotchi is just rearranging the letters. It felt natural. The Process: American Gothic is an impressive work of art and I wanted an equally impressive Fake.  I knew it had to be IRL painting of some type, so I fell back on the stop motion paintings I had made for my music videos and personal ...