Punk Week 08/2022
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
10 000 Dooggies - 32x32 Pixel Art By 16-Year-Old Teenager (Anno 2021) - Is This The Original Art / Inspiration of The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Bored Ape Kennel Club (BAKC) Derivatives? Lamborghinis Points Out 20+ 'Perfect' Matching Attributes - What's Your Take?
As a follow-up to Alpha, Alpha, Alpha Alert - 10 000 Dooggies, The World’s First 10 000 Doge Edition (Anno 2021) - Free All-In-One Image Composite Download (3200x3200px) - dooggies.png (~1.7MB) - the [non-fungible] token archeologist / collector - Lamborghinis - who uncovered the dormant 10 000 dooggies collection (Anno 2021) that lay waiting unsold (only about six? dooggies minted) hidden on the public blockchain before hitting the big time with a new marketing (or is that shilling?) team and rebranding as world’s first historic 10 000 doge collection - posted the image above (titled “Smoking Gun - Bored Ape Yacht Club® Copyright Infringement!?”).
Anyways, the 10 000 dooggies “hand-painted” pixel art in the 32x32 format by a 16-year-old teenager started on April 6th, 2021, that is, two weeks before Bored Ape Yacht Club® (BAYC) - launched on April 22nd, 2021 - and ten weeks before Bored Ape Kennel Club® (BAKC) - launched on June 18th, 2021.
So what? Lamborghinis points out 20+ surprising match-ups of attributes / traits of the “original” artwork. The question everyone asking is - who’s copying whom?
You say blockchain and proof-of-provenance? Well, - surprise, surprise - the pixel art is NOT stored time-stamped “on chain” and unchangeable forever. The best there is in the 2020s so far - is a backup of pages on the ye’ good olde’ Internet Archive thanks to the Wayback Machine - try opensea.io/collection/dooggies (2021-04-11). What about the artists? So far we only hear silence.
What’s your take?
Questions and comments welcome.
PS: The updated and reworked blurb of the 10 000 (or is that 9993?) dooggies collection reads:
The First 10 000 Doge [Non-Fungible] Token Collection - Rediscovered by the Community! Among the First 10 000 [Non-Fungible] Token Collections on Ethereum - Created on April 6th, 2021- [yes, ] before Bored Apes Yacht Club® (BAYC)! Own a Piece of [Non-Fungible] Token History!
1100 [Non-Fungible] Tokens are sold. 1500 is reserved for the Community Crypto Fund “DAO”. 400 for the Team and Giveaways. 7000 [Non-Fungible] Tokens will be released for sale from Saturday, February 19th.
The creator of Dooggies started learning programming at the age of 13 and created the Dooggies collection when he was 16 years old.
Each Dooggie is represented as 32x32 pixel art [non-fungible] token, programmatically assembled and scaled upward to 320x320 pixels. The Dooggies are stored as ERC 1155 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, on an Opensea [shared open store] contract.
The [non-fungible] token collection was revived and resurrected by [non-fungible] token Archeologists in January 2022.
[Non-fungible] token collectors find this collection particularly noteworthy for the fact that it minted on April 6th, 2021 before Bored Ape Yacht Club® (BAYC) - launched on April 22nd, 2021 - and Bored Ape Kennel Club® (BAKC) - launched on June 18th, 2021 - yet it shares an overwhelming amount of traits with those collections.
Questions? Comments?
Post them on the CryptoPunksDev reddit. Thanks.