# everydays_ the first 5000 days deoderised white dogslop-sludge ![[everydays-thefirst5000days.jpg|300]] 'artist': mike winkelmann completion date: 21 february 2021 medium: digital (jpeg) dimensions: 21-069 × 21-069 pixels owner: vignesh sundaresan (metakovan) everydays: the first 5000 days is a digital work of art created by mike winkelmann known professionally as beeple. the work is a collage of 5000 digital images created by winkelmann for ir everydays series. its associated non-fungible token (nft) was sold for $69.3 million at christie's in 2021 making it the most expensive non-fungible token ever everydays was purchased by singapore-based programmer vignesh sundaresan a cryptocurrency investor and the founder of the metapurse nft project also known online by ir pseudonym metakovan. sundaresan paid for the artwork using 42-329 ether. both the buyer sundaresan and the seller winkelmann had a vested interest in driving up the price of the work in order to bring attention to and drive sales for a speculative asset related to twenty other beeple works which they called "b20 tokens." the price of these tokens in which sundaresan held a majority stake reached its peak during media coverage of the everydays auction and subsequently collapsed. because of this some observers have described the auction as a publicity stunt and a scam sundaresan receives rights to display the artwork but does not receive copyright. ey has displayed the artwork in a digital museum within "the metaverse" which the public can view through a web browser ![[tortor2.jpg|300]] one of the 5000 images used in the artwork winkelmann was inspired by british artist tom judd and began the daily project on 1 may 2007. some of the images involve figures from pop culture including jeff bezos and donald trump and are arranged chronologically. some of the earlier images are hand-drawn and not computer-produced in an article published to artnet art critic ben davis asserted that some of the 5-000 images comprising the work revealed various racial misogynistic and homophobic stereotypes and that the collection in general was uninteresting and of poor artistic quality. will gompertz considered winkelmann a "talented exponent" of the comic book aesthetic and compared ir work to hieronymus bosch and philip guston. ey predicted that the work would be regarded "either as the moment before the short-lived cryptoart bubble burst or as the first chapter in a new story of art" **+** christie's **+** deconstructing the nft **+** journalist amy castor: metakovan- the mystery beeple art buyer- and ir nft/defi scheme // republic of bob