Wes McQ | Art Maxi | Fractional CMO
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7 ADDYs 🏆 • $84m in sales • VR & Web3 Optimist • Tech Advocate of the Year • Sr Marketing Strategist • Fine Art Collector • Blockchain Art Collector since 2020
Reno, NV
Joined June 2012
🔥 EVERYONE HERE IN DIGITAL ART: Take your collection seriously. You don't have to be one of these whales for your collection to MATTER. 🔥 You don't have to have a collection that's [currently] worth $ XXX,XXX+ or $ X,XXX,XXX+ to take your collection seriously, because we have
I don’t think some of you are getting this yet Here me now when I say: You are insufficiently bullish digital art. And you are underestimating the importance future historians will attribute to this moment in the art canon. The moment that changes everything A digital
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regrettably due to market conditions, the kardashian family has been welded into one single barely sentient being. it’s horrific to existence will be documented on spiketv under the new show title “keeping up with the kardashian,” thank you for your attention in this matter.
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AR platforms keep shutting down 😤 but I still believe AR is the future. We might be too early. Spark gone. Adobe Aero gone. Now 8th Wall @ArtiviveApp keeps standing ✨
8th Wall will begin winding down next year after seven incredible years building with this community. We want to be clear, nothing changes today. Hosted projects will stay online through Feb 28, 2027, giving creators plenty of time to plan ahead. We’re also working to open
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This SUCKS I just built a bunch of activations in it this year
8th Wall will begin winding down next year after seven incredible years building with this community. We want to be clear, nothing changes today. Hosted projects will stay online through Feb 28, 2027, giving creators plenty of time to plan ahead. We’re also working to open
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Human Weeble Wobble just dropped!! LFG!! 🔥🔥🔥 legendary video of me riding my sculpture and getting hit by a bus in 2017 🤣 🚌 edition of 420 for .00369 ($10) @TransientLabs 🔗 🧵
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I haven't done a thread on acquisitions in a while. I'm still collecting art but it's mostly been physical and trad art again - I took a break on blockchain art. Recent acquisitions include Russell Mills, Thelonius Stokes, and Jen Stark. 2 still at the framer's. Will share later.
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"Oh no, this paradigm shifting outsider tech was created by a bunch of cypherpunk WEIRDOS 😱🫨😲" Yeah that's awesome and if you're a norm who's freaked out by that you can go find another thing
Why are we still getting in a flap that the identities of some of the earliest adopters and contributors of crypto fall outside societal norms? The ethos of the movement is built on self sovereignty, privacy, disruption and decentralization.
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There is an artist in this space RIGHT NOW that: Missed every memecoin Fumbled every bag Never had a double digit eth sale Never cracked 10k followers Will die broke without any recognition And then will one day be regarded as one of the GREATEST ARTISTS of our
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Mental Math -LIVE AUCTION!! black velvet painting 22”x19” @SuperRare current bid 1 Eth @Cryptopathic huge thanks Path!! LFG!!! 🔥🔥 i returned to my perennial black v painting obsession this fall, 4 new pieces listed on SR ✨
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Anyone at @ComplexCon this weekend? I'm in Vegas till the 29th y'all... maybe I'll see you
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i was a co-founder of Banksy. i’ve never said that publicly, and to my knowledge, nobody else has either. but it’s true. before the infamous stencils started appearing around Bristol, i was already working on underground street art projects. when Robin told me he believed he was
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We need more art that is "hard to sell" because it is weird and inefficient. Art that gives no certainty, but offers an impulse to support ideas that are counter to the status quo. Art that doesn't claim to be the next big thing and is just trying to say something obsessively so
We need art that disturbs efficiency We are living in a moment where technology is no longer just a tool; it’s an atmosphere. Artificial intelligence doesn’t simply assist; it frames how we think, produce, and even perceive the world. For many artists, this has triggered
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Trained a model on 50 digitally sculpted flowers. Wind simulation added, nature meeting computation. The future of AI feels more poetic when it’s built from personal data, not borrowed datasets.
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I have been working on a very challenging new series. The art has been difficult to create what’s in my head, and the mechanics of the release keeps shifting about what will be the most enjoyable experience for the viewer. Joy w art is important to me. Joy can be happy, sad, mad,
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A warning to folks in middle school, high school, college - do not throw out or thrift your band shirts Especially tour shirts! Even if the band is huge. Even if 100k must have been printed. Even if they get ratty SO MANY 90s band shirts are $$$ today, many that I donated.
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I survived a mudslide north of Mojave on the way there, but I got to be on the rail and was gifted a pick by tour staff so it was 100% worth it Nine Inch Nails, Kia Forum, 9/19
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So blessed that I got to have a bad time twice this year ❤️ Once in Oakland for the first US date, and once in LA for the last US date on 9/19 (NIN day, coincidentally) Forever my favorite
“How are you tonight? Having a good time? Ready to party? Have Fun? Yeah, well that was the last guys… Wrong fucking band. We’re here to have a bad time… Let’s fucking do this.” - Trent Reznor, 08/16/2013 Lowlands Festival
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If you’re an early adopter, you sign up for flaws. Complaining when new tech isn’t flawless on release makes you look clueless.
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Infinite good vibes unlock protocol: Smile at a stranger, hold doors for ppl behind you, tip heavy, make eye contact, be curious about others and ask them things, order family style and share everything, photograph beautiful things, walk with your eyes up and look at the
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