“The world has gone completely insane,” said John Cleese of Monty Python Vanity Fair on how to get into NFTs. So, of course, the comic actor known for silly hikes is now selling a ridiculously expensive NFT: a Vonnegut drawing of the Brooklyn Bridge made on an iPad Pro. It’s listed on OpenSea and the auction ends in 10 days.
The bid started at $ 100 and has now risen to almost $ 36,000. Cleese is not going to let her masterpiece go so cheaply, however. Cleese said he wants $ 69.3 million for the piece, suggesting that the illustration will not sell unless someone bids at least that amount.
While many artists are making more money than ever selling NFTs for their digital products, Cleese wants to make fun of it. NFTs, he argues for Vanity Fair, are “another investment vehicle for the super-rich”. The auction price refers to the NFT sale of digital artist Beeple at Christie’s, which grossed $ 69 million – the third highest-grossing sale by a live artist.
Cleese goes on to say that “the technology is changing and moving so fast that we can’t even see that we’re standing in quicksand as we look at a bunch of pixelated JPEGs, wondering what they can sell next.”
Honestly, this sounds like a distorted Monty Python sketch that I want to see updated. Before being sucked into the sand, surrounded by screens with indiscernible JPEGs, look at the camera and say “Yeah!”