the100pieces
The 100 Pieces of Shit
In 1961, Manzoni created small cans titled Artist’s Shit, and said it was a joke, a parody of the art market, and a critique of consumerism and the waste it generates.
60 years later, this is the #NFT remake, 100 pieces of shit swimming in the open sea.
The Experiment
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Collection deployed on Friday Oct 23rd, 2021.
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Sent links to friends and work contacts.
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Sent Discord and twitter DMs to +100 random people. Also tried advertising the collection using Twitter but only reached 30 followers at its peak.
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Airdropped a piece to the Anubis DAO hacker wallet.
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Airdropped 25 pieces to the top chain runners, Ponzi Rugs and Fudderverse holders (Jan 2022.)
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Airdropped 11 pieces to the top Goblin Lill Poop Collectors (June 2022.)
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Some people enjoyed the theme, and minted or received their first NFT from this collection.
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Sent #99, Sympathy to the Devil, to Anthony Hopkins (ahopkins.eth); but he didn’t like it and spent $2 in transaction fees to burn it.
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Collection was flagged by Etherscan as SPAM, because “This token is reported to have been spammed to a large number of addresses. Please treat it with caution.”
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Total proceeds: 18 authentic mints * 0.04 = 0.72 ETH, all the rest of the collection was given away to friends or airdropped.
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Total cost: about 1 Eth in transaction fees, plus a 0.1 Eth Chain Runner XR NFT to be given away.
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After the collection minted out, a wallet holding 5 pieces and the prize was created. The first person who solved the riddles took possession of the prize, but left the pieces of shit there.
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The minting website was turned off, and the collection metadata and images moved to github, where they will live in a semi-decentralized mode.
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This website is also hosted in github as the readme of the100pieces repository.
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All holders welcome to submit a PR if they would like to modify their NFT. (Please provide a cryptographic signature of the PR to prove that you own the NFT and that you are the author of the PR.)
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Discord hasn’t been very active, so we shut it down in June 2022. Didn’t make screenshots of some fun moments in the beginning but the OGs will remember those.
The Final Piece #100: Of Bears and Bulls
In our narrow, confined existence, we tend to forget the essence of life…
All of us, whatever our occupation or class, are equally guilty: the employer is lost in the running of his business; the workers, sunk in the abyss of their misery, raise their heads only to cry in protest; we, the politicians, are lost in daily battles and corridor intrigues.
All of us forget that before everything else, we are men, ephemeral beings lost in the immense universe, so full of terrors.
We are inclined to neglect the search for the real meaning of life, to ignore the real goals - serenity of the spirit and sublimity of the heart…
To reach them - that is the revolution.
(Jean Jaurès)
Thanks
Big thanks to all the friends who minted and supported this project, with special shout out to the Chain Runners community.
It means a lot when you find people who support you even when you create shit.
No shit, that’s true unconditional solidarity!