Means of transport is a term used to distinguish between different ways of transportation or transporting people or goods. The different modes of transport are air, water, and land transport, which includes Rails or railways, road and off-road transport. Other modes also exist, including pipelines, cable transport, and space transport. Human-powered transport and animal-powered transport are sometimes regarded as their own mode, but never fall into the other categories. In general, transportation is used for moving of people, animals, and other goods from one place to another. The means of transport, on the other hand, refers to the (motorized) vehicles necessary for transport according to the chosen mode (car, airplane, ship, truck and rail). Each mode of transport has a fundamentally different technological solution, and some require a separate environment. Each mode has its own infrastructure, vehicles, and operations.

Animal-powered transport is the use of working animals for the transport of people and/or goods. Humans may use some of the animals directly, use them as pack animals for carrying goods, or harness them, alone or in teams, to pull watercraft, sleds, or wheeled vehicles.

Human powered transport, a form of sustainable transportation, is the transport of people and/or goods using human muscle-power, in the form of walking, running and swimming. Modern technology has allowed machines to enhance human power. Human-powered transport remains popular for reasons of cost-saving, leisure, physical exercise, and environmentalism; it is sometimes the only type available, especially in underdeveloped or inaccessible regions.

Although humans are able to walk without infrastructure, the transport can be enhanced through the use of roads, especially when using the human power with vehicles, such as bicycles and inline skates. Human-powered vehicles have also been developed for difficult environments, such as snow and water, by watercraft rowing and skiing; even the air can be entered with human-powered aircraft.

Micromobility is the collective name for small electric powered vehicles.

Pipeline transport sends goods through a pipe, most commonly liquid and gases are sent, but pneumatic tubes can also send solid capsules using compressed air. For example liquids/gases, any chemically stable liquid or gas can be sent through a pipeline. Short-distance systems exist for sewage, slurry water and beer, while long-distance networks are used for petroleum and natural gas.

Cable transport is a broad mode where vehicles are pulled by cables instead of an internal power source. It is most commonly used at steep gradient. Typical solutions include aerial tramway, elevators, escalator and ski lifts; some of these are also categorized as conveyor transport.

Space transport is transport out of Earth's atmosphere into outer space by means of a spacecraft. While large amounts of research have gone into technology, it is rarely used except to put satellites into orbit, and conduct scientific experiments. However, Man has landed on the moon, and probes have been sent to all the planets of the Solar System.

Unmanned aerial vehicle transport (drone transport) is being used for medicine transportation in least developed countries with inadequate infrastructure by an american based start-up Zipline. Amazon.com and other transportation companies are currently testing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in parcel delivery. This method will allow short-range small-parcel delivery in a short time frame.

In other news, Rick Owens Fall 2021 fashion show. On the subject of underthings, the pentagram briefs from the January men’s show reappeared here wrapped around evening clutches, the implication being that these alien females had handled the “unhinged male aggression” that those briefs signified.

Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century in Europe, and by the early 21st century, more than 1 billion were in existence at a given time. [I put this text here only by design purpose]. These numbers far exceed the number of cars, both in total and ranked by the number of individual models produced. They are the principal means of transportation in many regions.

Stewart Butterfield is a Canadian entrepreneur, designer, and technologist, known as the co-founder of Flickr and Slack.

In 1973, Butterfield was born in Lund, British Columbia, to Norma and David Butterfield. For the first five years of his life he grew up in a log cabin without running water or electricity. His family lived on a commune in remote Canada after his father fled the US to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War. His family moved to Victoria when Butterfield was five years old. As a child, Butterfield taught himself how to code, and changed his name to Stewart when he was 12.

Butterfield was educated at St. Michaels University School in Victoria, British Columbia and made money in university designing websites. He received a B.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Victoria in 1996 and went on to earn a Master of Philosophy from Clare College, Cambridge in 1998.

In 2000, Butterfield worked with Jason Classon to build a startup called Gradfinder.com. Following Gradfinder.com's acquisition, he worked as a freelance web designer. Butterfield also created a contest called the 5K competition, centered around people with the ability to design websites under 5 kilobytes.

In the summer of 2002, he co-founded Ludicorp with Caterina Fake and Jason Classon in Vancouver. Ludicorp initially developed a massively multiplayer online role-playing game called Game Neverending. After the game failed to launch, the company started a photo-sharing website called Flickr. In March 2005, Ludicorp was acquired by Yahoo!, where Butterfield continued as the General Manager of Flickr until he left Yahoo! on July 12, 2008.

In 2009, Butterfield co-founded a new company called Tiny Speck. Tiny Speck launched its first project, the massively multiplayer game Glitch, on September 27, 2011. Glitch was later closed due to its failure to attract a sufficiently large audience. The game world closed down on December 9, 2012, but the website remained online. In January 2013, the company announced that it would make the most of the game's art available under a Creative Commons license. On December 9, 2014, a fan project to relaunch Glitch under the name Eleven began alpha testing.

In August 2013, Butterfield announced the release of Slack, an instant-message-based team communication tool, built by Tiny Speck while working on Glitch. After its public release in February 2014, the tool grew at a weekly rate of 5 to 10 percent, with more than 120,000 daily users registered in the first week of August. In early 2014, the data for Slack's first six-month usage period showed that nearly 16,000 users were registered without any advertising.

That same year, Butterfield secured an office for Slack employees in San Francisco, and was expected to commence recruitment during the second half of the year.

As of December 2015, Slack had raised US$340 million in venture capital and had more than 2 million daily active users, of which 570,000 were paid customers.

Slack was named Inc. Magazine’s 2015 company of the year.

In June 2019, the company announced its initial public offering with an opening price of $38.50 and a market capitalization of US$21.4 billion.

In December 2020, Salesforce confirmed plans to buy Slack for US$27.7 billion.

In 2005, Butterfield was named one of Businessweek's "Top 50" Leaders in the entrepreneur category. In the same year, he was also named in the TR35, a list collated by MIT in its MIT Technology Review publication, as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35 years. In 2006, he was named in the "Time 100", Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and also appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine.

In November 2008, Butterfield received the "Legacy Distinguished Alumni Award" from the University of Victoria.

In 2015, Stewart was named the Wall Street Journal's Technology Innovator for 2015, awarded TechCrunch’s Founder of the Year Crunchie, and included in Vanity Fair’s New Establishment, Advertising Age’s Creative 50, and Details’ Digital Mavericks lists.

In May 2017, he featured in Masters of Scale, a podcast series by Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Linkedin, along with other successful business people such as Mark Zuckerberg, John Elkann, and Brian Chesky. In it, he discussed the scaling strategy adopted by Slack.

Butterfield was married to Caterina Fake, his Flickr co-founder, from 2001 to 2007. They have one daughter together, who was born in 2007. In May 2019 he became engaged to Jennifer Rubio, co-founder of Away Luggage.

One lesson that could be learned from Slack’s founder Stewart Butterfield is –within the mess of every failure is the seed of success. You just might have to be delirious to see it.

STEWART BUTTERFIELD: CANADIAN ENTREPRENEUR, KNOWN AS THE CO-FOUNDER OF FLICKR AND SLACK

Lyons, Colorado born Independent Artist Android Jones began studying art at age 8.  He attended the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota FL, where he trained in traditional academic drawing/painting and animation. Jones interned at George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic and later founded Massive Black, an art development company based in LA.  Android began his career as an Independent Artist in 2005. He now lives in his home town of Lyons, maintaining a large art studio in a repurposed barn.

Best described as a “digital painter,” Jones has created an immense body of work. He has become well known for his many layered, psychedelic works and live performances using a custom built digital set up. He participated in the Grateful Dead Fare Thee Well Tour and his work has been projected on the Sydney Opera House and the Empire State Building. A long time member of the Burning Man community, Android has traveled the world exhibiting his work and has contributed to events on 6 continents.

At the center of Jones’ work is spirituality and altered states of consciousness. Describing his work as Electro-Mineralism, Jones attributes his ability to create to the wonders of technology, crediting the planet’s resources for advancements in art production. Manipulating light and energy, Android Jones captures complex concepts while utilizing his formal background in the arts. Described as a digital alchemist, he is determined to alter the viewer’s perception, pushing the boundaries of the imagination through the use of innovative media forms.

“I have seen things in this life that I am incapable of translating into words. In my practice, I have visited realms where the imagination ends, and the terrifying beauty of infinity unfolds over and over again.

If I could distill into words exactly what motivates me to create the art that I make then it would not be worth making it. Instead I have chosen the Pen.

Honestly I don’t know why I make this art, or what compels me to keep creating it; it’s a mystery I intend to pursue for the rest of my life, and each image brings me closer to the Ultimate Truth.” -Android Jones, 2013

“I have seen things in this life that I am incapable of translating into words. In my practice, I have visited realms where the imagination ends, and the terrifying beauty of infinity unfolds over and over again."

Digital printing is a method of printing from a digital-based image directly to a variety of media. It usually refers to professional printing where small-run jobs from desktop publishing and other digital sources are printed using large-format and/or high-volume laser or inkjet printers. Digital printing has a higher cost per page than more traditional offset printing methods, but this price is usually offset by avoiding the cost of all the technical steps required to make printing plates. It also allows for on-demand printing, short turnaround time, and even a modification of the image (variable data) used for each impression. The savings in labor and the ever-increasing capability of digital presses means that digital printing is reaching the point where it can match or supersede offset printing technology's ability to produce larger print runs of several thousand sheets at a low price.

The greatest difference between digital printing and analog methods, such as lithography, flexography, gravure, and letterpress, is that in digital printing there is no need to replace printing plate, whereas in analog printing the plates are repeatedly replaced. This results in quicker turnaround time and lower cost in digital printing, but typically a loss of detail in most commercial digital printing processes. The most popular methods include inkjet and laser printers, which deposit pigment and toner, respectively, onto substrates, such as paper, canvas, glass, metal, and marble.

In many of the processes, the ink or toner does not permeate the substrate, as does conventional ink, but forms a thin layer on the surface that may be additionally adhered to the substrate by a fuser fluid with thermal (toner) or ultraviolet curing (ink).

Digital images are exposed onto true, light sensitive photographic paper with lasers and processed in photographic developers and fixers. These prints are true photographs and have continuous tone in the image detail. The archival quality of the print is as high as the manufacturer's rating for any given photo paper used. In large format prints, the greatest advantage is that, since no lens is used, there is no vignetting or detail distortion in the corners of the image.

Digital printing technology has grown significantly over the past few years with substantial developments in quality and sheet sizes.

Since 2004, working for all kinds of advertising agencies and studios with multidisciplinary knowledge and experience in the fields of printing, digital and motion. TAVO believes that the concept and story are the most important part of the project, taking care of every detail, inch and second of the piece. A dynamic team, adapted to the needs of each project, working for worldwide brands in Europe, USA and the Middle East.

As more celebrities are coming out as non-binary – last but not least, Jonathan Van Ness – they are shedding a light on this gender identity.

Despite what a widespread misconception states, identities beyond the gender binary aren’t new. There is evidence of people identifying as something other than male or female as far back as 400BC.

Someone who is non-binary or genderqueer thinks of gender as a spectrum rather than a binary opposition. And this, obviously, happens regardless of sex assigned at birth.

There are also frequent cases of parents deciding to raise their kids as non-binary. This genderfluid parental approach allows children to pick the gender they feel more comfortable identifying with when they’re old enough.

An underrepresented part of the broader LGBTI community, non-binary folks are constantly challenging gender stereotypes associating this identity with androgyny.

Being non-binary, in fact, doesn’t necessarily imply enbies need to be androgynous or rather comply with the traditional idea of what androgynous should look like.

Notable nonbinary people include celebrities, activists, and historical figures who identify outside of the Western gender binary, regardless of whether they have used the word "nonbinary" for themselves. They may call themselves genderqueer, use an indigenous word for their identity, or they may simply describe their identity with words like "I'm not a man or a woman," "I'm some percentage of both," or "I often change back and forth." They were not necessarily born physically intersex, and they do not necessarily transition. This article is about a few such people who are well-known. Due to the nature of how people become well-known, people who are musicians, actors, or activists tend to be overrepresented in this list. (There many more nonbinary people all over the world who are not famous, and who have other types of careers.) The entries in the below table are sorted alphabetically by surname. You can click on the headings to change it to sort by birthdate, nationality, or gender identity instead.

Artists who identify with a gender that is outside of the gender binary (non-binary or genderqueer). Non-binary gender identities include agender and bigender.

David OReilly (born 1985) is an Irish artist, film maker and game developer based in Los Angeles, California, US.

Aside from a 1-minute film entitled Ident, from which he draws his logo, the earliest work available on his website is WOFL2106. This short draws equally on original designs and popular internet memes to create a disturbing landscape of serenity juxtaposed with chaos. This film sets the tone for his entire œuvre, though the direct inclusion of outside memes disappears in his later work.

He created several animation sequences and props for the 2007 film Son of Rambow, as well as animation for the "guide" sequences in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with Shynola.

He created the first video for Irish rock band U2's single "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight". The video was released on U2.com on 21 July 2009.

In 2007, he produced the surreal short film "RGB XYZ" which tells the story of a young man kicked out of his parents' house to work in the big city, while using low poly graphics, compression artefacts, text to speech voices, jarring colour palettes, and discordant tones.

His short film Please Say Something was awarded the Golden Bear at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival, Best Narrative Short at the 2009 Ottawa International Animation Festival and several other awards.

His short film, The External World, premiered at the 67th Venice Film Festival and the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and has since won over forty awards on its festival circuit including the IFTA for Best Animation.

He wrote, directed, produced and animated the Adventure Time episode "A Glitch Is a Glitch" for Cartoon Network, becoming the first guest director in the network's 20-year history.

In 2013 he worked on the Spike Jonze movie Her as animation director on the sequences where the characters are playing video games.

David announced his first game Mountain at MOCA Los Angeles in June 2014, and released it the following month in partnership with Double Fine Productions for personal computers and mobile devices. Mountain features little interactivity but allows the player to create and watch a solitary mountain floating in space as it offers its thoughts to the player, and as random objects collide and become embedded within it. It was generally praised by critics, noting it as a subversion of what one normally expects for a video game.

In 2016, OReilly announced a second game, Everything, a "simulator of everything", on which the player can play as anything, from bacteria to galaxies. Everything was released on 21 March 2017 on PlayStation 4, with Windows and Mac versions to follow on 21 April 2017. Everything became the first realtime project to qualify for an Academy Award.

OReilly's work is often characterised by the use of intentionally stripped-down 3d graphics. He is known for popularising the use of low-poly 3d and the use of 3d software as a personal and artistic tool, as outlined in his 2009 essay "Basic Animation Aesthetics". He was an early adopter of glitch effects and uses elements of the software used inside his work. David has been the man to lead animation through a conceptual blockage—3D animation was being dominated by commercial aesthetics.

DAVID OREILLY DECONSTRUCTED 3D TO THE POINT OF ABSURDITY

Gavriil Klimov is an award-winning Designer and Creative Director. He works on real-time graphics, robotics, and AI to push the boundaries of what is possible in these areas. Gavriil has previously worked in movies, games, and product industries. He is currently a Creative Director at NVIDIA.

I have been fascinated with graphics and design as far as I can remember. When I was a kid I played Starcraft: Brood War and watched Pixar’s Toy Story, both made me fall in love with games and CG respectively. I was immediately blown away and fully captivated. I started to draw and learn 3D.

After high school, I was accepted to Art Center College of Design on a scholarship and moved to Pasadena, California.

I graduated from Art Center College of Design with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design. My time at Art Center was fantastic. Instructors and classmates provided the perfect environment to foster creativity and friendly competition and I have many fond memories of my time there. Upon graduating I started to work freelance or in-house for various companies like Activision Blizzard, MJZ, Kojima Productions, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros, and many others.

I love teaching and sharing my experiences with students and fellow professionals; in 2013 and 2014 I spent some of my time teaching and doing workshops and masterclasses around the world, including Gnomon School of Visual Effects and Trojan Horse was a Unicorn.

I have worked in the movie, video-game and product industries, and was fortunate to work on some remarkable projects where I met amazing people along the way.

In 2014 I started to freelance for NVIDIA and after freelancing for most of 2014, I ended up joining full-time in 2015.

Upon starting, I built a team of extraordinary artists and designers.

Broken spirits flow through a fragmented, yet ever regenerating ring of light in search of a new home beyond this desolate landscape.

Jan Sladecko has over 7 years of experience as a professional Motion Designer and VFX artist. During that time the artist had a chance to work for studios like The Mill, MPC, Mainframe, Aixsponza, Golden Wolf, but also less known like Studio Oficina where they put all their love to work and other studios.

Jan Sladecko started as a 2D compositor on feature films (for 2 years), which means he can integrate motion graphics with live-action shots more easily. After that, Sladecko gradually switched to 3D Motion Design. During his time as a freelance artist, Sladecko has worked mainly for broadcast TV shows, commercials, and music videos.

In past years, Jan Sladecko had a chance to work on a couple of award-winning projects and had an opportunity to speak at many conferences (festivals) such as IBC in Amsterdam, Animago, Pechakucha Night and Mouvo. 

Jan Sladecko is always happy to be a part of new and interesting projects and trying to stay flexible and keen to learn new methods. 

As time goes, Sladecko changed his main software few times to be able to express himself in the best way. At this moment, his main tool is Cinema4D with After Effects, where he can really use a good integration and strong knowledge of the software and many relevant plugins.

Other software Sladecko is using as a support for his main tools are Illustrator, Realflow, Premiere, PFT Track, Mocha, Flash.

The First Guided Breathing & Anti-Stress NFT. (Coming as a physical object. ) Easy way how to learn a visual meditation. Breath Slowly in your belly, in through your nose and out through your mouth. Relax your mind, focus only on visuals and let go your thoughts. Be an observer. Breath for 3-10 minutes to achieve calming and many other health benefits.

Hedi Xandt is a visual artist, writer and sculptor. His work ranges from poetry and time-based digital works to complex visuals and monumental sculptures, encompassing and evolving classical subjects such as vanity, physical tension and the depths of human life. An apt user of traditional and digital creation techniques, the artist blurs the lines between illusion and existence: Though many of his works trigger the urge to obtain and possess them, they are often masterful, immaterial renditions of a fantasy, whereas others that seem to be confined in a digital space are in reality monstrous entities of stone and metal.

Hedi Xandt lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.

Not all idols are false, yet falsehoods riddle all idols. Consider the whip- snap that accelerated UFC fighter Ronda Rousey’s brain into her skull, as the little-favored Holly Holm’s shin connected with her jaw—at once and immutably eradicating Rousey’s undefeated record. Rousey—the golden idol of fighting culture—was reduced in a single collision of flesh and bone into a ridiculed internet meme phenomenon.

Hedi Xandt’s art is poignant to such times. Golden skulls and contorted idols. Xandt has been drawn time and again to the skull for catalysis—to its confused dual identity as that of the macabre death’s head, and that of the brain’s savior.

Xandt’s work literally drips with opulence, yet there is a menace to it too. Something to hold high and celebrate, but which just might kick you in the head when you’re not expecting it.

Xandt had his work included in the Dries van Noten curated Inspirations exhibition at the Mode Museum in Antwerp. In 2014 he contributed a golden snake—nailed head-first to a marble plinth—for the New Republic magazine, in a lavish and venomous rendition of their trademark ampersand. Xandt is also the artistic consultant for TUSH Magazine.

“My mind is really like a big cloud full of inspiration that mixes and merges, hence you will always find a lot of references to other art in my work”

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies including AirBnB, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe.

Previously, Elad was the VP of corporate strategy at Twitter, as well as ran various product teams (Geo, Search). He also spent many years at Google, where he started the mobile team and wasinvolved in all aspects of getting the team up and running. He was involved with 3 acquisitions (including the Android team) and was the original product manager for Google Mobile Maps and other key mobile products.

Prior to Google, Elad had product management and market seeding roles at a number of Silicon Valley companies.

Elad holds a Ph.D. from MIT and has degrees in mathematics and biology from UCSD.

Elad Gil is an angel investor who generally invests in young, emerging companies, with a tendency to do seed and Series A types of deals. Gil aims to assist portfolio companies focused on consumer web, mobile, geo, search, and advertising/monetization through his work as an entrepreneur at Mixer Labs, which was acquired by Twitter. His prior work also includes positions at Google, Twitter, andother startups. Gil seeks to help portfolio companies on product and business development deals.

Elad Gil co-founded Color Genomics among others like Taylor Sittler, Nish Bhat, and Othman Laraki, a native of Casablanca, Morocco, who serves as company’s CEO, in Burlingame, California.  In 2015, Color Genomics accepted an initial $15 million in funding. It raised an additional $45 million in September 2016. Katie Jacobs Stanton became the CMO of Color Genomics in 2016, and Jill Hagenkord became the Chief Medical Officer.

Color Genomic’s purpose is to surge availability for genetic testing.  Part of this is to develop access to tests for minorities, in order to better understanding non-Caucasian gene variants.  The original cost for the test was approximately 10% of the cost of testing through traditional companies. Later on, the company offered a discounted price for the family members of those who test positive for inherited mutations.  In 2017, Color Genomics began taking health insurance for the Color Test.

The technological startup companies have also begun adding Color Genomics testing to their medical packages.  The University of Washington and Color Genomics released a widely obtainable database of variants in 27 breast cancer genes based on the given samples from over 70 years old women who have never had breast cancer. The samples were gathered from samples given to the Women’s Health Initiative between 1993 and 2005.  In 2018, Color grew its offering to include a $249 test for genetic heart health. The test examines 30 genes to observe for risk of a wide range of genetic heart conditions, including cardiomyopathies, cardiac arrhythmias, and arteriopathies.

The NIH recognized Color funding on September 25, 2018, for their All of Us Research program.  On September 27, 2018, Color added a new health area, medication response, to evaluate genes related with commonly prescribed prescriptions, and report on how those genes can affect how individuals process and react to those treatments.

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, an investor, operating executive, and advisor to private companies including Wish, Stripe, Square, Pinterest, OpenDoor, Instacart, Gusto,Checkr, Coinbase, and Airbnb.

Is Pak the future of art? The question continues to puzzle the art establishment after the enigmatic digital artist who goes by a single moniker was ushered into the art world’s upper echelons last week through a high-profile, three-day online auction at Sotheby’s that totaled $17 million.

The sale, which offered both one-of-a-kind images featuring floating, geometrical shapes and tens of thousands of matching cubes that can be traded like crypto coins, was the auction house’s first foray into the new marketplace for non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. The sale also stood out to art-market insiders because the creator behind it all isn’t well known to galleries or museums.

The fact that Sotheby’s elevated the artist with a solo sale anyway is the latest sign of Pak’s ascendance as the Pied Piper of virtual art—a creator long hailed by a new generation of digital artists and crypto investors whose purchasing power could ultimately affect art values overall.

Everything about Pak is deliberately opaque—much like the cryptocurrency markets that propelled the artist’s career. Pak is a pseudonym for an anonymous artist or possibly a team of creators. The artist, who the auction house says prefers the pronouns they/them, won’t say—and the artist’s online fans don’t appear to care. Some digital-art websites such as Behance have listed Pak as hailing from Istanbul. Others on Twitter claim Pak is Pakistani without offering evidence, while digital sleuths in lengthy Reddit debates have tracked Pak’s sites’ IP addresses to Istanbul and Amsterdam. Pak’s social-media avatar is a zero, and the artist’s nickname is “The Nothing.”

Thousands of people, like Manila-based crypto investor Colin Goltra, logged on throughout the sale just to see if Pak added unexpected twists to the auction. “I’m sure art purists will be put off by the artist since the market is part of his performance,” Mr. Goltra, referring to the artist in male terms, adding, “But we see him as one of us.”

Sotheby’s Chief Executive Charles Stewart said he knew Pak might be a leap for his traditional clientele. But the house had to meet cryptocurrency investors where they were already collecting, he said. Ultimately, 3,080 people bought Pak works over the course of the sale, mostly $500-$1,500 tokenized cubes. Beeple’s $69 million piece easily eclipsed Pak’s overall sale, but Mr. Stewart said the Pak sale demonstrates the depth of a potential bidding pool at a lower entry level. “Love it, hate it, at least we’re talking,” Mr. Stewart said.

Zachary Kaplan, executive director of Rhizome, a nonprofit arts organization affiliated with New York’s New Museum that champions digital art, said he hasn’t been tracking Pak’s rise, but he knows that the artist’s “liquid finish” style is popular among NFT collectors, and he is curious if the broader art world will start to embrace that aesthetic. “If those two groups of collectors align behind these virtual artists like Pak, it’ll impact art history,” he said.

As NFT prices overall have softened in recent days, the artist said they are aware that collectors will start sifting their favorite NFT artists, taking stock and possibly adding physical artworks to their collections. Already, major Pak admirers like Justin Sun, who founded the cryptocurrency Tron, have started collecting trophies like a $20 million Pablo Picasso portrait of the artist’s blonde mistress offered last month at Christie’s London. (Mr. Sun said he still bought 1,686 of Pak’s cubes in the open-edition portion of Sotheby’s sale.)

“Now, I feel like we’re almost mainstream, and everyone is taking positions,” Pak said. Rather than take a social-media break, the artist said, “I feel like the main game is just starting now.”

Sotheby’s plucked the anonymous artist out of a new NFT canon cropping up online. But the artist’s social-media avatar is a zero, nickname is “The Nothing”: “I like being gray.”

WHO IS PAK? THE ARTIST’S FANS COULDN’T CARE LESS

François Leroy aka Friendly Robot is a concept artist, a designer who visualizes & creates art for characters, creatures, vehicles, environments, and other creative assets. Concept art is used to visualize ideas so that modelers, animators, and VFX teams can make these ideas ready for production.

Concept art is a form of illustration used to convey an idea for use in films, video games, animation, comic books, or other media before it is put into the final product. Concept art usually refers to world-building artwork used to inspire the development of media products, and is not the same as visual development art, though they are often confused.

Concept art is developed through several iterations. Multiple solutions are explored before settling on the final design. Concept art is not only used to develop the work, but also to show the project's progress to directors, clients and investors. Once the development of the work is complete, concept art may be reworked and used for advertising materials.

Concept art has embraced the use of digital technology. Raster graphics editors for digital painting have become more easily available, as well as hardware such as graphics tablets, enabling more efficient working methods. Prior to this, any number of traditional mediums such as oil paints, acrylic paints, markers and pencils were used. Many modern paint packages are programmed to simulate the blending of color in the same way paint would blend on a canvas; proficiency with traditional media is often paramount to a concept artist's ability to use painting software. Popular programs for concept artists include Photoshop and Corel Painter. Others include Manga Studio, Procreate and ArtRage. Most concept artists have switched to digital media because of ease of editing and speed. A lot of concept work has tight deadlines where a highly polished piece is needed in a short amount of time.

Concept art has always had to cover many subjects, being the primary medium in film poster design since the early days of Hollywood, but the two most widely covered areas are science fiction and fantasy. Since the recent rise of its use in video game production, concept art has expanded to cover genres from fantasy to realistic depending on the final deliverable.

Concept art ranges from stylized to photorealistic depending on the needs of the IP. Artists working on a project often produce a large turnover in the early 'blue sky' stage of production. This provides a broad range of interpretations, most being in the form of sketches, speed paints, and 3D overpaints. Later pieces, such as matte paintings(technique similar to photobashing), are produced as realistically as required. Concept artists will often have to adapt to the style of the studio they are hired for. The ability to produce multiple styles is valued in a concept artist.

There are many concept art generalists, but there are also many specialized concept artists. The various specializations include, but are not limited to, drafting of characters, as well as creatures, as well as environments, or even industry-related designs. Specialization is regarded as better for freelancers than concept artists who want to work in-house, where flexibility is key. Knowing the foundations of art, such as anatomy, perspective, color theory, design, and lighting are essential to all specializations.

FRANÇOIS LEROY AKA FRIENDLY ROBOT: DON’T MISS WHAT’S HAPPENING

A 3D Artist/Designer and Art Director from Toronto, Canada. NewColossal is creating alternate realities through portraits of the objects that inhabit them. Each piece builds on the last, providing an ever-growing window into something greater and undiscovered.

 3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3DCG or three-dimensional computer graphics (in contrast to 2D computer graphics), are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images. The resulting images may be stored for viewing later (possibly as an animation) or displayed in real time. Unlike 3D film and similar techniques, the result is two-dimensional, without the illusion of being solid.

3D computer graphics rely on many of the same algorithms as 2D computer vector graphics in the wire-frame model and 2D computer raster graphics in the final rendered display. In computer graphics software, 2D applications may use 3D techniques to achieve effects such as lighting, and, similarly, 3D may use some 2D rendering techniques.

The objects in 3D computer graphics are often referred to as 3D models. Unlike the rendered image, a model's data is contained within a graphical data file. A 3D model is a mathematical representation of any three-dimensional object; a model is not technically a graphic until it is displayed. A model can be displayed visually as a two-dimensional image through a process called 3D rendering, or it can be used in non-graphical computer simulations and calculations. With 3D printing, models are rendered into an actual 3D physical representation of themselves, with some limitations as to how accurately the physical model can match the virtual model.

Collectibles of all kinds from far and wide; translated into a digital space and archived with detail and authenticity.

10,000 unique collectible characters with proof of ownership stored on the Ethereum blockchain. The project that inspired the modern CryptoArt movement. Selected press and appearances include Mashable, CNBC, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, The Paris Review, Salon, The Outline, BreakerMag, Christie's of London, Art|Basel, The PBS NewsHour, The New York Times in 2018 and again in 2021. The Cryptopunks are the first "Non-Fungible Token" on Ethereum and inspiration for the ERC-721 standard that powers most digital art and collectibles.

The CryptoPunks are 10,000 uniquely generated characters. No two are exactly alike, and each one of them can be officially owned by a single person on the Ethereum blockchain. Originally, they could be claimed for free by anybody with an Ethereum wallet, but all 10,000 were quickly claimed. Now they must be purchased from someone via the marketplace that's also embedded in the blockchain.

Larva Labs is the home for our professional and experimental projects.

We're creative technologists that have worked on almost every kind of software. Examples include large scale web infrastructure, genomics analysis software (John has a Ph.D.), 8-bit roleplaying games, an art project on the blockchain covered by the New York Times that Mashable said “could change how we think about digital art,” the largest open source repository of legal documents that we started at an overnight hackathon, an endless driving game that ends badly (there's a VR version too), an app for Android called AppChat that makes a chat room for every app installed on your phone, two different versions of a completely new Android homescreen experience: Slide Screen (2009!) and Flow Home (2014), a motion tracking dance booth on a beach in France, and an app with Google called Androidify that ended up becoming the worldwide face of the Android brand.

As a result of our work we've spoken at a wide range of venues including the MIT Media Lab, Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, Art|Basel Miami, The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, The NY Tech Meetup, and Christie's Auction House in London.

We've also been lucky enough to have long lasting client relationships with some of the best companies in the world like Google and Microsoft. We're very proud of the work we've done with them, some of which may even be on your phone right now.

The CryptoPunks are 10,000 uniquely generated characters. No two are exactly alike, and each one of them can be officially owned by a single person on the Ethereum blockchain. Originally, they could be claimed for free by anybody with an Ethereum wallet, but all 10,000 were quickly claimed. 

Maciej Kuciara is a Concept Designer and IATSE Local 800 member working in films and video games in Los Angeles, California.

Some of his recent works include Captain America: Civil War, X-Men: Days of Future Past as well as critically acclaimed Playstation exclusive The Last of Us.

Maciej is also a co-founder and instructor at Learn Squared Inc, an online art education platform.

From a California-based studio, Maciej Kuciara works with a broad range of clients in the film, entertainment, clothing and tech industries. With almost two decades of professional experience, Maciej has contributed to the award-winning visual development of major film and video games projects, major brands' product release campaigns as well as art and design integration into cutting-edge tech products.

Maciej Kuciara design studio helps clients to realize their unique vision by offering directing, creative direction, visual development, illustration, and design.

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