#33
Crypto Twitter (Boxing) Bickering!
Collage
Full
Encrypted
No
No
Yes
Cover Story
Collage numéro deux
This week's issue set a new record! The cover art is derived from the largest number of articles to date. It's also been 17 weeks since our last collage with Coinartist story, so the time is now! There is a lot of good stuff happening here so let's get started on our cover #33 tour.
After last week's monothematic Ethereum cover we decided this week to take quite the opposite approach. The collage includes not only references from this week's articles, but also assorted elements from every cover since our last collage issue, #15!
Our first stop is the depiction of boys fighting (for now) on Twitter. Sadly for the crypto community, the fight will probably end with the click of the 'Block' button. As there were speculations about where the fight will take place I included all possibilities mentioned in the vocal warmup: Miami, Cape Town, Dubai?
You would hard-pressed to pinpoint Uranium from another article reference. Yes, those rocks coming from the trash bin are raw uranium ore! There are some additional trash bins around the piece as we have ROBNΞSS \/IRTUAL for our ArtDrop this week.
Here comes Jean-Michel Basquiat (😍) with his sketch behind him as a most controversial NFT. In my opinion, destroying physical non-fungible artwork for creating digital non-fungible token is simply barbaric. You'll also notice his famous crown scattered throughout the collage.
Rarible is now accepting filthy FIAT, still, it is surely a great step for the NFT adoption. Note the tiny RARI logo of the thumbnail holding bills. Binance entering the space is illustrated as a fat blood-thirsty tick with CZ inside.
Beeple is present in the form of his latest 'Everydays', including his piece from the day of our issue drop. I snuck in a cute little swine as well (a bit of a Beeple trademark).
We could carry on forever analyzing this image, so I'll just highlight three final details. Look sharp and you can spot the issue number referenced in Jesus holding an ETH crystal. There's also a memorial to the recently passed "Spanish laughing guy" Juan Joya Borja. Last but not least, for our loyal subscriber and supporter Drew Austin who desired a horse on the cover, I've added a unique anatomy sketch I hope you'll all enjoy :)
Production-wise it was mostly about searching for the right images, removing backgrounds, and combining them into a nice, comprehensive collage. There were 56 moving layers + 25 layers static in the background, all animated in After Effects.
To close, here is a little homework assignment for you. Can you spot all older cover references going back to the previous collage issue #15? (Some of them do have duplicate references)
Don't hesitate to join us on our Discord and flex your Gazette covers knowledge!
Dudly
Cover Traits
Style
Collage
Collages are created by composing together various elements taken from different images, artworks or other sources.
Rarity
3.59%
covers have this trait
Colors
Full
Covers that consist of a whole specter of colors without any limits. Most often, they are 3D rendered life-like depictions.
Rarity
55.09%
covers have this trait
Theme
None
No theme is set
Rarity
63.47%
covers have this trait
Issue
Encrypted
These are issue numbers that are inserted in a secretive and cryptic manner. It’s always fun to hunt for the issue number in such artworks.
Rarity
43.71%
covers have this trait
Music
No
Covers that do not feature music, and stand on the shoulders of a powerful artwork alone, or have been peppered with sound FX.
Rarity
32.34%
covers have this trait
Sound FX
No
Covers that do not feature any sound FX, mostly because the music is over powering and sufficient.
Rarity
47.31%
covers have this trait
Bitcoin
No
Covers that do not feature the BTC logo anywhere in the artwork.
Rarity
88.62%
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Ethereum
Yes
Covers that feature the Ethereum logo hidden somewhere in the artwork.
Rarity
37.13%
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Artist
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