{"id":5535,"date":"2022-04-28T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T08:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/body-shock-why-cronenbergs-kidney-stones-could-be-the-saviour-of-nfts\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T08:36:59","slug":"body-shock-why-cronenbergs-kidney-stones-could-be-the-saviour-of-nfts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/body-shock-why-cronenbergs-kidney-stones-could-be-the-saviour-of-nfts\/","title":{"rendered":"Body shock: why Cronenberg\u2019s kidney stones could be the saviour of NFTs"},"content":{"rendered":"

He\u2019s been incubating his latest work for the past two years. Now the Canadian film-maker is auctioning it off to the crypto community \u2013 and what an incredible bargain it is<\/p>\n

Nothing on earth is quite as depressing as the moment a celebrity starts getting into NFTs<\/a>. There you\u2019ll be, quite happy following them on social media when, bang, up pops a sub-Banksy<\/a> cartoon of a monkey in a wig and a falsely jubilant message celebrating the fact that they\u2019ve joined some sort of club.<\/p>\n

NFTs somehow represent all the worst things about celebrity combined. It\u2019s both an obnoxious display of status and a very clear indication that these people see their fans as nothing more than a tradable commodity. It was gross when Gwyneth Paltrow<\/a> did it. It was gross when Brie Larson<\/a> did it. It\u2019s gross when anyone does it, quite frankly. Or at least it was, because now David Cronenberg<\/a> is getting into NFTs, and he may be the saviour of the entire thing.<\/p>\n

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\nHe\u2019s been incubating his latest work for the past two years. Now the Canadian film-maker is auctioning it off to the crypto community \u2013 and what an incredible bargain it is
\nNothing on earth is quite as depressing as the moment a celebrity starts getting into NFTs. There you\u2019ll be, quite happy following them on social media when, bang, up pops a sub-Banksy cartoon of a monkey in a wig and a falsely jubilant message celebrating the fact that they\u2019ve joined some sort of club.
\nNFTs somehow represent all the worst things about celebrity combined. It\u2019s both an obnoxious display of status and a very clear indication that these people see their fans as nothing more than a tradable commodity. It was gross when Gwyneth Paltrow did it. It was gross when Brie Larson did it. It\u2019s gross when anyone does it, quite frankly. Or at least it was, because now David Cronenberg is getting into NFTs, and he may be the saviour of the entire thing. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He\u2019s been incubating his latest work for the past two years. Now the Canadian film-maker is auctioning it off to the crypto community \u2013 and what an incredible bargain it is Nothing on earth is quite as depressing as the moment a celebrity starts getting into NFTs. There you\u2019ll be, quite happy following them on …<\/p>\n

Body shock: why Cronenberg\u2019s kidney stones could be the saviour of NFTs<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}