{"id":20160,"date":"2021-03-18T02:03:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T06:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=20160"},"modified":"2021-03-16T22:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T02:25:31","slug":"wow-thats-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wow-thats-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow! That&#8217;s BIG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20161\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/JPG-File-69-Million.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20161\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20161\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/JPG-File-69-Million-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a massive 21,000 pixel per side square montage of 5,000 posted images<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. A massive JPEG called &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/11\/976141522\/beeple-jpg-file-sells-for-69-million-setting-crypto-art-record\"><em>The First 5000 Days<\/em><\/a>&#8216; \u00a0was recently auctioned at Christie&#8217;s. The image was a collage of the daily posts made by the artist &#8216;<em>Beeple<\/em>&#8216; since the year 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The collage sold for $69 Million US. What makes it truly unusual is that it was minted in February this year as an NFT or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non-fungible_token\">Non-Fungible Token<\/a>. If you have never heard of NFTs, you are showing your age. These very risky items are online only. Read the above link for details.<\/p>\n<p>A tip of the hat to my ever curious friend, George Dunbar, who shares these strange finds that he comes across while diligently researching photographic history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. A massive JPEG called &#8216;The First 5000 Days&#8216; \u00a0was recently auctioned at Christie&#8217;s. The image was a collage of the daily posts made by the artist &#8216;Beeple&#8216; since the year 2007. The collage sold for $69 Million US. What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wow-thats-big\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705],"tags":[399,3580,2477,58,2879,2878,3579],"class_list":["post-20160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-auction","tag-christies","tag-event","tag-history","tag-jpeg","tag-jpg","tag-nft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20164,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20160\/revisions\/20164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}