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Bored Calvin — October 3, 2022

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OCTOBER 3RD, 2022

5 Artists From the UNDRGRND Collection 

UNDRGRND DIGS is a periodical feature showcasing artists that the UNDRGRND curators dig. We sift through the social media and NFT platforms to find the best artists waiting to be discovered. UNDRGRND believes in the artists we feature and we will purchase NFTs from each artist featured. Purchases will be airdropped to reward UNDRGRND community members.

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Pandakero

The entire metaverse should be designed by artists like Sutu and Pandakero. Kids of the 80s and 90s were were sold a future that has yet to be created but looks like what Pandakero is building. We are fast approaching a time where the technology can finally meet the demand for such visuals and while many pine for a realistic digital world there is still an entire generation of older millenials waiting for a digital neon world that looks exactly like what Pandakero is creating with Splinetool. This is the future we were promised.

Reyhanapratama

Reyhanapratama is in the middle of his blue period. However, these blue monochromatic colors may last for his entire artistic career. The connection appears to be water, the source of all life. Many of his works have a reference to some form of water and because of Take A Free Bloody we understand how Reyhanapratama connects with water as he describes it saying, “After 8 hours or so, I found a lake with high energy. And I need to take a bath in there to charge my bone and blood. Then I feel free again.”

Tom Bombadil

Tom Bombadril is a talented 3D artist creating scenes of robotic bunnies flying through space while yearning for video stores that no longer exist like Blockbuster. his most remarkable work is those that he does in tribute to other NFT artists. Tributes are difficult to make fresh because they balance a fine line between the original creator’s style and the interpretation of the artist creating the tribute. What we usually get is something nice but not genuine to either artist. That is not the case with Tom’s tribute to Arya Mularama, Max Capacity and John Karel. Each tribute manages to create something truly unique and separate from the originals that can stand on their own as true works of art rather than just interpretations of others.

Umtksa

All of our fears and torments come to life in the artwork of Umtksa. Similar to many motion artists in the space using stop-motion and glitch but managing to make something entirely fresh and unique using jagged shards adding to the phobias we all experience. The most frightening experience may be the inability to wake from a nightmare explored in sleep paralysis.

Nate Nolting

Somewhere between pop-street art and doodle art lies the work of Nick Nolting’s Late Night Sketches. Using generative code Nick places pieces of doodles on a grid to create random layers that come out different every time. More and more generative artists are giving collectors the option to save a version of the randomly generated image and then rerun the program to create something brand new with each iteration. In a future where we all have digital art screens and can reorder an image we tire of, Nick Nolting’s art belongs in those screens.

Each UNDRGRND DIGS will feature artists our curators have purchased for the UNDRGRND Collection. UNDRGRND will airdrop pieces from our collection to community members via giveaways.

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