Blockchain, Crypto, hustling

NFT: Vintage Pixels Collection

https://vimeo.com/657004463
Ho ho ho! It’s the season to be jolly – and mint NFTs apparently

TL;DR

  • An NFT Advent Calendar featuring collectible vintage icons
  • Every day a new drop until xmas morning
  • Web 1 classics seen and used by billions – yes that’s Billions with a B
  • Created by Vidar “blacktar” Andersen (aka me)
  • Some 20 plus years ago
  • I’m the only one who can legally sell these & give you authentic ownership
  • Auction running on OpenSea until Xmas morning – it’s the season!
  • Stay tuned for surprise giveaways in between
  • More information below

Pay peanuts, get monkeys they say. Well, these are not the apes you’re looking for. In fact, these are the iconic Web1 vintage pixels exactly nobody was looking for - until now. 

NFTs at this stage of maturity are mostly the equivalent of factory prints on pre-signed blank Salvador Dali sheets; Sweat-shopped assets ground out by anonymous hired hands, mass-produced by - and artificially inflated to fill the coffers of - the industrial crypto overbros.

This, on the other hand, is the real-Susan-Kare-like deal; It is now possible to own a true artisanal vintage artefact - a literal icon of Web 1, a perfect preserve of the zeitgeist of an era set for all posterity in pixels, offered directly to you to own for yourself - from the artist himself, complete with the well-travelled essence, the patina, the pedigree - that no boilerplate apes, stonks memes, or 3D amateur fests will ever appreciate to.

Here is your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a unique piece of Internet history, crafted by hand, pixel by pixel, just as the sun was setting on the wild wild west, at the very moment the frontier period of the Internet was coming to an end and the heydays of Web 1 as it were to be know would be gone forever. 

These classic icons serve as a unique vehicle, an instant connection, to a bygone era where success on the Internet was still measured in Super Bowl ad spend, and amount of Miller Aeron Chairs and Spark Stations amassed.

The limited Vintage Pixels collection features three vintage icons up for auction today, representing the most infamous three out of a set of over 40.

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entrepreneurship, Events, hustling, startup

Yossi Vardi let me use his keynote to pitch my startup

Gauss CEO Vidar Andersen pitching Yossi Vardi's keynote audience at Campus Party Europe in Berlin 2012

Recently I was invited with our startup to the Campus Party – the biggest electronic entertainment event with keynotes from rockstars like Paulo Coelho, Yossi Vardi, Don Tapscott and Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

It’s no secret that I’ve been a big fan of Yossi Vardi for quite some time, so it was only natural that I was camping out on a front row seat, super eager to hear his keynote.

Then about ten minutes in, something unpredictably awesome happened; As I was answering Yossi’s question to “what’s keeping people from executing on their ideas?” shouting “FEAR OF FAILURE!” out loud from the crowd, Yossi told the keynote audience that I should perhaps hold the keynote instead of him and then proceeded to let me pitch Gauss to his whole keynote audience! Needless to say I was pretty gobsmacked and humbled.

Watch it as it happened:

knew Yossi Vardi is truly awesome – still this kind of spontaneous generosity completely blew my socks off and caught us totally by surprise!

So thank you, Yossi – I’m incredibly humbled and grateful! You are even cooler than I imagined. I hope we meet again sometime in the future. You rock! :)

Here’s a bonus interview with Dr. Yossi Vardi from CP Europe 2012:

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