MASTERPIECES OVER PROFIT: Adam Weitsman Announces Plans To Burn His Normies Collection Worth Nearly $300K To Create Four Extraordi-Normie Works!

Most normies would take profit, but Adam Weitsman isn't normal at all!

Something extraordi-normie is about to happen onchain after HV-MTL owner and NFT collector Adam Weitsman announced plans to burn his collection of Normies that's worth nearly $300,000 USD in order to create four pixelated masterworks with artists from across Web3.

“I Started with a collection of just over 350 Normies,” Weitsman tweeted. “Being the largest holder was pretty cool and seeing the price on my early purchase go up a huge amount was awesome and I was very thankful …..but in the end what did that really do to help or contribute to the community other than serve myself. Decided would be much more epic and fun to create a plan to burn every single one to create 4 masterworks to promote @normiesART and  @serc1n and all the hard work he and his team has done… Amazing artist  @lphaCentauriKid was first up and created the epic Skelemoon for me. 3 more legendary works to go created by absolute legends …………….Stay tuned :)”

 

 

As the Gazette previously reported, Normies launched in mid-February as a collection of 10,000 onchain generative pixelated faces. What makes the project stand out is its unique burn and customize mechanic, which allows holders to modify one Normie by burning another, gradually reducing the collection's total supply.

In March, Weitsman used this mechanic to burn 50 Normies to create a 1/1 piece dubbed “Skelemoon” in collaboration with artist A.C.K.

At the time of publication, Weitsman has not revealed which artists will be creating the remaining three works, but Normies holders already seem convinced that whatever comes next is going to be epic.

“Only in the Normies ecosystem can artists be gifted a canvas worth tens of thousands of dollars and invited to create their own art directly on it. That alone is already unusual,” Normies collector DopeMind wrote. “But the deeper innovation is the programmable 40x40 pixel canvas itself. The burn mechanism creates a completely new dynamic between artists, collectors, investors, and curators. A Normie is not only collected. It can be transformed. It can be sacrificed. It can become a new work. We still have to find out what this means for the art world, but the people experimenting with it right now are pushing one of the most interesting on-chain art experiments forward. Visionaries deserve respect before the rest of the world understands what they were building.”

 

 

The Gazette will continue to follow Weitsman's initiative and will let you know which artists he partners with and what they create as the remaining masterworks come onchain. Stay tuned for updates!