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Neil Fryman

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195 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

So there were an estimated 7,500 K cars imported into the United States last year under this car collecting measure.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

So it is possible to get one.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

You probably won't be able to take it on the road.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

Highway, certainly not, and barely any roads unless there's this whole rewriting of the federal vehicle safety landscape, which Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was asked about this after Trump said we should get Japanese K cars on the roads.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

He said, like, we're looking into it.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

We're looking into it.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

But don't expect anything to happen soon.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

All right, my winner is Beeple, who's once again found himself at the center of the art world this weekend for making anthropomorphized billionaire dog robots that poop out NFTs.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

Okay, there's a lot there, so let's break this down one by one.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

Beeple, whose real name is Mike Winkleman, is the artist you may remember from selling an NFT for $69 million back in the crypto speculation heyday of 2021.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

That sale made him the third most expensive living artist in the world, and for many, signaled the top of the NFT bubble.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

While the NFT bubble did pop spectacularly, Beeple has kept on grinding, and his latest piece is the talk of the town at Miami's Art Basel, the largest art fair in the United States.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

Titled Regular Animals, Beeple's project is a pen of quadruped robot dogs that are fitted with very realistic heads of famous painters like Picasso, Warhol, and Beeple himself, as well as billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

The robot dogs are equipped with cameras that take pictures of what they're looking at.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

And from time to time, they will stop walking around, enter poop mode and go number two, which in this case means they expel an image based on what the camera captured.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

Since this is Beeple we're talking about, hundreds of those prints come with a QR code that offers on lurkers a chance to own the image as an NFT.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

It's all very bizarre, but Toby, I've seen this all over my social media and it's clear Beeple has a knack for going viral.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

Is there anything more than just a surface level stunt here?

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

People are going to pay attention to it and they are going to pay for it as well.

Morning Brew Daily
Hollywood Hates Netflix’s WBD Takeover & Apple Dazed By Leadership Exodus

Each of these robot dogs, there were two per figure.