This new art exhibit featuring Boston Dynamics robot dogs with the heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and others is incredibly striking and disturbing.
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This new art exhibit featuring Boston Dynamics robot dogs with the heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and others is incredibly striking and disturbing.
“In the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world,” Beeple, the artist who created them, told the AP. "Now our view of the world is shaped by tech billionaires who own powerful algorithms that decide what we see and what we don't see."
Robot dogs with Musk and Zuckerberg heads roam around Berlin museum in Beeple's new exhibit
Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after famous figures like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are roaming a Berlin museum.
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@mattsheffield ohh thanks for the tip, i might go see this exhibition
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@mattsheffield Beeple is a grifting hack who was ground zero for the NFT con. He made millions selling auto-generated monkey JPEGs. Screw this guy.
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=beeple-sale@jwz Thanks, Jamie, I hadn't seen that one. At least he's doing one thing right.
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@jwz Thanks, Jamie, I hadn't seen that one. At least he's doing one thing right.
@mattsheffield I won't let that change my opinion of him.
Also, "look I put a famous person's head on a robot" is the same exact picture he's been drawing for a decade. He was lapped by skibidi toilet years ago. Get a new idea.
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@mattsheffield I won't let that change my opinion of him.
Also, "look I put a famous person's head on a robot" is the same exact picture he's been drawing for a decade. He was lapped by skibidi toilet years ago. Get a new idea.
@jwz He is giving away the NFTs for this exhibit though, it is worth pointing out.
But there is a lot of irony in saying capitalism is terrible as you rake in millions of dollars selling art to oligarchs.
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This new art exhibit featuring Boston Dynamics robot dogs with the heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and others is incredibly striking and disturbing.
“In the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world,” Beeple, the artist who created them, told the AP. "Now our view of the world is shaped by tech billionaires who own powerful algorithms that decide what we see and what we don't see."
Robot dogs with Musk and Zuckerberg heads roam around Berlin museum in Beeple's new exhibit
Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after famous figures like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are roaming a Berlin museum.
AP News (apnews.com)
@mattsheffield I see he's using his real name, after "Beeple" became most associated with "scam artist, Beeple" thanks to his #NFT grift.
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@jwz He is giving away the NFTs for this exhibit though, it is worth pointing out.
But there is a lot of irony in saying capitalism is terrible as you rake in millions of dollars selling art to oligarchs.
@mattsheffield @jwz
Giving away NFTs when the market has tanked = quasi-brilliant scheme to stay relevant & try to juice that market again. Would add to his financial grift/gain. It's art in a way if people want to call it that & some museums want to exhibit it, but it's art to sell to billionaires with no taste that is exhibited to plebes like you & me who'd never buy it if we could.Protest art? Nah. Beeples or whatever he calls himself is a grifter, not an Ai Weiwei https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/15/ai-weiwei-remembering-sichuan-earthquake
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This new art exhibit featuring Boston Dynamics robot dogs with the heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and others is incredibly striking and disturbing.
“In the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world,” Beeple, the artist who created them, told the AP. "Now our view of the world is shaped by tech billionaires who own powerful algorithms that decide what we see and what we don't see."
Robot dogs with Musk and Zuckerberg heads roam around Berlin museum in Beeple's new exhibit
Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after famous figures like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are roaming a Berlin museum.
AP News (apnews.com)
@mattsheffield I wonder if someone starts kicken them.
They really should be kicked as part of the art. -
@mattsheffield @jwz
Giving away NFTs when the market has tanked = quasi-brilliant scheme to stay relevant & try to juice that market again. Would add to his financial grift/gain. It's art in a way if people want to call it that & some museums want to exhibit it, but it's art to sell to billionaires with no taste that is exhibited to plebes like you & me who'd never buy it if we could.Protest art? Nah. Beeples or whatever he calls himself is a grifter, not an Ai Weiwei https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/15/ai-weiwei-remembering-sichuan-earthquake
@mattsheffield @jwz
It's shock art like junk by Damien Hirst. Not even as good as stuff by Jeff Koons that at least sometimes was humorous. At least bananas taped to a wall have nutritional value. An exhibit of walking dog robots with billionaires' heads popped on isn't much to think about. Maybe put those heads on Ghost Robotics Vision 60 dogs that fire randomly and drop them on Epstein Island and you've got an updated "Survivor" show — but that just gives us trump
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https://www.34st.com/article/2026/04/grasp-lab-ghost-robotics-defense-research-upenn-ethics -
@mattsheffield @jwz
It's shock art like junk by Damien Hirst. Not even as good as stuff by Jeff Koons that at least sometimes was humorous. At least bananas taped to a wall have nutritional value. An exhibit of walking dog robots with billionaires' heads popped on isn't much to think about. Maybe put those heads on Ghost Robotics Vision 60 dogs that fire randomly and drop them on Epstein Island and you've got an updated "Survivor" show — but that just gives us trump.
https://www.34st.com/article/2026/04/grasp-lab-ghost-robotics-defense-research-upenn-ethics@mattsheffield @jwz
Ha! There are actually plans to recycle old trump TV and update to old trump TV v2.0. I'm prescient. I might have to reach out to Ghost Robotics and make crappy, dystopian art myself. Could give the NFTs away, inflate the value to collateralize and borrow against and for tax deduction purposes, overextend myself and file for bankruptcy. Definite trump vibes there. Give the billionaires what they want.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/amazon-discusses-apprentice-rebootwith-don-jr-as-a-potential-host-fe09e885 -
@mattsheffield @jwz
It's shock art like junk by Damien Hirst. Not even as good as stuff by Jeff Koons that at least sometimes was humorous. At least bananas taped to a wall have nutritional value. An exhibit of walking dog robots with billionaires' heads popped on isn't much to think about. Maybe put those heads on Ghost Robotics Vision 60 dogs that fire randomly and drop them on Epstein Island and you've got an updated "Survivor" show — but that just gives us trump.
https://www.34st.com/article/2026/04/grasp-lab-ghost-robotics-defense-research-upenn-ethics@RunRichRun @mattsheffield @jwz
Also derivative of Sun Yuan & Peng Yu who did the same concept better in 2007 with their "Old People's Home"
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