{"id":38845,"date":"2021-03-12T17:57:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T15:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=38845"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:39:58","slug":"artist-pokras-lampas-sells-nft-featuring-projection-of-his-drawing-for-16-eth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/artist-pokras-lampas-sells-nft-featuring-projection-of-his-drawing-for-16-eth\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Pokras Lampas sells NFT featuring projection of his drawing for 16 ETH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian artist Arseniy Pyzhenkov, known by the pseudonym Pokras Lampas, sold a photograph of the Chirkey Hydroelectric Station as a non-fungible token (NFT) for 16 ETH (about $28,000 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CMSMM94rN_E\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CMSMM94rN_E\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u041f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0430\u0446\u0438\u044f \u043e\u0442 POKRAS LAMPAS \u00ae | \u041f\u043e\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0441 (@pokraslampas)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The auction started at 1 ETH and lasted exactly 24 hours. The token owner became a user under the alias Sylvian. This is Pokras Lampas&#8217;s first work on the NFT market.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph depicts a projection of the artist&#8217;s drawing \u201cTransition\u201d onto the Chirkey Hydroelectric Station, the largest on the North Caucasus, located on the Sulak River in Dagestan.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe work, the original of which was painted on canvas, digitized and adjusted for projection, was then projected onto a physical object, re-digitized and ultimately sold as a virtual token for Ethereum, with the electricity used to produce it. It seems to me that everything has aligned perfectly,\u201d wrote Pokras Lampas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The artist added that the NFT format supports authored projects and diversifies work with galleries and brands.<\/p>\n<p>In March, an NFT copy of Banksy\u2019s burned painting titled <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nft-copy-of-burned-banksy-painting-sells-for-228-eth\">\u00abMorons\u00bb<\/a> sold at auction for 228.69 ETH. Former DC Comics artist Jos\u00e9 Delbo <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/former-dc-comics-artist-sells-wonder-woman-nft-for-1-85-million\">earned $1.85 million<\/a> from selling non-fungible tokens featuring Wonder Woman.<\/p>\n<p>Christie\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/beeples-nft-sells-at-christies-for-69-3-million\">sold<\/a> Beeple\u2019s NFT titled \u201cEverydays: The First 5000 Days\u201d for $69.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>An unknown <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/unknown-buyer-purchases-cryptopunk-nft-for-4200-eth\">buyer bought<\/a> one of the nine alien CryptoPunks, CryptoPunk 7804, for 4,200 ETH (about $7.5 million at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full stream of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian artist Arseniy Pyzhenkov, known by the pseudonym Pokras Lampas, sold a photograph of the Chirkey Hydroelectric Station as a non-fungible token (NFT) for 16 ETH (about $28,000 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[526,1331,1213,27],"class_list":["post-38845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-auction","tag-culture-and-art","tag-nft","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38847,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38845\/revisions\/38847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}