The 2-Hour Portrait -Corridor Digital x Beeple

Beeple

South Carolina graphic designer and motion artist Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, has been creating a new artwork and posting it online for the world to enjoy – not missing a single day for the past 5,000 straight days.

Beeple’s artwork is rich with not-so-subtle symbolism, making predictions of tomorrow, based on today’s truths. He addresses a myriad of social contradictions and absurdities, exploring themes like society’s concurrent obsession and fear of technology, desire and resentment towards wealth, and of course the political turbulence of the recent years through a grotesque, hypnotizing, digital style.

Corridor Digital

Corridor Digital is a production team of internet aficionados based in Los Angeles who have taken the internet by storm for the past decade with their out-of-this-world content creation. Founded by high school friends Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer in 2010, the group has made a number of viral short-form videos exploring a host of pop-culturally relevant topics through a souped-up special effects lens. They are also known for producing and directing the Battlefield-inspired web series Rush and the YouTube Premium series Lifeline.

The group has won awards at several Streamys, including the “Visual and Special Effects Award” in 2017. Corridor has a massive global following with 8.8 million Youtube subscribers (and counting).

In The News

Notable Sales

Beeple has recently made digital art history with the unprecedented 69.3 million sale of the first purely digital NFT to be sold by a fine art auction house (Christie’s, in partnership with MakersPlace), the third largest sale by any living artist. Beeples $1 artwork (105 editions) Drop on MakersPlace saw great success on the secondary sales market with an average sales of $113,483 for the $1 piece. Just days ago, the charity auction for Beeple’s OCEAN FRONT resulted in a $6 million sale, 100% of which was donated to Open Earth Foundation.

The 2-Hour Portrait

Beeple has teamed up with Corridor Digital to shine a light on the love of the process. Through
love we find consistency, and through consistency we find quality. With quality we can do good.

“The 2-Hour Portrait” is an exploration of Beeple’s philosophy of daily creation, led by the man himself. Joined by the Corridor Crew – Niko Pueringer, Sam Gorski, Wren Weichman, Clinton Jones, and Peter France – artists were paired up and given two hours to create a self-portrait.

At the end of those two hours, a jpeg had to be loaded on a flash drive and placed in a suitcase,
which was then sealed. This no-excuses process celebrates creation and denies perfection,
stating that the value of a piece comes not from technical precision and mastery, but from the
emotion put into the creation.

In honor of the lives lost during the pandemic, 100% of the proceeds of this sale will go to
COVID-19 charities, with Direct Relief (http://directrelief.org/) being the main beneficiary.