To bring a bit of change into my Mexican Murals series - after all, over the last weeks I have posted only murals found on a particular metro station - here is a fresh new wall painting from the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City. It's exact location is the corner of Guadalajara street and a small alleyway going by the same name. As always, I'm using this mural as my contest submission for CCC's Street Art Contest.
I really love the crispiness of the image, the digital clouds on the background, and the style and look of the robots, especially the robo-cats on the side. The only unfortunate aspect is that due to the narrowness of the alley I could not take a picture from the front. Instead I had break it up into three.
Who might be the amazing artist who created this piece of street art? The image itself doesn't seem to offer many clues. Could their name possibly be Gigahurtz, indicated by the robot in the bottom left corner? It would be cool, but apparently that is the name of a recording artist, not the visual kind. Oh well, so it may remain another mystery. Wouldn't be the first time.
On its right end this mural offers another mystery: It's the lettering NFT. Would this indicate Non-Fungible Tokens, as most of us blockchain bloggers would be familiar with? If so, why? Could there be an NFT floating around corresponding to this mural? And if that's the case, how would it establish “ownership” of something they painted on a public street corner? If someone was to paint it over one night, what would happen to the NFT on the blockchain? Would it lose its validity? Or maybe it's me who misunderstood NFTs?
The answer to all this mystery gets revealed if you do a search on Robotos NFT. Apparently, Robotos is a collection of droid characters designed by Pablo Stanley and minted as NFTs. Good to know! It seems like you could design your own robot and have a corresponding NFT minted... But according to the site there are currently 0 available, in other words all the Robotos are sold out! Oh well, never mind. The street art is still cool.
If you liked this, click on any of the thumbnails to see my previous Mexican Murals posts:
