The "Metaverse Physical Concept Store" in Hong Kong - The Blue Ark will be opened at The Peninsula Hong Kong on Wednesday, February 16th, 2022. Meanwhile, with the first NFT art exhibition ‘The Reality’. The lineup includes brands and artists such as South China Morning Post, Ruby9100m, Mizuki Nishiyama, SANKUANZ, The Sandbox, Kwai Bun, and XEME to name a few.
The premiere art show at the Blue Ark has transformed the elegance and luxury of the Peninsula into a raw and edgy space. The art show juxtaposes the streets of Hong Kong in the metaverse era - a glimpse of thrash, chaos and neon lights while you are immersing into the avant-garde and rebellious cyber world of the artists.
The Peninsula Hong Kong, as the flagship hotel, has continued the century-old legend of "Grande Dame of the Far East". Those who can enter the hotel shopping mall are all first-class and the world's top brands, such as Chanel, Rolex, Louis Vuitton and so on.
BlueArk was officially founded on September 1st, 2021. The market value has soared over a hundred times within five months. BlueArk successfully opened their store in the Peninsula Hotel in mid-February 2022.
The Sandbox and The BlueArk
The Sandbox recently announced that it has reached a close cooperation agreement with a number of partners from the film, music, entertainment, performance, finance, real estate and game industries. The founder of The Sandbox will show up and give away 2,400 $SAND to support the opening event.
Dough-Boy
As you may have seen BlueArk and Dough-Boy’s involvement in the latest Sandbox promotional campaign - "The Sandbox Mega City - Dough-Boy". Dough-Boy, as a music producer, rapper, actor and as well as the creative director of BlueArk, won the Best Movie Theme Song award at the 2014 Hong Kong Film Awards. He has released 3 albums so far with impressive results at more than 6 million streams on Spotify. Dough-Boy has also collaborated with many internationally renowned musicians to create music, including Lil Yachty, Jackson Wang, MC Jin and MC Hotdog, to name a few. He has also served as the spokesperson for Chanel, Adidas Originals, Vans, Places+Faces, Havana Club, Sankuanz and CLOT. Binance also invited Dough-Boy to be part of the first 100 creators on the platform releasing his first NFT work.
Gummy Villain, as a series of Dough-Boy NFT, a total of 4 pieces, was initially sold on the BlueArk platform, with a bid of 100 USDT in the form of a time auction. In just four months, Dough-Boy's Gummy Villain #1 has increased by as much as 66 times, with the final transaction value of 6,622 USDT (2.1 ETH), and the total transaction value of the four NFTs reached 9,838 USDT (3.11 ETH).
BlueArk will distribute more than 200 unique Gummy Villain NFTs to the participants for free on the opening day of The Blue Ark.
Ruby9100m
In the second phase of the Meitu Future Art Museum exhibition curated by Meitu Creative Platform (MCP), young digital artist Ruby9100m created mechanical human, geometric evolution, punk century, model Ruby9100M with the theme of "digital evolution" , Cyber Transfer and other AR works which have attracted much attention.
Mizuki Nishiyama
The 21-year-old Mizuki Nishiyama prodigy blends her artwork based on the Hong Kong, Japanese and Italian art culture with the vibrant energy of New York. The artwork concentrates on themes of human fragility, this comes from her personal experiences and reflects on all her canvases.
South China Morning Post
Recently, SCMP in Hong Kong, announced the launch of the NFT platform ARTIFACT, which will convert its historical event reports and news photos into NFT’s. The South China Morning Post plans to partner with Hong Kong-made NFT gaming unicorn Animoca Brands to build its NFT platform within The Sandbox virtual world metaverse.
XEME
XEME is a Hong Kong based artist whose distinct graffiti has marked the city in bold strokes since 2001. Recently he has been exploring art in digital form. XEME has exhibited his artworks worldwide including cities like Hong Kong, Tokyo and San Francisco and has collaborated with international brands such as Tissot, BMW and X-Large.
Kwai Bun
Kwai Bun is an emerging visual artist with a “purist” approach for human figure: pure mastery in sophistication of lines, as he improvised through 100+ sessions of life-model drawing in the past 7 years, with almost 1000 human figure drawn and tightly integrated with each other.
Unlike illustration that is created by imagination, his works are "reaction to subject against time". Each piece records thousands of second-to-second tight battle with affection, abandonment, mental dissection of the subject, and emotional footprints of himself.
SANKUANZ
SANKUANZ was established in 2008 by fashion designer Shangguan Zhe. Since its establishment, Shangguan Zhe has successively cooperated with fashion brands such as Puma, Timberland, Onitsuka Tiger, Herschel Supply Co., etc., and successfully launched a series of crossover collections.
About BlueArk
BlueArk's businesses include art, music, video, multimedia, games, smart chains, concept stores, and more. BlueArk will use advanced concepts and technologies such as blockchain, NFT and artificial intelligence to provide space and opportunities for creators all over the world, so that they can use their creativity and imagination to create more business value. As the name suggests, BlueArk will put all creators on the ark, fully prepared for what will happen in the near future - the Big Bang of the Metaverse! Technologies such as 6G, Virtual reality, Extended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain are already gaining momentum. Virtual and reality will soon be seamlessly integrated.
BRK is the native token of BlueArk. It will create a metaverse financial ecosystem with BRK as the main currency of circulation, and empower everyone's creations and works.
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