NFTs Weekly News #26 - Entertainment: Gucci in collaboration with Yuga Labs

The world of NFTs continues to expand and evolve at a rapid pace, with brands, celebrities, and individuals alike exploring the potential of this new technology.

Read about the NFTs entertainment world below!

🗽Brands/Celebrities - Ticketmaster, Balmain, Tommy Hilfiger, Wrigley, Cartier;
🎨 Artist of the week - Cocean kicks off post #1 with Tammy Lovin;
🎵 Music NFTs - Sound.xyz, Connect-R, Binance;
⚽Sports NFTs - Sorare, The Ocean Race, Alpine F1, Arsenal FC;
🤖AI Art - Images through the eyes of an AI, as dictated by Maria;
🤣Meme of the week - What kind of fren are you?

🗽 Brands / Celebrities

Luxury fashion house Gucci has announced a collaboration with Yuga Labs, the $4 billion company behind the NFT Bored Ape Yacht Club collection. They will release 3,333 Koda Pendants that come bundled with a unique silver Gucci Otherside-themed necklace.
Jack Daniels and Yahoo Creative Studios have teamed up to create an NFT campaign in Australia that integrates augmented reality (AR), collectible music from local Australian bands, gift vouchers and even a trip to a Jack Daniels distillery. Sign me up!
Rapper Lil Durk has teamed up with Algorand to release a limited collection of NFTs! Known as "NXTG3NZ", these digital wearables were released on April 10.
The NFT Poolsuite project in Miami has announced a collaboration with Ralph Lauren. This is the first time the project has collaborated with such a big brand. This collaboration is part of Ralph Lauren's broader Web3 vision, which recently opened a store in Miami's Design District that accepts crypto as a form of payment through partner Bitpay. Connecting the dots!
Bugatti and Asprey join forces to create an exclusive collection of NFTs, called 'Objet', in the form of eggs that incorporate timeless Bugatti family creations and traditional Asprey craftsmanship. The collection, titled 'Royale Edition of the Asprey Bugatti Egg Collection', is designed by Asprey Studio and represents an evolution of the partnership between the two luxury brands that began in 2022. Because Easter is coming 😅!

Tech giant Tencent has expanded its portfolio with a number of trademarks, including NFT and VR-related services and goods. It has filed a trademark application in the US for the Honor of Kings logo, which includes AR/VR services for e-sports and video games, NFTs marketplace services, and online advertising services, among others.
Nike has revealed details of the Our Force 1 sneaker collection, created for the digital generation, which will be released as NFTs. This collection includes two types of OF1 Boxes: the Classic Remix and the New Wave.
Entertainment studio Feature, which is behind The Fast and the Furious franchise, has teamed up with Polygon Labs to create a new racing franchise called Lollipop.

🎨 Artist of the week

Ovidiu Bojor is an artist, designer and future shaper through what he does every day. He is active in the international art scene, exhibiting his artworks in galleries and art institutions in Tokyo, Barcelona, Brussels, Toronto, Madrid, and Toulouse. His background is in traditional art, where he has always brought innovative elements.

His passion for technology and evolution guided him to explore the digital medium as a creative medium, which brought him several achievements, ending up working with some of the biggest projects in the digital area such as AKCB, RTFKT or Futures Factory where he is currently part of the core team as designer and creative director.

Like Tammy, Ovidiu also made a splash on the NFT Bucharest Warm-Up stage where he delivered, according to general feedback, one of the most authentic and emotional moments. We're sure we'll be hearing from him again and again. Maybe, if you keep close, you'll get a chance to (re)see him too. Who knows, you might find flights from Barcelona to Cluj.

Until then, you can find him on Instagram or Twitter. Or here if you want more details. Or search on Twitch, where lately he's been going into live sessions by the hour!

We also made a video where we told more. 🙂

🎵 Music NFTs

Gala Music, a Web3 startup, is collaborating with music producer Larry Dvoskin and Warner-Chappell publisher Music to release a never-before-heard version of David Bowie's 1983 hit "Let's Dance" on April 14 via a limited run of NFTs. The NFTs will be sold on a pay-what-you-wish model, with all initial proceeds going to MusiCares, a charity that provides health services to the community. The launch will include 3,003 NFTs, each featuring a piece of Bowie-inspired artwork. This launch is not Bowie Estate's first journey into the blockchain, having launched a series of NFTs in partnership with OpenSea last September.

⚽ Sport NFTs

The OKX platform launches a training session in Metaverse with football star Rúben Dias. The experience will allow fans to interact with Dias, and discover training techniques and coaching tips in virtual reality. This is part of the OKX Collective collection.
Chess Champs, in collaboration with Champions Chess Tour and Chess.com, introduces NFT Art to the chess world. The goal is to support the creative economy and highlight the work of talented artists in the NFT space. By providing a platform for artists, Chess Champs hopes to protect creativity and intellectual property.
World premiere, Digital Intelligence leaders Altered State Machine have teamed up with FIFA to launch "AI League", the first-ever Web3 AI "smart football" game, available on Android devices with iOS support coming soon. The game is themed around a FIFA tournament and allows players to act as coaches and owners of their own AI teams.

Luka Dončić's 1/1 Unique card, Sorare, sold for a final price of $76,800. The sale marks continued confidence in the Sorare platform, even as the NBA regular season draws to a close.

🤖 AI Art

Using AI, we type in a few words and it generates an image. For today's, Maria Raluca Stănescu used Midjourney and the following words: "Christian Louboutin-inspired high heel with a futuristic twist, incorporate bold, eye-catching colors, unique asymmetrical shapes, the result should be a visually striking high heel, 8k (--q2)"