BIG SHOTS is my latest project on Nifty Gateway - A vivid mix of surrealism, meme art, parody & satire in 3D animated form - Big Shots Phase 1 focuses on well known billionaires of Web2 / Commercial Space Industry fame - Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson.
Top tier tech-billionaires competing for dominance in space but there’s always a bigger fish! Branson and Bezos have made it to the upper atmosphere at least but there's a clear winner amongst this cleek of playboys. This is only the beginning of an ongoing fantasy adventure amongst the stars and beyond.
This unreleased version of SPACE RACERS features an excerpt from John Barry's - Flight into Space. Unfortunately despite having applied for the rights to use this track I had no response from Universal Music in time for the release so was unable to use it officially.
(I do not hold the rights to use or sell this excerpt of music - this is intended as a preview only and i make no profit from it)
Sipping all the flavours, harvesting all the data, Mr Zuckerberg in his Meta Kingdom lapping up the sweet shiny profits. This whole Metaverse subject is pretty controversial and the idea of a company like Facebook/Meta with their track record of data selling attempting to land-grab the whole industry doesn’t sit well with me #NotMyMetaverse. I wanted to make the setting both sanitised and creepy all at once.
Actual Astronaut Jeff Bezos getting some pictures after his inaugural flight to the err .. upper atmosphere, I couldn’t help adding his girlfriend into the scene too. In a press ceremony surrounding the event Jeff dished out some thank you’s - being aware of frequent reports of in-humane working conditions for employees and undignified bureaucratic practices at Amazon it amused me in an ironic way that he decided to thank all Amazon employees and customers saying “You guys paid for all this”, which did garner some laughs at the lavish event, but may have fallen more flat had he been sat before a delegation of warehouse workers. Funny guy, I couldn’t resist including him in my first round of Big Shots.
