Two Zoetropes by Gavin Shapiro

My dear collectors, your time has finally come. This whole drop, in fact, was designed to act as merely a vessel for your rewards. Collectors of my work may enter a drawing to receive the climax of this drop, the Collector’s Zoetrope: a luxurious, elaborate, and meticulously-crafted zoetrope that is the perfect centerpiece to any home office.*

For everyone else, I present to you the Mass Market Zoetrope. The antithesis of the Collector’s Zoetrope, it prides itself on being simple, inexpensive, and replicable. It was designed with two functions in mind:

1. To afford the user an exhilarating zoetrope experience in the most succinct manner possible.
2. To make the Collector’s Zoetrope appear more luxurious by comparison.

Everyone has access to the Mass Market Zoetrope. The 3D files have been made available for free, under the CC0 Public Domain license, so that you can 3D print one for yourself:
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*The Collector's Zoetrope is extremely dangerous and operates at speeds of nearly 700 rpm. Please do not stand within 30 feet of the Collector’s Zoetrope while it is in motion. Do not let children or pets know that you have the Collector’s Zoetrope. Do not operate the Collector’s Zoetrope for more than 10 seconds at a time. Gavin Shapiro and Nifty Gateway are not responsible for injuries sustained while operating the Collector’s Zoetrope.

About Gavin Shapiro

Gavin Shapiro is a digital artist whose ultimate goal is to produce work that makes you smile. He focuses primarily on playful conceptual artworks that explore how we can use digital tools to confront our expectations of what’s possible in a traditionally physical art world. He's lived in New York, Osaka and Paris, working on a large variety of projects including tv shows, commercials, outdoor displays, large-format stage visuals, and animations for casino games.

His personal work, released under the name “shapiro500,” has been used as visuals at music festivals and concerts all over the world, and has been shown on digital billboards as part of art exhibitions in New York City and Tokyo. His animations have accumulated hundreds of millions of views across Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Giphy, and have been sold as NFTs on Nifty Gateway and SuperRare since mid-2020.

This collection features 1 ranked auction and 1 collectors only drawing.
The ranked auction will start at 6:30pm EST on Dec 1st and run for 1 hour.
The drawing will open at 6:30pm EST on Dec 1st and be available to enter for 30 min.