NFTs (non-fungible tokens) continue to be all the rage at the moment and one artist has taken the craze to new extremes by blowing up a Lamborghini Huracan to create 999 individual NFTs.
The artist in question is known as โShl0msโ and has released a video of the Italian supercar being destroyed by explosives. A total of 888 highly detailed videos of individual parts from the Lamborghini will initially be available as NFTs via an online auction while a further 111 โ$CARโ NFTs have been reserved for the team behind the project and will be used for another project.
Speaking with Fortune, Shl0ms said that while those that purchase one of the 888 publicly-available NFTs will receive a rotating video of it, they will not get the physical part itself. The destroyed components of the Huracan are currently in storage and will not be distributed, although the artists suggested that they could be displayed.
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Bidding on the NFTs will start at 0.01 Ether each, or roughly $26 but to recoup the money involved in buying and destroying a Lamborghini Huracan (roughly $250,000, Shl0ms says), the artist will need them to sell for much more than that.
Shl0ms claims that proceeds from the NFT sale will be used to fund future public art installations.
The explosion of the Huracan itself was meticulously prepared. Speaking with Motor Trend, the artist said that the team behind the project needed to carefully place the charges throughout the Lamborghini to avoid causing too much devastation. It took two weeks of testing explosives and even blowing up a trial car to get everything dialed in.
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