During an intense LSD trip sometime in the summer of 1968, the Bear commissioned a series of gem-quality colored crystal skulls for his personal art collection.  Someone knew a sculptor who worked with lead glass.  Bear paid her $20k up front and said he didn’t give a shit how long it took her.  For months, and then years, the artist struggled to develop the technology required to meet Bear’s demanding specifications.  The Bear eventually forgot about the project, and while he was in prison in the early ‘70s the artist abandoned the work and moved back East.  

This is a digital run of the Bear’s long-lost skulls series by capnganj.  

Each NFT is a textured 3D model of a human skull and a high-resolution preview image.  The faceted 3D geometry of each skull, the wavy colored texture that is mapped onto the 3D mesh, and the high-res preview image are all unique 1/1s: they were generated algorithmically.  Traits / properties are included to help sort and filter, and to establish some rarity in the collection.

No fomo, project roadmap or fancy utilities or whatever: art is the utility.  

Same ownership and commercial-use terms as BAYC.  Bear Skulls NFT owners can use their digital artwork to try to make their own acid money IRL if they want to: take high-res screenshots and sell merch at events; show them in your token-gated metaverse art galleries; 3D print them and shill physicals on the street; etc. 

Enjoy digital art & support small artists, and don’t take too much LSD in real life.

One love <3 @capnganj