Eli Ankutse (@eliankutse) • Hey
Art, Photography + $BONSAI enthusiast
Publications
- **A Nice Drive™ #17**
Traits :
💎 **CAR** - Vintage Roadster
💎 **ROAD** - Como 70's
💎 **SKY** - Heli Clouds
Rarity: **316**/333
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Each day on @club/lens I'll be sharing an unminted one-of-one from my recent **A Nice Drive™** Collection. The prices will change depending on rarity, but I want the bulk of the collection to be accessible to all 💎 The collection is based on my travels as a journalist, each piece giving collectors a unique portal to an imaginary exotic escape ✨️ Enjoy! 🙏🏾
- **ROLLS-ROYCE EDITION** ~ **WRAITH**1-of-1
This was one of the first Rolls-Royce WRAITHs delivered out the Goodwood factory in 2013 and the first new Rolls-Royce model in the Goodwood era. Before its arrival there were only models in the range - the Rolls-Royce Phantom and the Rolls-Royce Ghost 🤌🏾
When the trailer came to deliver this car, there was also an all white WRAITH on the back, en-route to Heathrow to be delivered to an unnamed "famous Boxer" 🥊
The first Rolls-Royce I'd ever driven, and the most powerful Rolls-Royce ever made at the time, WRAITH has now been sunsetted to make way for an new all electric luxury coupe - SPECTRE ⚡️
- **2k Followers** 🥳🎉
Thanks for the support! Here's a free mint edition based on my **A Nice Drive™** Collection 🚗
Enjoy!
- Stunning work ✨️🍸
- 2 left... ⏳️
- **Paradigm** #15 by **ippsketch** 📊
- A little showreel edit of my work with Rolls-Royce 🎥
- Still some freebies left ✨️🍸
- ******ROLLS-ROYCE EDITION ~ PHANTOM SERIES II**(5 Editions)
I took this photo in 2012 in the Cap Estel Hotel in Monaco 🇲🇨 It was the first time I realised how much I liked photographing cars, but also how the monolithic shape of a Rolls-Royce car was actually elegant in its simplicity 🤌🏾✨️
- Time to unwind ⛳️
- **STEINWAY & SONS** ~ Edition 7 of 7
The final part of the process is the polish, once again applied and finished by hand; it takes 3 weeks for a one-millimetre thick layer of polyester coating to dry.
To reduce the environmental impact of the fumes, a dedicated Steinway & Sons Coating Centre was built in Hamburg, incorporating a high-powered air extraction and filter system for the staff's safety.
It takes four sanding and seven polishing rounds to achieve the high gloss finish for which the famed grand pianos are renowned ✨️
[ Camera ~ Leica M Monochrom ]
Thanks to everyone that liked, commented, shared & collected, tomorrow I'll start a new Edition series called **ROLLS-ROYCE**featuring photos I've taken during my 10+ years working with the luxury automotive brand 🚗
Check out Editions** 1 - 6** to read the rest of the story 🎼
- **STEINWAY & SONS** ~ Edition 6 of 7
This may look like some archaic torture device but I assure you it's actually a rim-bending machine designed by Steinway & Sons to form one of the most important parts of a grand piano. The process is still completed by hand-as it has been for the past 140 years-the pictured presses having recenty undergone some minor performance upgrades. A vital process, the stability and durability of the piano rim plays an integral role in achieving that special "Steinway Sound" 🎼
[ Camera ~ Leica M Monochrom ]
Tomorrow I'll release the final photo in the series along with the last part of the story ✨️
Check out **Editions 1, 2, 3, 4** & **5** to read the rest of the story
- Time to unwind ⛳️
- **ROLLS-ROYCE EDITION** ~ **WRAITH**1-of-1
This was one of the first Rolls-Royce WRAITHs delivered out the Goodwood factory in 2013 and the first new Rolls-Royce model in the Goodwood era. Before its arrival there were only models in the range - the Rolls-Royce Phantom and the Rolls-Royce Ghost 🤌🏾
When the trailer came to deliver this car, there was also an all white WRAITH on the back, en-route to Heathrow to be delivered to an unnamed "famous Boxer" 🥊
The first Rolls-Royce I'd ever driven, and the most powerful Rolls-Royce ever made at the time, WRAITH has now been sunsetted to make way for an new all electric luxury coupe - SPECTRE ⚡️
- Free video collect! ✨️ The next Rolls-Royce Edition will be going live today 🔜👀
- We're excited to announce that the first Bonsai Grant receiver is @lens/orb 🥳
10 million $bonsai tokens to accelerate @lens/lens onboarding and provide further utility for Bonsai in this flourishing creator economy!
- We're excited to announce that the first Bonsai Grant receiver is @lens/orb 🥳
10 million $bonsai tokens to accelerate @lens/lens onboarding and provide further utility for Bonsai in this flourishing creator economy!
- New ORB update! ✨️🤌🏾 Is this a new font I spy @lens/nilesh... ? 👀
- Reached **Level 100!** 🏙
- Trusted Talent #23 - Spring Photos
Spring is in the air, and we want to see it through your lens 📸
Come share your most stunning spring photos in the comments (make them collectible).
👉🏽 Most-liked photo wins a sweet $BONSAI prize, gets featured on our podcast, and shines in our newsletter!
👉🏽 Every participant gets a little $BONSAI tip!
Let's make the Lensverse blossom with vibrant spring beauty 🌸
PS: Please, collect this post to support the show.
- Sorry, I meant this one is the free video collect 😅
- Free video collect! ✨️ The next Rolls-Royce Edition will be going live today 🔜👀
- Free mint up for grabs ✨️
- **ROLLS-ROYCE EDITION** ~ **WRAITH**1-of-1
This was one of the first Rolls-Royce WRAITHs delivered out the Goodwood factory in 2013 and the first new Rolls-Royce model in the Goodwood era. Before its arrival there were only models in the range - the Rolls-Royce Phantom and the Rolls-Royce Ghost 🤌🏾
When the trailer came to deliver this car, there was also an all white WRAITH on the back, en-route to Heathrow to be delivered to an unnamed "famous Boxer" 🥊
The first Rolls-Royce I'd ever driven, and the most powerful Rolls-Royce ever made at the time, WRAITH has now been sunsetted to make way for an new all electric luxury coupe - SPECTRE ⚡️
- **RHYTHM** #38 by dnlsmm
- **ROLLS-ROYCE EDITIONS** ~ launching soon ✨️
- Alluring depth to this work 🤌🏾✨️
Collected! 🙌🏾
- **ROLLS-ROYCE EDITIONS** ~ launching soon ✨️
- Beaut 🤌🏾✨️
- **Guardian Lion** #15 by** Emily Xie** 🐉
- **STEINWAY & SONS** ~ Edition 7 of 7
The final part of the process is the polish, once again applied and finished by hand; it takes 3 weeks for a one-millimetre thick layer of polyester coating to dry.
To reduce the environmental impact of the fumes, a dedicated Steinway & Sons Coating Centre was built in Hamburg, incorporating a high-powered air extraction and filter system for the staff's safety.
It takes four sanding and seven polishing rounds to achieve the high gloss finish for which the famed grand pianos are renowned ✨️
[ Camera ~ Leica M Monochrom ]
Thanks to everyone that liked, commented, shared & collected, tomorrow I'll start a new Edition series called **ROLLS-ROYCE**featuring photos I've taken during my 10+ years working with the luxury automotive brand 🚗
Check out Editions** 1 - 6** to read the rest of the story 🎼
- Excited about the future!
- **2k Followers** 🥳🎉
Thanks for the support! Here's a free mint edition based on my **A Nice Drive™** Collection 🚗
Enjoy!
- I think the biggest impact @lens/princetiwari's collects have had is giving Artists belief in their work and showing them that their art _has value_ ✨️
Going forward I think this impact will out weigh the legacy of any immediate financial gain 💯
A real blessing to the space and to so many 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thanks for everything Prince! 🙌🏾
- GM 🌼 Sending some good vibes with the beautiful work of Jade Bern -> https://jadebern.shop/
- **STEINWAY & SONS** ~ Edition 6 of 7
This may look like some archaic torture device but I assure you it's actually a rim-bending machine designed by Steinway & Sons to form one of the most important parts of a grand piano. The process is still completed by hand-as it has been for the past 140 years-the pictured presses having recenty undergone some minor performance upgrades. A vital process, the stability and durability of the piano rim plays an integral role in achieving that special "Steinway Sound" 🎼
[ Camera ~ Leica M Monochrom ]
Tomorrow I'll release the final photo in the series along with the last part of the story ✨️
Check out **Editions 1, 2, 3, 4** & **5** to read the rest of the story
- 100% of the royalties from this collectible will be donated to Samaritanos de La Calle, Non-Profit Organization working in favor of the integral development and the future social inclusion of children, adults and senior citizens living in homeless conditions on the streets of the Cali, Colombia🇨🇴
Place where I serve at the end of every month to over 300+ people.
Never judge, be grateful, share, spread kindness and be light for others.
- Sunday evenings ✨️
- The unedited version of this image was available as a fine art print to collectors that owned the corresponding NFT ✨️
For this @lens/lens mint I'm offering whoever collects it the physical fine art print _as well_ as the mint, so they can enjoy it, regardless of the format 🖼
You can find the rest of my Editions on OpenSea here -> https://opensea.io/collection/the-editions-by-eli
- Lens Lofi EP (vol. 1)
[$BONSAI and @lens/orb re-release]
music by @lens/internetfase, cover art by @lens/laggin
track 2 of 6: brighter days
5 of 10 editions remaining
- Prints by **Niall Staines**🌊
-> https://www.niallstaines.com/prints
- Hair & Melanin mdj reference II
- **STEINWAY & SONS** ~ Edition 5 of 7
An integral part of the grand piano's sound quality is the cast-iron plate to which strings are attached, exerting a force of 20 tonnes on the metallic structure. To this end Steinway & Sons dedicated a Foundry in the US to creating the bespoke metal plates, which are then hand-finished and assembled in Hamburg 🏭
[ Camera ~ Leica M Monochrom ]
For the next 2 days I'll release a photo along with another part of the story ✨️
Check out previous **Editions 1, 2, 3** & **4** to read the rest of the story
- **Autoscope** by **Erik Swahn** 🌈
I generated this seed and sold it on www.verse.works - so glad it was minted in the end 🙌🏾
Congrats to Erik Swahn; one of the best generative art series I've seen in recent times ✨️👏🏾
- **WAKAI BONSAI** 🌳🌸✨
• 1/1 mint
• 69,000 $BONSAI
• 5% mirror referral reward
• Hand drawn frame-by-frame animation
Original art minted directly to #lens
(reposted) Enjoy 💚
- **STEINWAY & SONS** ~ Edition 4 of 7
The hardwood maple and mahogany used to make the pianos are stored in a specialist lumbaryard for two-years and allowed to dry naturally, as not compromise their sound integrity in any way. The wood is then coaxed into shape by specialist rim-bending equipment (you can see the equipment designs on the wall in the **Edition 2 **photograph). After bending, the rims need to be rested for a further 100 days before they are ready for use 🎹
[ Camera ~ Leica M Monochrom ]
For the next 3 days I'll release a photo along with another part of the story ✨️
Check out **Editions 1, 2 **& **3 **to read the rest of the story
- Saturday 📺
- **Squares** by **Martin Grasser** ⏹️ 🟦 🟪 🟥
- **STEINWAY & SONS** ~ Edition 4 of 7
The hardwood maple and mahogany used to make the pianos are stored in a specialist lumbaryard for two-years and allowed to dry naturally, as not compromise their sound integrity in any way. The wood is then coaxed into shape by specialist rim-bending equipment (you can see the equipment designs on the wall in the **Edition 2 **photograph). After bending, the rims need to be rested for a further 100 days before they are ready for use 🎹
[ Camera ~ Leica M Monochrom ]
For the next 3 days I'll release a photo along with another part of the story ✨️
Check out **Editions 1, 2 **& **3 **to read the rest of the story
- Celebrating the Bithday girl 🎂 🤎