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Wes McQ | Art Maxi | Fractional CMO
@wesmcq.bsky.social
280 followers 340 following 180 posts
7 ADDYs 🏆 • $84m in sales • VR & Web3 Optimist • Tech Advocate of the Year • Sr Marketing Strategist • Fine Art Collector • Blockchain Art Collector since 2020 • 🧟 • 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ • Reno, NV
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It was time to get an updated Le Bouletmaton of myself

Still an excellent avatar generator all these years later

zanorg.net
A quirky illustration of a fat white man with brown mid length hair in a slightly emo swoop with a brown beard, glasses, and a blue suit with a blue striped tie. He has gauged ears with brown gauges, and has a whimsically cute expression with big eyes looking upwards
June 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
wesmcq.bsky.social
After years of intentional work, I can say I'm no longer afraid of heights. This is the highest glass floor observation deck in the US.

I used to be afraid of 80 ft drop on the Loch Ness Monster. The Sears Tower Skydeck is 1350 ft.

I now love heights. Ask me how if you want.
View looking down through a glass floor that's 1350 ft tall, with the tops of skyscrapers visible under a pair of feet in brown loafers with black pants and the edge of a brown fur coat
May 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
wesmcq.bsky.social
I appreciate the fiber hut
A picture of Wes, the author, an adult white man with 70s style brown acrylic frame glasses, medium length wavy brown hair and a brown beard, with a white sculptural recessed/relief background of Aztec imagery, known to be located inside Chipotle franchises, wearing a black and tan sweater and a gold and tiger eye pinky ring. He has a flat expression and cradles his head against his hand
March 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
wesmcq.bsky.social
So I finally decided to make a move

Checked out what was currently available on
@davidvnun.bsky.social's profile and had a few choices

I like them all, but was most drawn to "SELF_ALIMENTATION" because of the Goya reference

The Saturn-devouring-his-son-devouring-his-son meta

(6/7) ⬇️
A big blue photorealistic bald wall-eyed ghoul mindlessly gnaws on the head of a smaller blue ghoul who is also gnawing on a tiny blue ghoul whose leg is flailing lifelessly, which glitch aesthetics appear as shards in the background
February 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
wesmcq.bsky.social
The next time I saw
@davidvnun.bsky.social's work, was again, organically on the timeline a week ago

It was "Backroom Apex Predator"

I was delighted with it enough to share the work, and follow his account this time

Checked out the portfolio again...

(4/7) ⬇️
A set of monster dentures with 4 tongues snaps its jaws in pursuit of a running eyeball with legs through the Backrooms office, the monster also has grasping hands and machine wheels
February 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
wesmcq.bsky.social
My first encounter with
@davidvnun.bsky.social's work was a year ago, when I first saw "i had it but now it's gone" run across my timeline

I was drawn to the very real teeth in the otherwise figurative context

I checked out the portfolio but didn't make a move

This happens a lot

(2/7) ⬇️
A figurative human shape holds its palms up, wrists chained together, while a small glitchy group of skulls float above the open palms, pulsing in size. The face has an arch of 24 real teeth, floating in the shape of a frown with no mouth or lips, and a single glowing circle in the place of an eye shoots a straight glowing line down
February 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
wesmcq.bsky.social
A 🧵 on how the artist went from unknown to me, to me buying their work:

Newest acquisition
"SELF_ALIMENTATION"
@davidvnun.bsky.social

Oct '24

I was drawn to the Saturn-devouring-his-son-devouring-his-son of it all, glitch aesthetics and uncanny valley level of material physics

(1/7)⬇️
A big blue photorealistic bald wall-eyed ghoul mindlessly gnaws on the head of a smaller blue ghoul who is also gnawing on a tiny blue ghoul whose leg is flailing lifelessly, which glitch aesthetics appear as shards in the background
February 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
wesmcq.bsky.social
Newest acquisition to the collection
"Fountain 0000036"
@bardionson.bsky.social
Dec 2020

Fluxus-themed collaborative GAN art collection from late 2020, with an obvious nod to Dada and Duchamp. Full details on the project and its mechanics here: fountain-art.com
An abstract photographic-style image of a toilet and tile, that is distorted in a way that makes it look like an 8. It has the aesthetic traits that identify it as early GAN art, a type of early AI art that uses a set of images to create new images, obviously based on many images of toilets.
February 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
wesmcq.bsky.social
A little something has shown up from @avantarte.com

Not even gonna open it all the way until I have a custom mat and frame ready for it

I'm impressed by the packaging of the shipment
An opened wooden shipping crate showing foam padding, a pair of cotton art handling gloves with "ARTE" on them, a black tote bag, and a signed note thanking Wes for becoming a collector
February 18, 2025 at 4:56 AM
wesmcq.bsky.social
Newest acquisition to the collection
"Five Body Problems #3, (Afterlives)"
@devharlan.bsky.social

I adore this piece

"... of global resource extraction and the myth of limitless consumption. I depict technological decay and disruption as it is not clear if a stable solution exists..."
February 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
wesmcq.bsky.social
Oddly enough, I had rewatched the mystery man scene from Lost Highway a bunch of times in the last week.
So many horror movies never scare me.

But a scene like that, in a movie that's not even horror, completely terrified me the first time I saw it, I can remember the...

(1/3)

#DavidLynch
Artistic portrait of David Lynch, his face in the dark in blue and serene, with a second long exposure version of his face in red superimposed over the back of his head, mouth open and screaming
January 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
wesmcq.bsky.social
Burl wood chatoyancy.

That's all.
A gloved hand holding a small piece of extremely shiny and beautiful burl wood with obvious deep chatoyancy.
December 18, 2024 at 11:03 PM
wesmcq.bsky.social
Now THIS is how you present a Magritte

#VMFA for the win
"The Seducer" by Rene Magritte, a painting showing the outline of a sailing ship in the ocean where the texture of the surface of the water is filling the outline of the ship, viewed from 12 ft away, by itself on a wall painted dark plum and lit with a spotlight from above "The Seducer" by Rene Magritte, a painting showing the outline of a sailing ship in the ocean where the texture of the surface of the water is filling the outline of the ship, viewed from 1 ft away, by itself on a wall painted dark plum and lit with a spotlight from above, details of the brushstrokes are visible
December 16, 2024 at 6:33 AM
wesmcq.bsky.social
Absurd. Was 9 figs not enough runway?

As someone who has been in 4 person startups that grew and got acquired, tiny nonprofits, bootstrapped everything I've ever done, this is infuriating

Can't even understand this mentality

Renounce the contracts, royalties to 0, let them be Murakami art now
Long dumb rambling statement about how they're winding down operations despite making 9 figures in sales
December 2, 2024 at 10:55 PM
wesmcq.bsky.social
This is how you take a full length faux raccoon fur coat to the east coast in a carry-on

Can you believe this? It's 14" x 10" x 6" now
Plastic compression bag that looks like a giant ziplock bag with fur inside
December 1, 2024 at 11:16 PM
wesmcq.bsky.social
Some Kehinde Wiley prints in my bedroom.

Official prints from the Flora Notecard Set.
5 small framed Kehinde Wiley prints, in black frames with white mats.
November 30, 2024 at 12:48 AM
wesmcq.bsky.social
LACMA really annoyed me by how they placed pieces way too close together.

The Magritte is iconic and needs more breathing room. Wtf
Famous Magritte pipe painting on a wall, within inches of other less iconic paintings by Ernst and Roy on both sides.
November 23, 2024 at 8:40 PM
wesmcq.bsky.social
Where was I?
Bowl of ramen on a table. There are three kinds of mushrooms visible, a fried cluster of tempura enoki mushrooms, shiitake, and oyster
November 23, 2024 at 6:18 AM
wesmcq.bsky.social
Are GIFs working yet?
Animate GIF of the word "ALTER"
November 23, 2024 at 6:10 AM
wesmcq.bsky.social
Me in my echo chamber
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(Holy Mountain is a great one though)
Screencap from Being John Malkovich, from when Malkovich enters his own portal and is living in a world where everyone has his face, image shows a woman in a low cut red dress with Malkovich's face seated at a table, while a waiter with Malkovich's face takes their order, both are looking at the viewer
November 19, 2024 at 8:24 AM
wesmcq.bsky.social
Get to know my music taste, for every like, I will post one song I love ❤️‍🔥

Stolen from @thediscocat.bsky.social
Text says "get to know my music taste, for every like I will post one song I love ❤️ "
November 18, 2024 at 7:45 PM
wesmcq.bsky.social
For any Renoites looking for other Renoites, hello!

Reno Arch
by me, 2017
as published in the Reno Lens coffee table book for Ward 5

See it here: issuu.com/cityofreno/d...

#reno #renonv #nv #nevada #renoites #biggestlittlecity
Artistic abstract photograph of the Reno Arch, bright gold and fuchsia neon, says "RENO The Biggest Little City in the World" with a camera zoom effect that causes the image to look smeared and as if the neon is exploding out to the edges
November 17, 2024 at 1:55 AM
wesmcq.bsky.social
I do stand out wherever I go
WesMcQ in a neon striped shirt with white pants, embracing the grave of Andy Warhol, looking down. The grave is covered in flowers and Campbell's soup cans WesMcQ in a seersucker suit with suspenders, a seersucker shirt, huarache shoes, and a striped pocket square. Black and white picture. The effect is that that whole outfit is covered in tiny stripes WesMcQ wearing tortoise shell glasses, a long blonde curly wig, and a tan fur coat, taking a selfie with a friend wearing red contacts in his eyes. It's a selfie pose. WesMcQ standing in a group of cryptoartists and collectors, next to a pyramid stack of analog TVs playing glitch art. WesMcQ is shorter than everyone else, wearing a bright seafoam green terrycloth summer outfit with a pink vaporwave t-shirt underneath.
November 17, 2024 at 12:27 AM
wesmcq.bsky.social
Text: "That one uncle that has no kids" Image: an adult man in a luxurious fur coat wearing a flatbill cap and sunglasses, drinking tea in a wine glass, looking unbothered A picture of WesMcQ in a luxurious fur coat, wearing a flatbill MOSCHINO hat, drinking a High Noon hard seltzer, looking unbothered, in the exact same pose as the meme image previous
November 16, 2024 at 10:06 AM
wesmcq.bsky.social
I received the most prestigious award of my career so far - 2024 Marketer of the Year by the Reno-Tahoe American Marketing Association!

Thank you to the judges panel at Charleston AMA, nominator Judi Rought, my clients for their faith in my ideas, family and friends who have always believed in me ❤️
November 15, 2024 at 9:23 PM