Mike Mongo, fringe artist, feeling nounish

The Mongo Mugs Collections

Fringe artist Mike Mongo’s seminal NFT editions

PR HORSE
3 min readNov 30, 2023

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As historic pre-future artifacts possessing genuine anachronistic functionality, (as well as being fantastically opportunistic stores of value,) ‘Mongo Mugs’ are perhaps the best-known NFTs having serviceable time travel built in as utility. Imaginatively synthesizing art, community, and utility–including real-time conversational access to Mike Mongo–‘Mongo Mugs’ NFTs support/supported/will support the continuance, evolution, and high-value existential well-being of humankind and civilization.
Keep in mind, “Your success was assured!”
Mongo Mugs 1st-Genesis Description

“The start of my career was discovering I was fringe.”
Mike Mongo

Mongo Mugs 1st-Genesis

31 December 2021 (”the immutable 2021”)
22 piece edition

Mongo Mugs 1st-gen metadata

POST: Mongo Mugs “NFTs for Time Travelers”

Mongo Mugs 2.0 (2nd-Gen)
collaboration with artist astronaut Sian Proctor

1 February 2022 (in celebration of Time Travelers Day)
220-piece edition

Mongo Mugs 2.5 (3rd-Gen)
I AM REALLY JUST INTO YOU

1 February 2022
23-piece edition

Mongo Mugs 3rd-gen metadata

Mongo Mugs 2.51 (4th-Gen)
I AM REALLY JUST INTO BLeU

5 September 2022
50-piece edition
portmanteau of Tjo’s CC0 work BLeU

Mongo Mugs 2.5NOUNS (5th-Gen)
I AM REALLY JUST INTO noUns

6 October 2022
51-piece edition

Mongo Mugs (6th-Gen)
I AM JUST REALLY INTO BLUE

13 June 2023
portmanteau of Tjo’s CC0 work BLeU

Mongo Mugs 6th-gen metadata

Mongo Mugs (Non-Gen)
BLeU YEAR

1 January 2024
33-piece edition
portmanteau of Tjo’s CC0 work BLeU

Mongo Mugs non-gen metadata

Mongo Mugs (7th-Gen)
I AM REALLY JUST INTO AI

17 November 2023
101-piece edition*
portmanteau of Tjo’s CC0 work BLeU

*Collection mated with the signed, number 101-edition First Edition hardcopy series, MY CONVERSATION WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES (An Instruction Manual for Talking with AI), by Sherlock Holmes, Mike Mongo.
7th-gen metadata
“2021 for NFTs is the 1983 of hip-hop”
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