Don’t be fooled by me.
Don’t be fooled by the face I wear.
I wear a mask, a thousand masks,
masks that I’m afraid to take off...
and none of them is me.
THE MASK WE WEAR
Nietzsche once said, “Every profound spirit needs a mask.” So we got together a few of our friends and created the CLUB *FOMO project as a labor of love, a means to celebrate the masks we all hide behind. In this context, *FOMO is an acronym meaning “Free Our Mask Off” and, importantly, it is footnoted with an irremovable asterisk to highlight its difference from the generally accepted meaning for this popular acronym - Fear Of Missing Out.
As children of this third decade of the twenty-first century, we are keenly aware of the pervasiveness of FOMO, particularly within the NFT and crypto culture where we spend much of our free time. Here we all too often wear a variety of different masks to help us just to get through the day. We are the mad children of a decentralized nation.
MAD CHILDREN OF THE DECENTRALIZED NATION
CLUB *FOMO is a collection of 4,500 NFTs - unique digital art collectibles that live exclusively on the Avalanche blockchain. Each CLUB *FOMO NFT is unique and randomly generated from over 192 possible attributes, including masks, headwear, clothing, backgrounds and more. These combinations are stored in a ERC-721 contract and the images will be hosted on IPFS.
Jean Baudrillard tells us that “all societies end up wearing masks.” And if what we believe in this subculture - that WAGMI - is going to be true then we all need to find our way, as Steve Jobs put it, to become “the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes.”
May CLUB *FOMO be the beginning of the path to yourself.
THE TEAM
CLUB *FOMO was created by 6 friends who wanted to create something crazy and fun, create high quality art pieces, and share with like minded people.
The project was conceived with the notion that there are people out there just as weird as we are; believing in make believe and passionate in something as ridiculous as our project. Hence, we want to use this opportunity to engage with people that are just as unconventional as we are.
"I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask."
JOEY K
Creative Lead
DYLAN
Art & Design
LULI
Artist
FOMOJOE
Marketing Lead
SHERLOCK
Strategist
BULLFROG
Technical Lead