Big Head Club CEO reveals Jim Carrey’s secret NFT collection

The collection was dropped on 9 May 2022 at the foundation. “It’s time for the world to know that Jim Carrey is String Bean. And he’s excited about it, Flavelle said.

The Big Head Club worked with Carrey to stamp this collection which features five autobiographical artworks. Each piece has 30 seconds to 1 minute of audio attached, narrated by Jim Carrey as he performs each character with a unique charm.

The collection presents Carrey’s views on society’s perception of fame, art and value. It also showcases Carrey’s abilities as an actor and artist.

Flavelle revealed that the collection was released under an alias as they wanted to see how the community would react to a sudden no-name project promoted by the Big Head Club at the Foundation.

It was important to Carrey that people recognize his artistic abilities and not just his fame.

“If nobody knew it was Jim Carrey, but nobody saw the art, it wouldn’t be a cool story,” he said.

Flavelle explains in an interview, “You’re literally looking at Jim Carrey’s face. You’re hearing Jim Carrey narrate [these paintings]. And you don’t know it’s Jim Carrey. It was part of the play. And it worked.”

Flavelle also elaborates on the visuals and audio in the NFTs, revealing that the sounds are actually “voices inside his [Carrey’s] head”. He describes NFTs as “they’re just isms of him.”

On the experience of working with Carrey, Flavelle says that he is talented at painting things from his mind, but he is not familiar with animation in painting, and this is where Big Head Club helped him.

At first, Carrey and the studio wanted to keep the secret for a few years, but eventually thought it was time to reveal the real identity of String Bean to the world.

Flavelle also mentions that String Bean and Big Head Club have several projects underway. “I think the acid of reality has dissolved what is Jim Carrey, the artist, and what remains is String Bean,” he said. “That need to create is deep within him.”

The String Bean also revealed himself as Jim Carrey with an official statement introducing himself as “Jim Eugene Carrey” and explaining the alias by sharing that his childhood nickname was “Jimmy-Gene The String Bean” due to his “long thin and abnormal flexible physique.”

He goes on to say, “People try to define and differentiate each other in many ways, some loving and some not so [endearing] – but we are not separated. Each character we meet is another side of the same precious diamond. I try to find all those characters inside me.”

“One day I might release the vocal and facial character study videos that this group of NFTs are based on. I like using original methods that don’t have a clear category yet…for better or for worse.”

The floor price of the Germinations collection is currently unknown, but the highest sale from the collection was 0.55 ETH for ‘The Bottles that Empty Me’.

Also read: Jim Carrey drops his first NFT artwork on SuperRare