In 2022, a vending machine appeared on Tezos. You fed it a couple of tez, pulled a lever, and it dropped a random piece of art into your hands.
Artists and collectors loaded it with work. Anyone could pull. For the price of a coffee you walked away with something you would never have found on your own. It was a game, a gallery, and an onramp all at once, and it spread Tezos art culture one random pull at a time.
Those are not marketing numbers. They are written into the chain, in the machine's own wallets, where anyone can read them. It dispensed live at STELLAR in New York, pressed pieces into Infinite Objects, and became a cult classic of the underground Tezos art scene.
Then the developers who built it walked away, and a machine that lived on fresh art stopped being fed. The site went dark.
But the keys never left the founder's hands, and not a single piece ever moved. Thousands of artworks from hundreds of artists sat frozen inside a working machine with no one left to load it. Too much history. A piece of Tezos culture, idling in the dark.
A thing that did that much good does not get to quietly disappear because two people left.
So it was rebuilt from the ground up. A new contract, fully owned by its founder, with real verifiable randomness instead of a promise. The original machine artwork and the jingles, preserved exactly as they were. Same machine. New gears. Loaded again, and pulling for real.
Founded and rebooted by Ludwig “Flex” Vonmesser.
Machine design by mightymoss.
Music and jingles by Fendel De La Creme.
And every artist who ever loaded a piece into it.
The original machine lives on-chain at vendingnfts.tez. The reboot runs at KT1NUtpV….