It isn’t enough to just sell the virtual NFT on opensea.io — listen, by itself an NFT is nothing but an address — a pack of cards, a whiff of vaporware, a neatly-wrapped nothing.
That’s not true of my wallet card NFTs. They come with everything you need to experience the artwork, packed into a wallet card USB flash drive that has a pretty picture on the front and a handwritten signature and edition number and limitation on the back.
It’s good-looking, and can be packed into a goof-proof grading slab if the customer prefers it.
What I’m driving at is that when it comes to marketing, an NFT is not just an electronic thing.
You need to provide the artwork for the customer and at the same time, having the opensea NFT as a definite value helps to make it financially attractive to the average yuppie as well.
You can sell the artwork as an NFT, and also deliver the original painting, if that’s the deal. In the case of my artwork, only the electronic NFT is for sale, not the original. I don’t sell originals anymore — it’s not the style, so I plan to have a lot of stuff in permanent storage until we hit the million dollar mark.
I will then build and fill a museum with ancient and modern art and yes, there’ll be a gift shop where we sell NFTs, of course there will.
Never mind the wall art. Who cares if it’s digital? Everyone’s going to Qunon Display Systems to show their digital art, and I don’t blame them one bit.
Canvas paintings were originally just cheaper versions of tapestries, which were used by the ridiculously rich to warm up their cold stone castle.
Then a few years back, the middle-class huddled masses got hold of them, and now a painting is just something on black velvet that hangs over the Thanksgiving Day dinner table.
It’s either that, or a series of “fine art” views flashing by on the wall TV.
I really preferred hanging my paintings on the iron fence at Tompkin’s Square Park, but those days are gone now, and that’s all there is to say about that.
I do sell high-end museum-grade NFTs, but not original paintings on canvas, in the high-end gallery. My most important paintings are profoundly not for sale, but you can buy a unique NFT of those paintings for a healthy price, to support the ashram.
I have thousands of opensea NFTs — pieces that can now be available, but that would never be for sale in the physical original form.
When you buy one of my high-end Museum-Grade Collection opensea NFTs, you also get a very high quality printable .jpg file, plus EBOOKS — my 5 full-color handmade art scrapbooks in easily to read PDF format , to wit:
- EJ Gold at MoMa – Children’s Art Carnival
- My Cedar Bar Show – Attended by NY School Survivors
- My Otis Experience – How I became a listed artist
- My White House Adventure – A memorable experience indeed
- My JazzArt Scrapbook – In support of the California Jazz Association
These are to help you build a story around your acquisition.
If you buy one of my opensea NFTs, you can also get a beautiful WALLET CARD with all those things in there, and more, if it applies.
I often include audio tracks — of course that’s true with my music albums on NFTs, you don’t get the music in the NFT, you get it in the WALLET CARD NFT, see?
I can’t YET do the fancy boutique gallery packaging the way Beeple does it, but you get the general idea — I do include a physical package which contains digital files that give the owner access to ebooks about the artist, and you can print from the huge .jpg graphic I send you inside the wallet card.
The whole idea is to get the EXPERIENCE of the digital art, not just the money from trading the tokens.
The NFT serves as a sort of invoice for the owner, but the wallet card has the actual virtual, if you know what I mean.
Be true to yourself. You need to be in it for the long haul, not just the currency craze. The NFT will be around long after the blockchain revolution.
I can think of dozens of applications for opensea NFTs, not the least of which is that it can constitute proof of ownership of an original as well as sell as a standalone digital item.
In short, what I’m saying is that I’ll be selling original works on canvas but I’ll also include an NFT package, which is the electronic opensea NFT plus my Hardware Wallet Card NFT, like the ones we’ll be receiving any day now from our manufacturers.
So how am I defining an NFT?
Well, have you ever bought or picked up a hat in Team Fortress? That’s an NFT. Did you ever buy an item of clothing for your Second Life avatar? Well, that’s also an NFT, if there’s only one of them — those are called “rare” and “super-rare” on the marketplace — or if it’s a multiple original from a limited edition.
You can use #shorts to focus attention on your opensea account, and you can actually sell NFTs right on youtube, if you know how and are digitally clever and internet adept.
Otherwise, do as I do — make comments on highly ranked videos about NFTs, subtly pointing to your presence on opensea. Don’t be obvious, or you’ll get in trouble.
It also helps to post #Shorts about NFTs that you made on opensea and how you did it, how much it brought in, and any other NFT news you can muster up in 60 seconds or less.
I’ll be going over how to mint multiples at this morning’s ICW.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby