https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W-qHZZFOsM&t=1s
That’s right, over $1 Billion in NFT Assets, and I got them totally free, and what’s more, I’m going to tell you how and where I got them, and what I’m going to do with them.
Where did you get that NFT?
Answer? I didn’t “get” it — I made it and minted it myself on my very own OpenSea page, and it’s for sale — do you like it?
I’ve now minted hundreds of NFTs on OpenSea, and they are, indeed, for sale, some of them cheap, some not-so-cheap.
From whence came the images? Why, from my hard drive, of course. Don’t you have thousands of images just lying about in your hard drives?
So I just snarfed a few hundred of them and mounted them into NFTs on OpenSea, with their software, not mine.
Minting an NFT on OpenSea is profoundly simple, easy, straightforward and to the point. You have only to remember that, once up, a minted NFT can’t be taken down without a serious penalty, so be careful what you mint.
Once minted, you cannot alter or edit the NFT, as far as I can tell. I’d love to be wrong there, but I think I’m not. If I am wrong, please enlighten me.
Okay, so that’s the basic truth, kind of like when my mother told my dad to tell me the facts of life, he said, “If you don’t pay your taxes, the government will come and take you away.”
I’ve lived my whole life cognizant of that fact. I pay my taxes and, now that I have a steady source of income from my NFT sales, I can relax and let my accountant and tax lawyer handle the issues that may arise from my sudden wealth.
I’m referring, of course, to the well-known fact that everyone who tries to make and sell NFTs becomes an overnight Bitcoin Billionaire.
I’m still waiting for Publisher’s Clearing House to show up at my door with a check for $15,220,000.00, so you get a picture of what my life’s about.
Sometimes I camp out by the gate waiting for UPS to arrive with my stuff from Amazon.
Meanwhile, here I am at my desk, and I’m planning yet another attack on the world of NFTs — this time perhaps I’ll come up with a collection that will really knock the sox off people.
Something like a granulation gold jewelry collection, or a collection of painted rocks, handpainted leathers and jeans, Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine memorabilia, Movements, Cosmo Street Magical Artifacts, Bardo Bucks, Rembrandt Etchings, Ritual Items, Magical Tools and Medicine Wheel Relics, and that’s just the beginning!
The NFT is probably the artist’s best bet in the 21st century world of art, and fine art will definitely be re-defined before long.
The whole thing resolves down to “Now that you have billions of dollars worth of NFTs, to whom will you sell them?
This, of course, is always the issue. Now that you’ve cornered the market on EJ Gold NFTs, who’s going to buy them from you?
The answer is, of course, those who believe that those NFTs are more valuable than other NFTs, and they’d be wrong. There’s no way to tell what’s going to be popular next year.
The only sure way is to buy only what you like, what turns you on, makes your life just a little bit better, does something for you in a spiritual way, an inside thing, and something you probably can’t explain.
There’s no need. Just collect those things that you can live with, that makes your life better.
If that happens to be one of my NFTs, it makes me happy, because that’s why I’m making them, not to make money — all the money from the NFTs is going to our work efforts — what else?
I’m using the hashtags #nft #nftart and #nfts and it seems to work okay. There are currently a million NFT videos going up every day, maybe every hour.
Everyone’s into NFTs, but nobody knows quite what they are or how to go about getting hold of them.
Wait until they want to get rid of them, and see what happens. Unless the artist is really popular, it’s going to be more junk for the Salvation Army truck to pick up on Saturday.
What you want is a listed artist, someone who has paid the price, and who has a track record over the years, not weeks or months, of steady art sales.
I plan to place my NFTs in the same New York auction houses that sold my paintings for upwards of $50,000.00 — it turns out that they are planning NFT auctions, which they’re not publicizing yet, so there is no promotion in place at this time.
Nothing to exploit there, might as well generate your own interest group — but how?
You already know the answer to this one — social media. For a thoroughly anti-social bird like me, that’s hard news, but I’m doing the best with it that I can.
I’m back up on InstaGram, and I’ll take careful note on any growth there — my heart’s not into it, and I’m not at all sure it’s something people missed, but I’ll try.
Meanwhile, there’s the path clearly marked. It’s all about social media, being linked in and connected and galactic and crosshatched and zipped up.
In short, leave me out of it. I’ll have to depend on my 60 years of art reputation. Hopefully my JazzArt is loaded with enough celebrities to make it onto the “must get” list for collectors.
Now, where are the NFT collectors, anyway?
They’re on forums and such, and they’re very accessible, but if you bug them, they’ll shun your artwork like the very plague. They don’t like to be hassled.
They’re always on the lookout for good stuff, and they tend to have good instincts in that area.
You shouldn’t be desperate. That’s the worst trait in an artist. Relax. You became an artist because you were relaxed, so learn to relax again.
I’ve priced a lot of pieces in my OpenSea collections so you could snarf them up before the prices go nuts, and they predictably will.
My print prices went through the roof, and made them so expensive that I couldn’t afford to buy my own prints on the secondary market.
That happens, and it’s not a good thing. When people can no longer afford your art, you become distant, and unreachable.
That’s when your sales begin to go down, and the only way to repair that is to make your art less expensive for a while, then raise your prices when you get up steam again.
It’s a balance-game, and every artist has to learn to play it, or wither on the vine like a piece of charcoal.
Here are a bunch of headlines you might use, or that might suggest other titles:
- I’m a Billionaire in NFTs
- Crypto-Art Wave Coming
- This NFT could make you a Billionaire
- My NFT Hot Picks
- I Sold my NFT
- Bitcoin Billionaire
- NFT Billionaire
- NFT Investors
- NFT Billionaire’s Wallet
- I Accidentally Become an NFT Billionaire
- When this guy put some bread in a toaster, this is what happened!
Okay, forget the last line, but you get the idea here. Create a video that shows how to make NFTs, but also shows the NFTs that you’ve been making, and where to buy them.
It’s a different set of crowd on youtube than those folks who are forever on InstaGram and FaceBook and who live with a smartphone glued to their sweaty palms.
Listen, if you don’t already have an art market, you won’t have a NFT market, either, so how do you build up a collector crowd?
Well, the answer is built right into the question. It takes time, patience and marketing skills to bring about any reasonable chance of success, and in most cases, people don’t buy art for the art, they buy it for the money.
So how to convince people that your art will be worth more next year than it is now?
That’s the wrong question. You don’t have a year in their mind. So how to convince them that your art is automatically worth twice what they paid for it at the moment of sale?
You have to establish your NFT art’s value, all over the place. They should see an abundance of interest in you as an artist and in your art, and there should be many pieces out there at double what they’re paying, so they get the idea — double your money.
That is the whole idea of retail sales, as spoken by Rod Steiger in the hit Hollywood film, “The Pawn Broker”:
Buy something for a dollar, sell it for two dollars. Buy two and sell them for two dollars each, which makes four dollars. Now buy four more things for a dollar and sell each one for two dollars, and just keep going.
Now, at some point, you’ll be encouraged by numerous sales to raise your prices just a little, but soon enough, you’ll gain the courage and confidence in yourself to get your prices up to a living wage, which means thousands, not hundreds or dozens of dollars.
When I was wiring my paintings onto the iron fence around Tomkins’ Square Park in New York City and gladly selling them for $25 apiece, I never thought I’d see serious money for my artwork, but in the 80s and 90s, my prices went through the roof — several pieces sold in six figures, totally stunning to me.
Now there’s a chance that something you bought on my OpenSea page will give you the very real opportunity to hold something that might just increase in future value — of course, there’s no way to know that in advance.
Still, I’ve scattered some “student goodies” in and around my OpenSea account, priced absurdly, at .01 Ether and .02 Ether, currently around $20 bucks and $40 bucks, respectively.
Those things are tucked in amongst heavy-hitter similar pieces that are marked in the thousands.
Hopefully, you will be able to buy one of my NFTs and FLIP IT right away for at least double what you paid — hopefully a LOT more, if you dare ask it.
Lookit, that’s how these things are intended to help you, by making your own NFTs, or lacking that skill, buying and reselling mine, only don’t buy at retail.
I can only guide you this far: Look for the Silver Threads Among the Gold. What I mean is, those pieces that are similar to very high-priced pieces, but they’re marked “.01” or “.02”, which means they are literally giveaways.
If you have any doubts about whether a piece is intended to be a student piece, you have only to look at the price, “.01” or “.02” — that is your only clue.
Well, it’s time to get back to my NFT-Making Station, which is another tab on this browser, as it turns out.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby