I can have the cake, and eat it, too. I get to keep the original and sell a digital copy of a photo of the thing itself.
The offerings in Gallery 9 are somewhat pricey at a million plus dollars, but who has an original antique Rembrandt Oil-on-Canvas apres lying around out-of-frame that they can use for an out-of-frame photograph?
ALL of the million-dollar artwork USB GorbyTokens will come to you ALREADY EMBEDDED in a PERMANENTLY SEALED “grading” slab.
These very same sealed “grading” slabs are used to hold MULTI-million-dollar coins, stamps and trading cards, and can certainly hold and protect your USB GorbyToken Wallet Card.
The appeal of my newly-invented CRYPTO USB NFT GorbyToken Wallet Card is that it’s NOT BLOCKCHAIN and therefore is responsible art produced by an environmentally responsible artist, namely me.
Hey, look at the photo — it’s not possible for someone to create this casual a level of presentation without the original art in hand, and most importantly, it’s not happening in a formal museum setting, but in a private home.
So without CGI these days — and this isn’t CGI, it’s the real thing, an actual photo of Helena, snapped by Phredd for posterity — this wouldn’t be easy to do. The actual painting was done by Russian artist Maria Tenzer.
I happen to own the only self-portrait known of German Expressionist painter Fritz Schwaderer, and this is it. The painting itself is not for sale — it’s part of the largest Schwaderer collection in the United States, but the USB NFT is, and the bidding starts at $1.2 million. So far, there haven’t been any bids yet, but I’m sure there are some Schwaderer fans still alive & kicking.
The original of this is not for sale, not available, period, but this USB NFT certainly is, and we here at the Institute will surely appreciate your donation to our cause — as you know, all the proceeds go to charity, and once this sells at a million bucks, all of Tommy’s work should go right through the roof in popularity.
Unfortunately, you can’t write this thing off on your taxes — you’re getting value in return. That’s the law — sorry about that, chief — but you CAN sell your million-dollar USB flash drive at a profit, if you ever find another buyer.
There is no advantage to buying for blockchain and storing in blockchain, and I can prove it, so save yourself a ton of grief and stay away from any art market that’s tied to a cybercurrency, unless you want the dipsy-doodle effect.
Want to speculate in the money market? Buy money. Want to speculate in the art market? Don’t. It’s not a money market, it’s an art market, and it’s driven by wealth.
Sotheby’s and Christies are all about getting rid of expensive stuff that wealthy clients have gotten bored with, if I may dangle a participle right in front of you.
In short, the art market is a social scene for the very rich, and should a member of the lower classes get hold of a piece of artwork, they won’t know the difference between an oil painting on canvas and a cheap mechanical print on glossy paper.
Ignorance is bliss.
Ask Hillary if she’s still got the EJ Gold ceramics — she swore she never threw one at Bill, and I’m sure they still have the collection, so clearly none of it is ever for sale, but this photo of one of my best pieces is offered here for a mere $1.2 million dollars, cheap at half the price!
The whole NFT thing started as a sudden inspiration at a tech gathering — why not bid for art pieces not with American dollars, but with Ethereums, and that’s what they did, and now we have Bleeple at the head of the digital art speculation craze, which looks from here like any other bubble.
Long after any cybercurrency craze, there will still be trading cards, stamps, coins and comic books, and there will always be a third party grading service that can authenticate them.
Oh, yes, long after the cybercurrency wave is over, the artwork will still be selling, and it will always be the artist, not the art, that will determine price.
It always is reputation over talent.
Well, that’s the lot. I hope you choose to acquire several of them — just ONE million-dollar GorbyToken is simply not enough to satisfy. Better get two — one for yourself, and one for a friend.
Shipping is free on any million-dollar item, and so is the third-party grading slabbing & authentication.
YOUR MONEY BACK if not entirely satisfied, but I’m reasonably sure we’ll be satisfied with your money. (courtesy MAD Comics Issue #12, from their guarantee.)
See You At The Top!!!
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