Actually, I’m glad Ethereum has taken steps to reduce the blockchain impact and is taking further steps this very year as is, because I’ve just discovered something that I thought might be the case, and sure enough, it is.
Now, if I’m selling a music album or a video talk, it’s going to be stuffed into a wallet card — there is no better way to deliver the actual video.
The NFT does not contain anything — it’s just an address. However, it sure LOOKS like it contains something.
They let me put a video in there, and it plays when you click on it, with sound if you click twice.
Wow.
Then I get to put a .jpg on the lid of the box, and up it goes into my salesroom gallery on opensea.
Keep in mind that the better venue for music, videos and such is the super-collectible signed and numbered wallet-card in a limited edition. But there is room for the rare and strange combination of the #shorts and the buttons I made for InstaGram, or the thousands of images I have stashed away from over 50 years of publishing.
Make sure you own ALL the rights to stuff you put up for sale. There will be a day of reckoning for those who don’t. Laws are being passed now, and soon you ‘ll have to show proof of ownership of publishing rights.
The thing is, that doesn’t protect the little guy, just the industrial giants who are going to be publishing and selling like this pretty soon.
So I’m stuffing these NFTs with animation, mostly #shorts videos that I already have up somewhere, along with a graphic that has nothing to do with the video — I can’t tell you why that is.
I can see why bands are using this gimmick — pardon me, I meant, of course, “new art form” — to further their marketing interests, but to me, the fun is in the animating.
Get one of these little puppies and play it and see what happens — you’ll be smiling.
It’s not merely art, it carries Blessings and automatically raises the consciousness of anyone within whistling distance.
When I’m putting them up there on ocean-spray — no, wait, that’s the Cranberry Sauce guys — on OpenSea.io I’m imagining what fun it will be to go shopping among these strange Multi-Media Creations.
I will also have at least one gallery full of static art, but this is such damn fun, I insist on pursuing it the whole night through until dawn, when we eat breakfast and get out to do the Morning Show.
I’m thinking of a powerful blend of #shorts plus buttons from InstaGram and YouTube, but the subject matter can range just about anywhere from a Godd™ World tour to a short film of me and Tommy X painting together — that video exists somewhere, and I intend to lay my hands on it and use bits and pieces for some of these NFTs, notably the action ones like painting, drawing, sculpting and such.
Dancing is another source of very fun material for these ACTION NFTs.
Remember action painting? There’s also many variations of action art out there, the most elaborate of which are full public performances both in the theater and out in a crowd.
We’ve also had a revolution in Conceptual Art, and this is certainly one experiment in that direction.
Found Objects can be isolated and magnified using a short video or a powerful graphic image of the thing.
You can create a “Not-For-Sale” that can be sold as a digital NFT and still have the original for shows and exhibitions.
Another good factor for the artist is that you get a commission on every subsequent sale, so if the price goes through the roof, you won’t be left out in the cold — the fate of so many artists in the past.
It feels to me as if I’ve been handed back my artist’s life again, with a total renewal of energy and a new prospect of actually getting the art out there in the open market again.
I made a living from art for over 60 years, and you can, too. And I can bring it back into the marketplace again, although I’ll have to skip the interview radio shows I used to do once or twice a week.
I write a blog most every day, and this is one of them.
I’d like to show you what’s in store for you if you shop my NFTs on OpenSea.io — and the prices will drive you wild! What I mean is, I start everything out at .01 Ether, which amounts to around $25.00.
The last time I sold my artwork for $25.00 was in 1958 and 1959 when I lived on East 10th Street in Manhattan, across from Tompkin’s Square Park.
We tied our paintings to the iron fence around the park, and Saturday and Sunday strollers would come by, and some would buy my paintings.
Not many, but $25.00 went a long, long way back then, back then, back then…
Wow, are you gonna have some fun when you start making your own — and they hold all kinds of things, and could be made to do a variety of interesting things.
Explore! Wonder! Thrill!
And don’t forget your wallet card — don’t leave Home without it.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby