Monday, November 22, 2021

The Best NFT film ever made


Is this the best NFT film ever made?  Well, it's shot on video, so technically it's not even a "film."  But who cares?  WTF is an NFT?  It's a Non Fungible Token, basically a digital file linked in a blockchain, usually Ethereum, making it a one of a kind, or one of a limited series, that's digitally verifed.  Who cares?  The traders and flippers making tens of thousands, and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars flipping them.  That's who cares.  And a lot of other people, as well.  

I've spent the last five years as a "working artist," using one of the worst ways to make money with artwork in today's world.  It's been a learning experience.  I started, literally without a dime to my name, in November of 2015.  I wasn't known as an artist.  But I had this unique way of drawing I called Sharpie Scribble Style.  I stepped up my art game, put a couple of drawings on Facebook, and began selling them, starting at about $20.  I've sold around 90 original drawings in 5 years.  The problem has been that my large #sharpiescribblestyle drawings take 40-45 hours to draw, and I can charge about $150-$200 each.  So I survived by doing art, mostly while homeless, drawings cool pictures for about $3-$4 an hour.  That's a big part of why I'm still homeless.  Yes, art is not supposed to be about money.  But it's hard to draw when starving, and with no place to work.  Money is a part of life, I couldn't find ANY "real job in North Carolina, when I started, so I went full bore into my Sharpie art.  Now I'm known as an "artist," but also known for being homeless.  I can't sell street cred, it's time to figure out a decent way to make a living in today's world. 

I started hearing about something called NFT's over the last several months, and recently started looking into it.  Are these art?  It depends who you ask.  But they are creative projects, artsy digital collectibles in many cases, and I'm a highly creative guy, so I kept learning more.  If you want to learn about NFT's how they tie into art and creative work, what other potential they have, then watch this 82 minute movie.  You'll learn more about this crazy tech/creative trend in an hour and a half than anywhere else.  

After that you should know if they may play a roll in your life.  This movie gets past the insane money being made, and looks under the hood at the NFT craze, phenomenon, or whatever you want to call it.  Personally, the more I dig into this these things, the more interesting they become.  Maybe after the first of December, when I have a few more bucks to work with, I can create a couple, and see what happens. 

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