I can not count the number of times I had heard about NFT-art
recently so when I found a platform that let me do it for free I decided to take some images
that I had in my body of work somewhere and somehow never published, but
have a very similar style to at least some of the work I display here
and mint some NFT.
I started with some pieces that were a good deal older, and that I will
just say the few friends that had seen them liked them better than
I did, but were probably considered plenty cute never the less just to get
a handle on what would go into the process of turning
digital art into cyrpto art.
Fun, frustrating and definitely not fungible. I was more than a little bit
thrilled to find there was a platform that let me do this for no start
up cost on my part.
After getting a handle on this I largely put it down for a little bit as
I was doing this at the same time I had some other stuff that needed
my attention and felt it did not need to be a priority right that second,
and am actually writing this now because I had decided to revisit it and
publish a few items that have their origins after I started making a habit
of creating with creator as just
part of my creative process.
While I am not sure how often I will be doing anything involving minting
NFT, but at this point
I am very much assuming that this will not be the last time I do something with this.
I not only do not believe it is just a fad (though if it is I am definitely not sorry) I
look at this and see massive potential that could extend far beyond anything any
mind (yes including mine) has imagined.
One very real possibility that I have yet to hear anyone talk about as of when I wrote
this article (though I do not know that people have not) that does excite me about
NFT is it is actually possible to
support certain things I have been assuming would eventually be needed as the 3d printer
became more widespread to support people being able to buy and sell digital goods and
3d print them at home while preserving and honoring intellectual property rights, and
eventually being able to ensure someone does not pay for something once then 3d print it 20 times without
paying if they were not supposed to print more than one of it to as we find new ways to make use of
anything digital. Something I am convinced people would eventually have to be able to enforce in more so
than just having the legal protections, but taking it some steps further in order for the digital market of
any kind of goods to reach their full potential. No I am not joking about this I have been wondering for
years how something like that would be made possible, and it is actually very exciting to see this type of technology in what
I actually have to imagine is very much it is infancy. I am not talking about just
art when I say this, I mean all kinds of things
we are not even thinking about as possible right now, partly because it is not possible yet. Admittedly if things
go that direction I definitely consider myself and other artists very blessed to
have been part of the first wave(s) of industry making use of this technology.
For anyone who has read the sci-fi short story I wrote on
some of what I think is going to be part of the future of the internet and ecommerce (which
I doubt I'm alone in thinking), while I am not saying it will go this way I definitely like
the idea of that piece of science fiction not staying fiction.
