I’m lucky I have the photo of the crucifixion as it really took place, and you can own the original NFT I’ll mint for you for whatever donation you care to name, I’m easy.
I have many collectibles, but none are worth as much as their NFT would bring, even the collection of Donner letters and photos, and the photo of me standing in front of my Pollock painting.
I can take a selfie of myself standing in front of “Guernica” and make it into a NFT and it’s a work of art in itself. Go figure, but that’s where we are, at the moment.
The art world is always changing, and never for the better. We live in an age where the photograph or scan of something is worth more than the thing itself, but it goes further than that.
Many NFT minters actually make a video of themselves destroying the original from which the digital image was created, and they tuck that right into the NFT’s “Unlockable” section.
Gosh, wouldn’t the entire teaching staff of the Gutai School of Temporary Art in Japan be happily surprised!
It goes even further than that. One enterprising young artist, clearly lacking in any artistic skills, decided that he’d just give a title and a descriptive blurb of what the art is about and what it’s supposed to look like, and dump it into an empty NFT, which he did, and promptly sold out his entire run in just a few seconds, making millions of dollars in the process.
It’s that kind of positive creative thinking, like Anti-Communism and Vaccine Conspiracy Theories, that got humans in trouble in the first place, and those things will apparently never die.
What might die, however, is the art taste and preferences of the past. It dies all the time, and has done so throughout history both Eastern and Western, not to mention the middle.
Listen, it’s all a matter of public taste, and that runs the gamut, but it always swings back and forth between two radical extremes, like short hemlines and long hemlines.
There are too many radicals in the soup at the moment, due to the extreme nature of communication today — people literally walk around in sleep, holding a cell phone as if it were a spirit guide.
Well, maybe it is — or at least, could be converted into one, with the right software, and I have it right here at hand.
Seriously. I have in hand the software YOU need to turn your cell phone into a powerful spiritual tool, as good as any prayer wheel you ever turned, or any dorje you ever wielded.
In short, I made a cell phone into a Blasting Rod of powerful positive Clear Light Energy that brings about Healing, Bliss-Consciousness and Liberation.
It works on the owner of the cell phone but it has a working radius of about 3 meters, roughly 9 or 10 feet in radius, which means a BUBBLE that’s about 20 feet in diameter.
How does it work?
You hook up your METAMASK digital wallet to your cellphone, and go to my main opensea page and find something that works for your aesthetics and your bank account, and hit the BUY ME button, and it goes instantly into your cellphone, and instantly to work.
You are entitled to buy an NFT on opensea to pay for an item or multiple items, but you must arrange it first.
You get to choose which NFT or NFTs you want, and YOU choose which items from the bookstore you want at an equal value, let’s say for instance, $500.00.
You would select the items you want, get the total from us, then select the NFT you want that’s at the same price or thereabouts, give or take fifty bucks — it’s hard to determine exactly in advance what this will work out to, but we’re easy.
This whole thing is an exercise in art marketing. Don’t take it as a duty. It’s an experiment in Being, as well — as a matter of fact, that’s its primary Reason for Being.
Your Reason for Being is to get conscious and act in knowledge and compassion. That’s why you’re here, remember?
It all gets lost in the swim of things, but there it is, staring you in the face. So how is a NFT related to spiritual uplifting?
What? You have to ask???
Well, okay, fair enough, I’ll be only too glad to answer. First of all, the spiritual values are all based on trust.
One thing I had to do was to trust that the people who are running Ethereum are serious about achieving a potent reduction in the impact of blockchain on the ecological system.
That’s because a large part of being an artist is developing a sensitivity to the environment, and a greater knowledge and understanding of Natural Laws.
Either that, or they’re strictly in it for the money. Most of them are, but they don’t realize how much work and effort goes into building an art reputation.
In my case, it took some 20 people full time to accomplish a “branding” for my artwork, and a fairly large market for my paintings, prints, ceramics and bronze sculptures.
I stopped art marketing 20 years ago, right after 9/11, and have only just now begun to activate it once again.
One notable change is that I no longer trust eBay and, after 25 years with them, have stopped listing there. It’s not for the little guy anymore, just the package store with an online presence.
Don’t have any plans to market my physical artwork, not when NFTs are doing so well, but I’m always prepared to go back to charcoal and a blowpipe on the wall of a stone-age cave.
Even if I did have a gallery outlet, I wouldn’t be sending 2,000 pounds of crated paintings, I’d be shipping NFT images, and asking the moon for the NFTs. I’d display the NFTs in lucite Crypto Stands or on wall mountings.
That’s where it’s going. You don’t have visitors to your house, you don’t show off a new canvas in your dining room where you have a dozen unmasked guests over for dinner.
You show it on your cellphone, or on facebook or on instagram or some other online outlet where thousands or millions or dozens of fans can see it.
Okay, maybe only a few friends and family members, but somebody sees it other than you, and that’s the whole point — to communicate.
In the case of my “Blessings” Wallet Card, which is a great giveaway at only $50 for five SIGNED & NUMBERED cards, what’s communicated is a powerful BLESSING prayer.
Inside the card are a number of items, as well as the graphic on the front — plug it into any USB port and you’ll see a large printable .jpg photo with permission to print it for your personal use, plus the Blessing Orb, the Blessings QMV and .mp3 audio files with Blessing chantings.
In a pinch, you can always use it to transport a file or two.
Do be careful of the signature — it’s permanent, but not totally resistant to abuse. If you wish to keep the wallet card as a collectible, you can have it slabbed at any grading company — there are dozens that will do it for about $20.00, but some charge more.
Of course, you then can’t use the stuff that’s contained in the wallet card, at least not in the USB port, you can’t.
It works as a portable BEAMER, but it’s clunky to carry in a slab.
It’s best kept the way you got it, stored in its very own plastic bag. The plastic is kind to stuff, and doesn’t eat it away or anything like that.
What I mean is, the plastic sleeve I ship out is environmentally friendly and nice to coins, paper, and things that go phtttt! in the night.
That little flash drive wallet card is pretty nifty in the original sense of “nifty”. Pull out the little tab that fits into the USB drive, and the card can stand up by itself, as an altar card or nightstand Healing card.
Holding the wallet card is the same as holding the Godd Particle, either one will do for a bedridden patient — it keeps you centered and somewhat calmer most of the time.
Nothing works perfectly every single time except a BIC Pen and a Zippo Lighter, so don’t hoc me in chaynik, meaning don’t bang outdoors on a teapot with a spoon.
Back in the olden days, when I was just knee-high to a baboon, women were allowed to complain about their husbands.
They would stick their heads out the window, bang on a tea kettle with a giant serving spoon, and announce the husband’s latest transgression to all her neighbors.
This “banging on a tea kettle” became the standard for the women’s chatrooms of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but this does me little good when trying to peddle my NFTs, so what’s the point of even bringing it up???
Okay, I won’t.
So if you want to try buying a NFT to pay for goods off the website, lemme know, and I’ll make arrangements with the Powers that Be — the triple gods of finance, Shirley, Goodness and Mercy.
They shall follow thee throughout thy life, according to the Gospel According to Morgan. I’ll explain; when she was a kid in church, she heard the minister talking about angels, and he said, “Shirley, Goodness and Mercy shall follow thee to the end of thy days,” and she of course thought those were the names of the three angels he had specified.
That’s okay — I never heard the word “misled” pronounced and so, when I read aloud in class one day, I said “he was mizled,” instead of “miss-led”, which of course got a laugh.
That’s when I learned that you could get a laugh by making fun of yourself, and I never went back from that position … would you???
I thought not. Well, it’s that time again, when I’ve used up all the words on the keyboard for the moment. Let’s see if I can squeeze out a few mor……..nope.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby