Think of it — you’ve got wall space in one of the biggest and most successful art galleries on the internet, OpenSea. Maybe it’s not juried, not especially known for its glamor, but actually it has some pretty good local and recent artists, and they’re flourishing.
In days gone by, you’d have four shows at the most, per year, and that’s at four different galleries. They generally have a three-year waiting period to have a show, and that’s if you’re good and your art sells well.
It’s no longer necessary to wait months or years to get your art out there — you can hang it right on the iron bars of OpenSea Park, where it’s Sunday every day, with tourists walking by in all directions, from every country on the planet.
Your audience is international and maybe even interplanetary, and if your art sells really well, you could go interdimensional.
The game is to succeed at making and selling NFTs as an artist, musician, dancer, juggler, mime, character actor, marketing maven or whatever you’re really good at, translated into NFT format, usually as an animated GIF or an embedded MP4.
Either way, you’re bound to come up with something for your next NFT, if you incorporate kinetics into your product.
What that means to you is that if your picture squirms, it will sell better than one that doesn’t.
Meanwhile, we’re still going through our miserable experiences with moonpay, coinbase, metamask and opensea. We just can’t seem to get Eth onto our opensea account, so we can’t turn on the items for sale.
It also appears that, although we were advised to go there to buy our Eth, our coinbase account is worthless — we have to pay another $150.00 to transfer the funds to our metamask wallet, and then another $200.00 gas fee for the initiation of our opensea account, and if something goes wrong, we could lose as much as $1,000.00 attempting the transfer.
Frankly, I don’t know what to think.
We’ve been abruptly stopped on every front. It may just be a connection issue, but I don’t think so, and that wouldn’t affect what’s happening with the trades.
So we tried to go through opensea by trying to spend Eth, and going to the “deposit money” thingy, so we pressed the button, and ended up on moonpay, which basically made us jump through a dozen hoops including taking a selfie and uploading it, which didn’t work, by the way.
After a couple of hours of watching the little loopy-doodle circle around and around, we gave up, and that’s where it sits right now.
At the moment, the earliest I can hope to get up and running would be the middle of May, because after the 15 day delay to get the Eth on coinbase, it’s gonna take another 15 days to transfer it to my wallet, at a cost of something on the order of $150.00.
Like I said, there’s then another $200.00 charge on top of that, to initialize my account. After that, I have no idea what happens.
We already tried the most direct and obvious method, that of going through metamask to wyre and that would have been it, but wyre screwed it up.
Not only did we not manage to get through their upload process, we called them and got a very pleasant moron who read the online instructions to us three times without batting an eyelash.
So we quit on that angle, too, and I resolved to warn people not to try to use either wyre or moonpay, but now I have to include coinbase. They never told us we couldn’t use it on OpenSea until we converted it into our metamask wallet, which costs plenty of dough.
Well, one way or another, we’re going to get shredded, but we will eventually get our NFT shop going for real, on opensea.
In the meantime, I’m going to head off to breakfast and the morning show.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby