Before I talk about Story-Telling, I’m gonna take a moment to say “hooray!” The crypto-driven NFT BUBBLE that was building has now burst, and we’re back to realistic curves and sensible graphs and normal prices and just plain good art by good artists, not money grubbers posting crap just to get crypto.
At the same time, this temporary market crash also marks the exit of the zillions of raw greed speculators, who dashed out and bought dozens or hundreds or thousands of NFTs that they thought would go through the roof, and they didn’t, and the cryptocurrency dumped, and they’re now left holding the bag.
Those are not artists, just opportunistic tool-users of the hairless ape variety.
Meanwhile, the serious artists were posting good artwork, and selling at reasonable prices, while the speculators and profiteers went crazy with the cryptocurrency, using NFTs as an excuse to sell their crypto to new buyers, not of currency, but of art.
That’s the whole scheme in a nutshell — attract new currency owners and traders by giving them something that they can ONLY buy with that special cryptocurrency — notably ethereum in the most major contender in the NFT Biz.
So if you’re hoping to see a rising tide of crypto value in ethereum, you might be lucky, maybe not, but if you only get ethereum as payment for your NFTs, you aren’t gambling any real money, and you can convert it quickly now that most major currency traders are accepting crypto.
If you’re a real artist, you see the NFT market as a way to introduce your artwork without a lot of cost. That was the original purpose of Fine Art Prints, to promote the artist.
That’s why the world-famous Rembrandt also did portraits of local doctors, merchants and such, to create their “carte de visite”, or visiting card.
People were impressed if you’d commissioned Rembrandt to do your CDV. Wow. You had Rembrandt do your portrait?
Yeah, and he did an oil portrait for the gallery, you proudly reply, and your reputation is made, along with that of the already famous Rembrandt. In the end, it’s all about marketing, believe it.
So Here’s the Exercise:
- Log in to youtube. If you don’t already have a youtube account, get one and log in.
- Go to the youtube video to which you will be given the location at the workshop. If you’re doing this ahead of the workshop, that’s great, choose one of my videos at random or by instinct.
- Press the “Play” button on the video and watch the video to the very end, then stop the video, if necessary, from repeating or going on to the next item in a playlist.
- Give the video a “Boop” — thumbs up — if you liked it. If you didn’t, fair enough, go ahead and give it a “Pffftt”, thumbs down. The algorythms don’t care whether you liked it or not, just if you watched it all the way through.
- Find out how to make a comment about that particular video, and do so, but make it cogent and appealing to interactions and further commentary, inviting engagement.
- Find out how to SHARE this video with your FaceBook, InstaGram and Twitter friends and of course your own crowd of friends, fans and general subscribers. If you don’t already have these social media expansion points, get them, and fast. Time is of the Essence. I’m not kidding.
- Make a video reacting to my video and post the link to it. Don’t know how to do this? Find out how, or wait until the workshop, and then — ask. Don’t wait for it to come around on the guitar — it might not, without your asking.
- Now make a #Shorts video from that longer video you posted in response to my video, post it and invite comments and subscribers.
That, believe it or not, is a valid and potent spiritual exercise, which comes to you in a commercial form of marketing and promoting something, in this case, a video on youtube.
So how does it function as an authentic and powerful spiritual exercise?
I’m glad you asked. I’ll be happy to explain in detail at the workshop, coming up in three weeks or so.
Just learning to communicate and share and enjoy a video is something, really something! You will be amazed at how ground-breaking and stress-busting and spiritually invigorating it is to actually carry it all the way out.
You’re learning skills that can’t be learned directly, which are choreographed into a marketing plan.
You develop on the side, sort of as a reaction to the actions that you CAN take, that are open and available to you as you are now.
Later, you’ll see even more about how this can be used as the singularly most powerful spiritual re-agent on this Plane.
Speaking of Planes, let’s fly this High Spiritual Plane to the Ashram!
Yes, we’ll be working there, too, along with a number of other fresh new ideas that I’m introducing in this special “July the 4th” workshop, celebrating the fireworks industry everywhere, what else could it mean??? Well, for instance, Christmas is about presents under the tree, no?
It’s not my planet, I’m just trying my best to speak the local language.
In case you think that’s all we’re going to do at the workshop, you’re wrong. We’re going to have a number of experiences that are unavailable in any other dimension or world.
So what has all this got to do with storytelling??? I don’t think you get it yet. Storytelling is not “telling a story”.
So what IS storytelling, and how is it done, and what does it do, and what effect does it have, and …
Okay, okay, I’ll handle these questions and more, but you’ll have to wait until the workshop to get it.
When you do, you’ll be a real story teller, not just a teller of stories.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby