Also, I kind of feel like part of what makes digital art fun and interesting is that it's *not* a unique object and is infinitely copiable
it isn't inherently though? It depends on what the art _is_ like, does it only exist on Netscape Navigator 3.0 or Mac OS9.2 ... that was a bit of the Rhizome.org / digital art "issue" ... and while it has way more variables than fixed media art (i.e. video), there are definite similarities. ... I remember one piece by the Vasulkas that had to be shown on a particular brand of CRT monitor, for example. A lot of this stuff is the province of museum preservation staff and archivists.
― sarahell, Saturday, 13 March 2021 00:21 (three years ago) link
until now
*mints the province of museum preservation staff and archivists*
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 13 March 2021 00:37 (three years ago) link
Gonna mint my dick lol
― ukania west (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 13 March 2021 00:49 (three years ago) link
Wait there seem to be bandwith issues
― ukania west (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 13 March 2021 00:52 (three years ago) link
my bandwidth is fine
*mints yr dick*
actually, might as well mint a dick! if people participate in the whole thing they should do stuff like that
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 13 March 2021 01:00 (three years ago) link
omg -- actually, gonna suggest this to a friend to do for realz
― sarahell, Saturday, 13 March 2021 03:02 (three years ago) link
went to look up whether anyone had NFTed boobs yet, revealing... SpankChain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVyFp8OxbDY
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 13 March 2021 03:09 (three years ago) link
Wild guess that this disruptive technology flopped, but maybe the time is now
many benifits of boobs poll
― sarahell, Saturday, 13 March 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link
Karl Malone, I suppose the word “dox” might be slightly hyperbolic, but there were apparently up to six lists angrily circulating of artists who were “engaging” with NFTs. ― Kim, Friday, March 12, 2021 7:41 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
who made those lists? honestly, i want to follow them on twitter.
reflexively separating myself from anyone who is promoting this right now, it's like everyone half the people in an apartment complex starting an Ayn Rand bookclub. fine, do it, but I will also hang a xerox of alan greenspan farting as his toes get tickled on my the door to my apartment, make fun of all of them, and make sure that everyone knows Not Me
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
Seeing a lot of techno utopian ppl pushing hard online for this with music atm. I totally understand embracing a pyramid scheme to make a buck because there's less money in music these days, but positioning doing this as a revolutionary act is pretty depressing (which I'm seeing online from some "community-based" music spaces/people/thinkers/charlatans)
― Bongo Jongus, Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
i'm hoping that the crypto / NFT people will soon realize that they're actually more interested in the crypto part than the art part, and then they will never talk about art ever again and just go make money and move to their island with thiel
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
please RT into my butthole
congratulations new #NFT artists: you've speculated yourself into an evolving, exciting new butthole!!— Z_tbd (@weinventyou) March 13, 2021
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 13 March 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
i haven't heard back yet from my friend -- i fear she has minted "a dick" without me, and screwed me out of my share of dick sales
― sarahell, Saturday, 13 March 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link
https://io9.gizmodo.com/dc-comics-tells-artists-to-stay-out-of-nft-business-or-1846466427
― Kim, Sunday, 14 March 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
I’m on @withFND 🌐0x2B867e8B4EfDB9a792a5A9C5524B7f61CF143b4Ahttps://t.co/m8iEeChAzw— Aphex Twin (@AphexTwin) March 14, 2021
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 14 March 2021 21:17 (three years ago) link
ready for the funny part? this is his pinned tweet
We will spend a portion of the money on planting trees and either donating to permaculture projects or setting them up ourselves, depending on how much we get .— Aphex Twin (@AphexTwin) March 14, 2021
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 14 March 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
I feel like the world has come full Nathan Barley
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Sunday, 14 March 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
What is the point of releasing music this way?
― frogbs, Sunday, 14 March 2021 23:14 (three years ago) link
$$$
― Bongo Jongus, Sunday, 14 March 2021 23:33 (three years ago) link
I'd like to discuss how 99% of NFT art is terrible art per se, also.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 14 March 2021 23:58 (three years ago) link
None of it is good.
I mean like what’s the point of an NFT music release. Is it just mp3s with an extra unique tag on it or something?
― frogbs, Monday, 15 March 2021 00:06 (three years ago) link
Basically when we are all in the meta-verse and you want to play that Feelies mp3 in your digital bar you will be sued by the rightful owner of the track, dogelol_elon44.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 15 March 2021 00:10 (three years ago) link
the whole concept of NFTs is the most boring thing ever
― Dan S, Monday, 15 March 2021 01:45 (three years ago) link
most boring thing ever
I agree. The fact that it has attracted $$$ makes it fascinating to those who find money an all-consuming obsession. afaics, it is a digital + blockchain version of a lithograph signed by the artist and hand-marked as "x of 100".
― Judge Roi Behan (Aimless), Monday, 15 March 2021 03:03 (three years ago) link
nah it's a contemporary giclee
― sarahell, Monday, 15 March 2021 03:29 (three years ago) link
This is useful background on the Beeple sale:
https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-2103/msg00041.html
Short version is it is a scam where Business A, controlled by Vignesh sund4resan, sold the work to Business B, controlled by Vignesh sund4resan, to artificially inflate the value of share tokens in Business A.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 15 March 2021 07:29 (three years ago) link
lol zero surprise there
― ufo, Monday, 15 March 2021 07:36 (three years ago) link
Update: looks like I can’t get my NFTs back. Even though fraud has been confirmed and I know exactly where my NFTs are sitting at this very moment. Hacker wins. Secondary market purchaser wins. I lose. Going to explore other options if I can. Doesn’t sit right with me.— Michael J. Miraflor (@michaelmiraflor) March 14, 2021
Unsurprisingly, already being hit by hacks.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
Does Bitcoin suffer from much hackerage?
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
(I am totally out the loop with these things as you might have guessed)
One of the longtime criticisms of bitcoin is that you have basically no fraud protection, which is in turn one of a number of its touted features that are actually bugs.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
Like the various mechanisms that make credit card transactions more complex also enable you to stop/reverse/challenge them.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
@tokenizedtweets 0xe128c547520aa0ad6409ba0a0f30dbcd07098024— Bean (@Franq_the_Tanq) March 15, 2021
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link
sorry, context is that was someone tokenizing this screenshot of an interaction i had with the #crypto #community last night
Unintentional cryptoart pic.twitter.com/oVFUrhLNkf— the most touchiest person, right now (@weinventyou) March 14, 2021
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 March 2021 16:57 (three years ago) link
After arguing with musician friends (irl!) about NFTs, I listened to this podcast to get some more context and hear what the pro arguments are (it's Mat Dryhurst, who has been the lone defender on techno twitter): https://open.spotify.com/episode/2trxojvIclKsl7IVcynbuG?si=s_2S9ykkQIipnengPyG-9A
I'm not convinced at all but it was an interesting listen. Obviously I have sympathy for my friends in bands that were previously eking out a living through touring, and I'm sure they can make some money from this given that they have existing hardcore fans. But even if we put the environmental issues aside entirely, normalizing blockchain usage and turning all artists into speculative commodities seems very bleak.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 15 March 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
A speculative NFT asset has no potential to generate income for anyone but a very well-known artist. Much as with streaming, this is a technology being promoted by people who don't understand anything about the music/art business as great for musicians/artists.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 15 March 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
My friend isn't talking about millions, more like hundreds for a touring indie act with a relatively small (in global pop terms) but dedicated fanbase.
But yeah I agree that the NFT evangelists are interested in money and tech/protocols, not art.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 15 March 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
fuck around
my brother and I collaborated on our first NFT, check it out https://t.co/YQFstF6VVL— of Montreal~she/he/they/them (@xxofMontrealxx) March 15, 2021
find out
oooooo fuck we didn't realize NFT's were so bad for the environment!!! this will be a one and done then, thanks for the heads up!— of Montreal~she/he/they/them (@xxofMontrealxx) March 15, 2021
― imago, Monday, 15 March 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
<3 kevin obv lol
― imago, Monday, 15 March 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
My next release will be on an amazing physical, analogue NFT - a flat, circular polyvinyl chloride disc* with the audio literally engraved into it. Limited in number, each unique object exists even if the platform goes down.*disc will require some specialist equipment to listen— Posthuman (@posthuman) March 9, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 15 March 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
i am going to burn down the rainforest and mint it as as a NFT
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 March 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, March 15, 2021 12:48 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Back in the day, we managed to sell about 1000 copies of our self-released album, 90% of that at shows. I calculated that to earn the same profit we'd probably need between 6-10 million streams. I guess the difference is that an NFT doesn't replace anything, so it's arguably just additive income. But yeah, it's gonna be very small if anything for most bands. Unlike, e.g., a print by a non-famous artist, an NFT has literally zero value except as a metaphysical ownership right.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 15 March 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
My friend is saying it could replace the revenue lost from streaming (and now touring). And yeah of course it's a meaningless symbol, especially when associated with a non-digital product. But his optimistic argument is that fans will support their favorite artists in return for that sense of ownership, which would be depressing since it's almost indistinguishable from just donating to a musician if you're only listening on Spotify, and any increasing value of the NFT will likely be symbolic too.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 15 March 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link
But his optimistic argument is that fans will support their favorite artists in return for that sense of ownership, which would be depressing since it's almost indistinguishable from just donating to a musician if you're only listening on Spotify, and any increasing value of the NFT will likely be symbolic too.
i can very much see why most people would think this is ridiculous, but i can see that too (and not in an optimistic way). not a perfect comparison, but an enormous amount of money is spent every day on purely cosmetic items in free-to-play games. People love to spend money on completely useless, cosmetic/symbolic things to show their friends
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 March 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
of course, the difference is that if you do it around me i'll scream and then move to the woods
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 March 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
Right, I can for sure see it coming to pass, as abstract and ridiculous as it seems.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 15 March 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
It's just hard for me to believe people wouldn't have better luck creating a high-priced limited edition of a vinyl album or something.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 15 March 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link