I got my starter kit going…new email, new site, new social, persona set, new wallets, etc, but the initial goal aimed far too low: I’m gonna mint out a 1500 strong set on ETH, for a low cost, then use that to fund building what I want to do here. …LMAO!
Roughly anyway. Of course, I don’t know shit about actual web3 or chain dev. I get it and know parts of it and how to hack my way around, but it’s just still kind of foreign to me coming from other worlds. I have friends that do understand it well, and if they ever see this and know it’s me, they’ll laugh their assess off at this, but I fumbled the living shit out of every step I took through this, just to make it clear.
I had this ai graffiti concept all picked out, a whole thing I was gonna do with it over time, blah blah blah…
It failed. The end. So I’m minting them all out, brought them over here, and now, I’m filling them with reminders.
Lots of stress, I’m shutting down one company while taking on a leadership level role with another, money is tight again, etc, but I can’t do fab work all day anymore, so I need to create, find a new release, do something constructive - Weird fake Twitter account and real NFT art it is!
And then…
While up, pondering life and such as stressed, busted up people tend to do, I was on Objkt just tapping through looking at stuff. I switched to Tezos because it’s both more in my budget range and easier to see wildly varying, real art - no disrespect to Eth, Tezos is just what I needed I guess for the time being, new things and all.
Anyway. At 3am, fucked up and tired and irritated about it, I found another diamond. Some random person I’ve never met, never will, and who is simply making art with an AI to make some cash, made the closest representation I have ever seen of my wife without actually looking at her, or having a picture of her. There’s only one of them, it was based on whatever her inputs and thoughts and feelings were when she made it, and I needed to fucking own it. Every way I could possibly think of my wife, and how I felt like she felt in life these days, was captured in every way in that picture. I bought it for 2.5 Tez, and I keep it close, and look at it often.
That piece is called “#295”, and it was generated by Reza Fakhr. Reza will be added to royalties on this mint. Now, they know exactly why I bought that piece, and if this mint ever sells, or trades in the future, they’ll remember it, and get real actual value, even if small, from it…forever.
Why? They created something of sincere value to me, and I appreciate the time taken and everything put into it to make that thing. Plain and simple. I will never, ever, ever in my life, sell that NFT, and I hope you find something that will impact you like that, too.
This, is the other kind of value these things can bring in scaled adoption. I had access to an art gallery, at home, at 3am, and found one of the greatest treasures of my life in it, and now own it because of all that, for almost nothing - just some “Internet money” that made it all instantly possible. That concept, is awesome.
So I failed. But also learned something really significant from it. Then I figured out what to do next. Which was short lived, but also failed. Next part, I will go over what I think, will finally work, and how a few other artists, who will also get credited for their work, taught me what I was looking for and needed to see and experience to forge ahead with all of this.