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Jason Ditzel
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Joined: 16 April 2004
Location: United States
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Posted: 21 May 2022 at 1:26am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

JB could take one of his scans of the commissioned art that he's done over the years, fire up his photoshop and make a small unique tweak to an image, and then sell it as an Non Fungible Token (NFT).

I'm sure board members would buy it. An NFT is a unique digital product. So it's the equivalent of original art or a commission piece.

But the interesting thing in this situation is that he did the heavy lifting already on the drawing and inking of the commission piece. And he could publish a few (5, say) digitally tweaked riffs from one commission. Each would be a unique NFT. And then it could trade like a piece of art.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 21 May 2022 at 1:43am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Nope.
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Wilson Mui
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Posted: 21 May 2022 at 2:05am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Personally, I would rather own the physical art.

To me, NFTs are just a way for criminals to launder money.
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 21 May 2022 at 5:29am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

I can see how we got here (anyone seen some of the past real estate prices
in Second Life?), but I don’t understand why we would want to be here.



To me, an NFT is the ultimate product for the gullible who have more money
than sense.

Now people may say ‘Yes, but since people are making crazy money, it is
still worth getting on the bandwagon’.

But I don’t want to be there & will not go there, nor will I listen to any
argument trying to justify them. They are the Emperor’s new clothes writ
large.

Bearing in mind I can’t understand how a physical painting of (say) a large
red square with a tiny yellow circle off to one corner, would be able to sell
for millions anyway, there would be no way I could get my head around a
NFT of said painting also being able to sell millions.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 21 May 2022 at 11:44am | IP Logged | 5 post reply

As I’ve mentioned before, when I started doing more and more work on the computer my art dealer, Jim Warden, expressed concern that I might be heading for full digital, meaning no originals to sell.

I told him not to worry, joking that we could always save the pieces on thumb drives and sell them as one-of-a-kind.

That was twenty years ago.

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