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NFTPHOBIA

Why many artists still reject NFTs could do with the fact that they are seamlessly tradeable, by design. Presented with a frictionless market, we quickly went from “WTF is an NFT” to trading randomly generated combinations of Photoshop layers for hundreds and thousands, calling it art, whilst many genuine artists struggled to find a collector, or someone that appreciates their art. Let’s stick to this “tradeable” thing for a moment, because it isn’t what it seems. On the surface, when transac...

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But I can’t touch it
**What’s more real - the taste of vanilla ice cream, or, the nostalgia that kicks in when you hear your song? ** Digital artifacts may be untouchable - but boy they can touch us deeply. Not only touch us… But feel like a punch in the gut. https://twitter.com/_GLOWA_/status/1576100176913403904?s=20&t=QKI6hyCAHkX1a3j43E3RSQ GLOWA made this. Thank you GLOWA.
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Who made this?
A common question that all but disappeared from our culture. Because abundance. Everything at our fingertips. Any song, any book, any piece of art, all the time. But interestingly, the more I feel connected to a piece of art, the more I become interested in its story which starts with provenance; the “when”… the “who”… https://twitter.com/thesarahshow/status/1578803613467492352?s=20&t=VtYGzoDWieZB8lFLRV0lMA Sarah Zucker made this. Thank you, Sarah. Isn’t it wonderful that this artifact record...