Taking the Glitchy Path to a Lucrative Crypto Art Career, What Blockchain Art Communities Need & More
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Glitch artist jrdsctt talks making money selling to crypto art collectors, what blockchain communities need, glitch culture, NIN, L337 / leet speak, Franz Kafka, meta roaches, and his fascination with the augmentation of humans.
QUOTES
0:58:36 “I’m very used to going on Society6, uploading a piece & then boom — it’s in my shop. You go to MakersPlace, you upload a piece & depending on the gas price that day, it might pop up in 10 seconds. It might be 3 hours. It might be a week. That was something completely new & alien to me. It’s like gas prices ... since MakersPlace is nice enough to pay the gas price fee for uploading it, they have a system set in place where the price of gas has to drop below a certain threshold before a transaction will go through. After it goes through, anytime you make a change to your piece ... it was like, “Oh once you upload this, it’s there forever until you burn it out of the blockchain. You can’t go in & change the title.” Oh there’s a typo in the description. “Well you should have double-checked before you hit submit, because it’s permanent.” It makes so much sense but it’s very backwards from the digital mindset cuz one of the best things about going to digital photography is the undo button and that doesn’t really exist in blockchain technology."
1:07:50 "I can personally say that in the year-and-a-half I've been doing crypto art, it's been like, the most lucrative market that I've been selling in. I’ve had more success selling art as a crypto artist than as a fine artist selling prints on a digital store. I mean, I guess, I don't want to speculate too much, but I just think there's a great market for it & there's a lot of people with cryptocurrency that want to buy stuff."
1:12:47 "There's such a great community around crypto art. There are so many people that are willing to help that you just have to not be afraid to ask questions."
1:18:51 "If you're a new company ... establish a strong sense of communication between the users & the developers ... especially if you're a startup, your users are going to help shape what your company becomes. And it might not seem as important but it feels important being on the other side."
FULL TRANSCRIPT
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• Art show and "Inverse" photos provided by jrdsctt & Ann Marie Alanes
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