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Melodysheep + NFTs: Bridging the content gap (Patreon)

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2021-03-23 22:22:08
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As all of you know, my projects are very time-intensive, and usually take months to finish & release. I prefer working this way, but it's not the best strategy for building an audience or keeping income flowing. 

To bridge the gap,  I've been experimenting with NFTs, the trendy new way to sell & trade digital art pieces online.  It's proven to be a great way to experiment in a new artistic medium, and pull in some extra income between releases. 

Your support here on Patreon is more than enough, but I wanted to share the NFTs I've been issuing over the past few months. My latest is THE FINAL STAR: a remaster of a key shot from Timelapse of the Future, which just turned two years old:

https://superrare.co/melodysheep 

A brief primer on NFTs: basically, they allow you to purchase exclusive ownership of a digital artwork, something only possible with physical art until now. They are free to view by anybody, but by owning a melodysheep single edition NFT, you are the only person in the world that owns it, and it can't be counterfeited / pirated. That means it can appreciate in value, and could be worth a lot more some day, once I achieve total world domination :)

Some people find NFTs controversial because they utilize the Ethereum blockchain, which uses a lot of energy, but I have pledged to offset any carbon emissions with carbon offset purchases.

Anyway, thanks for listening to my rant -- more big stuff is in the works, including something really fun that should be dropping in the next month or two. Stay tuned!

-sheep


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Daniel Gordon

Nice! Also I can't wait for the day that we live in a world dominated by Melodysheep. :)

Daniel "Limey-boy" McCouid-Carr

I can't say I'm a fan of this, NFT's use a LOT of energy and produce a lot of carbon waste. Can you give us a way of gaurenteeing that you are actually offsetting the energy lost and carbon emitted by making the offset purchases?

Leto

Take your time! I'm here to support your content and I prefer quality over quantity. This might be slow to others but I'll always be here supporting your work and you as an individual. Keep it up!

Anonymous
>>56269511

This is a misconception actually, NFTs take a tiny amount of energy compared to the general functioning of the Ethereum blockchain (which would happen anyway regardless of whether NFTs were a thing). NFTs aren't causing any more carbon waste - if anything their putting the existing network (with all it's inefficiencies) to a valuable use!

Anonymous

This is awesome! Request for NFTs from timelapse of the entire universe! (humans in the final second? birth of our star?)

Daniel "Limey-boy" McCouid-Carr
>>56269511

Can you link me to evidence please? I've found plenty saying the opposite enviromentally, in addition to a lot of NFT work not being economically or legally stable -leading to either a bad investment or not really buying anything at all.

Joda Keys

Super glad to be supporting such an amazing channel!

melodysheep
>>56269511

Thanks for your concern-- it's true that the Ethereum blockchain does consume a lot of energy, however, issuing NFTs does not increase the amount of energy it consumes. And solutions are on the horizon that will solve this problem. But since NFTs are still articipatory in the technology, I am still committed to offsetting carbon emissions anyway and can happily provide receipts of purchases when they occur. Check out this article for more information: https://medium.com/superrare/no-cryptoartists-arent-harming-the-planet-43182f72fc61

Smooth

One of my favorite channels in the world. It's an honor to support you. Also how do you get (or make) the planetary art?

melodysheep
>>57256679

Thank you! A few different ways, but the easiest to start with is using a plugin for after effects called "Orb" by video copilot.

Daniel "Limey-boy" McCouid-Carr
>>56269511

Thanks for the reply. Putting aside the ecological problems I have with NFT's and Cryptocurrency for now, the economic stablity of such things can be shakey at best and from my observation selling NFT's is akin to selling property rights to land on the moon, or naming rights of stars, or pieces of scottish land so that you can call yourself a lord. None of these examples are legally enforcable in terms of value retention or physical purchase. You don't actually get anything from any of these, other than a piece of paper saying you do. As a novelty, people can spend their money however they like. However as an investment of funds or a simple transaction for goods, it ranges from incredibly speculative finances to a confusing and immaterial transaction between artist and patron. I would get more from buying a print of these NFT's than buying one; I would physically have the print, I could re-sell the print on its own values as art, and I would not be participating in a risky speculative digital market that can (and has) crashed, losing my investment. From the perspective of owning a unique piece of art, I could pay you to make me one of these pictures, and then have it sent directly to me, with no one else seeing it, and then I could ask you to delete the origional files. This would be a more material example of a truly unique purchase on these images, I could get exactly what I want from this purchase. As a person who enjoys your art, I could care less if its worth more or less a year from now. Additionally, using a source from the very people trying to make a profit on NFT's is not a good source of credability on NFT's. I wouldn't trust McDonalds to tell me how good for me their nuggets are, for example. I will still continue to support your music, but I find your participation in the NFT market to be ecologically and economically disapointing.