Thanks to Bauhaus, I now fully get the NFT

Last Friday, I received a press release from Grace at a music and public relations company called 23. Grace wanted to know if I would be interested in running a feature on a series of non-fungible tokens or NFTs.

I almost instinctively replied: “I didn’t, because I was actually exhausted reading these half-baked efforts of little celebrities to get a lucrative payday, thanks to the wealthy crypto with more ether. Money entrepreneur (Ethereum) Instead of feeling,” Then I usually rant, rant, and move on. Except that I am not so rude to well-meaning PR people, who don’t know that I receive 50 such PR people every day.

Yes, this is a publicity about small celebrities.

But I didn’t move on because this time they happened to mine Little celebrity, I suddenly thought of driving to California next week to participate in their NFT bidding, maybe have a drink or two with the band, maybe secretly mention their music to prove yes, I am really there, I am not What a counterfeit speculator-I am one of you.

The band in question is Love and Rockets, which is already a lie-actually Bauhaus. But even though I feel like the oldest person in crypto, I have not yet reached the age to truly appreciate Bauhaus because they developed Gothic rock and because they broke up when I was 12 years old. So Pete Murphy-sorry, buddy, but you are not part of this even if you are a genius.

But you really can’t live without Love and the Rockets’ Bauhaus, because Daniel Ashe, Kevin Haskins and David J are in these two bands. Therefore, everything that the Bauhaus makes must also be made by Love and Rockets, and because Love and Rockets are the bands that let me through my teenage years, I now have the NFT completely-even if the NFT is from the Bauhaus. You are chasing, right?

I now get the NFT on a truly visceral level-on that level of greed, greed, FOMO, as people buy Tony Hawk, Snoop Dogg and Grimes and Paris Horror With Hilton, Ronaldinho, Gian Luigi Buffon and Robbie Fowler and every retired football player and Soulja Boy you care about William Shatner……you understood.

In March 2020, when I compiled a Encryption Art Series Articles For Cointelegraph magazine, I almost bought one.

That was Josie Bellini. When I say that I almost bought one, I mean in my mind, I am close. I bid about 25 ETH, and I proved to myself that this is an investment and an expression of unity for all artists, because I immediately realized that the crypto art community is by far the best and most thoughtful community and the most supportive community in the industry. . By the way, nothing happened to prevent me from doing this.

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In any case, 25 ETH was about $3,000 at the time, which is crazy money for any work of art. But the fact is that I may never have a chance. My bid is MetaKovan. He invested $69 million on Beeple this year. I doubt my bid is not important.

But even if I like this work, it is at a slightly detached level. I’m looking for a piece of art to buy, and Josie’s voice is louder than anything else in the store. It didn’t find me; I found it. And I’m not 100% sure that this is how you buy art.

So, go back to Love and Rockets, or Bauhaus, if you have to, especially this teenage student lives in a single room on the top floor of the Mumbles boarding house on the outskirts of Swansea, because it didn’t make sense at the time. The reason is trying to learn Russian and it doesn’t make any sense now.For many years, he has been listening to “Love and Rocket” on scattered cassette tapes, and he has decided that his life motto is Live the life you like/Use the God you trust/Don’t take it too seriously, And his copy Seventh Dream of Juvenile Paradise Was bitten into pieces during a battle with Talbot Horizon (American, read: Dodge Omni), he was basically penniless. I mean, it’s really poor-hitchhiking everywhere, living on the bonuses distributed by the trivial machine in the university.With (no exaggeration) the last 50 pounds in his account, he went out and bought all four Love and Rockets CD albums, just like the fucking reality of a teenager, he knows food-maybe even drinks- —Will not let him get through the difficulties, but Private future It’s just possible.

This is how art finds you.

It will find where you really are.Or maybe your real place Yes, But you can pass a few notes and memories of a truly terrible choice involving your hair, aerosol, and a girl named Caroline in a fraction of a second.

When I imagined having a moment in history shared with members of Love and Rockets, art found me and instilled a powerful, dramatic impulse to connect. It brings me closer to my past.

I now realize that NFTs—which I’m talking about here are limited and expensive—have been divided into two camps: materials and experiences. There is CryptoPunks, which is a bit like a baseball card, basically a speculative tool, because, let’s face it, aesthetics is not selling these things for 10 million dollars or more.

In the other camp, there are souvenirs, Art for art, A one-time moment from NBA Top Shot. Experiential NFTs are popular because they trigger reactions, memories, and emotions… People who don’t spend $5,000 on art might spend it on music, and people who don’t spend $5,000 on music might spend it On sports tickets, people who don’t spend $5,000 on sports may spend it on the land in the meta universe next door to their friends, while people who don’t spend $5,000 on virtual land may donate it to charity .

Critics may not understand, because they focus on the material NFT-$69 million is a lot of money for any artwork, let alone works with different criticisms-but MetaKovan has a part of the price The reason is that it enabled him to become a part of art history and publicly celebrate that the art world dominated by wealthy white Western collectors is becoming more inclusive. MetaKovan bought himself an inheritance.

People buy experiential NFTs because they want to connect, not just because they want to get rich. We are suffering from an increasingly disconnected experience of our world, and the things that bring us closer to our communities and heroes are valuable. (There is no doubt that social tokens will take off significantly in 2022 (if not earlier).)

Art, music, sports… can all make sense. Feel where you are, what you are doing, you are a different person. Maybe happier, maybe sadder, maybe less evolved, maybe more carefree. Experiential NFT is a way to connect more deeply with shaping our experience and emotions—— Literally Own the present.

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I may not go to California for a show-I doubt I have enough Ether to buy any Bauhaus NFT. I plan to contact Coldie who worked with Bauhaus on this project (he is an outstanding artist and a mainstay of the crypto art community) Who am i writing Last year’s Art Week feature) But I didn’t want him to be in an awkward position, so I had to tell me to be angry and pay.

What will I do there anyway? You should never meet your hero, especially as an avid reporter.

Even when I was writing this article, I had begun to figure out how to abstract my emotional reaction to the press release that Grace sent last week. This is Bauhaus, not Love and Rockets, no matter how hard I try to convince myself. Bella Lugosi’s obituary Never really talked to me. Goth rock is no longer my food. I might try to get Daniel Ash to fight Pete Murphy. In any case, I have never really fulfilled this motto.

But hey. Thanks, Grace. Thanks to Pete, Kevin, David and Daniel. Thanks, Cordy. Thank you for giving me time to be alone with my teenage self.

I want to listen Missing Now, because it seems appropriate.

Bauhaus and Coldie will also hold an IRL auction with artworks in Highlights NFT Gallery August 10 at Venice Beach. Everyone participating in the IRL exhibition will get 3D glasses to watch the work.