Thread by @owenbroadcast

“NFT propaganda” (lmao)

im extremely intrigued by the internet sociology of a large number people unable to not be very upset by this particular issue. the process described herein is, literally, in every way, directly, exactly what happens irl when art objects are stolen

https://twitter.com/zachhazard/status/1455171811927367682

i think a lot of creative people are getting played because the tech is actually really good for artists - i totally understand if people dont care or are uninterested, that would be normal, but the new “hey part of my personality is hating this” fad is extremely reddit + boring

https://twitter.com/cameraclicking/status/1455462074411278336

lol sorry im not trying to be negative. i wont bring this up again but lately when i have a sec away from baby if i open the timeline its literally all “BRO look at these CRYPTO DUDES getting Owned(tm)” like who cares. if i did not like something i would simply not think about it

its the same energy as multiple months of “DUDE did u know there are TRADS who LITERALLY want to live in a 1950s advertisement??????? wow”. ok.. ur the one talking about them. how many times can that post be interesting. please invest ur limited energy in something u care about

i think (not trying to pick on this guy, he responded and is genuine thats cool), this might just be the first time lots of people might be exposed to art as a market? like “dude be careful theres hucksters out there”. thats just ... art. in general. everywhere.

https://twitter.com/cameraclicking/status/1455465288841957378

alright thus closeth my 5:28 am thoughts on this topic that i have been thinking for some time and i will take my own advice and hopefully never speak of this trend again.

it really cuts both ways which is part of the interesting philosophical nature of this topic it would be interesting to discuss or see discussion of if the well wasnt already primed to view things in a certain way, imo. because actually, its apparently pretty easy to forge [...]

https://twitter.com/saltyrainbowguy/status/1455462284952842242

“real” or fabricated fine art pieces by “the masters” or others are forged + sold literally all the time. all the time. one guy that ran the met said around half (🤔) of the things he looked at to come into the museum were fake (his name was thomas hoving btw). and recently [..]

there was a case that kind of blew up, i think they made a movie about it but im not sure, where someone just started painting a bunch of abstract expressionist art, claiming it was by “the greats”, and a major art selling spot in NYC was selling them.

if u keep up with such things, its actually not uncommon to learn of “a fake one” that is 100% for sure fake, and then later you’ll see it in a book or something listed as real. or someone will make a breakthrough on a situation and have a very convincing case a work is fake [..]

and a museum will just say “yeah whatever” and keep it up. i suspect (i know) this was common for many centuries but its especially interesting now as theres so many recently lived artists whose work is worth small fortunes. anyway, that is part of what would make [...]

an actual dive into this topic very interesting, which literally no one is doing imo, because its totally counter intuitive as i just explained that a random MS painting image you, right now, lock into the blockchain (big public ledger) that only exists digitally [...]

would be more difficult to fake than an actual painting by jackson pollock. because people have and do fake pollock paintings but that MS paint image you did is tethered to a notch in a public ledger, and once its locked in that token cant be reforged. thats crazy, objectively.

so anyway theres a lot of really interesting implications there for art and the philosophy of art but i guess we have to burn through a few years of more basic simple reactions before we get to talk about it.

last thing is that, tinfoil hat mode, its also just [kind of] interesting that this new tech that allows creatives to sell a new form of their digital stuff develops and, it just so happens to be the case that on every social media platform, theres a hivemind about how its stupid

u know, those same social media platforms that make tons of money off of.. that exact creative digital stuff, without ever compensating the people that made it. wow, thats crazy. probably just a total coincidence. hey the guy selling milk told me not to get my own cow thats weird

anyway thats it sorry to frame it this way i just find the extreme emotional investment from people not involved so profoundly bizarre and i dont get it but im letting it go. we’re moving on, we are returning to cultivating new vibe horizons in the lab, to positive things, yes