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nattyart · 10 months ago

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Natalie Rafeedie Art

Website: https://www.nattyart.com

Address : Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

Natalie Rafeedie Art, an autistic synesthesia acrylic artist based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, offers a unique artistic experience through her vibrant and abstract paintings. With a background in Accountancy and Financial Management, Natalie discovered her passion for art after learning about her autism at 35. Her artworks, inspired by her synesthesia, are a fusion of abstract wonders, celestial realms, nature landscapes, and cityscapes, translating the intangible into visual symphonies of color and emotion.

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larrygraeber · 1 year ago

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Website : https://www.larrygraeber.org/

Address : San Antonio, Texas, USA

Larry Graeber is a renowned Texas-based artist specializing in painting, sculpture, and works on paper. With studios in San Antonio and Marfa TX, his captivating artworks offer a unique world view and personal perspective. Embracing the principles of elements, Larry's practice manifests through three dedicated stations in his studio, resulting in direct and authentic creations that stand on their own while alluding to deeper meanings. Explore Larry Graeber's website to discover an exceptional collection of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, showcasing his unwavering dedication and artistic finesse.

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/graeberl/

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shalini00 · 4 years ago

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The artist Mr. Robert Zietara over his years of experience has mastered his art, some of his most famous works being seascape art, horse painting abstract, and many more. He provides for online commission artwork in USA in which he makes original artworks that can be exclusively owned by you only.You will not find these online fine art prints in USA anywhere else as they are original works of Mr. Robert Zietara who sells his paintings online at https://www.foshe-art.com/about .

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beautifulbizarremagazine · 3 years ago

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OPEN CALL: PAINTERS & DRAWERS!

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tenvishund · 4 years ago

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Updated Commissions Information for 2020 (and onwards!) - COMMISSIONS OPEN Important information and TOS under the “read more” below

By commissioning me you automatically agree to all this unless explicitly discussed and agreed otherwise! It’s just some basic “rules” and explanation of my process.

POSTAGE: The price of the commission includes postage of the original artwork to you wherever you are in the world. I cannot take any responsibility for lost/late mail, but so far everything I have posted has arrived safely. Approximate times are: UK - 3-5 working days EU - 3-10 working days (can vary by country) USA - 7 - 28 working days (can vary lots!) Anywhere else - highly variable, but similar to the US

THE PROCESS: Once I have your ideas, I will draw a few thumbnails for you to choose from and send a PayPal invoice. Once you have chosen a thumbnail and I have made any amends, I will draw the final sketch and once the invoice is paid and sketch is approved I will begin inking. I try to get every commission done within 2 weeks of payment but this is usually MUCH faster. If there is any significant delay you will be updated! Once finished, the original will be posted within a couple of days. Arrival times vary between countries. Your initial brief can be as specific or as loose as you like and sketches can be changed and worked on until you are happy- once the ink is down however, there is very limited changes I can make. The digital edits will be mostly free-reign unless you have a specific idea in mind

TERMS OF SERVICE: - Unless explicitly agreed upon, you cannot use the image for profit (i.e. printing on shirts to sell, using as a business logo). Personal use is absolutely fine. If you do want to use an image for profit, please let me know and I am happy to discuss this option with you! - Unless explicitly agreed upon, I can use the commissioned image for personal gain such as; advertising commissions, selling prints. You retain all rights to any specific character drawn. - The commissioner may repost the artwork online, credit is massively appreciated but not strictly necessary. - Rejected thumbnails can be re-used for other commissions or personal work

**I am all out of prints, but will include spare sketches as the “bonus” advertised above**

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dynamoe · 4 years ago

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Social media seems to have just rediscovered illustrations I drew for Mad Men from 2007-2015.

All of the stuff is online at MadMenIllustrated.tumblr.com

here’s the story...

I, Dyna Moe, am (was) a New York illustrator. Mad Men is a TV show. I drew a weekly desktop wallpaper for every new episode for the first three seasons. AMC commissioned me to make some promo items after that, including the viral Mad Men Yourself app on their website. Show creator Matt Weiner has asked me to make an annual calendar for the cast & crew each season from 2008 on.

A related book “Mad Men: The Illustrated World” came out in the US, Canada, UK and Australia in 2010 (in Germany in 2011) – anything drawn for the book is not online, nor is the hilarious written content. It has been translated into German, Russian and Spanish for international editions.

My first illustration was making actor Rich “Harry Crane” Sommer’s Christmas card to the cast and crew in 2007 (that’s during Season 1).

I was a background extra on the show once but I got cut out. I am interviewed in a featurette on one of the DVD box sets. I was really tired when they shot it.

I’m inspired by and emulating illustrators Aurelius Battaglia, Alice & Martin Provensen, Art Seiden and J. P. Miller (among others) who did illustration and commercial art during the era the show is set. (Check out Flickr groups Mid-Century Illustrated and Retro Kid to see the originals that blow my stuff out of the water)

This artwork has been reported on by Marie Claire Italia, NBC, The Beast, BuzzFeed, New York Magazine, Jezebel, USA Today, the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, CNN.com, Merlin Mann, Laughing Squid, The Comics Journal, Kottke, Apartment Therapy, Drawn.ca, and bloggers all over the world. Thank you!

You can hire me for your own projects by visiting nobodyssweetheart.com.

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asterwild · 4 years ago

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[Image: Drawing of a white person with long brown side-shaved hair, sitting cross-legged in front of a collage of various animal/nature art. Text reads, Stina B - Animal Artist. End ID]

📌 stinabart.com - patreon - twt - insta - etsy - inprnt - redbubble - tip jar

Hi! I’m Stina B., an illustrator and animal nerd from the southeastern USA.

I aim to post art about good news and/or interesting facts around once a week (and miscellaneous other art in between). News/Fact art is usually accompanied by a public Patreon post with links to read more about the subject and close-ups of the illustration.

More info and links below ⬇️

PORTFOLIOS: stinabart.com is home to my portfolio, and larger galleries of work can be found on Behance and Artstation.

MORE CONTENT: I’m now on Patreon! You can find close-up looks at artwork, bonus doodles and sketches, zine downloads, and bi-monthly blogs. Most of my posts are completely public -- it mostly serves as an easy recurring tip jar, with the occasional perk of private posts and physical mail. If you’d like to help support me and all the work I put online, you can become a patron for just $2 USD a month.

SOCIAL MEDIA: I’m also on Instagram and Twitter. Aside from a few retweets and IG Stories, it’s basically the same content you find here.

SHOP: Items sent directly from me to you can be found on my Etsy. More prints and other merchandise can be purchased on-demand through Inprnt, Redbubble, and Society6.

FREELANCE/LICENSING: Need some animal art? I’d love to work with you to create something new for your project or license some of my existing art for use. Send an email to hellostinab[at]gmail[dot]com and let’s talk.

PERSONAL COMMISSIONS: Open on a limited basis. More info here.

QUESTIONS? Check my bio and FAQ first!

CONTACT: Business inquiries or otherwise time-sensitive messages can be emailed to hellostinab[at]gmail[dot]com.

For casual comments, replies on Instagram and Twitter are most reliable. I miss most comments/reblogs here and sometimes Tumblr disappears asks for no discernible reason -- sorry!

My primary blog is @stinareblart so if I do see your comment on an art post, replies will come from there! You’re also welcome to send not-strictly-about-art questions/comments to that tumblr. Or, just check out some of the art and photos from other wonderful creators I queue up to reblog over there.

Thanks for checking out my work! If you like what I do, please consider becoming a patron or leaving a tip.

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welcome-to-green-hills · 4 years ago

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Okay, you said that you got some sort of art degree, right? I’m an artist wanting to know the best place to sell stuff online. I’m coming to you because I think that you’re smart enough to help me. You help everyone and I love and appreciate you.

Hi, friend! 👋 😊

I have an Art History degree, yes. I talk about the history of art, worth, historical relevance, and suggest/propose how to keep it safe in archives. I’ve helped sell a couple of pieces in, what’s called “Young Galleries,” as well as sold my own that way. I’ve really only sold my paintings in a gallery because I like to meet face-to-face with the collectors and buyers.

Normally when you sell art online, you need to factor in three things:

Time spent on the art

The supplies of the art

The percentage of your sale that goes to the museum when it’s purchased

Here’s an example:

I will buy one 5 x 5 canvas that’s $5.99USA dollars that is already primed and not with a Gecco coating. Depending on the paint, it ranges from $4.99 to at least $18.99. For this example, we will say that a tube of acrylic paints is $4.99USA dollars each. We’ll say that you use five paint colors. Paintbrushes are expensive also, I have one that $25.00 and it’s about three years old. I don’t need to replace it, I always need new ones ever two-three months. For this example, we will say that a typical paintbrush used for the painting is $3.99 for the three used. We’ll say that you’ve used three different brushes. We will ignore palette knives, sponges, and other tools.

$5.99 + $4.99(5) + $3.99(3) = is a total of $42.91USA dollars.

That’s a lot for a tiny square painting. Then again art supplies is very expensive as I’ve explained.

In order to make some money off if it, you need to raise each price between $1.00-$4.00 more if so please. This extra dollar amount will replace some of the art supplies that has been used. We’re not really done here, though. You don’t really get to have a few dollars in your bank account. Nope! The little money that you have left over needs to go to the museum that you have tou artwork hanging in.

I have an example to show you here. Let’s add one dollar to each supplies used from our math problem above:

$6.99 + $5.99(5) + $4.99(3) = is a total of $51.91USA Dollars.

For some galleries, they will ask for you to give them between 10% to 40% of your commission price. Some will be as bold as to charge you 50% if they’re a well-respected gallery. It is always good to do some research on where you want your artwork to hang. The one that I was at charged 40% commission, but they took 25% or 50% of that 40% charge to donate to a charity of your choice. Not every gallery will do that.

So, let’s say I am a museum that wants to hang your painting. When you sell your painting, I ask for 20% of your sale.

$51.91 x 0.20% = $10.38

$51.91 - $10.38= $41.53USA DOLLARS

$41.53 is pretty close to your amount that you’ve spent on your supplies to make it. You spent $42.91 on it to begin with. You’re about to lose some money. It will only cover the cost in supplies, nothing would go into your savings. In order to make bank, you need to go in and charge a bit more in how you make it.

Once you’ve raised the prices a bit in supplies and pay for the museum with the commission, you’re really only making a few bucks once you’ve replaced all that money spent. I did not factor in the price to hang on the wall. Sometimes a museum would prefer for you to buy a whole room and you fill it with your art that ways. I’ve seen some that range between $200.00 to $500.00USA Dollars. That’s a lot. That’s one of many main reasons why artists are always called “Starving Artists.” A great many of people who think that if you’re an artist, you’re rich. You’re really not. It’s hard to get into and keep up with the emotional roller coaster ride of it. If you’re going to quit your job and dedicate your life to being a painter, you need to make sure that you know how to budget well and negotiate deals.

When you meet with the buyer/collector in an art studio, you have this conversation with them on who it’s so much. And, if they understand the process of art, they will not fight you and pay full price. Sometimes they tip you, sometimes they don’t. Buyers, this is why that little square canvas that you’ve bought will be about $40.00... this is the logic behind it. An artist only takes in a couple dollars to save for a rainy day.

Why did I bother giving you this long and mundane explanation?

A lot of buyers don’t know this if you’re going on a website and I’ve talked with many artists that do not know how to price artwork as well.

Now, onto websites, I think I would go with Etsy. The percentage in commission is already figured out for you and you take in more. I’ve done some research and talked with some artists and professors, they’ve said that Etsy and Instagram are the best places to sell and the most popular places to sell. Instagram take more of a percentage out of your commission, but they will not charge you to hang it up like Etsy does. I would use either of these two if I were you.

I hope that this answers your question, buddy!😇

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diegoandradeart · 4 years ago

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galtx · 5 years ago

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Our dedicated Kennel and TLC Coordinator, Debi Joynt, created GALT's "Paws for a Cause" as an artistic endeavor to help support GALT's boarding facility and the care of the greyhounds while they await foster homes in boarding. It's a fun alternative to a kennel sponsorship program.

The paws of the GALT hounds create these vibrant and colorful paintings using non-toxic water color paints applied to canvas and finished with an acrylic coating. The greyhounds express their inner artist by walking about the canvas to paint each unique artwork. These paintings are true original works of art and the photos just do not do them justice!

The paintings will be sold primarily via online auctions on the "Paws for a Cause" Facebook Page, GALT's Greyt Paws for a Cause. To participate in future auctions, be sure to like and follow the page. If you want to commission a custom painting in your color choices or by your favorite kennel hound, please email Debi Joynt at [email protected]. Our current auction features the 8 x 10 painting "Kaleidoscope" by Harley. This painting is one of the best yet, partly because our most beloved Harley created it! Harley has touched the hearts of all that have met him. He has been with GALT for over a year now and is hoping to finally find his forever home soon. He is adoptable! You can place your bid on "Kaleidoscope" right here any time before Sunday, July 7th, 2019, at 5:00 pm central time. Please bid in increments of $5. We are happy to ship within the USA and will add shipping charges to your bid.

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tinabritton-photography · 5 years ago

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Clean White . . . The Next Project. NOT FINISHED -

Albert Watson

The iconic image below was captured by Scottish fashion photogragher, Albert Watson, in 1973. It was commissioned by Harper’s Bazaar Watson and framing their feature around Hitchcock’s prowess as a gourmet chef and his recipe for a Christmas goose.

There is nothing I don’t love about this image. The stark white background pushes Alfred Hitchcock and his prop (the defeathered duck wearing a bow tie) to the forground. There are no distractions of shadow. It’s purely about Hitchcock and his Christmas bird.

Amazingly, as this was Watson’s first famous subject, and since Watson had basic kit containing 2 lights, he managed this clean white portrait with only a white backdrop (to contrast with Hitchcock’s black suit), one light to the background and 1 umbrella light on Hitchcock himself.

The contrast in this image is amazing. I am a photographer that loves high contast images. This has always been a favourite of mine. It is humorous. It makes me smile (if you can get over the fact that he his holding a poor, plucked dead duck :(. ) There is an unimplied feeling about this image, as it is obvious to me, being a portrait photographer of sorts, that Hitchcock was at ease with Albert Watson. Humourous even. This says a lot about the photographer himself.

The image itself is crisp, the lines unhindered. There is no light spill. Nothing is out of place. As for pattern, there is a ‘gooseflesh’ pattern to the duck.

1973, Alfred Hitchcock

(Johnson, 2019) (Profoto and stories, 2019)

Irving Penn

Jean Patchett, 1949

Irving Penn’s image depicts Jean Patchett in a dramatic fashion post. I chose this image not only for my love of hats, but for the close-fitting netting on her face that cause the honeycomb line pattern. The stark white background and high contrast really shows off her demur ‘oh my’ pose. There is nothing I don’t love in this image. The negative space has been made just as important as the positive. The eye starts at the top of the hat, moves around and down to the face and décolletage area, traces her fingers around then to her arm and leading back to her hat.

Since I love hats, this is my chosen image for practice in the studio on 1st of October 2019 when we come back from the holiday weekend.

(An American Goddess of Paris Couture: Jean Patchett | Official Site, 2019) (Christies.com, 2019)

David Bailey

Johnny Depp, 1995

David Bailey’s image of Johnny Depp is striking. Liquid blacks are riveting against the white of the background in this high contrast image. Depp’s fingers interlaced into his hair and the rings on his fingers create interest as the eye moves down to his black eyes then travels to his lips, up his arms and back to his hands.

(Wall Street International, 2019) (Artsy.net, 2019)

Platon Antoniou -

Was born in London in 1968. He first attended St Martin’s School of Art for Graphic Design and then recieved an MA at Royal College of Art for Photography and Fine art. He has worked for such magazines as ‘George’, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Rolling Stones, Esquire and GQ. Platon has captured images of many Presidents, from Barack Obama to Vladimir Putin. His last Presidential Portrait was of Bill Clinton. (All-about-photo.com, 2019)

Below we have a bold and graphic portrait of Stephen Hawking taken late 2017. What draws me into this image is all the mechanical detail of Hawking’s chair leading our eyes into the face of the man himself. The perspective of this image, in my opinion, is superb. We are looking straight into the face of this great man. The graphic detail of this portrait, the blacks against the stark whites, and the perspective combined make this one of my favourite images of Platon.

(Platonphoto.com, 2019) (Medeiros, 2019)

Flóra Borsi -

I’m throwing a wrench into this mix of famous photographers and images. For this brief we were to include 5 clean white images. It did not say the image could not be new, or old, or from only the very famous. Above I have included some iconic images that are some of my favourites.

However, during my research I found this young woman, and her series of white portraits. Flóra Borsi is a young fine art photographer from Hungary. She has exhibited solo in many places including the USA and Budapest to group exhibitions in France. She has been featured in publications from Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Photoshop to The Wall Street Journal.

While I am aware, at some point, after capture, that this image, most probably, has been taken into photoshop and added to, I just couldn’t exclude them. That being said, I could see that the image was indeed taken as a clean white, because we can see the slight reflection from the perspex beneath the model (unless of course, that was added as well, but I don’t think so).

This image is part of a series called Des Monstres by the photographer Flóra Borsi. It is fluid, graphic and most striking. Dark Fantasy meets Atmospheric. Everything about it screams motion. It feels alive. The extremes in contrast are eye catching, not only that, it holds the veiwer’s attention as the eye moves around the canvas. The perspective and flowing garment wrapping around this female model transforms the piece into a living artwork. Fascinating.

(Floraborsi.com, 2019)

Below are images of Alex Reilly showing us how to set up a clean white studio.

image from inside the isle we created.

taking readings with the Sekonic L-308S light meter.

Adam is the assistant. Alex is setting up the key light.

My test images Today . . . 12th September . . .

Noticed the red glare in Adam’s glases, so I had him remove them . . . Background grey. Adam’s face, in my opinion is too dark on the right.

Again, we have the passport image of Adam. The background here is too grey. Adam is not looking into the camera. He was making a face, but it’s awesome because some of his personality is shining through.

Much better. Here is Adam again. I wish I had noticed the headphones. I need to be more vigilant and aware of extraneous objects that do NOT need to be in the portrait. Again, the background is grey.

Image of me that Alex took. There is no spill. The background is white. There has been no post processing. Question, Adam and I used the same set-up and took our images right after Alex did. What happened?

MY FINAL IMAGES on First day of Clean White Project With Alex Reilly

In Studio with Alex we were shown the correct way of setting up for Clean White. We used to lights on the background and 2 lights on the subject. We used the Sekonic L308S Flash Meter to insure even lighting of the background. It was at F11. Then we were better able to set up for the image, insuring we were at F8 for the shots.

Here we have Adam in my 1st 2 images of clean white. We only got to take a couple of images each. He is looking directly into the camera. His eyes are in sharp focus. I took this image and his next into Lightroom. First I changed the settings to monochrome and worked within those parameters. I cropped the image to remove the headphones and bring immediacy to the portrait. There is a real punch to the image now after working with the contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and blacks. Then I moved on to the B&W Mix settings. I took the yellow to +51, the orange to +7, green to +9, magenta +100. I then went into transform change the vertical setting to -10. This brought Adam more in line with looking straight at the camera. I cropped the image further by bringing up the scale and close cropping. I wanted his eyes to be the main event really.

We took the images into Lightroom with Alex in Imaging class to finish them.

This is a fun image of Adam. His eyes are serious, yet he is pursing his lips. I made the same adjustments to this image as I did with the one above.

This is my passport image I have edited in Photoshop . . . I have taken away the slight greyish tint using adjustment masks. It took longer than using Lightroom with Adam’s images. This is much better. I have cropped the image to the correct measurements required by the UK Passport website.

2ND Day of Clean White In Studio with Dawn Martin

I feel the second day was more difficult. First of all, we had much trouble with the lights where we were working in the studio. Alex from the store was called in, and between Iain (Alex Reilly was unable to attend the class that day) Alex (store) and John, they helped change out the lights. By this time, 3/4 of the morning class time was gone. We were to get 1 silhouette, 1 low-key and 1 high-key image completed. That wasn’t to be. Our group was not quite as successful as we were the first day. We were shown a totally different way of doing the Clean White, and I felt it was confusing. But as we learned on the day, there are many different ways of capturing clean white images.

The 2nd half of the day, Studio 2, was also chaotic. As a group, we kept forgetting to check our images to see if the clean white was achieved. So the first half of my clean white images in the contact sheet below were either too blue, too sepia, or had chromatic aberrations. Finally around half way through we were capturing more acceptable images. The images were not in total silhouette however, because of light leakage caused by the close proximity of the nearby ‘studios’ throwing light onto the subjects during flash.

Contact sheet

In the above contact sheet, you can almost tell, before ever having seen the images up close, which photos were good, and which are not so much. We could have gotten a lot more acceptable images if we had checked often throughout the process. I have learned a lot today.

Final practice shots from 24th September . . . Still need work . . .

Adam . . .

Derek . . .

Hannah . . .

Derek . . .

Aiden . . .

AL . . .

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cynden · 4 years ago

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This is a funny analogy, but I still see lots of people in the notes still asking what they are. Analogies are great for summarizing the impact of what NFTs have, but not really what they specifically are. I'll do my best to explain but this is basically an amalgamation of what I've read online. Warning #1: very long, but split into sections that you can skip to if you don't care about particular sub-topics. Warning #2: I might not be very much an "expert," but I have done lots of reading on the subject.

I have a long write-up in the works if anyone wants more details, idk if I'll release it in a future reblog though. But the general idea is just that NFTs are a piece of data whose "ownership" is documented on a blockchain like Ethereum. NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token, which makes it different from regular cryptocurrency tokens in the sense that they're unique and have different values. The intended idea behind them is that they could be used for ownership of a piece of artwork, since they're unique and cost different amounts. Whenever it is sold, some of the profits that were made (like 10%) are supposed to go back to the original owner of the NFT, supposedly the artist of the artwork. That way, artists can still get paid royalties when an NFT is sold at a higher value. Imagine the alternative, where an artist might get paid $20 for a commission and then that artwork is later sold at an auction for $10 million. The artist only got paid $20 for creating a $10 million piece of artwork, whereas NFTs provide an opportunity to get 10% of that, $1 million.

There are several drawbacks and failures in execution though:

Drawback #1: NFTs run on the Ethereum blockchain, which takes a lot of computational power to verify each transaction. Whenever it is sold, lots of computers have to do arbitrary calculations to verify it (called a "Proof of Work" system), which takes electrical energy and can contribute to carbon emissions. It's essentially a race (or lottery) of which computer can verify the transaction first. As more cryptocurrency tokens are mined, the math problems for computers get harder and take more electricity. Hence the quote "i'll burn down an unspecified amount of the amazon rainforest," as if you release tons of carbon into the atmosphere and destroy the environment. Bitcoin alone is estimated to consume as much energy as Argentina or Ukraine per year, while Ethereum (which NFTs run on) uses about as much energy as Ecuador (x). While this isn't as much energy usage as China or the USA as a whole, this energy usage is only bound to increase, which is concerning for people who don't find inherent value in a digital commodity like a cryptocurrency. This is IMO the most discussed issue inherent with NFTs right now. Some invest in NFTs saying Ethereum will switch to a different transaction verification system that uses less energy: Proof of Stake, rather than the current Proof of Work system. But when (or if) this new system will be adopted has been in anticipation for at least a couple of years now, and it still hasn't been done, either because everyone has to adopt the system all at once or it doesn't work, or because it's too easy for transactions to be faked which jeopardizes the trust of Ethereum as a currency. Other defenders claim that its energy usage is not as bad as other industries or sources of energy consumption, or that greener energy sources are arising (but let's be real, fossil fuels will just keep burning). Many artists and people condemn the use of NFTs (and cryptocurrencies in general) as they see it as needlessly wasteful energy consumption for a calculation that doesn't provide anything other than a promise that the NFT isn't a counterfeited token.

Drawback #2: NFTs do not have the original artwork within them. Image file sizes are very large, and having that much data in the blockchain is computationally expensive, so the token typically has a small serial code that represents the artwork and an attached URL to the artwork uploaded to a distributed file storage system. While the original reply describes it as a label in an "unmarked supply closet in the back of the museum" placed "behind the brooms," it's probably more accurate to say that there's also a copy of the Mona Lisa there as well, and the only copy of it allowed in the supply closet. Thus, there's the original up for exhibition and a copy that's considered the "owned" one for NFT purposes. It's also worth noting that the "replica print in a cardboard tube" is better described as instructions to get to the supply closet and see your copy of the Mona Lisa. For someone thinking that they're buying a unique piece of artwork, this might feel like a scam unless they consider this unique copy floating around in the distributed file system to be trustworthy and authentic. But intellectual ownership over the artwork remains questionable, especially when the NFT can change hands. There's also the issue of if the system hosting all the artwork suddenly goes down. While the "supply closet" is more like a hard-to-navigate forest that pops up new trees and moves around, it's not completely infallible and if it all burns down, there's a chance that NFT artwork gets lost into oblivion.

Drawback #3. Anyone can make NFTs, including art thieves. There's been lots of controversy with NFTs because there's no way for artists to protect their artwork. If someone takes an artist's work off their social media or personal site, the thief's crypto wallet is forever attached to the NFT, so they get those 10% profits every time the NFT is sold to someone else. There's no way for the original artist to make their own, because the thief's NFT is forever considered the "original." That's the part where "the person selling you the receipt of purchase has at no point in time ever owned the mona lisa," and is probably due to the lack of regulation and protections NFTs have regarding intellectual property rights behind them. Something the reply doesn't cover is that if you want to sell the NFT for $70 million, that's a profit of $5 million so $500,000 goes to the guy who sold you the NFT and not to Da Vinky, and since lots of stolen art is from artists who are still alive it is bound to make many of them understandably angry.

There's probably more that can be spoken in depth about this topic but if people want more info maybe I'll conjure up a more detailed write-up (or someone else can provide clarifications in the notes below).

i dont know what an NFT is and im too afraid to ask

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