Your disease in me

Alfom3ga in music, Luis Ricardo in animation and drawings. This is also an NFT in the "Tequila Rat" collection on the Tezos blockchain.

Volume up, because the great Alfom3ga has composed hip-hop like the master he is.

  

Your disease in me from Luis Ricardo on Vimeo.

My First Miracle: The Day Our Token Skyrocketed

It had been weeks since our NFT marketplace was working smoothly. The guys at enter.art had implemented the features we were waiting for: Split royalties, multi-minting, low gas fees, zero platform commissions on sales… But Still, our $nftart token was near the historic low at 0.0000000005. So, Monday night I bought some tokens because they were cheap (I do this at flooz.trade) and put them to stake at Pancakeswap.

Some Balancing Going on, here.

 

On Tuesday I was featured on Enter’s Twitter with this image.

Jozin asked that Tuesday: “Will Louis change the downtrend?”, I answered “I hope we all do”. So, by Wednesday, when the token was 22% up, I claimed it was MY miracle.

#NFTart token 22% up

“After Enter mentioned me, this happened. Coincidence? MAYBE”- I said. But by the time the raise was not of 22% but of more than 164%, I went to Enter’s Discord to see what happened. Apparently it had nothing to do with me but with something called the #entershillgang and #enterarmy. These guys from Norway did not want to do marketing until the platform was flawless. And the time had come. It was pure genius, and also a class of Sociology.

This is not any type of financial advice. Religious, advice, MAYBE.

Go West!

 

Like so many artists these days, I see in NFTs a new world, a golden that will allow us to sell  everything which was considered impossible to market, our digital creations. Not a long time ago we saw the fall of Blockbuster, the music industry and golf; but it is the surge of the digital contracts what enables anyone to declare property over digital files.

There we go, sailing West, willing to see with our own eyes how Mr. Nakamoto's invention, the good old blockchain, allows digital creators to claim property --copyleft and common fair use too-- of our selfies, GIFs, PDFs and cat videos.

Go West!

Arte en Puebla / Mis artistas favoritos de Puebla

Por Luis Ricardo 

Hablemos del arte en Puebla, una ciudad del centro de México que era vital en la economía y el comercio durante XVII y XVIII. Aquí vivían algunos empresarios españoles de la industria minera y del comercio de pigmentos entre América, Filipinas y Europa. En Puebla, por ejemplo, usamos palabras antiguas, de orígenes lejanos, como "mamón" (el panquecito filipino) o "chinguiña", la basura de los ojos. Incluso "hojaldra", el pan de muerto.

14999 de Luis Ricardo

 

Entonces de Puebla reconozco en las artes visuales a algunas maestras y maestros. Cabe decir que, al escoger a las artes visuales, dejo de lado a las -más importantes- artes culinarias y a la música sacra, porque hay quienes saben más que yo.

 

Empiezo el recorrido con el poeta andaluz Gutierre de Cetina, que murió en la actual calle 5 de mayo, afuera de Santo Domingo por un pleito de celos.

¡Ay, tormentos rabiosos!
Ojos claros, serenos,
ya que así me miráis, miradme al menos.

Bueno, comienzo mi presentación de las y los artistas de Puebla que me gustan más. ¿Crees que me falta alguien? Por favor déjame un comentario.

 

Luis Lagarto

En fin, empiezo por mi tocayo Luis Lagarto, que murió en 1624 en Puebla y que se dedicaba al oficio de iluminar, es decir, a ilustrar textos y partituras religiosas. ¡Y de qué forma! Muchas de estas ilustraciones tenían que representar una letra mayúscula, porque indicaban el inicio de un nuevo episodio, esas se llamaban "capitulares". A él lo conocí porque parte de su obra está en la colección del Museo Amparo.

Capitular

Agustín Arrieta

Del él me gusta El costeño (1840s), que está en Nueva York.

El costeño

Nora Adame

Me gusta cuando se despeina y no hace retratos de gente. Ejemplo, en la imagen anterior, que usa lentejuelas, listones, pedrería, etc. Me gusta también cuando usa sus etiquetas, pero no tanto cuando las fuerza hacia lo figurativo. En fin, me centro en lo positivo, cuando expresa con libertad, es bárbara. Aquí está su página web.

Nora Adame, Piggy Girl (2019)

 

Luis Ricardo

Mi artista favorito, indudablemente. Todo su trabajo está hecho a mi gusto. Los personajes medio bestiales, medio descubriendo su inteligencia... El bolígrafo vuelto en sus manos lápiz de 6H, eso no es fácil de lograr... Vendo mis dibujos como NFTs en galerías como esta.

El hombre nuevo, (2022)

Sarah Minter

Reconocimiento a las agallas de Sarah Minter, pionera del videoarte y la experimentación audiovisual en México.

Sinfonía 13 - Street Símphony from Sarah Minter.

Manuela Cecilia Lino Bello

Manuela Cecilia preservó la tradición de los tejidos con tintes y colorantes naturales, por ejemplo el rojo de la cochinilla grana. Hueyapan, Puebla. 

Foto de Pascacia Cecilia Jaime Lino

Ramón Almela

Ya que mencionamos a la maestra Manuela Lino, creo que es momento de mencionar al maestro Ramón Almela, que ha dedicado su vida enseñando a las y los jóvenes de Puebla a dibujar. Puebla, a cambio, le ha negado el reconocimiento que él merece.

Raymundo Sesma

Es chilango, pero vive en Puebla, me gusta su composición intuitiva, su maravillosa transformación del espacio arquitectónico en película de Star Wars. O en cirtuito de computadora.  

Campo Exprandido 7, (2007)

Devin Cohen

My friend, true creative force, born in Filadelfia, the self-taught poet, musician and painter Devin Cohen is my favorite artist in Puebla. His site.

 

Proximity, (2016)

My Sour-sweet Story on OpenSea

The art scene is not easy for Latin Americans; you have probably heard this. Our art stars are mostly white, they come from wealthy families who own art collections, and so on. It is what Pierre Bourdieu talked about in “The Heirs,” right?

I looked like this when I joined Opensea

 

So, I signed up to Opensea.io; I took photos of my ID, passport, and myself. I connected my actual debit card and paid my two hundred dollars (more or less, I will explain later) to list items. You mint them for a small price. To mint means that you upload your file, and then you list it, which is you put a price on it or place it for auction. For some steps you pay a price, it is called gas, and I understand it is becoming more expensive these days.

But I thought, “Everything will be different in the NFT art market, which is democratic, right? Everyone is making millions”. Sure, son.

Then comes the sad part. Unless you have a verified account on Opensea, they treat you like a hacker. They warn anyone willing to buy your item that Opensea has not checked the origin of the NFT and might be a scam. Holy smokes, thank you very much, Opensea. I must say that I am a verified Giphy artist, so this fate is shared by hundreds and hundreds, famous and verified included.

I realize that Opensea and the NFT market is such a small, close club, just like the art scene in Latin America. You need to have sold in order to sell. And your platform warns everyone away.

Then comes the sad part. Unless you have a verified account on Opensea, they treat you like a hacker, warning your potencial costumers that Opensea has not checked the origin of your NFT, and it might be a scam. Holy smokes, thank you very much, Opensea. I am a verified Giphy artist, so I can say that this is the fate of hundreds and hundreds, famous and verified included.

I realize that Opensea and the NFT market is such a small, close club, just like the art scene in Latin America. You need to have sold in order to sell. And your platform warns everyone away. Not to mention that the recent boom on NFT’s has made that there are 15 million items on the platform, and numbers are rapidly multiplying.

And finally: What mistakes I made and what I would recommend to the upcoming NFT artists:

▸ Spare some hundred dollars, double-check that you have enough funds because you will lose your money if your transaction does not complete. That happened to me a couple of times.

▸ Choose fast over slow when it comes to your payment.

▸ Become visible and post an official list for your NFTs so that everyone can verify the origin and authenticity of your tokens.

▸ Make some friends. Buy and sell among you.

▸ Do not be like me, do not sound desperate.

I want to share with you some great NFTs which might never sell, but I recommend them anyway:

Moun Gaman, which you can find here.

Simple, clean and beautiful.

Devil Crab, you find it over here.

A whole story going on here.

And When I sell my NFT, which goes here.

This is mine, you only know the end of the comic strip when you buy it.

My mate, that has more views of his son’s drawing, than his own art. Which is funny.

The pencil and the size of the image, it is big as a movie.

This is Luis Ricardo on rarible

 This is me on

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Amothken

Artwork para el album debut de la banda de Gabriel Téllez Girón.