You can sell your videos as NFTs. Does it kill the planet?

You can sell your videos as NFTs. Does it kill the planet?

Video artists are minting their works as NFTs (non-fungible tokens) onto cryptocurrency blockchains. Sometimes selling for thousands of U.S. dollars. But what does it mean to own an NFT? And why is Griffin morally opposed to selling his videos?

Some of the NFT sales mentioned in this episode:

• Stop-motion animator Kevin Parry sold Fruit Slicing Stop-Motion for $5,522 USD. He tweeted about the experience.

• Chris Torres sold his iconic animated GIF, Nyan Cat for roughly $588,000 USD.

• Mike Winkelmann (a.k.a. Beeple) is now one of the top three most valuable living artists, after selling EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS for over $69 million.

Memo Akten created cryptoart.wtf to track the environmental impact of NFT markets. But he shut down the site after it became a tool to shame individual artists.

Nick wonders if Griffin should mint Sriracha as an NFT.

Additional items we talked about:

• Check out the impressive FPV drone piloting and sound design in this short film—Right Up Our Alley by jaybyrdfilms.

• Thanks to everyone who joined us for our last “podcast talkback” conversation on Clubhouse. Follow Griffin and Nick on the Clubhouse app to join our next conversation.

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