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Kinetic Light Paintings - NFT Launch
🕑 Added 2021-11-23 21:15:51 +0000 UTCMany of you may not know this: between 2005 and 2008 Julia and I created a substantial body of artwork made with Kinetic Photography, long exposure pictures we took of light sources that became abstract super colorful images. It started as a fun experiment, but really took off when Julia put one up for sale on eBay: not only did it sell, it sold well and fast.
We were flabbergasted: we had something special that was fun to do, so we pursued it in our spare time. We shot more, experimented with different techniques and cameras, started doing larger prints of our work, mounted 3ft tall pieces onto expensive aluminium with acrylic finish on the front and sold limited editions close to Β£2000 a piece. We started showing our work at exhibitions around the UK and kept building a reputation for fresh abstract quirky artwork.
We made it into Grand Designs several time, met interior designers who licensed our images for backlit installations, we have work in the Saatchi collection and many of our Limited Editions are in the hands of private collectors. We did well.
Being a side hustle on top of our full-time TV jobs, the promotional work got too much and we decided there weren't enough hours in the day. We kept making pictures, explored many other types of alternate photography, built up other bodies of work and eventually settled on the digital toys we play with today. That's how it all started for us some 15 years ago.
Fast forward to 2021 when there's good reason to unvault our Light Paintings. They're ideal pieces to be enjoyed by whole new generation of art collectors around the world as unique NFTs. I don't know much about how to "launch properly" by minting preferential whitelist prices and all that, but I wanted you all to be the first to know about this:
Our Kinetic Light Paintings collection is now live on OpenSea!
There are only 10 images to begin with, but we're planning to add more over time as we dip our toes into this yet unexplored ocean of NFT madness. All images unlock at the highest resolution I had, anywhere between 3000 and 10000 pixels either side, depending on the image.
The first piece we ever sold was Smoking Blue (see above). This was done with the signature green power ring on the original Xbox, and we thought it only fitting for it to be the first one we've listed on OpenSea, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Xbox. Please share the news, I'll start promoting the collection from next week, but you guys have first dips on any of the pieces if you're interested.
I'm excited to be in on the "ground floor", and we'll find out together where this is going.
Aside from this big announcement, I've just made a bike video update in which I'm talking about what else I have in the pipeline, what I've been working on and what plans I have for future videos and collaborations. Oh and one last thing I forgot to mention in that video: Nate and I are planning an NFT related series of video shorts for noobs like me who don't know the difference between a wallet and a token - so stay tuned for that!
Comments
Jay Versluis
Consider yourself officially "whitelisted" for that piece! I'm definitely going to put those animations up, especially the last one π₯
Brian Cramer
I'm holding out for the D-Force Exploderama collection.
Jay Versluis
You should know π
Blue Owl Productions
Exciting collection.
