(and I do get that since I’m not dependent on my writing for a living, I can afford to be more picky about how/where/when I play, unlike artists entirely dependent on art, with minimum-wage jobs being the backstop)
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In a related vein, I wonder what’s the proportion of NFT-issuers who are:
a) working artists who really need the $
b) people with alt income sources like me
c) trusties
d) primarily crypto people moonlighting as creators
e) other — corporate funded stunt marketers etc
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A very good litmus test of how your aesthetic sensibilities shape your commercial posture is to ask, as a thought experiment, what sort of restaurant you’d open? Let’s make this an in-line poll, why not.
- Exec chef to billionaire4.8%
- High-end fine dining29%
- Chain franchise12.1%
- Street food cart54%
124 votesFinal results
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I’m definitely on the street-food end. Ideally serving up a “locally world-famous” unique signature item under $5. But not super unique. Something like my spin on a well-known thing. Like a dosa cart with a unique filling.
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“Locally world famous” is not a joke. It describes many street foods. Locals take out-of-town visitors there, who become new fans. And people who leave retain strong memories and try to get it shipped to them worldwide at great cost. It’s a good metaphor for subcultural capital.
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If anyone ever visits my hometown of Jamshedpur btw, I highly recommend this place. A true NFT among chanachurs. I still manage to snag some on occasion when friends travel there (well, my sister’s friends, since she’s retained stronger ties than me). fakirachanachur.com/index.html
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The locally world-famous food metaphor btw points to unique distribution as an angle. There’s often a story to the story of food getting out if local neighborhoods. For eg. friends hand-carrying it on flights, then dividing and mailing the stash as part of care packages.
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Once I found a uniquely good potato chip in a DC cafe. Billy Goat chips from St. Louis. Later on a cross country road trip, I specifically detoured through St. Louis for the chips. I’ve since twice special ordered them at shipping cost ~ chip cost.
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Now that’s an NFT among chips. Once when I randomly found a few bags at a Home Goods in the Seattle area, I was elated like I’d discovered a Picasso at a garage sale.
They really are very good. If you’re a potato chip connoisseur, seek them out.
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Yes, never very good. They burn really easily when you use chip-thickness settings on the mandolin, plus I don’t deep fry often and baked is never as good.
