My 1st Drop With Hic Et Nunc!
Happy Earth Day!
As I wrote in my last post about NFTs, their carbon footprint is pretty terrible. Since the blockchain uses millions of home computers to work, rather than energy efficient servers like the rest of the internet, minting an NFT on an Ethereum-based NFT marketplace, like OpenSea, puts a tremendous amount of CO2 into the atmosphere, which gets trapped inside with us, wreaking havoc on the Earth’s climate. The more CO2 there is trapped inside with us, the more extreme the weather and the less able we are to breathe, plain & simple. If you don’t believe climate change is real, just turn right around, close this tab, and find an artist who agrees with you. You will not like me or my art, I do not care about your opinions, and I do not have time to “debate” you. So please go.
Hic Et Nunc is a different NFT platform that is built on the Tezos blockchain, just as OpenSea is built on the Ethereum blockchain. If that’s confusing, just think of it as using a different token than OpenSea, like MyFreeCam’s tokens vs whatever other adult sites use. It uses a different system than Ethereum, called Proof Of Stake, which means minting an NFT there has the energy cost of making a tweet, making it the most eco-conscious choice to mint NFTs on.
Hic Et Nunc, or HEN, is Brazilian and 1 Tez is worth about $5.00 US right now, making the economy there very different than Ethereum-based platforms, which is actually kind of good. Minimum wage in Brazil is about 35 Tez per month, or about $75 US and suddenly Brazilian digital artists are able to sell their work and make considerably more than that, which is fucking fantastic!
The economy on HEN is a lot different than somewhere like OpenSea. Rather than things selling for millions or even thousands of dollars, NFTs on HEN are sold for tens or hundred of dollars, partially due to the community’s respect for Brazil’s economy. Another factor is that art on HEN is generally sold in editions, rather than 1/1s, and unlike OpenSea, artists have the ability to “burn” unsold work, making sold work of an edition all the more valuable. Theoretically.
Is Tez easy to cash out for US or CAD? Will it ever be worth more than $5.00 US per Tez? I don’t know yet. I couldn’t even figure out how to buy some, my new Twitter friend Kate the Cursed fronted me 1 Tez to get started, so it’s pretend money to me at this point, just like all crypto. I’m in this to play the long game and hodl to the moon 💎🚀🌕, so that part isn’t super important to me. You’ll have to do your own research as to its potential value etc., sorry!
Since NFTs minted on HEN are the green choice, and are a lower price point to get people collecting NFTs, I decided to create NFTs of the first digital drawing I ever did, also my first NFT on Hic Et Nunc! So I guess this is truly what they call a “Genesis piece” as dumb as it is! BEHOLD my masterpiece!
“Sorry” by Sunny Crittenden (digital, 2019)
This was the first digital drawing I ever did, so I suppose that makes this a genesis piece. It was created using the Adobe Draw app and an analog stylus on August 9th, 2019. This is a portrait of a modern marriage.
I put a $400 Samsung Galaxy tablet I couldn’t afford on my credit card, convinced digital was going to become the art medium of the future sooner, rather than later, and I needed to learn it immediately.
When I got home from the store, I realized I had to charge the tablet completely before I could use it, and I stayed up all night, checking every hour to see if it was fully charged yet.
Around 5:30am, the tablet was finally charged and I was overjoyed to be able to set up my new art tool! But alas, I couldn’t download any drawing apps from the Google Play store because I didn’t know our wifi password and my husband hadn’t written it down for me anywhere.
I was so upset! I’d waited 9 hours to be able to do this fun thing I was excited about and here I was, tired, wired, and THWARTED! Hot tears of frustration welled in my eyes as I howled, “WHYYYYYY THO? WHYYYYYY?”
My husband was understandably sleeping, as it was approaching 6am and he had to get up for work at 8, so I was faced with a moral dilemma: do I wake him to get the password? Or do I wait 2 hours for him to wake up and tell me? Going to bed was not an option.
I decided to wake him up, and he grumpily gave me the wifi password before trying to fall back asleep…which he never did. He was awake for the day, so he got up, made coffee, and went to his office to start working.
I felt bad about that, so I figured I should dedicate my first piece of digital art to him and his sleep sacrifice, and this is what I came up with.
I’m minting this on Hic Et Nunc on April 22nd, 2021 in honour of Earth Day, in an edition of 50.
Any remaining editions on April 1st, 2022 will be burned.
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Also available as part of today’s Earth Day Drop:
“Banana Farts” by Sunny Crittenden (digital, 2019)
This is the 2nd digital drawing I ever did. It was created on a Samsung Galaxy tablet with the Adobe Draw app and an analog stylus on August 9th, 2019. This is a portrait of a modern marriage.
My husband gets super offended if I let one slip while we’re cuddling, so I made this for him on my first day of owning my cheap Samsung Galaxy tablet, after waking him up at 6am for the wifi password, to which he was not pleased.
I’m minting this on Hic Et Nunc on April 22nd, 2021 in honour of Earth Day, in an edition of 60.
Any remaining editions on April 1st, 2022 will be burned.
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“Venus Flytrap” by Sunny Crittenden (digital, 2019)
This is the 3rd digital drawing I ever did. It was created on a Samsung Galaxy tablet with the Adobe Draw app and an analog stylus on August 9th, 2019.
Hallmark advice with a twist; in a world of herbivores, be a carnivore.
I’m minting this on Hic Et Nunc on April 22nd, 2021, in honour of Earth Day, in an edition of 40.
Any remaining editions on April 1st, 2022 will be burned.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW OR PURCHASE!
“Hedgehog” by Sunny Crittenden (digital, 2019)
This is the 4th digital drawing I ever did. It was created on a Samsung Galaxy tablet with the Adobe Draw app and an analog stylus on August 9th, 2019.
This is an adorable hedgehog giving advice from the ’80s hit song, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin. It wants you to be happy and worry-free and maybe if you own this NFT and look at it every day as a reminder, you will be happier and worry less!
I’m minting this on Hic Et Nunc on April 22nd, 2021, in honour of Earth Day, in an edition of 50. Any remaining editions on April 1st, 2022 will be burned.
