so i have to tone down my website as you guys keep spamming me with hits lately. i’ve made accounts with SUBSTACK and PATREON and will mirror a lot of content there (some free, some paywalled) while i’m password protecting even more of my stuff here and putting this link tree ‘id card’ up as a holding page.
feel free to roam all of those outlets, get in touch or involved. i’ll also publish the infamous draft magazine through some of the above channels.
i’ve again been suspended because people hit my page with too many clicks. so now i made nearly all ‘important’ posts – those that found their save haven in my printed books – protected with a password. again, if you trouble yourself to internet your way back (as long as they don’t take the memory machine offline for real, lol), you can still view everything ‘for free’. and again, you’re very welcome to leave any amount of tip at my donation page for the multi-pass in return. but obviously, i even more strongly recommend buying the hard copies. (LULU – all of them and preferred) & (AMAZON – only earlier versions and more convenient for you but less profitable for me).
owning objects means having something in hand that has an intrinsic and symbolic value. this value can alter dramatically with the fluctuating exchange rate that unfolding reality is imbuing it with. that value determines whether you have exchanged well the amount you put forth on lulu (or amazon). and if you did – you can drive home a profit. why? because i’m holding the rights as the author to determine the ‘floor price’. as long as print-on-demand scarcity is the law of its circulation (which i can not see changing anymore in the future, my limited editions and hand-crafted editions of the past having been outlived), i have the freedom to determine this floor price completely independent from any external restrictors (publishers / distributors / competition etc). isn’t this exactly the same as it is with NFT’s?
which brings us directly to the current nft game. it’s exactly the same principle, really, only the tangible item comes in the form of an unalterable ethereum block chain entry instead of an item one holds in their hands. again, i’m owning the rights as the author to determine the floor price. no publisher, no distributor, no intermediary or regulator. and again, the fluctuating value imbued by ‘reality’ can alter quite dramatically. i think what nft’s can teach today’s people, especially the younger generation, is how trade used to work for rich people. i have already mentioned this in my earlier post.
so the above screenshot is my new shop for the NFT’s that i’m minting. thanks to the fantastic support from rarible.com, it was all accomplished astonishingly quick. to be honest, i still can’t believe how easy it ultimately was. and i even linked to my domain directly for convenience, via cloudflare.
i’m very excited, feeling like a teenager again, lol. what i’m increasingly seeing is that this might work extremely well not just for myself. but also for a lot of other people who can sense the potential. put their money where their mouth is. welcome to web3. connect your wallet.
winter 2024
so, yeah, i finally also jumped on the NFT train, only i didn’t plan it or even expect. like nearly everything in my life now, this new path came right to me, paved itself in front of me and all i had to do was just walking it. it’s an interesting development in so many ways and i’ll surely elaborate a lot more about the manifold angles of it in the future.
for now i’m sharing a registered etherium address (reinhardschleining.eth) to serve as the official announcement of my getting a foot into the metaverse and i’ll begin to share some of the available NFT’s i’ve been minting from my two portfolios (old style & new style):
really happy to have released my ‘little booklet to break the spell’ for lulu, exactly 12 years after it had seen the light of day on christmas 2009.
may scrub ebook editions, so make sure you get a real copy – ‘owning something’ as opposed to supposedly great reset ‘own nothing be happy’ sentiments …
***UPDATE – i have now scrubbed all ebook editions. spring 2024. they’re pathetic, lol.
after much interference and sabotaging i’ve now resurrected and consolidated my DOUBLE PHOENIX project into this website:
hope you appreciate.
Spring 2019
***UPDATE – a slightly more polished and beautifully type-set version is part of the SYSTEMICS book.
(made available to read online for free once-in-a-while or generally with a donation based password.)
[ or ‘off the the other shore’ ]
CONDITIONS
We’re born naked. We die naked. As not only religion but also logic suggest, no matter how much funds we raise throughout our worldly journey, in the face of Ultimate Reality, even the most beautiful diamonds and castles merely amount to worthless chunks of mud. There is of course the argument of safeguarding relatives and loved ones, putting our kids on golden thrones and what not – but, honestly, can we really ease their various, vastly unpredictable hardships – emotional havoc, political corruption, abusive encounters, ageing, deterioration, madness – with monetary ailments? Besides, are we doing such an apparently altruistic act really unconditionally, with only their best interests in mind, or do we actually expect a return-of-investment, where we need them to do certain things in exchange, behave in certain ways, before our hard-earned juices will change bank accounts at the end of the day? As most of us haven’t been loved by our parents unconditionally, there is usually a wicked agenda behind the way how we interact with each other. Most exchanges are burdened with crooked meanings underneath and beyond the actual surface transactions. Like the sticky fingerprints we leave as soon as we touch it, Money involved in human transaction inherently corrupts any relationship through its conscious and unconscious strings attached – its Conditions.
i’m putting this online because i feel this is somehow a key piece in my illustration work. the coincidence is quite mad, as i’ve just the other day joked with a friend about staging my own death (whilst having my website miraculously updating itself, hahaha). and two weeks later i’m getting this commission from australia asking me to come up with an editorial piece for an article exactly looking into both the ridiculousness as well sincerity of doing something as crazy as this.
