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Friday, May 7, 2021

Wall of Fame

We have been collecting the empty bottles of wine that we've drunk over the years. Whenever a wine has either meant something very special to us or a wine has impressed us with it's flavor we put it above our kitchen cabinets.
During the winter, when I was on a mission to clean our house from top to bottom, I took down all of these bottles of wine, wiped down the years of dust accumulation and took a picture of the label.
I did this with a purpose in mind. A while back, I saw on the news that a jpg sold for $69 million created by Mike Winkelmann — the digital artist known as Beeple! What is amazing about that? A jpg is a popular file format used for images and graphics—especially on the internet, created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), so Beeple was selling digital art! Beeple's jpg was in a form called the non-fungible tokens (NFT), which are unique files that live on a blockchain and are able to verify ownership of a work of digital art. Beeple's NFT was called "Everydays - The First 5000 Days".
So, I thought I would try my hand at creating a jpg of our Wall of Fame:
My digital art is not an NFT, but if you would like to offer me $69 million or even slightly less, I might entertain your offer!

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