Published inGenerative NFT Programming Articles·May 5Member-onlyHow to Easily Buy $PEPE and other ERC-20 Meme CoinsA super-simple how-to for anyone wanting to mess around with these super-popular coins! While it’s great to buy your coins via an exchange (which is pretty common for anyone with an account at one), you should know that a lot of the bigger profits are made by those that got…Crypto6 min readCrypto6 min read
Published inGenerative NFT Programming Articles·May 5Member-onlyNFTs vs. Meme Coins: NFTs Probably Need to Wait this Out, But It’ll be Worth It in the EndIt’s tough to be in the NFT space during the meme-coin season, which is particularly wild this year thanks to $PEPE. For anyone watching the NFT space lately, the Pepe world takeover is hardly news. But I did at least want to touch on the latest crypto craze, which is…Nft6 min readNft6 min read
Published inGenerative NFT Programming Articles·May 5Member-onlyNFTs Are the Future of Nonprofit Fundraising. It’s Time to Embrace the Tech and Reach New DonorsNFTs have been here for years now. It’s high time for many nonprofits to start utilizing them for fundraising. My very first article on NFTs came out almost two years ago (May 11, 2021). At that time, aside from the then-famous (and still-famous) $69 million Beeple sale, almost no one…Nonprofit15 min readNonprofit15 min read
Published inGenerative NFT Programming Articles·Apr 19Member-onlyMake Unique Tokens Great Again: Once Again, Trump NFTs Fail to Provide Unique TokensWhile I love how they welcome new faces into web3, it’d be great if they could do it properly. (IMHO). Just four months ago, The Donald dropped his series 1 set of NFTs (Trump Digital Trading Cards) and, somehow, they actually became fairly valuable. They minted 45,000 of those things…Nft4 min readNft4 min read
Published inGenerative NFT Programming Articles·Apr 12Member-onlyDoge Stamp Functionality Continues to Evolve! There Are Still < 10k Doge Stamps, Too!Still growing; now’s the time to check it out if you think it could become a thing. :-) A quick follow-up on my previous article that showed how to create DOGE Stamps, a new NFT-like feature on the DOGE chain. At the time of writing that piece, you couldn’t even…Doge4 min readDoge4 min read
Published inGenerative NFT Programming Articles·Apr 5Member-onlyDoge NFT “Stamps”: How to Do Them: A Chance to Get in EarlyDYOR, as I have no idea if this will become a thing. But, FWIW, read on. People always like new stuff in the NFT world, as hype rules the game, right? I remember when everything was on ETH. And then new chains came along to challenge ETH. And, to be…Nft9 min readNft9 min read
Published inGenerative NFT Programming Articles·Apr 4Member-onlyWild Ways to Get Midjourney AI to Imitate Something: Making a Bored Ape Derivative from a Real Bored ApeTwo powerful ways to use existing images when creating a new one. I spent some time today messing around with two similar, yet totally different, ways to get Midjourney AI to imitate existing artwork or imagery, and wanted to show you an example of how these two techniques work. I…Nft6 min readNft6 min read
Published inGenerative NFT Programming Articles·Mar 31Member-onlyThe Creative Process: A Peek into My Midjourney AI Prompting While Creating an Original Animated NFTWill it be a cool piece? Well, ride along and see. And I’ll show you some interesting Midjourney tips along the way. I’ve been spending an absolutely unreasonable amount of time lately building out a 1/1 art NFT collection on OpenSea. It’s mostly for fun, as I don’t have a…AI12 min readAI12 min read
Published inGenerative NFT Programming Articles·Mar 30Member-onlyConfiguring Midjourney Settings: A Look at the Remix Mode for Refining your AI PromptingRemix is a powerful tool that can be both frustrating and delightful. Following up on my “Midjourney basics” post from yesterday, I wanted to have a look at one of the “advanced” prompting techniques available — the “remix” setting. What does Remix do? Well…AI9 min readAI9 min read
Published inGenerative NFT Programming Articles·Mar 27Member-onlyTurn Your Thoughts Into Art: How to Get Started with Midjourney for AI Image CreationFor artists, NFT creators, and anyone curious about AI Until now, I’ve primarily written about generative NFT sets — how to make them, how to run NFT teams, how to market them, etc. And, I plan on continuing to cover NFTs, of course. …Nft11 min readNft11 min read