Lit NFT 1.0! The Premiere

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We’re up and running with our debut NFT, or non-fungible token, a certificate to authenticate, and celebrate, our foray into blockchain publishing.

Please enjoy, and collect. We have tutorials. Here’s one for opening your first crypto wallet. And here’s one for collecting your first NFT from Atticus Review.

About our Inaugural Poem

In early January we announced our plans to explore the NFT format. We asked for “greatest hits” nominations from our community, with the idea that we would start by minting a poem that had already appeared on the Atticus Review website. (On that note, if you’re worried that we will mint an NFT from writing that you published with us in the past without your permission, don’t worry. We won’t.)

As a side note, here’s a shout-out to everyone who nominated work, whether their own or somebody else’s. Hell, yes!

In the end, we chose a poem recommended by poet and community-member Arvilla Fee. She suggested Melody Wilson’s “Smoke,” partly because roaring, wind-fueled fires were swallowing whole neighborhoods of Los Angeles.

Timely, of course, but we also chose it because we like it. Sparse, unpretentious, tightly tethered to image as well as the emotions underneath. Easy to visualize, and therefore illustrate…but why try to explain? See for yourself.

We present you with “Smoke,” a series of 5 NFTS:

A Blend of Digital Words and Tactile Art

We included two pieces of original artwork in the PDF, woodblock prints by Boo Trundle (me), because I happened to be available and would work for free.

Woodblock printing meets our needs for NFT batching. We can switch out attributes like ink and paper color, creating trackable variations on otherwise identical images. This makes it possible to easily distinguish the separate NFT collectibles. One PDF shows white ink on a green background, another shows black ink on a blue ground, and so on.

We also like the very concrete, human feeling of marks carved in wood. The tactile medium offers a contrast to the deep digital dive we are taking. 

If anyone out there makes woodblock prints, please get in touch! We have more NFTs in the lab. We could use some interesting visual art to fill out the packaging.

We invite you to explore and collect “Smoke,” by Melody Wilson.

And remember, habent sua fata libelli. (Little books have their own destiny.)

Boo Trundle
Editor

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