EP #112: NFTs for Impact with Tobin Jones
Speaking of Impact is about using your gifts and skills to make the world a better place. The world is changing and so are your gifts and skills. Many things are digital now and that includes art and business. It makes you think how we can use our modern resources for good.
Tobin Jones is a economics major, turned photojournalist, tuned digital artist. He’s also quite the modern impactmaker. His newest project, Superhero Grannies, is a groundbreaking NFT (non-fungible token) offering that is designed to benefit a Kung Fu master clan of grandmas from a slum in Botswana. The story is unique and Tobin’s work is admirable. You’ll exit this episode with a better understanding of Web3, NFTs, photojournalism, and decentralized finance.
What You'll Learn In Today's Episode:
How art can change your life
How Tobin was raised and came to photography
What it’s like to be a freelance photographer
How NFTs have changed the game for artists
What passive income does for a freelancer
What non-fungible means
How the Mona Lisa compares to today’s artwork
Why the efficiency of NFTs is really important
What decentralization is doing for transactions
How an artist benefits from secondary NFT transactions
How to wrap your head around the price of digital art
What Tobin’s Super Grannies project is
How Tobin is helping the grandmothers as part of Super Grannies
How the grandmas welcomed Tobin
How Tobin developed a relationship with the subjects of his art
About the time and intensity of a photojournalism project
Why the grannies might be skeptical of the project and Tobin
How Tobin explained the project to the grannies
Ideas Worth Sharing:
“…give me an excuse to be curious.” - Tobin Jones speaking about photography
“I really picked it up as a habit.” - Tobin Jones speaking about photography
“In order to really create a distinct styles, that’s what takes time an experience.” - Tobin Jones
“It’s there ability to create a passive income.” - Tobin Jones speaking on NFTs
“An NFT is just a smart digital contract.” - Tobin Jones
“It was the commercial side of photography…that really drove the whole medium along.” - Tobin Jones
“You are creating something that is finite - a one of a kind piece.” - Tobin Jones
“If you then sold that NFT for $1,000 I would then get 10% of that.” - Tobin Jones
“With and NFT you kind of have that digital trail.” - Tobin Jones
“This is kind of the Internet in the late 90s.” - Tobin Jones
“People are still really confused about it.” - Tobin Jones
“You could sell your home as an NFT.” - Tobin Jones speaking of the potential of NFTs
“As an old person, you are a potential victim.” - Tobin Jones
“They got together and started learning how to fight.” - Tobin Jones
“They’ve been able to create a support group.” - Tobin Jones
“I great a set of trading cards with these grannies.” - Tobin Jones
“I’m really trying to make it a win-win system.” - Tobin Jones
“In an ideal world, each of these women would have their own crypto wallet.” - Tobin Jones
“I kinda got to know them all individually as well.” - Tobin Jones
“To be honest, I don’t think they’re going to believe until I actually go back there and give them the money.” - Tobin Jones
“It’s not what you know. It’s what you wanna know.” - Bob DePasquale
“It only makes sense that photography and artwork would make that next leap.” - Bob DePasquale
“I can imagine back in the 1840’s how important it was to have that breakthrough to be able to recreate an image over an over again.” - Bob DePasquale