Artists Aflame

After reading a recent article entitled "Boy makes $400,000 in Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) with digital Whale Art" , I decided it was time to do a little research and write a short blog to our readers providing a very brief introduction on the topic of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) and their use in the Art World. I started my research with a n interesting and amusing article about Non-Fungible Token (NFT) and Art Marketplaces . It was a good read, but unfortunately , after reading the article I was just as confused about the topic as when I started. A much more informative article was published by The Atlantic called NFTs Weren't Supposed to End Like This . According to the article, a Non-Fungible Token ( NFT ) is a digital asset that represents real-world objects like art, music, in-game items and videos and t hey can be bought and sold online, frequently with cryptocurrencies that use blockchain technology. Read Unraveling the Confusion a bout Blockchain Technology...

South Carolina has been home to an array of noteworthy individuals and styles in the literary, visual, and performing arts. What follows is a brief overview of the arts in South Carolina from the time of its earliest settlers through the end of the 1700’s. Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues was one of the earliest artists to visit the Southeastern coastal areas of the New World back in the 1500’s. He made watercolors of coastal settlements following a 1564 expedition to the region. These were then converted by Theodor deBry into engravings that were widely circulated back in Europe. Mark Catesby was an English naturalist who studied flora and fauna in the New World between 1729 and 1747. He undertook a plant-collecting expedition to Carolina on behalf of the Royal Society in 1722. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, he traveled to various parts of the colony collecting plants and animals and ultimately published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Baha...

 A writer is a person who uses written words in different styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as reports and news articles. - See Wikipedia To assist those who are budding authors, as well as those who are life long students of the literary arts, ‘Artists Aflame’ have identified the following selected links to literary arts organizations and their web sites that you might want to explore further: Academy of American Poets - The Academy is a champion of American poets and poetry. Its mission is to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to help foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) - The AWP provides community, opportunities, ideas, news, and advocacy for writers and teachers of writing. The Center for Fiction...

A writer is a person who uses written words in different styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as reports and news articles. This particular blogging site contains brief articles or essays written by creative writers within our family of 'Artists Aflame'.  The following is a short story written by Jaime Bernhardt in commemoration of some of her family members this Veterans Day . Grandpa Goes Home: A New Beginning “She went to check on him… One minute he was just sleeping; the next, he was gone." As tears formed in my mother’s eyes, my heart began to realize the awful truth. Grandpa was gone. My insides felt like scrap-metal being crushed into a heap of nothing. I looked around our living room to see the reactions on everyone else’s faces. Daddy wanted to cry, his eyes became...