I’ve got exciting news to share with the community! I have partnered with Theta to release the very first Light Painting NFT’s on ThetaDrop.com. This Light Painting Drop is the first step in a much bigger vision that we are building together! Below is a video explains the drop and all the info. If you would like to participate, support my work and help me to build this vision please go to LightPainting.ThetaDrop.com now and sign up and fund your account. These drops tend to sell out quickly and I REALLY REALLY REALLY want the people that have supported me over the years to be able to collect one of these first Light Painting NFTS. The “Illuminated Beings” will have lots of benefits over the coming years as the grand vision takes shape!

“Illuminated Beings” Light Painting NFT Drop by Jason D. Page. The first Light Painting Photography on Theta and the first step in building a Light Painting dream.

The Drop is on MAY 6th 2022 at 4PM EST.
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The Drop
My first Light Painting Drop is called “Illuminated Beings”. We ARE all Illuminated Beings and this series is inspired by the ability that we all have to bring Light into dark places. All of the “Illuminated Beings” are created in real time and captured to the camera in one single photographic frame. There is no Photoshop or editing used to create anything that you see in any of my images! Like an NFT every Light Painting is unique and unrepeatable!

Community/Communication
All Light Painting Drop announcements will be made on my Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter pages. If you have any questions please reach out to me via email or on one of those pages!

Light Painting Packs
In this Drop there are 2,040 Light Painting Packs. Each of the Light Painting Packs hold one of 8 different “Illuminated Beings”. Each of the Light Painting Packs are $50.

RARITY
Each “Illuminated Being” is more rare than the next. The rarest “Illuminated Being” is an edition of 8, the next is an edition of 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024. The “Illuminated Beings” included in this drop are all below in the order of most to least rare.

NFT UTILITY: UNLOCKING AN EXCLUSIVE MAKING OF VIDEO
If you collect any of the “Illuminated Beings” NFT’s you will be granted exclusive access to the behind the scenes “making of” video of the rarest Light Painting in this series “Illuminated Being #1″. This making of video is hosted on the Theta Network! Your “Illuminated Being” NFT is the key that unlocks the “making of” video!

LIGHT PAINTED GOLDEN TICKETS: REDEEMABLE NFT’S
In the Light Painting Packs there are 8, randomly placed, Light Painted Golden Tickets. The Light Painted Golden Tickets also have a corresponding “making of” video hosted by the Theta Video API, (viewable at the bottom of this page)! Each of the Light Painted Golden Tickets is redeemable for a one of a kind, signed and numbered physical print. The prints will be a 1/1, 24”x36” Metallic Paper Print of the “Illuminated Being” that the Light Painted Golden Ticket represents. Worldwide shipping of the print is included.

25,000 TFUEL PASSWORD PUZZLE
On the back of the “Illuminated Beings” Prints will be part of a password that will unlock Theta Wallet 0x020056625fA5A920909f3d99462DD661A9f5669f You will need all 8 parts of the password to unlock the wallet! If you collect all 8 “Illuminated Beings” Physical Prints or work with the other “Illuminated Beings” print collectors, you will gain access to this wallet. The wallet will start off containing 25,000 TFUEL. On May 6th of every year deposits of 8% of the revenue Jason D. Page receives from secondary market sales of the “Illuminated Beings” will be deposited into this wallet in TFUEL. Once funds are taken from the wallet all deposits will stop. This is a social/art experiment related to the nature of my medium of LIGHT. I am very curious to see how this plays out. 🙂

NEW ILLUMINATED BEINGS AIRDROPS and CHALLENGES
Holders of randomly selected combinations of TWO “Illuminated Beings” will be able to claim  new “Illuminated Beings”. New Illuminated Beings will be received via “Challenges. “Illuminated Beings” must be held in your wallet and not listed for sale to qualify. For instance if you hold “Illuminated Being” numbers 4 and 6 in your wallet at the time of the Challenge you will be able to claim a new “Illuminated Beings” Light Painting. There will be 8 new “Illuminated Beings” released. We will be presenting a new Challenge every 88 days to collectors. There will also be exciting Light Painting Air Drops for collectors. Challenges and/or Airdrops will be announced on my Instagram, Facebook and Twitter Pages. 

MY PLEDGE TO MY COLLECTORS
The long term success, integrity and value of my Light Painting Work is something that is extremely important to me. My pledge to you is that I will do everything that I can do to provide value to my collectors and increase the value of my work over time.

Making of Light Painted Golden Tickets

As our Light Painting Art Form grows there are so many good things that are happening, but unfortunately within this growth there will also be people looking to take advantage of our knowledge, our reputations and the community we have built. As a Light Painter and the owner of the Light Painting Brushes Brand I am in a unique position to understand that there is a whole lot more that goes into building a successful Light Painting Tool company than just making something that Lights up. Just a few of the things that I think are important are community, providing excellent customer service, delivering products when you say you are going to, having the ability to understand and answer a customers technical questions not only about the product but also about how to achieve the Light Painting results they are after and most importantly is having INTEGRITY in everything you do. As more Light Painting companies pop up, most just copy cats, I think it’s important for the community to hear what is going on behind the scenes with some of these companies. This is one story.

Light Painter Roy Wang has a valuable lesson to share with the Light Painting Community. Recently Roy was approached by a Chinese lighting manufacturer (I am not going to mention the name) with the idea of creating a Light Painting Tool. Roy was excited about the idea and so he got to work right away designing a tool that he thought would be good for the Light Painting Community. Unfortunately Roy trusted the word of the company and did not get a contract in place before he shared his design.

The short version of this story is that the company took Roy’s design, his years of experience, his knowledge and used it to create a working product that they have now brought to market. This tool is Roy’s design. The company is using Roy’s design, his knowledge, his reputation and even his images to sell this Light Painting tool but has never paid Roy for any of his work.

MOST IMPORTANTLY: Now this company is trying to cut Roy out of the picture completely. This company has stopped communicating with Roy and is approaching other established Light Painters in our community. They are offering Light Painters this Light Painting Tool for free or a small fee in exchange for the online promotion of this tool.

I think this is an excellent opportunity for the Light Painting Community to stand together and show that these actions will not be supported in our community. If you have been approached or are approached by a company offering a tool similar to what Roy shows in his pictures I hope you will shine a bright light and stand for integrity in this situation however you see fit.

I have reached out to the company for their side of the story and have not received a response, when I do I will update this article.

UPDATE: The company responded and admitted that they did work with Roy (and other artists) and used his ideas to created this tool. Unfortunately they do not see anything wrong with these types of practices. Below is a screen shot of the message.

OPENING RECEPTION:
Wear Dark Clothes : Light Painters
Friday, March 18th, 2022 from 6 to 9 PM
Thames Art Center, 147 Thames St, Brooklyn, NY 11237, located between the Jefferson and Morgan L train.

ONE NIGHT ONLY in the Bushwick community- ‘Cha’ Chanette Manso (co-founder of French Light Painting League) and guest artists Eric Mellinger, Eva Mueller, and Mehdi Irhzal come together for an exhibition of images created with light-painting techniques; part photography, part performance, curated by Izzy Nova.

The exhibiting artists have worked beyond the naked eye, working invisibly to compose their pictures from both sides of the camera using an array of lighting devices to transform their subjects. Representing the multidisciplinary practices and personal aesthetics of each artist, the pieces on view are also informed by dance, calligraphy, photography, and creative programming to bring light to their subjects.

Wear Dark Clothes: Light Painters aims to share the local light painting community’s makings and highlight the recent work of Chanette Manso, who will be exhibiting her long-exposure, multi-dimensional deconstructions of New York’s landscapes taken during the pandemic. The exhibition will also include an installation of personal light painting artifacts, many customized for a particular image in mind, behind-the-scenes videos, and a unique app experience for insight.

Find out why creatives around the world cannot wait for the dark in this glowing event. Visit https://flow.page/chanettemanso for more information.