(Please do not lick the images. Thank you.)
Oh...SWEET! One-of-a-kind photos of your favorite treats, taken by a somewhat famous photographer, whose other works are hactually in museums! You are buying the ONLY ONE, the "1/1" of the image. Each photo has exquisite detail and is exactly like the treat you remember. (Did you know that jelly bean surfaces actually have texture?!) Each image was individually made (no photoshop tricks here!) and is marked with the photographer's unique "chop" signature. Not merely a photo of a lolly, but a work of highly collectible individual art.
Looks great - takes you back to your childhood. Straight from the kitchen at Al's Good Eats!
Looks great - takes you back to your childhood. Straight from the kitchen at Al's Good Eats!
Why Al's Good Eats?
When I moved here 50 years ago, there was a "greasy spoon" diner on a corner downtown. The old green plaster building was tiny, with only a few stools and a couple of booths. With peeling paint and years of neglect, it was pretty run-down even back then. That was "Als Good Eats". Now it's a parking lot, but I've never forgotten it. I just wanted to honor that memory, and the days of diners gone bye.
When I moved here 50 years ago, there was a "greasy spoon" diner on a corner downtown. The old green plaster building was tiny, with only a few stools and a couple of booths. With peeling paint and years of neglect, it was pretty run-down even back then. That was "Als Good Eats". Now it's a parking lot, but I've never forgotten it. I just wanted to honor that memory, and the days of diners gone bye.
What's that thing in the bottom corner?
It's a chop of my last name. A "chop" is a Chinese stamp or seal belonging to the artist or author of a work. My last name is Valleau, which means water in a valley. The chop is written in ancient "seal" script, a form of writing that is more than 1000 years old.
My photography, including these NFTs, is designed with a physical print in mind. These minimalist images were really designed to be printed and hung on a wall.
The chop is actually an embossment, pressed into the paper, as my seal of authenticity, but in these NFTs, it is also a graphic design element. The placement of the image is done with the placement of the chop in mind. It lends what is called "artistic tension" to the design, and takes the image from just a picture to an artistic vision.
About these images
Each image offer extraordinary detail, seldom found in mere pictures. You may think that a jelly bean is totally smooth, but it is not, and each of these images shows detail you'd never expect. The level of realism in these images is really surprising.
Each object was individually photographed and edited. There is no Photoshop duplication going on here, so each image is an original work of art.
Each image offer extraordinary detail, seldom found in mere pictures. You may think that a jelly bean is totally smooth, but it is not, and each of these images shows detail you'd never expect. The level of realism in these images is really surprising.
Each object was individually photographed and edited. There is no Photoshop duplication going on here, so each image is an original work of art.
About the artist and these NFTs
I started photography over 60 years ago, and now (I'm honored to say) my work is held by museums and corporate collections. (You can learn more if you wish, by visiting my website at https://valleau.art.)
These NFTs were created because I wanted to create some photographs what will make you smile and to bring back great memories. Simple as that! (How could candy be anything else?) Each piece looks good enough to eat :-)
And honestly, the older I get, the more I think about leaving something for my wife, so I hope you folks like these images. :-)
I started photography over 60 years ago, and now (I'm honored to say) my work is held by museums and corporate collections. (You can learn more if you wish, by visiting my website at https://valleau.art.)
These NFTs were created because I wanted to create some photographs what will make you smile and to bring back great memories. Simple as that! (How could candy be anything else?) Each piece looks good enough to eat :-)
And honestly, the older I get, the more I think about leaving something for my wife, so I hope you folks like these images. :-)
What you are buying and other stuff
Each image is represented by one (and only one) NFT. While I (the artists/creator) retain the full copyright to each work, you are purchasing the exclusive right to the NFT and to its ONE attendant print.
Each NFT has ONE and ONLY one embossed print associated with it. It is printed by the artist on 13 x 19 paper, and sent rolled in a tube. As the original purchaser, you may request the physical print be sent to you, or you may elect to not redeem the print, and the right to the physical print will pass to the next purchaser. Once the physical print has been sent to a purchaser, NO further prints will be created and the relationship of the NFT and the ability to redeem for an embossed print is severed.
If you have both the NFT -and- the embossed print, and want to resell the NFT, then you must include the physical print in the sale, and transfer both to the new owner.
The artist will not be responsible for, nor mediate, any disconnection between the print and the NFT in subsequent resales.
A list of redeemed and available prints is available on this website, or by contacting the artist using the form on this website.
As the current owner of the NFT, you have the right to make your own personal print of the image. That right is for a print on paper ONLY. You may not resell that print, nor may you print it on other surfaces such as t-shirts, cards, coffee cups, canvas or so on. Such a print is exclusively and only for your own display and enjoyment. Any other use or sale is a violation of the copyright owner's legal rights.
The one and only physical print can be identified by the actual "chop" pressure-embossed into the paper, in the lower right hand corner. That print is "attached" to the NFT owner, and may be transferred upon resale. Owning the embossed "original" artists print should enhance the value of your NFT.
Each image is represented by one (and only one) NFT. While I (the artists/creator) retain the full copyright to each work, you are purchasing the exclusive right to the NFT and to its ONE attendant print.
Each NFT has ONE and ONLY one embossed print associated with it. It is printed by the artist on 13 x 19 paper, and sent rolled in a tube. As the original purchaser, you may request the physical print be sent to you, or you may elect to not redeem the print, and the right to the physical print will pass to the next purchaser. Once the physical print has been sent to a purchaser, NO further prints will be created and the relationship of the NFT and the ability to redeem for an embossed print is severed.
If you have both the NFT -and- the embossed print, and want to resell the NFT, then you must include the physical print in the sale, and transfer both to the new owner.
The artist will not be responsible for, nor mediate, any disconnection between the print and the NFT in subsequent resales.
A list of redeemed and available prints is available on this website, or by contacting the artist using the form on this website.
As the current owner of the NFT, you have the right to make your own personal print of the image. That right is for a print on paper ONLY. You may not resell that print, nor may you print it on other surfaces such as t-shirts, cards, coffee cups, canvas or so on. Such a print is exclusively and only for your own display and enjoyment. Any other use or sale is a violation of the copyright owner's legal rights.
The one and only physical print can be identified by the actual "chop" pressure-embossed into the paper, in the lower right hand corner. That print is "attached" to the NFT owner, and may be transferred upon resale. Owning the embossed "original" artists print should enhance the value of your NFT.