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Museu das Favelas, São Paulo
Situated in the vibrant city of São Paulo, Brazil, the Museo das Favelas is a cultural and educational center dedicated to celebrating and preserving the culture of favelas. The museum works to bring together the favela community and other members of society to foster a better understanding of the culture and history of favelas. Through its educational programs, exhibitions and events, the museum provides a unique opportunity to learn more about the favela community and their culture. The museum also features a library full of materials related to favelas, as well as a space for workshops and other activities. With its commitment to preserving and promoting favela culture, the Museo das Favelas is a must-visit destination for anyone interested in learning more about this unique and vibrant Brazilian community.
From Brazilian Rainforest to Blockchain Smart Contacts
How do you get from these numbers now blockchain smart contracts in carbon credit?
The basic idea is to sell large emission volumes of rights to neutralize CO2 emissions for industry, retail and also large events such as international fairs, sporting events and concerts.
Political Violence on the Streets - NFT photography project looking at October 2022
The new NFT photography project looks back at the years 2015 and 2016. Can we guess what may lie ahead for Brazil in October 2022? To what extent can one of the largest and also youngest democracies in the world be further shaken to its foundations?
When photography becomes an adventure - Lost Places
Discover new worlds! Go in search of hidden treasures with your camera. Research things that are gladly kept quiet. Document what should be swept under the carpet. Go on an excursion into the unknown. It may be waiting for you around the next corner!
Exploring cities can be a real thrill in itself. But if you take your camera with you, you can start photographing urban explorations. Not only will you be able to visit these mysterious and haunted places, but you'll also be able to capture their mood and magic with your camera.
It's not uncommon for the most amazing locations to be off the beaten tourist path, often only accessible via trails, often hidden behind fences and walls. For the most part, you don't have to travel long distances to get there. It is not infrequently a special mixture of urban and architectural photography. So in the immediate vicinity.
Adriana Varejão - Sutura - Fissura - Ruínas
The Pinacoteca de São Paulo, a museum of the Ministry of Culture and Creative Industries of the State of São Paulo, presents until August 01, 2022, the Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão with her latest exhibition: Sutures, Fissures, Ruínas. The exhibition is the most comprehensive ever organized on Varejão's work, bringing together for the first time a significant group of more than 60 works from 1985 to 2022. Adriana Varejão can be described, without exaggeration, as one of the most expressive Brazilian artists of the present day.
Her works are characterized by an evolutionary, repetitive and radical exploration of Brazil's visual history, European traditions and the conventions and material codes of European art production and their influence and interpretation in Brazil's local mixed cultures, in the timeline of her works.
Mastercard simplifies the purchase of NFTs
To simplify this process and ensure access to NFTs for everyone, Mastercard has announced a partnership with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase that will allow Mastercard cards to be used to purchase NFTs on Coinbase's upcoming marketplace. Coinbase is an investor in OpenSea.
Globally, work is feverishly underway to make NFTs more accessible. For years, the trend across the digital economy has been to make all technologies inclusive. Blockchain technology in particular is still a big mystery to many. And every single cryptocurrency is its own blockchain. And economies of scale apply again in this technology: including more people in new technologies drives innovation, supports economic growth, and expands opportunities for users and consumers.
Mastercard's entry into the NFT market is intended to increase security in addition to facilitating purchases. Here, it is important to note that it is not the blockchain itself that poses the risk, but mostly intermediate trading platforms between the end customer and the crypo-wallet.
And it is at this point that Mastercard will provide its full expertise in the field of cybersecurity capabilities to ensure that customer data is protected and purchased NFTs are secure.
Blog: Pros & Cons of NFTs - Part Two - Cons.
The hype around digital certificates is a pyramid scheme.
NFTs are on everyone's lips. In all media you can read information about them every day, podcast series are booming.
In last week's blog we dared to try to work out the basic pros. This week, we look at the cons.
Pros & Cons of NFTs - Part One - Pros.
Digital certificates are becoming an asset class just like others
NFTs are on everyone's lips. You can read information about them in all media on a daily basis, podcast series are booming.
In this and the coming week we want to dare with our blog an attempt to work out once the basic pros and cons. This week we start with the pros.
Amazônia - Sebastião Salgado: a photo exhibition at the right moment, in the right country
After completing the truly epic photographic monument Genesis, a photographic exploration of the untouched nature of our planet in its divine creative genius, the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado turned his attention to his native Brazil. And here to a region that, without a doubt, daily passes through the world press: Amazonas.
NFTs are crashing and liquidity is dwindling!
The average price of an NFT has fallen more than 50% since its peak in November 2021 and has been around US$2,500 for the past two weeks. That may also be somewhat understandable. After all, the world currently has other things to do than worry about digital graphics and images.
Why NFTs? The whole thing is just beginning!
Why NFTs? The whole thing is just beginning! With our startup project we want to constantly develop new photographic portfolios. They should represent the contemporary situation and connect the historical points in the time line. For this purpose, NFT projects will be taken out of the portfolios at irregular intervals and transferred to the digital minting process.
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We try to reflect the basic idea of Web3, according to which the data belong to the user and data are stored decentrally.
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Thus, we also want to ensure that the largest possible number of interested readers, linked through the most diverse portals, can participate in the discussions in the most transparent way.
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Also, curated digital photo projects are regularly turned into NFT and marketed on open digital commerce platforms.
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