Anyone who has been brave enough to wade into the alternate universe, which is the NFT space, knows that there is a plethora of different races, ethnicities, backgrounds, qualifications, and professionals that make up the industry. In fact, the NFT space is often a place where professionals looking to do something daring, looking to reinvent themselves, often turn. Just like in traditional business, there are people of all skill sets paving the way forward, and innovating in the relatively new world. Mr Wizard (WlZARDNFT) is one such person.
NFTs have the ability to change the way we transact goods, services, cash, and legal documents. For instance, in Florida, there is already a push to NFT-ify the deed to houses and the legal documents associated with them. However, for the moment, the vast majority of NFTs are art-adjacent projects created by visionary designers, sold (or minted) in order to raise funds for various business and creative ventures. NFTs, as art, simply make sense. A token that one holds, that acts as a share in that project’s future–and it comes with a cool piece of art attached to it.
Mr Wizard, AKA Kal McKay, is one of the professionals that recognized an opportunity in the NFT space for someone of his skill set. In the NFT space, Mr Wizard is a Senior Visual Designer & Metaphysical Creator. He is the Senior Visual Designer at Legends.io, where he creates design solutions and experiences for brands and audiences. He specializes in art, creativity, interface design and graphic design.
In real life, or IRL, as the NFT heads would say, Kal McKay was creative director at Onica, an online cloud solution. He spent his 20-year career creating design solutions for, and not limited to, Canadian projects, Onica, Rackspace, USA Politics and more. Not exactly the career trajectory you might expect for someone who now calls themselves a “Metaphysician” that goes by the name Mr Wizard.
Now as Mr Wizard, Kal McKay has over 180,000 Twitter followers, 100,000 Instagram followers, and a legion of diehards on Telegram. Mr Wizard is what one would call an influencer in the NFT space. He delivers NFT news, awards and showcases via his platform, NFT MAGAZINE, he puts on NFT design contests, and hosts art battles. All this while doing cash giveaways from his Twitter account to the tune of thousands of dollars.
In a budding industry, where today’s nobodies can be tomorrow’s superstars, there isn’t a person alive who can’t make their mark. Those in the creative fields have a distinct advantage over the competition (apart from the programmers), because the NFT space, as it stands, is hyper-creative. Not only does visual art and written content have to be a staple of most new NFT projects, it takes a bit of a visionary to recognize the potential that lies beneath the tumultuous surface of this industry.
“My passion is creating beautiful things where nothing existed before,” said Mr Wizard when asked about his role in this brave new digital world. This is probably the right attitude to have if you’re a professional looking to make the transition to the blockchain. Be bold, be creative, be daring, be determined–and success will follow.
Editor’s note
I asked Kal what a metaphysician was. He told me, “a metaphysician is someone who activates self-awareness through visual art and strategic enlightenment.” I thought that sounded pretty cool.
