Beer from the fog and a “piece of emptiness”: how people make money “out of thin air”
Entrepreneurial people from different countries figured out how to make money "out of thin air" Photo: © Unsplash, video screenshot Read ren.tv at If you think that only illusionists can make money out of thin air, then you are mistaken. In Argentina, enterprising citizens make money on holes, a Briton… In Argentina, enterprising citizens make money out of thin air, and in Peru they sell beer created from fog. Italian artist Salvatore Garau put up for sale his sculpture called “I Am” for sale, but many have decided that this is just a piece of emptiness. Pictures created with the help of animals in Russia, they taught tailed animals to earn their own food by creating paintings. In Russia, cats have been turned into contemporary artists who create works in the fashionable NFT genre. In Singapore, a fitness bracelet will download data from the fitness bracelet and analyze the pressure and heart rate. In Argentina, citizens sell money on coins for 12 pesos, while in Argentina, they sell two coins for two pesos.
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If you think that only illusionists can make money out of thin air, then you are mistaken. In Argentina, enterprising citizens make money on holes, a Briton made a fortune producing a supermodel that never existed, in Peru they sell beer created from fog, and in Singapore you can get decent money for a sound sleep. How much can you earn in such unusual ways? Talks about it program “Science and Technology” with Mikhail Borzenkov on REN TV.
Italian artist Salvatore Garau put up for sale his sculpture called “I Am”. Many have decided that this is just a piece of emptiness, but the author of the work does not agree with this. He claims: there is a sculpture, it’s just invisible, as it was created from energy, strength and thoughts. “I spent a lot of energy while creating my sculptures, I constantly looked into the void. To install the work “I am” in the house, you need to prepare the space – to clear the area of one and a half meters from the negative”Garau explained. A solid piece of emptiness was put up for auction and sold for a million in terms of rubles.
Pictures created with the help of animals In Russia, they taught tailed animals to earn their own food by creating paintings. In 50 shelters, cats have been turned into contemporary artists who create works in the fashionable NFT genre. To do this, the beast just needs to step importantly on the keyboard. “A special program used by cats transforms accidental keystrokes in the keyboard into words. The neural network that creates the image perceives these words as a script for creating images. Thus, accidental keystrokes with their paws can be generated by cats into a real work of modern art”– Yulia Babenko, director of the Charity Fund for Animals, shared the details. Masterpieces are uploaded to the Internet and sold there for real money. The proceeds are used to help animals. True, four-legged artists are still far from the fees of the Italian avant-garde artist. The cost of their paintings is from 200 to 900 rubles.
Fashion model Shudu Graham earns a lot of money – her annual income is about 10 million in terms of rubles. The girl signs contracts with fashion houses and regularly appears on the covers of fashion magazines. Only one thing: no girl in reality does not exist. Graham is the world’s first digital fashion model. It was created by British artist Cameron-James Wilson, and it is he who now receives her fees. “In fact, I do not strive for realism. My inspiration comes from fashion, which is already on the verge of fantasy. Agree, she also interprets our real life unrealistically. But I am very grateful to Shud, even though she is not real. She changed my life”– admits the artist, the creator of the virtual model Cameron-James Wilson. To make Shudu look like a living artist, the artist still has to work. He painstakingly works out her appearance in photo and video editors.
In Singapore, they are launching an application in which they promise to add money to the account every morning for a quality night’s rest. It will download data from the fitness bracelet and then analyze the pressure and heart rate. The longer a person has been at rest, the more money he will receive. “Each of us can earn while lying in bed. The application will pay more than $ 10 per night. You can then withdraw money and get real cash. You just need to follow the regime and sleep at least seven hours a day”– said blogger Regal Wil. According to scientists, the average person spends a third of his life in bed – about 25 years. During this time, you can sleep 7.5 million rubles.
And in Argentina, they began to sell money, and with great profit. Resourceful citizens sell two-peso coins for 12 pesos. The fact is that the country has monstrous inflation, in March 2023 its level exceeded 100%. The national currency is rapidly depreciating, in contrast to the precious metals from which the core of the two-peso coin is made. “In the middle of a coin of 2 pesos, there are 75% copper and 25% nickel. These are expensive metals. Now the cost of the alloy from which the money is made is six times their face value”– explained the numismatist Elias Ovelar Delazua. Latin Americans hand over their money for scrap metal and make good money on it. But such a business plan is unlikely to work if you do not have Argentine pesos.
How money is made out of thin air Juan Alvarado from Colombia figured out how to make money out of thin air. He took small bottles and filled them with the scent of his hometown of Medellin. And queues line up for such a souvenir. During the day, the Colombian schemer sells more than fifty empty bottles with branded labels. 200 milliliters of air cost about 500 rubles. “This collector’s edition is air from the 2022 flower fair. There are other samples. To create them, I developed a special collector for air intake. It allows you to exclude extraneous odors. But I won’t tell you how the collector works, this is a company secret. After all my idea can be stolen”– said entrepreneur Juan Carlos Alvarado.
The Chileans also figured out how to make money out of thin air, only out of wet air, and they are willing to share their technology. Local brewers have learned how to brew an intoxicating drink from fog. “We collect water particles from the air using screens with a fine fine mesh. In it, the mist turns into drops and rolls down. And then it enters the hose and descends into the collectors”said Atacama fog catcher Camilo del Rio. Chilean brewers live in the Atacama Desert. There is practically no rain here, but dense fog settles every morning. Every day, it is possible to collect up to 400 liters of pure water from it. “Water evaporates in the Pacific Ocean, the clouds rise up and bump into the coastal mountains. So our desert became a misty oasis. When we ran out of water, we decided to collect it directly from the clouds. It is very soft water, which makes great beer. We we brew 24 thousand liters a year”said Miguel Carcuro, producer of misty beer.