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FAQ
What are Orang Bunian NFTs?
This is a collection of 7777 NFTs with really monotonous figures, in which the unique traits of each token are simply based on the randomly and generatively composed seven colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple). Each token (just called it Bunian) constitutes a picture of seven spirits and one modified background. 7762 of them have a color composition that was generated from 312 possible traits categorized into 44 layers, some traits are rarer than the others. The 11 other tokens are rarer than the 7762 tokens for there is simple improvisation in their narrative context and each only has one exclusive trait that is not part of the 312 color traits. Meanwhile, the 4 remaining tokens are, basically, a 1/1.
Does Bunian collection have utility?
No, it does not. THIS COLLECTION HAS NO UTILITY! Mint these Bunians as long as you love arts and as long as these images and stories inspire you. If you can critically re-question your surroundings and see things differently and wisely because this project encourages you to do that, you deserve to be a persistent traveler who will never stop searching and finding as many Bunians as possible. By minting the Bunians, it means you support the attempts of local knowledge archiving and distribution through and into the blockchain realm. Just in case you do not feel those mentioned aspects but you still want to see the color composition experiment, please mint with money you can afford to lose.
How much does it cost to mint 1 NFT of Orang Bunian?
It cost 3 FTM to mint 1 NFT of Orang Bunian, then you can feel the impression of its color composition. There is a 2.5% royalty that goes to the team from secondary sales.
How many Bunian can I mint at once and keep in my wallet?
You can mint as many as 20 Bunians at once. Maximum mint per wallet address is limited to 100 Bunians.
Where can I see my Bunians?
Before the collection is listed on the secondary marketplaces, especially NFTKEY, usually you can see them on TofuNFT in your wallet.
Will the supply be cut sometime in the future?
BIG NO! Orang Bunian will never cut its supply.
Other links:
Twitter Orang Bunian, Twitter Non-Blok Movement, Discord, Fantom Watch Page
Roadmap
- A new series of 1/1 Orang Bunian with different visual narratives will be produced shortly after 200 of 7777 Bunians minted.
- Listing to secondary markets will be applied when someone has successfully minted Dunian The Sorcerer bringing the Stone of Dunian.
Artistic Statement
The folklore of the Bunian people generally sounds very scary. Not only remains as a childhood memory of how the old people frighten you with this story at that time so you did not wander in the woods alone at dusk, but the tales of the Bunian people also still live on in every little talk of travelers, hunters, and forest rangers in Sumatra. However, we should be able to see how the folklore about the Bunian people is preserved in the daily life of the village people who really love and care about their natural environment. These stories circulate in oral traditions and become a means for local communities to protect their lands and forests from exploiters. Mystical stories, the lores of the unseen, are cultural manifestations that have the power and potential to raise our awareness of cosmological balance.
Orang Bunian Giveaways
The Orang Bunian Giveaways series is a 1/1 NFTs collection produced to celebrate important Local Days, National Days and World Days, which are related to the theme of the Orang Bunian folklore.
Creation completed on 18 March 2022
Seven days after the genesis, the God accompanied by the Bunian Angels came to the Jungle of Kelinti Capung, giving the sprout of tale to the young Raconteur. By this sprout, the earth born, the fairy tales bred. Throughout the ages, the wiser Raconteur propagated the virtue by telling various tales, including those about the creation of tales themselves.
This illustration took inspiration from (and intended to be a derivative form of) an Italian Renaissance painting by Michelangelo, Creation of Adam.
It was created to celebrate World Storytelling Day (20 March 2022) and International Day of Forests (21 March 2022).
Creation completed on 16 March 2022
Once upon a time, Bunian The Raconteur told the origins of fairy tales to the Bunian people in the middle of the Kelinti Capung Forest. He also told how fairy tales had been the main source of energy for the life of the Bunian people, and how fairy tales were adopted by humans to keep their social relations. Since long ago, The Raconteur has been always reminding Bunians that all fairy tales can be a very subtle mechanism of protection, as well as destruction.
In this illustration, you can see Bunian The Gajang (the green one), Bunian The Hunter (the blue one), Bunian The Sorcerer (the orange one), Bunian The Congregation (the purple one), Bunian The Follower (the yellow one), and Bunian The Resident (the indigo one) were listening to the storyteller telling a metafairytale at the a century after the Bunian genesis happened.
It was created to celebrate World Storytelling Day (20 March 2022) and International Day of Forests (21 March 2022).
Creation completed on 31 March 2022
One night in March 2022, seven contemporary Bunians were sitting leisurely while enjoying an offering in the middle of the Kelinti Capung Jungle. That was an offering from some humans wishing the blessings and help of the Bunians. Those humans ask for being free from stress and mental health problems in their routine days. Whether the Bunians would give their gift or not later to the begging humans, they seemed to be engrossed that night in watching the movie. The film is about the story of Captain Sudarto and his Siliwangi Division doing a long march from Central Java to West Java.
The practice of offerings to supernatural beings is common in any community around the world. Especially in Southeast Asia, making offerings is considered an important and very valuable cultural manifestation for some people. The contents of the offerings can vary. Interestingly, not a few people who believe in technological developments even think that spirits will also be willing to enjoy the offerings in the form of watching movies. The background story of this artwork was inspired by May Adadol Ingawanij who run a project called Animistic Apparatus. In addition, the part of the moving image that appears in this illustration is the digital tracing of one of the scenes in the third film created by Usmar Ismail, The Long March (1950).
It was created to celebrate Indonesian National Film Day (30 March 2022).