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The Station Podcast covers NFTs, art, and the metaverse. Brought to you by Collectify.app.

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This week’s guest is Roberta Railaitė, a Vilnius-based freelance illustrator and crypto artist known for her dark but thoughtfully melancholic work.

Using a striking and moody palette of reds, blues, black, and white, she creates haunting scenes that delve into the human psyche.

Her art explores themes of anxiety, fear, and dread, with underlying desires for love and understanding, masterfully conveyed through tones, shapes, and colors.

In This Episode, We Discuss

  • Childhood cartoon influences:
    • Dragonball Z
    • Samurai Jack
    • Courage the Cowardly Dog - “return the slab”
  • How Roberta’s work developed after therapy
  • ‘Insatiable Hunger’ - Pigs heads and George Orwell ”So the pig head is just an homage, my trauma”
  • Relating to Orwell’s work through Lithuania’s Soviet past
  • ‘A memory from the past’ - Genesis piece of SuperRare and one of Roberta’s favorite
  • ‘Big Sister’ - Collaboration with Dead Seagull
  • ‘The Darkest Alley’ - collaboration with Ryan D. Anderson (https://twitter.com/RailaiteR/status/1631550426905542659?s=20)
  • Roberta’s a big fan of Samira Ingold (RA:IN) and Lion Young
  • On being full-time for around 18 months.
  • The importance of getting offline and touching some grass
  • Let’s all calm down a bit, especially around challenging subjects. Shifting focus from the drama that pops up all the time.
  • Advice for new people in the space: “just find people you really vibe with”
  • Letting the ideas come to you. Roberta starts with compositions, and builds from there. The story builds itself.
  • Digital illustration was self-taught for Roberta, she still uses her WACOM tablet and stylus and photoshop, After Effects for animation.
  • Roberta’s recognisable colour palette, her journey in developing it. The red is especially important to her - Twin Peaks reference!
  • Zdzisław Beksiński, ( za-jee-zwav bek-chinski ) as a source of inspiration, an artist who is renowned for his dark subject matter, as well as his own gruesome murder. How his work reminds Roberta of weird AI art. HR Giger too.
  • Marina Abramovic, queen of performance art.
  • Be the good and inspire others to do more good, and give your friends compliments!

Roberta’s Links

  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/RailaiteR
  • Website: https://railaiter.com/
  • Interview: https://www.iseeyou.gallery/post/interview-with-roberta-railaitė

Connect with us:

  • Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA

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In this episode, we speak to Boxhead.

Born in Spain, Boxhead is a multicultural artist and fashion designer, whose creative vision is inspired by urbanism, architecture, and society's emotional responses to established norms.

Her artistic journey began in Amsterdam, where she discovered her passion for street art and its potential to effect social change.

The moniker "Boxhead" not only represents her artistic identity but also symbolizes the inner world we all inhabit. The character she portrays in all of her works is a girl with her head enclosed within a box, representing our fears, dreams, and aspirations.

In this episode, we discuss

  • Managing an online presence as an artist
  • Different ways of discovering your community: education, warehouse-living, online
  • Creating Boxhead, working with her as a character for 14 years
  • Boxhead’s career journey, from photography retouching to being collected and painting a mural for the Guggenheim family.
  • A negative experience with t collectors shook her confidence in the traditional art world. Boxhead took a step back for a while to work on her childhood dream of being a fashion designer.
  • The onset of the pandemic and shifting into NFTs, a new start for Boxhead’s art career - her first sale paid the lawyer that helped her recover her paintings from the Guggenheims.
  • Joining the Foundation Discord, becoming a mod and spending time connecting with people in the industry alongside learning animation on Blender - she is 100% self-taught
  • Boxhead’s first piece: “Breathe in, breathe out” , contemplating what medium to use for NFTs. Purchased by Chantel Martin, another artist who Boxhead is a fan of.
  • Returning to murals in future, and the artist Camille Walala
  • Street art in different cities
  • Challenges in the NFT space for artists
    • social media burnout
    • the disparity in incentives between creators and some of the platforms
    • understanding the difference between traders, collectors, artists and the grey areas in between
  • Using our experience to guide the way for new entrants to the NFT space
  • The importance of focusing on your work and keeping out the noise
  • Boxhead’s desire to see collectors learn more about art history, the artists' role in doing that
  • The historical precedence of the relationship between collector and artist in shaping tastes
  • Shoutout to ORB @Orbtastic

Boxhead's Links

  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/BoxheadTweets
  • Website: https://t.co/tVOPNDbVyL

Connect with us:

  • Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA

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Reginald De Le Grarbs (usually known as just Reggie) is a well-known curator in the NFT art space.

After building a reputation as a thoughtful and friendly collector and community member, Reggie has brought his wealth of background experience to build his new project ‘Sundays’, a series of animations in collaboration with a myriad of artists.

In this episode, we discuss

  • no matter our path, we can find ways to use the skills we picked up along the way
  • Reggie’s journey from Theatre arts, to fintech, to crypto and NFTs, and his first NFTs
  • the early days of Pfp projects, and talking about their future
  • Crypto Punks as art with staying power
  • Preferring Investing in artists and their futures
  • Artblocks as the gateway back in after a short break
    • Meridian by Matt DesLauriers
    • Fragments of an Infinite Field by Monica Rizzolli
  • Reggie’s approach to collecting
  • Geopepe by @batzdu
  • Reggie’s love for NFT Photography
  • NFT photography as an undervalued category in the bear market
  • The photography of @JordHammond
  • The importance for artists to participate in the wider community. Get active on Twitter, talk to people.
  • Creators stepping up to be the sales and marketing person for their own work and themselves as an artist. “I don’t think I’ve seen an artist succeed that hasn’t really gotten involved”
  • The photographer @GuidoDisalle as a good example of self-marketing on Twitter
  • “I think of building a network as a very important step for everybody. - it’s building friends who are really good at what they do”
  • You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with
  • AI moving past controversy and becoming normal
  • AI as a gateway drug for creativity
  • Reggie’s AI art project
  • Using the pet project as a means of escape and relaxation from an otherwise chaotic and busy life
  • Reggie’s first mint, and making the leap to listing his work for sale
  • Reggie’s new project ‘Sundays’, a series of collaborative animations.
    • NFT launch in March, with two tiers: patron and founder
    • Patron is an all-access pass, everything dropped and claimable
    • Founder pass, more affordable, requires more engagement though
    • Using open editions, a new Patreon model
  • Animation is the future; technology is making it possible
  • What else to expect from Sundays

Links to Reggie

  • Reggie’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReggieGrarbs
  • Sundays Twitter: https://twitter.com/sundays_wtf
  • Reggie’s interview on SuperRare: https://superrare.com/features/reginald-de-le-grarbs?utm_source=twitter_superrare&utm_medium=social&utm_content=current_feature

Connect with us:

  • Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA

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Everfresh, aka Sebastian Pfeifer, is a multimedia designer, animator and music composer from Germany. A lot of people will instantly recognize his mesmerizing looping animations and smooth beats.

In This Episode We Discuss

  • The different NFT scenes in ETH and Tezos
  • Everfresh’s latest Open Edition: ‘Nice things ain’t for you’
  • The importance of promoting your work, especially around a new release
  • Playing with NFT mechanics
  • Thoughts on burning
  • Bicycle day, 4/19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lysergic_acid_diethylamide#"Bicycle_Day"
  • Psychedelic influences
  • Everfresh’s creative process for starting a new piece of work, he starts with music, then lets that inform the animation, but no plan ahead of time
  • Self-teaching electronic music following passion
  • Everfresh’s early career, skipping uni and going straight to work
  • Growing up around Mainz, living in the countryside
  • Everfresh’s intro into web3 and the story of his first sale
  • Creating short-form vs long-form animation
  • Holding true to your style in the face of the market
  • Advice for new artists in the space:
  • “The first thing you want to do is get into peoples wallets”. He recommends artists build an audience of collectors and connect with the community, Tezos is still a great place to do this. Things are less silo’d now.

Links to Everfresh

  • Everfresh’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/everfreshdesign
  • Website: https://everfresh-design.de/about

Connect with us:

  • Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA

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This week, we chat with Texas-based digital artist DeltaSauce who uses AI to assist in the creation of his striking, nostalgic artworks. This episode is packed with advice and encouragement for new artists in the space.

We chat:

  • Deltasauce’s latest Open Edition ‘War Games’
  • The gradual acceptance of AI tools
  • Delta’s background as an artist and sculptor
  • How a love of writing feeds into AI creation
  • the World Delta is building and its touching on core memories and the past
  • The Comfort series and its success
  • Imbuing meaning into the work, and how that makes the best AI art
  • Exploration first, taking the knowledge and moving forward
  • Above all keep exploring and learning
  • Burn redeems and gameification of art NFTS
  • “It’s a chance to lead people on adventures”
  • Moving on from ‘Floor Prices’, focusing on giving value to editions holders and reciprocating the support
  • “Oversaturation, we're in a digital marketplace. There is no oversaturation. There is supply and demand. You can fill your supply until demand is met and then whatever is left over is left over. At the end of the day, I don't see the whole argument with scarcity anymore.”
  • Not pandering to flippers, “i don’t want my floor at 50eth in a year”
  • Delta’s comeback story from November till now
  • NFTs as a way to stay involved in the crypto-space during a bear market
  • Community
  • Dealing with bad actors in the space, and outsider intrusion from outside companies who don’t provide value and just extract
  • Artists buying more art, the investment into the person
  • Taking time and using some resources to invest in up-and-comers
  • Delta recommends:
    • Tex Trnr https://twitter.com/textrnr
    • Paul Reid https://twitter.com/Minotaur_Man
  • Connection with collectors, becoming friends with your audience
  • Valuing AI Art and art in general
  • Delta’s process, editing and working back into pieces.
  • “It’s more like asset creation, then combining the assets to create a completely new image”
  • Cinematic influences and the importance of lighting
  • Creating an new atmosphere, real-life adjacent
  • Liminal spaces
  • Marfa, Texas
  • Photography
  • Delta’s first steps in the NFT world, starting out in 2021 on Polygon
  • The onboarding, UX and UI challenges of getting started in crypto - the obstacles to mass adoption
  • Security
  • Focus on your own journey, and get to work and enjoy it
  • You never know when success will come, so keep going
  • Surround yourself with great people

Connect with DeltaSauce

  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/delta_sauce
  • Linktree: https://linktr.ee/DeltaSauce

Connect with us:

  • Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA

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Lion Young (aka Leigh Young) is an animator, video producer, and music composer from Victoria, Australia.

His practice covers all aspects of design, direction, cinematography, sound, and motion graphics.

In this episode, we chat:

  • Building an audience on Instagram with educational content.
  • Giving real value in your content, and making the kind of things you would actually want to watch.
  • People love seeing behind the scenes, but it also gives a bit of proof that you’re doing it and not relying on an AI
  • The content treadmill, and embracing it
  • The importance for artists to cultivate their brand and identity, and honest messaging as opposed to ads.
  • Leigh’s education and background in Science videography
  • University and formal education, and self-teaching: creating space in your life to dedicate to learning
  • Leigh’s entry into NFTs and web3, his first mint
  • The ‘In Shadow’ project, on Superare https://superrare.com/series/0x1e1928cfae9c57c028da97f658610bf7b90db399
  • The role of music in Leigh’s work and his process
  • Music as a descriptor
  • Music as a dedicated activity, and creating more space for it in our lives
  • Different kinds of headphone experiences, over-ear, in-ear, wired, wireless, using a DAC, and outdoor listening
  • Music NFTS
  • Leigh’s piece “Strange Hills” https://app.manifold.xyz/c/strangehills
  • How he made this, as a digital painting with an animated loop
  • “I always wanted my work to be something that could be an impressionist painting that moved”
  • Other technical challenges in animation
  • Equipment and computing power
  • Advice for a new animator:
    • Richard Williams - Animators Survival Kit
    • Disney’s - 12 Principles of Animation
  • Learning how to teach yourself - the ultimate meta-skill
  • Some shout-outs, particularly Tito Merellow (@Tito_Merello)
  • The benefit of focusing on a single project or narrative, how to lean in and then how to lean out

Links

  • Lion’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/LionYoungArt
  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lionyoungmotion/
  • Website: https://www.lionyoung.net/
  • Superare: https://superrare.com/lionyoung

Connect with us:

  • Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA

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The Hiena is an animator, designer, and painter whose work is about exploring what makes us human and seeking to give comfort in the face of uniquely human hardships through moving paintings.

Hiena's Twitter [ https://twitter.com/thehienaart]

Show Notes:

  • Hiena’s background as a designer and transition into Animation
  • Safe jobs don’t exist, “you’re only safe if you’re doing what you enjoy doing”
  • Some of Hiena’s friends in the space:
    • Boxhead [https://twitter.com/BoxheadTweets]
    • Lion Young [https://twitter.com/LionYoungArt]
    • Strange Cintia [https://twitter.com/StrangeCintia]
    • Griff [https://twitter.com/GriffCrypto]
    • Everfresh [https://twitter.com/everfreshdesign]
  • Meetups and the power of real-life connections
  • The opportunity for networking in the NFT community, how it is so much easier than the traditional art world
  • How can we encourage more constructive feedback in this space?
  • Hiena’s education in Split Academy of Arts, the limitations of a small environment when it comes to building a network
  • The importance of soft skills alongside technical skills
  • Hiena’s work
  • Landscapes as people, how they can be conveyed uniquely through animation
  • Love Death and Robots, Chainsaw Man, Cowboy Bebop
  • ‘Ma’ in Japanese aesthetics
  • People need to spend more time out in nature, to touch some grass
    • “I'm leaving breadcrumbs on my terrace, and already birds are regularly coming”
  • Living on the coast, and Hiena’s upcoming project ‘Our Coastline’
  • Managing mental health
  • https://www.joyn.xyz/ providing work opportunities for creators in web3
  • World of Women and Yam Karkai
  • Focusing on impressing yourself with your work, not others
  • Upcoming collab with Griff
  • Practicalities of animation, how time-consuming it is as a medium
  • Using tools such as Blender, Procreate, Rough Animator - Hiena’s approach
  • How he learned to animate
  • Take your time, day-by-day. Keep making things.

Connect with us:

  • Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA

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GRIFF (aka, Matt Griffin) is a multimedia artist from Ireland, with clients including Disney, Lucasfilm, and Warner Bros. Griff embarked on his NFT journey in early 2020, and quickly gained notoriety for his slick sci-fi graphic style. His focus has been on world-building & finding new ways to tell stories, laying the groundwork for an epic, genre & media-fusing story universe.

In This Epsiode We Discuss

  • Griff’s background and journey to becoming a full-time illustrator
  • His work-life balance
  • Achieving the goal of illustrating Dune’s 2019 Special Edition [https://mattgriffin.artstation.com/projects/3ox2zE]
  • Early influences of Science Fiction and Fantasy: John Harris [https://www.alisoneldred.com/john-harris/illustration-1/science-fiction-and-fantasy-1/]
  • Paul Lehr [https://neotextcorp.com/culture/paul-lehr-unexpected-rhythms/]
  • Roger Dean [https://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/category/artist/roger-dean/]
  • Griff’s Folio Society cover for Rendezvous with Rama [https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/rendezvous-with-rama.html]
  • Ursula K. Le Guin - Lathe of Heaven, the Left Hand of Darkness
  • Ann Leckie - Ancillary Series, cover art by John Harris
  • Exploring the undiscovered continents of the imaginal
  • Griff’s trilogy of Novels: A Cage of Roots
  • Balancing detail and leaving things out, leveraging the audience’s imagination and gamified storytelling
  • Griff’s current work, building a world as a playground to explore all creative paths
  • Yaeko’s Ambush [https://foundation.app/@griff/theendling/2]
  • The Exile [https://www.knownorigin.io/gallery/2337000-the-exile]
  • Slow content in an instant-content world
  • How the NFT environment allows for broad multimedia approaches to storytelling
  • The Leonard Project [https://www.knownorigin.io/collections/griff/leonard]
  • Editions, and why they are important for artists
  • Moving on from the minting-out/selling-out stigma
  • Reza Afshar [https://twitter.com/rezaafsharr]
  • Overvaluing being ‘early’ and network effects
  • Friends and the power of our networks
  • Curating the feed to be a fountain of inspiration
  • Where to start when building a world?
  • Coming collab with Eclectic Method [https://twitter.com/EclecticMethod]
  • Working with the audience

Connect with Griff

  • Griff’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/GriffCrypto
  • Griff’s Website: https://www.griffcrypto.io/

Connect with us:

  • Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA

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In this episode of Station, we chat with ArinaBB, an artist currently based in NYC, creating paintings, performances, installations, and mixed media art. Unafraid of the disruptive new technology changing the art world, Arina has long championed web3 and NFTs and is now collaborating with AI for a new collection.

We discuss:

  • Modeling, traveling and finding a home in art
  • Arina’s introduction to web3
  • Using Twitter as an artist
  • Keeping focused and selectively ignoring
  • Why do artists lash out so much at AI?
  • The perils of falling into groupthink
  • Being a ‘stuckist’
  • Words as art, prompts as poetry
  • More people now make art, that’s good right?
  • “don’t take advice from anyone you wouldn’t want to be like”
  • Playing Chess - Arina’s latest collection
  • Rapid iteration and turning one piece into a collection
  • Copying and entropy to create new art
  • Alvin Lucier - I am sitting in a room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpIh_FSvx9I
  • Networks and social media
  • The importance of being bored
  • Bitfloorsghost joins us to talk about his recent project and success
  • The process of launching a collection
  • Mistakes and processes, and their value
  • RoseJade.eth joins to talk about being a new artist in the space
  • Being self-taught
  • Reverse engineering prompts - prompt puzzles

Links and resources

  • ArinaBB’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Arinabbart
  • ArinaBB’s Website: https://www.arinabbart.com/
  • Playing Chess on Opensea: https://opensea.io/collection/playing-chess-by-arinabbxai
  • Bitfloorsghost’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitfloorsghost
  • Rose’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosejade_eth

Connect with us:

  • Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA

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This episode of Station is an abridged version of our Space Hangout, featuring our guests/friends Root, Noviol and Bitfloorsghost.

  • Root, a technologist and futurist
  • Noviol, a neon artist and crypto/NFT trader
  • Bitfloorsghost, community manager at @eightbit, founder of Proof of Update and co-host of the Odds and Ends podcast.

This is a further discussion on the implications of AI for content creation following our talk in November.

In this episode we discuss:

  • Using AI for rapid iteration
  • Text-based applications and GPT
  • Prompt-engineering, a bug not a feature
  • Learning to interact with the AI, how it leads to learning about the domain you are operating in
  • AI as an analogue to photography
  • Reactions to new technology; photoshop, excel
  • The effort argument
  • The human role in creation
  • Representing emotions, the development of the technology in such short time frames
  • How much AI to use, and why. Finding your balance.
  • Remixing and combining
  • Ideological imprinting in AI
  • The implications of privatised AI
  • Learning models for giving us better feedback, rather than just comfort
  • Hacking and decentralising corporate AIs
  • The processing power problem, and how that feeds censorship
  • Loab - the AI ghost haunting images
  • Malignant Failure Nodes
  • The ethical issues of instant image generation
  • Future risks and generalised AI

Links:

  • Noviol Twitter: @NoviolNFT https://twitter.com/NoviolNFT
  • Bitfloor Twitter: @bitfloorsghost https://twitter.com/bitfloorsghost
  • Root’s Twitter: @rootslashbin https://twitter.com/rootslashbin
  • Prompthunt: https://www.prompthunt.com/
  • Kevin Rose + Tim Ferriss Conversation mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUP1spStVDw
  • Loab (warning, it’s really creepy): https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/13/loab-ai-generated-horror/

Connect with us:

  • Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA

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This week, we chat with Crucifore, co-founder of Hail Draconis, a multimedia storytelling NFT project.

We cover:

  • Crucifore’s background
  • The origins of Hail Draconis
  • The value of taking time to do things right
  • Using Twitter for yourself and for your project
  • Forgotten Runes Wizards’ Club
  • Building on-chain lore, web1 = read, web2 = read & write, web3 = read, write & own
  • Artist Tom Af Brock - https://twitter.com/tomafbrockbrock
  • Decentralized storytelling, top-down vs bottom-up
  • Goblin Town
  • Andrew Stenton on storytelling https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_stanton_the_clues_to_a_great_story?language=en
  • LOOT - https://www.lootproject.com/faq
  • AI Storytelling - Charisma.ai
  • Where do stories and characters even come from? Tolkien, Jung, Stephen King
  • Blockchain Native IPs
  • Getting better by simply doing it.
  • The future of Hail Draconis, upcoming PfP project by zakalwe https://twitter.com/zakalwe_x

Connect with our guest:

  • Crucifore’s Twitter: @crucifore https://twitter.com/crucifore
  • Hail Draconis! Twitter: @HailDraconis https://twitter.com/HailDraconis

Connect with us:

  • Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA

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This episode of Station is an abridged version of our Space Hangout, featuring Bitfloorsghost, Noviol, and our hosts Granite & Jeff.

We covered a lot of ground in this one, ranging from phygital products, to royalties, to a discussion about trading NFTs with a checkered past.

Noviol is a neon artist and crypto and NFT trader. Bitfloorsghost is the community manager at @eightbit, founder of Proof of Update, and co-host of the Odds and Ends podcast.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • Phygital - bringing web3 brands and communities into the physical world
  • Bean Birds Coffee and the Hot Wings Collective
  • 9DCC and phygital clothing
  • The issues with fulfilling phygital products, such as with RTFKT
  • The benefits of merch for generating revenue
  • Benefits and drawbacks of royalties, and our thoughts on the future
  • Collectify’s upcoming feature of dedicated project-specific marketplaces
  • Trading ‘flagged’ NFTs, and how to deal with NFTs that may have some controversies in their past

Links

  • Noviol Twitter: @NoviolNFT https://twitter.com/NoviolNFT
  • Bitfloor Twitter: @bitfloorsghost https://twitter.com/bitfloorsghost
  • Bean Birds Coffee: https://shop.beanbirdscoffee.com/
  • Hot Wings Collective: https://twitter.com/hotwings_xyz
  • 9DCC: https://twitter.com/9dccxyz
  • Odds and Ends Podcast: https://oddsandends.buzzsprout.com/

Connect with us:

  • Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA

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Sekure D is an Artist and Custom Sneaker Designer from Melbourne, Australia. Clients include: Kidrobot, Nike, Jordan, Adidas and so on. SekureD is the founder of the Roboghosts NFT project. He has been hosting Spaces about the NFT sneaker culture that is emerging. Recently Spoke at NFT Fest Australia.

This episode was recorded from Collectify's Twitter Space on Dec 6th, right before the RTFKT controversy took place. Here is Sekure’s update on the controversy: https://twitter.com/SekureD/status/1600067620577087488?s=20&t=YfiiqtlArO3GkfXpTkZ6AQ

In this episode, we discuss the following topics:

  • The Australian NFT scene
  • Sneakers and sneaker culture
  • SekureD’s history, art, and creative process
  • Nike, RTFTK, and their wider implications in the space
  • The impact of Japan in Web3’s aesthetics

Other Projects Mentioned:

  • Bad Bunnies: https://twitter.com/BadBunniesNFT
  • Crypto Geisha: https://twitter.com/CryptoGeisha
  • Genzee: https://twitter.com/GenzeeNFTs
  • Project Godjira: https://twitter.com/PGodjira
  • Shinsei Galverse: https://twitter.com/galverseNFT
  • Zombie Zoo: https://twitter.com/ZombieZooArt

Links to Sekure D:

  • Sekure’s Linktree: https://linktr.ee/SekureD
  • Sekure’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/SekureD
  • Sekure’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sekured/
  • Roboghosts NFT: https://twitter.com/TheRoboghosts

Connect with us:

  • Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA

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We recently held a Twitter Space with some knowledgeable friends. The open-ended conversation soon became an in-depth discussion about Artificial Intelligence and its implications in our industry and the wider world.

Our co-hosts are

  • Noviol, a neon artist and crypto/NFT trader
  • Root, a technologist and futurist
  • Bitfloorsghost, community manager at @eightbit, founder of Proof of Update and co-host of the Odds and Ends podcast.

Some tools and books we touched on:

  • Zealous.one, an AI tool that transcribes Twitter spaces by searching for users
  • Superintelligence, by Nick Bostrum as essential reading on the topic of AI
  • Neuromancer, by William Gibson. The cyberpunk Ur-text from 1984.
  • AIFA from @altstatemachine, AI, NFTs, Football (soccer). https://t.co/B6Le84nUkt

Links to the cohosts:

  • Noviol Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoviolNFT
  • Root Twitter: https://twitter.com/rootslashbin
  • Bitfloor Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitfloorsghost
  • Odds and Ends Podcast: https://oddsandends.buzzsprout.com/
  • Unabridged Twitter Spaces: https://twitter.com/granite_crypto/status/1593361924380839938?s=20&t=gmgTDVZTdQ5Y0JDjsURw_g

Connect with us:

  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Our host Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Our producer Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ

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Station covers NFTs, art, and the metaverse. Brought to you by Collectify, a non-code platform built for NFT creators.

Our guest Ross Drakes is a creative-turned-entrepreneur and founder of Nicework, a South-African branding agency specializing in web3. Nicework recently launched Project Nice, an NFT project focused on positive actions to create a community of people who love to do nice things and in the process make the internet a better place.

Ross also hosts a podcast, One More Question, and is working on a new project combining NFTs and plant-medicine retreats called Mind Monks.

In this episode we discuss:

  • Pivoting a branding business into Web3
  • Web3’s branding and image problems
  • Our responsibilities as blockchain natives
  • The UI/UX gap
  • How to get switch to a career in web3
  • Networking and community
  • Launching a podcast, and starting any project
  • Project Nice and leveraging positive actions to build your brand
  • The importance of defining your goals when starting an NFT project
  • Building slowly and keeping true to your ideals

Links to Ross

  • Nicework Website: https://www.nicework.in/
  • Nicework Twitter: @welovenicework
  • Project Nice Twitter: @projectnice_
  • Ross’ Twitter: @rossdrakes
  • One More Question Podcast: https://tr.ee/uJEIA4XksX
  • Mind Monks Whitepaper: https://mindmonks.io/

Connect with us:

  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Host Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Producer Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ

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Station covers NFTs, art, and the metaverse. Brought to you by Collectify, a non-code platform built for NFT creators.

Our guest Nick Sheehy is a 1:1 NFT artist, based in London. Describing his work as “post-apocalyptic natural history”, his paintings portray animals performing bizarre rituals and constructing strange monuments - often with human bones. Using techniques informed by the Old Masters, Nick’s digital paintings use light, shadow, and vivid realism to draw you into his bizarre compositions.

In this episode, we chat about:

  • Getting into NFTs
  • Instagram vs Twitter
  • Ethereum Merge and environmental concerns
  • The advantages of NFT art vs IRL art
  • How Nick paints
  • Collectors’preference
  • AI arts
  • Power of technology for creatives
  • Stick around in a bear market
  • NFT Communities
  • Pieces of advice to new NFT artists

To connect with Nick:

  • Nick’s Website：https://www.nicksheehy.com/
  • Nick’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/showchicken
  • Nick’s Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/showchicken/

To connect with us:

  • Collectify Website：https://collectify.app/
  • Collectify Twitter：https://twitter.com/Collectify_app
  • Collectify Discord：https://discord.gg/yxzbJc7fDA
  • Mathwallet Website：https://mathwallet.org/
  • Host Dan’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/granite_crypto
  • Producer Jeff’s Twitter：https://twitter.com/JeffShenHQ

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This is episode #0 of the Station Podcast.  

Hosted by Dan, Station covers NFTs, art, and the metaverse. 

Brought to you by Collectify, a non-code platform built for NFT creators. 

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