The Now Podcast

Multimedia artist and designer Josie Bellini is one of the NFT community’s earliest champions. She’s made a lasting mark in the space with her viral pieces, starting with Genesis in 2017. Most recently, in 2021, the crypto art pioneer launched her flagship project CyberBrokers. The collectible ecosystem of metaverse experiences is set to be the first of its kind as a fully on-chain collection. With a background in both painting and finance, Bellini uses her unique perspective to explore Web3 through her mixed media art. 

In this episode we cover:

• The background and development of her CyberBrokers project
• The potential of the metaverse
• Her take on dealing with bull and bear markets
• Her biggest issues with bad actors in the NFT space

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Eighteen-year old multimedia artist Diana Sinclair is by far one of the fastest-rising stars in the NFT art scene. To date, her work exploring self-identity, social justice, and our society’s relationship with the internet has been featured in publications including Teen Vogue and The Guardian. She’s even partnered up with OneOf to help raise funds for the Whitney Houston foundation, with one of her pieces selling for more than $1 million at auction. As one of the youngest curators active in the NFT space, Sinclair is bringing back her “Digital Diaspora” exhibition on Juneteenth to celebrate the work of Black artists across the globe.

In this episode we cover:

• Her journey into the NFT space
• The Whitney Houston auction and how it affected her career
• Her vision for the “Digital Diaspora” exhibition
• How the NFT community can become a more inclusive and diverse space

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Following stints working for Atlantic Records and Warner Music Group as a teenager and working for various tech firms in the Bay Area, David Greenstein went on to help found NFT music marketplace Sound.xyz in early 2021. Since then, David and the rest of the team have generated a combined $3 million in revenue for the over 100 artists on the platform, such as Snoop Dogg, RAC, Giraffage, MELVV, and TOKiMONSTA.

In this episode we cover:

• the origins and fast rise of Sound.xyz
• the broken models prevalent in the current music industry
• the future of the music industry
• how NFTs are empowering smaller artists to finally make a living from their work.

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Alpha Centauri Kid — also known as ACK — is a visual artist and musician who has emerged as one of the leaders of a new generation of crypto artists. He’s been embraced by OG blue chips including XCOPY and coveted by top collectors like GMoney and Punk #4156. His SuperRare debut “ctrl + alt + generate” captivated the NFT space and set a new genesis record for the platform at 165.29 ETH, or more than $600,000. He continues to push the envelope and innovate in the space, despite the fact he only got into NFTs in March 2021.

In this episode we cover:

- His artistic approach and stylistic revolution

- How he builds relationships in the NFT community

- The “secret code” involved in his upcoming project

- How his “muse” plays a part in his creative process

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Evan Keast (AKA Tulip) and Jordan Castro (AKA Poopie) are two of the co-founders of Doodles, one of the leading profile picture projects (PFP) in the NFT space. The collection of 10,000 generative NFTs has amassed more than 102,700 ETH in sales volume ($305,016,749) since its launch in October 2021. Doodles features original art created by third co-founder, Scott Martin (AKA Burnt Toast), who produced hundreds of unique visual traits for the collection. While many avatar projects market themselves as community-centered, Doodles has been about empowering their community from the very start. The team is all about working to bridge the gap between URL and IRL with multi-city takeovers, activations, installations, and more. 

In this episode we cover:

• The importance of building community through IRL events
• The team’s SXSW activation with Shopify
• How founders can avoid bots when launching a project
• How the Doodles DAO ecosystem functions 
• The founders’ longterm visions for Doodles

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Refik Anadol is a pioneering artist who creates immersive installations, sculptures, paintings, and live audio/visual performances using AI, machine learning, and data science. He’s partnered with teams at Microsoft, Google, IBM, NASA, and more to apply the latest cutting-edge science, research, and tech to his mesmerizing creations. All of this considered, it should come as no surprise that Anadol has also fully embraced the NFT space. His ‘Machine Allucinations’ NFT series sold for more than $13 million in late 2021, and May 10 will mark his first-ever Christie’s auction featuring his piece ‘Casa Batlló: Living Architecture.’ As a passionate advocate for technology’s game-changing potential, Anadol is working to bridge the gap between URL and IRL in increasingly innovative ways. This includes ‘Dataland,’ a multisensory, realtime metaverse where the physical and virtual connect. 

In this episode we cover:

• What Anadol believes are the biggest misconceptions about AI
• The origins of his ‘Living Architecture’ collection
• Why bridging URL and IRL is key to bringing NFTs to the masses
• His “humble” take on the metaverse

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Keith Grossman, president of TIME magazine, has a long track record of revising and modernizing digital media brands. With leadership roles at Bloomberg and WIRED under his belt, Grossman has been responsible for leading the nearly century-old brand into web3 over the past year. During this time, they’ve experimented with tokenizing covers, collaborated with with Beeple, and partnered with the Cool Cats Community. But that’s not all. Now, Grossman has launched TIMEPieces, the brand’s web3 community initiative. Featuring collaborations with leading NFT artists as well as artists who had previously contributed to TIME, the Genesis drop and Slices of Time drop have done more than $35 million in total sales volume. Grossman is truly at the forefront of the web3 movement, and is working to ensure his legacy media brand stays relevant in the space with impactful, tangible results.

In this episode we cover:

• The vision behind TIMEPieces and the future of the initiative
• How web3 and NFTs will disrupt digital media
• The value of tokenizing the written word 
• What’s next for TIME in the web3 ecosystem

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Daniel Arsham is a contemporary visual artist whose creativity knows no limits. A master of mediums, he’s helped design installations at Kith stores around the world, created iconic sculptures, acts as creative director of the Cleaveland Cavaliers, and even helped design chat-topping rapper Gunna’s most recent album cover. Arsham has always operated at the intersection of culture and art. So it’s no surprise that he’s also immersed himself in the world of NFTs, and embraced the medium with intention. 

In this episode we cover:

• His Eroding and Reforming Sculptures NFT Series
• How NFTs are changing the relationship between artists and collectors
• How the Gunna album cover and collaboration came together
• What being colorblind meant for his art career
• The importance of taking time to “sit with your work” as an artist

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Kevin Rose is an experienced investor and builder with a proven track record of being early to internet trends. He co-founded the social news site Digg in 2004, and currently works as a partner at True Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech startups. Passionate about the community surrounding NFTs, Rose co-founded the PROOF Collective, a members only collective of 1,000 dedicated NFT collectors and artists. On April 16, the PROOF Collective team is launching a new large-scale PFP NFT endeavor called Moonbirds. Moonbirds will act as an expansion to the PROOF ecosystem, onboarding each new owner into the collective and incentivizing them to keep their NFTs with unique staking mechanics and ownership rewards. 

In this episode we cover: 

• His inspiration behind the PROOF Collective
• The importance of utility and community in Moonbirds
• As an investor, what he looks for in NFT projects
• Why he feels the metaverse is being set up for failure

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As one of the highest-grossing DJ/producers in the world, Steve Aoki has never shied away from pursuing all of his various interests concurrently. In addition to collaborating across genre lines, Aoki co-owns an eSports company, he’s been featured in video games as a playable character, he’s voiced cartoon characters, and he even runs a foundation that raises money for neurological research and other humanitarian relief organizations. In an effort to tie all of his passions together with his burgeoning interest in crypto and NFTs, he launched his AOK1VERSE project – which he describes as “Web3, meets Web 2.0 meets IRL.” Citizens of the A0K1VERSE gain unrivaled access to both on-chain and physical experiences including tour tickets, digital collectables, virtual metaverse performances, and much more. 

In this episode we cover:

• The vision and roadmap for A0K1VERSE
• How Web3 and NFTs will revolutionize the music industry
• Why DJs are also futurists 
• What’s in his personal NFT collection
• And much more!

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