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This week, we welcome Visualize Value Founder Jack Butcher to the podcast. Butcher is a seasoned creative director who has worked with some of the most successful brands in existence. After a decade of working in Fortune 100 advertising, Butcher completely rebuilt his personal brand and business model through productizing himself, and now focuses on educating those that are building in NFTs and web3.

In this episode we cover:

His pivot from advertising into NFTs

Keeping up with trends while filtering out the excess noise

The importance of using his voice/platform to give back to important causes

Visual storytelling and the most effective platforms and approaches to drive mainstream adoption and understanding

What he looks for when collecting NFTs

And much more...

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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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Micah Dowbak, known professionally as Mad Dog Jones, is a Canadian digital artist who broke into the crypto art scene with the sale of his REPLICATOR NFT. That sale netted him a cool $4.1 million, making him the highest-grossing living Canadian artist in a single auction. The artist is also a massive F1 fan, working with motorsports legend Lewis Hamilton on a helmet, and collaborating with Formula One Racing on a collection timed with the Miami Grand Prix. Recently, Joles was able to raise over $1 million for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies via his most recent project, Cartography of the Mind, which sold at Christie’s in a charity auction.

In this episode we cover:

• Jones’ massive F1 fandom and collaboration with motorsports legend Lewis Hamilton
• The creative process on his REPLICATOR project
• His upcoming charity auction at Christie’s
• How graffiti, comic books, and Akira shaped his creative journey

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Tom Bilyeu is co-founder and CEO of Impact Theory Studios, a revolutionary digital-first studio that produces wildly entertaining, original content focusing on themes of empowerment.The company has grown 400% in the last two years with over half a billion views on YouTube alone and over one billion social media impressions. Prior to Impact Theory, Tom co-founded billion dollar brand Quest Nutrition, which grew by 57,000% in three years, reaching #2 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies.

Tom has repeatedly proven he has a deep understanding of how to build, nurture and market to online and offline communities. Tom’s mission with Impact Theory is to empower people through entertaining content on multiple platforms in the unscripted, scripted, publishing and NFT space.

In this episode we discuss:

What got Tom into NFTs and what inspires him most about the technology

What industries does he feel will be impacted the most by NFTs and how

What are leading use cases in media & entertainment that he sees building traction

How does he feel other media entities (film, comics, podcasts, creators, etc.) will leverage NFTs going forward

How do NFTs further accelerate the democratization of media

How do you build a meaningful an engaged community

As a collector, how does he evaluate which projects he wants to support, and what artists or projects is he particularly excited about

And much, much more!

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In this episode, we chat with Emi Kusano, a multi-disciplinary Japanese artist blending AI and web3 in her work. Emi discusses her journey from music to creating AI-driven art, including her LG art lab debut, "Advertising Humanity," inspired by 1980s Japanese commercials. She reflects on the challenges of working with AI and the ongoing debate around its impact on art.

Emi also shares key moments in her career, from collaborating on an NFT project with her son to being mentored by Claire Silver. She offers valuable advice for digital artists on building a collector base and finding the right platforms.

Emi's 1/1 artwork, “Advertising Humanity,” is now available on LG Art Lab in the United States.

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Presented in partnership with LG Art Lab.

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