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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 an art collector's agent 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 Shantell 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

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

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

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

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