Curating Crypto

On this sixth episode of our second season of Curating Crypto we have the pleasure to have Josie Bellini as a guest.

Josie is an artist out of Chicago with a background in finance where she saw first hand what was wrong with the current financial system and how it is designed to help the wealthiest while restricting the freedom of the average people. She started crypto in 2017 where she designed work for all types of crypto companies and funds and has just left her job at bloxroute to focus full-time on the crypto art scene to make art to promote awareness and adoption and share the values of crypto with everyone. Josie is one of the leading and more sought-after artists in crypto with an incredible following thanks to her iconic pieces and her ability to always innovate.

On this fifth episode of our second season of Curating Crypto we have the pleasure to have Duncan and Griffin Cock Foster. 

Identical twins, both had been living separately. Griffin in New York City and Duncan in SF, until their passion for building and all things crypto, tech and digital art brought them back together to chase a dream.

Duncan first got into Nifties in 2017 when he learned about CryptoKitties. He attended Emory University and received a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science in 2017. He has always been interested in technological frontiers, and ever since he saw that amazingly passionate community of nifty collectors, he has been hooked.

Griffin got his first job out of Washington University at St. Louis at Jet.com in Hoboken, but quickly grew restless and longed for the independence and opportunity of starting his own company. He moved up to San Francisco, convinced Duncan to quit his job too, and the rest is history.

On this fourth episode of our second season we have Ben Nolan. Ben is the founder and lead developer of CryptoVoxels which is a virtual world created on top of the Ethereum blockchain where people can buy, sell and build on the land they purchase. CryptoVoxels is one of the fastest growing projects in the crypto space and its all due to a great team, a great community and their focus on the artists and their creatives. Anyone from new to 3D worlds to season CryptoVoxel enthusiasts will find this episode valuable.

On this third episode of our second  season we have Gisel Florez. Gisel has her own photo studio based in NYC and dedicates her time to maintaining a creative edge while shooting still & motion projects.  First-generation Cuban.  Her focus on personal work ranges in subjects from scientific developments, human interactions, to the wonder of light that fills her existence.

Gisel holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Illustration and has experience in the early days of VR immersion & interface within medical research visualization of blood-flow & flight dynamics at Brown University.  Graduating with an independent thesis in large format photography with legendary professor Henry Horenstein, she moved to NYC and pursued a living shooting what she loves.  Starting in 2005 she worked with one of the first-ever high-end digital capture companies, Industrial Color.  Working next to the most successful commercial photographers of the time, she gained invaluable skills in communication and technical expertise.  After helping establish new IC offices in Miami and LA, she moved on to run, establish & equip Barneys New York’s first in-house digital photo studio.  Simultaneously building her own extreme portfolio of personal works she began to fly solo in 2006.  This photograph taken right after leaving the position at Barneys, sparked her obsession searching for dynamism within the photographic technique. 

Our eight episode of curating crypto is a highly anticipated one as we have Jonathan Perkins from Super Rare as our guest. Jonathan is a musician, programmer entrepreneur and cofounder of SuperRare. SuperRare is a social platform for digital art built on Ethereum. Launched in early 2018, SuperRare is a new way collect art on the internet, and provides a new income stream for digital artists, with over $150,000 earned to date by SuperRare artists and collectors. SuperRare has been described as “Instagram meets Robinhood” – an internet-native social network for art and expression, coupled with a 24-7 marketplace where you can buy, sell and make trades.