The GOAT, Derek Edws 🦩, is on the pod this week, along with Grails alumni, Dave 🏁 🏁 🏁. If you're looking for talking points to express your feelings about our Lord and Savior, Digital Art, listening to these two is mandatory.

Love the format, the rundown on screen is a nice touch and the great content. Big congrats to Mauricio Balvanera (🥃,🦉), corporate trash ✨ and Eli Scheinman on the show!

When I received the interview footage for Grails Season 3 artist Yatreda ያጥሬዳ, I told my editors, "Back off. This one is mine to edit." 😆 The story behind their Grail, "Dorze Duressa", is profoundly beautiful & remains one of my favorite moments in PROOF Grails history.

It's a who's who game of 'I spy.'

Wow... Just tested the new keyframe update from Luma. 🤯

Any time Derek Edws 🦩 is on a pod it’s a must listen for me, I can’t stress this enough. An other great “Vaulted” episode by the PROOF team

Fun fact: Stats is still, hands down, one of the smartest people I know, in web3 and beyond. May the odds be ever in your favor for a chance to meet him.

It's after 3 pm on Friday. CT business hours are closed. When I'm not platforming artists, I'm curating and DJing playlists every week, a tradition I've maintained since the early 2000s. 👴🏻 Check out my weekly-updated playlist link in my bio. 👀 Where's yours?

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Beach starts are a serious ass kicking in SUP racing.

We wake up in “A Woman in the Mist” with questions. The work by Ayla El-Moussa (Ayla 🌊) for Grails Season IV is a disorienting dream – the vibrant floor of ferns leads to a horizon line, met with fading waves in the mist. In the Summer of 2023, El-Moussa felt this

Your thoughtful shoutout for Hexag⬡ns made my week akaStevey! I vibe with the advice for artists to use this point in the market to have fun, explore, innovate, and maybe be less serious. Thats the essence of this medium. Great episode, love you guys. 🙏

Blood, sweat, and Bitfizz was spilled in the making of this.

Sure, but would that be true?

Fun fact. Project Dragon Cinematic Director Colin Hesterly provided motion capture for this powerful scene. Look out Andy Serkis.

I slice. I dice. I talk you through Project Dragon gameplay. You know I'm a pro because I can say "AssBlaster" with only 1% LOLZ in my voice.

OK - Good news: We can get action gameplay for thousands, and it's hilariously chaotic. On a platform level, shit's working. Bad news: Doing this at scale revealed some bugs that didn't show up when we did internal tests with only a few hundred. Only thing I can promise is

I could post stunning picturesque photos of Hawaiian surfing paradise, but instead here’s the part of paradise that matters the most…

The suing will continue until you advertise.

What an amazing evening. ❤️