Ep 10. Challenges to Starting in NFTs w/ Elena Calderon Alaez
Release Date: 04/11/2023
#49 - Krs: Art NFTs Beyond Art
Street Art Collector
On Totemo's Street Art Collector this week, Steph sits down with Swedish-born, Toyko-based artist and teacher Kristoffer "Krs" Kullengren, who began his painting path in the digital realm before spreading his colourful, playful style into the physical world as well. Since 2008, Kris has built up a massive career. He has had more than 20 solo exhibitions in the last 5 years and sold more than 5000 digital artworks on the blockchain. He was the first artist to exhibit NFTs in Tokyo, the first foreign artist to work with the Chinese government's blockchain “Conflux”, and he conceived...
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#48 - Jeremy Strength: At Last, An Opportunity
Street Art Collector
On Totemo's Street Art Collector this week, Steph sits down with Tokyo-based gallerist and artist Jeremy Strength, who's been actively creating for 25 years, exploring a range of concepts and aesthetics, and running Gallery Ether since 2020: a multimedia contemporary art space, dedicated to exhibiting both known and emerging artists, including NFT exhibitions with this podcast's co-producer, Totemo. Jeremy Strength online: Gallery Ether online: Street Art Unearthed podcast: Podcast producer links: ...
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#47 - EOIN: Fully On-Chain
Street Art Collector
On Totemo’s Street Art Collector this week, Steph sits down with Dublin-based multi-disciplinary artist EOIN, who's been painting professionally for 17 years and is today recognisable for his murals all around the world, with his unique twisting style. Always pushing artistic boundaries, he brought his creations to life in three dimensions with VR and continually explores the possibilities of the blockchain. Most recently, the concept of fully on-chain art has caught his interest, and he has made his mark as the first artist to release fully on-chain photographs. EOIN...
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#46 - TRP613: Chancing a drop
Street Art Collector
On Totemo’s Street Art Collector this week, Steph sits down with TRP613, an Ottawa-based street artist creating murals, stickers, paste-ups, digital art, and sick merch of his signature sailor character. Tyler has been painting since the 90s. He’s on the board of directors for Ottawa's annual Hip Hop Festival, House of Paint, he's made his own beer label, and he's basically just doing all sorts of cool, innovative things to bring some colour to the world. TRP613 online: NFT projects: Street Art Unearthed podcast: Podcast producer...
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#45 - Damien Arena: Connection over capitalism
Street Art Collector
On Totemo’s Street Art Collector this week, Steph sits down with Damien Arena, a.k.a. Da Imagemaker & Repeat 888, a graffiti, street art and NFT artist who balances commercial mural success with his need to create and explore his own individual style and expressions. Driven by world and community building, Damien is focused on a chain of creation over crypto's inherent capitalism. Damien Arena online: NFT projects: Ephemeral collection (phygital nfts): EGODEATH collection: Astral Walker: collection Street Art...
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Ep 19. Delegating, baking and voting on Tezos w/ BreezBlox
Street Art Collector
Welcome to our Art NFT Insights series, diving deep into Tezos with artist BreezBlox who has been on the chain from its early days, not only creating and minting work but also participating in the community and its development. If you’ve been listening to this series, you’ll notice a theme about how the community drives the growth and environment on that chain. In this episode, BreezBlox and I discuss the roles of delegating, baking, voting, and other ways the Tezos community participates in the growth of the ecosystem. BreezBlox online: Street...
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#44 - Frenemy: World creator
Street Art Collector
On Totemo’s Street Art Collector this week, Steph sits down with Frenemy, a graffiti and street artist, illustrator, tattoo artist, author, and world creator who has been painting street art and graffiti for more than 20 years. Frenemy creates trippy intricate characters and designs on the streets and the blockchain, each with backstories, part of a large world that is applied to his walls and brought to life in his latest game with Sandbox, Imaginarium. Frenemy online: Imaginarium game: Ghost Club: Street Art...
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Ep 18. All about Tezos tech w/ BreezBlox
Street Art Collector
Welcome to our Art NFT Insights series, diving deep into Tezos with artist BreezBlox who has been on the chain from its early days, not only creating and minting work but also participating in the community and its development. Given its insane popularity for artists, I wanted to know what capabilities Tezos has. In this episode, BreezBlox and I discuss smart contracts, the benefits of Tezos vs other platforms and how this chain is designed to evolve, upgrade and improve. BreezBlox online: Street Art Unearthed podcast: Podcast producer...
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#43 - Kyle Confehr: Meet the market where they’re at
Street Art Collector
In this episode, we sit down with Kyle Confehr, a multi-disciplinary artist and creator who's been making art in his spare time forever and full-time since 2019. Although Kyle considers himself a muralist rather than a street artist, he's been able to build his career around his unique doodle style, present in his work across mediums, from walls to NFTs. Deeply immersed in the NFT community, Kyle has investigated most blockchains and kept a healthy BS reader to navigate what's what. Here we talk about his projects, his thoughts on the different blockchains, his gratitude for the Ghost...
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Ep 17. What is it about Tezos? w/ BreezBlox
Street Art Collector
Welcome to our Art NFT Insights series, diving deep into Tezos with artist BreezBlox who has been on the chain from its early days, not only creating and minting work but also participating in the community and its development. Tezos is one blockchain that artists specifically - verse say PFP NFT people - mention over and over again. And I wanted to find out WHY. In this episode, BreezBlox and I cover exactly that topic: why so many artists are attracted to this blockchain above the others. BreezBlox online: Street Art Unearthed podcast: ...
info_outlineWelcome to our Art NFT Insights series, this time sitting down with Elena Calderon Alaez, one of the Founders of Totemo, the first NFT marketplace focussing exclusively on street art.
Elena is the Head of Curation, speaking daily with artists to get them set up and positioned to thrive in this new digital market.
On this episode, Elena shares her experience onboarding artists and discovering the main challenges they face as they get set up in this space.
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