Episode description
Pplpleasr, the artist behind Fortune magazine’s recent crypto cover and Uniswap’s V3 announcement animation, talks about her crypto journey and how NFTs are changing the game for creators. Show highlights:
how not getting a job at Apple changed her life forever
how the Pplpleasr-Uniswap collaboration came about
what goes into her creative process
how Pplpleasr got hired for the Fortune magazine cover
why she chose to represent anon-avatars on the Fortune cover
why Pplpleasr was surprised by Fortune’s response to her artwork (and crypto in general)
what sort of crypto personas are represented on the Fortune cover and why
how NFTs are changing the paradigm of monetization for creators compared to the traditional art world
what pplpleasr is looking forward to in future NFT smart contracts
why NFTs are still limited right now
why institutions, like Budweiser and Visa, are suddenly interested in NFTs
what Fortune is doing to grow its NFT collection
how DAOs are changing art curation and collecting
why Pplpleasr was surprised that a DAO (bearing her name) purchased the Uniswap V3 animation
where Pplpleasr thinks the NFT space will go in the next year or so
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Episode Links:
Pplpleasr
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pplpleasr1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pplpleasr/
Website: https://pplplsr.com/
Pplpleasr Content:
Fortune op-ed on crypto
https://fortune.com/2021/08/06/nft-art-pplpleasr-fortune-cover-ethereum-defihow-crypto-changed-my-life/
Her previous work for DeFi protocols
https://pplplsr.com/Crypto
Fortune cover
https://fortune.com/2021/08/05/nft-drop-pplpleasr-cover-art-opensea-auction-ethereum/
https://twitter.com/pplpleasr1/status/1423359319639212037?s=20
Miscellaneous Links
PleasrDAO
https://pleasr.org/
https://pleasr.mirror.xyz/D9wIadL-5EEkt17glTtar21m3RDqfgkhkr__OEE2mOE
OpenSea’s post-mortem on Chad sale
https://twitter.com/opensea/status/1424866514558128130
Business of business write up
https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/defi-crypto-meme-hustler-yield-farmer-finance-blockchain-art-nft-pplpleasr-memetic-markting/
Manifold
https://www.manifold.xyz/
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