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Artz Friday
Recorded: March 21, 2025 Duration: 1:29:33Space Recording
Short Summary
The discussion highlights several key developments in the Tezos community, including the launch of new projects like the 'Jim of the Week' thread and People of Tezos Season 13. Innovations such as the 'Reject' platform and NFTBiker's new tool for managing NFTs are also noted. Personal growth and sustained interest in Tezos art are emphasized, reflecting broader trends and advancements in the ecosystem.
Full Transcription
We've got an awesome opening song for you, followed by an even more awesome guest.
We've got Skull's Army here today.
Just hang tight with us.
We are going to play you an opening song, let people trickle in.
Thank you so much all of you for being here right out of the bat.
Skulls being on time, you're a rock star.
We've got the WTF game room in here.
Randall, Bill Knight, and Sandy.
Appreciate all of you.
This opening song is called Mabrilan Los Ojos by Navil at...
It's Naveo, and we hope you enjoy.
I want to see it with my own eyes
Take my head and kiss me
Take my hand and
I want to be your
Oh make me
I want to be your
You've been
But when I'm
When I'm about
When I'm
On the sun
How do you feel about it?
When I'm
How do you feel in the eye?
How do you feel like you did?
Sees seem to extraanial, but I think I like me.
How do you feel?
How do you feel about it?
When I'm in my biggest, me
I'm saying in the library.
How do you feel?
How do you feel about it?
Oh, you're sure.
When you look at me
Boy, you're so pretty
Take my hand,
Oh, you're so pretty
Measurement
How do you feel?
How do you feel?
How do you feel?
What an incredible artist, Dantes.
Recently, this is a raid.
Rated, it's Navil, and it was so fun to see all that love and support for such a talented musician in the space.
Hope you guys enjoy.
Make sure to follow.
Make sure to check out that piece.
It was just dropped today.
And as always, go listen on headphones and enjoy the visual art for the full experience.
That was hot. Thank you for sharing that. I'm a huge, huge fan and that was amazing. I'm going to have to go get my copy.
Yeah, absolutely. Might be one of my new favorites of hers. Very, very, very cool song.
I, uh, you said it was Navil.
I just said Navil because I'm white, but Navil sounds more correct.
I'm always constantly guessing and just praying that I'm close.
I haven't had the pleasure yet of speaking a single word to this person, but I'm a huge fan.
I, uh, I discovered, I'm guessing her.
I'm going to go with her, but I discovered their work.
I'll go with there.
Uh, while I was testing reject and, uh,
I I immediately bookmarked it because I was like I got to save this profile and then
I kept going back when I wanted to test music player because rather than go
Find one I would just go back to their profile and I just I would listen to different songs every time and I just was like man. I have not listened to one I didn't love and want to finish
They're all so good. So I had to do a feature and I
added some of their work to the rejects um curation too so yeah i'm a i'm a recent recent fan
recently uh discovered naviel but
I actually feel kind of bad for the first couple of months of trying to support Neville.
I actually was, I think, sharing the wrong Twitter account.
I'm not sure what happened.
Maybe it was just recently changed.
But the It's Naviel account is more active than Neville's sketch, which is another account that I think was an old one.
Yeah, I think that's the one that's attached to the object.
So maybe that's why...
We haven't really.
Yeah.
Actually, I just noticed that this morning.
If you go to Novel's object, the X link goes to the wrong place, but then the actual
website icon goes to the newer X account that works.
Got it.
Well, I'm going to have to make it a personal mission to reach out and get to know this
person because I love their art.
100%.
How are you doing today, Yoshi?
I'm pretty good. Interesting things going on.
Sorry.
Interesting things going on here at the,
at our household.
We have three indoor cats.
We are huge cat people,
love cats,
but,
A couple of months ago, my wife and I were chatting about how much we wish we could get another cat,
but just it's just not in the cards right now.
And that the only possible way we could ever justify it is if a beautiful, all black cat just showed up at our door.
And about a week ago, at our back door, we look out there and there's this super cute, fluffy black cat just staring at us all inside.
Like, hey, guys, how are you?
And we're so sure that it's got to be a neighbor's outdoor cat because it's well-fed, super friendly, but doesn't have a collar.
And over the past few days, has decided to start hanging out all the time on our back porch.
And even last night didn't seem to go if it has a home, didn't seem to go home.
And it was cold and windy.
So I was like frantically trying to like build a little box house for this cat because we can't bring it inside and risk it getting in, you know, getting, you know, in fights with our cats, especially if it's not even like free to take.
I don't want to steal somebody's cat.
Anyway, long story short, that's what's going on at our house right now.
Yeah.
So you're your backyard fostering a cat.
Apparently we have a new outdoor cat that has decided it likes us more than its potential owners.
That's fun.
We've got three indoor cats, too.
We have to be indoor, though, because we have coyotes and giant raccoons.
We've got raccoons running around that, like, I've never seen a raccoon that big.
It doesn't make sense to me when I see it.
It looks like a little bear.
That's funny.
Yeah.
And you know, I personally, of the opinion that all domestic cats should be indoors.
Like, I feel very strongly about that.
I struggle not to judge people when they have outdoor cats, just to be completely honest.
You know, I know that my cats want to go outdoors, and I kind of feel bad sometimes because they'll, like, go to the door and scream at me, like, let me out.
But I don't because, you know, aforementioned beasts out there.
Plus, neighborhood cats never know what they have.
So...
You know, just, yeah, I don't want them to lose an eye over something or, you know.
But sometimes I think like, am I, am I being unfair to their wild nature?
Personally, I don't think so.
And it seems like overall, especially the past few years, the internet would agree with you.
Like, we went into a TikTok comment section of something similar.
And we were actually shocked how many people were saying,
steal that cat.
The people that own that cat don't deserve it.
Stuff like that was the common response.
All right.
I don't want to get into a discussion about whether or not you should listen to internet comments.
That is true as well.
Anyway, guys, we're just having a little fun little icebreaker here talking about our love for cats.
I know that Skull's Army and I both are huge cat, cat lovers.
Thank you so much for being here for another Artsy Friday with Tesos Commons.
What a beautiful room.
Appreciate every single one of you.
And we're about to dive into Skull's experience on Tesos, his art, his development creations,
and of course the hybrids of the two.
We also just launched a Jim of the Week thread over on the Teslo's Commons account.
Feel free to, you know, amplify that and help Skulls get his work in front of more and more people.
With that being said, how are you today?
I haven't asked you that.
I'm doing well. Thank you. I appreciate you having me on. It's been quite a week for me.
It's been a roller coaster of a week up and down. Obviously, I've had some very high highs this week.
There's been some personal emergencies and things going on, too, that have kind of been crazy this week.
But overall, I'm doing quite well, I'd say.
In terms of my Tzos life, it's been an amazingly incredibly just...
Life-changing week for me, I think. I think I probably will not approach my art and my Tezos life the same after this week. It's been amazing.
It has seemed like a pretty big week for you. And I'm sure that one of the things that we will talk a lot about is your people of Tezo's portrait.
Yeah, that was...
You know, I thought I was, I was afraid that I would just get the, you know, 20 Tes reserves and that would be it.
And I would have been happy enough to be included in people of Tesos, but it kind of would have, I was nervous, I guess, for the first time ever putting something out there and like nervous for it to sell at a price that.
felt good to me, I guess, just because this is, you know, it's not just another piece I put out.
It's a statement. It's a one of one. It's something I'm never going to do again.
It's people of Tezos. It meant a lot to me, and I approached it very seriously.
So I was just hoping it was received on the other side as strongly, and that exceeded by far my wildest expectations.
So, yeah, that was...
a pretty magical experience for me.
And the first time I played with the portrait, I actually did not have time to really mess around and find them.
But would you like to talk about your love for Easter eggs and a little bit more about that?
Because I did actually find two of the three of them this morning.
All right, well, I'll be a little cryptic and maybe give out a little clue, a few clues if you listen closely.
But I do like to hide Easter eggs and almost everything I do.
If it's interactive in any way, if there's any way for me to make it, have an Easter egg, I will try to.
One playground for that.
If you have some time, go to fafoLab.xyZ where I've been...
Just sort of spending some time creating Easter eggs and a few tools that are actually useful.
And just kind of building up a platform to play on.
But so I hit a few Easter eggs in my people of Tezos piece because it's an interactive 3D cube.
And I felt like with interaction there ought to be some fun things to discover.
So...
It's a bit of a game.
I put out a contest to see if anybody could be the first one to discover all of them.
Now, I will say that the...
How do I say this without giving too much away?
The piece lies about how many there are.
Okay.
Like a good Easter egg, it doesn't tell you the actual finite amount of Easter eggs.
I like that. Okay. Good to know.
Good to know. So you can never trust what's seen. You just got to keep playing and playing and you might unlock something that wasn't.
There is a point where it, where the format changes and you and and I'm telling the truth at that point.
So that's all I can really say without giving anything away.
But through through a series of.
What I claim hacker cheating, but, you know, maybe, maybe not.
Webidente did discover them all and showed me proof that he had unlocked them all.
So I owe him a prize for that.
But because it happened in like the first hour and I don't really trust that he didn't like
lead hacksore his way through it, I'm going to make another.
I'm going to leave the prize on the table and give him another prize.
Are you able to say what the prize is?
It's going to be a one of one.
Okay, so it's going to be one of one, and it's going to be customized to the person that wins it, is all I'll say.
So it doesn't exist and won't exist until somebody earns it, and then I will create it for them.
So in other words, it's essentially winning custom 1-1.
Yes.
That's awesome.
You heard it here, folks.
Go try to find all those skulls, Easter eggs.
It's a great excuse to go play with a lot of really cool interactive and a tease on his object.
So DM me proof that you've discovered them all.
And or if you think you've discovered them all, probably get a lot of DMs of people that I just have to say, nope, keep going.
But my DMs are open.
If they're not open, I think they're open.
But if they're not open, just, you know, at me or something.
And I'll follow you.
Okay, so before we dive into, I have lots of questions and want to dissect some of your artworks.
But before that, I'm kind of curious, the backstory.
You know, if you want to share, like, where you come from, what inspires you when you found Tesos, that kind of thing.
Oh, boy. Okay.
Well, I'm born and raised in Southern California.
And so...
You know, I'm in a lot of ways a pretty quintessential California guy. I try to, you know, keep it laid back and take it easy and
Trying to think like what I want to share
I'm like I definitely have docks to myself like my my real name is out there and everything. It's not hard to connect to me, but
You know, I'm still I'm not a super public person, so
But how I got to Tezos. Yeah, so I
Let's see, I came to Tesos the first time. My first wallet was in late 2021.
And then I sort of dabbled a little bit and was messing around on a lot of chains.
And I made a mental note that I had liked Tezos, but I was more just trying to explore the growth of cryptocurrencies and all the different blockchains that were out there.
So I was, you know, kind of...
spreading on all the different chains. And so Tesla's kind of for whatever reason stuck in my craw.
And I and I like it was always one that I was aware of as I looked at other chains and played around.
And then in like 22, I sort of was over all the rest of the chains and all the rest of the crypto hype.
But.
I kept seeing Tezos art and I kept kind of being involved in the art scene.
And that kept me kind of staying in Tezos while all the other chains kind of fell by the wayside for a long time.
And so I wasn't really focused on crypto, but I was paying attention to the art on Tezos.
And it was really just for my personal enjoyment.
And then I started collecting.
And at some point, I thought,
maybe I can do this too. I think it was actually, well, I know it was. It was FX hash. FX hash was
the first kind of moment where I realized that I had skills that I could apply that could become an
NFT that someone might want. And so I started kind of thinking about what it is that I would
want to do and what things I find beauty in.
And so I came from a place of, I find a lot of beauty in kind of deep mathematical concepts and patterns and algorithms.
Like I just recently did a Sierpinski tetrahedron, which is you take a equilateral triangle and then you subdivide it recursively with more equilateral triangles until you get this really complex fractal shape.
And so anyway, I digress.
No, that's not digression at all.
I was going to talk to you about the more recent geometric pieces that you've been dropping.
They're awesome.
Yeah, help me along here.
You ask some direct questions.
Yeah.
But as far as that goes, I mean, I appreciate you sharing like your initial, you know, how you found it.
And it's really cool when you hear people that just are following along for the art before they even realize that they want to dabble.
And for sure, as far as FX hash goes, I remember writing up about your Genesis piece.
in January's article of the month, which was extremely impressive and fun to dive into.
Do you want to talk a little bit more about your genesis and what inspired it?
Yeah, and I appreciate so much that you appreciate it.
Because looking back, I don't want to say it's low effort, but it's it lacks a lot of artistic refinement.
But what it was was...
me trying to put together my love of kind of the ability for mathematical algorithms to have emergent properties with generative art.
So what I did was I took the idea of the library of Babel.
Now, the idea of the library of Babel is it's a library that contains every permutation of text that could ever be created, period.
which means everything that's sensical, but also everything that's completely nonsensical.
And obviously, everything that's nonsensical far vastly outweighs the sensical things.
So it becomes impossible to find anything sensical in this library containing all things possible.
And babble.
Right. So...
I essentially wrote up a generative piece that used the FX hash random seed to pick a book on a shelf in a room, in a wing.
Basically like it selected a specific page from a book in the Library of Babel and generated the text for that.
So technically, this one generative piece contains all the text that could ever be written by any person ever.
You just have to find the right seed.
It's a super cool concept.
And in practice,
I understand why it ended up being a little messy.
Right.
Just the fact that you tried it,
and it was the first thing you tried,
and it overall works,
and the idea behind it,
is enough, you know, in a lot of ways.
Yeah.
And, you know, I think Shilly Preston was like the second person to buy that.
So like the second person to ever buy anything from me.
I was shocked when that sold, honestly.
I was, I was jumping up and down with every sale.
Just because like, I was like, well, people are buying a thing I made.
And I just, it was, again, it was a super magical transformative experience, much like this week.
where it really changed my outlook on what I could do.
And then things just started falling in line.
And from there, it's just a matter of meeting people
and taking opportunities like this
and pushing yourself to things that are uncomfortable.
And pretty soon they become comfortable.
Like I didn't want to talk in spaces.
And then TTC needed someone to talk in spaces.
And so I started doing it.
And now I'm like they're a co-host.
So you asked me to do this and it wasn't so scary anymore.
And I was like, yeah, let's do it.
Yeah.
And to be clear, I asked Skulls to be on the show literally like the first month ever doing R.C. Friday.
And just wasn't ready.
And I was like, all right, take your time.
We're going to keep doing this.
Let me know when you're ready.
And sure not you did.
I was scared and I didn't feel like I had enough.
done to really come up and say, I'm an artist and I should I deserve attention for that.
I feel like the first week of my life that I feel that way.
So I'm finally ready to do it.
Well, that's that's really awesome to hear.
You know, at the end of the day,
you know,
It's really important to feel like you can stand behind your work.
And I will say, you know, compared to when I first asked you,
and now there's a lot more enjoyable things to look at on your object for a folio.
Like you really have come a long way.
And you know what?
You've been a driving force because I knew like I knew people were supporting me like you
and I knew that you want to be on the show.
So it was a reason to keep going.
And that's so important to give artists is, is,
not just the support of buying their work, but like talk to them and tell them that you enjoy it and buy and connect with them.
And like that pushes them toward doing more things.
Just knowing that that you were waiting for me to come on.
I was like, I got to do more stuff.
I got to get more things out there that I'm proud of.
And it pushed me to put that extra work into every piece and to push myself a little more in every piece.
So really important to have that.
And I appreciate it.
That's absolutely beautiful to hear. Thank you for sharing it. That gives me warm and fuzzies. But also it's a perfect opportunity to plug article of the month and the fact that you guys, the more you nominate artists, the more
decentralized and democratic it becomes.
And it is now open for next month to nominate artists to be written about in our monthly article,
which features in spotlights a few pieces of art for up to five artists every month.
And within that initiative, we've painted in this kind of optional opportunity to,
when you nominate them by using the hashtag TES article, capital A-R-T, to also
Write up why you are nominating them.
Tell the artist what you loved about their work, what stopped you in your tracks, what made you motivated to nominate them.
And, you know, that can go, like Skulls just said, an extremely long way, even if they don't end up being on the feature.
So that's something that I wanted to remind everybody of that is now open for April.
100%. If you call yourself the Tesonian, you need to do your CRP nominations, and you need to participate in Tes article, please.
What a beautiful room. Just want to say again, thank you guys so much for being here for another artsy Friday.
We're here chatting with Skull's Army discussing everything about his work, his inspirations, his experiences on Tezos.
and our communities that we've been in together.
We're about to dive in and talk about the WTF green room here for a minute, I think.
But first, I just wanted to acknowledge everybody in the room.
Thank you so much for being here.
Really appreciate you.
What a beautifully full room.
Make sure to retweet the space so that even more people can know about it
and come hang out with us and enjoy the vibes.
We do this every Friday, having a special guest come up,
and then the last Friday of the month,
We do a community call where anybody is welcome to come share about their art and their experiences in Web3 and specifically Tasos.
If you are requesting to come up right now, we are not trying to ignore you.
It's just not the proper timing.
Later on, towards the end of the art interview, anybody that wants to come ask Skull's questions is welcome to come up.
I do want to slip in there.
I'll let you decide when we should do it.
But I do have a fun announcement for the upcoming near future.
So...
We can drop that when you think it's a good time.
And hello, everybody.
I see some familiar faces in the room.
Thank you very much for being here.
I see some unfamiliar faces.
I would like to be familiar faces.
So reach out and let's chat.
Well said.
So one of the things that I really like about your object portfolio that I wanted to talk about is the diversity of it.
And it's something that like I personally as a extremely refused to pick a genre artist.
Like I actually appreciate seeing.
You know, we've got everything from GLB to glitch art to subtle gifts to interactive NFTs that are gamified to hand-drawn.
What is your, this might be a difficult question to answer, but what would you say is your favorite right now medium to create it?
That is hard.
I've been thinking about that a bit.
I don't want to say I've received criticism, but it has been mentioned to me by certain people that some collectors don't like that and they like more consistency in a style.
And I've thought about it and I thought what would my style be if I was going to settle on one?
And I just, I can't think of one that I would want to settle on.
Settling is what I don't want to do.
I love new thing, love experimenting and and trying.
I haven't tried.
So it's like that's for me is one of my driving forces in making things is,
is learning and FAFO, you know?
No, I completely agree with you.
And I don't want to over speak here because everybody is allowed to feel how they want to feel.
But at the end of the day, I am not about choosing my artistic direction based off of what some collector wants out of my art.
It just doesn't feel right.
Yeah, I mean, if that's why you're collecting for me, you're probably not aligned with why I'm creating just so you know.
And that's fine.
You don't have to be.
But, you know, I and I tend to buck expectations on my art no matter who they're from.
So if somebody tells me they have an expectation, I'm almost probably going to do the opposite.
Just because that's my style more than anything.
And of course, there's some exceptions, like if it's a commission and you're going into it with that mindset.
But at the end of the day, like, one of the things I like about Tesos, especially more recently with events, is the constant reminder that it's your art and your rules.
And that's one of the things I think drew me in is I have a long professional history of working on other people's projects and doing what other people thought was the right thing.
And having complete creative freedom.
to just do something that ultimately, if no one else likes but you, you've still succeeded.
You made something you liked.
So if that's your only goal, it's very freeing and it's very eye-opening because you get to,
it's a certain way to look inside and kind of learn something about yourself,
probably that I haven't taken enough time to really do the introspection on.
Maybe one day I'll look back at my work and learn something about myself.
I mean, that's one of the beautiful things about being an artist, is that it's always going to be there to look back at and have a more intimate memory of your own personal experiences than I've been pretty much anything else can document.
I think about that too. I think I've got two daughters, seven and four.
And one day I won't be around. My wife just lost her mother a couple months ago, two months ago.
And, you know, it's been on the mind.
And I've been thinking about that.
Like, I want to make sure I leave behind something that my kids can see and say my dad made that.
And that was him.
And that was what he felt and thought and created.
So I think about that.
And I like that it's that it's on chain for that.
And certainly that brings up, you know, the argument of IPFS and things a little bit.
And I've thought about that from that angle, too, is do I want to maybe do a couple of completely on-chain pieces just for posterity sake?
Make sure that there's some legacy there.
There's something there for my kids to look at.
There's definitely something to be said there.
And I do also want to get into experimenting with some on-chain things.
For me, I almost this whole time I've been feeling like I'm waiting for some sort of big breakthrough that allows the file capacity to be a little less limiting.
You know, because I think it'd be really cool to have some music on chain.
Totally agree.
Yeah, I know that that's a big bummer is you can do a lot with like compressing a GIF, but what are you going to do with audio?
You lose so much fidelity.
Maybe there's a roll up solution there.
Maybe like a.
We need to get with some people that I know and we need to see if we can make like a music roll up or something and then make a...
I know that I have vague ambitions and I have a few people that are vaguely committed to working out an idea for an on-chain radio station.
And I know you're going to be involved.
So I don't know.
There's something there.
There's definitely a need and there's some solution.
It's just got to be found.
It's totally absolutely something that's needed.
And there's been working examples in the past.
And I continue being kind of shocked that another example hasn't popped up because we keep talking about it.
And come on, guys, somebody build this already.
And hey, step on my toes.
If you're a builder out there, you know someone that is and you can get that done, go get it done.
I'll use it and I'll tell everyone to use it.
happily.
Yeah, I still have moments of just reminiscing over Henn radio and how well it worked.
It was also my first experience as a music artist on a blockchain being able to have billboards
and charts and like compete with, you know, getting to the top of the charts and it was
really fun.
It was one of the very, very early Hickett Nukh parts of the experience.
I don't know what happened to that.
How did that end?
Or maybe I don't know.
I believe it was just an issue of keeping it running.
Might have had something to do with the transition from Henn to Tia.
I'm not sure.
I wonder if that code is out there somewhere.
Maybe it's maybe it just needs some community effort and maybe community funding to get it back up and running.
Yeah, getting a Henn Radio 2.0 is, uh,
In my eyes has always been one of those things that I feel like when I see that happen,
it will be an indicator that Tesos is about to have another bull run.
But I mean, that's a pretty bold statement, but that's just how I feel about it.
It's like, how do you have a revolution without music at the forefront?
I hear you.
And we, I feel like culturally, globally, probably, but at least from my perspective in the U.S.
in California, I feel like.
art is going to be more and more important to us over the next few years, the ability to voice our feelings in ways that, that, you know, art is, is the ability to take a feeling and, and like, shoot it like a dart into another person, you know?
More than just, yeah, you can, you can write a book, but,
How many people are you going to get to sit down and read the whole book?
Being able to take, like encapsulate a huge amount of feeling into just like a shot, just a quick hit.
That's art.
And that's going to be so important, especially music, because historically, music guides are cultural revolutions.
And I, you know, my opinion, I think we're going to need one of those.
Yeah, absolutely. Definitely on the same page there. And, you know, we talk in DMs a lot. And for all, for all we know, guys, Skulls and I might team up and do some sort of a music release at some point. Because definitely one of my long term friends within the space.
I would love to, man. I would be honored.
I write a lot of lyrics that never get used.
Sometimes I turn them into poems.
That's one of the things I was going to point out, and I actually mentioned in your gym thread, is you do some very, very poetic descriptions often.
You know, poetry was my very first artistic outlet.
I started writing poetry when I was pretty young.
and reading poetry.
That was probably my first real foray and love
into the humanities was just poetry.
And I consumed a lot of different poetry,
probably way too young to be consuming some of the things I did,
but certainly brought in my horizons.
And so no matter what I do,
I feel drawn to pairing it with verse.
encapsulating in verse what I'm trying to encapsulate in the piece and pairing it together.
To me, that's like the cherry on top.
It's the garnish, I guess.
But sometimes it's the main piece, I guess.
It depends on the poem.
But yeah, that's definitely a recurring thing that I will tend to do.
Not necessarily because I've decided that as a personal rule.
It's just I see...
I see the power of verse and I see the ability to sort of re-approach the message I'm trying to convey in a different medium and then pair that together into kind of one one.
unified peace if that makes sense at all it does and just a reminder that today is apparently world
poetry day um if if we end this space and time and mal is still doing uh right now mal is doing
a world poetry day listen and share so if anybody when we're done here definitely see if that's still
going uh maybe skulls you could drop a couple uh poems over there but i was actually going to say um
would you like to share any poetry here while while we're talking
Oh, God.
You know, as much as like I would love to get there,
I have never read my poetry out loud for anyone other than maybe a very close friend or my wife.
And even then it's it's hard to perform poetry.
Right.
Because I want to perform it a bit dramatically.
Like when I write verse, I hope that you read it in a bit of a dramatic voice.
That's sort of how I write.
But then to deliver it that way feels awkward.
I need to get there.
It's something I need to work on.
Well, do you mind if I read the kind of poetic description you have for thresholds of unbeing?
Please do.
I would appreciate it.
This is one of the pieces we added into the gym thread.
Be sure to go check it out yourselves.
It is extremely mesmerizing.
It's a very hypnotic piece.
We can talk about the creation of it here after I read this to you all.
For unseen seams, the world exhales.
Portals unfurl, neither here nor there.
Edges dissolving into forms unnamed.
Illusions ripple like liquid glass, layered veils of what might be and what never was.
Truth, if it exists, is a flicker between frames, a color only half remembered.
To observe is to distort.
To reach is to fracture the line.
The spaces between things hum quietly and ache, a whisper, a question, unformed.
Poem.
You can read my poetry any day, Yush.
Thank you.
It's beautiful.
Really well written.
That was well performed.
I'll lend half of it to you.
I got to give some credit to Mal Sheep.
I've been listening to Mal perform poetry for a few months now on and off,
and it's got to be something rubbing off on me there.
I drop in when I can, and yeah, that's a nice, it's a nice refreshing space to drop into.
And yeah, you hit the, you hit the tone and the tempo, the meter of it was perfect.
Thank you.
Absolutely. Do you want to talk to us about what that means to you since you wrote it and a little bit more about the visual?
So I was exploring. This one is a bit abstract. I've been pontificating on the nature of things and how if you zoom in enough, there really is no boundary or it's very hard to define the boundary.
But on a macro scale, we find it so easy to define a boundary.
But that boundary is really in our head more than it actually exists in a place.
For instance, where is the edge of the earth?
Well, you can say it's on the ground on the dirt, but then what about the atmosphere?
Well, okay, if you start accounting for the atmosphere, then you have a gradient into space that technically doesn't end.
It technically just gradates perfectly into background space.
So where is the edge?
Is there an edge?
Is there an edge to anything?
And so I've really been deep in this kind of thought process for a while.
It's just kind of a side thing that I do.
I pontificate about existential things.
I do that too.
I appreciate it, really.
And so, and I was also, I was taking part in January, which is a really good, like, if you're an artist and you're, whatever you're into, try to find a challenge that someone makes and just like, commit yourself to a challenge because it was really like, almost every day in January, almost, I skipped some days.
I would go to the January page, get the prompt, and just try to put something out.
Sometimes it was good.
Sometimes it wasn't very good.
Sometimes I would spend a couple hours and throw it away and skip the day.
But I learned a lot.
I formed a lot more kind of, like I really sharpened my chops in January by participating in this every day.
So I believe that piece, that day's prompt was to create an illusion.
Was that the one for optical illusion day?
It does say op art optical illusion January 19th.
Okay, so I was sort of researching different ways of creating optical illusions
and different sort of classical approaches and mathematical approaches and things.
And trying to, I guess, from the first
part of my approach is to reach an appreciative understanding of the thing that I want to do.
Because I don't want to act like I'm, this is going really deep, but I don't want to speak for
something that I don't know enough about. So I will go and sort of research more about the topic.
So I spent some time looking at different.
optical illusions that have been coded and created and and what causes an optical illusion to happen in your brain according to
psychologists and what I came up with was I kind of I brought it all the way back I had gone
to these crazy depths of working with like dots that anyway, I brought it all the way back to,
I'm just going to layer alternating squares and I'm going to rotate them and I'm going to
vary the rotation rate slightly along the stack.
And...
What that will do is it will cause them to come out of sync with each other.
And then over time, it'll be a loop.
There will be a cycle where they'll come back into sync with each other.
And so I started playing with that.
And I got to the point that I had something that visually pleased me,
and I thought it was a nice illusion.
But it felt like it lacked any artistic...
message. It was just sort of, okay, here's my response to the prompt, but it's not saying or doing anything.
So I realized something about that piece and watching it spin made me really go back to thinking about
these deep things about what really is the edge of a thing, what really is the boundary, is there a boundary?
And if there is no boundary, then is, is it just one thing?
Is this all one organism that we're part of?
And that's what led me, long story short, that's what led me to writing that poem was,
I felt like the piece needed more artistic integrity.
It needed a message.
And so I needed to write some fairly poignant verse for it.
What I find really interesting about this is, sorry to interrupt.
No, please do.
Is that, um,
I find that to be true every single time, no matter how clear the piece is in itself.
It's one of the things I really like about NFTs and taking it digital and offering this massive endless space next to an artwork for descriptive words.
Because at the end of the day, you can still have your own, as a viewer, interpretation of a piece.
before you even read that description.
But for me personally, every time I read a thought-out description,
it helps me appreciate the art more and kind of see whatever the artist was intending behind it
and not just kind of relying on my own interpretation.
Yeah, totally.
I use the description space as part of the piece more often than not.
I know some artists will neglect it or just...
put something there. For me, it's one part of my canvas to display what I want to display to you.
So I use that. So I hope the people that collect, at least for me, have learned that and appreciate the description part of my pieces.
With the newer part of my existence of, you know, curating and writing and stuff about art, like, I had to actually realize that, like,
I found myself beaten my head against the wall with some pieces that I just absolutely loved, but literally said absolutely nothing.
Like, and like even with the artist, their profile would say nothing about the artist, just blank.
And it really had to realize like, okay, as an artist myself, I should maybe take note of how I'm feeling about this and be even more descriptive.
Yeah.
That's true. I mean, certainly I should probably go back to my own profiles and put something there because you're right. And I think it's hard as an artist to go out there and write your own profiles and kind of sell yourself and chill yourself. That's like the hardest thing.
Getting to the point that you can tear your soul open, pull something out, form it into something, and then pass it off to the world is something that somehow we all have the superpower to do.
But then like telling people that it's good is is insurmountable to most of us.
Actually standing there and saying, isn't this good?
Like you, we all love it.
We know that we loved it when we made it.
That's why we made it.
But then chilling it out feels so greasy and shitty and I hate it.
So I get that.
I feel that.
And I've definitely been a sufferer of that.
And that's, you know, that's why I sort of am trying to build the tools I'm building.
And I have that perspective.
And I try to use that perspective to maybe see if I can help solve that problem.
I know the tools like subject are doing great things for,
helping artists like I I don't need to see
shill posts for most of the artists I follow now I've got 77
artists I follow on subject and I just get a bot
ping whenever they drop something and I can go check it out and I can buy
it quickly and it's really awesome they don't have to show but
That leaves the problem, of course.
How do you find those people to add them to that?
So, you know, we're on that problem.
Every aspect and perfect segue into, yeah, what are you developing for that?
So I've got Reject going.
I hope I've been talking about it enough that most people have heard at least something about it.
But it's in a semi-open beta at this point.
The.
The URL has been leaked.
Not that it was ever really too secret, but it's, you know, I'm looking for feedback and there's a new version that'll hopefully drop over the weekend or early next week with some changes, big changes to the way the filters are going to work.
But the idea is we're approaching trying to solve the problem of discoverability. We want to create.
a tool where people that want to connect with art on the Tesas blockchain can go here, use our filters and curation mechanisms to dig into the art that they want to find and ultimately connect with the artists that create that art.
You know, we foresee once Jack is back from his IRL hiatus, he's working hard on his day job.
Once he's back and he can put some time into subject again, he's going to give us an API endpoint so that we can give you a button to follow an artist directly on your subject from Reject.
So it's kind of closing that loop and giving you the ability to discover and then add into your subject because the last thing I think any of us want to see is we all follow the same 70 people and by their art and anybody new in the space, we never even see them because they're never in our subject.
So part of that's going to fall on us. We have to be diligent collectors and supporters and make sure that we're giving new artists a chance to have a voice in the space too because...
As we build these tools, the ability for there to be an echo chamber is really there and prevalent.
And I'm trying to, you know, address that.
Absolutely true.
And another reminder, when you are nominating artists for article of the month, try to consider that.
Try to, you know, give up opportunity to artists that are not typically being shouted out.
And even more so when you do that is all the more reason to comment on what you loved about their work.
Couldn't agree more. Community effort is really going to be key. And I know, I know that the Tesos community is a community that can get together and make change like that.
Like this is a very powerful community. I have a lot of love and respect for the Tesla's community as a whole.
It's, I think, matured a lot over the last couple of years.
And, you know, I think we've maybe gone a little more, a little further at shaking off some bugs than we've even kind of come to realize ourselves.
But I have a lot of appreciation for the people and the people behind the scenes.
You know, you guys at TC.
Thank you guys so much.
I know you guys are doing what you do.
You're not even able to get the CRP awards, even when you're nominated, which kind of sucks because you definitely all deserve it.
But, you know, much love because...
everybody that's involved that's officially or unofficially involved is making it what it is.
At the end of the day, it goes back to the echo chamber problem.
If we were allowed to receive that with all that we're doing and the fact that, you know, it's a job.
You know, like somebody that is not receiving any sort of compensation and putting out hard work
that is not always acknowledged should be the CRP recipient over, for example, me.
Does that mean I don't appreciate the nominations?
Of course I do.
It's really nice to see people tag you and acknowledge that your work is being noticed no matter who you are.
So just to say that.
Like definitely appreciate everybody that does nominations.
Continue doing them.
Every single person that gets nominated is going to get a little warm, fuzzy feeling from it.
And be just that little extra bit of motivated and feel validated that what they're doing matters.
It really does.
Like, I can't even speak to that enough.
Winning is amazing.
But just seeing, like, just seeing somebody that you didn't even, that you didn't expect
or didn't know saw you to nominate you is like, oh, man, right on.
I did, I did that.
Oh, cool.
Like, it really gives you a pep in your step.
And then that carries you for a little while.
And, like, that's really powerful.
So that's free.
It's something we can all do.
And it helps the community because, you know,
Like you said, there's an echo chamber there.
Even with the people, I mean, obviously the people at TC can't win, but
you know if you look back there's definitely some people that win all the time there's some
there's lots of people that have never won and that's not that's not the comments fault
they're they're taking the nominations they get so i think as a community we can do better
um at at kind of taking that role seriously and going out there and trying to find those
members in our community that are deserving and giving them the the um pat on the back that they deserve and
You'd be surprised if you shine a light on someone that really deserves it that hasn't had the light shined on them.
It could be that four or five other people see that and go, yeah, shit, you're right.
And all of a sudden they get a flood of nominations and they win and they feel really great.
So, yeah, put it out there, even if you think, especially if you think, oh, they've never won or they probably don't have a chance of winning.
Those are the people you really should nominate.
That goes a long way for them.
Absolutely. Definitely appreciate you helping shed the light on that and expressing what it means to you. I think that can go a long way. And in general, poor Cryptonio, you guys have been doing so good this past few months with just a huge rise in nominations that Cryptonio is just
up to his neck and things to sort and figure out and make sure are fair and just so you guys know
i'm on the inside watching him as a co-worker and he is absolutely so passionate and careful
and really is doing everything you can to continue to make sure that it is a fair process
thank you kryptonio you you definitely are the backbone and and we appreciate all that effort
Not to mention being here in the space is as kind of a mostly silent co-host, really locking down all the links, making sure things are pinned, making sure people that are invited are seen.
Thank you, Kryptonio, for being such a great co-host.
So maybe it's a good time for me to drop my news?
I'd say so. Let's do that. And then we can open up the floor to anybody that might have questions for you.
So I have been officially invited to be the losing bid March, which means I'm a little late, but I need to get that done.
And coming up, my next drop, because I've got to get it done, is going to be losing bid March.
I'm not 100% sure what it's going to be yet.
It's still taking form.
But it's going to be fun.
I'm working really hard on it.
I really appreciate Paul for inviting me to do that.
So if you're unfamiliar with losing bid, it's a really cool initiative that I don't want to misspeak, but I'm pretty sure Paul started.
He might have some.
some partners in that that I'm unaware of at this point, but I'm sorry if I didn't mention you.
Essentially, they commission one artist a month.
They guarantee a minimum reserve of 100 tes by placing the first bid at 100 tes,
and then invite people to outbid them.
And I think it's a really awesome...
initiative it it's it's kind of like a CRP you know you get the artist knows they're
going to be getting a hundred tes out of it and that's really cool but it's also um in exchange
for their art so it's you know it's it's like a commission CRP and i i feel as an artist
that's really cool because um it you know it's it's a CRP you can kind of get for anything and
it's for stuff that you've already done as an artist for someone to give you money ahead of time to do art
that they believe in your art and that's pretty cool.
So, you know, not only was I invited for and had a great experience in people of Tezos,
but now I also get to take part in losing a bit.
That's really cool.
I actually was less aware of this.
I didn't realize it was a separate thing.
I actually was selected.
Thank you for selecting me.
Act's art commissions for March,
working on my personal emergence piece,
along with 39 other artists, I believe.
And that,
that to me is a very similar sounding initiative,
where you're guaranteed a 50-10s starting bid,
and then if you are out,
if the,
the,
the curator is outbid, then they actually still spend that 50 Tes on other works on your,
on your object portfolio.
Yeah, right on.
They are similar.
I think, I think it was like they took the basic original idea and maybe got some funding,
but changed the format a little bit.
And so you kind of ended up with both.
Yeah, you can never have enough of these commission style initiatives.
They really are great.
Yeah, really love it.
Love the support to the community.
And I appreciate that you shouted out the acts commissions because I'm probably going to go out for that again next month.
I've had such a run of good luck.
I'm going to see if I can keep it rolling.
You know one thing I actually like at first confused me, but I really like about acts that
they do somewhat differently is when you're applying, you're not actually submitting an artwork.
You're just saying, hey, I'm interested.
And then the curators go and, like, take a look at what you do in general as an artist.
It's a little different than what I'm used to.
But it was absolutely, I'm having so much fun with this emergence theme.
Like, personally, I'm just, I'm, you know, like I said, like neck deep in my piece and composing it and just really loving every moment of it.
Yeah.
I can't wait to see it. And yeah, those are the things where like having a little bit of a challenge or giving just a seed of an idea can really bring out things in an artist.
So, you know, I had a lot of that in January and it was really fun. So I hope you enjoy it too.
And you find the same joy in kind of exploring that topic and diving into it. I can't wait to see it and hear it probably, knowing you.
Well, thank you. But yeah, absolutely congratulations. I think that's super cool that you were picked and that you're going to be diving in on that and really curious to see what you come up with for April. And I think now is a good time. If anybody has questions for skulls and you want to come up and ask, you're more than welcome to.
Just a reminder, next week is going to be our open community call.
So if you're eager to share stuff about your project, your experiences, the work that you're working on,
please come back next Friday and hang out with us.
While we are waiting on any potential requests, I do want to make a couple of announcements,
things that we noticed on the Art on Tezos recap from the at Tezos handle.
Definitely check out their weekly Friday recap.
NFTBiker has just launched a new tool that allows you to download a JSON file of all of your token and NFTs,
making it easy to manage data related to your art.
What I find personally kind of like something I really want to nerd out with that is plugging
it in the chat GPT and actually talking to it because I don't know if you guys know this,
but you can have chat GPT read and create JSON files.
So there's got to be a cool little combo going on there where you can do something really neat with that information.
On top of that, just a reminder that people at Tesos just launched season 13, and there are some absolutely amazing pieces, all one ones showcasing self-portraits of Tesos community all stars.
Another one is that
art commission the one we were just talking about just announced next month's theme and opened up for submissions for the theme absence that's going to be a really fun one i can already just i i have ideas brewing the second i hear that word as a prompt and i know it's going to be a really good one for the artists in the community yeah agreed i saw that prompt and i i was drawn to it immediately that's why i was like okay i'm going to go out for this one
Because I already have some ideas brewing that I want to work on.
So might as well.
What's interesting is the first thing it made me think of is a musical composition I learned about in college.
I can't remember the name of it.
But it's essentially we had a whole class at workshop studying the two minute and something second silence that was.
a composer's famous song from history, where quite literally it's like the orchestra does absolutely nothing for an entire song length.
It was just a really, really deep, impactful moment of me learning about the arts and history.
And then you think about things like the fact that we had invisible tessards, you know, I just, I think it's going to be a really fun theme for a lot of reasons.
Yeah, 100%.
Good pull with the invisible tessards, by the way.
Again, guys, if anybody wants to come up and ask Skull some questions,
you're welcome to a request to come up now.
If not, we will just assume that means that we did a fantastic job interviewing
and had all of the things that could possibly be shared, shared.
Welcome, go ahead, go ahead.
I was just going to say, while I have a second of airtime,
we're gearing up for, we're a little early,
but we're gearing up for TTC's third anniversary.
I'm personally throwing some of my bigger collected pieces
into the prize pool, and I'm going out
and probably going to collect a few more.
But we would really, really love help from the community.
both if you have, you know, maybe some like,
uh, Tezos historic NFTs that you're willing to part with, like, you know, maybe a
tessert if somebody's really amazing or like some Otis or whatever's, you know, out there that's
in your wallet that maybe you're willing to part with for a good community cause. Um, we would,
of course, uh, love to receive any, any, uh, donations for the prize pool and we will give
just shoutouts when we receive and also when we give out the prizes to you.
or your group if you want to do it in the name of a group or a organization of any kind.
So yeah, reach out to us. You can drop stuff to the tesos community.tes.
But reach out to us and let us know what you're sending so we can give you shoutouts and all that good stuff.
Good plug. And that's actually one thing that I wanted to talk to you about is that you recently, you know, took on a role with TTC and I wanted to know if you wanted to share anything about that experience so far.
Yeah, TTC is everything that I love about Tezos, kind of just made into manifest form.
It's run mainly by Rubisco, aka Aurora.
She is an amazing, wonderful soul.
And Webidente, who I think was in here as well.
And we've got Max Z helping out.
So we've got we've got a small kind of board of trustees that are part of it.
We the Tesos community exists as a
as a place for the community.
We have no project.
We have no NFT.
We have no way of making money.
We aren't in it for making money.
If we get money, which we have received funds in the past,
that all goes into community initiatives and community prizes.
We manage a Discord where any project is welcome to come talk to us about opening up a room in our Discord if they want, you know, a place for,
discussion or, you know, we have lots of announcement connections with other
discords and things. So we try to be the town square of Tezos. We try to be the meeting place
and the place where you can get together and talk about new projects, good or bad, you know,
fud, whatever you want to do. No one, you know, it's not like sitting in a project's discord
trying to ask tough questions and getting kicked out. This is a neutral ground. It's for all
Tesonians.
That's why we exist. That's what we do. So I've recently sort of been offered the opportunity to increase my part to play in TTC and I've become a guardian, which just means that I'm
helping keep things running and helping the hub page development and all the stuff that it revolves around TTC.
We have a website that we maintain with a calendar that if you're running any events on Tesos,
we would really love for you to come and add your event to our calendar.
We will tweet it out.
We will share it.
We try to be a platform to amplify any voice on Tesos.
We run spaces at least, well, I actually don't know the full, I think we do them weekly, but maybe every other week.
But we do artist spaces and we do special spaces that we've done talks with Trill Attack and all sorts of.
organizations we've we've had you guys at tc most recently um got to interview you guys which was fun
and as part of that role i've also sort of taken up co-hosting duties with aurora and so i get to
be in a lot of these spaces and talk to cool people and get to know you guys better and interact with
you guys so it's it's been really awesome talk about a full circle you know considering just a
just you know several months ago you were like i don't want to do spaces i don't want to talk in spaces
and now you're hosting them
Yeah, you know, pushing yourself out of your comfort zone can do a lot.
And it's, I recommend it.
It's for some reason we all hate to do it.
But it's like the best thing for you.
It's like the best medicine you can give is just pushing yourself out of your comfort zone a little bit.
You find new things about yourself.
And, you know, now I enjoy it.
This is good conversation.
Why not?
I completely agree. When I first started hosting spaces, it felt like each space took a week of energy from me.
Like it was just so draining. But you know, like any new thing, it's hard at first. And then you get more accustomed to it.
And then it becomes part of your regular schedule. And that's when you really can start actually just seeing what good comes out of it and really being grateful for the opportunity and,
Sometimes you have to like run towards the fear to get there.
Absolutely.
The what is it?
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
I don't think that's actually right.
I don't think that was the exact quote.
Anyway, it's close enough and still registers for sure.
Thank you guys so much again. This is Artsy Friday with Teso's Commons, and today we have been chatting with Skull's Army. Just a reminder that we do record these spaces. So if you know somebody that might, you know, get some feel good feelings or learn something or just be inspired by this space, please tweet it out. Make sure they check out their recording.
Skull's Army is a very, very strong community leader.
Really enjoy talking to you about your development, your art, your hybrids of the two.
We do have the gym thread posted at the top if you want to go check that out and show
Skull some love.
Check out his object portfolio.
Again here, day and night, developing, making art, and any support is going to go a long
way.
Thank you guys so much for being here.
What a beautiful room.
I really appreciate it.
Great to see all of you, some regulars TTC down there.
Appreciate you.
The Tezos Event Calendar actually has its own Twitter handle as well, which you could see down there.
Make sure to follow it.
It's a great way to stay up to date on things going on.
So I do see a request here.
Yeah, I think we can go with that.
There.
How you doing United Saints?
Hello, how are you?
Good.
Nice.
Saints, this is the winner of my people of Tesos auction.
Yay.
I have a question for you.
Okay.
So I think that, you know, from what I've learned about you, you pretty much know everything about Tezos.
And you know a lot of tech.
So I was just wondering, what's one thing you don't know that you want to learn about art, about tech, about Tezos, anything like that?
What a wonderful question.
Well, I don't know everything about anything.
So put that out there first.
I do not claim to know everything.
Okay.
What's one thing I want to learn?
Okay, if I had to narrow it down, I guess, to one thing.
I want to, on Tesos, I want to be proficient enough with smart contracts to set up a marketplace of my own, which is, I'll just say it's on the pile of things that have been planned for a period of time in the future.
But I'm not going to commit to any period of time publicly.
But I want to create a marketplace that functions similar to object,
but for a different niche specific reason.
It's part of the plan that Paul and I have.
And so to get there, I'm going to need to do a lot more kind of brushing up on SmartPy
and the actual coding and creating of a smart contract.
which is something that I have not had to really dig into very much yet,
thanks to all the wonderful tools that have been created ahead of me.
That's a great answer.
And I want to add to that question and ask,
what's something that you want to learn that's not Tesos-related?
Okay.
Well, not Tesos-related.
Okay.
I'm going to give you something that is more deep and existential, but
I want to learn to be more present in the moment.
That's a great answer.
Especially with the lives we are living online,
it's important when we step away to actually take that break and be in the moment
and appreciate the things we have around us in real life.
So 100% agree with that.
I touched on it in my first article of the year where I was talking about things that I'd like to change
and how I'd like to improve.
I read a book once by Eckhart Tolly called The Power of Now.
I might go back and reread it.
There's some really good perspectives in that book.
But yeah, it kind of changed the way I think about the present moment.
And I feel like I need to get back to that perspective that I had about the present moment.
That's a good answer.
Do you have anything else to add, United Saints?
No, that was it.
I just wanted to ask that question.
I appreciate you coming up.
Thank you so much.
And what a wonderful question.
And I really appreciate you.
Saints is my favorite person by the rule of having the highest purchase of any of my art ever on Tezos.
I told him, don't worry, it won't last.
Well, it's just one day.
So you're still up there.
Just a reminder that Saints was our guest last week.
And that space is recorded.
If you want to go check that out, see a little bit of our chat.
That was a great, great space and really appreciated you coming up last week.
That was a good space.
I learned a lot about Saints that I didn't know.
Well, going to give one last call here.
If anybody wants to come up, it looks like we got Papa Bearded coming up.
What is my favorite AI bird?
Oh, that's going to be hard.
Okay.
Let's see. Welcome up, Papa. How you doing?
Well, the kids aren't napping. They're protesting. So I'm a little all over the place, and I missed most of the space.
But I had to come up and ask if there's any other currently hidden messages in your artwork, if that hasn't already been asked.
I assume you mean unfound publicly.
Indeed. I don't care about the ones I already found.
Everybody else can catch up there.
Well, I don't think, other than Webidente, I don't think anyone has discovered the complete list of Easter eggs in my people of Tesos piece.
I'll have to take stock.
I throw so many out there.
And I try not to pay attention because then I get antsy and I want to give clues.
So I have to just kind of forget that it's even out there.
And then I just get reminded when people go, oh, shit, I found this.
And I go, oh, yeah, yeah, I put that in there.
So it's just a fun surprise for both of us.
I have to take stock.
That's a good question.
I know.
The pots piece is the one that's kind of top of mind.
There's a lot of stuff on FAFO Lab, the website I've been building, and I kind of add to that at least weekly.
If you look at the build number on the bottom, it'll tell you the date of the last day that I added something.
So if it's later than the last time you look, there's probably a new Easter egg there.
And that's definitely going to connect and get a lot bigger as things grow.
So there will be more there.
And then for everyone that isn't pop a bearded, I have a bit of a, what would you call it?
It's not a scavenger hunt.
What are they called when you have like a list of or like a string of?
puzzles to solve with a prize at the end.
I can't remember.
I can't think of the word.
But anyway, phase one just got solved by Papa Bearded.
So in, I haven't checked it maybe about 20 days or so.
I'm going to close the door on phase one.
And then everybody that's completed phase one gets to go on to phase two.
It's called the Termin Skulls Challenge.
If you want to get involved in it and see what's going on.
You can stop by the Tesla shit coin Discord, which is where I created a room for it.
Pretty much all the clues for phase one have been left in that room, so anyone that cares can follow the clues and probably solve phase one before the door closes.
Everyone that's in before the door closes will get the second clue in the form of an NFT.
or the first clue for phase two in the form of an nfts and we'll see how long it takes from there
well and you gotta give credit where credit to i i only got it because of all the work
that uh randall put in you know without randall doing all the leg work uh and probably without
the incentivization of you know getting more w tf in the game show i don't solve it
and that's that's the truth right there
That's true. Paul did have to bribe people to solve it with WTF coin.
I am lazy. If you don't motivate me, you know, good luck.
Just got to create a fake token and then trickle it out to people and they'll do anything you want.
Good question. Definitely want to see more people trying these scavenger hunts and finding the Easter eggs.
We also have a couple comments in the comments section.
When Skull's Army Tesos Baker?
You know, that's something that I've always wanted to do.
It's cost prohibitive right now.
Just building up that much of a Tesos pile has been hard for me.
I've got, you know, my stash that's staked away, but it's nowhere near high enough.
But...
There has been some talk about maybe putting something together and funding it as a group.
And it could happen before too long.
I wouldn't be surprised.
I would like to.
And yeah, if I can get some support around me to put the test together, that'll probably happen.
So the answer to win is soon, trademark.
That's my answer to way too many things.
That is just the nature of this space, I'd say.
Just a reminder, we did pin to the top.
The article of March,
anybody wants to check that out and show us some love to the artist being featured in our March edition.
And again, nominations are now open for April.
You guys, this has been an absolutely lovely space.
Really appreciate you, Skulls, for coming out, chat with us.
Again, make sure to follow Skulls.
I noticed today for how long Skulls has been in the community and how active he is on Twitter.
I'm frankly offended by how many followers he has.
Let's get him some more followers.
You know, I...
Like I said, I have appreciated the slow burn.
I think I've accumulated a good, a good group of 800 and some odd people.
I would, I would wager that most of those are pretty good Tasonian people.
And I would probably go out and have a beer with most of them.
It's a good argument, the quality over quantity, but still, for the sake of the algorithm, let's get you over 1K at least.
All right, let's do it.
If you say so.
I think we are probably about to wrap it up, guys.
I really, really appreciate every single one of you again.
Really appreciate the fact that you guys show up every week
and help retweet these spaces and comment and interact.
It makes it possible.
And thank you, Teslo's comments for powering the space, Cryptonia, for co-hosting.
We've got a pretty awesome closing song here,
and I'm always excited when I get to say,
I see the artist of this closing song in the space.
Last Floor Boy, thank you so much for joining us on Tezos.
Really have been enjoying your initial mints and hope you will continue to mince.
This piece is called D-N-S-M-C-B-R, and it is by Last Floor Boy.
Enjoy. Follow the account.
It's the one right here that says X underscore X on it.
And definitely go check it out and support if you enjoy it.
And listen on headphones, as always.
Thank you.
I'm going to
I'm going to
Shit
I'm going to be.
I'm going to be.
What a vibe. What a vibe. Again, we will pin that to the top. Make sure to check it out. Show the last floor boy some support if you can. And again, Skull's Army, make sure to follow. Make sure to check out all the stuff that we've discussed today on Object. And we've really, really looked forward to seeing what's coming next. Again, reminder that Skulls is the selected artist for an April commission. I'm really excited to seeing what's coming out of that. Again, that's called...
The lost bid, right?
Losing bid.
Losing bid.
I'm going to have to pull that one up and do a little more digging because I should have been more aware of it.
But you have any closing words for us, Sculls?
Just that I love each and every one of you, and I love Tezos.
And also in spreading that love, I've got a few Zero Tes free Valentine's Hearts left on my object profile.
So if you want to go grab one of those before the reseller bots take them all, I would love to see those go-to-hands that want them.
Beautiful. And it is a really cool, very simple but lovely piece.
It's got a nice animation to it. Definitely go grab one while they're still available.
Thank you guys so much for tuning in for another artsy Friday.
Again, next week is our community call.
Make sure to show up and share what you got going on in the space.
We love you.
We appreciate you.
And we hope you have a super artsy weekend.
We'll see you next week and take care.
