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Cruxful Art on Monad EP. 6 w/ @bhareboy @kryptobaby777
Recorded: July 17, 2025 Duration: 1:18:06Space Recording
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry. so
Keep a bow, let's just stay rich.
Help my neck, nigga, and dance, my bitch.
Beat the system with chains and hits.
This is culturally inappropriate.
You run from the spirit of repossession.
Too much enamel covers your necklace.
I buy bitches, you buy obsessions.
They buy watches, I buy collections. Misery, fuel, and your necklace. I buy bitches, you buy them sections. They buy watches, I buy collections.
Misery's fueling your aggression.
Jealousy's turned into obsession.
Reality TV is mud wrestling.
Some sign checks I know better.
Wear my name that there's delicate.
You know I know where you're delicate.
Crush you to pieces, I hum a breath of it.
I will close your heaven for the hell of it.
You think it'd be valor amongst veterans.
I'm watching your fame escape relevance.
But here's the elephant.
You chasing a feature out of your element.
And those lab diamonds under inspection.
The question amongst block your blessings.
It's no trunestones in the desert.
I know the message
said
niggas you must be sick all you think about is just get rich my neck
and ice my bitch beat the system with chains and wits it don't take much
your lucky streak is now losing you money's dried up like a cuticle it's beautiful john 10 10 that's my usual
mama's is falling out in view bomb and blue they now fueling you they never find the guns but the
sewage do women was sick he need medicine going back to life never dead again richard don't make
watches for presidents just a million track between
skeletons this the darkest that i ever been the diamonds made you taste you ain't driving the
snow like it's the revenant and send footage back down and keep shoveling uncle said
you must be sick all you talk about is just get rich my neck that's my I'm not the candidate to vibe with.
I don't fuck with the Kumbaya.
All that talent must be God sent.
I'll send your ass back to the
cosmetics the things i've seen under my eyelids a lot of school dreams murder and sirens let's
be clear hip-hop died again i promised me go to rock him how many children's system let me down
the fuck are the west miles me right now therapy showed me how to open up it also showed me how don't give a
fuck the two-time chiming now with the genocide i'm generous however you want it i'll be the
gentle the mind move niggas a body here this should get gentrified heavy tunes like genovese
i drop your pentagon the short bet your gender reveal and tell them give me mine i son niggas
i am the general book where my chilling shoots every song is the book of genesis left the sonic's upon niggas want the t on me well here's the ginger blue
that generate residuals get off my chin the truth they say i couldn't reach gen z you
fucking dickhead she must be falling that chinsing when it comes to jinx yeah they
genetics been synthetic screaming they genius a finger wave they all fall niggas is jinka
god gave me light a good year full of free will truck car tell me not to
spare your life you know the good car when you look satisfied say and they ain't the lost person
then you realize that the government's talking hey yo gmg tuning in from, welcome to our sixth episode of the Crocsful Space.
This is TC, your co-host.
Yep, our founder, Endgame, will be joining us today.
Wow, it's a very exciting, exciting space that we have today.
But first off, we'd like to have a quick conversation with our guest we have today.
First and foremost, Bear, how are you doing today?
I'm doing great. Thanks for having me up here.
It's been a while since we last spoke, so it's always great to hear your voice and knowing that you've been crushing out there.
I'm about to sell out how are you feeling
honestly i'm feeling pretty good i'm honestly just taking everything day by day working as hard as i
can and just trying to keep up the momentum i've been making for myself and stuff like that too so
i'm just very happy with the overall reception to my work that i've been getting the past like
month and a half honestly
dope dope dope yeah love it and uh yeah can't wait you know to have a conversation
with the art creation the process and uh and also what you have been cooking behind the scenes for
for cruxville so um before we dive into that um we also have a special guest that Endgame has invited.
So KB, how are you?
Hey guys, GM Gem. I'm doing well, how are you?
GM, I'm tuning in.
We have Endgame, but I think she's now in Japan and she's traveling, but she'll be joining us very soon.
So KB, I have heard a lot and game about you so but before we dive into the conversation we'd love to get a quick
introduction about you as well yeah I work for Kuru Exchange I'm the community lead I've been
in the Monad community since about March 24, I believe.
And yeah, it's been an amazing ride. I was doing the House Milandoc chat before Career Exchange,
so I got really familiar with the community. And then, yeah, just been kind of riding the wave
and hanging on Discord. I see a lot of the chads in here today. So that's pretty much it. Just a crypto degen and having a good time waiting for Mainnet.
100%. A lot of news from Mainnet.
Like we'll be launching very soon, but of course we all going to stay tuned.
On boarded by Endgame because of art, she's always super bullish about Monad and that's the reason that we have Cruxful here.
It's been already our fourth collaboration with Bear this time this month.
And knowing that there's a lot of cooking within the Monad ecosystem and also within the projects.
within the Monarch ecosystem
and also within the projects.
So little Chook stars
having their superstar mint yesterday
and seeing like the volumes,
the traffic,
it's amazing.
So we can't wait to showcase
more artists that we have
in the pipeline.
So thank you so much, KB,
for supporting us
because throughout all these shows, we are so blessed and grateful to get so much support from the Monart team.
And seeing the community coming together really give us a huge boost.
Art, that's always been a sector that's very niche and not too much focus.
But we could definitely see when it comes to art, the community, it's crazy.
And I think that's also bring back to the origin when Monart ecosystem ever started.
All these amazing community artists has been, you know, building their own stuff.
And now they have their actual projects that are coming out.
So I'm still looking forward to it.
And so KB, will you be traveling to anywhere for the upcoming blockchain events?
We know that there will be Malaysian visit blockchain event and there will be Token249.
There will be KBW.
And so will you be in any...
So I just kind of got back from some travel.
Some travel. I was in New York for the Foundry and then I was just in Greece for the NADS meetup,
I was in New York for the Foundry.
which was very community like light and focus. I don't think I have any Asian tours lined up quite
yet. Internally with the team, I think we want to wait until mainnet.
We want to wait until like we have a working product and, you know, generate users that way.
It's a little tough with testnet, like in the whole onboarding, especially trying to onboard people who maybe aren't necessarily crypto native.
Even crypto native people aren't necessarily, you using test nets right like they don't have
time you know we're I think we're in the beginning of like a bull market right now or another bull
market it's always like an up and down market but right now we're up so you know I don't blame
people for not wanting to use like test net and like have their full energy doing you know main
net and like actually trading and making money on different chains um so we definitely were kind of like let's just be heads down um and not do so
much travel especially like for for me Asia's pretty far um but I do think that once we're on
mainnet and probably the summer of 26 you'll see see a lot of the Career Exchange team out at these like
Asian tours for sure, out in Malaysia and Korea, Bangkok and all of that. But for now, I think we're
going to stay put, put our heads down, make sure our product is like, you know, 100%. But yeah.
Very exciting, like seeing how different team members or, you know, different projects within the ecosystem are doing their part.
Yeah, some would be out for different RL events, hosting different events to create more relationships.
Like when it comes to RL, it's definitely different.
I saw like the sneak peeks of the events in Greece.
Everything looks great. Not going lie, pretty formal. Not only that, I love the country, but of course, like all these meetups just hits different, right? And seeing all these different city meetups have already been built way before, like all these are very precious opportunities. So yeah, I'm going to locked in as well
because we never know how the market is going to fluctuate.
But it seems that Monart's been already building since,
I mean, the bear kicked in.
And now we are starting going back to the bull,
like market is heating up right now.
But when it comes to art, nothing really changes, right?
We have artists out there keep creating.
We have builders out there also keep building what they believe in.
So, yeah, I'm sure that...
Oh, Endgame is right here already,
but I think it also takes time for her to tune in.
I'm sure that Endgame have a lot of different questions
that she will want to interact with UKB.
But why not we dive into our conversation with our artists today?
And for our audiences, please like Repose This Space
so that more people can tune in to our space
and know more about our upcoming job.
So without further ado,
we're super excited to welcome our main guest
and the fourth artist collaborating with Croxville,
the talented multidisciplinary
whose works spans traditional canvases,
digital oil paintings, public commissions, and even skateboard designs
can you imagine? He also exhibited at Art Basel Miami and sold
pieces through Softbee. So welcome again to the Stagebear.
Thank you so much. What a kind introduction.
Thanks for all the amazing materials, the CV that you have prepared for us.
And I just feel that all artists need to do that, right?
Like, so organized, like your website, your works, like Manifold, everything is so organized.
And I know that it also took a bit of time for you to rearrange everything. Of course, I've known you for a while already, but I'm sure that the Monat community and
Cruxville can't wait to know more about you.
Let's dive into a quick introduction.
When did your passion for art first?
I know that's a long way back question, but you can just make it simple for us.
Yeah, so I would say my passion for just art in general came back to me during college, which was back in like 2018, 2019.
I graduated in 2020, but I think before then I was always just doing something creative.
So I was playing in the band, I was cooking, I was doing all these little different things where you had some sort of creative control over what you're doing, whether it be sound, whether it be the presentation of your food.
So being just a creative in general and having a sense of artistry for myself has been something that I've just been building over the course of time.
And I would say my favorite muse right now is just doing it through visual language, doing the paintings, doing the digital paintings, commissions, all type of stuff. I think that's my
my favorite and something that I've really landed on and found myself in a really good place with.
Yeah, it's amazing like to see how diverse it goes, right, like throughout your journey. So
I'm sure that during when you were like in different stages of
artistic journey, you might have come across artists that you looked up to. If
you have to name three artists that have inspired you the most, who are they?
I would say, okay, I'm gonna give a couple different names for different
reasons. So one that always comes to mind is definitely Tijo, a really good friend of mine.
And simply, I think, just due to their form of storytelling and how much dedication and energy they put towards creating a specific narrative or honing on a specific theme, I took a lot of inspiration from that.
In terms of less artistry, in terms of stuff there's a um
a traditional artist named Shaq uh Kabangu um and they do kind of like almost like portraiture works
but they're all in abstract um so like lots of really like bright colors lots of messy lines
um really big eyes and everything and stuff like that um And at least taking more of a kind of like abstract
and really thinking about my works
in kind of like a larger sense.
I've taken inspiration from there.
And then with another person named Danny Fox,
another traditional painter,
just in terms of kind of like a folky art style as well.
And using a lot of smaller imagery
alongside kind of like these figures
to kind of help present the
entire story. So a lot of my practice in my work is very like narrative based. So whether it's like
a really short poem or a short phrase or something like that, there's always something that's being
built in terms of like making like a little world for itself. It may not be like every single piece
is connected to every single one. But I would say that each piece that I make kind of has its own life and its own meaning.
And I really try to hone in on stuff like that.
Because at least for me, it's a little bit easier to paint from that room rather than kind of just like painting about, oh, like the sky is blue or like this color yellow is my favorite or something like that.
But really just enriching it with a lot of narrative.
Beautiful, beautiful, yeah.
I remember you also mentioned a lot of your works are quite linked to your personal stories,
your personal journals and emotions that you might have gathered at the past.
Yeah, we'll go right to that when we talk about your creative process.
So we all knew that you had this traditional approach when it comes to art, like you do physical paintings.
So what actually led you to explore Web3? What are the spots that actually attracted you to be part of this Web3 journey?
I actually only got into it because I randomly decided to start posting my work on Twitter back when it was still named Twitter.
But I started posting the works on there as I was kind of like just testing out new stuff.
Like before I had kind of like a Twitter account, but I used it in high school and it was like very far and few between.
like very far and few between um and then as I was kind of just like stuff for myself I was just
like oh I need other places to just post it as other than just like Instagram because at the
time Instagram just wasn't being my friend uh so I was just like well there's probably some
other stuff out there and I was very familiar with like places like Tumblr um or even like
Reddit and stuff like that so I was just like oh okay like I can dive back into doing this and
I think in like posting my artwork and just meeting other artists pretty naturally through that way, I found myself kind of like diving into like the Web3 space probably maybe like two years after I started posting the work on Twitter.
Like I didn't really like rush right into it.
It was kind of more like a slow build up to it and really kind of like figuring out like how or what I do right now,
how would it fit into the framework of Web3?
Because when I started, I didn't really do digital art that much.
And now come what, maybe like three, four years later, it's a very integral part within my practice.
Like a lot of my works are digital.
A lot of my sketches that I do are digital.
I use it when I'm trying to like map out some stuff on a traditional front like I over-line and vary heavily so I definitely feel
like if I didn't start posting that stuff on Twitter at the time I probably would be on a
totally different trajectory in terms of like how I view and operate within my practice.
Right so basically back in probably 2021 or even earlier while you were using Twitter at that time,
was Elgo easier for you to get your work to be seen?
Because it seems that Elgo has evolved and changed ever since, right?
So I think during that time, it could be even more and you can build a stronger bonding bonding with different artists would you say so
i would say so i feel like at least during that time just because of how everything was going on
in the world like i think people were naturally kind of like seeking different communities
um and so like i already spent like time online like i used internet a lot in like in school and
stuff like right using kind of like the internet and social media and stuff was like very integral
so just like daily life um so it was kind of like a no-brainer to just like post stuff up on there
uh but I I guess like really just talking with other artists is the reason that got me to stay
um because I just didn't realize kind of like how big
kind of like a community aspect on social media could be.
Because like, honestly, like throughout the times
I was using it, I didn't really talk to people online.
It was kind of like I had my friends in school.
We would message each other sometimes,
but like I knew I was going to go see these people
like the next day, like in the real world
and stuff like that.
So like I didn't really bother to like
make too many connections online. But then it kind of like posting this work and I guess it just became a
little bit easier because like people were sharing like their processes, their ideas and stuff that
really meant a lot to them. And I think that's what kind of like allowed me the opportunity to
also share kind of like what was important in terms of like what I was doing in my work. And
I think it only fueled more of the fire to just get better
and better because the stuff I was doing back in 2021 is like vastly different to the stuff that
I'm doing right now um in terms of just like how I've grown in the artistry and stuff like that so
it's I really I really enjoy kind of like the aspect of it and really enjoy kind of like the
very big community element that is really brought into just I'm not even kind of like my practice but just like into my life as well like
I feel like I'm definitely like a lot more open in terms of like just chatting with people about
anything that has to do with my work and stuff like that 100% I guess it just changes the game
on how artists can share their works and also communicate directly with their collectors
and also building a relationship just as what you have been doing already like setting up this
amazing group chat and everyone just vibing and talking about art and to also support you as well
and knowing about what's going on with bear like what is working on right now so this definitely
changed the game on how we could communicate and even cooperate with
artists. So yeah, let's go deeper to your art style and inspiration. Just now we probably hinted a little
bit about your process that links to your personal journals, experiences, and your creations often
seem to draw from a very depth of knowledge and personal insight. And it's very personal, but to be honest, like it resonates with audiences as well.
So we would love to hear about your thought process behind this.
Yeah, well, okay, like specifically the work for the Moda stuff or just like kind of like
my, the works I make in general.
Um, in general, and after that we can go deeper to the piece that you prepared for
us yeah of course so at least when it comes to my process like like you said before i do have a lot
of journals um i guess when i started out it definitely was something i relied a little bit
more on um because i just let's just put it like I wasn't really in the practice of
like kind of like always being kind of like in a creative mind when it specifically came to doing
artwork like I had a creative insight for making food I had a creative insight for playing the
instruments and stuff like that but I didn't have kind of like the wealth of practice or knowledge
in terms of like making like these different paintings and stuff like that. So I did a lot of writing beforehand.
And for me, it was a lot easier to go back, read the writing that I had and kind of like
attach a picture to it and really like expanding kind of like that little phrase or a little
paragraph I wrote and really transform it into something bigger.
And I also thought it was a really neat way to kind of be a little bit more introspective of myself because a lot of those journals were written during like very like turbulent times.
So like maybe I was at like a very heightened emotional state when I had written this back in like 2017.
And then a couple of years down the line, I go back and read and I'm just like, oh, OK, like I can understand that like my emotions were very heightened here.
like, I can understand that, like, my emotions were very heightened here. And now I kind of have,
like, the vocabulary or even kind of, like, the experience to really fully, like, process
that little bit of information I had there. So it ended up being also kind of, like, a very,
like, therapeutic thing for myself. And so now I, the way that I kind of do is just, like,
sometimes I do go off the journals. Other times I kind of just go off the beat of my own drum now seeing how I'm kind of like in a good flow state with everything but um doing a lot of
writing does help in terms of like creating these different narratives and stuff like that so like
um with the additions that I've been doing this summer those are all coming from different lines
of a singular poem that I've written in my journal, and really kind of, like, expanding
the story and taking it line by line, and really, like, attaching nice visual artworks to it.
And then before, like, I would do, like, sketches on paper and stuff like that, and
then just try to go paint it, but now I've gotten to the point where I'm kind of, like,
planning out different images and stuff like that, too. So, like, I have, like, certain poses that I
like to use within my works and stuff like that, certain head shapes that I like to use and I think
right now I'm going more into the realm of kind of using myself and kind of like almost even like
self-portraiture within my work and having a lot of those different figures be more based on myself
rather than just making kind of like new ideas and stuff like that
and really tying that together with the overall process.
And also I would say, I guess to that avail, this year has been like a very big year in
terms of just like making a lot of digital art.
I definitely feel like it's been more of a flow state for me, especially with me having
to change studios like
two or three times this year because I moved a good little bit. And so, well, now that I'm
kind of like in like a good place with my studio, I've been back in there trying to get some stuff
done. But it's always just been a very easy way for me to literally just like sit down and just
get as much practice as I can. Because there's a lot of days where it's like too hot here in North Carolina for me to be outside and be painting and everything because
I really will kind of like pass out from the heat just because it's like hitting over like 100
sometimes so like I'm able to come back in sit down cool off and really just like practice some
stuff and even like I sometimes would take a picture of the artwork that I'm working on
traditionally and I would test out some ideas digitally and just like, okay, this could work here or this color wouldn't work here.
And then I go back and really just like throw that onto the canvas.
I'm like, okay, like I'm glad I did that planning beforehand.
So it's a nice little cohabitable relationship that I have in terms of like my process jumping from one space to the next.
one space to the next.
Love it.
Love it.
And especially if you have been in a transition period
that you have to move studios,
to be honest, it's so hard for you to, you know,
like settle and make your heads just straight up like,
oh, what's going to happen next?
Like, what are the next big thing?
And you just have to be, it's all over the place, right?
Like so much on the table,
but now you're now in a new studio
and it's always great to see that you are you are putting focus on on digital paintings
because i really love them but of course the physical painting as well as i as i also like
honored to own a piece of a physical painting all right hey end game you're back
sorry guys i'm back how are you to see doing great doing great how are you how's japan
it's so far so good oh wow bear nice nice to see you here oh thank you kb thank you um for joining
us yeah of course nice to be here yeah okay um tc TC, continue. Yeah, of course, of course.
And KB, Endgame got some questions for you.
Yep.
We'll get back to you.
All right, Bear.
Yeah, let's get back to your art style
because I'm always amazed by the fusion of blocky shapes,
the figures, the geometric elements,
and the free-flowing text that you put into your art.
Just now you mentioned for this summer, all these additions that you have been preparing,
they are mainly the poems and the little text that you have been preparing or you have back in the old days.
So what attracts you to have this specific combination of elements?
Because all these figures, they are very iconic.
And it seems that somewhere else that could
resemblance with this kind of style.
So actually how you managed to come up with this style?
So this was, I guess, just as I was growing in my artistry
and just finding different ways to make different works and just investing time into seeing what other artists are doing in their practice and pulling inspirations from them and really putting them into my work, I think I just always really wanted to find a way to grow.
um and so like that's why sometimes like if you look over like my entire catalog there's like so
many different like little tiny eras of things that happen it's like okay like here I was focusing
on like a lot of blues here I was focused on doing a lot of figures um and I just counted as kind of
like periods where I was really just trying to learn a specific skill um because back when I
first started I kind of made like this five-year plan for myself,
which is kind of already done now because we're in 2025. But it was like every single year, like I
knew where I wanted to be. Like I was like, oh yeah, I want to do all these cool things of artwork
and stuff like that. But right now I don't kind of, I don't have the tools to really successfully
do that yet. So every single year, I was always like focusing on a different
aspect of kind of like building up these paintings. And so that's why over the course of the
years, the compositions and the color palette and everything just got more and more and
more complex. Because I was just like taking a lot of time to really just learn myself
and learn what my strengths and weaknesses are when it came to actually making a lot
of these paintings. And I landed on doing kind of like the style that I am now because I really enjoy doing like a sense of
abstraction but I also really enjoy kind of like adding in like all these small little imageries
and little people and stuff like that and for me it's really cool to kind of like see how I can
like take little elements and really morph them
together and really transition from one work to the next and making all of them like solely unique
and so like a good fun thing to look at um and also just have a because I've had like tons of
comments where people just like oh yeah I really really love what you did here but I didn't do I
didn't love it as much here but I did love this this. And I think it's just, it helps provide like a very interesting conversation around like
a full body of work because like there's almost something for everybody, I would say.
But it definitely is like a very big growth mindset.
So like I would say right now, I would call what I do almost like a folk art style.
I think it lends itself a little bit more to that.
The digital stuff tends to be slightly more complex than the traditional stuff just because
of some of the tools that are available and just how much more time I have done on the digitals.
I guess in the recent six or seven months just while I was moving stuff. But I really enjoy what I'm doing now.
And I think if anyone's seen some past stuff I've done with To Migraines
and some of the additions stuff, I've been slowly incorporating patterns
and still working, using those elements of repetition
to really hone in on a singular subject within the piece.
And really envelop the story in that way as well.
Right. Since like you are, you're pretty, you're very good at both physical and digital paintings.
How do you decide which medium will be the best fit for a specific piece during your creative
process? Or do you avoid limiting yourself to choose one over the other from the start? Or
you just mix and match?
For a while there was really no rhyme or reason to it. It was kind of just like um I can do both.
It's just like sometimes I literally would get like hey maybe like a commission or something like that and they would ask about certain stuff. It's like oh I'd really love to do this
on this realm or like I think I can make a really good print of this or the commission or I
think I can make a really good painting so it's kind of just like whatever fit at the moment
there's no like true true structure to it um I would say right now I guess specifically within
the web3 space I've just been aiming to focus a little bit more on have doing more digital works
for that and kind of like fully embracing
kind of like that digital side because it's for a very long time I just flip-flop between
different sides because like okay like sometimes I do traditional work here sometimes I do a
digital painting here so at least this year for sure I've been focusing on like keeping the web
three side a little bit more digital just to see how it plays out over the year and
see how much I like it in terms of kind of like incorporating into my process. And for a while,
I always used to do kind of like I would make the digital and then I would have a traditional
painting paired with it or the traditional painting would also kind of have like its digital
authenticity certification attached to it. So I've tried like many different things here
and there, but this year for sure I've been aiming on keeping the web3 space a little bit more digital
for myself and really making that skill as strong as it can be in terms of like the narrative,
the painting, the process, and everything. And it also sometimes just depends on what someone's asking for. Because I've had
people come up, they're like, they've only gotten digital stuff for me. But then if they would like
a commission, they usually only want the commission like physical. And so like taking them through that
process and saying like, hey, like, this is what I'm able to do here, but it's not what I'm able
to do here. And really like guiding them through the process. And that's also a fun, nice interaction to like just have a conversation over and
just like getting a little bit of insight about like what they like to see and
then what I'm able to provide as well.
That's really exciting because also knowing that you have been represented by
different galleries and in real life.
So which means like your physical paintings are able to be seen.
And at the same time,
you're also within the digital having your own NFTs.
That's actually you are the bridge, right?
Like you're actually onboarding
a lot of Web2 collectors
probably have the potential
to come into this digital space
and to explore.
So and not, I mean like that,
that's the best thing that we really want because we are so grateful, you know, to able to bring you, um, to explore
the Monarch Testnet and to experience the community that we have here. So yeah, let's dive into
the, the art, the piece that you prepared for this upcoming job on the Monarch Testnet.
Yeah, tell us more about it.
Like, what was your creative process and vision behind it?
Just now, it's pretty much about the poem that you probably have written in the past.
Can you go deeper and let us know, you know, the creative process of it and the thought process?
know, you know, the creative process of it and the thought process.
Yeah. So ironically, I guess this little collaboration between us and stuff like that just
landed at the perfect time because I was actually building up kind of like almost like an
edition series and just like, OK, like I have this bit of text, but I feel it'd be nice
to just do kind of like a piece around it and do like lower cost additions as well.
And really just make that a little bit more like a community focused thing.
After doing such a big project with Two Migrants,
the one of ones and stuff like that.
And I would say I'm primarily more known for doing one of ones.
So like, I think the last set of additions I've done since the one I did last week
and the week before and the one I'm doing with y'all was probably like over like a year ago.
So I just wanted to just not like it wasn't like extremely flesh out, but still make it special.
So it's just for me kind of like a summer of editions technically.
And so with this one, it just follows the next line in the poem being kind of like the third week that I i am releasing editions so the first week was sometimes going backwards into old habits and that's the
first line of the poem um the week following that was warm as i needed to throw and that was the
edition i did last week and then the next line coming up um actually me is peering into muddled
eyes um and so i would say parts of the poem kind of go together but it's also a
little bit of like free writing for myself so like i have written it down but it's kind of just like
sometimes like i see like a little connection to it then sometimes i might go back the next day
it's just like i can't believe i saw the connection like there's no nothing really there but um for
this one i just really wanted to just add to the edition series, mainly because, like, yeah, I do pretty much everything I do kind of like on ETH and that main end as well.
But I feel it would just be interesting to really just, like, jump over to different places and really kind of, like, expand kind of like the summer of additions to these different places. And if I'm really trying to be as community advocate, at least for the set of additions, there's no, it's a no brainer
to kind of like introduce it to like a new set of eyes into a new audience and really see the
reception on a different side rather than what I'm so used to as well. And then like specifically
this piece, it all kind of like follows the same like digital formats and stuff like that. So I'm using a lot of the tools like Procreate, Art Set 4, Art Rage. And the reason
I use multiple different art programs is just because they do different things for me. So like
I use Procreate specifically for the line work of the piece. And if I want something a little bit more
precise in terms of like the shape of something, that's what I would go to use. Or if I need to do something that's pretty much like more heavy
on like duplication or superimposing certain stuff, I would go to Procreate just because I find
their like cutting and pasting tools a little bit easier to use. Art set is used primarily for like
two specific, like very specific textures, kind of like a oil paint
texture and then an oil pastel texture.
And I found just over the time of like using that program specifically, it matches more
of what I do on a traditional front in terms of like using those specific tools.
And then ArtRage is kind of the same way where they have like a specific, like a very specific brush I use on there for a very specific brush stroke texture.
So like every single time you kind of like see these little bumps and these lines of texture
within the piece, it's not that I'm kind of like copying and pasting it from like a picture that
I took online. It's like I literally go in and use some of these tools provided for me
on these digital apps. I just find that to be a really cool thing, especially whenever I need to go transfer
over and do something on a traditional front.
Like, I don't really need to kind of, like, mock up a brushstroke in real life and then
scan it, port it over.
I can literally just do it within these apps.
And then I'm like, okay, like, I can visualize a little bit more how it's going to look on
like I can visualize a little bit more how it's going to look on a traditional front.
a traditional front.
And then for this one, I just also incorporated some more like slight traditional elements with
kind of like the fabric border. That's against one of my other pieces I did earlier in the year.
And just using this one, relying heavily on kind of like that oil pastel texture within the figures
to kind of give the figures a sense of weight.
But also you can see through them a little bit because there are cracks in the oil pastel
texture.
Like it's not fully colored in.
Like you'll see like little specks of the color underneath.
And sometimes I like the idea of like being able to kind of like see through the characters
to kind of see what's underneath and also kind of like alluding to like these characters and stuff that I'm putting into my uh paintings and stuff like that are fully
realized people in a sense like they're still like missing parts of themselves um and these
parts can be found within like little nodes into the piece um and then referencing the actual title
um there's like two sets of people looking directly into the eyes of each other rather than
looking out towards the viewer which is kind of present in some of the other editions um and i also wanted
that to allude a little bit to um me kind of like looking into this like new community like
straight into their eyes and saying like hey i'm here i'm present like i'm ready to try this out
and see how this really works and i think that also can just be applied to other different senses um in terms of like if I was just talking about the poem itself like for me it's kind of
like um it's kind of like a confrontation thing like having to like peer deeply into someone's
eyes like you really have to meet them at face value you have to meet them like right there
where you're at um you can't really like hide or shy away from it um and I like that I chose
or shy away from it. And I like that I chose a lighter color palette for this as well. It kind
of contrasts almost a darker sounding title in a sense, if I had to give a name to it.
Wow man, you are on fire bro. I feel that I'm creating together with you while you were
sharing your process. First off um super grateful that
you're so transparent and open um to share all your process and uh it's so fun like just to hear
that um you were you were so excited and you're so passionate and i think like this is the energy
that i i could receive from just barely hearing from you talking about your work, man.
Oh, I appreciate it.
I definitely try to, at least within the work,
I try to ingrain a little bit of myself.
And what I've been telling people actually recently is that a lot of my times,
even if the titles are kind of like,
I thematically want to tackle more of kind of like a more somber subject,
the presentation of it will still be a little bit on the lighter side or be a little bit more happier because it's
i always paint in the way that i want to feel um and a lot of times like even though they're
these kind of like there might be like some darker moments like i don't really consider
this edition itself to be like one of those darker moments but in referencing some of those other ones um I don't want to feel that way
all the time like a lot of the stuff is like me just getting it off my chest um and I want to feel
better and I want to feel lighter about it um and I feel like just putting in that little ounce of
myself even sometimes if it doesn't feel like a lot I feel like it honestly connects with
a lot more people um better than me just kind of just like just doing it to do it um and really
just being open and honest about like hey like this is something I struggle with at the moment
or this is something I really found joy in um and really add those personal anecdotes really provide
a sense of added connection that you won't necessarily get until you get that information out, if that makes sense.
Of course, man. I mean, it makes a whole lot of sense.
And I just want to say that because whenever we're collaborating with artists and onboarding to Monarch Testnet with Cruxville,
we never really give us strict guidelines on what kind of art an artist artist should do that that's pretty shit and pretty lame right so we always
like have um you know freedom for artists you know to come up with um whatever they think is fun
and just nice you know this art um we love the pastel colors and especially the torn jeans i
always love how you put the fashion elements into your pieces, just like the one, the recent addition that you put on like the socks and the patterns on the blanket. And it very
suits like how we normally see URL with your OOTDs as well, like with the denims, with all
these different patterns. And when you talk about texture just now, I'm just zooming in to the art that you prepared for us.
This is something that's really amazing because that actually changed the game,
like how digital art could also be seen and could also be displayed or showcased in different exhibitions.
And yeah, we were so excited, you know like in in our future plans um there'll probably be
exhibitions um so it would be a great piece for us to showcase um yeah so end game uh i've been
talking too much already do you have any questions for bear and how do you think about the um the
work that um he created it's amazing right it an amazing piece. I mean, you know, Bear coming here and speaking,
I see so many other great artists joining today.
So we have so many members coming from Monat,
but I see so many new faces.
It's just amazing.
I mean, this is what art does for us in everyday life.
It's just great.
Thank you, Bear.
I appreciate y'all so much.
I just appreciate y'all's time and just giving me the opportunity to honestly just do more work.
I love keeping myself busy.
Well, actually, it was my pleasure to go through what actually you've created digitally.
But just seeing your physical art as well, I cannot really see your physical art in person.
Hopefully, we have that opportunity soon.
Oh, yes, it's for sure going to happen.
Definitely, I don't know when, but it will happen.
So I always just say, yeah, it's going to happen sometime yet.
Very cool. Okay, K KB are you there yeah I'm here okay well really quiet I actually have a quick question for for Bear go ahead um your art is so it's so good um and you can
definitely tell like it's just on the fine art of side.
And definitely we need more of that, not only in this space, but, like, definitely monads.
So definitely kudos to you guys.
But, like, how does it feel to, like, be on a space with me with this, like, horrendous PFP that I have on, like, right now?
I just need to know. Oh, oh honestly i don't really have any like
strong feelings about it like i was um i think i definitely like just approached the space in kind
of like a way that like it's made me i guess like more open to the possibilities of like what type
of art is out there because i would say before even jumping into like web 3 and like
posting stuff online like I had just like very like preconceived notion that like the only
artwork that was good was kind of like artwork that was kind of like based in realism
um and I had that mainly because like whenever I saw like my dad sketching stuff like he only
sketched like realism stuff and he did like graphic design for a good little bit.
So like that's what his art was kind of like based in.
And then like whenever we were in school, like we were the people who were getting like the most compliments on the art.
We were like middle school and stuff like that were the people who were doing all this realism stuff.
So I was like, okay, like I understand there's other forms of art and there's other things out there.
But these people aren't really getting kind of like the same attention. obviously like I'm like what like 10 or 11 years old so like I'm not really thinking too too deep about it but I've definitely come here with more of kind of like an open mind
and honestly just more receptive to like just how like different things are kind of like ingrained
into the culture like um even like the PFPs down to like some of the stuff like I really like
specific aspects of like certain PFPs even if I don of the stuff like I really like specific aspects of like certain
PFPs even if I don't really like care for all of them but I do think some things that were
implemented in like a lot of these different like smaller like collections were just really cool and
I think it just speaks to kind of like people just wanting to make different communities and
communities can come from literally anything so I'm definitely here for it. I say keep on being you
and keep on doing exactly what you want to do all the time.
Cool, I love that.
Hey, KB, there are so many members.
I don't think everybody knows about Monad too well.
And you're representing Crew today.
I'm not sure you had a quick introduction for Kru yet.
Yeah, I spoke briefly on it just that I work for Kru.
Anything you want to share a little bit more about Kru? I know you guys started Meme and
Defy and then you're expanding. Is there any like a specific plan for mainnet um yeah i mean like
so for people who don't know like maybe aren't familiar with monad um and kuru monad is a new
performant l1 that is 100 evm compatible launching very very soon we got a Keone tweet saying mainnet in September. And so with that comes
scalability and just zero restraints for, you know, essentially EVM products and smart contracts
and scalable apps. So Crew is definitely one of those. We're going to be a native DEX on Monad. We're also going to be a swapping and we're going to be a launchpad and we have liquidity pools and flip order books and essentially building a club on chain, which is essentially an order book.
So with that just comes like a lot of these possibilities that weren weren't um in existence before on evm chains and so we're
here to kind of essentially lead the game especially with on-chain clubs um and and yeah
so it's going to be a one-stop shop to trade all your coins to to swap everything um have liquidity
pools and and essentially launch tokens so um yeah i'm really excited i'm
really excited to be here that's kind of like my elevator pitch uh i'm not going to go too much
into tech um we do have a few uh you know threads i do have a um article here if you are interested in it go ahead and bookmark that I kind of
dive more into what is Kuru what is a club why it matters and then also how to
be a part of the community we do a lot of collabs with different NFT projects
bear if you're interested I'm sure we can do something as well um i know you're more art so
but i'm definitely you know i i would love to explore collabs like that um you know i think
nfts are fun and definitely very cultural as well um but you know like you know kind of like i'm
joking around a lot of it can be just like jokes or necessarily not like super artistic. So it'd be it'd be fun to do a different spin with
some, you know, just different side of like crypto art. But but yeah, we we did just get a raise from
paradigm. And that was really exciting. Our discord definitely got filled with a lot of people.
That's why I essentially wrote this article on just like the community side of things and and yeah definitely just something to to watch out for
we will be live mainnet day one and so then I would definitely be paying attention once that
happens within the next few within the first few months of mainnet, I do believe Kuro will be like the app to watch.
We're also working on a mobile app as well.
So that's going to be really exciting.
And we'll probably do a big go to market strategy when the mobile app is ready for more outside users like outside of crypto.
So definitely watch out for that and that's
something that i do mention in our um in our article right if you we're definitely like we're
looking for like tiktok right tiktok uh creators or short video format um again it's hard to kind
of push these things like i said earlier during testnet especially for people
outside of the crypto um circle because you don't want to confuse them like oh here's testnet with
like fake money on what you know wait till mainnet with their real magic uh magic internet money
that's like still kind of way to them yeah you're like uh wait what are you talking even for like
even for like a normal user even for me like honestly, like Monad was my first testnet.
Like I never really bothered with testnets in the past.
And, you know, even like right now, we're kind of like in the beginning of a new, you know, we've had many cycles the last year, I think.
But right now, you know, we're essentially in a more bullish cycle.
So I don't blame people for not, you know, spending all day on testnet, right. And like,
they're going to be out there trading things, you know, they're actually out right now,
like on hyperliquid and Solana and etc. But I do believe it really is just hyperliquid and Solana
right now that are getting the most volume and attention
and that's because like there really isn't an evm out there i mean hyperliquid i guess is like
evm but like you know it just there really isn't one that's like fully decentralized
that isn't like an l2 right that like can really um you know compete and be up to par with like
fees and speed and all that so i am am really excited for Monad to, you know, finally launch and to be up there and, you know, in a competitive stance and
have all these apps like really, you know, show what they have. And I do really think that we're
going to surprise a lot of general CT with the performance
and with the apps that are being built.
Right, right.
I mean, knowing that more than 70% of NFTs and other things
are built on Ethereum, like EVM,
right now there are not much alternatives.
But now Monad being layer one EVm compatible is going to be huge so so that's
why a lot of dbs and a lot of um projects are built on monad and normally during the test net
this is not normally other chains are not that active during test net but monad being so huge
like dbs even even cruxville right now we are onboarding artists on testnet
um okay and also crew you guys got a funded like a series a like more than 11 million
congrats i mean how did that happen
i mean look at us the whole team is just so incredibly good looking how could you not give us
yes and plus beyond that
I think you know okay I think like that's not really my department right so um I am strictly
on community lead I do a little bit of growth style. You know,
when you have such a small team, you kind of like wear like a lot of hats, right?
But that isn't one of my particular hats. I don't even know if I can even share details if I even
really knew it. I don't ask a lot of questions because I don't really need to know everything.
because I don't really need to know everything. But I will say like, from just, you know,
being a part of the team and the meetings and everything. And something I also do mention in
this article is that like, Clobs is a new, it's a new narrative, right? Like, you'll see like,
a bunch of narratives cycling through Twitter or through crypto Twitter and
just crypto in general. And like, you know, we had NFTs were a huge narrative. We had L2s were
a huge narrative, even like prediction markets, launch pads, right? So you kind of like cycle
through these crypto narratives. And with all these new performant chains kind of coming out
because monad isn't the only one right like there's a ton of competition there's a ton of
chains kind of there's more l1s more l2s more forks coming out clobbs like on-chain clobbs
is going to be a new narrative where there's a potential like, you know, unlock for, you know, new
liquidity to come in and for the crypto financial markets to actually compete with the NASDAQ
and other financial markets.
And the one difference between like these narratives and other narratives is that like
there's actually like a revenue stream and so like we're you know we'll be able to um actually change the way the crypto markets um are seen so i think because of that
alone um we're not the only club that got uh funding like mega you know um gte on mega eth
also got funding from paradigm as well right so? So that's a really funny thing to
kind of see. But also, you can't blame them. And it's very obvious, like what is happening.
And that is that like, this is a new narrative that and like, this is a new way that the crypto
markets can actually compete with the traditional financial markets. So I believe that's why we got funding and because
we have a good product on a good chain. You know, we're on Monad. Like Monad has funding also. We're
connected with Paradigm through Monad. You know, we are a native DEX on Monad and we have the tech
to essentially compete with these other top performance chains. So that's why. And we have the tech to essentially compete with these other top performance chains.
So that's why.
And we've been live day one on Testnet, constantly changing our product and making it better.
So we have not stopped working since day one Testnet.
Right.
I mean, it has been already like five months.
I mean, I know you guys never stop, right?
For five months.
Okay, so here we have so many artists
and so many people mainly from Web3.
If they haven't really participated in Monad
as a community member or even Testnet,
what do you recommend?
I mean, where they could start?
I mean, if they decide to kind of join crew,
where they could start and then, you know,
immerse themselves into crew and slowly go to Monad
before, you know, it goes fully go on mainnet. I mean, do you have any
recommendation? KB? Yeah, I mean, so like, definitely, if people, you know, people get
overwhelmed with trying to join Monad, because like, you know, Discord is very competitive,
the TG is very competitive. So definitely, like, if you want to be involved with Monad,
um so definitely like if you want to be involved with monad um you know and be early to monad
it's definitely being early to these apps like like crew exchange like purple um like narrative
right and um you know these discords are essentially ran by like you know top monad
you know community members and then the core community are know, a lot of OGs that are there. And so it is a lot easier to kind of like get attention within these discords.
And then like also using the apps, right?
Like using the testnet app, like kind of showing us that you're using it or like asking questions.
Like, you know, if you come into the discord and you're like, give me a rule, like I'm just going to like ignore you forever.
Like I'm not, I're like give me a rule like I'm just gonna like ignore you forever like I'm not I'll never give you a rule like you know like come in and like say hi uh join in on
like the events like join in on the spaces um you know joke around with us like you know and that's
kind of it and you will essentially get noticed like really quickly there's a lot of um there's
a lot of people in the kuru community that have already told me and have actually like
freely talked about like within the discord that Kuru was essentially what onboarded them
into Monad um so it wasn't Monad onboarded them to Kuru, Kuru onboarded them to Monad
um and that's like really great to hear from like a community lead stance because you know I want
this to be inviting and I do think that like after TGE or whatever after Monad like
is out and like Mainnet is out I do believe that there will be like an influx of like
you know people going into these like other eco projects to essentially, you know,
farm roles and things like that. So I think right now is like a really great sweet spot to like get
yourself known and like be like, yes, I'm excited. I'm excited for like a new performant EVM chain to
like compete with like these other ones. I'm excited to like trade on Kuru with, you know,
with Monad and all these things. And yeah, that's kind of it.
Like vibe out, be yourself, be nice
and don't ask for a Discord role.
I see here.
Most of us are artists and collectors,
but I'll share what you shared a little bit in detail
so you guys can participate
kind of a pre-Monad mainnet as well.
And KB, as you know,
we have onboarded four artists so far
and then we have a few more before mainnet.
And if there is anything we could collaborate together,
we are open.
So let's see i know
you're open to our arts and you know kind of you know inclusive so let's see what we can do together
yeah absolutely i really i really do enjoy like what you guys are doing i'd love to hear
bray's story today um i love that you guys are onboarding like some I do know that art I mean
art is what kind of brought me into the NFT space in the beginning and I'm also a photographer
maybe endgame I wanted to do some of my photography on there yeah I haven't I've never I like don't
mix that I don't mix my worlds like I have a very like web 2 IRL world I don't mix anything mostly for like doxing purposes
um but you know I uh definitely like you know I've never minted anything on on crypto like
I've never minted any of my work before um so yeah like we could do something where like when
I'm ready it's a very it's a very big thing for me um because it's
two different worlds like you know maybe we can I can just like go through you guys and you don't
have to like stress about it so much but I would love to all besides any of that like for sure I
definitely um you guys are super legit and I love all the artists you're bringing and I would love
to bring attention to them as well like through like the crew platform um and my platform so we can 100 uh you know get in the dms after this and work out some collabs
sure i mean um crooks art is not gonna be too busy on mainnet day one because of the uh the
fluctuation of the coins and everything but crew you guys gonna be so hot from day one
right because the swap will be happening trading happening right away so yeah let's see do you know
the date exact date of mainnet is it september is it announced so for sure keone keone tweeted out so yeah for sure like in the rumblings right
in the inner rumblings of you know all these like eco projects like september has definitely been
um you know said for a bit now i you know you know us like we've been we've been doing this
for a while um so i'm like okay september sure maybe december i don't necessarily believe september
um but keone did post i think like earlier today or like yesterday that um that mainnet would be
unless there's a shit post because i sometimes just confuse me and i don't know whose account
i'm looking at um but i definitely oh my god actually maybe that was right because he said
september i don't know i think it's gonna be september for sure like it was probably a shit
post um i didn't like fully check well we are onboarding artists a few more and
better not be like early september because i i only can can onboard during testnet because after testnet it is
actually minting so hope not it's not early September yeah I mean I would definitely yeah
this is definitely a shit pose wow okay I fell for it that's hilarious but um I would definitely
say that I don't know I mean there's a lot of september rumblings
but it could be december right i don't know but i would definitely um get get going i would
definitely be onboarding a lot quicker because i do think that we're gonna be saying this pretty
soon well we are planning to onboard seven artists before mid-September. So I think
we're good to go and we'll see. All right. KB, thank you so much for joining us. I know it seems
like you're at the airport. Are you? No, thank goodness I'm not. I hate airports. You've been
traveling quite a lot. I'm so bad. I am so bad at a lot I'm so bad I am so bad at traveling I'm so bad at
what do you mean internationally traveling I swear to god I miss my flight I like I get yeah
it's bad my soup my I've had two suitcases break within the year like I just like I just want to
stay home next next meet up just like facetime me oh really so you're not going to
malaysia bit now no okay so we talked about this earlier um and like in all seriousness like if
they wanted me to go like i would go and like i wouldn't you know i i like it's for the bit i just
well you traveled a lot so you know it's okay to stay home a little bit.
All right, TC, are you there?
Yes, right here.
I love the convos, and I just like the good mix of people we have here, like artists and people within the Monarch community
that actually bring in the synergy.
Let's go, let's go. Actually, um, there are two more questions actually from the audience and also from a good friend of mine, Kay.
Let's, let's stick with, um, Kay first. You want to go first, Kay?
Hi, hi, Gmonad.
What's good, man?
Hi, Kay. Hi, hi, Jimonad. What's good, man? Hi, Kay.
Hi, Endgame.
IKV, Ibarri,
ICC.
I'm good, I'm good.
Let's go.
I've been enjoying the conversation so far and pretty excited for
mainnet launch.
For artists featured so far. Wow.
And all the drops have been pretty awesome.
I was privileged to be able to mint Blue Goose drop thanks to TC.
So thanks once again, Juan.
No, very sure.
Barry, I want to ask you a question about your piece.
It's very, very captivating and I want to know. It's titled Peering into Modelled Eyes. I would love to know what was the inspiration made. There are so many
elements here. I see that the predominant one element that you featured was
like your tiled patterns that you have in most of your paintings around the borders.
But for the elements inside like the figures, what inspired them? I want to know.
So for the figures, I actually got the idea from uh it's a manga series an anime that i feel
like a lot of people will probably know of but it's called um jojo's bizarre adventure um yeah
it's something that i've really been into um for like years on end like when i first found it back
in like what like 2016 like i just did like a whole deep dive into
like the entire series um but I specifically love how a lot of the poses that are for kind of like
the characters in there like modeled after like almost like dances uh and I thought it would be
like a really cool element to add within to the piece itself where kind of like they're they're
peering into each other's eyes and it looks like they're almost doing a dance but the other person specifically doesn't even
have like an entire body um and i think for me it kind of like alludes to the fact that like
this other person is kind of like holding up their head in the sense like they're so deeply
kind of like ingrained and kind of like peering into this person's eyes they're not recognizing
anything else as there um and kind of like alluding back to how i like a lot of my
figures to be a little bit more see-through and kind of like you can see through them in a sense
um for that like that singular person to that other person holding them up like they almost
don't exist in a sense but they do because they're only solely focused on their eyes so
um i would say like i put a lot of inspiration
from that and then um shifting it in a way where the prayer where we're basically viewing the work
for the perspective of like this middle figure this figure in the middle and kind of like their
viewpoint of the world around them and stuff like that too so like they're only seeing the eyes and
everything like that but obviously we can see what's happening around them um as well and yeah jojo's has just been like a
very big inspiration for me when it comes to like colors in general and just being um really bold
with the poses of my figures um even if they're going to be in kind of like a very like 2d aspect
um still giving them a sense of life through like these nice poses and kind of like a very like 2D aspect, still giving them a sense of life through like these nice poses
and kind of like action oriented style ways of portraying them.
Well, that's awesome.
I, now I get to find when they're looking into their eyes,
other figures doesn't really matter.
That's why they have faded into the background and i totally
get that that's totally jojo pose right there uh i also wanted to ask um how you integrate i know
most of your work is multi-media uh how do you how do you usually go about your process like
where do you decide what goes where uh is it usually pre-planned or is it just in a moment deciding
that okay this has to go here, this glaze will go here? I'm pretty curious about that.
Yeah so for that I touched on a little bit earlier on this space so we have that recorded on that part
but to add a little bit more onto that I would would say, like, for me, it's more of kind of like a compositional aspect.
So sometimes it doesn't really have too much of a rhyme or reason.
So, like, sometimes, like, if you see, like, a flower vase, a knife, and then, like, a side table all right next to each other,
sometimes, depending on, like, what the actual thematic point of the pieces, they go together.
point of the pieces they go together but other times it's like purely compositional and I go
But other times it's, like, purely compositional.
back and reference like Jojo's and the other stuff like that because like there's so many different
like patterns and elements that can be kind of like put into like an entire scenery and sometimes
even having them placed in almost like an unintentional way would help to lead my viewer
to kind of like think more critically about the piece. So like if they're very used to seeing like a horse next to a candy bar in a lot of my pieces and then I do it in
another piece but then I add another element it kind of like almost alludes to the viewer that
like okay like I see something that's a little bit different than the last one so now I'm questioning
the piece a little bit and I'm analyzing a little bit more and sometimes it's literally just like a
compositional aspect where I needed something on this side of the page to kind of like balance out the weight or I needed something over here to balance out the dark colors of kind of like these warmer cultural upbringing. So I'm a first generation American and all my family's from the Caribbean.
But I was pretty much raised here in the States.
So a lot of kind of like my knowledge about like my family is kind of like a more like an Americanized version of it.
Honestly, like I'm not super ingrained with kind of like the culture back at home,
but I do still do like to add elements of it because I'm still learning and growing in um in that and honestly learning
more kind of like every single day as I go about it um and really having that help me kind of like
fulfill myself as like a full human being with multiple different cultural aspects to myself
oh that's that's that's really awesome really wow thanks thanks thanks for sharing uh that's really awesome. Really. Wow. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks for sharing. It's really, really
lends a lot of depth to your really, really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Sorry.
Yeah, of course. Thank you for your time. I really appreciate you just even asking me a question.
Yo, thanks for your question, Kay. Kay is also a very talented artist that I've always seen show up.
And I love his streaming.
He always does all these streaming that you can see his process.
And you will love his realistic realism art.
So make sure to give him a follow, support a fellow artist here.
And Bear, thank you so much for your time.
Endgame, do you want to go through
the min details or just a hint
that when all these details will be dropped?
The details will be dropped very soon.
But since we are in the space,
I can share draft information.
Barron's collection will be 333.
And it's going to be most likely will be minted on the 23rd of July.
Is it July, right?
Yes, July.
Okay, 23rd of July.
Yes. yes july okay 23rd of july yo yes all right then ready yep yep yep thank you so much for our guest kb it's uh it's my first time speaking with you it's an honor and i hope to get to see you rl soon, but if not, I'll see you back on the timeline.
Thank you so much to see. Thank you, Bear. Thank you, KB. See you soon.
Thank you, guys. Have a good one. Thanks, bye. I Take care, guys.
