Projects
![]()
No projects found
Investors
New
DAO Treasuries
DATs
Lend / Borrow APRs
Chains
Categories
Spaces
π₯π©π¦Power Hour w/ PPN: BalkansCrypto 2025 & Las Vegas Wrap-up π¨
Recorded: June 7, 2025 Duration: 0:58:33Space Recording
Short Summary
The recent discussions surrounding the Balkans Crypto event and the AI Film 3 conference reveal a burgeoning interest in integrating blockchain technology with creative industries. As partnerships form and new events are launched, the crypto landscape is poised for significant growth, particularly in emerging markets like the Balkans.
Full Transcription
Thank you. gm gm gm and thank you for joining another power power hour space by ppn today we have a very
special one for you we are going to be talking about events that we were involved with in Balkans,
Albania, Tirania, Albania earlier last week, as well as an event that we were involved with
in Las Vegas, Arizona at the exact same time. So once again, thank you guys for tuning in.
I'm about to go quiet as I get things set up here on the back end. I do see we have our co-host on
stage, Pakistani, as well as another guest who attended the event. So I'm going to go
ahead and throw it on over to Pac while I get some links sent around. Pac, my man,
how is your morning going?
Hello, everybody. Hi, Danny. Welcome. First time in our spaces. So I hope you'll be
involved in the culture and connections we're doing here so
welcome my friend uh what can i tell you i'm sitting on a bulgarian seaside enjoying my day
and yeah full of energy and hope for that things ever this time could better and better so it is just the point of view
so right get back to my man long absolutely love to hear it um kind of jealous of the uh the
bulgarian coastline you were currently hanging out in and i definitely wish i could join you
on that and yeah absolutely danny my man crypto revolution
how is your day going hey guys hey everyone yeah i saw pavel on the beach i'm jealous but i'll be
going there next month on the black sea i'm doing very well waiting for these spaces
to share my experience from Balkans Crypto.
And we couldn't be more excited to jump in it with you truly.
Yeah, you know, personally, I was at the event in Las Vegas, but Pacistino here was sending me pictures the entire time of the Balkans Crypto event.
And man, did I feel the FOMO. Like, don't
get me wrong. Vegas was very cool, but you know, just to see, uh, the, the massive screens and the,
the caliber of people who were there, plus the location, um, it was just off the charts, right?
So shout out Balkans crypto team who put that event together. And, uh, yeah, crypto revolutions,
very happy that you could join us this morning. this morning for me probably this afternoon for you um but yeah man absolutely a pleasure um and i see we
just got our secondary co-host here maddolph uh another team member at ppn maddolph how's your day
going um hello everyone can you hear me? Loud and clear my friend.
I'm so sorry, I have a bit of bread in my mouth right now.
But yeah, I'm doing great.
It's sunny, it's a sunny afternoon here.
And I'm really hyped to get from the feedback of the event.
We're just seeing the photos and videos, but I'd like to have a real conversation with someone that really attended this so yeah that's what i'm excited for
yeah thank you for sure yeah for sure i will share everything but uh let's keep the line of
with uh with long because he will make the structure of this conversation so to be absolutely 100 percent
understandable so long what what we're starting with my friend absolutely absolutely let's get
this thing kicked off this morning i just got all the links sent around to the discord and things
of that nature so pack or uh or crypto revolutions if you guys have anything you want to pin up in
the nest um you know posts from the event uh pack you guys have anything you want to pin up in the nest, you know, posts from the event.
Pac, you know, I know you have some of your speaking engagement
on the timeline.
So if you want to share that at the top for people,
that would be fantastic.
But yeah, otherwise, guys, let's jump into this.
So introduction real quick.
We are PPN.
My partner, AI Film 3, who was also involved with the event, helped do a lot of the art curation.
Paco, correct me if I'm wrong here, actually, at the Balkans Crypto Event, we were the only organizations with a creative likeness to what we were doing.
So everybody else was more DeFi or protocol or trading, whatever it was.
And then PPN in AI Film 3 three yeah go go for it pack dude
love to hear it absolutely correct absolutely correct my friend we was the only uh creative
organization you know most of the guys were very very deep in business and they understand how the
things did work on the code level even on the marketing level there was so many interesting speakers with a different point of
view uh it was it was very good because most of the people there were just professionals i mean
professionals they know what they're doing and they're very in that and the good thing it was
small but it was like a call you know a conversation and sharing
experience with people who are pros like you which is i can tell you it is a core of something
which can next year become something huge because in this region to be honest there is nothing like this until this moment so a huge potential internationally
uh the the place is friendly the city is friendly it is absolutely european i can guarantee that you
will feel very safe though but yeah we were the only organization and community with a lot of parties behind our back and artists real ones
and yeah i think we were very very good presented because everybody now has an attention and they
know what we are doing and they know that we are doing this everything just because of the arts
and because all of you guys who are sitting behind us in our community
and helping us and helping we are trying to helping you yeah for this culture to be alive again
because the some of the guys were saying like nfts are dead do you think so yeah probably overpriced
gpacks are dead And that's a fact.
This is the end of one era in culture, which was the beginning, right?
But now most of the speakers were speaking about AI culture.
And it is something which is part, which again is two.
The smart people with these two can make miracles.
So we are creatives. We are this thing which creates
the link between the final audience and of course the people who are doing business.
Absolutely wonderful to hear that, right? To know the caliber of professionals who attended this
and amazing to hear the conversations happening around
AI truly. I mean, it was the same exact thing in Vegas. Um, granted it was a, uh, AI specific event
that we were attending for the most part outside of the Bitcoin conference. Um, but yeah, dude,
uh, I mean, you know, as you had just said, right. Some people talking about NFTs being dead,
and I'm sure we're going to get into some of those topics here a little bit later about your presentation, by the way, Pac, you absolutely
killed it on the presentation with, you know, audience engagement, I mean, just off the charts.
So yeah, I would really like to talk here, you know, now that we've kind of got a little bit
of a brief overview. Oh, wait a second. So I pj on stage so pj is our partner here at ai film through pj how's your day
going oh it's going good man hey good morning tech i want to tell you he did a phenomenal job
awesome absolutely top notch but we followed along i know that justin and i went back and forth every time we saw something posted man it was fantastic yeah thank you sorry about that pack up pj my man thank
you for uh for joining us this morning um so yeah i just wanted to talk quickly about the artist
showcase that ppn and ai film 3 put on at the event and then we can start talking a lot more about the logistics
and what actually went down over the three days so in the course of uh of meeting the balkans
crypto team shout out to the balkans crypto team by the way lots of work went into this for for
months and months leading up to it went off with a hitch but we brought over 11 creatives 11
international independent creatives from all over the world to showcase AI video in a very immersive way.
So when we initially talked to the team about this showcase in Albania, it was supposed to be in a completely immersive 4K tunnel.
At the end of the day, the tunnel logistics just didn't seem to work out.
So we compromised with them in the most fantastic way, if you ask me.
So PPM and AI Film 3 actually had the largest display at the event, showcasing all of the artwork from all of these creatives all over the world.
The collection is available on Foundation.
Some absolutely incredible pieces in there.
It is available on the ppn timeline if you're interested in going check
out some of those artist pieces as well as i see a lot of the artists who were showcased at the
event if you want to come up and speak um feel free to request and we will get you up right away
um but yeah like i said you know go swing over check out the foundation collection some incredible
pieces um so yeah so i think really one of the the biggest upsides to the Balkans crypto 2025 event
was the global reach, including the such unique location, you know, as Paco just mentioned,
this was really the very first large crypto conference in this region of the world,
which is a very important step towards
mass adoption, in our opinion, right? Getting these ideas, getting these concepts in front
of your local community can be by far the most appealing thing for them to really step into this
industry and see how they can start getting involved. So just huge reach on that side,
definitely looking forward to how this festival progresses in the future and
seeing where we can get more involved on the creative aspects side of it and getting some
of these outside companies that are maybe looking at a lot of these DeFi protocols and things on
such technical levels and start making them look at it a little bit more creatively, right? And
seeing how they can adapt some of their marketing materials and maybe start reducing costs with the use of AI and the use of independent creatives who are, you know, adapt and use these tools on a very regular basis.
just give you kind of a space to talk about what it was like being on the ground for the event in
albania what you experienced how the uh the overall you know crypto conference went for you
and uh yeah just just your overall experience okay uh so uh i you know i'm in crypto in social
so i maybe around five years.
This was my fourth conference, actually.
I'm not the guy who is going to a lot of those,
but you know, this in Tirana,
I met John, one of the organists,
who is behind this conference online, like in the very beginning. And he asked me if I can help him get some connections and to participate in the conference.
So I agreed.
It's really nice event for the Balkans.
And it's probably the biggest one.
And we'll get more bigger.
And I agree with
the Pagostino here everything he did for the conference was amazing I mean the
digital art the videos was pretty awesome his presentation you said you
will talk later was epic I I can say maybe the best one in the conference tirana also i know many people they
got scared from albania and from tirana you know it's uh albanian mafia is i know a lot of people
are scared from it but tirana is very safe guys it's probably more safe than a lot of capitals in West Europe.
So it's a pretty nice city, pretty clean also.
People are, you know, we are at Balkans.
People are different here.
They are friendly.
They like to talk.
talk they like to drink together uh so about the conference i know many people
They like to drink together.
So about the conference.
uh it was not so many people but it's normal it's the first one there so it's pretty normal
but the experience man the experience was very nice because i personally met a lot of new people
It's very nice because I personally met a lot of new people.
I met some people that I know online from years.
I met in Tirana, like few founders.
And all the people were young people, nice people, friendly people.
So for these conferences, I always suggest to people if they can to go because this networking, this experience, it's something like it's, I don't know, it's very good to have it.
I also had an opportunity to give an interview with one of the big Binance guys
who is responsible for Balkans, for Africa and Central Asia.
This interview will be out in the next few days.
And yeah, it was a great, great, great experience.
That's honestly incredible to hear right especially knowing that uh here in just a few weeks i'm going to be taking a flight out to nft nyc and i know that city is absolutely
disgusting like i i truly do not like going to new y. It is a nasty place. So, yeah, just to know that, you know, the location is a safe location.
I know that was kind of a bigger deal for the team side of things just because of the public stigma right around some of those Middle Eastern European countries.
But as you just said, right, it's a very safe location for people to actually go and attend and learn about these things.
It's a very safe location for people to actually go and attend and learn about these things.
And with inaugural events, right, especially in a brand new location with a brand new industry, kind of to be expected to get, you know, people that just have no idea what's going on or very skeptical of what people are trying to do.
As you guys have both mentioned, I think as time goes on and the team there continues to build out what they're trying to build for this experience for people, it's going to become more widely adopted.
It's the same thing as early days NFT NYC or early days ETH Denver.
Not a lot of people actually showed up for those, but the ones who did were diehards and they stuck around and kept building the culture out and kept building and bringing in more people, which eventually just, you know, snowballed into
a much larger effect. Um, so absolutely incredible to hear about the experience and the, the interview
man with the finance guy, absolutely off the charts, cannot wait for that video to, uh, to
drop there. You're definitely gonna have to share it and we'll pop it into the discord for people to check out um it's always interesting to hear some of the more
leading voices right where they're where their minds are in the uh in the crypto space and how
they're kind of approaching it and looking at future opportunities for themselves um so yeah
absolutely incredible to have that content of course of course uh sorry about interrupting
you of course especially when it comes to people from binance you know they have like
a big experience all of them and it's uh i was last year uh binance blockchain week in
dubai and i met a lot of those people i'm they are different level men they are different level people oh i can say
and i mean absolutely we are just artists danny you know we we are in in business with art
but we can take all the all the experience from those guys but uh sorry justin i would
take just a second uh very important i'm not going to speak about this
the event is the event what was going on how what kind of people were there i will speak about this
that how the people are looking at art now and they love it especially the the all those pieces
we have provided yes there was not a tunnel i'm very sorry for that but
that was the issue with the you know i saw the guys they they were trying to do everything but
we have huge screens huge screens with with a very good sound and we have two more different
like gallery small screen so uh people have loved the this kind of. They will put it on their walls. And, you know, this is new perception. And again, people starting to see art differently. So thank you all the artists who have provided their amazing artworks. And I personally would ask them to forgive me, I will provide you with amazing amazing content but probably it will be next week
sorry for that i because i've been uh for one week i was four times in the air on the airports
and so on so guys sorry for that but as i promised i will prepare it for you thank you back for that
and dude if we got into the story of your return trip from albania back
to bulgaria um oh no no no it would be ridiculous uh yeah just just so people are aware the uh the
trip back was a challenging one for sure for pack but we're happy he made it home back to his family
and more content will be coming soon also by the way mad dolf
uh from the team as well should be working and putting out some content for the artists involved
with that um but pack you know speaking about the uh the actual showcase itself i would love to kind
of toss it to you you know you had just mentioned we had the largest display there as well as a
smaller gallery area but you know the smaller gallery area it was still on
65 inch um displays so it was still you know uh a quite a big large experience for these people to
uh to see so i would really like to ask you you know how was handling of communication with people
you were speaking with at the event what were they asking about when it came to the artwork side of things and uh and finally were there any just last minute hurdles that you had to face
and overcome you know while setting up and preparing yeah well absolutely interesting
question but you know the team is very big so i will be i'll try to be quick uh people uh you know we all the artists in our balloon which
is wonderful food with colors and we love all the artworks one of each other but hey guys we have
to open it and the people from the crypto and our colleagues which are doing so amazing projects they have to meet us they have to meet the way
we see world and dark we are producing so big screens honestly huge thing yeah the tunnel will
be great but you know huge absolutely uh let professional screen and you can see the the real art it becomes alive so yeah it was much more better than small
gallery if you ask me because you're coming in the in the conference you see the binance and behind
it a huge screen with a huge love of ppn and a wonderful art yeah so that was what most of the people have experienced reliable guys are okay they're reliable
partners they have done everything so us to be very well prepared but important thing is
people have started to love art again they just don't realize it yet
don't realize it yet.
No, I resonate with that heavily, that last statement you just made, because it's like
when we met John, the founder of the Balkans event that just took place in ETH Denver this
past year, it was funny the way the connection actually happened, right?
I can't remember exactly how the initial conversation got started,
but essentially we got into talking about the Balkans event. He was telling me about what they were trying to do. And up until that point, we hadn't mentioned what we did. Right. So after he
explained everything at the conference they were putting on, I stepped back for a second and I was
like, well, do you guys have any artwork being shown? And he was like, no, we don't. And so I
did like a little uh ceremonial turnaround
and then uh i said well let me reintroduce myself really quickly and uh that's kind of what what
sparked the partnership right so absolutely incredible yeah yeah you can connections but
you're absolutely i'm the magic man of how to make people involved with everything we do, but you are really magician, I can tell you,
you are really magician.
Well, appreciate that pack.
And you know, incredible to hear that firsthand account,
incredible to hear that people were interested in talking
about the AI side of things.
I know the presentation that you put on really kind of harped
more or less on how the idea or the concept of NFTs can be looked at as this technology, right?
But the culture behind it that was sparked in 2021, the reason all of us are in this space today, or at least most of us, is because of that culture, right? Because of that revolutionary spark that really got into people for digital ownership, digital identity, all these different aspects that truly come with
these NFTs. So to see you put on such a incredible speech that really got the audience involved,
actually shouting things back that you had in your presentation. I mean, it takes a very special
personality to do something like that. So Pac truly truly absolutely crushed it out there, my man. Yeah. Couldn't be more excited to, to see more of the content that
we're also waiting from on the Balkan side of things, right. They should be putting out some
more things here in the coming days or coming weeks, you know, as everybody knows, it's a very
busy time at the moment. But yeah, man, absolutely, absolutely crushed it. So I would like to talk
just a little bit here with PJ about the curatorial side of things, right, for this
showcase. Because both yourself and me, we put together this group of artists to be shown in
the Balkans that truly, I think, came out to be such a wonderful collection of this very immersive AI exploration of film.
So PJ, I would like to throw it to you to talk a little bit about the artists that you curated
into the event and just your overall experience. I know both of us were not at the location.
Thanks Justin. Can you hear me? You chimed out, you kind of tailed out at the end there. I couldn't
hear you at the very end, but I knew you were throwing it over. So are you still there?
Can you hear me?
Yeah, yeah, all you, all you, go for it.
Well, I can't hear you if you were talking.
So just give me the thumbs up.
And when you want me to stop,
kind of give me another, give me the wave sign.
It's kind of like, tell me, okay, that's-
I just want to say that, yeah, yeah, everybody, it was,
it was fantastic. And just, just this whole process.
Because giving us that opportunity and Justin for all the hard work that he
puts into getting those connections and pack for all that you've done,
it was amazing. Um, yeah, from, uh, from a conversation,
if I heard you correctly, Justin, you're kind of asking how the process that we used, is that correct? Or was it more about theβ¦
Is my connection better? Was I coming in like real glitchy?
Yeah, I hear you now. It's perfect.
Okay, okay, yes. Sorry about that. I had to get out of the space and come back in. But yeah, PJ, I wanted to throw it over to you to talk about your side of the curation.
Right. Talk about some of the artists, your side of the experience for being involved with the Balkans event.
And then also a great segue, I think, leading into to the Las Vegas venture and everything that happened out there.
happened out there. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. The curation process was amazing simply because
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
the amount of quality that we had of submissions, people that were wanting to participate and
be involved was, I apologize, my dog is whining up a storm. If you guys can't hear it, goodness
gracious. Yeah. There, I'm going to let her out. So it, it was, it was the curation going through.
It was not easy because there were a lot of great pieces and having a concept of what was,
was, what was coming, what was expected, how it was going to be delivered.
I think that shaped a little bit of, of what we were doing, what looks at scale.
shaped a little bit of what we were doing, what looks at scale.
Because we want to, the one thing I can say for every artist in here that submitted work,
the one thing you'll always find from Justin and myself is that we work to make sure that your work is presented in its best possible fashion.
That it's not just haphazardly thrown together, that there's a lot of time and effort taken to make sure that it looks great.
Because you guys work so hard at the things you create, and it deserves to make sure that it looks great because you guys work so hard at the things you create and it deserves to be respected that way.
So that was, I think, one of the key things because the works were just nonstop.
I mean, the artists that are in here, everybody that's in this channel today that submitted
work knows how much time and effort goes into creating it, let alone having it presented.
And the people at the Balkans Crypto,
the way that they've communicated throughout this process,
I would love to be able to do more work with the entire group
because I think that that's what helps all of us keep growing.
So that's kind of my experience.
I mean, it was not easy to sort them out.
There were just too many great ones.
We just had to make tough choices.
I absolutely couldn't agree more with you, right? And the 11 artists who ended up being in the curation at the end of the day, absolutely phenomenal. I actually just pinned
up at the top the link to the gallery. Shout out to Glenn, by the way. Thank you for posting that.
It's, you know, hosting spaces, right? Definitely a little hectic sometimes. But yeah, the link for
the gallery is up there now for anybody. And PJ, shout out AI Film 3 for getting involved with this,
right? And helping with the curation of some of the artwork here. It was fantastic to work again
with you guys. And then also just looking forward, as you said, right, continuously
working with the Balkans team, leading into other events that that we're involved with, other events that they're involved with.
And just, you know, continuously showcasing the artists from PPN and AI Film 3 in as many locations around the world as we possibly can.
I see we do have we do have Blockface on stage with us.
Blockface, what's going on, my man?
Welcome to the stage.
Hey, how's it going?
Good, brother.
How are you?
Right side of the bars, right side of the ground.
What can I say?
What more could I ask for?
Absolutely, absolutely.
Well, yeah, dude.
Before we shift gears here over to the Vegas event, I would really like to throw it on over to Pakistan or Crypto Revolution just to see if there's anything else that you guys would like to put forward based around the event, either experience, hurdles, you know, literally anything.
And then we can jump a little bit into the Las Vegas event and happenings out there.
Yeah, thank you for that.
Just a final few words from me, from my side.
So the good thing is that everything is changing,
this technology is changing,
the NFT technology is there.
We have to use it.
It is amazing technology.
It connects directly the the artist
with with the final collector and this collector gets uh the rights on that on that which is
amazing technology we we just have to change the way we present the unit that's it you have to be
there to see how people are watching from the big screen those pj all the artists amazing job guys amazing
really really beautiful but you have to be there to see but right we have to just change the way
we present our art not for other artists to see it and say yeah it's great to show to the people too because we
artists we have to give them a feeling a touch of magic that we are magicians that's what we do right
and yeah we have to i think we just have to be more open to the final customer and to the new
collectors and to trying to find a way how how they can see our artwork as as really it is part of our soul
so yeah that was what i wanted to say absolutely appreciate the input pack and uh crypto revolution
anything on your side uh yeah so as i said i want to advise people if they have an opportunity, guys, it's not too expensive to visit such a conference, especially on Balkans, because most of the cities are pretty cheap, like everything is pretty cheap to get hotel, food and anything. About the conference, you know, around those conferences, there is always site events.
It was actually one official one in Balkans Crypto from BJET, and it was a very nice one.
But there is also another one, people from conference, they also organize site events these site events
are very good to go to share some ideas to meet some new people so it's uh as i said it's a good
opportunity this uh balkan script will grow up in the next few years, I can bet.
It will get bigger and bigger.
Pacostino, I am going to repeat again.
He did great work.
And I'm sure next year when we all go back to Tirana,
it will be even better.
And I want to hear about Las Vegas, man I've been I used to live in
US for like eight years in Chicago I've been in Las Vegas few times I love Las
Vegas so yeah share your experience with the conference there absolutely and
just want to say you know thank you for for coming up and spending your time
with us today having that first- firsthand input of the conference is always such a pleasure for the artists involved, as well as people who weren't able to attend in person.
So definitely appreciate the time this morning.
OK, yeah. So so Vegas, man, Vegas was was crazy, at least on my side of things.
Right. My trip anyway was just over 24 hours i
ended up uh ripping off like most of the top skin on my middle finger on the very last morning in a
hotel door which was uh interesting but overall right so ai film 3 uh had a booth at the ai
imagined live conference that was taking place in synchronization with the Bitcoin conference
that was happening at, I'm forgetting the name of the casino, the Bitcoin conference happened
at, but the AI film festival or the AI film conference happened at Blue Fountain, right?
Or Fountain Blue, I apologize. But I want to throw it on over to PJ, right?
Because PJ, being the founder of AI Film 3, having that first-time booth experience at one of these conferences,
I'd really like to get your personal experience on what it was like, you know, talking and engaging with some of the people who were in attendance at that event.
Oh, thanks, Justin.
Yeah, yeah, dude.
I couldn't hear some things.
These are breaking up.
So maybe it's me, not you.
Yeah, the AI.
So what happened was we had the, obviously, as you mentioned, you had the Bitcoin conference going on over at the Venetian.
And then you had the Imagine AI Live conference that was going on at the Fountain Blue.
It was amazing.
Opportunity to showcase a number of artists and the work that they
presented we had 12 total was unbelievably well received I guess the
thing it's funny cuz I know that earlier we were talking a little bit about NFTs
and and and the the phrase of NFTs are dead. I'll tell you, there are so many people that don't even exist in this space
that love the art, that love the creativity.
And I think it's just beginning.
I don't think it's dead.
I think it's just starting.
People are just recognizing what's possible.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So, Pac, I'm glad you see that because, you know, when you have people that are exposed to something new, they have a lot of questions.
They want to know who the artists are. They want to know how is that made? How did you do that?
And then they're asking questions like, you know, what other things are possible? What else can we do with this?
And I think that was kind of my big takeaway. Right.
Just the general interest, because this was an event where from an AI perspective, yeah, there were filmmakers there.
There were a couple filmmakers.
Dustin Hollywood was one.
He and I had some great conversations about what's possible, what's happening, the evolution of the space, the technology.
But then we had so many people that were just in different spaces.
I mean, even HeyGen. HeyGen was there and they had people that were just like me. I was amazed at how many people stood in line just to look at the art and to talk and to ask questions.
A lot of the AI were tools about innovation, or not really innovation from an art or creativity
perspective, but also solution driven for businesses, how they can leverage AI in their
business.
And that's perfectly fine.
I mean, that's a great, great starting point for conversations.
But when they're suddenly exposed to that, this is, oh, this is what I'm reading when
I see it on the news, or this is what I'm hearing, is when they're talking about generative
AI, they're walking away with a completely different,
they're walking away with a completely different answer than what
an expectation to talk to creatives.
And that's, that is the, the win.
Having the booth, we had a film showing.
We had, we got a chance to use their main stage, large display,
ran several videos and films over about a 45 minute period
during one of the breaks.
And I have a video of the people standing around
just watching, just mesmerized at what's happening.
So it's powerful.
Everything that we're,
we're all doing here. And I want to mention real quick that relates to crypto. So being over at
the crypto event, I did stop at the Bitcoin conference. A few people, when I mentioned
that I'm into AI or AI and film and art and fashion, creativity, gaming, there were some
people that I connected with immediately that they were like, oh, I could see how Bitcoin relates.
And there were others that were curious on how does it relate? Well, when I'm presented with
that question quite often, it's because Bitcoin, whether it's Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency,
when you're talking crypto
crypto is a block on the blockchain obviously we all know that but it serves as a form of
provenance to to put a date time stamp a sense of ownership um and then it's it it also helps us with
the next iteration of of finance how do people start earning an income how can people
of finance. How do people start earning an income? How can people leverage these tools to start
making a form of living? And when I explain it and kind of put out a simple thought process map,
people see the relationship. And while some of us are not made out of blockchain in general,
and we use it as a tool or a vehicle for displaying
our art or getting it in certain places and make a little revenue those are that's exactly it i
mean that is the path and and it can grow much bigger as as adoption grows so yeah it was it was
a perfect time i couldn't have asked for a better chance to have an audience of people that may have been at bitcoin that came over to check this event out um having a booth was first time like you said
justin having that thank you everybody just to know this is this is how the space works justin
took his own time took time off work and flew out to help for a day and a half which was amazing
because that day and a half getting the setup, getting the time
and suddenly seeing what the crowds look like. And at first, you know, first day, it's kind of
small, but the second day when they have the 500 people that are walking around in those spaces,
it got packed fast. So it was, I really appreciate it, Justin. Thanks for coming out.
And Pac, thanks for what you're doing, going out to the Balkans or Balkans again. Thank you for all
you've done to put this out.
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Blockface was actually at the event.
They did a bunch of engagements and speaking to people. So if we get a chance, I'd like to have Blockface come up here and talk about his experience or what he observed.
Yeah, absolutely.
Mike, if you want to go off.
Yeah, so hello, everyone. My name is Michael Jagdeo. I'm a headhunter launching startups with Exponent Labs.
And I was invited to Imagine AI through PJ, right?
PPN, all the people here. You're the reason I attended the event. And as you can see at the top, we had a chance to interview a number of
the key figures at the event. The video up there is with I
versus AI, who is an expert and teaches an eight and automation
from a cottage in Oregon. So we had a chance to interview a lot of people. And at the booth,
we were being approached by people who own marketing agencies in Los Angeles, staring at
your artwork, saying, how do I put this into my portfolio specifically for storytelling?
They are storytellers in LA and are looking for artwork and were fixed to PJ's screen
showing your artwork.
I could go on, but those were the types of people that we were encouraging to join us
at Arizona State University coming up in a few months. They're interested.
And it's one of those things, though, if you want to make a sale, man, you got to be there in person.
Man, you got to be there in person if you want to make that sale.
Yeah, Blockface, truly appreciate that input on both sides, right? The
the attendance side and the caliber of
people who were talking at the booth. Cause, uh, I experienced very similar, um, interactions
there, but yeah, for, for the artist side of things, right. It's, it's definitely so much
better if the attendees can put a face to the artwork and actually talk to you about the
creation process, your inspiration, all of these different aspects.
If you're able to attend these events where your art's being showcased and you're looking
to find new collectors, I highly recommend trying to do that as much as possible.
But yeah, to go back a little bit on the interactions at the booth, I love that you brought that
up because as PJ had mentioned, I was only there for about the first day and a half before I had
to fly back and get back to the day job. Um, but the interactions that I had at the booth with a
lot of the people were much more business oriented rather than, uh, right. The, the more like
contemporary art side of things or conceptual art side of things.
Like we had a lot of people come up and talk about, you know, for instance, say they worked
at a production shop or a large printing facility or something of this nature.
And they would talk about getting an incident report of some accident that happened within
their shop or within their facility.
And instead of having to go out and pay for actors and a production team and all of that
sort of stuff, they're looking at expanding their reach into the independent creative
industry, people who use these tools, who can create incident reports into essentially
safety videos, right?
That they can showcase for their company employees, right?
Which could be a fantastic opportunity to get more involved with the creative industry in a professional type of level rather
than just, you know, posting your NFTs to Twitter timeline and just hoping somebody sees it.
But yeah, dude, a lot of the interactions that I had were based around very, very business related
enterprise level solutions rather than contemporary
art. Obviously, there was the discussion of the artistic side and what these tools are going to
be doing for the independent market. But my overall experience at that booth was definitely
leaning more towards the business side of things. So like applied art.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, yes, exactly. Yeah, exactly.
And not only Blockface,
but we had Rocky on the Block was out as well.
I was happy to have both of them out there
be able to talk to people, engage with people,
do interviews.
So yeah, if you haven't followed Blockface yet,
go ahead and I would recommend doing that
because he's gonna be sharing probably some videos
and excellent content they had created themselves.
And I appreciate the time and effort because he's going to be sharing probably some videos and, and X content they had created themselves. And,
I appreciate the time and effort.
And it's all because the visuals that you created,
got them thinking about how this applies to their work and what they can do
with it as,
as Justin was just stating.
And it was,
it really was,
it was tiring. I mean, you spend any time in vegas i i think i don't
think i went out at all it was literally like from the booth to to add to the little gathering
they would have at the after event to talk to people but then it was like i'm going to bed
keep in mind like the most explosive thing happened that week which is google vo so when i started showing the people
from the coming to the booth google vo they were like throwing their phones on the ground
and i'm like that's why you need to be in arizona at ai film three
you know perfect segue right there 100 into into the film festival later this year.
Do want to make a few little announcements around also the NFT NYC event.
But yeah, PJ, if you want to talk a little bit about the film festival that's coming up in October, dude, feel free.
Tell people event venues, locations, times, date, all the stuff that we can share publicly, dude. Go for it.
Ah, thanks.
Thanks.
And I want to encourage people that we're, Justin and I are going to have the open call starting for the art call.
We want to start getting the artistic pieces brought in.
Let me talk about first the dates.
The dates are going to be October 31st or October 30th, 31st and November 1st.
It's going to be hosted at Arizona State University 30th, 31st, and November 1st. It's going
to be hosted at Arizona State University at the Mix Center, which is a $94 million complex. It's
about three years old. I walked through it the other day. I think it was Wednesday or Thursday.
Walked through it again with them. I've been through there a half a dozen times at this point.
The experience just keeps getting better. I discovered new things about that facility
we're going to have a place for panels we have places for discussion we have two movie theaters
one is going to be a little more exclusive so it's a little more a little more enclosed so it's a
little more personable but we're going to put the programming so that there's opportunities to have
all the work seen at the large theaters.
We're going to have the exclusive ones kind of in a smaller theater.
And then we have an outdoor theater as well.
So they have this, I don't even know the dimensions.
I would just be guessing here.
But if you go online and take a look at ASU Mix Center
and see the giant screen on the giant video board they have outside the building,
they have a beautiful grassy area like a quad, and people will gather out there. It's going to be a they have outside the building. They have a beautiful grassy area, like a quad,
and people will gather out there.
It's going to be a free display to the public.
That part is going to be where I want people to come and attend,
sit on the lawn, and get the exposure with their families.
So I'm going to be looking for family-friendly content
that's presented in video formats or visuals.
So again, when there's not going to be some film that film pieces that
are showing, there's going to be art pieces that are going to be showing outdoors because I want
the public to see this. And it's literally across the street from the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum
where we hosted the art exhibit. Speakers, if I could tell you the lineup of speakers and the
companies I'm talking to,
I'm just waiting for some signatures, waiting for autographs to tell me that they will,
they're confirming to be here. I mean, I couldn't announce it, but I know that there's times I go to events and they say that somebody's showing up and I go because I really wanted to see that
person. And then they don't, they're like, oh, they canceled last minute. I'm trying to avoid that, but we have a wonderful speaker lineup. I mean, the goal is to
have film, art, fashion, gaming, and music. Those are the things we want represented.
And vibe coding. Yeah, well, yeah, we're going to have vibe coding. Trust me. We're going to do,
Yeah, well, yeah, we're going to have vibe coding.athon. They're going to have for visual hackathon to
trying to show students that when they would do this traditionally for film courses, traditionally
their hackathons would take about four or five days. They would give them an assignment. They
would have two or three days to go out and do the footage, a day or two to do the composition,
put it together, and then last day is judging. So that's their hackathon.
They want to demonstrate that they can do things and you've got an hour and a half,
create a one minute video, what does it take? And then see how they assemble. That's kind of the thought process that I presented to them. They thought it was exciting. So for the weeks
before leading up to, ASU is going to be involved with their student showcases and getting the
public to see what their students do in order to bring them into this venue.
We can host up to about a thousand people.
Well, I take that back.
We can host over a thousand people, but we're going to have the space for it.
Trust me.
And then they have an immersive room.
They have what's called, oh, my goodness, a dreamscape.
I'm going to, uh, dreamscape. They have a dreamscape experience, which is all immersive experience with the headsets. And they have a showcase room where we can get eight people in at a time. So there might be a line for that. Um, but they want to demonstrate all the technology they have. They have green screens, sound stages. They have everything you could imagine. And I think it's a great opportunity for those that are maybe have never seen a production level environment that's another thing to see um the
hallway so they have they have this very large space that's going to be displaying all it's it's
perfect for all the traffic that's where all of all the art pieces will be set up we're going to
have 20 displays maybe 25 set up along that hallway with all the artwork
that's possibly to be shown. And we're going to do the same thing that we did last year, which was
a really great thing is that each day we kind of built a different theme and we showcased those
pieces of art per theme. And that allowed us for a much greater diversity also of talent and artists.
So there's going to be a ton of opportunity and i i just look forward to it those are those
are the highlights and some of the in-depth information and there's great partners that are
in um fashion interested to coming out um as a matter of fact at the end of july i'll i'll be
making probably a call here shortly um at the end of this end of July this month or next month is going to be
there's an Arizona swimwear week. So it's Arizona fashion related to swimwear. And yes,
in the desert, they still wear swimwear because we all have pools. So it's going to be really
interesting. It should be a lot of fun, but there's going to be opportunities for things
like that coming up. And there are AI fashion industry leaders that I've been in touch with
that are interested to see what's being produced,'s happening how is this evolving and it's a new
market for them to be able to see explored in a public venue so that's that's the high level
stuff that's quite a bit sorry for the brain dump no dude rain dump all over us. I want all of that brain matter all over the place. For real, no, the level of this year's festival that's going to be taking place in October in Arizona. If you can make it out, I highly recommend coming out. There is early bird tickets for sale at the moment. If you go to AI film three dot com, it'll bring you over to the Luma page and you can purchase those right now. Um, and yeah, it'll be, you know, discounted rates and things like that.
And I'm sure there'll be other opportunities for artists and speakers and, you know, things of
that nature. If you were involved last year, you kind of know how some of the organization went.
Um, and if you weren't involved last year, you should definitely get involved this year. Cause,
uh, you know, as, as Balkans crypto going to continue to grow, AI Film 3 is going to continue to grow.
With it being the very first AI Film and Art Festival to ever take place here in the U.S., you know, high levels we're setting the bars at here.
And PJ has just done an absolutely exceptional job going out and making the connections in the real world with these established organizations to get us into places,
right? Like the ASU Mix Center, by the way, it is pinned at the top, the second to last pin for
anybody who's interested in checking out. Just a quick little visual of that reiterating $93,
$94 million immersive environment that the ASU, Arizona State University is allowing us to enter.
So PJ, once again, dude, hats off,
truly. Well, Justin, they also reference it as the Sydney Portier Film School, and they have a
sister school in Los Angeles, which we've already had discussions of what this means for a transition
of experiences from here in Phoenix into the LA area with their sister film schools so i couldn't be more excited and we have
the support from their the film school itself city party film school we also have support from their
animation studio school so it's interesting to see how this is has all been developing and uh
everybody follow ppn for the different events that we have coming up. I know that when we're up in New York City, I will be doing we will be doing giveaways for tickets for the film festival.
So, you know, that's for the whole three day passes.
We want to encourage people to participate, get involved.
If you know people that are interested and they're not they're not the creative, they're not in our space, but they're curious.
the creatives they're not in our space but they're curious bring them out because that's what this
Bring them out because that's what this experience is for.
experience is for you know i've told justin before one day we're going to have an experience and i
don't think it's too far in the past probably another year or two we're going to have it where
people want to come just to meet you because you're the artist and creative they want to shake
your hand and tell you how much i love your work and i mean it's i think that's the path we're on
oh absolutely i could not agree more and PJ, thank you for reminding me.
Perfect segue into the New York event. People, if you haven't picked this up already, we're
kind of, we're getting everywhere. We're trying to hit every region of the world as far as we can.
And before I jump into the Vegas thing, I want to say shout out Mad Dolph, right? Because Dolph
has been attending events all over Nigeria, Africa, and bringing the creative industry to that portion of the world as well.
And we're going to be getting him over some merchandise and, you know, some information related to the community, the festival and more so he can start passing that out as well.
project these projects as far as we possibly can and get these uh these concepts get your work
right the artists in this group right now um in front of literally as many eyes as we can in the
general population uh but yeah leading into new york so if you're if you're going to nftnyc uh
what here in about two weeks or so um we will be hosting a photo walk uh you know just something
real casual and fun um a little bit different than
your usual, you know, go to a bar and drink or after party or whatever. Something healthy,
right? Get people out. We kind of figure if you're going to be attending NFT NYC, a lot of the people
who attend those things are just bouncing from event to event, and they really don't get to see
as much as the city as they would like. So we're going to be hosting an event where we meet in Times Square outside the Marriott Hotel
where the conference is going to be happening and walking about 1.2, 1.3 miles over to the
fountain, I always forget the name of, in Times Square or the terrace, I apologize. Yeah,
the terrace in Central Park. I apologize,
lots of things happening. But it should be about an hour, hour and a half tops. We might stop off,
get lunch somewhere, depending on how people are feeling at the walk. But there is a subway
station about two blocks away from where the end or the walk will stop where you can jump back on
and take, I think it's four
or five stops it's all labeled in the uh the luma uh event listing there end at the top um so if
you're interested right get involved as pj said we'll be giving away some tickets we'll be giving
away a po app uh shout out to our partners on that elmo I see him in the room from the orange cube
gallery or I'm sorry yeah orange cube Orange cube art. Um, who's going
to be getting involved as well as webby social, uh, who is a newer platform doing open calls
and artists portfolios. So shout out to the partners involved with that. Also, if you want
to get involved in any capacity, if you're in here listening, you want to get involved, get your
company logo up there, just let us know. And, uh, you know, we, we're always
looking for, for funding for the lunch, the lunch side of things. So would, uh, would highly
appreciate that. But once again, people, thank you for tuning in. Thank you, Pakistani for going out
to the, the Balkans crypto event and doing such a phenomenal job with the crowd and the artwork
and the artists that trusted us to us to showcase their work in such a
unique, you know, unique independent location. Shout out to Crypto Revolution for coming up here,
spending your time with us this morning, talking more about the festival and the conference that
you got to see and attend. Shout out Blockface, shout out PJ, shout out David, shout out MadDolph,
literally everybody in this room. I could go on for hours if you let me, but there is work to be done. As you heard, there's a lot of things happening.
So jump into the Discord if you're not already there. That's where all of these announcements
hit at first. So they're going to hit the Discord before they hit the timeline. Make sure you're
involved with the community and we will get you more involved with the things that we are doing
on the outside. Have a fantastic rest of your Saturday, right? This has been a, this has been
an action packed space. So if you jumped in here like midway through, I, I recommend going back
and listening to the recording. There's a lot of, there's a lot of stuff going on all over the world.
But yeah, yeah. So have a great Saturday. We will talk again soon, I am sure.
And always remember, find your inspiration with Pixel Palette Nation.
And we will see you next time, baby.
