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Zeneca | Creator's Corner #1
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A conversation on generative art and web3 with the one and only Zeneca
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You can find Zeneca at:
Twitter @zeneca_33
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/zenacademy333
Substack: https://substack.com/profile/25364099-zeneca_33
Website: https://www.zenacademy.com/
Timestamps:
0:00 | Collector's Corner intro
0:27 | Introduction to our wonderful guest!
3:15 | Zeneca's path into web3 and becoming a top collector
8:56 | Zeneca's mentality and how giving back helped him grow his presence
12:43 | Zeneca's current work in web3 and what's coming soon
21:29 | How Zeneca got drawn into generative art
29:07 | What Zeneca finds special about generative art
31:32 | Long form vs. short form and preferred minting mechanics
35:30 | Does collector psychology change for art nfts vs. other nfts? Zeneca's thoughts
41:25 | How does Zeneca evaluate the decision to buy an art nft?
48:40 | Zeneca's favorite collections, pieces, and his grails
57:10 | Zeneca's view on the future of gen art - will it hold value? Will it continue to be culture? Spoiler: He thinks it may be even MORE in the meta in the future
1:09:38 | Zeneca's thoughts on artists as brand builders in web3
1:25:58 | Our price predictions and thoughts about QQL
1:34:02 | Parting thoughts and where to find Zeneca
1:38:38 | Outro
Show notes:
Fxhash | https://www.fxhash.xyz/
Artblocks website (many of Zeneca's other favorites are here) | https://www.artblocks.io/
Blur.io a new trading tool (whom Zeneca advises) | https://blur.io/
Para bellum another of Zeneca's favorite collections | https://www.artblocks.io/collections/curated/projects/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/261
Polychrome music another of Zeneca's favorite collections | https://www.artblocks.io/collections/curated/projects/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/336
Sudfah, another of Zeneca's favorite collections | https://www.artblocks.io/collections/curated/projects/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/328
Tocatta, an audio/video collection on Tezos | https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/slug/toccata
Tectonics - a great generative project that launched in a unique way | https://www.tectonics.app/
Garden, Monoliths by Zancan | https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/slug/garden-monoliths
Opera, one of Zeneca's favorite gen art projects | https://www.artblocks.io/collections/factory/projects/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/50
NYC Museum of Modern Art selling $70m to buy digital art | https://decrypt.co/109672/moma-to-sell-70-million-art-collection-may-use-proceeds-to-buy-digital-art-and-nfts
Gen art volume still strong, many upcoming drops | Cornering The Market #3
Weekly generative art NFT news, recorded September 30, 2022
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Timestamps:
0:00 | Intro
0:27 | Welcome and quick thoughts
2:30 | Overview of the blue chip gen art floor prices and volumes - including a squiggle update!
8:40 | Fxhash overview
13:03 | QQL sale updates - $16m raised!
22:10 | What does the QQL volume say about the bear market? Over or an exception?
25:08 | Curated buys a Zancan piece - are funds coming to Tezos?
28:47 | Thoughts on valuations - could Garden, Monoliths have a higher eventual floor than Fidenza?
34:48 | Cheap or undervalued collections - Cverso, Unbound by Ippsketch, and more
41:08 | Upcoming interesting projects
44:15 | Cheap blue chip gen art nfts - memories, meridians, etc.
Show notes:
NFT price floor | https://nftpricefloor.com/
Fxhash market overview pages | https://www.fxhash.xyz/marketplace?sort=createdAt-desc
Curated dipping their toes into Tezos | https://twitter.com/curatedxyz/status/1573362592038412288
Extracurricular activities fxhash page | https://www.fxhash.xyz/u/Extracurricular%20Activities
QQL - create your outputs! | https://qql.art/
QQL archipelago page | https://archipelago.art/
Garden, Monoliths by Zancan | https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/slug/garden-monoliths
Cverso website | https://cverso.io/
Unbound by Ippsketch | https://cverso.io/unbound
Act of Emotion by Kelly Milligan | https://opensea.io/collection/act-of-emotion-by-kelly-milligan
Thoughts of Meadow by Eric Davidson | https://opensea.io/collection/thoughts-of-meadow-by-eric-davidson
Getidje by Bart Simmons | https://opensea.io/collection/getijde-by-bart-simons
Sudfah by Melissa W | https://opensea.io/collection/sudfah-by-melissa-wiederrecht
Opera by Luke Shannon | https://www.artblocks.io/collections/factory/projects/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/50
Yazid tweet on his new collection coming up | https://twitter.com/Yazid/status/1574058612950855685
Mia Hansen-Løve on Bergman Island + Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir II
French writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve on her English language debut Bergman Island, a film that engages with the legacy of Ingmar Bergman as a couple retreat to the pristine Swedish island of Fårö where the filmmaker shot some of his most famous films, looking to find inspiration, and, British director Joanna Hogg on the sequel to The Souvenir, her lauded 2021 film. The Souvenir II continues to follow an ambitious film student in 1980's Britain, this time in the aftermath of the turbulent relationship at the centre of the first film, with a magnetic and manipulative older man.
Kid News This Week: Happy Year of the Tiger, new coral reef found, animal rescue false alarms
Happy Chinese New Year of the Tiger, deep coral reef discovered near Tahiti, funny animal rescue false alarms, plus our Around the World in 80 seconds news wrap and our five fab background facts from this week’s stories!
Newsy Pooloozi - The News Pod for Kids
enJanuary 26, 2022
Have You Ever Held Snow in Your Hands?
Do you remember the first time you held snow? When it burned your hand while also making it feel cold? Spend a moment mountainside on Paulet Island, in Antarctica, one afternoon, when Samantha and Dr Hillary McManus come across Kerryn Miller holding snow...for the first time.
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0539 Pinkie The Pig Podcast/ Chile The Country
Pinkie & Mildred talk about The Country of Chile ! Also quotes from Gabriela Mistral
Floating island city, TV space race, cicadas stink, slimy soap
Hear how the Maldives will create a "floating city" in hopes of combating rising seas that could wipe the archipelago out, how Russia and the US race to get dramatic in space, the latest on the swarms of stinky and tasty (oh, really?!) cicadas in the eastern part of America and one Frenchman's secret, snotty ingredient for soap!
The Archipelago #1: Christopher King – The Living Music of Epirus
Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou discusses with Christopher King about his connection to Epirus, his next steps in preserving its cultural heritage and his views on the ongoing battle between authenticity and modernity, still seeking a resolution.
Scholarcast 39: Giving 'A Tongue to the Sea Cliffs': The Landless Inheritance of W.B. Yeats and Eavan Boland
Irish literature has often been shaped by its relation to the national through land and the consciousness of land. New perspectives provided by Atlantic studies, however, now allow for new narratives unrelated to land to be put into conversation with older narratives. This lecture examines work by two twentieth-century poets, one early and one late, that offer insight on this.
Scholarcast 38: 'port-lights/Of a ghost-ship': Thomas Carnduff and the Belfast Shipyards
Belfast, as a city, has come to be represented in recent years by the shadow of its industrial heritage. The Titanic, and the shipyards in which it was built, have become central to the city's attempt to give cultural and economic purchase to its contemporary identity. This lecture uncovers some of the history behind that branding of Belfast. It takes Thomas Carnduff's shipyard poetry, written in the 1920s and 1930s, as a way in which to understand the complexities of labour which underpinned the products of the shipyards and to reconsider the meaning of the shipyards for Belfast today.
Scholarcast 36: Draining the Irish Channel: Identity, Sustainability, and the Politics of Water
In 1722 an anonymous author styling himself with the degree 'A. M. in Hydrostat' published a proposal in Dublin with the title, Thoughts of a Project for Draining the Irish Channel, a satire on both the South-Sea Bubble and Anglo-Irish politics, as well as a comment on the craze for projects and speculation, scientific advances in hydraulics and circulation, resource management and political arithmetic, and improvement and reclamation. The conceptual leap made in Draining the Irish Channel is that the sea can and should be improved: in other words, done away with. The sea could become not only the medium but the very ground of British colonialism; land could be created from unproductive water; the Irish Sea could literally become a new territory. In practical terms, then, the sea is recast as a geography of natural resources that could potentially be pumped, mined, and diverted using locks and drains, all for the health of the British nation.
Scholarcast 37: 'At the Dying Atlantic's Edge': Norman Nicholson and the Cumbrian Coast
This lecture is concerned with the mid-twentieth-century Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson. Far from being a late Lake District poet', Nicholson is chiefly a poet of northern England's Atlantic edge, the Cumbrian coastal strip. Yet his contemplative gaze almost never turns westward. He also refuses to produce a historical narrative of the area: here history is episodic, incoherent. Nor is Nicholson the poet of an `organic community'. He is rather a messianic poet for whom the coastal strip is an absolute boundary and spatial constraint. This forces the mind to think the impossible, vertical transaction, within which the idea of justice is crucial.
Scholarcast 35: Via Holyhead, Material and metaphorical meaings between Ireland and Wales
This lecture explores the Holyhead Road as a cultural corridor along which people, books, and ideas move, and is part of a larger project examining infrastructural links as sites of cultural exchange between Britain and Ireland from Swift to Joyce. The lecture begins by following Buck Mulligan's invitation in the opening of Ulysses to 'come and look' at the sea, and at the mailboat crossing from Kingstown to Holyhead. Looking at the sea takes us to questions of boundaries and connections, to the local, national, and global scales of identity and belonging, and to the contested and diverse meanings of routine journeys between Ireland and Britain. The representation of different aspects of this route by Katharine Tynan, W.B. Yeats, Sean O'Casey, Thomas Kinsella, Emyr Humphries and R.S. Thomas highlights the affective dimensions of the crossings and journeys made through Ireland, Wales and England, and suggests the lines of influence, connection, and contest that travel along these transport routes.
Scholarcast 33: Archipelagic Cartographies: Brenda Chamberlain's 'Western Isle'
This lecture is an exploration of the archipelagic island imagination of artist, poet and writer Brenda Chamberlain (1912–71) under the rubric of literary cartography. Part of a wider study of the literary text's 'mapmindedness' – the ways in which imaginative writing accomplishes specifically cartographic 'work' – the paper examines Chamberlain's emotional geographies of the Irish Sea, focusing on her fabling autobiographical account of her residence on Bardsey Island (Ynys Enlli), off the Llyn Peninsula, north Wales: Tide-race (1962). Beginning with two suggestive examples of Chamberlain's composite graphic cartography, which plot an imaginative ethnography and gendered 'zoning' of Bardsey, the paper considers the Irish (specifically Syngian) alignments of her representations of the island self. The visual-verbal Tide-race is then brought into focus as a text powerfully invested in the process of mapping island space by means of layered (and knowing) folktale fantasies, troubled by thwarted desire and terror. The Syngian genetics of the work are revealed. At stake is the need Chamberlain felt, mid-century, to carve out her own space as a woman writer on a 'deluding scrap of rock and turf'. More generally, the paper seeks to accomplish a necessary reterritorialisation of Welsh Writing in English.
Scholarcast 31: Writing around the Irish Sea: Inlets, outlets, Firths and Mouths
The Lecture explores the enduring fascination of the Irish Sea, focusing particularly on the Solway Firth, an area regarded by the nineteenth-century artist, art critic, writer and social reformer, John Ruskin, as second only to the Holy Land in its cultural importance. The ageing Ruskin wrote passionately about the Solway in his autobiography, Praeterita, which pays tribute to the beauty of the coast and its creative legacy, as evident in the work of Walter Scott, J. M. W. Turner and the local Scottish music. The lecture considers the connections between these works and the coast itself, with its changing history, before moving across the Irish Sea to Ciaran Carson's 1989 collection, Belfast Confetti, which includes a poem about Ruskin, Turner and the modern city, 'John Ruskin in Belfast'. Exploration of the dialogue between different writers on either side of the Irish Sea, and on either side of the Solway Firth allows the area to be viewed temporally as well as spatially. It thus offers a new model for reading landscapes and literature, in which geographical and historical aspects are mutually informing. What may appear to be fixed and unchanging is revealed as being subject to successions of developing technology and economic imperatives; but conversely, the longer view encouraged by returning to the same place over the centuries offers a different perspective on the contemporaneous impulse of contextualisation.
Scholarcast 28: Ireland, Empire and the Archipelago
By 1916 the British Empire was at a point of crisis. The beginning of the First World War marked the end of a half-century of expansion in trade and speculation that made the empire a global network for the exchange of capital. Consequently, the foundations of Irish separatism were built in movements antagonistic to world trade. Self-help, folk culture and native language were conceived as late compensation for human losses incurred by the displacement of local resources into the global flow. Irish culture had its own recent and bitter evidence for the decimation of an imperial attachment. The memory of the famine inhabited the same cultural space as the increasing import of traded goods in the second half of the ninteenth century and beginning of the twentieth. So it is that James Joyce's short story 'The Dead' pictures the legacy of hunger through the imagination of a meal. If this first wave of globalization came to an end in Britain with the declaration of war in 1914, it suffered fatal arrest in Ireland in 1916. Reaction to the global empire underpinned the cultural and political movements that fed the rebellion. The Easter Rising was a product of the old order and a siren of the revolutions still to come.