Danktone 003

On this episode we are honored to speak with artist and crypto art community activist Matt Kane! Matt is a self taught programmer who came to coding as a way to better actualize his artist visions through his own custom software. His work features dense multi-layered works that bring to mind complex, intricate, mesh-like, webs or networks. Matt is perhaps best known for his tremendously successful 2021 Art Blocks project Gazers. With Gazers, the works respond to the cycles of the moon and are perpetually shifting, making these works collectors want to live with and regularly revisit.   

In this episode, we discuss Matts journey from lurker to leader in the Cryptoart movement. Matt is candid about early successes and struggles to make it as an artist and the positive opportunities Cryptoart opened up for him. We learn where his interest in currency as a theme in his art stems from and his discovery of crypto. He also shares his love of art history and how analog painters like Monet serve as inspiration for his digital works. Matt shares an important story detailing how he collaborated with other important members of the crypto art community in 2020 to successfully lobby for a minimum secondary resale standard for artists. The Dankness is grateful to Matt for sharing so much of his story, its a special and insightful conversation, and we hope you find it as engaging as we did!   

You should absolutely follow Matt Kane at @MattKaneArtist and you can learn more about his unique and engaging body of work on his website mattkane.com.

To keep up with the podcast follow @thedanknessxyz on Twitter. Sickles is on Twitter at @dan_sickles and you can keep up with his amazing documentary at @newherexyz as it evolves. Artnome lives on Twitter at @artnome and his company ClubNFT, which helps collectors protect and discover NFTs, is at @club_nft.

Danktone 003 created through a collaboration of audio wizard Asa Stella (@stellaphonic) and visionary digital artist FFFFlood (@fffflood).

Danktone S1E3 #978

Treehouse Punks

10,000 satirical collectibles on the blockchain inspired by The Treehouse of Horror with commercial rights.

TreehousePunk #9640

TreehousePunk #9639

TreehousePunk #9638

TreehousePunk #9637

Himalaya

Project Himalaya was originally created for the sole purpose of defending and saving Himalaya.  Each character has different skills all needed for protection, but from what? All sorts of mysteries await you on this journey.  Combining multiple protectors yields different skills and results that will surprise you fiercely!

Himalayan #6212

FATFOODKI

FATFOODKI #7549

FATFOODKI #7548

FATFOODKI #7547

WHENIWASYOURAGE

WIWYA... Apple had just had their IPO and everyone said it was such a stupid company. Wonder if they"re still in business now 

APPLE, IPO 1980

Fatzuki

Fatzuki #6192

Fatzuki #6191

Fatzuki #6190

Shikkubo

[PLAY SHIKKUBO](https://play.shikkubo.com/) 

Shikkubo consists of 2153 generated 1/1 pieces by EgorDigitax

Each character has its own unique story and has a tier, which will directly affect your share from our fully on-chain Polygon casino. 

[Whitepaper](https://shikkubo.gitbook.io/shikkubo/introduction/welcome-to-shikkubo)

Developed by: [Paraliq](https://twitter.com/paraliqprotocol) - tridotz- EgorDigitax

SKKB #1129

Rethards is da wurst NFT projekt out dere! We aim to be the worst of da worst and make sum real bad art that no1 will eva want. But dat's kool cuz we don't care, we jus wanna do the opposit of all da fancy shmancy NFT projekts out dere. So if you're tired of all da good stuff and wanna get in on sum real bad stuff, den Rethards is da place for you!

RETHARDS

Rethards is everything that is wrong with web3. Non Fungibel Tokens of Non Playabel Characters.