Pplpleasr, the artist behind Fortune magazine’s recent crypto cover and Uniswap’s V3 announcement animation, talks about her crypto journey and how NFTs are changing the game for creators. Show highlights:

• how not getting a job at Apple changed her life forever
• how the Pplpleasr-Uniswap collaboration came about
• what goes into her creative process
• how Pplpleasr got hired for the Fortune magazine cover
• why she chose to represent anon-avatars on the Fortune cover
• why Pplpleasr was surprised by Fortune’s response to her artwork (and crypto in general)
• what sort of crypto personas are represented on the Fortune cover and why
• how NFTs are changing the paradigm of monetization for creators compared to the traditional art world
• what pplpleasr is looking forward to in future NFT smart contracts
• why NFTs are still limited right now
• why institutions, like Budweiser and Visa, are suddenly interested in NFTs
• what Fortune is doing to grow its NFT collection
• how DAOs are changing art curation and collecting
• why Pplpleasr was surprised that a DAO (bearing her name) purchased the Uniswap V3 animation
• where Pplpleasr thinks the NFT space will go in the next year or so

 

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Pplpleasr

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/pplpleasr1
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pplpleasr/ 
• Website: https://pplplsr.com/ 

 

Pplpleasr Content:

• Fortune op-ed on crypto
• • https://fortune.com/2021/08/06/nft-art-pplpleasr-fortune-cover-ethereum-defihow-crypto-changed-my-life/
• Her previous work for DeFi protocols
• • https://pplplsr.com/Crypto
• Fortune cover
• • https://fortune.com/2021/08/05/nft-drop-pplpleasr-cover-art-opensea-auction-ethereum/ 
  • https://twitter.com/pplpleasr1/status/1423359319639212037?s=20 

 

Miscellaneous Links

• PleasrDAO
• •  https://pleasr.org/ 
  • https://pleasr.mirror.xyz/D9wIadL-5EEkt17glTtar21m3RDqfgkhkr__OEE2mOE 
• OpenSea’s post-mortem on Chad sale
• • https://twitter.com/opensea/status/1424866514558128130 
• Business of business write up
• • https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/defi-crypto-meme-hustler-yield-farmer-finance-blockchain-art-nft-pplpleasr-memetic-markting/
• Manifold
• • https://www.manifold.xyz/ 

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