Erick "Snowfro" Calderon | Creator's Corner #12

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Episode artwork: Chromie Squiggle #0 by Erick "Snowfro" Calderon

Timestamps:
0:22 | Introduction
2:13 | The role art played in Snowfro's life growing up
9:00 | How Snowfro found Marfa and the influence it's had on his life
14:50 | Snowfro the artist and his current artistic practice
24:37 | The origin story of the Chromie Squiggle & the artistic concept behind it
34:55 | How Snowfro came up with the 6 main types of Squiggles
42:39 | Snowfro's journey into Ethereum, discovering punks, and falling down the web3 rabbit hole
52:35 | Why Snowfro decided to combine art and collectibles when creating Artblocks
55:45 | Reflecting on early Artblocks decisions that ended up being pivotal in the long run
1:00:08 | Why Erick decided not to make Artblocks an open platform though he was closely considering it
1:07:15 | What Snowfro thinks the biggest challenges for web3 art are going forward
1:12:09 | Why Snowfro thinks he missed the mark on Friendship bracelets and how he's ultra focused on onboarding new people to web3 art
1:20:18 | Snowfro is bullish long term on web3 art because of the fantastic people and work being done

Show notes:
Artblocks | https://twitter.com/artblocks_io | https://www.artblocks.io/ | https://discord.com/invite/artblocks
Erick "Snowfro" Calderon | https://twitter.com/ArtOnBlockchain
Daniel Calderon (Snowfro's brother and generative artist) | https://twitter.com/DaCaldera