GEN C: The Final Squiggle: Erick Calderon on Art, Community and Spreading Joy in Web3
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🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of “Gen C”, we discuss how a simple colorful squiggle became an icon of the crypto art movement and what it means for the future of Web3.
Erick Calderon, Founder/CEO of Art Blocks and creator of the Chromie Squiggle, joins us to discuss the final mint of the iconic NFT project. Erick reflects on the Squiggle's journey from a proof of concept to a symbol of the crypto art movement, now featured in major museum collections. He also shares his thoughts on bringing more joy and innovation to the Web3 space, emphasizing the need to engage people outside the crypto ecosystem.
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| 0:00.0 | What's next for Eric the entrepreneur? |
| 0:02.0 | I mean, taking a step back and realizing that there is just an incredible lack of joy in this ecosystem. |
| 0:10.0 | And I do think that, you know, the squiggle was here to make people smile. |
| 0:14.0 | That was very much like a reason for its existence. |
| 0:16.0 | And what's next for me as an entrepreneur and hopefully conduit being art blocks is taking a step |
| 0:22.5 | back and figuring out how we can get people to find joy in not just collecting, but owning |
| 0:28.9 | and participating and dreaming about what the future of Web3 can be. Sam, so nice to see you. |
| 0:50.4 | Avery, amazing to see you. |
| 0:51.8 | I know you're in New York. |
| 0:52.6 | We're both in New York. |
| 0:53.4 | It's not as hot. I hope you're having a good time. Listen, we have to, we have a guest waiting for us. So we're going to skip our usual intro. We'll pick that up next week. But we're going to bring on Eric Calderon from Art Blocks. The last squiggle is about to happen. The squiggle is the heartbeat of the crypto art movement. |
| 1:11.6 | The icon. |
| 1:12.6 | The icon, the DNA of it. |
| 1:14.6 | And so he is releasing the final squiggle. |
| 1:17.6 | He's got some fun announcements to share with us as well. |
| 1:19.6 | So let's just get right to the interview. |
| 1:21.6 | Sounds great. All right, Eric, Calderon, welcome to Gen C. |
| 1:37.2 | Very excited to have you here. |
| 1:39.0 | Eric, this is a momentous occasion upon us. |
| 1:42.4 | But before we get to what that means, I want to know how is your |
| 1:46.8 | snow cone company going? Sam, Avery, thank you guys so much for having me on. It's really good to |
| 1:54.5 | see you guys. Yeah, Snowfo Refreshments LLC ended its operations, I think in November of 24. I mean, 2024, 2004. And the thing that's left |
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