The Beeple Interview: Creating Online & the Future of NFTs

Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast

Marques Brownlee

News, Hobbies, Technology, Tech News, Leisure

4.8 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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We're ridiculously lucky to have the super-talented Beeple on Waveform this week. In a 45-minute interview, he discusses how he's grown as an artist/creator, what kind of equipment he uses to create his art, and his thoughts on the future of NFTs beyond the current hype train. You definitely don't want to miss this episode! Links: https://twitter.com/wvfrm https://twitter.com/mkbhd https://twitter.com/andymanganelli https://twitter.com/AdamLukas17 https://www.instagram.com/wvfrmpodcast/ shop.mkbhd.com Music by KamrenB: https://spoti.fi/2WRJOFh Beeple: https://twitter.com/beeple Creative Work Animation: https://bit.ly/3cOePB1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alright, welcome back to another episode of the Waveform podcast, Wordhosts, I'm Mark
0:16.0	Ez.
0:17.0	And today we've got an interview episode.
0:19.2	I got to talk to a fellow internet creator, Mike Winkleman, aka Beeple.
0:26.0	So this is the fun one.
0:27.0	This is maybe a little bit unexpected.
0:29.0	We've usually talked to video creators in the past, but you've probably heard of Beeple
0:32.6	sometime, at least lately, from his art, and a lot of the stuff going on in the NFT
0:37.6	world.
0:38.6	We've talked about NFTs a lot, probably like the last three episodes, so I hope no one's
0:41.5	getting sick of it.
0:42.5	I know they're all the hype, but this is kind of like the holy grail of the NFT world
0:48.4	right now.
0:49.4	I hate that I said that.
0:51.3	But just like, he's the one, he just sold something for $69 million, which is like the
0:55.7	headline absolutely everywhere.
0:57.2	But the thing behind it is he's been creating these pieces for like 13 years.
1:01.5	And I don't think people understand that.
1:03.6	They think there's just this piece that's sold for a ton of money and it's NFTs and it's
1:07.2	all the hype and, but there's so much more to him as a creator.
1:10.8	And I've looked up a lot of interviews going before this and he's just absolutely fascinating.
1:16.3	And he has so much more to say than just I sold an NFT for a ton of money.
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