The Matthew and Rizzle Show

For this week's special interview I'm bringing you the chat that Rizzle and I had with Leandro and Alegria. Leandro is co-founder of CryptoMotors, PixelChain, and Voxel Architects. Yes, all three of those amazingly high quality NFT projects. Alegria is head of community for CryptoMotors, PixelChain as well as Whaleshark's $WHALE social currency. We dive deep into all four of those projects, so if...

Just in time for the weekend, I'm excited to release the conversation that /Rizzle and I had with /DeFiDad on the YDAD podcast. We chatted about the Ethereal Virtual Summit that DeFi Dad helped lead a few weeks ago, the challenges and learnings of taking an IRL event and converting it to a virtual context, and (of course) we dive deep into /cryptovoxels, what makes it so exciting and the future of...

The featured creator on this week's Cent Spotlight is the digital artist /Paola. I've long been an admirer of Paola and her work, so it was really cool to get a peek into her creative journey and find out, for example, how Barbie dolls and fashion magazines have influenced her digital work today. Equally fascinating was discovering the pivotal role /dowdy played in onboarding Paola to crypto art a...

I am so happy to share the latest Spotlight interview I carried out with VHS Artist /TheSarahShow, aka Sarah Zucker, with all of you. Sarah is a multi-talented artist who has traversed a fascinating creative journey. We dive into formative moments along her creative journey including a hilarious incident that occurred while Sarah was in 6th grade involving a gif of The Great Cornholio, a passion f...

/j1mmy hopped back onto the YDAD podcast to talk with /rizzle and /matthew to announce the brand new NFT project, InfiNFT.  The trio dive into the weeds of InfiNFT starting with a lesson on pronunciation, before going over the technical details of how creators will be able to mint NFTs in a way that keeps all metadata onchain (on thr Arweave blockchain to be specific) and the epic list of initial...

Hey everyone. /matthew is back with another Cent Spotlight. This week he spoke with animator Bryan Brinkman. The two discussed Bryan's rich and varied creative journey starting out working for an NYC advertising firm before transitioning to jobs at HBO, MTV, and most recently the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and SNL before veering off to talk about topics such as: art, value & perception, the fu...

Hey everybody! Matthew here. Rizzle and I had the chance to speak with James Waugh recently. James is the "lead" organizer of the RareAF (Rare Art Festival). Lead is in air quotes because, as anyone familiar with RareAF knows, the whole venture is organized around an ethos of decentralization. Nevertheless, James has been leading the charge in organizing the virtual version of RareAF, which is set...

We are back with an exclusive interview with Connie Digital (who goes by /connie on Cent). @rizzle and I cover a lot of ground on this episode from Connie's infamous ability to be early to seemingly every burgeoning new scene, to plans that could see increased output from Connie in music and songwriting, his perspective on the state of blockchain-based VR projects like DecentralLand and Cryptovoxe...

This week, /matthew and /rizzle speak with Seb and Nathan of The Sandbox, the user-generated VR game platform for the metaverse. Seb and Nathan unpack the various layers that form the platform of The Sandbox, the tokenomics of the project, the unique ways that the #PlayToEarn meme applies to LAND owners, game builders and regular players, and much, much more. Listeners of the YDAD podcast can win...

This week @rizzle and I sat down to chat with Drew Harding, co-founder and robot at The MetaFactory. If you are on crypto Twitter or are familiar with MetaCartel, you should have at least heard of The MetaFactory. MF is an auction platform for community owned brands and custom digi-physical apparel. In other words, it's the future. Drew talked about the origin story of MF, where it's heading, how...

Every creator Spotlight I record is special. But this week's is really unique. While the Spotlight this week is focused on the artist duo known as @Hackatao, my conversation was with the art curator Eleonora Brizi who doubles as Hackatao's authorized spokesperson. Eleonora has solid art world bonafides having started off in the traditional art working for the renowned Ai Weiwei as his assistant. S...

This week Rizzle and Matthew speak with Caty Tedman, head of partnerships & marketing at Dapper Labs. Caty and Dapper Labs are in the process of building NBA Top Shot, a blockchain-based app that will allow fans to buy, sell, own and trade their favorite NBA plays and may end up becoming the first blockchain project to achieve mainstream breakout success. We talk about Caty's untraditional path to...

The featured artist on this week's Cent Spotlight is @artbymitrai also known as Indrani. Indrani has been one of the most active creators on Cent recently.  We discussed all of the work she has been creating thanks to Covid-19, her creative journey from physical art and watercolors to digital art, how she creates nearly all of her work on her smartphone, and we discuss all of the artists (and I me...

This week Rizzle and Matthew spoke with Jiho, co-founder and Head of Growth at Axie Infinity. Major topics discussed include: the easiest way to start playing Axie Infinity, the amazing Axie community, the significance of the #PlayToEarn meme, current partnerships with Maker & Kyber Network, and a special promise to listeners of the Cent Podcast who are interested in learning how to play Axie Infi...

The VR artist GiantSwan is the guest on this week's Cent Spotlight. Matthew dives into Swan's journey from selling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of horse goods at a corporate gig to joining his favorite band and creating VR art for them. Although Swan is a prominent figure in crypto art today, he only came on the scene in December. The two unpack that aspect of his creative journey and lo...

Rizzle and Matthew sat down for a chat with Alex, PM at the NFT minting platform and marketplace Rarible. We covered Rarible's long-term ambitions to become a marketplace of marketplaces, touched on potential decentralized solutions to the copyright issues that have been flagged by others and dug into the popular 'Unlock' feature that Rarible introduced.

I'm excited to share my recent talk with Osinachi, a one-of-a-kind artist who is sharing compelling visual stories using *checks notes* Microsoft Word. Osinachi called in from his flat tucked alongside a bustling thoroughfare in Enugu State, Nigeria.  He shared his creative journey from writing to discovering how to draw figures in Microsoft word and the process of finding his unique voice as an a...

A few weeks ago, right before @AsyncArt went live, @rizzle and I had an early peek into what @conlan and his team were building. We were lucky to have the chance to listen to @conlan himself give us a presentation explaining Async. Art top to bottom: from an overview of the crypto art landscape, to what Async Art does, and how it works (including fee & royalty model). We hope our convo will help f...

This week's Cent Spotlight is on the digital artist Matt Kane. Matt is on the cutting edge of crypto art both from a technical perspective (he literally coded the programs he uses to create his one of a kind digital works of art) as well as being one of the space's most profound thinkers. We dive into Matt's background as a traditional artist, what motives him creatively, his unique relationship w...

Hey everyone. I'm back with a surprise bonus episode that I just recorded with Jason Schadt, aka MC Vandal, to mark the launch of his new single, Toss A Coin. We talk about that fire track, but we also dive into his plans for DAOrecords and the potential that DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) hold for musicians, the broader music industry, and fans.

Hey everyone. This week's Cent Spotlight is on the science fantasy (not science fiction) digital artist, @AstroZach. The two of us talked about how his past as a fashion designer helped him find his passion as a digital artist who is creating otherworldly works of rare digital art. We talk about the tools that folks new to crypto and crypto art need to be aware of to find everything they need to k...

This week's episode features digital artist @SphericalArt aka Paul Peterson. Paul joined Cent just a month or so ago, but he made an immediate impact on me with his thoughtfulness and eye-catching work.  As his handle implies, Paul is a master of sphere-based digital art. What isn't implied is his decades of experience as a digital artist, storyboard artist, medical illustrator/animator, and 3D pr...

Jim McNelis aka @j1immy aka DappWizard is well known for doing an immense amount of work to shore up the NFT space for centuries and centuries to come. He's the creator of Avastars, the new on-chain metadata project trying to find a solution to ensure digital collectibles and art remain viewable forever. @rizzle and @matthew had an extemely entertaining chat with Jim about Avastars in addition to...

Each artists' backgrounds are like a creative fingerprint, every one is unique.  Diving into those individual stories is a huge part of why I love recording these Spotlight episodes. Case in point, my guest this week: @MicahJohnson.  Micah is a former major league baseball player turned artist who recently fell head first into the crypto art space. I'm extremely excited to share our conversation,...

Silhouettes are stories. Real, profound stories. When I first came across @dowdy and his work, I was struck by how much his silhouette heavy art seemed to say to me.  We spoke about his evolution from silhouettes to focusing on POC in his work, what it's like being a new crypto artist on the scene, theories on pricing one's art, what quality art is, and more. As a collector and fan, I was looking...