🖖👽 - 01 -Not Not Another Newsletter

Just the best stuff from the world of Web3 and Art from TMFA Community. Weekly.

Oct 25, 2021

Why does this exist? Good question — do we really *need* another newsletter in our inbox each week? Maybe not... but…

This is much more than a newsletter.

This is the organization of our community’s collective knowledge.

It’s also a distribution mechanism for the members of our community.

As our content gets better, our audience will grow, and we will all benefit from the distribution channel we are creating as a team.

What’s it about? This is about art. All kinds of art and art world stuff, but more specifically, we focus on the intersection of Web3 and art.

A famous artist once said, “great artists use the tools of their time to tell the stories of their time”.

As a community, our tools are varied, but it is clear that the entire world of art is becoming increasingly dominated by digital tools—so we want to be a place to learn about that part of art too, in addition to the “real” art stuff.

But this won’t just be tweets from tech bros talking about NFTs. While you might find some nuggets in that content, this weekly email will also include community updates and links to the coolest stuff happening in the world of art today.

How’s it made? This is a collective effort.

TMFA community is now many hundreds of artists spanning disciplines and geographies — all with unique points of view.

So, we created an easy way for everyone on our discord to contribute all of the best stuff they find each week in their Internet browsing adventures.

We consolidate it here and syndicate the goodies to our growing list.

All that said, hi fren :)

Welcome to the 1st edition of The Art Brew—our weekly roundup on what’s happening in art and web3.

In this letter:

interesting news and links
community updates
notable tweets

Let’s get into it.

🎨 Art News

Met Museum Accepted Looted Artifacts. Forgeries and fraudulent artworks are prevalent in the art industry. Dealers trading in stolen and fraudulent artifacts are becoming more brazen. Even museums like the MET are being taken in. A case for NFT's as COA?

Spying artist robots? An art-making robot was detained on her way to exhibit at the pyramids because Egyptian customs officials thought she was a spy.

Adobe Max kicks off this week. The annual creativity conference, which is free to attend, runs October 26-28. Including countless live streams, workshops, speakers.

💎 Web3 News

TIMEPieces Announces 12 year old artist-in-residence. Nyla Hayes, creator of the Long Neckie NFT collection (link) worth $3.5M, is named the first artist-in-residence for TIME’s recently launched web3 community initiative.

Variant announces $110M fund focused on crypto startups. Li Jin, creator-economy investor, joins forces with web3 maven Jesse Walden to support founders building the next generation of artist monetization tools.

Are Social Tokens the next trillion-dollar industry? Raoul Pal, former Goldman Sachs hedge fund manager thinks that social tokens (and tokenized communities) have the potential to "disrupt Disney" over the next 5-10 years.

What NFTs Can Learn from Streetwear? Bobby Hundreds writes another long form hot take on crypto, this time comparing NFTs’ parallels with—if not direct inspiration from—streetwear drops on both experience design and social engineering.

Axie Infinity creator raised $152M Series B. In the past few months, the play-to-earn game that launched in 2018 has grown 200x, now with more than 2 million daily active users and generating $2.3 billion in total sales volume.

👋 Community Events

This is the Business We've Chosen — Podcast by TMFA member Shawn Kolodny — On this week’s episode, Shawn speaks with Eddie Gangland, OG NFT artist and early adopter of the Metaverse. He is known for his highly sought-after Gangland Skulls series and is on track to becoming an artworld superstar.

Giraffe Tower NFT project launches in Times Square — a handful of TMFA members were involved in the conceptualization and creation of the Giraffe Tower NFT project in collaboration with $GARY