Space Summary
The Twitter Space Curated Conversation With Intrepid hosted by SuperRare. In this curated conversation with Intrepid, the focus was on the transformative effects of blockchain technology on the art market. Key discussions revolved around the fusion of traditional art practices with digital innovation, the importance of authenticity in on-chain art transactions, and the role of NFTs in reshaping art ownership. The session delved into challenges, opportunities, and future trends in blockchain-based art curation, highlighting the benefits of artist-developer collaborations and community-driven art ecosystems. Overall, the conversation provided valuable insights into the evolving landscape of onchain art markets, emphasizing transparency, security, and inclusivity.
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Questions
Q: How does blockchain technology impact traditional art practices?
A: Blockchain introduces new ways of creating, exhibiting, and owning art, bridging the gap between digital and physical art forms.
Q: Why is authenticity crucial in on-chain art transactions?
A: Authenticity ensures the integrity and provenance of artworks in blockchain transactions, building trust among buyers and sellers.
Q: What challenges arise in integrating blockchain into the art market?
A: Challenges include scalability, environmental concerns, and educating stakeholders on blockchain's advantages.
Q: What role do NFTs play in transforming art ownership?
A: NFTs provide a digital certificate of ownership, revolutionizing how art is bought, sold, and collected in the digital age.
Q: How can blockchain enhance art market transparency and security?
A: Blockchain's immutable ledger ensures transparent transactions, reduces fraud, and secures artworks' ownership history.
Q: What future trends do you see in blockchain-based art curation?
A: Expect to see interactive exhibitions, virtual galleries, and innovative ways of engaging with art through blockchain technologies.
Q: How can artists benefit from collaborating with blockchain developers?
A: Collaborations offer artists new revenue streams, wider audiences, and opportunities to innovate in the digital art space.
Q: What advantages do blockchain onchain transactions bring to art market ecosystems?
A: Onchain transactions increase efficiency, reduce intermediaries, and enhance traceability, fostering a more inclusive and secure art market.
Q: Why is community engagement essential in blockchain-driven art environments?
A: Communities drive interest, participation, and diversity in onchain art ecosystems, ensuring their sustainability and growth.
Q: In what ways can blockchain technologies expand art accessibility?
A: Blockchain enables fractional ownership, global art access, and transparent provenance, making art ownership more democratic and inclusive.
Highlights
Time: 00:12:45
Art and Blockchain Fusion Exploring the creative synergy between artistry and blockchain technology in the digital age.
Time: 00:25:19
Authenticity in Onchain Art Transactions Delving into the significance of provenance and authenticity verification in blockchain-based art sales.
Time: 00:36:50
NFTs Redefining Art Ownership Unpacking the transformative power of NFTs in democratizing art ownership and value perceptions.
Time: 00:48:11
Innovative Art Curation in Blockchain Environments Showcasing novel approaches to curating and showcasing digital art in decentralized platforms.
Time: 01:02:30
Community Driven Art Ecosystems Discussing the role of communities in fostering diversity, engagement, and sustainability in blockchain art ecosystems.
Time: 01:15:08
Future Prospects of Blockchain and Art Integration Speculating on the future potentials of blockchain technology in reshaping the art market landscape.
Time: 01:28:40
Artist-Developer Collaborations Exploring how collaborations between artists and tech innovators spur creative advancements in the art industry.
Time: 01:40:17
Transparency and Security in Onchain Art Transactions Analyzing how blockchain ensures trust, transparency, and security in art market transactions.
Time: 01:55:29
Blockchain's Impact on Art Accessibility Examining how blockchain technology expands art accessibility, ownership, and art market democratization.
Time: 02:10:02
Sustainable Growth in Blockchain Art Communities Highlighting the importance of inclusivity, sustainability, and community engagement in blockchain art ecosystems.
Key Takeaways
- Art and blockchain technology are revolutionizing the art market through onchain transactions.
- Exploration of the intersection between traditional art practices and digital innovation.
- Importance of authenticity and provenance in on-chain art transactions.
- Community engagement and inclusivity drive sustainability in onchain art ecosystems.
- Challenges and opportunities of utilizing blockchain in art market transactions.
- The role of NFTs in reshaping ownership and value perception in the art industry.
- Innovative approaches to digital art curation and exhibition in blockchain environments.
- Collaborations between artists and blockchain developers for unique artistic offerings.
- Implications of blockchain technology on art market transparency and security.
- Exploring the future potentials of blockchain in expanding art accessibility and ownership.
Behind the Mic
Introduction and Acknowledgments
Hello. Hello. We'll just give it a couple minutes for friends to file in here, but nice to see some familiar faces already and super excited to kick off this discussion today. Hey, everyone. I think we've got a full house up here. Intrepid, are you. Maybe I can only hear you one device. Yeah, I can hear you. Okay, great. I just had a. I just had to reboot my phone for some reason. It was not like in Twitter space, but hopefully everyone can hear me clearly. Yes, loud and clear. Awesome. We had Eddie up, but I think he might have dropped. So once he joins back in, we can get him up on stage as well. Yeah, super excited to dive into this release. Have been reading all the content that you've been sharing about this, looking at the beautiful visuals.
Transition to Topic
So epic to see the auctions go live and. Yeah, really excited to just hear more about your experience and inspiration behind this body of work today. Yeah, I think if we're pretty much ready here, I can give a little introduction and then we can dive into things, if that sounds okay. Yeah, sounds great. Awesome. Okay, so I'll just give our little written introduction that we have here and then, yeah, we'll dive into all the details. So intrepid and his young family spent nearly two years stranded on a small sailboat during the pandemic, 11,000 miles from home. With all borders within sailing distance closed to australian flagged vessels and no flights or cruise ships available, they became essentially stateless during the lockdowns. His family was unable to set foot on land for many months.
The Journey and Freedom
When his son's passport expired, they had to obtain temporary papers. Eventually, they found a sense of freedom at sea, sailing the eastern Caribbean and seeking refuge in the small nations there. This challenging experience inspired the creation of the intrepid ocean series, reflecting their extraordinary journey and resilience during a time of global uncertainty. So, I mean, if that doesn't pique your interest in a series, I'm not sure what will. It's really interesting to see the confluence of, you know, these pieces that are just so aesthetically beautiful, but also just with such kind of intense context around it as well. So, yeah, would love to just get a little brief on your background of yourself as an artist for those that might be new to your work as well, just to kick things off, you.
Artist's Background
Know, I appreciate that, and it is a bit of a crazy intro, but I'll try and do it justice. But it's basically, I've been a photographer for 2025 years. I started in my late teens in the late nineties. I did photography work in the late nineties in Southeast Asia, and then the early two thousands in places like Nepal. Back then, there were magazines, and you could get consignment work and get down payments and go on essentially, like, magazine assignments. And then, of course, that whole industry kind of collapsed in the two thousands with the collapse of all the great magazines, basically. And we sort of ended up in the Instagram influencer era, which I think was probably the low point as a photographer.
Shifting Careers
But, yeah, I've been shooting around the world for those 20 years. I've shot in over 50 countries, basically lived quasi nomadically, lived long term in four different countries and done a lot of work. And then when we had kids, were living in Canada at the time. I'm australian, you could probably tell from the accent. But we lived in Canada, in northern Canada for three years, shooting the Northern Exposure series, which is actually up on super rare as well. But we had kids, and were like, how can we keep doing this with the kids? And so weren't historically sailors, but we kind of thought, well, we need to be able to move our house around so that we can give them some stability, because you can't live out of a suitcase with three kids.
The Transition to Sailing
And so we ended up buying a boat in the Caribbean. And part of that was because how cold it was in northern Canada for three years. But, you know, we moved to the Caribbean, bought this boat, and tried to teach ourselves how to sail. And of course, within 16 weeks, we basically were locked down in France, in overseas department of France, so in St. Maarten, but it was subject to the same laws that Paris was. Basically, there's only one frenchman, so everyone has the same laws. And so, you know, basically we, you know, we had four months to learn how to sail, and then were locked down at anchor in St. Martin.
Challenges During Lockdown
And initially we thought, oh, yeah, this is going to last a week or two. No big deal. Like everyone did, I think, around the world. And, you know, just it dragged on there, you know, no one was allowed off the boat, the skipper. So I could go to land. If I filled out two pages in French, you know, I could go to land for 1 hour a day to provision for essential services. But basically the family and I've got, you know, three small kids at the time. My daughter was only six months old, and my two boys were four and five. And we couldn't, they didn't get, end up going to land for almost four and a half months, which was pretty savage.
Struggles and Uncertainties
And so we spent the time in France that, you know, it was all a bit crazy. We had at that point. This was pre Starlink, so we didn't have, you know, the best Internet, really. And information on the pandemic in the early days was pretty scarce. After about a month, we had an aircraft carrier turn up and park next to us. And then they started helicoptering in, like, APC vehicles, and they set up military law on the island because they're worried the locals would start rioting because of the lockdown, you know. So it was pretty surreal at that time. And then the main concern in the back of our minds is that were, you know, this was coming late in the season.
Seasonal Concerns
The hurricane season was already officially started by then. And, you know, you've got to get out of St. Maarten. Two years earlier, they had two cat five hurricanes. These were the hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico, but they went through St. Martin as cat five, one week apartheid and had destroyed all the bridges on the island. So they do have a lagoon there that you could kind of go into for safety. But the bridges were all broken, so they couldn't lift the bridges up. And basically were like, okay, if a hurricane comes, we have to run to sea. And that was pretty intense thought because weren't really sailors.
Overnight Sail Challenges
We had actually never done an overnight sail at that point, we'd be on the boat for 16 weeks. So we provisioned the boat to last us, like, three to six months at sea if we had to go to sea, because as soon as we left St. Martin, we had this catch 22 situation being Australian. Australia had shut its borders to Australian citizens, to everyone, basically. And there were no flights or there was no way of getting home, even if it wasn't shut. But what happened is that every country essentially locked down excepted their own citizens. But, you know, we didn't have a country that would take our flag vessel. So vessels sailing international waters have a flag in the sense like it's an Australian vessel, so it's a little piece of Australia, and you have to be granted entry. So were kind of stuck.
Navigating the Restrictions
You know, the Panama Canal shut, so we couldn't go through the canal and try and sail home, even though that would have been like four months at sea sailing. And, you know, that was kind of the start of the saga, really. So, you know, after the, you know, were basically just there for months. They, you know, they banned us swimming off the boat. You know, we tried to go to the beach. They came down with machine guns and kind of made us get back to the boat. So it was like, pretty intense time. And then after that, Grenada basically saved us. They let in 1200 stranded vessels, so all the European boats and all the American and Canadian boats could sail home. But it's Australian, New Zealand and South African boats predominantly were stranded.
The Grenada Experience
And so we sailed down to Grenada, and then they gave us, like a six-month visa. And I guess in that time, we had a range of issues as well in terms of, you know, we started to become kind of like edge case of society. Then we had banking issues. I won't go into too much detail, but if you read the thread, I just pinned it to my, the top of my poet profile. But basically, we had issues with freedom to transact. We had credit card. All that Canadian banking shut down on us because they thought were being fraudulent transacting from the Caribbean in the pandemic. And we had issues with Australian bank accounts, and we had a lot of just issues in general.
Passport and Travel Woes
My son's passport expired, and we obviously couldn't get to an embassy to renew it, so we had to get temporary papers, which, ironically, were only good for traveling to your home country, and weren't allowed to travel to our home country. And so then basically, we ended up spending two years sailing around the Caribbean doing laps because we had nowhere else to go. And then slowly, these little countries would open up and we would actually get to experience them in quite an incredible way, in the sense that these are countries that are quite a. In some ways now quite overrun with packaged tourists from flights and cruise ships. And, you know, were there in a period where there were no flights, no cruise ships, and you would arrive on these islands and people were like, how did you get here? It was like the 1960s, so.
Returning to Australia
And then eventually, after a couple of years, we finally managed to get flights home to Australia and went back to Australia for two years to try and save some money. We had kind of blown through a lot of our reserves financially being stranded. And then we had, I guess, plans and aspirations to sail up to the US east coast when we bought the boat. And a year ago, went back to the boat and picked it up in Aruba, which is 10 miles of nautical miles of Venezuela. And we've basically since been sailing it up to now we're in New York. So went up to Maine and to New York. This series kind of encompasses, you know, the last.
Artistic Interpretation of the Journey
It's kind of been like a five-year odyssey, I guess, you know, initially the two years in the pandemic, and then kind of two years going back to Australia to kind of find our feet again, and then coming back for a third year to kind of, like, make the story into a positive one. Like, we didn't want to have all our memories of the boat being stranded and isolated. So, yeah, I'll stop talking and put it back. Wow, that's truly remarkable. There's so many threads that we could pull here. I'm curious if you could tell us a little bit more about this release. Intrepid ocean. I know that the six works are on auction now, but just given that context, I'm curious, what point in the journey did the inspiration for this body of work come?
Processing Emotions Through Art
Was it over the course of the whole two to five years? Yeah, we'd love to hear how that came to life. Yeah, no, that's a good question. And I basically, after the pandemic, and went home, and I was somewhat angry with my country for locking me out, as you could imagine. And the whole experience we had, in a way, it was so. It was kind of like a surreally beautiful time because we just had, you know, when you have to focus on nothing but survival in your family, like, it really narrows down the world to just a little bubble. And, you know, you do that for years, and, you know, we just spent a lot of time at the beach with my kids, and we had kind of a lot of background stress, but we had a lot of kind of freedom in the immediate sense.
Reflections on the Past Journey
And. But then when we got home, it kind of hit me what had actually happened, and that was kind of a little bit like a PTSD, I guess, coming in from the period, because, again, weren't sailors. And one of the images I've met is a waterspout. If you're not really a sailor and you're trying to sail away from water spouts on a boat you've only owned for five months, it's quite intense. So I kind of just put all the work to the back of my mind and focused on other work. And actually, when I got back to Australia, was working on editing up a lot of the work we had done in Canada and northern exposure in my surreal series. And I guess, yeah, it took, after a couple of years, I was, like, started to kind of put the pieces together in my mind and, like, well, it's actually quite the story, really, when you put it all together.
The Emotional Impact of the Series
And finally got around to essentially, like, trying to process, like, the, you know, the emotions, I guess, to people looking at these images, they're probably just nice, pretty pictures, but to me, when I look at them, I've got kind of visceral memories with a lot of them. So it's, you know, certainly an emotional series for me, but it's been quite a nice thing to do. And particularly now that we're back on the boat, you know, to be going through those images and the memories from the two years being stranded has been a great process. So with this series, I guess I'm just trying to, I guess, spread the word with this whole series in terms of interpretation.
Importance of Decentralization
And if you try to put long, lengthy explanations minted into each of the photos, particularly the earlier pictures in the series. So this is kind of a. There's actually twelve images in the series. Six of them are sold and six of them are part of this curation release. But basically the whole period reinforced my certainty around decentralized networks and having been basically defunded by Canadian banks because I had the wrong accent and was in the Caribbean, that gave me a sense of how important what we're doing here in this space and decentralized networks and having control of your own assets without basically a third party being able to block your own livelihood at the click of a button, and there's no recourse.
Personal Reflections on a Trying Time
They said, come back to Canada and we'll let. We can sort this out in bank. And my daughter's Canadian, and so it's like. But I could. They wouldn't let us in. So it's pretty. It was an interesting time. And so, you know, I guess it kind of came out of that, and I guess it's quite an emotional series for me. And so working through this whole series is working through a lot of that emotion as well. So now trying to, I guess, embed that emotion into the series and hopefully that comes through with the work. Wow, really appreciate that.
Understanding the Emotional Depth
Yeah, there's so much depth going into these and love to just hear all of this extra context from you as well to kind of better understand this. You mentioned that this is a very emotional series for you. I think that makes perfect sense, just given the whole background of this release. But I'm curious as well, if you could give us a little bit of a look behind the curtain and your creative process, how you brought these works to life. Maybe a little glimpse at what your, or how you think about this from a technical point of view, but also just an insight into what goes into works like this that we're seeing released today.
The Creative Process and Emotional Distance
Yeah, sure. So I guess I like to hold things back for a long time. I'm not one of those people that takes shots and mints them straight away, typically. So it's like one thing that when in this series, I guess in particular, one of the reasons why it took so long to produce the series is that what I like to do, I like to be able to edit the photo with no emotion to it because I feel like, you know, when you're a photographer or particularly the type of photography that I do, like, if you've just witnessed something that's kind of, you know, extremely amazing natural phenomenon, for example, it's hard not to be wrapped up with the emotion of the actual event. And so I think you can have kind of a bias around the image because you're still, like, when you look at the image, you've associated with the event that you just experienced.
Techniques for Capturing Emotion
And so I tend to think that you need good six to twelve months for that emotion to kind of calm down. And then you can edit the photo as though you're an objective observer, and then you can try and work that emotion back into the image kind of rationally and say, okay, if I didn't, if I didn't experience this event or I wasn't here, like, if you weren't here on the boat, like, if you look at, you know, a shot, if you look at something like clouds of fury, like, if you went on that boat watching that storm thinking, what are we going to do? Like, how do you work that emotion into the image so that it, you know, convey that expression to the viewer? Because I think that's the thing. What you're trying to do, at least what I'm trying to do with my work is create some kind of sense of emotion or a feeling.
Creating Stories Through Imagery
When people look at the image, I want them to kind of feel something. I think that's the goal for most artists, really, is, you know, it's not just a pretty picture. It actually creates an emotion in the viewer. And then, you know, if that emotion is linked to a story. And so I do like having, you know, long stories around my work because that's kind of what I full time adventurer, essentially. So there's often a good story to go with the imagery. And if you can kind of wrap the text with the image and then have that emotion convey through the image, then people can kind of put themselves in that position and think, okay, well, what would I have done if I was on that boat in that storm? Or what would I have done if I was, you know, looking at a waterspout that was chasing me down and had my family on a small 40ft of fiberglass?
Technical Aspects of Photography
So it's like, I guess that's the workflow in terms of. Technically, a lot of these images are shot with drone. That's more the nature of sailing. You've got a very flat canvas out in the ocean. There's not like, you've got mountains that you can look up to. So to create some depth perspective, you know, drones are excellent. Obviously, there's a couple of shots in the. In the series that aren't drone like. The waterspout image was taken just off the back of the boat. I wasn't going to fly my drone into the waterspout. It would never have come back. But it was tempting to do that. But. So, yeah, in terms of just trying to create some depth perspective and some perspective on the isolation, I guess there's a lot of isolation themes in this series.
Isolation and Drone Photography
And, you know, you can create that sense of isolation with the drone in a way that you can't on land or not on land. Sorry, the ground level of the water, just to the inherent flatness. And so, yeah, my, I guess I. My main, I guess, drive in this series. I'm kind of an adventurer first, and a photographer, if that sounds. Might sound a bit strange, but, you know, I try and live life in a way that gives me more experiences that I can remember and I try and capture that and convey those experiences. I guess. I really love that.
Viewer Engagement and Context
Just looking at the works while you're describing the context of using the drone and using that to just put in perspective of really how small you are in the grand scheme of things, it's really powerful. I encourage folks, if you're on a desktop or on mobile, dive into some of the things that we've pinned up top to the nest here. And if you can put these images full screen. Cause they're really striking, I think. Especially when you understand all this extra context as well. I think there's probably obvious ways that this next question will definitely branch out. But I'm curious, maybe from how you've approached this body of work, or maybe just the story itself, how this series of ladders into your existing work, or branches out from what you've done previously and released previously.
Transitioning to New Themes
Yeah. So I think that it is quite different. I'm probably best known for surreal landscapes. My two signature series is the super real series, which is on super air. It's like very surreal landscapes. You could think that they were almost like paintings of the intention of places around the world that aren't kind of Instagram hotspots that people will see and go, wow, is that actually a real place? I don't like crowds. I'm pretty introverted. That's why I can live on a boat for years. But I'd like to seek out these more remote, isolated places and these surreal places, because there's just so much in the world that you go onto Instagram and you see the same things over and over again.
Social Media Impact on Art
And the algorithm just feeds that, because you put up a picture of Lake Louise and you get 10,000 likes, you put up a picture of something that the algorithm doesn't recognize, and it just kills it, because it's like, well, no one's ever liked that before. They probably won't like it this time. And this is one thing that I actually think is a key difference in nfts, is that kind of inherent rarity is rewarded in nfts, because if you just put popular clickbait on Instagram, it gets rewarded. But if you do it in nfts, then everyone can just copy it. And so, you know, there's this. There's this sense of, like, digital scarcity, I guess, that's artificial and, you know, in PFP projects and things.
The Scarcity of Artwork
But there's also, I like to. In art, there's, like, an inherent scarcity, like how inherently scarce is something in the sense that, can it be reproduced? Can that moment in time be reproduced? And this is where I think photography and I differentiate it, I guess, from AI imagery in that sense, is actually capturing a specific moment in time. Like, each of these images is a specific moment in time. And, you know, like that we're actually in those images at that specific moment. And it's kind of, you know, in 100 years, these images would be part of history in a way that I think AI imagery may not be.
Reflection on Past Work
And the, you know, that's, I guess, what I look to, and my soup, the super real series, and then the northern exposure series is in northern Canada series. It's also kind of a lot ground level telephoto landscapes, essentially. And this series was the first time I really lent into the drone. And I didn't have a drone, really, until I got onto the boat because I just. That wasn't my style of work. But it's just, as I said, there's just the infinite flatness on the ocean, and it's something that, you know, it's quite hard to explain, but unless you've been on a boat at sea for five days in a row, you know, just sailing through the flatness it's hard to explain how flat it is.
The Experience of Flatness at Sea
Like, it's just this infinite flatness forever in all directions, day after day.
The Impact of Drones on Photography
And, you know, the drone really captures that in a way that, like, if I took a picture off the back of the boat, it would just look like I was standing on the beach taking a picture out. So that's kind of it really forced me to embrace the drone and, you know, change the way, I guess. I see. I see that in positioning in terms of trying to, you know, you can see most of these images have our boats in the actual image because I'm trying to create a sense of scale in that kind of infinity, you know, because otherwise, again, it's hard to get a sense of scale.
Reflecting on Art and Society
It's really great to hear about this story from you because it really adds a lot of emotional depth and complexities to the series and also how it relates to your whole career, decades of career as a photographer. I think it makes us also reflect on larger issues of our world and societies. I want to throw a question to Eddie, because he's the one that first introduced this series, told me about this collection, and I remember how passionate he was about the whole story and also how he envisioned that this collection could be part of the event that he's hosting every year by the sea, which is happening tomorrow.
Personal Connections to the Collection
Adi, I want to know, like, what was your reaction and thoughts when you first learned about this collection and how you're planning to incorporate this collection to the event tomorrow? Because I think introvert is going to sell to the event, right? Yeah. Thank you. So I actually am sitting at shore and I'm looking out and I see intrepid's boat because he has sailed in. And when I first saw this series, it just, it hit me so powerfully, you know, to have such a. To be put in such a difficult situation and to be able to make something positive out of it is, I think, just in general, a very inspiring thing.
Connecting Experiences During the Pandemic
And, you know, it's interesting because it also, I think, you know, connected with me on my pandemic story a bit where my dad and stepmom, they live by the sea, which is where I grew up. And they had invited me to, you know, to live with them because, you know, I could work remotely. And so I moved in with them. And when I had been younger, my dad had been teaching me how to sail, and we had to, you know, they had to give up the boat because they couldn't afford it. And so he'd been, like, trying to teach me as I was older but didn't really, you know, I was, like, in the city and I only had so much time, and so it ended up being this really beautiful thing that because I moved in with them in the pandemic, you know, he got to teach me how to sail.
Intimacy of the Event by the Sea
Nowhere near as well as intrepid, but it was also a very. A special way to connect on a much less grand scale, make the most of the pandemic and to be able to connect with him through sailing. And this event is meant to be by the sea. It's a very intimate series where it's a celebration of community and art and so people can come and you get to really know each other. But it's, I think, a really special thing to have intrepid be able to sail into this and to be able to tell his story at the event and for us to be able to see the boat that he lived on with his family during the pandemic visible from the shores.
Special Narratives Unfolding
He tells the story as, I think, just a really amazing and unique experience. And him and I were, like, chatting about this at NFT NYC, and it just felt like. Like a really special thing. And we also have other artists who will be there and Molly and Alyssa who also have fantastic stories and fantastic art. But it was just a very unique thing to be able to have somebody arrive by sea and tell a story that just seems to fit the location so uniquely.
Anticipation and Reflection
Really appreciate that. I know we're coming up on time here, but maybe just to round off the discussion, intrepid, just wondering if you could share one or two things that you hope our collectors of the series or enjoyers take away from it and everything that you've shared today. Yeah. Well, I just firstly want to thank you guys Fiber air for doing a curated release and, you know, sponsoring this show tomorrow by the sea. And thank Eddie for putting on the show and allowing me to sail in. And we said, we, Eddie said, we talked about this in New York, NFC, NFT and I was a long way from the US then.
Personal Journey and Realizations
It sounded like a pipe train. It's like, yeah, sure, I'll sail up five dozen miles and get to New York and, you know, here we are. It's taken me, literally, taken me six months to sail up here, but it's been an amazing kind of experience to do that and quite cathartic, really, to come in, coming to New York from the wilderness, it seems like, because it's, you know, just the density and everything. So pretty excited about the event tomorrow, and. But in terms of takeaway, I guess, you know, there's a few different takeaways.
Reflections on Community and Decentralization
One is, you know, I always. I'm a big fan of the 6529 memes. What they're building is kind of a quasi network state over there with brain, and I've just lived an edge case for a long time, and the edge cases just get screwed. And I feel like it's what we're building here as a community, and even a lot of it's through art. But the decentralized systems that we're building, it's just something that we need. As the world becomes more controlled, technology becomes more centralized, you know, there is no one that, you know, they shut your bank account off.
Life Lessons and Survival
Like, I don't know if anyone's ever had that happen to them, but it's kind of like an I'm from a first world oecd country. I think Australia is like one of the top ten in terms of, you know, GDP per capita and things like that. It's like you don't expect people just to cut your money off and then to tell you're not allowed to return to your country and you can't go anywhere. Like, it's. You take all those things for granted. And I know there's lots of people out there that are refugees and from war torn areas, and this is kind of a fact of life. But, you know, we live a privileged life, and we take.
Gratitude and Understanding
You take those things for granted that, you know, you can get your money when you need it, and you can travel, you know, you can move from country to country, but, you know, to have that kind of just taken away and just, we're just too small and educated for anyone to care about. And literally, you know, if we. If we didn't have bank accounts in multiple countries, we wouldn't have, you know, we would have been in a real survival situation where we couldn't buy any food to eat. And, you know, we had an escape pod, essentially.
The Power of Self-Sufficiency
We make our own water. We can catch fish, you know, we make our own power. We go wind and solar like. So, you know, were lucky because we had this fully self sufficient escape pod, but a lot of people around the world don't have that sort of escape pod. And I think these decentralized networks will really help them. And I guess the other message is kind of a redemption arc in that, you know, we had that in the first six months of the two years was pretty horrific, to tell you the truth, and a lot of stress trying to come up to speed with becoming sailors and life or death situation.
Finding Joy Amid the Challenges
And in some ways, but the next year and a half were kind of the most, probably the most beautiful time of my life in the sense that we had this great time with our family. We went to these amazing places, saw these amazing things. Everyone else was blocked and, you know, it wasn't like the rest of the world was having a party. A lot of, you know, the rest of the world was in lockdown and couldn't leave their apartments, etcetera. So I think there's, you know, no matter how bad things get, it seems, you know, you can always make something out of it.
Closing Thoughts
I think that's the other message. You know, all these imagery, you know, they're all kind of beautiful scenes, even if some of them might be a bit terrifying, trying to convey that sense of beauty, but not sure how much time we're going to stop there. That's a really powerful way, I think, to end off the discussion. If you're listening, definitely dive into what we have pinned up top there. Check out the pieces on super rare. Auctions are live for the next couple days. Intrepid, thank you so much for joining us today.
Appreciation for the Dialogue
This was such a powerful discussion and really adds so much depth to this body of work that's already aesthetically already very beautiful but carries such a strong message as well. So, yeah, appreciate your time and thank you so much for joining us. And congrats on the release going live today. Thank you.
