Blondie - Founding White Walls and being a true art patron

In the 14th episode of Season five, we are joined by wonderful friend Blondie. Blondie is a rockstar collector and co-founder of White Walls, the best way to display digital art in your home with screens you already own.  We dive into Blondie’s background, how she fell into the cryptoart rabbithole, all things White Walls, being a true art patron, love of divorced dad rock, and so much more. We"re excited to announce that the rest of Season Five is now powered by Towns! Built on Base and running on River, Towns is a decentralized and permissionless group chat app that allows anyone to create & own digital town squares on their own rules. Available on web and iOS with full end-to-end encryption, users can join or create feature-rich Towns with native on-chain gating, paid memberships and more with tons of exciting features & rewards coming soon.  We"ll also be doing a little collabing with our friends at SHILLR in a joint Town for our communities so make sure to tap in to get access to some Towns exclusive giveaways, rewards and more. Head to https://www.towns.com/ for more. 02:27 Introduction 10:37 How did Blondie fall into the cryptoart rabbithole? 13:47 Blondie’s love of art 23:07 Minting a Moonbird, thoughts on the current state and history of PFPs, and other ridiculous NFT related things 53:17 Finding new art to collect 01:05:57 Why White Walls? 01:12:57 Diewiththemostcreedconcerts 01:19:36 The Skulls of Luci & The Masquerade 01:39:25 The role of auction houses in the digital art ecosystem 01:47:57 Thoughts on art marketplaces, brokers, speculators and patrons 02:05:57 Closing thoughts  More Blondie: X: https://x.com/Blondie23LMD White Walls: https://www.whitewalls.art/ More Towns Link to join our town with Shillr and WDAL - https://app.towns.com/t/0x7ce9312cf40ce89426e8262de3f6701b0e27d822/channels/207ce9312cf40ce89426e8262de3f6701b0e27d8220000000000000000000000/  X: https://x.com/townsxyz  More Andy X: https://x.com/andy8052 More Deeze X: https://x.com/DeeZe   More WDAL X:   https://x.com/wedoalittlepod Discord:   https://discord.gg/6JSDYgBBuB More Shillr: X: https://x.com/shillrxyz Podcasts: https://shillr.buzzsprout.com/  More h0m3w0rk (creators of our theme song)  X:   / homeworknft   Production by Weesh X:   / __weesh__   As always, this podcast is for entertainment purposes only, and should not be relied upon for investment decisions. Andy, Deeze, and guests may be invested in companies or tokens talked about on this podcast.