Hi! My name is Christa aka Gemini Rising,
I am a founding council member of INA DAO
Also council member of VanDAO and EDU Creatives
And, I have recently started a new DAO called LP DAO.
Links:
NEAR wallet: geminirising.near
website: https://geminirisingmedia.com
twitter: x.com
IG: @geminirisingmedia
Telegram: Telegram: Contact @GeminiRisingMedia
Discord: geminirising#6394
I have been in the Web3 space since 2019, mostly creating art NFTs. I have personal accounts on Known Origin, Rarible, Async Art, Mintbase and Paras. I also have a parcel in Voxels and have been building for others in that space since 2021.
I got interested in the NEAR protocol after reading their White Paper in late 2020. I really liked the idea of clean NFTs and in particular the importance of communities. I started out on Mintbase when they were still building on ETH and continued with them on their journey with NEAR.
In January, I somehow fell into the council of INA DAO and have been active ever since in the realm of DAOs and communities on NEAR.
This quote, for me, is the most essential thing regarding creatives. I believe that not only is the Creatives DAO relevant, but THE most important thing of all. Creatives are the backbone of everything in this space and truthfully the backbone of the world.
Although artists are probably the most underpaid professionals in the world, the world would not exist without them. We as artists need financial support in the kind of world that exists. During the Renaissance artists were supported by rich patrons. Imagine a world without DaVinci or Michaelangelo. They did no need metrics or proof that their art had financial value, they just received support from those rich enough to give it.
[Art is uniquely positioned to move people—inspiring us, inciting new questions and provoking curiosity, excitement, and outrage.
Artists can strengthen the will and push people to act. They do not think like policymakers or academics people.
Artists think from their heart – big, revolutionary, and visionary ideas.
This is why artists are able to move people to action, thus creates a significant cultural and political contributions.
This is what makes art powerful.
What I like most about the NEAR ecosystem is the fact that they are supporting artists, just like those patrons during the Renaissance. Not only that, but they are supporting artists from developing countries, that would ordinarily not have the resources to hone their skills and create. Nowhere else have I seen this, not on the Ethereum blockchain, not on the Tezos blockchain, not on the BNB blockchain. This support for the artistic community is what drew me to NEAR in the first place. The Creatives community is one of the most important communities on NEAR.
If we are to implement metrics regarding this DAO, it should be in regards to how many pieces of art created and how many new artists we have onboarded onto NEAR.
Total votes cast on Astro: 111
