[Creatives DAO] - Decentralization review & Meeting

Hello Community,
My name is Hawwal Ogungbadero. I am a musical artist, Motion graphic designer | Cartoonist | Filmmaker, illustrator and actor. You can read more about my acting career on My bio hub and on Google. Also some of my past achievements were shared in Blaqk Stereo Dao introductory post.
One word that describes me is “Genius” I am ever evolving, exploring and loaded with ideas from the multiverse.
In joined the Near community through C1 guild in April 2021 and became fully active in the community August of that same year.

Personal Projects

  • Future is Near music competition
  • Unleahsed E.P NFT collection with NXM.

Social Handles
Instagram
Twitter
Telegram: itshawwal

Wallet: Hawwal.near
Total vote cast: 11 votes

Blaqk Stereo DAO

Blaqk stereo as a Dao is dedicated to organizing events to draw in creatives from various fields like music, film, arts, and business exposing them to the vast opportunities in web3 and the Near protocol and we have the means to keep them updated through the creation of visual contents for the Near community.

Vision
Our vision is to draw creatives in from all fields and expose them to blockchain tech and the near protocol, giving them the best possible approach to web3 in respect to their craft. In other words we help creatives see their fullest potential in web3.

Goals

  • Bring more visibility to the Near community and ecosystem in Africa
  • Expose creatives here to more opportunities that the community hasn’t explored yet.
  • Creation of engaging video contents to ease the learning-curve
  • Generate revenue for the DAO making it self-sufficient in the long run.
  • Empower young creatives giving them the necessary equipments and gadgets as well as funding needed to create their dream projects.

Passion

We are passionate about sharing our knowledge of web3, blockchain tech and the Near protocol to every west African or Nigerian we come across and the best way to do it is through the events and initiatives we organize to draw in creatives from all fields showing them the future and the strategic advantages available for their craft or niche in web3.

Highlights achievements
Founder and council Blaqk stereo DAO

  • Guinness world record attempt for the longest recording marathon with multiple artists launch.
  • wallet creation for 45 people (to be shared in new report)
  • Hangout with 40 artists for the attempt.
  • Video coverage and content creating for our dedicated YouTube channel.

6 Months Projection
2022-06-12T23:00:00Z2022-12-12T23:00:00Z

  • Launch of Illustrathons to the Near protocol, which will invite over 100 digital art creators from all across Africa to make one master piece art to be sold on Mintbase
  • Creation of engaging video motion graphic tutorials teaching about Near protocol and all its courses.
  • Hosting of the Largest NFT auction event from West Africa
  • Onboarding and training of 50 Filmmakers from around West Africa
  • Near’s first animation series with collaboration from digital artists in the community.
  • Near’s documentary film centered around the African youth.

Blaqk Stereo Linktree

This is just a projection of what’s to come from Blaqk Stereo.
Thanks and may the force be with you :pray:t5:
@FritzWorm

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Hello, my name is Abdulkareem, also known as Supercoolkay. I am a community builder, digital asset trader, crypto enthusiast, music promoter and a content creator.

My links

Telegram contact : supercoolkay

Instagram: Link

Twitter: Link

Dao: Near x Art Dao

Wallet: abdulkareem.near

Near x Art Dao

Mission:Empowering creatives and promoting sustainability of the ecosystem

Vision: Becoming the major channel for diverse art and creative minting in the ecosystem

Achievements

  1. Worked with marketing Dao to help create video content that promotes Near Protocol & it’s attributes which garnered over 100,000 views across all social platforms. check here

2.Founder and a council member of Near x Art Dao.

3.Organized a physical workshop that empowered and guided artists on how to create “unique” NFTs, taught them on how to operate on Astrodao & mintbase store, how to open a near wallet, the basic features of Near protocol, blockchain and its attributes. :new_moon_with_face:

4.Onboarded over 15 creatives to the Near x Art Dao “creating utility with NFT community”.

5.Introduced Carnatic music to the NxM store. check here

6.Worked with Young fresh Dao to onboard over 230 creatives to the Near ecosystem.

7.Introduced “Creating Utility” with NFT of Arts through delivering the physical form to the collectors/buyers door step.

8.I brought about the Pet & wildlife rescue initiative.

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Am Timi Phoenix, am an artist from Blaqk Stereo DAO

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Hey pals,

This is Christopher Michael (roadworks.near) from Arroz Criativo and LENS DAO (here’s our introduction).
Since I’ve been able to think, creativity has occupied the largest parts of my brain, but somehow I still managed to graduate from Humboldt University with a Masters degree in Innovations Management :wink:

I have a massive passion for design (running my own socks brand www.souvenirsthatdontsuck.pt), turntablism (check out my skills on YouTube under DJ Road Works) and last but not least photography and video for my production company CAMCAT.pt and (of course for LENS DAO). I’m a relatively sporty fellow (beachvolleyball, surfing & kite surfing) and father of an amazing 6yo.

web3 / crypto is relatively new for me. Approximately a year ago I was invited by muti DAO to shoot an aftermovie for a small festival and later live recordings of concerts. After a couple more video gigs for muti and other DAOs I was invited to become (to date) a council member of Arroz Criativo DAO by their community manager and started learning a lot about the NEAR ecosystem. I then co-founded LENS DAO, as we realized that there’s a need for footage of events, tutorials, art residencies, documentaries and alike, and after several collabs with other DAOs (Black Cat, Changa, Arroz, muti, Garden…) we would love to continue offering appealing visuals to more DAOs. Since we have only been existing for 2 months, we are only now (after a bumpy month full of Covid-cases inside and outside our team) starting to get our socials organized. For examples of our work, come visit us at our TG CHAT, where we post our latest works, earlier works, making-ofs and alike. Currently we are three council members at Arroz and three at LENS DAO.

Votes casted:
98 at Arroz and
27 at LENS DAO.

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Hi community!
My name is Klara Kopi (artistic name). I’m a multi artist (painting, 2D illustration, 3D modelling, Video, Sound Art, sculpture, bookbinding, textile art, NFTs and I’m a craftswoman), graduated in Arts, I’m also a singer, a metalsmith, an Interviewer/metaverse designer/council for the Metaverse DAO. I recently was invited to be in the council of Ina DAO (10 days ago) and I’m also a member of the council creating the LP DAO (new DAO, not active yet).I’m studying the crypto space since the beginning of 2021 and I’ve joined this community in Dec 2021.
I already did the KYC to receive the funding (last month).

Votes on Astro: Metaverse DAO (joined council on April: 108 votes), Ina DAO (joined council on May 31st: 2 votes).
Wallet: klarakopi.near

My links:

Highlights:

  • Been doing the Meta Interviews with Klara Kopi project (I’ve created it in March, it’s on the 4th month now. I interview, edit, color correct, post and mint the interviews), having interviewed until now 9 very active members from NEAR community that have a project related to the metaverse: @chloe (marmaj Foundation), @GeminiRising (Ina DAO), @tabear (mutiDAO), @GeminiRising (Ina DAO), @tabear (mutiDAO), @clarian (Tamago, Tama Island DAO), @vandal (VanDAO, DAO Records), @electrobro (djDAO, Sine Wave Surfers), @decentricity (creator of Reality Chain), @zeitwarp (NEAR exclusive cryptoartist) and @microchipgnu (creator of 3XR Spaces). 10 videos recorded, 10 NFTs from them created, 1 3XR gallery created for the first 7 NFTs.
  • For the classes I’ve been editing
  • The Meta Campfire was idealized by @becopro and I created the space, wearables and video promotion for it. During the event I was the hostess. 7 writers created stories and more than 250 people attented.
  • Produced our last 2 magazine parties, also did the decoration and decorated it.
  • I’m creating a new website for the Metaverse DAO (at no cost).
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Natasha Cremonese

Wallet Near:

natashacremoneseeartista.near

Twitter:

https://mobile.twitter.com/

natashacremone

Instagram:

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Telegram:

@NatashaCremonese

Daos:

(Council) Children Of the Dao _ 6 votes

(Council)

Orthopedics Dao _ 42 votes

(Council) Feminu Dao _ 51 votes

(Member) Gambiarra Dao _123 votes

Highlights:

21 hours of reading on the Forum

6.2 thousand posts read

490 posts created

I created the first DAO created that contains an internal regiment, with policies of good coexistence, combined with the commitment of our work.

With the help of Council Carlos, it was possible for this regiment to be written with quality. Not to mention the excellent bounty projects with over 1k views. Awards for Artists.

10% of the entire amount received by creatives we donate, to a realiza.near wallet, which every 3 months we will carry out a social action.

Well Done Projects:

Expokids Gambiarra / Project that raised funds for a Brazilian public school, work carried out by me and Carlos

Arts Class Free Software Gambiarra Dao _ more than 7 participants / 2 video classes available on Gambiarra’s YouTube _ accesses available / more than 30 NFTs

Creation of more than 60 Expofeminu certificates (at no cost to the platform; routing being performed)

Presentation and interview with the director of the film Corpo Mudo Marcela Schild / Video available on Feminu’s YouTube. More than 10 views

Feminu Dao bounties that had more than 20 participants

Two Workshops for parents and educators with the theme and reading of the book Dialogues with Reggio Emilia by Carla Rinaldi, available on Children Of the Dao’s YouTube

Free posts and management of Children Of the Dao Instagram at no cost, for us to keep on the networks even without a Dao marketing fund to invest in the media

Help with onboarding on my behalf of more than 4 people.

jardelkings.near
marcelaschild.near
escouto.near
janaluz.near
tretateatro.near

More than 30 NFTs in different stores.

I received a scholarship from Cudo Dao where I painted 10 illustrations that associate 5 animals and 5 plants of the Brazilian fauna with the mental disorder aspect that I have (ADHD)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CYkYpLWrXBB/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Invitation to illustrate 3 nfts for RaizVertical

Donation of percentage of works in assemblies made for Afrikaburn

I participated in a twitter space with more than 30 people talking about Near blockchain

Other proposals sucess full for comunity near:

[PROPOSTA] Gambiarra-dao Art Week 2022 - Homenagem aos 100 anos da Semana Brasileira de Arte Moderna de 1922 ( 02/2022)

Successful Months of Social Media Management Links :

In addition to all this; I am a Visual Arts teacher, I am studying postgraduate studies in Afro-Brazilian and indigenous history and culture, I am a Cultural Producer, I have a municipal award in the Aldir Blanc Law for my cultural trajectory, I am a social educator, I have worked in the area of ​​social projects for over 4 years old, I currently manage the marketing and advertising of a Brazilian Organic Fertilizer company and I also teach Visual Arts for 6-year-olds. I am also a painter, visionary artist, I opened the International Biennial of Visionary Art which I am currently representing at the Forró da Lua Cheia Festival in Altinópolis/SP.

Well, I’ve been working for over 4 years in the management of a women’s collective that organizes itself to combat violence against women.

I’m Brazilian, I grew up in the periphery, I studied in public school, I don’t speak English well, I’m learning.

But what I never lack is the will to work and to be able to help.

This is a little to know more enter the site.

www.natashacremonese.com.br

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Hi everyone.

Here’s an intro to me :slight_smile:

From the UK, living in Lisbon. First welcomed into the NEAR community at NEARCON 2021 through a collab with Arroz. Bringing the widely non crypto native open-air cinema audience here an on-ramp into the digital and NEAR world.

My links:

  • Telegram: @dan802

  • Twitter: None personal. This is Black Cat Cinema’s Twitter: @blackcatcinema1

  • My Facebook as well, for good measure

  • Instagram: Again, none personal, but here is Black Cat’s, and you can find a few bits about me in there :slight_smile: @theblackcatcinema

  • LinkedIn

  • Wallet: dan802.near

  • Votes casted: 15

  • Co-founder Black Cat Cinema DAO. Vision is to bring the best of the digital to the best of the physical. Live events, real interactions, facilitated by web3 tech and community.

Very glad to be here! Much love. :hearts:

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Ever hardworking Magnifico! Keep up the great work building the Near community Fam. :muscle:t5::muscle:t5:

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Golden Blue DAO presentation

Golden Blue DAO was founded by Zarya Austin-Fell, Mette Slot Johnsen and Tolga Arslan.

Tolga Arslan has made a presentation elsewhere in connection with the Jazz DAO and Zarya Austion-Fell will follow suit in response to this.

I’m Mette Slot Johnsen, I’m originally from Denmark, but have lived my whole adult life in the UK In Edinburgh and London. For the past two years I’ve lived in Lisbon, in Portugal.
I’m not a very visible person on social media, the more platforms the less connected I feel, so my work and research is focused more in person interactions first and digital after.

Ironically perhaps, I studied Media & Cultural Studies in Edinburgh, with a focus on popular music and cultural studies/ sociology. I wrote my dissertation on public funding of non-classical music in Denmark.

I have worked in culture settings my whole adult life, whether in museums, cinemas, music venues and big concert halls, music for health orientated organisations etc.
With my background in media & cultural studies, I am interested in maintaining a bigger picture view as I moved into working with Live music.
This has made me work for a lot of big and small non-profit music organisations in London, exploring PR, fundraising, artist liaison, programming, producing and in between a lot of general admin work. In addition I have worked - and still do - extensively with independent live booking agencies and aspects of music festival production.
I spent the pandemic investigating better collaborative practices in cultural production and studying cultural commons as part of EU funded research projects and a summer course at the Central European University.

I was a newcomer to all things web3/ crypto/ blockchain until a year ago.
I was introduced to NEAR and NFTs etc as a resident at Arroz Studios in Lisbon, and was part of the collective effort to produce the 1st physical version of Rare Effects, I subsequently joined the Arroz Criativo DAO.
I have an interest in commons as a new economic system and as such collectives/ co-ops etc have a natural attraction to me. This is where my interest lies with Web3 and it’s possibilities of financial independence and disconnection from established systems of ownership and funding.

Our highlight is of course Isodea Festival. With Golden Blue DAO and the funding from NEAR we were able to make Isodea Festival - which was founded in August 2021 by Zarya Ausin-Fell and myself - a much more ambitious project from which we will continue to work to put a spotlight on artists and areas not very well represented in live music.
We are aware that our direct contribution is a very small one at the moment, but the indirect one of inviting 26 artists and 10 or so crew to be part of creating the festival funded by NEAR, adding to that the social media posts, press and physical audience of around 150… We think that’s palpable and will start conversations.
Organic, off line conversations in existing scenes and environments will slowly generate a long lasting investment of time and effort into the ecosystem I think, but also to take the ecosystem offline and take into the world as a new ubiquitous technology and funding and co-creating methodology.
We will ramp up our activities across Telegram and social media in addition to starting more in person conversations about future projects.

Votes cast:
Arroz : Approx 52 (not visible anymore)
GoldenBlue: 23

NEAR wallet: mette.near

Instagram: /goldenbluepromotions
/IsodeaFestival

Facebook: /goldenbluepromotions
/IsodeaFestival

DAO address: https://app.astrodao.com/dao/goldenblue.sputnik-dao.near

Telegram: Telegram: Join Group Chat

Twitter: MetteSmette

Website: www.byraev.net

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Hello, Creatives!

Communication has always been part of my professional path, either as a reporter, in Brazil, United States and Portugal, or as a consultant for musicians, artists, writers and theater companies. As Community Manager and Council Member of Arroz Estúdios, I am happy to apply what I have learned in my 20-year journalistic career.

I have a degree in journalism from the Federal University of Pernambuco, with a focus on the international coverage of technology and culture news. I studied branding, social networks and digital media, with researchers such as professor Ramón Salaverría, from the University of Navarra (Spain).

In Portugal, I worked for the Notícias Ao Minuto website, and was the PR manager at Fábrica Braço de Prata, in Marvila. After studying publishing at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, I also devote some time to help Brazilian women to publish their first books.

Near Wallet: raquellima.near
Twitter + LinkedIn
DAO: @arroz-criativo
Twitter + Telegram
(Council member and community manager)
Votes casted: 86

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GM Creatives fam!

I’m Prthiv Ratnam; from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. My friends call me Pip! :slight_smile:
I produce music and perform under the alias Netunoblu and have been working in the Malaysian music industry as a freelance audio engineer and event organizer since 2016. I am a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and DJ with a deep appreciation of any form of art or creativity. I am also a self-learning multimedia artist and have recently minted some of my 2D art via my paras!

In late 2020 I began interacting with @vandal and DAORecords via their pop-up events in Cryptovoxels and that was the doorway to my journey into crytpo-based creative ecosystems; eventually finding the NEAR Protocol and this wonderful community!

I am a part of the #dj-dao council, alongside @TRosario and @glazedbaguette.near I was also recently added onto the #kil-dao council and am looking forward to contributing on that front.

Wallet: netuno.near
Twitter: netunoblu (@netunoblu) / Twitter
Instagram: @netunoblu • Instagram photos and videos
Youtube: Netunoblu - YouTube
Twitch: Netunoblu - Twitch
Spotify: Spotify – Netunoblu
Telegram: @netunoblu
Total votes casted: 7 (not including votes from dj-dao (sputnik.fund))

Feel free to check out some of the cool projects DJ DAO ran last month, here. Also come join the fun via our socials.
We look forward to seeing you at the next show, on the 30th of June!

Have a great week ahead everyone <3

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Thank you Fam, it’s been a beautiful ride

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Creation of sustainable interoperable systems, that free humans to do things they love doing

We all have to do things for money that we don’t like. My goal in life is to reduce time spent on doing the unnecessaries, by creating systems that

  • Connect clients and service providers, so you don’t have to keep looking for work
  • are community owned and have ethical incentive structures
  • Allow for automated work flow and revenue creation
  • Buy you your time back

My name is Sahil Massey

In the past 17 years I’ve worked in various capacities with multiple MNCs and startups in marketing, sales, growth hacking and customer service and senior management.

I was always interested in automated workflows and business models that buy me my time back and generate value for buyers and sellers. So I started my entrepreneurial journey in 2018.

I’ve been learning and spending time on creation of self sustainable models and building ecosystems which have a lasting impact and generate passive streams of income, so that the creatives can focus on creativity.

It’s my dream and mission to build sustainable and meaningful DAOs for NEAR ecosystem that provide value too the entire community and outside in life as well.

Near wallet - sahilmassey.near
Telegram - @realmassey
Instagram - sahil.Massey
Total votes casted - 51
Highlights -

Life before NEAR

From 2015 to 2018 worked for a Radio station Radio One as a Talk show host and a show producer.
Worked very closely with business development team to create themes and content calendar that generate revenue for our station.

Created an artist management company providing entertainment solutions to the biggest venues and 5 star hotels in Pune and Mumbai, India, working with over 30 artist over a span of 2 years.

Created a decentrallised video production house in 2018 where our team was working out of various cites and successfully created

  • India’s first E-learning module for children to learn Indian classical music for Furtados - India’s biggest music instrument brand
  • All India Rock contest for children under 10th grade.
    -Brand videos for Battery - energy drink
  • Brand video for Panasonic’s 10 year anniversary in India.

Voice ver artist with over 3k brands voiced in 7 years
Yoga Teacher since 2020

Life in NEAR

  • Started producing content for Spiritual DAO as podcaster
  • Joined as a council the next month
  • Organised an experiment onboarding event in GOA onboarding 60 people in an evening. Educating them how to use near wallet and making users buy food and beverages using near wallet
  • Changed the structure of Spiritual and Creating passive income streams for the DAO
  • Joined Creatives DAO as a council

Thanks!

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Hello, I am w4r.

Design graduated in 2017 and freelancing ever since with different objectives in the design field.

before joining NEAR blockhain, i used to mainly work for theaters and plays, creating the visual ID, social media and even helping with the preparation of the spetacle (getting sponsors, spreading posters and even being part as an actor)

Introduced in the near blockchain by beetlejuice, and scammed in my first contribution to the DAO by the infamous john x.

Since them, I’ve beeing the editor of the podcasts and guided meditations.

Working for the NEAR community is being a very enrichness experience to learn more about myself and the spirit while working.

instagram:
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linkedin:
https://br.linkedin.com/in/ian-guerra-627147115?trk=people-guest_people_search-card

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Hi all,

Here’s a quick intro. I’m from Italy/USA, live in Portugal and joined the NEAR community at the beginning of this year. I have been a part of the Black Cat Cinema since August 2021.

-Telegram: @mayamorittu
-IG: maya_kea
-Wallet: mayamorittu.near
-Votes casted: 8
-Council member [Black Cat Cinema DAO] (https://app.astrodao.com/dao/black-cat-cinema.sputnik-dao.near).

Happy to be here!

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Hello Timi, do you have any socials? Personal Achievements to share?

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Hi Creatives, I am a photographer with over 26 years dedicated to communication. I studied social communication and my photographs are in many image banks, being used by national and international media. Today I’m part of the communication team at Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall. I have been married for 22 years and have two daughters.

I have always been very interested in technology and the internet, and got to know the NFT universe in early 2021. In mid October 2021 I met the Mintbase platform and NEAR, today there are already more than 100 minted NFTs.

I am one of the founding members of Gambiarra DAO and also Octopode DAO.

I really like art, artists, and I really admire the creativity of human beings, I like to interact, create, and build relationships. There were many events and achievements in the last 6 months of work here in the NEAR network. All actions have always been done in partnerships with other members.

Highlights:

The first action was the MintbaseSunday, held on 12/26/2021, now in June 2022 we reach the 7th edition.

Art Week 2022 - Homage to the 100 years of the Brazilian Week of Modern Art of 1922 (February 2022)
https://gov.near.org/t/proposal-gambiarra-dao-art-week-2022-homage-to-the-100-years-of-the-brazilian-week-of-modern-art-of-1922-02-2022/

In march 2022 I realized in a voluntary way in partnership with @Isa_Danoninho a celebration in honor of the Women’s Month at the NEAR METAVERSE CONNECTION CENTER at Cryptovoxels in Metaverse the “4 Women Exhibition” and the “My body dialogues exhibition”.

World Art Day Exhibition (April 2022)
A virtual exhibition from April 11 to May 15, 2022.

[BOUNTY] We are looking for 12 Octopuses! Draw, collage or paint (April 2022)

Eight Exhibition for Octopode DAO (April 2022)

In April 2022, on a voluntary basis with @Ghini collaboration on exhibit design and set-up, I held the Indigenous Peoples’ Day Exhibition in the Gambiarra building at Cryptovoxels in the Metaverse.

World Internet Day Exhibition (May 2022)
A virtual exhibition from May 17 to June 14, 2022.

2nd Edition Eight Exhibition (May 2022)

Brazilian Music at NEAR (May 2022)

Green Exhibition (June 2022)
A virtual exhibition in June 2022.

3rd Edition Eight Exhibition (June 2022)

Brazilian Music at NEAR 2nd ED (June 2022)

I am also part of the marketing team of Gambiarra DAO, Octopode DAO and FEMINU DAO, together we unite to do the best work always.

My links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alemacieira
Telegram: @alexandremacieira
Instagram: @alexandremacieira
Wallet: macieira.near
http://alexandremacieira.com.br | @alexandremacieira | Linktree

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Hello guys! All good? :upside_down_face:

I’m from Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil. I express myself mainly as an actor and playwright. I graduated in Art Education - Performing Arts and attended the dramaturgy nucleus of the Escola Livre de Teatro (ELT/Santo André). I flirt with audiovisual, poetry, visual arts and literature. I have already participated in several initiatives, in the mentioned artistic and literary languages.

Since 2009 I have been a member of Associação Teatral Notívagos Burlescos, created in 2002. The Association was founded with the aim of studying scenic languages ​​and alternative theater proposals for the city of Botucatu. He has more than 20 years of experience and continues to seek to promote and spread the arts of the scene in the interior of São Paulo. And in it I remain in the struggle for these goals.

I joined the NEAR ecosystem in April 2022, having been brought here by @bagadefente, since then I’ve been trying to better understand the dynamics of web3 and this ecosystem. So far I’ve participated in some rewards and approved a proposal at the Writers’ Guild, which concludes in May 2022, which I managed to bring to be made onboard by @eliaspintanel, who also contributed to the proposal.

I am currently working in partnership with @eliaspintanel on their proposal.

Below I’m linking my participations so far:

My proposal completed

Proposal that I am currently participating in.

I intend to contribute to the development of theatrical language and communities in general within the NEAR ecosystem.

My links:
Telegram: @johnnyfaustino
Instagram: @johnny.faustino
Wallet: johnfaus.near

Thank you very much and it’s a pleasure to meet you all! :pray:

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Hello, creatives!

It was a nice and inspiring experience to read and get to know a little more about Near Creatives ecosystem members. that said, let me introduce myself — but, before, a disclaimer paraphrasing I don’t really know who: "I didn’t have time to write a short presentation, so it’s going to be a long one."

MINI-BIO
I’m @bagadefente, poet, publisher and artist-etc. from Brazil, living in Botucatu/SP.

I’ve studied Film and Video (2004-2006) and got a Visual Arts degree last year, but I consider myself a self-taught experimental artist who works with several media, languages and supports, all of them connected through the Poetics of Chance — the conscious use of randomness and the unexpected on creative process; more than a theory or group of techniques, to me this is a statement, an approach on art-making. On a thematic level, I explore the boundaries between memory and fiction, mixing reflections over human relationships, politics and the occulture to create my autofictional experimental pieces.

I’m also a cultural producer, with experiences with audiovisual, literature and creative writing events, specially a film club (Oficine-se) and a poetry gathering (Sarau Akangatu) I held from 2018 to 2020. With the pandemic, the second became online and, two years later, at the end of this month we’re gonna have our presential return to celebrate one year of the release of my first book of poems, later minted as NFT.

As an visual artist, I had my video poems exhibited in more than 10 countries over the last years, but, besides my Cinema and Visual Arts studies, my main passion is Literature, specially poetry, and that’s why, even without planning or even knowing that at a first moment, I became a bookmaker and, later on, an indie publisher. So, nowadays I’m more dedicated to independent publications through NADA∴Studio Criativo, a hybrid of a multimedia creation studio (created by myself in 2007) and indie micro-publisher house (with my first handcrafted book in 2015, but “officially” since 2020, when it stopped being a “one man studio” with the arrival of @aandz).

I started in the cryptoworld and NFTs through Tezos chain in March, 2021, got a little away from the art part for personal reasons, but keep studying blockchain and cryptos until come back on January, 2022 on the first wave of Gambiarra, then just a store on Mintbase. In March I made part of the foundation of the Writer’s Guild, in which I’m since then an active council member.

I’m also close and had collaborated with NomadeLabel, but at this moment my main interest is to help build and discover new ways for writers to create, publish and monetize our works using the actual and future web3 tools, that’s why I’m dedicating all I’m able to make the Writer’s Guild DAO and community stronger.

I’ve been thinking in create a NADA∴Studio Criativo DAO, focused on phygital publishing and literary events, but I don’t really have time to dedicated to this ATM, so I’m studying, talking and learning more about this, and that’s why this discussion is very relevant to me.

On a personal level, I’m a father of two growing-up boys, my astrological main set is Capricorn, Cancer and Aquarius and in my (rare) spare I like to take care of my garden and plants.

HIGHLIGHTS

LINKS

WRITER’s GUILD

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Hey, olá, hi.
My introduction to you all here!

Im Tim, council for @BlackCatCinema DAO. Into crypto since early 2017, and onboarded into Near in March 22.
Web designer and proud father of a beautiful Staffordshire terrier.

Votes cast: 4

Wallet: timjohnstone.near

My links:
Telegram: @TeeJay5446
Instagram & Twitter: No personal accounts, but here’s my band Slow Mojo. I’m the one on guitar in the questionable shirt….
Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowmojoband?s=11&t=t8GoIhNRCM4Cik_lyB6W2A

Instagram: Login • Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9G0jb3nDo6/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Black Cat insta: Login • Instagram

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-johnstone/

After asking about it the other day (not having personal accounts for some stuff) I hope that’s enough :slight_smile:

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