SEASON 01 — EPISODE 04

Resilience, a desire to learn, and a deep love for photo. NFT thought leader and photographer Alejandro Cartagena reveals the secrets behind his success in the NFT community and the future he is helping shape for the photographic medium at large. In part one of our conversation with Cartagena we are given an opportunity to take an in depth look at his beginnings and the initiatives he spearheads in the space.

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Alejandro Cartagena Part One

SHOW NOTES

Alejandro Cartagena soundbite [00:00:01]

Episode overview [00:00:36]

Alejandro’s background [00:01:27]

• Unseen Amsterdam

• Carpoolers

• The Factory

Making Carpoolers Version One [00:15:00]

• Fernando Gallegos

• Fellowship

• Maquette

• Carpoolers Version One

Carpoolers Version Two [00:25:52]

• Carpoolers Version Two

Carpoolers Version Three [00:27:11]

• Carpoolers Version Three

• Jasper Johns

• Walt Whitman

Alejandro’s first attempts at dropping Carpoolers & the NFT learning curve  [00:30:59]

• Foundation

• PFP’s

• Beeple

• McKenzie Wark’s My Collectible Ass

• Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize

The third attempt at dropping Carpoolers [00:44:15]

• DAOs

• Tezos, Matik, & Solana 

• Carpoolers on Foundation 

How Alejandro became a leader in the NFT space & the big picture [00:49:53]

• Obscura 

• RAW DAO

• Untitled DAO 

NFTs opportunities to expand photographic arts experimentation [00:55:48] 

• Emergency Reporting Commission 

Obscura & Lorenzo Meloni: a new way to support artists [1:00:02]

•  Lorenzo Meloni

Challenging the traditional art world [01:08:50]

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) & Obscura DAOs initiatives  [01:13:39]

• Cooper Ray 

• Alec Soth

• Todd Hido

• Deanna Templeton

• Reuben Wu 

• Magnum & Obscura 

• Alessandra Sanguinetti

• Foundry & Community Commission

• Obscura 10K Project

Addressing the criticisms of NFTs [1:25:50]

• William Eggleston at MoMA

A preview of part two [01:31:28]

Sign off [01:36:05 ]

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