ZEROPOD #17 - "Pushing The Envelope" with Artist and Designer Vinnie Hager!

ZEROPOD (The Zero Rights Reserved Podcast): A CC0 Video Podcast About Enjoying Ethereum

On Episode 17 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk hosts artist, designer and talented doodler extraordinaire Vinnie Hager. We talk about his early art beginnings making small custom pieces for his friends back in high school, and follow his trajectory all the way through to becoming one of the most iconic and versatile physical & digital artists in our space.

This was a really great conversation and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Please Rate our Podcast 5 stars if you like the content we are producing, it helps a lot!

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Art on clothing

01:55 - ZEROPOD intro

02:51 - The Vinnie Hager origin story

04:24 - Diary: https://opensea.io/collection/diary-by-vinnie-hager/overview

06:00 - “Keep everything.”

07:02 - How do you decide what to release?

07:50 - Early style influences

09:50 - High School Hustler

11:09 - NFT journey

13:18 - The Letters Collection

16:32 - Physical vs Digital Illustration

17:50 - How does he plan his doodle pieces?

18:32 - Where do the symbols come from?

19:27 - Drawing on clothing

21:20 - Parallels to CC0 art

22:20 - Toady’s Vinnie Physical

24:04 - Simplicity as a creative cue

25:45 - Clon and the Cool Cats

27:30 - The friends we make along the way

28:46 - Being and artist through crypto cycles

31:44 - Favorite piece from your collections?

35:00 - Vinnie on Nouns

37:00 - DNounScouted?

40:00 - What’s next for Vinnie?

43:00 - Advice for aspiring artists.

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Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Music by SuperTightWoody.

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