From Importing Tiles to Creating Art Blocks: This is Erick Calderon

<p><a href='https://adamlevy.io/mint-season-6/'>Mint Season 6</a> episode 6 welcomes Erick Calderon, founder and CEO of Artblocks. In this episode we talk about his transition from importing tiles for 19 years to starting art blocks, putting together the platform’s curation board, his favorite NFTs, how he utilizes on-chain data, NFTs on Tezos, music NFTs and more.<br/><br/>I had some microphone issues with the software i use to record, so apologies for the airpods like quality on this episode.</p><p><br/></p><p>I hope you enjoy our conversation. </p><p><br/></p><p>Time Stamps</p><p><br/></p><ul><li>02:27 - Intro</li><li>13:17 - Learning How to Code and Starting Art Blocks</li><li>17:25 - Reflecting On Your Journey</li><li>21:17 - Actions That Made Art Blocks The Brand it is Today</li><li>33:57 - Creating the Curation Board</li><li>40:46 - How Often Will the Curation Board Be Changed?</li><li>44:10 - Understanding Your Creators and Collectors Using On-Chain Data</li><li>46:58 - What is Your Favorite Curated Collection?</li><li>48:15 - How Do You Feel About NFT Flippers?</li><li>51:15 - Thoughts on FXhash and Tezos NFTs</li><li>54:27 - How Important is Having NFTs Fully On-Chain?</li><li>57:38 - How Do You Feel About Auto-Generated Music?</li><li>59:39 - Outro</li></ul><p><br/><br/><br/></p><p>Additional Resources</p><p><br/></p><ul><li><a href='https://adamlevy.io/2022/08/25/from-importing-tiles-to-creating-art-blocks-this-is-erick-calderon/'>Episode Timestamps and Transcripts</a></li><li><a href='https://twitter.com/ArtOnBlockchain'>Erick’s Twitter</a></li><li><a href='https://www.artblocks.io/'>Art Blocks Website</a></li></ul><p><br/></p><p>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br/></p><p>Claim Season 6 NFT</p><p><a href='https://adamlevy.io/nft/'>https://adamlevy.io/nft/</a></p><p><br/></p><p>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br/></p><p>Support Season 6&apos;s NFT Sponsors</p><p><br/></p><p>🌿 Claim Lens Profile</p><p>