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

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! --- 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. --- Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Music by SuperTightWoody. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit https://tns.wtf to learn more about us.  Watch in HD: https://youtu.be/YrzpoC-_pyM