ZeroPod #2b- Turn Those Frowns Upside Down - Supriyo from ”The Rise of Blus, A Nouns Movie” (Audio-Only Version for Spotify)

Zero Rights Reserved: A CC0 Podcast About Nouns, DAOs, NFTs & Ethereum

July 24 2023------Welcome to Episode 2 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Jack Wyldes interview Supriyo from Atrium and chat all about The Rise of Blus: A Nouns Movie. Learn about why he decided to transition from a career in tech to making ambitious animated films with a remote team, what drew him to build in Nouns DAO, and what it’s like to make a movie for a decentralized studio with 400+ bosses! Part 2 of the movie is in production now, and we also got some tasty alpha about what to expect.----- Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:42 - Trend of Awesome Animation and Nouns 0:44 - Nouns Short Shorts: https://zora.co/collect/eth:0xd64ce3231839fed12c0ee132d6b33b4238ff9929 1:34 - Is CC0 a double-edged sword? 4:29 - World-building in a CC0 environment 6:08 - Short clip from The Rise of Blues: A Nouns Movie 6:35 - Introducing our guest, Supriyo 6:44 - His career before Nouns 8:07 - Supriyo’s favorite movies 9:00 - Why go from tech into movie-making? 11:45 - Who are Atrium? 13:40 - Why Nouns? 16:04 - Why fund the movie in parts? 16:35 - Nouns DAO as Executive Producers, first such arrangement. 18:42 - “10 seasons and a movie” 21:30 - What is Nouns: A Movie? 22:51 - Visual aesthetic inspiration for the film 23:13 - The real life 13 y.o. Nouner 24:37 - Inspiration for the world of Blus: Cloud Punk 26:31 - Will the same team work on all the Parts? 28:50 - Is “DAOs as Patrons of the Arts” a new paradigm? 30:00 - Open IP actually empowers artists 31:06 - Behind the scenes footage 32:29 - Nouny Clock’s cameo, and other Easter Eggs 34:34 - We may see other NFT IPs included in the next Part of the Movie 35:55 - CC0 = ez world-building 37:16 - The casting call! Deadline midnight July 24: https://twitter.com/nounsmovie/status/1678483422141116417?s=20 39:10 - Who the heck are the Frouns? 41:50 - How difficult is it to write a plot with a remote team 44:44 - Response to the Pilot so far? 46:05 - 118K Views so far! 47:21 - Settling the score 50:58 - Recapping the Atrium x Nouns story so far 51:55 - What’s next? 52:50 - What’s it like to work for a decentralized org like Nouns DAO? 55:20 - It’s like “Choose your own adventure” 56:03 - Where to find out more: http://nouns.movie — Watch the full 4K version of this video podcast on The Noun Square Youtube.