BURBANK, California, Could 15, 2024 – The first-ever documentary movie from Emmy®, Annie and Clio-winning animation collective Stoopid Buddy Stoodios premieres Could 29 throughout Consensus 2024, the world’s greatest crypto occasion, and then shall be out there totally free on X starting June 1.
SHARK, PICKLE, CONE – A Nouns Documentary Premieres Could 29 at Consensus 2024
SHARK, PICKLE, CONE A Nouns Documentary, produced in affiliation with Decentral Media, is directly a chronicle of Stoopid Buddy’s inventive journey to conceive, design, and construct an enormous float for the Rose Parade and an introduction to the rising digital arts initiative referred to as Nouns, which funded the mission. It additionally explores the promise—and potential pitfalls—that blockchain applied sciences maintain for mobilizing communities and creating new financing paths, monetization, and distribution for impartial artists, filmmakers, technologists, and NGOs.
Infused with irreverent humor and informal method which might be hallmarks of Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, SHARK, PICKLE, CONE was shot in 2022 and 2023, following alongside as a workforce from Stoopid Buddy begins working with Nouns on making a float for the 134th Rose Parade in a plan to deliver Nouns to a worldwide tv viewers.
Whilst the movie spotlights the world neighborhood that has made Nouns one of the most enduring tasks to emerge from the NFT and blockchain bubble of 2021, SHARK, PICKLE, CONE additionally captures the drama and uncertainty that shook the digital finance world in November 2022 when cryptocurrency change FTX immediately and dramatically collapsed.
Prematurely of its world debut at Consensus in Austin, Texas, SHARK, PICKLE, CONE has also been minted as an NFT itself, in collaboration with Zora. It’s the first full-length documentary to be minted to the blockchain. By way of bonfire.xyz, SHARK, PICKLE, CONE will provide token-gated entry to hours of unique interviews and bonus supplies archived from the making of the movie.
“Nouns is a grand experiment, the Rose Parade was a grand experiment, and now creating this documentary continues that innovation—both through its subject and through the process by which it was made, which eschews all traditional methods of financing and distributing a film,” says producer and director Neil Berkeley (Magnificence is Embarrassing, Gilbert, Harmontown). “NFTs and the vision of Nouns demonstrate that there are exciting and different ways to bring a film to the screen. Old modes aren’t working. This is a new mode.”
SHARK, PICKLE, CONE A Nouns Documentary options interviews with the founders of Nouns and its most lively members. The movie seems to be at many of the real-world tasks which have been dropped at life with funds raised from day by day auctions of digital Nouns avatars whereas inspecting the challenges and conflicts that come up inside the DAO, or “decentralized autonomous organization,” which by design lacks conventional, centralized management hubs to information its improvement.
“There are a lot of people who have no idea what an NFT is or how a DAO works, but it’s very clear that these still-unfamiliar concepts are having enormous influence around the world,” says producer Eric Towner, additionally a co-founder of Stoopid Buddy Stoodios. “Our goal was to create a film that illuminates these ideas, while still being a fun and engrossing look at the real struggles that exist on any creative project.”
SHARK, PICKLE, CONE can also be produced by David Heiman, with Seth Inexperienced, John Harvatine IV, Matthew Senreich and Chris Waters becoming a member of Towner as government producers. It’ll premiere at 7 p.m. Central Time Could 29 as half of Consensus in Austin; on June 1, the movie shall be made out there totally free on X at @NounsDoc.
About Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
Stoopid Buddy Stoodios is an artist-friendly collective that homes some of the most interesting expertise in animation and leisure. They’ve a knack for creating distinctive visuals and telling character-driven tales with an uncanny and irreverent sensibility. The Stoodio is dwelling to the longest working stop-motion present on TV, the multi-Emmy® Award-winning Robotic Rooster, in addition to Crossing Swords on Hulu, Marvel’s M.O.D.O.Ok., Extremely Metropolis Smiths on AMC, and a number of others. Stoopid Buddy’s “Builds” division is behind the Emmy Award-winning costumes on FOX’S Masked Singer, and their “Spots” workforce has delivered commercials for purchasers starting from LEGO to Pepperidge Farms.
Current and upcoming tasks embody Disney’s first Mickey Mouse stop-motion particular, Mickey Saves Christmas; Justin Roiland’s Gloop World; Dominion X with Steve Aoki; The Guardians of the Galaxy Vacation Particular for Marvel Studios, and sequence in improvement with Nickelodeon, HBO Max, Grownup Swim, Disney, and Hulu. For extra details about Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, go to www.leagueofbuddies.com.
About Nouns
Based in 2021, Nouns is a world, community-run group that makes use of the proceeds from the sale of digital collectibles to fund open-source know-how, artwork and public-works tasks.
For extra data and a proof of Nouns and the Nouns DAO, go to https://www.nounish.com.
Contact
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