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This week on TezTalks Radio, we sit down with George Goodwin, better known as OMGiDRAWEDit, one of the most recognizable artists in the Tezos ecosystem.

If you’ve spent time in Tezos art, you’ve likely seen his work — bold colors, strange characters, chaotic scenes that somehow hold together the longer you look.

But this conversation goes deeper than style.

🎙️ It starts before Tezzardz, before Tezos — back when George was still trying to figure out what kind of artist he wanted to be, and what was missing from his work.

🔍 In this episode, we explore:

• The shift from darker, monochrome work to vibrant, character-driven worlds
• What it really means to “find your voice” as an artist
• Why NFTs felt different from the start — and why they mattered
• How Tezos became more than a platform and started to feel like home
• What stayed true through every phase of the Tezos art scene
• The real story behind Tezzardz and what it was responding to
• How success changed George’s perspective as an artist
• Why projects like Bedroom Nostalgia and Disordurance reveal a deeper side of his work
• The tension between being an artist and becoming a content creator
• What it takes to keep going when attention fades

At its core, this is a conversation about something most artists wrestle with quietly:
how to grow without losing the thing that made your work yours in the first place.

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This week on TezTalks Radio, host Brandon Langston sits down with Ryan Tanaka, a longtime builder in the Tezos art ecosystem behind projects like TEIA, teia.cafe, and Tezcon.

The conversation starts with a moment many remember, when Hic et Nunc shut down. For some, that was the end. For others, including Ryan, it became the reason to rebuild.

🎙️ This episode explores what it actually takes to keep a creative ecosystem alive when the platform disappears.

🔍 In this episode, we explore:

• Why Ryan chose to rebuild after Hic et Nunc instead of moving on
• How fragmentation across tools like teia.cafe created real friction for users
• Why music and on-chain media remain under-discovered on Tezos
• What it’s like to build and ship features inside a DAO
• Why simple ideas like wallet-to-wallet messaging are harder than they seem
• What’s still missing for artists in the space today
• How builders stay motivated through quieter market cycles
• Whether decentralized platforms can avoid the same patterns as Web2
• Why the Tezos art community has endured while others faded

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This week on TezTalks Radio, host Brandon Langston is joined by Chris Pinnock, Chief Baker at the Tezos Foundation.

Baking is often described simply, but in practice it sits at the center of everything: consensus, signing, security, coordination, and infrastructure.

🔍 In this episode, we explore:

• What a Chief Baker actually does beyond the title
• Where pressure shows up first in the baking layer
• The kinds of risks and failure modes that matter most
• What separates a smooth week from a difficult one
• How BLS signature aggregation works in practice
• What changed when BLS moved from theory to live infrastructure
• How the Tezos Foundation structures and operates multiple bakeries
• The trade-offs between simplicity and resilience
• Real moments where the system was under pressure and what was learned
• How incident response works when speed and caution both matter
• The biggest shifts in baking over the past few years
• What challenges lie ahead as Tezos continues to scale