Death to Tennis - Onboarding Artists to DCL through Phygital events
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Step into the vibrant world of NYC. Catch 22: Street Culture Pop-Up, a live and dynamic event streaming directly from the bustling streets of NYC. Hosted by the charismatic DTT/DJ 22, bimonthly extravaganza celebrates the fusion of fashion, music, art, poetry, and dance, all in the immersive virtual realm of DCL (Decentraland) and live from the streets of NYC Catch us if you can. Contextual Studies, led by the creators of Death to Tennis, Dr. Death and Ebi Noir, take us on a captivating journey through the realms of fashion, art, jazz, blues, soul, hip hop, dance, architecture, and beyond, with special guest artists sharing their creative work and processes. Copacabana Nights transports us to the cultural heart of Brazil, bringing steamy nights filled with art, music, and fashion. Collaborating with talented Brazilian artists like Dada Yute, F*ck Boys, Kadu, and more, each month unfolds a new wave of artistic expression, sounds, and culture to be savored and cherished. “We are Death to Tennis - This is how we do fashion. Life is a racket - Death to Tennis, the subtle art of serving back.” We started the brand in 2012, as a multicultural brand navigating our way through the first 7 years, wholesaling the clothing brand to Japan, Korea, England, and the US. During this time, we had the opportunity to have our clothing worn by everyone from Justin Bieber to Lewis Hamilton. After the events of 2020, we had to refocus our brand and move away from wholesale, finding a small NYC-based retail space. Since entering the metaverse, we have developed wearables, hosted a Director film series, organized Phygital events with True band room on numerous occasions, along with Whisher vodka parties, and most recently, a 3-day Artist spotlight weekend. None of these achievements would have been possible without our partner Marcu, a Brazilian filmmaker, creator, and musician, who has dedicated countless hours to working on DCL (Decentraland), creating the first buildings of the Decentraland Brasil community. He has also worked extensively with the Tru band room, performing his music in his band The F*uk Boys. In the first year of the entertainment category for music at Cannes Lions 2019, he was nominated for his short film "112/111".
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Agree with idea but too much $. Instead of getting funds from DCL, why do they sell NFTs and get funded that way?
Death to Tennis - Onboarding Artists to DCL through Phygital events This proposal is now in status: REJECTED. Voting Results: * Yes 1% 249 VP (10 votes) * No 98% 8,087,861 VP (81 votes) * Abstain 1% 10,295 VP (5 votes)
Hi @crazylagg1 we still friends, have respect for you. But the problem is that is not the theme of the DAO grant, the buildings of Decentraland Brazil!, i dont see this help that you talk about Atrovenado, what you call help in the beginning i, call work, work without payment is Slavery , i already in the space ONE YEAR BEFORE HIM and SEVERAL WORKS OF CGI so is a LIE that he pay me to learn about Decentraland, and the difamation try that he make here, because dont want to see other Brazilians grow in the space,major part of the votes here NO, is definitily for his campaign agains us, for nothing!I have prove of his behavior game, and this is terrible wrong!Specially with Employees And is not me, have a lot of Brazilians complaining about Atrovenado actions, he just want to have control about every brazilian that enter in the space for control and manipulation! People that dont acecpet his behavior, he try to cut,! I made the Decentraland verification without knowing that im making the verification, and he use me for this, he dont teach me nothing and he pay for my work,this is not help and SEVEREAL ANTI PROFFISIONALISM about our work relationship!And i can prove everything, somethings really really BAD!! He have to decided if he pays me to learn?or he pay for the building?and the codes?and the test of decentraland studios? And you can build from scratch to optimize, but the designs of the buildings of the podcast building is MINE!and Decentraland Brasil use till this day! And please i dont want to Decentraland Brasil use NONE of my Designs, after so many disrespect and throw our project in the gargabe!Is SAD that brazilian entrance in Decentraland is slowed down by Atrovenado, and the work that he does for monoply , have Several damages for Decentraland.
Well, I didn't want to comment on anything about this, but due to mofl13's responses, I'll have to provide my explanation regarding the matter. Personally, I have nothing against mofl13 and still consider him a friend, if he also believes that I am still his friend and colleague, as we were in the past. Yes, I REBUILT the TWO LANDS of mofl13 that had been created by him. The project he had created at the time unfortunately didn't have space to add almost anything, such as: a poap machine, NFT paintings, and wearables for exhibition on the land. Based on the Decentraland rules for those who had 1 Land. Therefore, after the departure of molf13, I took the liberty of creating an identical copy of the original. I didn't do a "Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V" on the project, but rather I created a model from SCRATCH, based on the previous model. I reiterate that I REBUILT the projects made by him. For those who are SDK developers of Decentraland, it's known that for those who have only 1 single Land, we have a maximum of 10,000 construction polygons, 10 textures, 20 materials, 200 entities, 200 meshes, and 300 bodies. Additionally, a project has a maximum size of 15 MB. To my knowledge, these are rules that shouldn't be exceeded to avoid problems with the Lands. The two lands you mentioned were within these limits, not allowing us to add more 3D models, textures, or materials. Atrovenado never tried to deceive us, as I'm still working with him today. Both you and I know how much Atrovenado helped us when we started working with him. When I joined DCLBrasil, I already had some experience in 3D modeling and with the CSharp (C#) language. Therefore, Atrovenado gave me the freedom to study about Decentraland while working with him. Furthermore, he paid me monthly while I continued to learn more about Decentraland. Both I, who gave you tips about Blender, and you, who helped me with the SDK and sometimes even learned from me how to write certain scripts in Decentraland. If there are any doubts, I have the 2 previous projects that mofl13 returned, and I also have the 2 projects that I REBUILT, showing the details of the complete changes.
Waste of money - no chance for being sustainable! Voting no
My Buildings didnt work?how u use till this day so???youre times of hidding and manipulate the community are over!!!
not even remotely true. I listed my problems with the merits in multiple posts! I support the vision I just do not think this is the best team/time/actualization.
First of all Atrovenado, you pay me for a service, not for me study SDK,this is not out porpouse! I did the verification of Decentraland Brasil without have ANY KNOWLEDGE of that, for the build that i constructed!and the SDK that i put! This event in question, of Gambiarra DAO, i put this Near protocol DAO and have to pass you directly the money,did you remember? I dont want to expose you how baddly and professional you are, but you know your service is a lie, and you promise so many things for me make ALL THESE BUILDINGS AND CODES in 3 months!like pay for me making the streamings and this NEVER happen!! We know you play a unfair game ! I purchased the name of Dcentralbrasil and try to sell you this is against the law or something? Because i dont respect any of the ANTI PROFESSINAL ways tht you work, and i dont want to expose other stuffs here, but we know is a practice of you, telling people to vote against project!like you ask me to do to  And first you pay for me to study SDK and fter you say that you pay for me make 4 buildings in 3 months?How is that possible? YOU DONT LET PEOPLE OF BRASIL DESENVOLVE YOU BLOCK PEOPLE IN THIS PLACE!BUT DONT WORRY WE GOING TO RISE AND WANT TO STOP USING MY BUILDINGS THAT I SHAPE!!!
As a community, you have collectively tried to kill this proposal, not on its merits, but because of your issues with Marcus, our developer. If this were truly a community, you and your team could have contacted us to discuss this, and we could have removed the offending line. However, you chose to all vote a collective "No." This is why it is a SAD day for DCL because your community dispite our genaroisty chose this path.
Grantee in question: "We partnered with mofl13, a Metaverse-savvy creator since 2021, who helped build Decentraland Brasil" DCL Brasil: "He didnt really help, his builds didnt work and in fact tried to extort us from money" Grantee in question: "Why are you bullying us with your childish orchestrated attempts to kill our proposal" Saying its a sad day for DCL after a response like this is surprising and shows complaints from the community fall on deaf ears.
Thank you for the information. Clearly, there are communication issues here. Marcus clearly helped you in the beginning, even if you have now updated your build; that fact remains true. We did not say we built DCL Brazil; we said Marcus helped you in the beginning. The fact that you would direct all of DCL Brazil to vote NO because we mentioned this shows me a great deal. I am very disappointed in your orchestrated attempts to kill our proposal, and it's a sad day for DCL and myself to have to react to this very childish onslaught by your team. We, as a brand, have been contributing to DCL for over a year now. This proposal was designed to help us keep moving this forward. We may have to rethink this moving forward. I wish you well in the future, friend!
I would like to clarify that the Decentraland Brasil community and its team have no knowledge or involvement in this project/proposal in question. The Decentraland Brasil community is a social project created by the couple (Atrovenado & Atrovenada) who have invested time and money, and the project was subsidized by the founder for over a year. "In order to support the development and growth of the platform around June 2022, I gave the opportunity to 'mof13' to study the Decentraland SDK system, providing a monthly salary for him to study and assist in event broadcasts. His involvement was never voluntary or free; he was paid monthly for this relationship. It lasted only 3 months (July to September) and he was disconnected for various reasons, with a 30-day notice given for the disconnection. As an apprentice, he was paid and mentored by other professionals, and he built 4 different builds. However, at the time of his disconnection, he only delivered 2 builds, claiming that he deleted the others. The 2 builds he built had to be redone by crazy_laggs, as they couldn't accommodate NFTs or machines for delivering poap due to excessive polygons and noise. On Nov 15, 2022, he used the replica of Decentraland Brasil's build in another project within Decentraland without authorization or prior notice to the community. https://twitter.com/GambiarraNear/status/1592506453016838144 On November 30, 2022, he purchased the name of the community (Ethereum Name Service) decentralandbrasil.eth and attempted to sell us the name, acquired by him for the amount of: US$ 5.62, offering it to us for US$ 81.75. https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x57f1887a8bf19b14fc0df6fd9b2acc9af147ea85/79348041662310017238986916853205156022298120794638629148098845905814832817068 Therefore, I reiterate and affirm that he was not part of the construction carried out by new professionals, with the results described above.
Dont look like is made from scratch :blush:
Hi Vapor... We work With Marcus From Brazil he made the first 2 building for DCL Brazil that Decentraland Brazil use to this day. We as have been work as a brand a clothing brand in DCl for the last year bringing people and artists to DCL. My builder and partner Marcus has been in DCL for allot longer. Not sure why you would be saying this about him. Anyway thank you for your vote
Uhh actually our current dev had to remake both of them from scratch because of poor optimization.
@Vaporizador im MOFL13, I build the first two buildings in Decentraland Brasil, and the two are used till this day
> [...] who helped build Decentraland Brasil and welcomed artists like De Leve, Bonfá, Adl, Dada Yute, Acme, and Camila Camiz. I attended your events twice, but I want to make it clear to everybody that you didn't help build Decentraland Brasil in any way. Please stop trying to use our name just for clout. I hope you'll stop misinforming people about it.
Thanks for understanding we could have worded payments better. Hope if you are in NYC that you can make one of the events see what we are all about thanks again
None of our events are bassed on selling NFT;s or promoting artist that are already in the DCL. All the artist that we will be brining and there followers will be there for the music and the culture. Onboarding will be insentavised by free gifts that our small brand will be donating. Contextual Studies is a indepth musical program that will discuss music and culture with live guests talking about there process and showing how they work. This is and will be the teachable moments you are looking for. Across the 6 Month we will be holding 36 events that will focus on DCL and onboarding. I agree the NYC NFT events had poor turn out but the cost were hugly prohibitive and again it was about NFTS. We are trying with these events to teach people that DCL exists and that its the next socail platform. Hope this helps
Ive been to several NFT events. No one cares about who is throwing the party or sponsors. NFT NYC last year attendance was horrible. It has been proven time and time again these events do not onboard people. Also there is no mention of any specifics that will get people interested in DCL. Only a 2 way stream and highlighting dcl artists correct? In what way will this onboard people into DCL? Would rather see educational classes than a 2 way streamed performance or a monthly conversation.
I see. So it's $1,667~ per person, per month x 6 months. Which makes it closer to $29/hr. Not as egregious. It's true.
All events are free with the sole purpose of onboarding people to DCL
Thank you for your quick response. 36 Phygital events over a 6 month piriod 40 hours per month work Maybe you can help us reword this so the comunity can better understand our proposal
voting no. This is just a grant to sponsor an event imo has very little to do with dcl. Do proceeds from the party go back to dcl?
I didn't bother reading the rest of it. There is very little chance the community is going to support paying you guys $150 an hour so you can pocket half the budget. 
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