100 PROOF Live: Peter Saville, Stephen Morris, and the Joy Division Archive

October 18, 2023·1 hr 8 min·5 clips

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The room starts with disclaimers and GM energy. Kevin and Derek set it up as 100 PROOF Live, a Friday-morning NFT hangout that expects the audience to get the bear-market jokes. Sam checks in from Colorado. Bad weather has blocked his flight, so the panel works the travel snag into the rhythm and gets back to collector talk. The conversation sharpens around discovery. One speaker says on-chain information, better display, and cleaner parsing could help collectors use the data that already exists. Then Rafiq enters the thread. The host remembers visiting Rafiq's Frogtown studio in LA: robots doing pen work, large displays, and early AI experiments. The praise feels personal before it feels promotional. Rafiq gets compared to Snowfro as the kind of artist people want to root for, which lands as insider shorthand. A member meetup starts to take shape. The host says Rafiq seemed open to a Proof or Moonbirds gathering where members could visit the studio and get a personal walkthrough. Food becomes part of the pitch. Nearby East Side restaurants turn the idea from a studio stop into a community hang, with the panel joking about who gets in. Ownership still counts. When someone asks about Moonbirds, the answer is multiple Moonbirds, and that is enough for the imaginary door. The conversation widens to museums. One host mentions crypto punks in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, plus people sales in China, as evidence that institutions are paying more attention to NFTs. The close returns to collecting. A speaker calls the work stellar, weighs a mint with prints priced at $100, and the panel wraps with Friday timing, hat giveaways, and thanks for Sam's stats.

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A loose live NFT-room conversation where Joy Division's archive brushes against museums, collector culture, and art-world validation.

Vaulted by PROOF sets Peter Saville, Stephen Morris, and the Joy Division Archive inside a chatty 100 Proof Live room, where art, NFTs, and collector access keep crossing wires.

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For a front-row seat on NFT banter, museum talk, and live guest energy.

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