@Crackers 9 August 2022 more from that month

Meet the artist behind Rubi NFT **I meet this artist through playing Splinterlands when I was looking for clan and little did I know he was an artist but saying that he has his fingers in a lot of pies but with his up coming PFP dropping very soon it was the perfect time to get him in to chat .**

Yo . **What's up bro?** Hey hey 😂 **How you doing today?** I'm doing good just trying to get some bills paid and stuff. How about you? **I am good just chilling out will you be working on the project today?** Yea I'm constantly going back and forth on what traits I wanna keep and changing things . Trying to commit and believe in myself because I'm very critical of my work. **That's a good thing so what brought you into crypto?** I got into crypto pretty early on around 2012 when all anyone knew about bitcoin was the silk road , everyone who I mentioned crypto to thought I was crazy. Unfortunately I lost mostly all of my crypto from back then . Then in 2016-2017 when it was getting more accessible I helped a lot of people get their first BTC / Tokens. **What made you get into NFTs?** I was big into gaming and I always loved Pokemon and cute little creatures , In 2018 I was moving tokens around and saw a Cryptokitties ad and thought they were adorable. Unfortunately from a financial perspective they weren't the best option and after I saw how much gas it was costing me to sire my kitties I left NFTs on the back burner for way too long. I didn't see the bigger picture that NFTs would become until I found WAX Blockchain. **And how did you come across wax?** I used to go to a few Philly crypto meetups which were a pretty cool underground scene . I met a bunch of people like Charles Hoskinson Cryptofinally and BOSAK before crypto was really cool . And I heard about WAX there. **Ah when did you decide to start creating?** I watched from the side-lines for a while while I was getting more into making abstract art and eventually in January 2021 I started to dive in and mint some things for fun. I got pretty hooked on NFTs and loved watching the innovation and growth . **What was the first NFT you created?**

The first NFT I created was called Physx Fold. It was a digitally edited version of one of my favourite physical paintings I have done "medicinal eye zed" . My first collector said this is amazing abstract art , no one on WAX is doing this it looks like something from Ethereum . Because at the time most WAX NFTs we're more cartoony collectibles like garbage pail kids etc. Looking back it was actually march in 2021 , I made my account in Jan but i didn't get the confidence to mint until 3/30/2021 **How did the community react to your NFT?** It was well received for the few that I reached out to. But honestly I always had trouble promoting my work.

This is the first drop when I started to figure out the whitelisting process and all that **How many have you dropped since?** I've done Around 80 templates (2000+ NFTs) on $WAX, I have also done NFTs on Tezos , BNB , ETH . **So you have an upcoming PFP tell us a bit about that?**

Yeah I do , it's called Quasi-Man , Quasi-Man is the story an oddball that aspires to greatness but often struggles with mental health and social insecurities. I rediscovered QUASi-man going through my old sketchbooks and felt really connected to the character. The first 18 Quasi Man NFTs we're all 1/1 non generative and people seemed to really like them . So I decided to take the art pull apart the layers and added more traits and work on a generative release. I've been working on writing some of the story of Quasi-Man which I can share a portion of here . There was a meteoroid that struck Theosia . Society drifted into chaos, famine and violence. It led to a war with the theosians and caused a genocide on the QUAS. 2 years later QUASi Man is the last of his people in a Quasi verse plagued by disease hated and taxes. To be continued... **Do you have the original sketch of him?**

Yes here it is **I can see the similarity's . So how many will be created?** There will be a max supply of 1111 and of those, 111 will have special abilities that allow you to stake for certain WAX tokens! **Will there be rarity's?** Yes great question there will be rarity scores based on all the traits in the metadata. **What rarity's are these?** I haven't fully defined the rarities yet so these are all mixed . Working on that today actually! **How did you create them?** I create them on my tablet with Photoshop and illustrator but I don't have an apple pencil that works, so the traits are all literally hand drawn with my finger. 😂 They are generated using The tools from the new WAX marketplace chainchamps. Oo good question . I tried to make them all with traits that I was excited about but I really like the cloud and the bloodrain background and for the mind traits the crystalized and BrainiaQ. The doctor Q and super Q is probably my favourite outfits. **Show us?**

This is the clouds background and crystalized mind

This is the bloodrain

That's the doctor Q

That's the super Q **How much will the cost to buy?** 20$usd in wax and anyone with an OG Quasi-Man from my personal collection rubioriginal gets one airdropped to their wallet! **Are the originals still available to buy?** They are all sold out but you can buy one on secondary market for pretty cheap still ❤️ **Have you collab with anyone?** As Quasi man , not yet but I'm talking with Dogefellas and a few other artists and the tokens LEEF, BJ. **Who would be your dream collab?** I would love to Collab with senor lupe **Do you a favourite wax NFT artist?** Not a favourite but I do like what Kuma is making also Bret Blackberg and of course Senor Lupe **What been the best bit of doing your project?** Seeing it come together has me so excited honestly. I struggled with the formatting layers and resizing and all that but it's all worth it when I look at all the over 100,000+ random outcomes possible. **What has been the hardest part?** Probably managing my time while trying to do all the things myself. between marketing , drawing , writing , the technical side of things. It's allot of hats for one person to wear but it's worth it when i show someone the art and they really enjoy it. 🤝❤️ **What your family think of your project?** They are very supportive but sometimes I feel a bit of inferiority complex because my sister and mom are both awesome artists and my sister is also a great writer. However that's the great thing about art is the beauty is in the eye of the beholder and we are all different. **Of course are you working on anything else in crypto at the moment?** Yeah I'm the product manager for QGLOBE which is a p2e game launchpad and the project development manager for minethefuture.io which is a BTC mining / NFT project **I am guessing neither are on the WAX blockchain?** Unfortunately not however QGLOBE is a multichain product so possibly in the future (I'm pushing for it)! **So there is hope . What you like to do to unwind?** Play disc golf if the weather is nice or play music **Tell us something random about you?** I used to be a professional Chocolatier **Mmmm where is the best place to keep up to date with your project?** My telegram https://t.me/RUBINFT Or my Twitter are the best

https://twitter.com/QuasimanNFT?t=V6vxxuetTrmf3M5Gk847QA&s=09 **Where can we buy your NFTs?** https://neftyblocks.com/c/rubioriginal https://wax.atomichub.io/market?collection_name=rubioriginal or on the pinned links from my Twitter. **When the next drop?** I'm hoping to have the Quasi-Man mint date on August 15th ! **Any chance of a competition for the readers?** Yeah I can do one with you for sure one of the Quasi-Man **Oh brilliant so before we finish up is there anything else you say or add?** Thanks for asking me to do this it was allot of fun **Must get you on the show as well?** Absolutely I would be happy to❤️ **So stay tuned to see when he will drop in on the show and to win one of his NFTs check the link below** https://twitter.com/Crackers832/status/1557080839292211204?t=Zd_fj5EiuSZmkfTemDRFtw&s=19