Ep 75: Selling Her 1st NFT to Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park)! | Mumu the Stan (Founder, MalaysiaNFT)

Welcome to the start of STIMY’s mini NFT sub-series. 


Our first NFT guest is Mumu the Stan, aka MOON HMZ. She’s a young
Muslim mother from Malaysia who’s an artist, poet, and published
author and illustrator, while also being an advocate for
diversity, inclusion, mental health and environmental awareness
in the NFT space. She is the founder of MalaysiaNFT and a member
of the local art collective, NFXT.io, and her work has been
exhibited at Art Basel Miami 2021!


Moon shares how she first got into the world of NFTs - because
the lead singer for Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda, encouraged her to
do so and promised to buy her first NFT!! Her thoughts on why
it’s exciting for artists, the reality of being a female in the
crypto space, how the Malaysian NFT space is evolving, how to
spot scams in the NFT space and how you can get involved/learn
more about NFTs (if you aren’t already down the rabbit hole!).


P/S: This interview starts off with Moon battle with depression
so please take note if that is of concern!





Highlights:


4:34 Battling depression

7:10 Spending 7 years feeling lost & how Moon got out of
it

9:01 Creating a stan account

9:57 Mike Shinoda takes notice of Moon’s art

11:40 What are NFTs?

13:09 How to create an NFT

16:08 Environmental impact is linked to minority
representation

18:28 Finding her NFT community

18:55 What the Malaysian NFT space is like

22:53 Getting Malaysian artists onto the international NFT
scene

25:14 Being blacklisted

25:55 NFTs v traditional digital art collection

28:07 Has NFTs enhanced Moon’s art?

28:52 Do artists need to know the tech to get into NFTs?

29:23 Identifying the scams in the NFT space (aka the rug
pulls)

31:52 Identifying when an artwork has been copied






Show notes: www.sothisismywhy.com/75 





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