Eric Rubens
NorCal and Shill
English - September 23, 2021 16:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsArts Technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Eric Rubens is a Southern California based photographer who has grown an audience of nearly one million across his social platforms. Growing up on the California coast, he was captivated by color and the energy of the ocean. He formerly played professional tennis and worked as an engineer before dropping it all to pursue his love of travel and photography. Some of his clients include Sony, Disney, Four Seasons, United Airlines, BMW, American Express, Belmond, Callaway Golf, and more. In today’s episode of NorCal and Shill, Eric shares more about his daily life as an artist in this space. He discusses the NFT community, the big shift from past careers to how interactions on Instagram got him into photography. He also shares how he connects with others on a deeper level through his senses, the importance of building genuine relationships and staying focused on the things you can control, rather than the things you can’t. For all this and more, stay tuned!
Key Points From This Episode:
• Eric reflects on the busy life of an NFT artist.
• The importance of staying well rested in the NFT industry; don’t burn the candle at both ends!
• Eric shares some of his initial thoughts about NFTs.
• The community-driven aspect of the NFT community and how brands can enter authentically.
• How Eric tries to replicate the refreshing accessibility of the NFT industry.
• Learn more about Eric’s career trajectory, which includes being a professional tennis player.
• He emphasizes the role that writing and storytelling plays in his photography career.
• What animal Eric would be and why.
• Eric’s best advice he’s been given: not stressing about things that are out of his control.
• Why it is so important to focus on building genuine relationships.
• Eric turns the tables and asked NorCal some questions about how he finds new artists/work.
Tweetables:
“Being a former engineer in my past life, before photography, I’m always intrigued when something is on the cutting-edge of technology or [I] see evolutions in the industries that I’m involved in. I’m always trying to push myself to become educated about them.” — @erubes1 [0:06:10]
“Everyone is so accessible and willing to talk to each other and build things together. It’s really cool. In other industries, it would be really hard to get in touch with people like that.” — @erubes1 [0:12:43]
“There’s a lot of opportunities to connect on a deeper level through other senses. It’s those pieces that have a couple more layers to them that are the ones that really hook me and pull me in a little bit deeper.” — @erubes1 [0:19:26]
“Just focus on the relationships first on building actual, genuine relationship that you care about. Then hopefully the sales or any of the other financial stuff will work out how it’s naturally meant to when it’s supposed to happen.” — @erubes1 [0:30:13]
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