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@christiesinc is the most prestigious and highest-grossing art auction house in the world today. And tomorrow, a piece of digital art featuring me by @__osinachi will be auctioned off by the historic house. Crazy!!

Osinachi, who is Africa’s foremost crypto artist, kindly asked me to sit for this work, and though I’ve just seen the image for the first time only recently, I kept hearing about it on the street from people who saw it and shared their appreciation for it. When I saw it myself, I was both wowed and felt a deep sense of gratitude. Inspired by Osinachi’s talent (can you believe he produces all his artwork using Microsoft Word!?) and beyond grateful for being the muse for this piece.

The piece is entitled “Abitt: The Second Renaissance is Coming”.

What’s crazy to me is I have a photo of a piece of art by another acclaimed Black artist on my vision board that I want to acquire one day. Acquiring that piece would be a feat, but you gotta aim high, right? But, I couldn’t have predicted that God had even bigger plans to have me instead *BE* a piece of art performed by a globally renowned Black artist like that of Osinachi. And for it to be on the blockchain is just God showing out. You can’t delete me! Haha.

And for this to be auctioned off by Christie’s? C’mon man. Huge.

From Christie’s: “Osinachi’s Abitt: The Second Renaissance is Coming bears its history on the surface. Rendered in vivid colour, the central figure is framed by elements of the artist’s present. An historic building opposing a street art mural present the figure in the city, but a pair of highway signs specify the location as Toledo, Ohio. These elements in an almost forced perspective are brought together by textures — like Basquiat finds his textures on the street, Osinachi discovers his on the internet, incorporating them seamlessly into his digital canvas.”

Thank you Osinachi and Adam Levine. Forever grateful.

Check out the link in bio for a link to the upcoming auction and NFT on Christie’s. by @willlucas

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We’re building an on-demand photography marketplace. You get photos taken by booking a photographer in seconds for all the moments life may call for, and a talented photographer gets a new revenue stream to fill their downtime. Follow the journey at @ShotxICON. Download ‘Shot by ICON’ in app stores. by @willlucas

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The offer at @shotxicon is simple: paid photo shoots booked for you, on-demand. This past weekend in #Toledo had $240 on the table across 4 shoots at 15-minutes a piece. Those requests went unclaimed, and I know that money could’ve helped somebody make ends meet by using their talents. For sure we need more photographers and we also want to open new markets. Either way $240 was on the table. If you’ve got talent, gear, and you want to use your gift to help make ends meet, hit https://shotxicon.com. by @willlucas

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@afro.tech covered @ShotxICON this week, but the story isn't the press. It's that Toledo photographers are signing up every day to shoot for YOU. They're standing by for you to book them! Book your first session in the app this weekend. Built in Toledo.

#Toledo #ToledoPhotographer #ToledoPhotography #Photographer by @willlucas

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8 days ago

Founders, entrepreneurs, and business owners: this will be the most difficult message you’ve heard all week and I’m sorry to be the one to break it to you. Nobody cares. by @willlucas

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15 days ago

I put together an AI board of directors full of people I admire most in business and some of them have been dead for 3000 years. Here’s how I did it. #blacktechgreenmoney #afrotech by @willlucas

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We’re changing what it looks like to book a photographer. No big occasion required. Live in #Toledo, coming to the city near you. #ShotxICON by @willlucas

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You can book a ride in a couple taps. Now you can book photographer the same way.

No big production, no back-and-forth, just a real photographer who pulls up to whatever you have going on. ICON is live in Toledo. Use the code LETSGO to get 10% off your first shoot this weeK! #ShotxICON by @willlucas

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The biggest thing AI has changed for me isn’t productivity. It’s reflection. I couldn’t figure out how to talk about my own experiences as a founder, operator, and builder. So I started using AI to interview me.

What came out of that process was a conversation about ideas, focus, opportunity, and why judgment may be becoming more valuable than execution. “Every Idea Feels Like a Million-Dollar Opportunity.” out now, wherever you get your podcasts. by @willlucas

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This week, @shotxicon opens to public users. We’re still onboarding photographers across the country and we launch first in the Midwest. I could use your help on sharing and commenting and tagging! If you know someone with a dope eye for photos, tag them and encourage them to become an ICON so we can launch in your city ASAP by @willlucas

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The gap between your idea and shipping it used to feel like miles for many of us.

Little to no funding opportunities, technical support, time (because many founders have to hold down a day job while they're building), a team. These and more are the reasons your idea stayed in your notes app instead of in the world.

AI is turning that distance into a step. I broke this all the way down on the new episode of @blacktechgreenmoney from @afro.tech, and discuss why the barriers that stopped a generation of builders are quietly disappearing, and what that means for you specifically.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts, plus the link is in my bio! by @willlucas

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I have thousands of photos of my kids. Hundreds of my wife with our kids.
Almost none of me with any of them because I'm always the one taking the photo. (If you're a parent reading this, you know what I'm talking about. We're the family photogs, and we often end up missing from the history we're writing.)

That observation became a company.

I've been building ICON, a way to connect with skilled photographers and book them right on your phone, on-demand. Basically Uber for photographers. You pick a shoot for right now or later, select a vetted local photographer (Rising, Signature, or Elite, and every one of them human-reviewed), they show up, they shoot. Your photos get delivered inside the app in minutes after the shoot. No DMs. No quotes. No weeks-long scheduling cycle. With @shotxicon, the moments you wanted captured, like the family backyard BBQ, the college graduation, or just a strong hair day that deserves a quick street photoshoot are captured without the friction. And, you get to be in the photos!

We're launching in the Midwest first. Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania.

Two ways my network can help right now, and I do need your help:

1. If you know a talented photographer anywhere, especially in the midwest, please tag them below. To be clear, I'm *not* just talking about professional photographers, I'm also talking about the friend you have who just shoots for fun, has probably never been paid to shoot, but their work is fire. The school-teacher by day who drives around with a Sony DSLR in their backseat just for the love. The warehouse worker who shoots candids at the park on the weekends.

Apply at iconapp.co/shoot. We're letting the first shooters into ICON Dispatch (the photographers app) this week! (The user app drops soon).

2. If you're a parent (or you know one), or just someone who can think if 10 other reasons they'd need a photographer on-demand, early access waitlist is open at iconapp.co.

Thanks for reading and even more for your support in advance! And PLEASE follow along at @shotxicon 🙏🏾

(📸 shown are from real ICON photo sessions) by @willlucas

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