Re:Building Together EP 265 — Art Is In The Eye Of The Holder

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) · Sat, 18 Jul 2026 · 1:06:52 · ~5 speakers (plus a Warren G intro)

TL;DR

• The theme was "play with your JPEGs": CEELOS and Baked each posted an AI prompt on the Buildatron that reimagines any NFT in a famous artist's style — Baked's leaning on classic masters, CEELOS's focused on artists from the 1900s onward (Basquiat, Georgia O'Keeffe, Beeple).
• The first ~15 minutes were eaten by the X app repeatedly booting the host out of his own Space, which turned into the comic spine of the episode.
• Slick Rick stepped up as co-host after Baked left to see family, and mostly used his slot to ask CEELOS to break down his AI process.
• The heart of the Space was a long, practical walkthrough of CEELOS's multi-app workflow (Gemini for images, ChatGPT for building prompts, Grok/Kling for animation) and how detail, continuity, and trait descriptions get better results.
• CEELOS made the case for using AI to teach your kids and to keep "rugged" NFT projects alive — if the art's good and the founders vanished, do what you want with it.
• Housekeeping: Sunday is the collectibles Space; Monday Val leads a project spotlight on Gimbos (an ApeChain project).

Highlights

[2:41] The Warren G cold open. CEELOS opened over "This DJ" while sorting his prompt, then spent a few minutes ribbing Baked for not knowing the song — or that Warren G is Dr. Dre's little brother. "Oh gee, Jordan NFTs, and you don't know Beeple? That's rough" [10:48].

[13:58] The app rugs the host. After being kicked out of his own Space, CEELOS came back to a room that couldn't hear him: "Booted out of my own space? Damn." A stretch of thumbs-up/thumbs-down audience testing followed, with Baked relaying texts from Too Mazing about who could hear whom.

[17:13] Too Mazing's cameo curse. Invited up to help stabilize things, Too Mazing landed just in time for the host to drop again: "Baked definitely tells you to come back up and he rugs as soon as I get up here. It's hilarious."

[17:57] The Elon rant. With the app still misbehaving, CEELOS aimed a heat-of-the-moment monologue at the "Geek Squad": in the AI era, he warned, somebody will build a better app and X will lose its daily users. Capped with "It's too hot for all this, bro" [18:29].

[21:24] "The realest space in Web3." Settling in, CEELOS framed the room: no alpha, no market talk, no sugarcoating — just guys trying to play with their NFTs on a Saturday. Slick Rick's crypto update ("Bitcoin back up to like 65k") got a shrug in return.

[35:49] Detail is the whole game. The core lesson: AI misreads traits (his Regen's multicolored pit-viper visors kept coming back as multicolored hair), so you feed it exact descriptions, reference screenshots, and words like "continuity" and "universally." Slick Rick connected it straight to his own frustration getting consistent reads when he feeds charts to AI for leverage trading.

[53:02] Passing it down. Slick Rick said the workflow gave him "hella ideas" — his daughter already asks to make images, and he wants to teach her. CEELOS pointed to Too Mazing, whose son now makes edits after watching his dad, and to his own dream of building a 15–20 minute animated "episode" good enough that his son reacts to it not knowing dad made it.

[59:58] Rug projects and IP. On holding projects whose founders disappeared: if you love the art, do what you want with it. "At least I'm doing something with it. You just made your bag and disappeared." He also floated a "Flame Boy vs. Wet Willy"-style comic pitting rival projects against each other.

[1:02:54] The Texas Wi-Fi bit and warm close. As Val came back on for the outro, CEELOS ran with her "Texas Wi-Fi don't work" note: "Everything's bigger in Texas — except their Wi-Fi signal." Val closed the room out and previewed the week.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "Oh gee, Jordan NFTs, and you don't know Beeple? That's rough." — CEELOS [10:48]
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• "Baked definitely tells you to come up and he rugs as soon as I get up here. It's hilarious." — Too Mazing [17:13]
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• "It's too hot for all this, bro." — CEELOS [18:29]
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• "There's a reason why I say this is the realest space in Web3… there's no alpha here. No market talk." — CEELOS [21:24]
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• "At least I'm doing something with it. You just made your bag and disappeared." — CEELOS [59:58]
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• "Everything's bigger in Texas, right? Except for their Wi-Fi signal." — CEELOS [1:02:54]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG), host — Ran the show through the outages and delivered the bulk of the value: a hands-on tour of his AI image/animation workflow, why detail and continuity matter, and a philosophy of using NFTs (even rugged ones) as toys to play with.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax), co-host — Posted the "classic masters" prompt, traded intro-song banter, then left early to see his mom and sister; checked back in later.
• Slick Rick (@richj530) — Stepped in as co-host, drove the conversation with genuine questions about the process, and tied it to his chart-reading use of AI and teaching his daughter.
• Too Mazing (@TooMazing265) — Relayed audience "can you hear him?" texts during the outage and briefly came up on stage.
• Val / ValerieKates (@valeriekates_) — Returned for the outro to close the room and preview the week.

Worth a full listen

• [13:58]–[18:30] — The app-implosion sequence plays much better live than on paper: the boots, the thumbs-up polling, the Too Mazing cameo curse, and the Elon rant all stack into one long deadpan bit.
• [35:49]–[50:30] — The uninterrupted AI walkthrough is the real substance — the coffee-filter FUG video, the floating-Chemex continuity fix, and the trait-by-trait descriptions are the practical takeaways a summary can only gesture at.
• [53:02]–[55:31] — CEELOS and Slick Rick on teaching their kids this stuff; a genuinely warm stretch about setting the next generation up rather than staying stuck.