Hey guys. Now that my NFT launch has dropped, it is my pleasure to introduce and get my community properly acquainted with all 268 VeeFriends! These characters represent the human traits that I most admire and that I believe will lead to happiness and success, both personally and professionally. I also drew inspiration from popular culture references and some of the beloved characters and entertainment figures of my childhood.
Why “friends?” I called them friends because I believe that business with friends can be fun and that you can build a community around common interests and support one another through friendship, kindness, and empathy. That is what VeeFriends represents. These drawings come straight from my soul, and I’m excited to continue to build out their stories and bigger meanings in culture for the rest of my life and career.
People often ask me why NFTs? To me, the smart contract underneath NFTs is what excites me. It provides a new lens on utility, access, and collaborations. The first ever collaboration of VeeFriends was a capsule collection between VeeFriends’ “Perspective Pigeon” and the world-renowned streetwear brand STAPLE. My great hope is that people look back at this in two or three years and say, “wow, that was one of the early indications of how we could do things creatively with NFTs and collaborations.” And this is just the beginning!
In my eyes, each and every VeeFriends character is intellectual property and represents the opportunity for more dope projects and launches to come. That being said, allow me to introduce the VeeFriends family!
Meet the VeeFriends:
- Adaptable Alien
- Human beings can and should adapt to anything
- Adventurous Astronaut
- Ambitious Angel
- Wildly content and equally ambitious
- Amiable Anchovy
- Amped Aye Aye
- Arbitraging Admiral
- Arbitrage is a word I use a lot…I’ve actually said it 568 times in my content over the last 8 years. It’s an important word in my lexicon and an even more important word in how I think about business and opportunities, and no one “gets it” like the Arbitraging Admiral “gets it.”
- Articulate Armadillo
- Aspiring Alpaca
- Authentic Anaconda
- Awesome African Civet
- Bad-Ass Bulldog
- Isn’t he bad-ass?!
- Balanced Beetle
- Bashful Blobfish
- Basketball Butterfly
- Be The Bigger Person
- Befuddled Burglar
- Benevolent Barn Owl
- Big Game Bandicoot
- Boisterous Beaver
- Bold As Fuck Bat
- Bombastic Baboon
- Boss Bobcat
- Bowling Boa
- Brave Bison
- Breakfast Bat
- Brilliant Barb
- Brilliant Barracuda
- Brunch Bear
- Bubble Hockey Basset Hound
- No one can beat me in Bubble Hockey! …And I mean NO ONE!
- Bubbly Buzzard
- Bullish Bull
- Gary Bee
- Who doesn’t like a Gary Bee? 😉
- Very, Very, Very, Very Lucky Black Cat
- On a mission to change the narrative of unlucky black cats forever.
- “Content” Condor
- Content is EVERYTHING and everything is CONTENT.
- Calm Clam
- Candid Clownfish
- Capable Caterpillar
- Caring Camel
- Charismatic Chameleon
- Charming Cheetah
- Checkers Chicken
- Cheerful Chipmunk
- Chill Chinchilla
- Clever Crocodile
- Common Sense Cow
- Compassionate Catfish
- Confident Cobra
- Considerate Cowboy
- I admire those who are considerate to others, and the Considerate Cowboy is certainly one of them!
- Consistent Cougar
- Conviction Cockroach
- Courageous Cockatoo
- Courteous Coyote
- Courtside Cat
- Creative Crab
- Curious Crane
- Cynical Cat
- Sensitive Centipede
- Dapper Dachshund
- Daring Dragonfly
- Decisive Duck
- Dedicated Dragonfly
- Detail-Oriented Dumbo Octopus
- Determined Dolphin
- Dialed In Dog
- Now this dog is DEFINITELY dialed in.
- Dinner Deer
- Dope Dodo
- Driven Dragon
- Dynamic Dinosaur
- Tennis Elbow
- “Gone Fishing” Fish
- “You’re Gonna Die” Fly
- 3 words from a fly to inspire you FOREVER!
- 5555 Fan
- Facetime Five
- Facetime Flea
- Facetime Fly
- Facetime Fox
- Facetime Frog
- Flex’n Fox
- Fly Firefly
- Focused Falcon
- Forthright Flamingo
- Generous Gerbil
- Gentle Giant
- Genuine Giraffe
- Gift Goat
- Gifted Gopher
- Glowing Glow Worm
- Graceful Goldfish
- Gracious Goose
- Gracious Grasshopper
- Gracious Grizzly Bear
- Grateful Gar
- Gratitude Gorilla
- Because gratitude is the antidote.
- Gusty Gecko
- Knowing Gnome
- “Diamond Hands” Hen
- “Hot Shit” Hornet
- Forgiving Horned Frog
- Hangout Hawk
- Happy Hermit Crab
- Headstrong Honey Badger
- Helpful Hippo
- Hodl Hyena
- Honest Honey Bee
- Humble Hedgehog
- Humble Hummingbird
- Hungry Hammerhead
- Hustling Hamster
- Hype Horse
- Self-Aware Hare
- Suffocate Hate
- Bad Intentions
- Impeccable Inostranet
- Independent Inch Worm
- Innovative Impala
- Insightful Irish Terrier
- Intuitive Iguana
- Jolly Jack-O
- Joyous Jellyfish
- Juicy Jaguar
- Just Jackal
- Karma Kiwi
- Keen Kingfisher
- Keynote Koala
- Kind Kudu
- Kindred Kangaroo
- Ping Pong Kalong
- Last Glass Standing
- Legendary Lemur
- Legit Llama
- Level Headed Lizard
- Likable Leopard
- Lit Lamb
- Logical Lion
- Loyal Lobster
- Lunch Lady Bug
- Fuck You Monday Mole
- Macho Manta Ray
- Macro Micro
- Magnanimous Maltese
- Major Moth
- Mature Mule
- Mentor Meeting Mongoose
- Methodical Mammoth
- Meticulous Magpie
- Mint Mink
- Modest Moose
- Mojo Mouse
- Moral Monkey
- Motivated Monster
- The Motivated Monster is legit. There’s just not much else to say!
- Tasteful Malayan Tapir
- The Oak Monster
- Shout out all the Vayniacs who have been jamming with me since the Wine Library days and know exactly what The Oak Monster is.
- To The Moon Meerkat
- One for all the OGs 😉
- Nifty Narwhal
- Noble Numbat
- Honorable Olm
- O.G. Ox
- Observant Oyster
- Offense Oriented Orangutan
- Optimistic Otter
- Organized Ostrich
- Faithful Pheasant
- Forever Phoenix
- Part Of The Team Dream
- Passionate Parrot
- Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless, and Passionate Parrot knows what’s up.
- Patient Panda
- You gotta fall in love with patience early on to be fast for the rest of your life 💨
- Patient Pig
- Peaceful Pelican
- Perceptive Puma
- Perfect Persian Cat
- Perspective Pigeon
- You can only control a few things in life: your mindset, your focus, and your PERSPECTIVE! That’s something I learned early on, and I believe in it so much I’m building a brand around it! Shout Out to the Perspective Pigeon x STAPLE collab! 🔥
- Persuasive Pigeon
- Pleasant Platypus
- Podcast Panther
- Poised Pug
- Poker Pirate
- Polished Poodle
- Ponder It From All Angles
- Positive Porcupine
- Practical Peacock
- Proactive Piranha
- Productive Puffin
- Profound Possum
- Prudent Polar Bear
- Quick Quail
- “Rare” Robot
- Radical Rabbit
- The Radical Rabbit…an ode to my late, great friend, Nipsey Hussle. 💙
- Rational Rattlesnake
- Reflective Rhinoceros
- Reliable Rat
- Resourceful Robin
- Respectful Racoon
- Responsive Ram
- Gleeful Sugar Glider
- Jam Session Snail
- Like A Sponge
- Pea Salad
- Secure Sparrow
- Selfless Sloth
- Sensible Sommelier
- Sentimental Salamander
- Serious Sperm Whale
- Shadow Me Scorpion
- Sharing Squirrel
- Shrewd Shark
- Shrewd Sheep
- Sincere Skunk
- Skilled Skeleton
- Slay’n Slug
- Sophisticated Stingray
- Sorcerer Scholarship
- Spiffy Salmon
- Spontaneous Seahorse
- Steadfast Snake
- Stoic Slime
- Stunned Sun
- Sufficient Shrimp
- Supper Sunfish
- Swaggy Sea Lion
- Sweet Swan
- Sympathetic Squid
- “Turnt” Tick
- Heart-Trooper
- Tenacious Termite
- Tenacious Turkey
- The World Has Plenty Of Love Start Listening To It
- Thoughtful Three Horned Harpik
- Tidy Troll
- Tidy Troll cracks me up, but don’t underestimate the value of tidiness.
- Tolerant Tortoise
- Tolerant Tuna
- Toronto & St. Louis
- Tough To Beat A Worm From The Dirt!
- Tremendous Tiger
- Trusting Tarantula
- Uno Unicorn
- Unwavering Urchin
- Vibe’n Vampire
- Video Game Vulture
- “Wine Shopping Spree” Woodchuk
- Hard-Working Wombat
- Kind-Warrior
- It amazes me how many people think kindness is a weakness when in reality, it’s the ultimate strength! Kind-Warriors, where you at?!
- Warm Wolverine
- Well-Connected Werewolf
- Well-Rounded Warthog
- When You Live For Their Validation You Aren’t Living
- Who Was Born In 1997
- Wild Wallaby
- Willful Wizard
- Wily Wild Boar
- Wise Wasp
- Witty Weasel
- Woke Walrus
- Workout Wolf
- Garage Sale Yale
- Yolo Yak
- YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE! And Yolo Yak lives it!
Whether you purchase a VeeFriend or not, I sincerely thank you for all your support over the years, and I encourage you to at least click around and check out the project. VeeFriends is the blueprint for how I believe all NFT projects should be done, and I’m excited to see what things this inspires YOU to come up with!
xoxoxo,
Gary