Manori Ravindran International EditorDigital artist and NFT virtuoso Emily Yang joined Variety and Kering at the Cannes Film Festival for an inspiring Women In Motion conversation on Friday, just ahead of the final day of the festival’s 75th edition.In just over two years, Yang went from being on unemployment insurance to becoming a rockstar in the NFT-driven digital art space under the handle @pplpleasr.
Yang, who designed the April cover of Vogue magazine’s Taiwan edition, has used the proceeds of the sales of her artwork to set up the Stand With Asians Community Fund as well as an NFT collective for charitable work.Starting her career as a visual effects artist, Yang worked on studio tentpoles like “Batman v.
Superman” and “Wonder Woman,” and in 2020, had a job offer from Apple for a digital artist role. When the pandemic struck, however, the opportunity went away, leaving Yang jobless for over a year. “It was definitely not an easy time,” reflects Yang. “Looking back now, I obviously see it as a blessing in disguise, but at the time it was particularly stressful because I was living in New York and worried about paying rent.
I was actually collecting unemployment insurance because I had lost my job and I think what kept me sane during that time was I started an Instagram account and that’s how ‘pplpleasr’ was born.”Yang — who was doing “endless” job applications — wanted an outlet and building out her ‘pplpleasr’ brand provided a respite from the job hunt. “I started making artwork for myself for the very first time, because before I had always been making artwork for other big Hollywood studios.
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