Clean Up The Ocean from United By Blue

United By Blue is a sustainable lifestyle brand with a mission to clean up the ocean; for every product sold, United By Blue removes 1 pound of trash from the world’s oceans and waterways.

Since 2010, United By Blue has removed 3.9 million pounds of trash from waterways across 48 US states and 4 countries, alongside over 16,000 volunteers.

Cleanup The Ocean is the brand’s first ever NFT drop with a goal of amplifying the impact of their mission.

This drop will introduce United By Blue’s mascot Eddy Earth, alongside 3 other other talented artists who share our love for our oceans and care about protecting them: Andy Best, Julien Tabet, and Ted Chin.

This collection features 6 drawings, 1 pack collection, and 2 open editions.

The drawings will start at 6:30pm EST and be available for 1 hour. $600 Each NFT removes 500 lbs of trash.

The auction will start at 6:30pm EST and will run for 24 hours. Every $1 bid will result in 1 lb of trash removed.

The open edition will start at 6:30pm EST and be available to purchase for 2 hours. $250 Each NFT removes 100 lbs of trash Multiple purchases are allowed per account.

Click here to view the drawings.
Click here to view the open editions.

About Andy Best
(Twitter / Instagram / Website) Starting with sketching, pastels, and oil paints in his Grandmother’s studio as a child, Andy remains a lifelong student of the arts. To foster his passions into a profession, he attended film school at the Art Institute of Portland, turning commercial filmmaker and photographer upon graduation. Early collaborations include work with Sony, Nike, Adidas, Toyota, Google, Intel, T-Mobile, DJI, GoPro, Mountain Hardware, Columbia Sportswear, Leatherman, and Eddie Bauer. As his career progressed, he was afforded opportunities to travel the globe – working with tourism boards, speaking, shooting independent documentary films and global marketing campaigns in partnership with organizations authentic to the outdoor adventure travel space: Instagram, Facebook, Yeti, Black Diamond, SmugMug, Gerber Gear, GoreTex, Dometic, LaCie, Lonely Planet, Goal Zero, and more. This growing body of work led him to his biggest achievement to date; working with National Geographic. In 2016, he began contributing to National Geographic Adventure, proceeding many years working with media outlets like Outside Magazine, BackPacker Magazine, The Guardian, and numerous online publications. His work is purpose-driven, and he aligns himself with conservation-minded brands and nonprofit organizations like the Nature Conservancy, Sea Legacy, Protect Our Winters, and more. In 2021, Andy was invited to join the Explorer and Photographer Talent team at National Geographic, where he hopes to continue telling meaningful stories on a greater scale.

Andy lives a nomadic lifestyle. On the road full-time with his family of four and their dog, he and his wife watch their daughters grow, while simultaneously navigating a career that takes them deep into remote wilderness, deserts, and wild landscapes on assignment. In sharing a singular passion of enjoying time with one another in harmony with our beautiful planet, the Best family continues along their unique journey of discovery. All said and done, Andy simply hopes that his art captures the joy he finds in our wild places, thus inspiring others to love and help take care of our natural world.

About Julien Tabet
(Twitter / Instagram/ Website)
Julien Tabet is a French Digital Artist, well known for his creative and surreal images of the animal kingdom. His work is a mix of poetry, humor, and fantasy. Partnering with Adobe and Photoshop for several years, he creates his digital works by mixing illustration and photo manipulation.

He re-imagines the laws of nature, taking inspiration from the particularities of each subject he works with to sublimate them in a unique way.

He likes to say that he describes the way animals behave when we are not looking.

About Ted Chin
(Twitter / Instagram/ Website)
Ted Chin is a digital artist and photographer from Taiwan now based in San Francisco, USA. He is most well known for his Photoshop composite art. Ted's work can be described as a fantasy world with a touch of surrealism, sometimes with spirits of nature. Ted has been working within digital production for the last 6 years, producing work for countless clients across the globe. His most recent accomplishment is the Adobe Photoshop 2021 splash screen cover artist. There are things in the world that inspire childlike wonder and awe, and it is Ted's passion to recreate and share them with the world.