🟡Yellow Quetzalcoatl is a vibrant reinterpretation of the Aztec deity, where the feathered serpent transforms into a luminous and radiant being. The color yellow, a symbol of wisdom and rebirth, radiates from its plumage, inviting the viewer to contemplate the duality between life and death, darkness and light
Stellar voyage with offering to the sea for the sorrows’, is the first of the images where we can read the text it contains (it is originally written in spanish "Viaje estelar con ofrenda al mar para las penas"). I leave you this clue in case you want to try and translate the previous publications I made about the series ‘The Society of the Masks
In this inaugiral episode of ZERØPØD SPØTLIGHT, we dive deep into Rounds.wtf with our special guest, Seneca, cofounder of both Nouns and Rounds.wtf.
Discover the origins of this game-changing protocol, from its roots in Nouns to the evolution from Prop.House, and learn how Rounds.wtf is transforming community engagement and funding through decentralized, permissionless technology.
Seneca shares insights on why Rounds is essential for the future of onchain culture and how it empowers individuals to find their place and feel at home in this space, like a digital bonfire on the blockchain.
Timestamps: __________________
00:00 - Introduction 01:42 - Chapter One: After pronouns, there were Nouns. 08:31 - Chapter Two: The birth of a round. 15:49 - Chapter Three: You are already doing it. _______________________________________________________
Selected Aquariums are a serie of 30 seconds animated videos The animation is hand painted and the composition is generated in p5.js (javascript) The best final outcomes have been selected 👽🦐
Fridays at the Park Season 002 Episode 5, full-length video of the music we’ve been creating in 2024 ⌐◨-◨ A Superchain episode
The Park is a creative space, a collective, where a group of friends come together to create, mix, master, and publish a song, from start to finish, from idea to onchain, every Friday.
Throughout the year we’ll be putting creative works onchain, on Base. Videos, music, albums, talks, moments, artifacts, bags of coffee, the internet is amazing
Happy Friday ⌐Ⓗ-Ⓕ
Musicians: Jessie Boykins III Chloe Angelides Leo Pastel Tim Anderson Josh Lippi Ben Schwier Derek Taylor
Talk: Jessie Pollak Dee Gowens Jacob Horne C.Y. Lee Carl Tydinco David T Phung
Engineers: Maddi StJohn Travis Pavur Ariel Klevecz
Melbourne photographer Abigail Varney's latest and ongoing project, aptly titled "The Build Up," captures the essence of unique climatic phenomenon and its profound impact on the local community.
As the coastal city of Darwin in northern Australia transitions from the dry season to the monsoonal period, a pervasive heat and humidity envelops the metropolis. This shift, known locally as ‘the build up’ or ‘mango madness,’ drives residents indoors, seeking refuge from the oppressive conditions.
Conveying the oppressive heat through photography is no easy task, yet Varney's work succeeds in depicting a palpable stillness, trepidation, and restlessness. The build up affects the community profoundly, with many exhibiting symptoms of seasonal affective disorder and mood swings, despite the festive December season. Varney's images exude a somber ambiance of eternal dusk, with scenes dimly lit as if shrouded by heavy clouds. This darkness mirrors both the environmental shifts due to climate change and the overall pessimistic mood that grips Darwin during this time.
At the core of Varney’s project is a captivating and alarming reflection on the intricate relationship between humans and the environment. The build up signifies the climatic pattern in the Australian top end, where the weather transitions from dry to monsoon. The ambient temperature steadily rises, and oppressive humidity sets in. Dark, threatening clouds roll through, producing only a few tantalizing raindrops, leaving the air thick and heavy. As the year draws to a close, the anticipation of monsoon's arrival brings a mix of celebration and neglect. Mango madness takes hold, with mangos ripening and falling from trees, while people experience emotional instability. Finally, the rains bring a much-needed sense of peace and equilibrium.
Varney’s work masterfully captures the tension and relief inherent in Darwin’s unique climate. Her images depict the natural and built environments as they respond to and reflect the build-up. Native birds perch languidly on roofs, creeks and oceans appear cloudy and restless, and locals celebrate Christmas in sweaty resignation. The psychological push-pull of the weather affects everyone, illustrating a brief submission to nature's versatile bounty.
Abigail Varney, a portrait and documentary photographer based in Melbourne, draws inspiration from her deep curiosity and connection to Australia's land, people, and ecologies.
Kick off at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. And a poem to celebrate the Olympic spirit. Remember what Baron Pierre de Cubertin said: the important thing is not to win, but have fought well.
The highest stage, the game for gold pressure rises, time to be bold. "Fighting well the tradition to uphold.
Beincom (BIC) is a social community network powered by both Web2 and Web3 (Blockchain) technology - a great platform for those who want to build their own small inner circle, company/organization, or even huge fan community, to connect people truly and deeply.
Founding members Josh Lippi, Derek Taylor, and Ben Schwier, take a break before their weekly Wednesday night set at Royale. San Francisco,CA 2009.
"I drank my first shot of Fernet at Roayle probably thanks to North Beach mayor, Joshi Lippi. Fun Fact, San Francisco drinks more Frenet-Branca per capita than any place in the world." - Amanda Lopez
We got to LA and board on a chopper to check the spot light projection of a Noun coming from a major Hollywood Studio. Twisty had arrived earlier made a deal with the studio and is already promoting Nouns Town LA, 2024 on Lons Angeles skies.
In week 6, the book has you "tackle a major creative block– money." The exercises in this chapter were really unique, and asked me to think about money in a way I had never thought about before. In one of the exercises, most of my answers had a negative association with money. That was eye opening. I also enjoyed how this chapter gave me tasks to find natural abundance in my surroundings, for example it asked me to find five pretty or interesting rocks, and to pick five flowers or leaves. This simple exercise was so powerful in reminding me that abundance is all around us. Abundance is a mindset. This chapter shifted me back to vibrate in the frequency of abundance. This week, I hiked the Narrows in Zion National Park, Utah where I took this picture. There, I was surrounded by the abundance of nature. During the hike, sometimes I was so focused on looking down where I was stepping, as walking in knee high water through slippery rocks can be tricky. When I remembered to look up to see where I was, I felt so silly for walking with my head down for so long. It was a good lesson, abundance is all around me, I just have to look for it and I will find it.
The artist follows the flow of capital, acknowledging that while scarcity holds its validity, sustenance is essential. Let us observe the outcomes of this endeavor. Salute to all artist striving to make ends meet!
In this second-to-last episode of The BCBH Show, we talked about the likelihood of a warpcast airdrop, @artlu's favorite farcaster projects, such as FarCats NFT and $DEGEN project. They discuss the integration of Quidli for facilitating frame drops and distributing tokens, while also spotlighting alt-clients like FarQuest and Firefly.
in the quiet spaces between breaths, the act of minting unfolds as a sacred dance of creation, where intentions are woven into the fabric of existence, and the ephemeral becomes eternal
Rare Disc 004 is a collaboration between Rozwell and Aleqth. It is an experience between artists who often go beyond their visual creativity.
The circular inscription on the disc says: "Rozwell® & Aleqth® present a sonic experience designed to ignite the senses & remind of us the most profound truth there is: if you can hear this you are alive".
This collection, "365 Days of Opepen," showcases 365 distinct remixes of the iconic Opepen symbol, created by various artists who shared their work on Twitter. Each day, a unique artwork was selected and featured as the "Art of Day" on the @evverydays Twitter account for an entire year. This collage provides an overview of the creativity and diversity found in these daily remixes, highlighting the collaborative spirit and artistic innovation within the Visualize Value community.
Daily Dither is a collaborative project between Koei Ural and Diego Lazzarin.
Koei Ural is currently developing the Javascript video mixer/synthesiser chaos machine (also known as “Dither Mindfucker Chaos Machine” 0.1) capable of generating unpredictable Dither and ASCII .gifs… and who know what else is coming next! Diego Lazzarin will be trowing inputs in the software (such as 3D objects, textures and video samples), messing up with the parameters and selecting the most fascinating and disturbing outputs.
The idea is to generate and drop a .gif built by the Dither Mindfucker Chaos Machine (almost) everyday.
Let's go save the world from BULLOCK - The cyborg bulldog villain. We can't let him spread the damaged anymore, especially pet shop and cat cafe. Lock and load !
with the keyboard walk W,A,S,D, M, magic O, be surprised F, disappear C, cry E, observe
on the cell phone try walking with the gray buttons. and do actions with the colored buttons
This video game demo test is part of my personal experimentation, stemming from 12 years of research on the native graphics of Tucumán, Argentina. Today, it is a game meant solely for walking and wandering. Perhaps you can perform a few actions, like crying with emotion, being surprised, doing magic, and disappearing if you feel overwhelmed.
The pixelverse is taking shape. Here, I will showcase everything behind its construction: travels, archaeological elements, maps, sketches, and pixels derived from stone carvings and rock paintings.
We set out to build something that was an expermint:
Off platform Crowd funded Co-created
The success metric: EMOTIONAL CONNECTION
Over 350 memories were submitted and turned into Scenes, capturing a moment in time and asking us to take a step back and reflect.
People stopped, took time out of their lives and and engaged a process that connected music and emotions 🎶
We raised $5k to build the custom platform through the Sound of Fractures Token - I wanted to build a world and bring people to it, and to do that we could rely on normal funding models. They were broken.
This enable the project to travel beyond the niche that funded it, and out into the world.
Because it wasn’t about the blockchain, that was the tool that allowed us to own.. it was about connecting the audience + the artist ✍️
Each Scene's prompt invited us to reflect on a different part of our lives, people cried, laughed, sent them as gifts, said things they had never said before and looked inside themselves. 🫂
In a world dominated by numbers and short term metrics, we ended up feeling a part of something bigger than us and creating memories while revisiting memories.
We became part of a on going pice of performance art 🖼️
Woven into the collective experience were 6 songs:
I had sampled my life and put it in the music and I got to invite you to contribute your life too. 🔊
It was was an amazing moment to see the project win one of the second place prizes in the @Optimism We Love The Art Competition - It was really hard to take in and a special moment for everyone.
poets rhyme their loneliness,
musicians starve as always
and the novelists miss the mark
– Charles Bukowski, The Sun Yields Mercy
As noted by Bukowski, it’s notoriously hard to make money as a musician. I think this is why some people thought the concept of Music NFTs was a good idea. As someone who makes music and NFTs and also likes to make money, I have avoided this particular area of web3. I have lots of opinions as to why.
\Music NFTs have been declared dead. Some guy thought he was smarter than everyone and it all blew up in his face because it became apparent that, like others before him, this person had no taste and had no business dictating trends for anything. I don’t know this person, but I also don’t like Avicii, so I was unbothered and unsurprised by this particular trash fire. Music NFTs have always been dead.
Today, I will explain why Music NFTs were corny from the beginning and why their death should be a shock to no one. I have an opinion on this topic because 1) I make NFTs 2) I make music, and 3) Enough strangers have told me they like what I do that I feel like I’m not a complete idiot.
First, a disclaimer: If you or anyone you love has made a Music NFT, make music in any of the ways I shit on, or have a generally rosy and sentimental outlook on life, you do you superstar. And, if you suspect that all this negativity from my end might be a big smoke screen hiding the fact that I’m bitter about a lot of things, you’re absolutely right. That’s why I’m here after all.
A Brief History of Trying to Make Music in Web2
This section represents a summary of my experiments in trying to be a pop musician on the internet. In order to discuss the merits of Music NFTs as an alternative to the traditional music industry, it is important to outline what that world of Music NFTs consists of. Additionally, many of the things that make music “good” in web2 apply to web3 audiences as well (because they’re also people).
A Brief Background on Me:
I graduated from conservatory with an electronic music composition degree in 2018 and promptly came to the realization that being a 21st century derivative of Stockhausen wasn’t going to get me very far in life. After hating myself for two years, I began making pop music at the ripe old age of 25 (read: not 19). In addition to my pop music, I began making various forms of crypto art in 2022, all of which included original music. Throughout this journey, I have attempted various ways of making money from music on the internet. After all, this is why we’re all here. Treating music like a side piece to your corporate job sucks and I want to be able to pay my rent.
A Summary on How to Make Money from Music in Web2:
Sync: Getting your song featured in a commercial, on a Netflix show, in a skate video, etc.
Streams: Spotify, Apple Music, and the hundred other streaming services DistroKid pushes your music out to.
YouTube: Separate from streaming as it necessitates a base level of views and followers before content is monetized.
Physical Merch: cassettes, vinyl, t-shirts, anything you can put in an envelope and ship.
Shows: Venues or bookers pay a fee for you to perform live
Sponsorships: You’ve achieved the level of cultural influence where corporations see you as an appropriate voice to advertise shoes, clothes, meal services, etc. In exchange for a cheeky Instagram post in your unique style to your doting followers, you will be paid money or given free things.
Features: Doing verses/hooks for other artists and charging them a fee
Additional methods: Making backing tracks for podcasts/vlogs, selling beats, producing for other artists. I file these methods under “freelance client work” and see them as different from “I’m making my music and I’m going to have fans who listen to it religiously.”
A Summary on How I Made Money from Music in Web2: (Spoiler: I didn’t)
Sync: I learned about this one more recently and tldr we’re not in a position to do that yet. I will note that I saw a prominent music publisher in all seriousness tweet, “The songs that make the best sync have very few words and unspecific lyrics that make them easily moldable to different product situations.”
Streams: I’ve made $64 off of streaming in four years and Spotify curated playlists are the latest major label payola scheme.
YouTube: I have 12k views on YouTube which is still shocking and exciting to me. I am not monetized (yet).
Physical Merch: You need followers to sell merch and I was busy spending money on other things like microphones and paying my engineer for mastering.
Shows: I’ve played a couple shows and was paid for them, bless. To get any sort of serious show circuit going, however, I need a couple more connections and probably some more Instagram followers. To be continued.
Sponsorships: See Physical Merch, Shows re: Instagram followers.
Features: I probably could’ve tried harder to do this but I didn’t.
Additional methods: I put some beats up on Traktor a while back and my soul hurts at the prospect of making a song for a Casey Nystadt vlog.
All of these methods boil down to one thing: creating an engaged audience. So, how do you create an engaged audience? You communicate with people. Music is an exchange between listener and creator: You have to balance expressing yourself with caring about other people. In my exploration of learning to communicate well through art, I had to understand how people related to the music they listen to. Through this study, I learned that the way I engage with music is very different from how most people do (and this is ok).
A General Profile on How I Engage with Music:
I am not the type of listener who makes a “Hey You ‘22 ;)” playlist of syncs from my favorite Netflix shows with my free Spotify account. I listen to the Strokes every so often, but indie rock, for the most part, blows. I don’t think memorizing the alphabet soup of different microphone models makes you a better musician. I haven’t listened to a single Bandcamp purchase since I bought it, so I kind of stopped doing that. I listen to music on YouTube pretty regularly, but mostly for individual songs.
I like loudness, confidence, intensity, power and joy. This is why I love noise shows, trap, and punk guitars. I listen to the same five albums on Apple Music and sometimes I listen to my favorite Pauline Oliveros albums on Apple Music Classical. I understand that I’m an outlier in these behaviors: To be a successful musician, you need an audience, and sometimes this means meeting people halfway and understanding that sometimes people do things differently than you do.
How I Found Others Engage with Music:
Most people listen to music while doing something else (cooking, working, exercising, etc). Very rarely do they dedicate their entire focus to just listening to something.
People use music to set a vibe: Certain songs make them feel certain ways and make certain things more fun to do (driving, smoking, dancing). Most people don’t see music as an intellectual exercise to unpack and analyze.
People like how the character of you, the artist, plays with the music they hear. Maybe some people listen to people they want to be like, or imagine themselves as.
People listen to music from a variety of surfaces (earbuds, phone speakers, car speakers). Most people are not listening from studio monitors or high quality systems (although some are).
The majority of people use the most popular streaming services: I’d say most use Spotify, with some dedicated Apple Music listeners and YouTube as the Dodge Truck of streaming + music videos. A lot of these people listen to playlists instead of projects. Listeners who buy music on Bandcamp actually listen to the release on streaming.
People like to keep up with their favorite artists through social media and use artists’ profiles to keep track of their releases.
So, what do you need to accommodate these listener situations? One thing is mixing and mastering: People have a hard time listening to unprofessionally mixed music, so I paired up with a friend for my mixing and mastering (thank goodness for homie rates). Additionally, most people engage with their favorite artists on Instagram*, so it’s important to curate a competitive presence there.
Instagram is tricky: It doesn’t like lofi visual content and prefers pictures of you. Given that I have a propensity for vintage camcorders and have a hard time being a Sexy Girl on the Timeline, I struggled with this. I tried paying for Instagram advertising a couple times and got lukewarm results. I was unable to promote any posts with low image quality, such as clips from my music videos.
In attempting to create an engaged online audience, I noticed something: Mixing, music videos, promo, and professional photoshoots for socials all take money. It seemed that everything I needed for my music to perform well on socials necessitated me becoming a customer to someone else. Additionally, I saw very little ROI on these investments
Some might suggest that a label solves this problem, so a note on labels (especially majors): Theoretically, a label can pay for all these expenses and has ample resources to launch large scale PR campaigns. However, I was advised by someone I trust that you don’t want to sign to a label until you have your own equity to use as leverage (i.e. it’s better to make it on your own first so you don’t get thrown in the trash can with a big bill). This being said, majors, along with every other big corporation, have figured out social media, and this makes it very difficult to get anything done as an independent artist. I turned to web3 as a way to finance my music career, retain equity in my own work, and have the resources to compete with corporate war chests on the internet.
Complaining aside, much of the logic surrounding the web2 situation is sound: People don’t want to go out of their way to listen to your music. Even if you do manage to siphon off a couple superfans and good friends, supporting your work starts to feel like community service. If you try to go against the mainstream listening flow, you risk shaming your friends into buying your third $50 album on Bandcamp and it’s not mixed or mastered or anything. Listening to your music shouldn’t be a chore, it should be a treat. People willingly pay for treats.
*Or at least is was in 2020. Since then TikTok seems to be the primary platform, but I got caught up in the 20 million web3 platforms and just didn’t have the will to add TikTok into the mix.
A Brief History of Trying to Make Music in Web3
Music in NFT form falls into a couple lump categories: Music NFTs (i.e. sound.xyz where it’s just a track), the audio offshoot of visual algorithmic art, and music that’s part of a visual piece (i.e. an artist makes a track for their Zora animation mint). Obviously, this is web3, so there are outliers to these groupings.
My Initial Reactions to These Categories:
Music NFTs:
Wow this is like Bandcamp but it’s worse.
I’m sure these people are very nice but I don’t really like this music.
This sounds like listening to the graphics for a startup doctor’s office with automated sign-in kiosks.
Algorithmic Music NFTs:
Ah yes I remember my first SuperCollider patch.
These are random sine waves.
This sounds like the 20 hours of chakra stimulation video on YouTube.
Mixed Media:
Oh yay that was fun :)
I’ve also had several opportunities to observe Music NFTs IRL. I’ve performed at two web3 events: One was thrown by my friends who treated me well, and another, thrown by a DAO, made me feel like I was sitting at the kids table but the sound guys were nice. I am grateful to have been paid for both these performances. Additionally, I attended a Music NFT event at ETH Denver in 2023, thrown by aforementioned Music NFT Influencer, where there were lots of men who looked like they wished they were doing coke in Ibiza, but instead had an Adderall prescription and an inferiority complex (i.e. not my scene). Also in Denver, I attended an event curated by another Music NFT proponent, which was much better. Some of the performers at this event rocked, and some were not good, which is par for the course at any DIY show.
In addition to performing, I’ve tried a number of ways to make music in web3. Each had varying degrees of success.
Some Brief Case Notes on My Attempts at Music and NFTs:
Minting the album art for web2 releases on Foundation: This was fun, and one of my first attempts to mint things. I didn’t create the album covers: I paid artists I liked, up front, to create animated album covers for use as digital novelty items. When I sold them, which felt like a big deal at the time (Winter ‘22/’23), I was able to give the artists additional royalties on their work (which, for a moment of genuine earnestness, made me so happy because there is nothing I love more than paying people whose art I love for what they do).
Collaborating with visual artists: I created soundtracks for animations created by friends I had met in the web3 space (so many of these were with fabiola.eth, hi ily!!). I love working with artists I admire (and like), so this was super fun. It also allowed me to expand the reach of my growing web3 net of connections.
Minting a web2 music video on Zora before the web2 YouTube release: I did this as a free mint to test out double launching a project on web2 and web3. Similar to Bandcamp releases, I found that the initial buzz I got from the mint drop was retained on standard streaming platforms (return viewers/listeners went to YouTube to rewatch). I also realized that the web3 audience I had was very engaged and willing to give me a shot. I found an increasing amount of my web2 streams were starting to come from my web3 audience. I also found personal joy in the fact that 60 people cared enough to own a music video from me.
Live show opportunities: Both opportunities I had to be paid to perform my pop act were from connections I made through web3. These connections were a result of me sharing my music through web3 socials.
Leaking my EP on web3 through Zora: This was the first/only attempt of mine to mint traditional “music” media (an album thumbnail with an audio track). I made a whole joke PR run on Twitter with impassioned speeches about why I was leaking my web2 EP on web3 (so silly). This was fun because people actually listened to the tracks, liked the songs (and told me they liked the songs), and I made some money. I haven’t done this since because I got distracted with the other arm of my web3 career and haven’t recorded new pop music recently.
Which brings us to:
Baggy Industries: My attempt at living out my Cageian generative music pipe dream, art coding extravaganza that has descended into esoteric electronic mysticism and junkie guitarist dreams. We’ve released 5 collections, all of which have music, the first of which (Rusty Rollers) I desperately shilled on Twitter in Fall ‘22 as “music nfts where the music is actually good.” These collections have been a blessing, both from a financial sense and from a career sense. This is the closest I’ve been to realizing my dream of “being like a painter or a poet but making music and being taken seriously as an Artist.” To be determined or continued, who knows.
In summary, web3 has huge potential for independent musicians. I can tell you this first hand, as someone who has had numerous blessings bestowed on them by this space. However, in its current form, I agree with the general take that Music NFTs are a joke. There are still many miles to go.
So, Where Do We Go From Here?
In the quiet aftermath of launching our last Baggy Industries collection, I’ve been experimenting with becoming my own woman: Creating my own beats, making my own visuals, singing my own songs. To me, it’s no surprise Music NFTs are dead. They never really existed to begin with. The NFT landscape, like the web2 one, is dominated by visual narrative. If your track can’t be listened to on a playlist, hands-free, while cooking dinner, it can’t be used as music. And if it can’t be used as music, it has to compete on the same frontier as visual art, where it sometimes takes a back seat. This idea that enough starry-eyed donors are going to sit around and wait to support you with no return on their exchange is deeply flawed. However, what exists here is special. Here, we have a curious audience who’s willing to try new things. This is a rare gem in the scorched-earth landscape of digital media, and it shouldn’t be wasted.
Frankly, I don’t know where we go from here. I have a thousand Instagram followers and am applying to programming jobs while trying to come up with a way to practice in public until I rock hard enough to be a star. Don’t take advice from me.
That being said, I have some observations:
There are not enough good musicians here for this to work (yet). Most of the people who participate in web3 are not artists. They may be professionals who make art as a hobby (no problem with that), but the true ride or die, down and dirty dogs aren’t really out here. The ones who are, aren’t making music. As I descend deeper into the avant underground of the space (and closer to the pulse of the true cultural zeitgeist), I find more and more people who began as musicians (and still identify as such), but who are making exclusively visual art. I hope as this synthesis-mutation of mediums continues, we’ll see those people’s musical voices come back into their art. I also hope to see more musicians developing a compelling visual language alongside their sounds. It’s too early for that to have blossomed fully, however.
When we have a high enough volume of artists, we’ll need curators. Not some hot air influencer, but people who listen to music often and care deeply about it. The friend you always want on the aux who finds things you’d never hear otherwise.
We need a platform that is dedicated to only music. People need to be able to click and drag tracks from their wallets into playlists they can send to their friends and listen to while they’re driving to work from their phone. It would be nice if the recognized curators put their playlists on the same platform as these individual user-created playlists. Itunes was nice. Spinamp lacked curation ability. It can be really really simple as long as it’s usable (read: it’s easy to listen to music that you like).
These are my thoughts on Music NFTs. As always, if you have anything (good or bad) you’d like to discuss about this writing, you can let me know on Twitter (@gremlin_bb). Let’s keep putting shitty things on the bonfire this summer, I think it’s good for us.
xoxo,
–gremlin
Links to works:
Boule Goes Boing (my pop music project)
Apple: music.apple.com/us/artist/boule-goes-boing/1549975867
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/2jxNOH62PXlouG4ds40ise
Youtube (music videos): youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHtctCWvhL3rdLGRfMz2B8b3-6z5RjdzW&si=3O_aqfdWIxJdR08S
Music and NFTs:
Winamp Collaboration with fabiola.eth: zora.co/collect/eth:0xfa530447de67655ea56a5f363fd3babee21dcf44
Foundation Album Art: foundation.app/collection/boule
DVPEGVRL 2 EP (Zora): zora.co/collect/zora:0xe48cb65dc6b2e534894b7f3ddcbb73a16962fbdb
Baggy Industries:
About: baggy.industries/
Different Rooms (most recent collection, mainnet, mint ongoing): baggy.industries/different-rooms
the uniswap extension as a sidebar is thought provoking.
in it's current state, it makes interacting with the chain while using apps less obstructive. for example, if you want to mint this design everyday, you mint and watch the animation without any visual obstruction.
but it also makes me think about the future of a wallet extension's form factor.
the sidebar reminds me of a shopping cart, and i've always loved the idea of a universal shopping cart powered by crypto.
imagine adding items from multiple websites, paying with any token, and the shopping cart can make suggestions based on what's in your cart across any website on the internet.
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Delve into the unknown and unravel the secrets of the machine!
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𝓟𝓸𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓔𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮
𝓟𝓸𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓔𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮
episode 16: farcaster quality content, political tokens and prediction markets, and the ran domero phenomenon
The Mask Society IV
Building the Bonfire | ZERØPØD SPØTLIGHT on Seneca, cofounder of Nouns and Rounds.wtf
Discover the origins of this game-changing protocol, from its roots in Nouns to the evolution from Prop.House, and learn how Rounds.wtf is transforming community engagement and funding through decentralized, permissionless technology.
Seneca shares insights on why Rounds is essential for the future of onchain culture and how it empowers individuals to find their place and feel at home in this space, like a digital bonfire on the blockchain.
Timestamps:
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00:00 - Introduction
01:42 - Chapter One: After pronouns, there were Nouns.
08:31 - Chapter Two: The birth of a round.
15:49 - Chapter Three: You are already doing it.
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Produced and Edited: warpcast.com/jackwyldes
Interior #6
Darondo and The Park at La Pena
Darondo, the legendary soul & funk singer from the Bay Area sings "How I Got Over" backed by members of The Park at la Pena in Berkely, CA
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Ugly Meatboy Looking For His Love
FOOTBALL
SWIMMING
The best fight of all times 🤜🤛
C64 PETSCII,COMMODORE 64 STANDARD CHARACTER MODE GRAPHICS
✧ling water !
water photo by KamranAydinov
12 MI NENA
ZORA SUMMER
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🌈
time to be happy
☆𝒮.𝐸.𝐸.𝒟.☆
sniperX
feast yr eyes
analog process: mismatcher, mx-1, crt rescan
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Dreams…
Designheads Classified Ads
Design by Ally Zhu
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Scream
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AI imagesynthesis by
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royalty
✧ Sparks in the eyes
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ACQUARIUM 128 - The Tiny Medusa
The animation is hand painted and the composition is generated in p5.js (javascript) The best final outcomes have been selected 👽🦐
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"you"
fridays at the park season 002 episode 5
The Park is a creative space, a collective, where a group of friends come together to create, mix, master, and publish a song, from start to finish, from idea to onchain, every Friday.
Throughout the year we’ll be putting creative works onchain, on Base. Videos, music, albums, talks, moments, artifacts, bags of coffee, the internet is amazing
Happy Friday ⌐Ⓗ-Ⓕ
Musicians:
Jessie Boykins III
Chloe Angelides
Leo Pastel
Tim Anderson
Josh Lippi
Ben Schwier
Derek Taylor
Talk:
Jessie Pollak
Dee Gowens
Jacob Horne
C.Y. Lee
Carl Tydinco
David T Phung
Engineers:
Maddi StJohn
Travis Pavur
Ariel Klevecz
Film:
Ryan Kontra
48 hours no cigarettes
midwit horseshoe theory
KONSTANTINOVKA
08/16/23
5400 x 4320
110 MB
The Build-Up by Abigail Varney
As the coastal city of Darwin in northern Australia transitions from the dry season to the monsoonal period, a pervasive heat and humidity envelops the metropolis. This shift, known locally as ‘the build up’ or ‘mango madness,’ drives residents indoors, seeking refuge from the oppressive conditions.
Conveying the oppressive heat through photography is no easy task, yet Varney's work succeeds in depicting a palpable stillness, trepidation, and restlessness. The build up affects the community profoundly, with many exhibiting symptoms of seasonal affective disorder and mood swings, despite the festive December season. Varney's images exude a somber ambiance of eternal dusk, with scenes dimly lit as if shrouded by heavy clouds. This darkness mirrors both the environmental shifts due to climate change and the overall pessimistic mood that grips Darwin during this time.
At the core of Varney’s project is a captivating and alarming reflection on the intricate relationship between humans and the environment. The build up signifies the climatic pattern in the Australian top end, where the weather transitions from dry to monsoon. The ambient temperature steadily rises, and oppressive humidity sets in. Dark, threatening clouds roll through, producing only a few tantalizing raindrops, leaving the air thick and heavy. As the year draws to a close, the anticipation of monsoon's arrival brings a mix of celebration and neglect. Mango madness takes hold, with mangos ripening and falling from trees, while people experience emotional instability. Finally, the rains bring a much-needed sense of peace and equilibrium.
Varney’s work masterfully captures the tension and relief inherent in Darwin’s unique climate. Her images depict the natural and built environments as they respond to and reflect the build-up. Native birds perch languidly on roofs, creeks and oceans appear cloudy and restless, and locals celebrate Christmas in sweaty resignation. The psychological push-pull of the weather affects everyone, illustrating a brief submission to nature's versatile bounty.
Abigail Varney, a portrait and documentary photographer based in Melbourne, draws inspiration from her deep curiosity and connection to Australia's land, people, and ecologies.
Photography: Abigail Varney
Text: Zuzanna Gasior
→ thisispaper.com/mag/the-build-up-abigail-varney
Traveler
🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤
Fight well
The highest stage,
the game for gold
pressure rises,
time to be bold.
"Fighting well
the tradition to uphold.
Olympic Medals Paris 2024 (AR)
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𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰
αтмσѕρнєяє
𝘖𝘺𝘦…
Ｉ＇ｍ ｗｅｔ
¿qué vas a hacer mañanita?
baila
𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴
ruido
𝘚𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘜𝘱 (𝘌𝘴𝘱𝘢ñ𝘰𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘰) ★彡
Outer Shell
PUPIIK
something is cooking
UGLY TUNNEL 313
skating at Venice Beach Skatepark
20 frames, 6780 strokes made, 7h of work.
my submission to ‘Animate Nouns - Nouns Town LA Edition’ ⌐◨-◨
Cave Dwellers Unite
Read the full post on Paragraph: paragraph.xyz/
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Festival at the stadium 01
Festival at the stadium 02
Vintage masked men
Engagement Harming
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Web3 Cosmic Regent
M0rn1ng St4r
with yoshi san at nouns care popup at edcon tokyo_20240726
he’s helping us with the minor figures oat milk delivery to serve n ◨ u n ☕️ at edcon
⌐◨-◨ pilled
📍 united nations university, shibuya, tokyo, japan
The Park at Royale
San Francisco,CA 2009.
"I drank my first shot of Fernet at Roayle probably thanks to North Beach mayor, Joshi Lippi.
Fun Fact, San Francisco drinks more Frenet-Branca per capita than any place in the world." - Amanda Lopez
ad ignorantiam
midjourney x photomosh
l̷o̷n̷g̷e̷v̷i̷t̷y̷ ̷ ̷
Nouns Town LA - Presents...
Stay tuned for more!
Kubaranom⁴
r̷a̷w̷ ̷s̷e̷l̷f̷i̷e̷s̷
(Week 6) July 4th - 10th: A lesson on abundance
bond4
The Sacred Cube Phase III
93000 $Enjoy
The Sacred Cube Phase II
Me encanta! 26000 $Enjoy
The Sacred Cube Phase I
4700 $imagine
Windy Gushes
PNG | 2560 x 4553 pixels
Coded in the Hydra live coding visual library and finished with Adobe Photoshop.
Rangga Purnama Aji, 2024.
layed out every piece of paper
but dont really know how to say this
how is it possible that i am
menottis tokyo japan with tada san_20240726
37-11, kitazawa 5-chöme setagaya, tokyo, japan 155-0031
in the mood for hot dog
EMPRESS THRONE
nounish energy with each other at edcon tokyo_20240725
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📍shibuya, tokyo, japan
111111 $enjoy
Touch Grass: Short Film
HIGHER SESSIONS: Farcon 2024 Recap Video
BAGGAGE CLAIM 2024 Recap Video
How much glow with you
Goop
Watch full video of creation here: youtu.be/nkNibrrOv2Q
Boob Eyes
Watch vr video here:
youtu.be/s0uEuQUX-ZU
Scarsity
Casaca.
The BeavChris and BArt-Head Show: S02E05
003 higher wallet
my knight wey dey for U-Haul truck
VÖX, 2024
ELEVATE Ⓗ
7.25.2024
Soilder
(ꈍᴗꈍ)
Summer 24 Collection
Enjoy the ride
Like There’s Nothing Else In The World
on a #wave rn
el tiempo es un lugar
★ kitsune ★
= 0.000777 ETH
Say first — for Heaven hides nothing
spring breakers remix feat dry
Eminence
𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛*
a moment
i am free
love
Science Fair Pilot Intro
50% LP GOES TO SCIENCE FAIR TOKEN
where the ephemeral becomes eternal
Fairy's +++ (TIRED DELUXE EDITION)
Made with luma dream machine
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White dwarf
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Mask by lowzzz_ (insta)
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Heavy breath ༄
Rare Disc 004 + Rozwell + Aleqth — Cycle
The circular inscription on the disc says: "Rozwell® & Aleqth® present a sonic experience designed to ignite the senses & remind of us the most profound truth there is: if you can hear this you are alive".
continuum #203
SOFT DEBRIS SPORT
Choose the painful idea that will make you a better person
3arcin x ripnicci
𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓
dem dey package well well
Nouns x Krash World
drive.google.com/file/d/1hfPDAjMn03kLT3fSTnRa4ptGQqNtcRjK/view?usp=sharing
vision pro + nft folder 2.0.16
eNsIc
dog sitting
mud settles and the water is clear
wet tshirt contest
Sketch01-temps millors
rock hard abs tshirt (archival)
Incident #66
Incident #67
Sketches-03-c0mp
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✧ 100
𝑒𝑡𝘩𝑜𝑠
365 Days of Opepen
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Lawless Legends
#5c596e
abstracted from the roots
created by Cyrus Clarke in collaboration with Toucan, fxhash and coinbase
warpcast.com/~/channel/plantbased
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Grocerys 02
scream
ideas - page 601
sparks
Gracias a Dios nací en latinoamérica
TENNIS
The Call
Cute but Gangsta
Crab
𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠
Ode to womanhood
bomba
DD108
Koei Ural is currently developing the Javascript video mixer/synthesiser chaos machine (also known as “Dither Mindfucker Chaos Machine” 0.1) capable of generating unpredictable Dither and ASCII .gifs… and who know what else is coming next!
Diego Lazzarin will be trowing inputs in the software (such as 3D objects, textures and video samples), messing up with the parameters and selecting the most fascinating and disturbing outputs.
The idea is to generate and drop a .gif built by the Dither Mindfucker Chaos Machine (almost) everyday.
Rico
0_0-9
2 January 2023
8192 × 5448
shinobi
Sketches-02-novv
horse shoe
yes or no
004 - CATTRA
We can't let him spread the damaged anymore, especially pet shop and cat cafe. Lock and load !
Civilized Debate
yes chief
platform-1 (DEBUG) 2024-07-25 13-07-36
beauty brand website wip with cae collective
Stroll through the pixelverse
game-stipinpixel.netlify.app/
with the keyboard
walk W,A,S,D,
M, magic
O, be surprised
F, disappear
C, cry
E, observe
on the cell phone try walking with the gray buttons. and do actions with the colored buttons
This video game demo test is part of my personal experimentation, stemming from 12 years of research on the native graphics of Tucumán, Argentina. Today, it is a game meant solely for walking and wandering. Perhaps you can perform a few actions, like crying with emotion, being surprised, doing magic, and disappearing if you feel overwhelmed.
The pixelverse is taking shape. Here, I will showcase everything behind its construction: travels, archaeological elements, maps, sketches, and pixels derived from stone carvings and rock paintings.
✷ Kismet Casa Tōkyō '24
꯱ׁׅ֒ᥣׁׅ֪ꪱׁׅ ꩇׁׅ݊ꫀׁׅܻᨵׁׅᝯׁꫀׁׅܻꪀׁׅꫀׁׅܻ
𝖇𝖊𝖗𝖑𝖎𝖓 𝖆𝖋𝖙𝖊𝖗
夢の道
Camino Onírico
oc_cover.vol1
Kanojo
The Final SCENE ❤️ (commemorative video)
We set out to build something that was an expermint:
Off platform
Crowd funded
Co-created
The success metric: EMOTIONAL CONNECTION
Over 350 memories were submitted and turned into Scenes, capturing a moment in time and asking us to take a step back and reflect.
People stopped, took time out of their lives and and engaged a process that connected music and emotions 🎶
We raised $5k to build the custom platform through the Sound of Fractures Token - I wanted to build a world and bring people to it, and to do that we could rely on normal funding models. They were broken.
This enable the project to travel beyond the niche that funded it, and out into the world.
Because it wasn’t about the blockchain, that was the tool that allowed us to own.. it was about connecting the audience + the artist ✍️
Each Scene's prompt invited us to reflect on a different part of our lives, people cried, laughed, sent them as gifts, said things they had never said before and looked inside themselves.
🫂
In a world dominated by numbers and short term metrics, we ended up feeling a part of something bigger than us and creating memories while revisiting memories.
We became part of a on going pice of performance art 🖼️
Woven into the collective experience were 6 songs:
I had sampled my life and put it in the music and I got to invite you to contribute your life too.
🔊
It was was an amazing moment to see the project win one of the second place prizes in the @Optimism We Love The Art Competition - It was really hard to take in and a special moment for everyone.
Thanks so much to the judges ❤️
greening
stellar system
1488x768 | 930 frames
4.729.900 | bytes
Principe.
THE JESTER
My submission for Based Hanabi - cc0. This artwork is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal
Ain't My First Interstellar Rodeo
on the way through the end of the beginning where I found the treasure
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Scribblz_21
old body
˖⁺. ༶ ⋆˙⊹反復˖⁺. ༶ ⋆˙⊹
2024-02-12 09-28-26
MIRA LOS OJOS
In The Sky
Metaverse Mythology [Kismet Casa]
2092
✧ Spark
✧ Spark
fffomo
GM - #06
GM - #05
GM - #04
Sadness among the stars
NightGhillie
✨⭐( ´･･)ﾉ(._.`)\(￣︶￣*\))🌷
Digital Art by Gala
Acólito.
V1 AL TONNÉ!
beauty brand website wip with cae collective
GEMINI.2.gemini
WHY WE'RE NOT SURPRISED (MUSIC NFTs ARE STILL DEAD)
GIBÁ !!!
( ◑.◑)
useSoundEditionAddress
Islang Artipisyal
Jakestudyos, 2024
home
NEO PEN
Transfer of optimism
186 unicart
in it's current state, it makes interacting with the chain while using apps less obstructive. for example, if you want to mint this design everyday, you mint and watch the animation without any visual obstruction.
but it also makes me think about the future of a wallet extension's form factor.
the sidebar reminds me of a shopping cart, and i've always loved the idea of a universal shopping cart powered by crypto.
imagine adding items from multiple websites, paying with any token, and the shopping cart can make suggestions based on what's in your cart across any website on the internet.
Lion
music notes
music notes I
FRUIT
metro
Aqua Aero: Water
"Revolver"
Devs in coworking
嗣音羽(つぉねぱ)
永久恋愛(えくれあ）
Tame
mx-1 feedback, mismatcher, crt rescan
//explorer_560
Delve into the unknown and unravel the secrets of the machine!
//André Oliveira, 2024.
dark
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continuum #202
sueño en ameyoco⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪
rescue
1536x1344 | 755 frames
29.778.169 | bytes
Shinjuku
Exhibited with Kismet Casa at NOX Gallery in Tokyo, July, 2024.
Rootshaven
Opepen Chat Friday 5th of July 2024