Flying Cars, Robots and Reality Oracle Computers with Faust — July

July is a founder of Faust. Developing Roc: a reality oracle computer that notarizes reality, onchain. He’s an engineer who built flying cars and autonomous vehicles with Kittyhawk, a startup backed by Google. He’s an early Farcaster user and creator of the /july channel with 6.5K members. A place where anyone is invited to post musings, thoughts & dreams. We talk about counterculture movements. What’s happening on Farcaster and onchain. About collective imagination and the zeitgeist, how that is expressed through culture. Why people want to build robots. What all these things mean for the future.

Digital Art Trends for 2024 with Highlight — Nat Emodi

Nat Emodi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Highlight. Their product is being used for generative releases by leading artists, organizations, and platforms. Helping creators to release any type of collection, from tightly curated series to generative open editions. We recorded an episode about the ideas from his article '20 for ’24: Digital Art Trends That Will Shape This Year' and put the focus on art and trends in the industry, technology, for artists and collectors, galleries and curators.

Minting Blank CDs with Songcamp — Matthew Chaim

Matthew Chaim is a founder of Songcamp which is an artist collective and creative studio experimenting with songwriting camps and emergent technology to unlock new ways of creating and releasing music on the internet. We talk about all three of the previous Songcamp releases to date: Genesis, Elektra, and CHAOS — the epic headless band with 77 contributing artists. Leading up to their latest, C4 which drops today!

Creating Within the NFT Mania with Zen Academy — Zeneca

Zeneca is the founder of Zen Academy, a space designed to be a helpful community to learn about about web3 and NFTs. Former professional poker player. Speaker and content creator, writing about crypto, web3, NFTs, and the future of the internet. We talk about new ideas in onchain media. Adapting when your business model disappears along with NFT royalties. Highlights from the blur that was the NFT boom. About Zeneca’s interest in stoicism and well founded concerns about mental health and burnout from being maxed out when you are extremely online.

Revolutionising Websites for Artists and Fans with Bonfire — Matt Alston, Melissa Zhang

Matt Alston and Melissa Zhang are co-founders of Bonfire. The no-code website builder for web3 creators, brands and communities. A place for artists to connect with their fans and design exclusive experiences. We talk about the origins of Bonfire and the opportunities to be found in new models for artists on the internet.

Community for Culture-Makers with Take Up Space — Paff

Paff is a co-founder of Take Up Space. A community, creator collective and media company for culture-makers. Their goals are to create opportunities for POC & queer voices to take up space as their most authentic selves. And they are curating an artists drop on Zora with a theme of technology of togetherness. We talk about earlier times on the internet, music forum culture, meeting people IRL through music festivals and dance floors, and new ways to make connections now that life is going digital.

Producing in The Metaverse with BasedAF — SuperMassive

Robin Schmidt aka SuperMassive is the founder and CEO of BasedAF. Multi-award winning film director and creative. That dude what ran an ULTRAmarathon in VR Chat. Sponsored by FRAZ, the No1 beverage in the Metaverse. He also produced YouTube videos with The Defiant all through DeFi summer and the NFT run from 2021. Now he’s stepped out of the crypto world, jumping into another industry that’s at the edges: The Metaverse. Fucking about with what’s possible, and experimenting with virtual content creation.

Internet Energy as Collectives with Lore — Thomas Scaria

Thomas Scaria is the co-founder and CEO of Lore. Where communities turn social energy into collective power. Lore V2 introduces a modular protocol that covers the entire lifecycle of community capital formation, coordination, and allocation. Explore communities and mint Membership NFTs. Make things happen with internet friends. We talk about socialfi and friend.tech. Crypto as a counterculture movement. Internet subcultures and group chats. Building collectives to take action together.

Serendipity Machines and Hypercultures — LGHT, Gami

LGHT is a creator, artist and writer who explores web3, art, NFTs, DAOs, memetic icons, hypercultures and more at lght.mirror.xyz. Publishing imaginative concepts, research, insights and models. Gami is our first returning guest, a member of Nouns and founder of Gnars. This recording was the first time these two have met each other “in person” for a conversation. We jam about memetic icons, skateboarding, hyperstructures, minting onchain, psychedelic experiences and the future of the internet. Wandering into the philosophical, a few concepts were struck upon: serendipity machines, and ever increasing novelty in the universe as per Terence McKenna.

Exploring Ethereum with Interface — wijuwiju.eth

wijuwiju.eth is an initial contributor at Interface. Their app is a companion for exploring the realms of Ethereum. Making sense of onchain data, context and meaning that is all over the place. Gathering it together in ways that are understandable, enjoyable, surprisingly social and actionable for being on top of signals in crypto. We talk about how their team came together with support via a 50 ETH crowdfund on Mirror. Including essential contributions in design by Annoushka. Thinking about what the Interface app can do today and some alpha for what’s on the near horizon.

Manipulating Frequencies Since '96 — Kabuki

Kabuki is a producer, musician and artist based in Germany. Manipulating frequencies since ‘96. Building audio installations and exploring the realms of web3, NFTs and onchain music. We talk about his music and inspirations that came through electronic music and jungle in the 90s. About his creative process and philosophy. Learning how things work. How music technology is always changing in format and concepts. About his creative projects in web3, experimenting with ideas for music NFTs, beat tapes, live performances, videos and installations.

Decentralizing Social with Purple — Chris Carella, Phil Mohun

Chris Carella is a founding DAO member from Purple. He’s an artist, contributor across Nouns and Product Lead at the DAO tooling platform Charmverse. Phil Mohun is an early member of Purple and a founding DAO member of the arts community at Bright Moments. They met each other through joining Purple DAO which took form in the Farcaster community and ecosystem of builders in Ethereum. Purple was an early DAO launched with Nouns Builder. The daily auction is up to #257. We talk about experiences behind the scenes at Purple. What they like about the properties of Farcaster. And the potential for DAOs like Purple to fund public goods and open source projects in ways that don’t always require a profit incentive.

Amplifying Tokenized Communities with Forefront — Jihad Esmail

Jihad Esmail is a core contributor at Forefront, proliferating collective creation. Key author for Tokenized Communities Year In Review, and a researcher at Other Internet, an applied research organisation studying social technology. Active in the Nouns DAO community, one of the most fascinating things happening in the crypto space as its evolved since launch in 2021. We talk about governance, memes, NFT memberships, onchain media and trends for communities from ERC20s and social tokens to PFP collections, onchain social and nounish projects.