Creativity with Extinction Rebellion — Charlie Waterhouse

Charlie Waterhouse is a co-founder of the Art Group and Media team at Extinction Rebellion based in London. He’s Creative Director of This Ain’t Rock ’n’ Roll, and a director of the Brixton Pound. We talk about the origins of Extinction Rebellion, a global movement using non-violent direct action to persuade governments to take action on climate, and inspire public consciousness to the cause.

Broadcasting Onchain Media with Vessel — Steph Alinsug

Steph Alinsug is a brand builder, storyteller, community organiser, and media creative. Founder of Vessel. An emergent startup designing for the onchain media ecosystem. She was previously the Media Steward at Seed Club. Internet native accelerator with a growing network of alumni projects including ALLSHIPS, Cabin, Forefront, Metalabel, Poolsuite, Protein, Refraction, Songcamp, Take Up Space and Water & Music. We talk about Broadcast, an inaugural web3 media event held in Brooklyn May 2023. An invite only summit focusing on the future of onchain media. It was a collaboration between Vessel, Seed Club, and Foster which is a writers collective based in New York.

New Internet is Here with Boys Club — Natasha Hoskins

Natasha Hoskins is a creator, brand builder and Co-Founder of Boys Club. A social collective bringing a new voice to the new internet. Product studio and media company. Best known for their parties, community, podcasts, interviews with crypto builders, memes, merch and a newsletter. We talk about their experiences building a social collective brand in crypto. How they designed their DAO. How they are thinking about audiences and making collaborative releases like printing a physical zine and distributing by hand across South by Southwest.

Towards Infinite Gardens with Ethereum in Latin America — Marcus AM

Marcus AM is a creator, researcher, builder and artist. Fellow of the Ethereum Foundation and co-creator of Ethereum Guatemala. Researcher and author of the Last Mile Defi Report on crypto adoption in Latin America. We talk about Marcus’ origin stories growing up in rural Guatemala, observing corruption and fraught financial infrastructure leading to his early interest in Bitcoin. Through to verging into the crypto builder space and being accepted as a fellow of the Ethereum Foundation to research opportunities, challenges and use cases for crypto adoption in Latin America. Crypto as a counterculture movement. Marcus’ interests in podcasting. Supporting young developers and teams in the Latin American ecosystem and the impact created by Devcon and ETH Global events happening in the region.

Navigating the Future with Extinction Rebellion — Clare Farrell

Clare Farrell is a founding member of Extinction Rebellion. She’s an activist, artist, designer, communicator and organiser. In the Adam McKay movie Don’t Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence go on television to raise the alarm about an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, only to be met by the banal absurdity of how mainstream news works. Well, Clare Farrell has that role in real life. Appearing on TV to speak on behalf of this XR movement. A surreal experience to find yourself in. We discuss their demands for net zero carbon emissions by 2025, citizens assemblies and direct democracy, and reparatory justice for nations and people around the world most impacted by the climate crisis.

Skateboarding in a CC0ciety with Nouns and Gnars — Gami

Gami is a founder at Gnars and a member at Nouns. With his team at Omega they just dropped an NFT project called Forgeries. An open edition minting NFT copies of Noun 401 and one of those tokens unlocked ownership of the real Noun. His background is in skateboarding, growing up in rural Australia, before becoming a sponsored skater and other adventures. We talk origin stories in crypto and NFTs, his early involvement in Nouns and the founding of Gnars, a community owned (and run) extreme sports club with over 1000 members. They are responsible for the grind box in a public square in Rio de Janeiro which was a bright red pair of Nouns noggles, some iconic early Nouns images. Now they’re teaming up with skateboarding hall of famer Bob Burnquist for community projects in Brazil.

Reflecting Your Identity with Disco — Evin McMullen

Evin McMullen is the co-founder and CEO at Disco. A company building tools to make it easy to carry your data from web2 to web3, under your ownership and control. Using Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable credentials. We talk about Evin's origin stories before web3 and crypto, how the Disco team came together, and the community design superpowers unlocked by combining Disco with tools from Guild.

Playing Piano with Zora and FWB — Yuri Rybak

Yuri Rybak is a musician and producer. Partnerships at Zora. Early member at Friends With Benefits, including as a producer at NFT Pirate Radio with Chuck Anderson. We talk about writing and producing music, the music industry, and what we see as emergent for music NFTs and artist collectives. We get into Yuri’s musical path through life, leading to early involvement with FWB on the scene for many experiments in NFT releases from artists including Glassface, Pussy Riot, and Eric Hu. Experiences from the inside at Zora, their brand and creative, zorbs, minting to 1155 contracts, and the rising ecosystem of Nouns Builder projects.

Reimagining eSports with BLVKHVND — Sirsu

Sirsu is the co-founder of BLVKHVND. He’s an artist, designer, brand creator, gamer. BLVKHVND is creating an emerging ecosystem for onchain esports organizations. Their mission is to be the center of competition no matter where it lives. We talk about Sirsu’s journey from earlier days in gaming, art, NFTs and crypto. From raising $1 million in one day on a Mirror crowd fund to booting up an eSports organization with multiple teams competing around the world. Helping to launch Mint Fund in collaboration with others at Forefront, Zora and Seed Club ~ a community-owned initiative helping crypto creators mint their first NFTs. Sirsu has many stories to tell, and much of it is shared here for the first time.

Aggregating Web3 Social with Yup — Nir Kabessa

Nir Kabessa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Yup, along with Co-Founder Vernon Johnson. Yup is the best of web3, all in one feed. Aggregating the best content of Lens, Farcaster, Mirror, NFTs and Twitter. Nir was President of Blockchain at Columbia from 2018 to 2020. Since 2020 he’s been a Mentor at the Columbia IBM Blockchain Accelerator. Speaker and investor, contributing at publications including Forefront, Hacker Noon and Big Think. We talk about the EVM as a social network. The rapid evolution, growth and experimentation we’re seeing in web3 social. What it means for media networks like UFO. And Nir’s early origins in the crypto space, starting way back in 2014 and amping up from 2017.

Exploring Web3 Collectives with Folklore — Rafa

Rafa is a web3 creator, writer, and operations specialist. Crafting lore and exploring web3 collectives, combining org design theory with digital community building. Most recently he worked at Mirror as their Community and Growth Lead. He's the founder of Folklore, a community exploring long-form articles related to belonging, lorecraft, human relationships, and digital realms. We talk about media and internet communities. The web3 creator playbook including the ability to earn ownership in protocols and DAOs through participation rather than only financial means.

Bringing Japan and the Netherlands together with Midnight夏季Breeze — Dutchtide

Dutchtide is an independent artist, designer and founder based in the Netherlands. Creator of the NFT collection MidnightBreeze, released in 2021. Illustrations inspired by 90s vaporwave and the Japanese word Ma 間 which translates to ‘space’ but can be interpreted many different ways. We talk about the inspirations of Japanese art and culture for his art practice coming from a Dutch style of colour, light, composition and architecture. His earlier days in NFTs including the life altering sale of a Beeple work which funded his own projects and secured a CryptoPunk.

Create What's Missing with Public Assembly — losingmyego, 0xTranqui, Salief Lewis

losingmyego, 0xTranqui and Salief Lewis are founding members from Public Assembly. A collective of web3 developers building dev tools, educational materials, libraries and repositories of information. Public Assembly launched on Nouns Builder on December 3, 2022. Their project began as a four-week creative sprint and evolved from being anti-DAO to launching a DAO of their own. We talk about the philosophy of co-creation, open source, and the types of communal environments we create together on the internet.

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.

Funding Public Goods with Gitcoin — Scott Moore

Scott Moore is the Co-Founder of Gitcoin, the community of builders, creators, and protocols at the centre of open web ecosystems. We talk about the ideals of solarpunk, aiming to build towards a techno-positive future, what it means and how this ties into recognising web3 as a counterculture movement. About the origins of Gitcoin and what they’ve discovered along the way. Thinking about funding public goods like a subway system that produces value for a whole city, the people who live there and all their activities.

Co-Curating the Art NFTs Ecosystem with JPG — María Paula, Trent Elmore

María Paula is the retired founder of the Department of Decentralization which organised the ETH Berlin hackathon events. Trent Elmore was working in DeFi before teaming up with María and Sam Spike as co-founders of JPG. A platform and infrastructure to promote and preserve the NFT ecosystem's cultural objects via exhibitions and canons. We talk about the origins of JPG, community co-curation for the Dynamic and Conceptual Art Canons, and observations from earlier years in Ethereum through DeFi summer up to present day.

Riding Motorcycles Through Art Worlds with Night Run — Matto

Matto is a generative artist, audio, code, and visual. Managing Director of Thousand Ant, creative studio based in New York. His latest Night Run is a conceptual art project with three parts: A motorcycle game where you look at art in a generated city space; An NFT collection with imaginary fashion houses; A series of videos with commentary. We talk about the NFTs scene over the past couple years, with a few highlights including Terraforms, Blitmaps, Loot, Toadz and Nouns.

Talking 2017 NFTs with CryptoKitties and Dapper Labs — Benny Giang

Benny Giang is a product marketer and creative thinker in UX design, growth and community. Co-founder at Future Primitive where they work on experimental creative projects involving NFTs such as the Stapleverse with Jeff Staples. Team member #13 at Dapper Labs and a co-founder of the iconic CryptoKitties in 2017. Later NBA Top Shot before departing from Dapper in October 2021. We talk about origin stories and creating the first ever NFTs discord community for CryptoKitties including founders from Dapper, Axie Infinity, and OpenSea.

Valuing Artists By Their Potential — Black Dave

Black Dave aka Dave Curry is a music artist, producer, rapper, photographer, and innovator in the realms of web3 music and NFTs. He’s a contributor at Water & Music and shares ideas about crypto and music at his Mirror publication. He helped to found a collaborative music project Amethyst from his hometown in Charleston, South Carolina. We talk platforms for minting music. Dynamics of scarcity in music NFTs ~ 1/1s as fine art and editions as building blocks for communities. And his belief that we should value artists by their potential, not their present moment.

Creating Onchain Records with Metalabel — Anna Bulbrook, Yancey Strickler

Anna Bulbrook is a musician, multi-disciplinary cultural curator, creative producer, and director. A founding squad member at Metalabel. Music Curator at TED. Playing violin with artists like Perfume Genius, Beyoncé, Vampire Weekend and Spiritualized. Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur. He’s the cofounder and director of Metalabel, cofounder of Kickstarter, and cofounder of the artist resource The Creative Independent. We explore two articles by Yancey, 'Reinventing The Record' and 'The Onchain Era', and directly valuing the creative work you love.

Collecting Art With Friends — Nicolas Sassoon, Sam Mason de Caires

Nicolas Sassoon is a Franco-Canadian artist using early computer graphics to create a wide array of pixelated forms, patterns & architectural structures. His works are published on SuperRare, Foundation, and Objkt, having been collected by some of the most notable NFT collectors in the space. Sam Mason de Caires is an engineer who’s into generative art. Presently at Syndicate, and previously at Foundation and Rainbow. Along with their friends Tim Smith and FEELS, they are a collective who are collecting art together as a DAO. We talk about art and the crypto space. About Nicolas’ artistic practice and how he makes his works. How technology is enabling new ways to create, collect, and support artistic expression. And what kinds of NFTs Sam and Nicolas are interested in for Gossamer.

Music, Sound Sculptures and Reality — Martí Ruids

Martí Ruids is a musician and sound artist. Professor and researcher in the sculpture department at the Universitat de Barcelona. With more than a decade of experience with sound sculptures and working with masters in Japan. Member of Híbrida, Nen i Cavall. Part of a duet band RIUH with Raquel Cruces performing traditional folk music from the Iberian Peninsula. Member of Pangamelan, exploring gamelan music from Indonesia, using pots and pans to create unique instruments, rhythm, pitch and percussion, achieving trance like states. We talk about experimental music. Sound and resonance. How it effects consciousness. The very nature of reality. Martí's work reviving Baschet Sound Sculptures with concerts in Japan. And exploring the realms of traditional music from Iberia, across places in Catalunya, Basque country, and Portugal.

Creating with AI in Generative Art and Visual Effects — ATARA

ATARA aka Johannes Saam is an Academy Award-winning creative technologist, futurist, and web3 artist. With two decades innovating in visual effects and film, raised by 80s and 90s movies and video games, he's an explorative creator of generative art. We talk about his visual effects career in the film industry, exploring creativity through coding, mathematics and technology, the latest from AI generative platforms such as DALL·E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and we go behind the scenes for the creation of DALL-E Punks.

Design with Seed Club and Songcamp — peacenode

Peacenode is a designer and graphic artist at Seed Club and Songcamp. We talk about his origin stories in crypto and background in the music scene. Creative practice and making poster designs for over 200 days straight. And we jam about projects we’re into like Nouns Builder from Zora.

Evolving Web3 Communities with Guild — Reka

Reka is a co-founder at Guild, the ultimate tool for platformless memberships and quests for internet communities. She writes about communities, DAOs and internet culture. We talk about the origin stories of Guild, how their team came together, what they’re focused on building and Reka’s interest in jokedao and jokerace.