Hyperactive Episode 5 - Red with Antimo FM
We walk-and-talk with freelance product designer, Antimo FM. Antimo shares his journey from growing up in Italy with a passion for comic books and illustration, his path to design, crypto, and Farcaster, and how he’s using Hypersub to build community and earn recurring revenue onchain.
Hyperactive Episode 4 - Narisofka's Gang with Sofia Komarenko
We walk-and-talk with artist, illustrator, and designer Sofia Komarenko. Sophia shares her journey from growing up in Siberia and Kaliningrad to becoming a professional artist. She discusses her influences from cartoons and games, her entry into the NFT space, and the challenges of the crypto winter. Sophia highlights the importance of physical representations of digital art and how she’s using Hypersub to earn recurring revenue, and build a community of supporters that help sustain her artistic practice.
Terminally Onchain with YB
We discuss the past, present, and future of YB's work, and how he's using Hypersub to earn recurring revenue onchain with Terminally Onchain.
The Yon Experience with Yon Frula
We discuss the past, present, and future of Yan's work, and how he's using Hypersub to earn recurring revenue onchain with The Yon Experience.
Believe in Something with Jihad Esmail
We discuss the past, present, and future of Jihad's work, and how he's using Hypersub to earn recurring revenue onchain for Believe in Something.
many such cases ep 12: building for high-quality content with @dwr
on this episode (recorded “like a year ago”), @dwr joins @ted and @nonlinear to discuss the number one priority for farcaster right now: the challenge in creating a sustainable supply of quality content. we cover user engagement metrics, the current state of channels and what they could become, and how the team is thinking about enabling high-quality content through new features. @dwr also shares some of his insights on the power of text-based content and cultures on social platforms like twitter and what the emergence of AI-generated content may mean for these platforms. 00:39 farcaster’s top priority 01:29 challenges and strategies for building communities 07:30 reducing the barrier to high-quality content 15:20 the dominance of text-based content 18:35 in-group culture, power of memes, and AI-generated content 25:25 the future of channels
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.
Experiencing Music with wavWRLD — Karma + Violetta
Karma and Violetta are music artists, travellers in the crypto space, exploring onchain music and art and creative collectives. Founders of wavWRLD. Seeking to create unique musical experiences that connect artists with their true fans. A creative collective and music community that has been a shared space for many web3 music artists and builders. We talk about their new project wavGAME. A collective release involving artists who performed at their first wavWRLD live showcases in New York featuring TK, Tarot, AbJo, Cam Murdoch, Jadyn Violet, Fred Riko, KarmaVioletta, and Black Dave.
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.
A Social Crypto Wallet with Zerion — Alexander Guy
Alexander Guy is head of growth at Zerion. A place to manage your crypto, DeFi and NFT portfolios. Trade across multichain and connect to any decentralized application. We talk about the crypto lifestyle. Why we think it’s a compelling space to be looking to join a company or create a project. And common pitfalls of the crypto lifestyle like FOMO, always being on, stress about security, excessive information input, and getting up to speed when you’re new and joining crypto.
Creativity In Multiplayer with Metalabel — Austin Robey
Austin Robey is a member of the founding squad at Metalabel. An assembly of founders, creators and producers emerging from the web2 economy, now helping to amplify the meme of the metalabel. Imagined as a release club where groups of people with shared interests create and release work together.
Making Art, Code & Lore with Crypto Coven — Nyx
Nyx is a co-founder of Crypto Coven, focusing mostly on art, code and lore for an NFT collection of 9999 witches created by five friends. We talk about creating a project like this from the inside perspective. The power of lore, storytelling and world building. What can be accomplished in smart contract design and doing creative things with the tech.
Ep 55 - Carlos of Farcaster Index
We're joined by Carlos of Farcaster Index to chat all things FC including DEGEN, onchain social graphs, memecoins, clients and much more. He shares his experience running a DAO for 3 years and what's next for him and Moonlight.
Ep 54 - 33 Below
Were joined by rising artists 33 Below to talk about his first headline tour, opening for RL Grime and winning the Optimism art contest.
Alex Masmej Talks $DEGEN: Fueling Drakula's Growth and the Onchain Creator Economy
Join us in this episode as we sit down with Alex Masmej, the brain behind Drakula and a key player in the farcaster ecosystem. From his early days of conceptualizing Showtime as the 'Instagram of NFTs' to pioneering Drakula, Alex's journey is nothing short of remarkable. Drakula, now making waves as the 'TikTok of Web3', has seen an explosive start with over $30M in transactions in just two weeks, introducing a new and engaging way for fans to support video creators. Alex returns to the podcast to share the lessons learned from pivoting Showtime to creating Drakula, highlighting the strategic moves, go-to-market strategy, and the decision to adopt $DEGEN as the native currency of the app. I hope you enjoy our conversation and our genesis episode on Pods!
Ep 51 - Optimism We <3 The Art Winners
We're joined by The Park and Aly x Bloody White to chat about winning the grand prize of 50k OP in the largest online art competition. We unpack their submissions "becky v2" and "BLOODY BAG" along with their plans for the prize money and what's to come!
Ep 50 - Graeme from Stack
We're joined by Graeme to deep dive on onchain points and their $3m seed round lead by Archetype. We cover everything you need to know about the points meta.
Ep 48 - Oscillator
We’re joined by RAC and Jack Spallone to unpack their plans to make onchain music data globally accessible in the company’s first podcast!
Ep 44 - Daniel Allan
Daniel joins us as our first returning guest to talk about his hit song "I Just Need" with Lyrah and going viral on Instagram. Don't miss his first tour coming to Denver, LA and NYC next month! Tickets - danielallan.xyz/collectors
Ep 43 - BlockchainBrett
We’re joined by the leading collector and GP of Palm Tree Crypto to share his bull case for Music NFTs. He shares his thesis for onchain media and insights into the ongoing sentiment around collecting music.
