Happy Friday with the park ⌐Ⓗ-Ⓕ — Derek Taylor

Derek Taylor is a musician and founding member of the park. A band with many of the largest onchain music mints of all time. Based in Los Angeles, originally from San Francisco. They stage Fridays at the Park, bringing artists together in the room to write and record music. In-person experiences that also help onboard into the onchain and crypto world. Derek is a coffee enthusiast and raconteur. Owner of the legendary Menotti’s Coffee Stop in Venice Beach. We jumped on the mics to record days before I flew out to FarCon. We co-hosted HIGHER SESSIONS down at Venice Beach skatepark on Saturday morning, with the park, higher and UFO. Trevor aka The Gardener had a mountain of flowers there and was creating bouquets for people passing by and the park was providing coffee. We talk about the back story of the park, stories of creative collaborations across the world, how best to get started on the onchain scene as a musician, and how things look into the future. Sponsors: Your crypto wallet for everything onchain — zerion.io Create, distribute and monetize on your own terms — paragraph.xyz Higher is a lifestyle — aimhigher.net Home of onchain ticketing — onopen.xyz Where group chats make more money — lore.xyz

Designing Social Instruments with Scene Infrastructure Company — Jose, Ethan, Neesh

Scene Infrastructure Company is a software business building better instruments for socialization. We recorded with the founding team, Jose Mejia, Ethan Daya and Neesh, and what we got down on tape is super valuable context, experiences and thoughts around founding a new company. For design, product, community building and technology choices. Coming from earlier founding experiences at organizations like FWB and Zora. On designing a brand, and finding inspirations from retro spots like computer magazines, playstation games and lore, to create something fresh. We talk about their vision for the future and what they’d like to build, as they’re figuring it out in real time. They will be activating a social product experience for FWB Fest in California in August. Sponsors: Your crypto wallet for everything onchain — zerion.io Create, distribute and monetize on your own terms — paragraph.xyz Higher is a lifestyle — aimhigher.net Home of onchain ticketing — onopen.xyz Where group chats make more money — lore.xyz

Memetic Tribes and The Casino on Mars — Rafa, Jihad

Rafa is the founder of Folklore, a community crafting knowledge of connection, lorecraft, and digital realms. Jihad Esmail is a writer, researcher and builder. A media dealer at Forefront proliferating onchain collective creation. We talk about The Casino on Mars written by Matt Huang for Paradigm. Also a research piece written by Rafa in which he’s exploring ideas around swarm theory and how groups form and how this manifests online.

Bringing the World Onchain with Base — Jesse Pollak

Jesse Pollak is contributor #1 at Base. A new Ethereum L2, incubated by Coinbase and built on the open-source OP Stack. We talk about Jesse’s origin stories in tech and joining Coinbase early. How an idea to do something radical like decentralise Coinbase and bring the whole org onchain set things in motion, and led to Base being developed like a breakaway startup from within. You'll hear stories about how it’s working behind the scenes for players in this onchain movement including Base, Zora and Optimism. We look back on Onchain Summer from August and highlight projects including Basepaint, Happy Friday coffee by thepark, create.fun, Paragraph and Lore.

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.