Art, Music and AI with ORIGIN STØRIES — Sean Bradford

Sean Bradford is an artist, musician and creative technologist. Founder of ORIGIN STØRIES, a creative tech studio producing custom AI-powered tools for co-created experiences. He's lived many lives. As a vocalist and recording artist signed to a major label. Performing on Broadway. A DJ who spent a lot of time in Berlin, before moving to Stockholm and now Amsterdam. A crypto native, deeply immersed in AI and generative systems. Exploring how these creative tools can be used to transform relationships and enable world building between artists and audiences. ___ UFO Sponsor Resources Towns — https://www.towns.com/ ↑ Higher — https://www.aimhigher.net/ 🌐 International Meme Fund — https://imf.bz/ --- @originstory @ufoclub.eth @hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm

Rolling Forever with Skateboarding and Art — Dave Bachinsky

Dave Bachinsky is a professional skateboarder, woodworker, and visual artist based in Carlsbad, California. In 2020, he launched a visual collection called Roll Forever featuring videos filmed with a drone from a bird's-eye view, observing a skaters' line in a pool or skate spot and edited to loop indefinitely, as if the line never ends. His new project Changing Tides was minted on Highlight. Dave is super early bringing skateboarding to the crypto, NFTs and new internet scene. We talk about life as a pro skater, kickflipping El Toro 20 stair and competing in Street League Skateboarding (SLS). How the industry, scene and culture has evolved over the years. And how things look in 2024 with skateboarding returning in the Paris Olympics.

A Collective Signal with UFO — Alex Guy, aiio, LGHT

Nick Hollins, Alex Guy, aiio and LGHT are hosts of the first shows on the UFO network. Alex is head of Growth at Zerion and recently launched Still Here. A show to explore his curiosity talking with people who are active web3 citizens. Through all the ups and downs of crypto. Answering the question of what motivates and inspires them. Why they’re still here. aiio is a researcher, community builder and writer bridging across web3 and the underground electronic music and arts communities in Copenhagen. Soon bringing a podcast to UFO. She writes about the concept of space, linking it to human culture, existence, and the need for adaptive ecosystems. LGHT is an artist, designer, writer, and technologist based in the Eastern United States. Creator of the Hypercultures essay series as well as co-founding Based Management. His work mainly focuses on protocol design, the science of digital language/memetics, and zero to one acceleration of tech primitives and adoption. We talk about UFO as a collective signal. Building a radio station. Sharing ideas for how we see this going forward into 2024.

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.

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

Higher is a lifestyle — Martin, Six, Kugusha

Martin, Six and Kugusha are all early members of higher. A new creative collective with its own native currency, built with a token on Base, publishing on Zora, and accelerating out of sight as one of the all-time fastest growing Farcaster channels. Higher is a lifestyle, an optimistic mindset, a brand being built in real time by hundreds of people on the internet. The word itself was used in crypto for some time, but the idea that “Higher” could be something bigger was kickstarted by LGHT in March. LGHT created the arrow logo and the /higher Farcaster channel, after a suggestion from Jacob from Zora that the unicode up arrow (↑) could be the symbol for “higher”. And LGHT then made a few memes in a collection on Zora. We talk about everyone’s early experiences on Farcaster and views on how it’s developing. About the origins of higher and what’s emerging so far from this experiment, building a brand together. Zooming out on the possibilities and general sense of fun and play with people on the internet that is something to be a part of. 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

Music Evolution with Topia — LATASHÁ

LATASHÁ is the founder of Topia. The evolution will not be televised. It will be onchain. She’s an artist, musician, producer, world builder. An original from the onchain music scene who was minting works on Zora back in 2021. She became Community Lead at Zora and produced ZORATOPIA. An events series and community which helped to onboard artists into new internet ways of releasing music and working together. Music prize winner in the We Love The Art contest from Optimism for WAVE, a track and music video produced from her home studio. We talk about her origins in music and production, making beats and writing, coming up in the scene in New York. Experiences working at ZORA in these earlier formative stages. Reflections on the space in this moment in 2024, and hints at what she’s building now at Topia.

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.

Coming Together for Music in Barcelona with Oval — Alvaro Delgado

Alvaro Delgado is a musician, artist, and co-founder of Oval — A newborn creative community from Barcelona. Oval is putting together a series of concert and club nights, community events, suppers, and writing camps — designed to foster cross-pollination among individuals who have come to the city in search of something more: a spotlight, a sense of belonging.

Songwriting, Music and the Internet in 2024 — Leo Pastel

Leo Pastel is a musician, songwriter, multi-sensory artist and builder in web3 music from Cincinnati, Ohio. Releasing music since 2018 and in the early days of the crypto music scene. His first single Woah had 750,000 streams and he's produced with Songcamp and Camp CHAOS, performing at FWB Fest. Leo tells stories from the gospel scene, growing up in a musical family, and singing as part of the Sunday Service Choir with Kanye. Music on the internet is in a state of change. NFTs are still unpopular to a general audience, while Condé Nast announced layoffs at Pitchfork. If we’re making music and no-one’s around to listen, critique, write about it and record into the zeitgeist — does it make a sound?

Multiplayer Music Communities with Fam — Nick Smith

Nick Smith is a designer from Melbourne, Australia. Founder of Fam, a space for music communities to grow, collaborate and collectively fund creative projects. He’s an early member from FWB and helped to organise Soulquest, a collaborative music project featuring Iman Europe, V.C.R, illcamille, and Swarvy, along with visual artists Jamee Cornelia and Shawntel Johnson. The group performed and recorded at FWB Fest in Idyllwild, CA in 2023.

Music, AI and Neural Audio Synthesizers with SEMILLA AI — Hexorcismos, aiio

Hexorcismos aka Moisés Horta is an artist, musician and technologist working with generative artificial neural networks over the past 7 years. aiio is a researcher, community builder and writer bridging across web3 and the underground electronic music and arts communities in Copenhagen.

Reimagining Content Collecting with Mint and Bello — Adam Levy

Adam Levy is the creator and host of Mint Podcast. Exploring the web3 creator economy. One of the best podcasts in the space. He is also a founder of Bello, where you can discover actionable insights about your collectors from their wallets and onchain activity through a simple search. Recorded between NYC and Liverpool, we talk music and playing drums, onchain media and messing about with technology. How Adam's early podcasts drinking with Mark Cuban in 2020 illuminated a path forward to creating Mint and putting out 7 seasons so far with guests in crypto, music and entertainment. Which led to creating Bello and exploring what onchain data reveals about audiences, mints, web3 social, and communities.

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.

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!

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.

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.