Context S3: Inside Super Punk World w/ Nina Chanel Abney and Todd Kramer
Blake speaks with the brilliant Nina Chanel Abney, world renowned multidisciplinary artist. Her resume is beyond impressive; her work is in the permanent collections of museums like The MoMa and The Whitney, and she just released her second collaboration with Nike, designing her take on the iconic Jordan 3. Earlier this year, she was the first artist selected for Punk in Residence, an art program by CryptoPunks designed to champion creative experimentation with web 3. She released Super Punk World, her 500 piece NFT collection in May as part of the program. Throughout this episode, you’ll get further context on Nina’s entire body of work, her artistic vision and what she stands for, while Blake and her chat about the WNBA, her Nike collab, art history, how humour translates across mediums and more. The second half of the episode is dedicated to talking about Super Punk World, from its conception to its reception, to what’s next. Accompanying Nina is the innovative gallerist and collector Todd Kramer, who provides illuminating perspectives about the business side of the art industry, what Nina has accomplished in her career thus far and The Gallery of Digital Assets (GODA) which Nina and him co-founded with Pharrell (among others!). The three of them have an inspiring and pertinent discussion that is especially relevant for crypto art and NFT collectors and anyone interested in creativity onchain. Nina’s Twitter: https://x.com/ninachanel Super Punk World: https://hub.cryptopunks.app/gallery/nina Nina’s Nike Collab: https://www.nike.com/ca/launch/t/air-jordan-3-retro-x-nina-chanel-abney-bicoastal-and-malachite Todd’s Twitter: https://x.com/toddkramer1 Blake’s Twitter: https://x.com/blakefinucane Boys Club Newsletter: https://boysclub.beehiiv.com/
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.
Building Something Different with Therapy — Simona Pop
Simona Pop is joyfully subverting the status quo. Host of /therapy on Farcaster. Writing and giving talks around building with intention and how existing trauma and socio-economic conditioning can hinder our ability to build something different. She's an advisor at Optimism helping to build the Superchain. Public Goods Steward at ENS DAO and one of the first people I met in crypto attending Ethereal Summit in Brooklyn in 2018. Simona's been a member of the UFO network since the very beginning. We hear something about an upcoming radio show? Sponsors: Higher is a lifestyle — aimhigher.net Where group chats make more money — lore.xyz
Art, Music and Festival Culture with Refraction — Malcolm, Raf, Greg
Malcolm Levy, Raf Katigbak and Greg Liburd are co-founders of Refraction. An artist-owned community leading the next wave of digital art, music and culture — online, onchain and IRL. They all have extensive backgrounds in media, culture, festivals, films, brands. As artists, designers, writers, producers and creative people. Raf was early at VICE. Greg did a bunch with Jordan. Malcolm was the Director of the New Forms Festival 2001-16, and Curator of CODE Live during the 2010 Olympics Games. Today we reveal that Refraction and UFO are teaming up via our radio station. And exclusive alpha is shared for the future of Refraction for the first time on this show. 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
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
MINIHASH 001 | The Tally Protocol w/Dennison Bertram
Minihash is a condensed episode of Rehash, where we do a deep dive into one focused topic with a past guest. On our first Minihash episode, we’re speaking with Dennison Bertram about the newly launched Tally Protocol.
S8 E10 | Organizational Design and Governance Frameworks w/Amy Jung (Safe)
On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Amy Jung, Governance Lead at Safe and an OG in the Ethereum and specifically DAO space, about all things organization design, governance, and her hottest takes about DAOs.
S8 E9 | People Before Protocols w/Irina Marinescu (buidlbox)
On our penultimate episode of the season, we’re speaking with Irina Marinescu, co-founder and CEO of buidlbox, a global hub for builders to learn, earn, and connect in web3. Irina is also a mentor at Tachyon and a founder of Women in Crypto, and she previously worked as General Counsel at Gitcoin throughout its disaffiliation process to decentralize Gitcoin Holdings (which later became Supermodular) from GitcoinDAO back in Spring 2022.
S8 E8 | Onchain Subscription Models & Rehash on Hypersub w/Jonny Mack (Hypersub/Fabric)
On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Jonny Mack, co-founder and CEO of Hypersub and Fabric, about all things subscriptions. First, an announcement: Rehash just launched a monthly subscription on Hypersub! This monthly subscription will deliver Rehash podcast NFTs straight to your wallet onchain. You can find the link to subscribe below. In this episode we talk all things subscriptions and Hypersub - what features web3 enables for creator subscriptions that was never before possible in web2, how creators can best engage their audience to encourage resubscribes anď reduce churn, and some of the best examples of how creators have been using Hypersub to date.
S8 E7 | Airdrop Design and Dragon Academy Revealed for the First Time w/Queen Wartooth
On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Queen Wartooth about designing airdrops, strategies for acquiring new users in crypto, and she reveals for the first time the project she’s been working on in stealth, Dragon Academy, which will launch in June 2024. Dragon Academy aims to fundamentally change how airdrops are architected and executed to the benefit of both long term aligned products and new users.
Ep.03: Podcast NFTs, Progressive Ownership, Point-Backed Tokens, New AI Gaming Tools, and more
Internet Explorers become a ~~sought-after~~ collectible available on @CollectPods. In addition, @iancr shares insights on the early stages of a certain development, @AlanaPodrx compiles a list of innovative revenue-sharing experiments, and @jessewldn explores the concept of progressive ownership. Meanwhile, @CbbOffe introduces a point-backed token through friend.tech, @avara acquires @family, and @0xfoobar launches @LiquidDelegate. The updates also feature a new tweet lightning round and lively video interludes by @peace_node. Join us live and online on Fridays @ 10AM PST live.seedclub.xyz Hosts: Jess Sloss & Josh Cornelius Web VJ: peace_node Production: Cheryl Douglass Development: David Hurley Operations: Merna Makar
Ep.01: Solana pumping, All In CEO hunt, Fundraising landscape, and more.
Episode 01 breaks down a new product from Small Brain Games, Solana, Chain Abstraction, the search for a new All In CEO, the state of fundraising in November 2023, and the return of Aragon.