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Justin Mauvin. Sibu Manaï.
Born in 1993, Justin Mauvin first rode waves as a baby on her mom’s board, entering her first contest at 13 years old at Les Roches Noires. A couple of years ago we enjoyed a live performance of Justin at Jo&Jo during the Quiksilver Pro Press Event in Hossegor. A couple of months later she performed at the Ancien B...
The waves looked like mountains
After Winter Storm Hercules unleashed the Black Swell onto the old continent, a host of the world’s best big wave surfers, including Shane Dorian, Benjamin Sanchis, Jamie Mitchell, and “Twiggy”, tackled some extraordinarily big waves. Quick and dirty edit less than 12 hours after the paddle session in Belharra, France ...
Reshape the impact of surfing
The 10th episode in the Driven series, by Belgian filmmaker Wim Bonte, tells the story of the Basque board-company Notox. Driven to reshape the impact of surfing on the environment. Pierre Pomiers and Benoit Rameix, create a generation of boards that match the sustainable values and spirit of surfing.Cover: PROTEST X N...
Seventy meters above sea level ...
Rion des Landes is located in the heart of the forest. The porch of the neo-Romanesque church dates from the 12th century. The Country Feeling Classic?Bordeaux Wine - Biarritz TimeThe altitude of Rion-des-Landes is approximately 70 meters above sea level, the surface is 118 km², slightly bigger than Paris (105 km²). Th...
Surfing The Maldives
With waves like Pasta Point, Sultans, Jail Breaks and Cokes, the Maldives is a perfect tropical surf trip. Whether you score barrels and have the time of your life or get a little bit skunked for waves, the Maldives is a beautiful place to visit. If you’re staying on land, it is also an idea to take your wife or girlfr...
The Dawn Patrol Of The Mentawais
Who really knows who the first surfer or surfers were to find and surf the Mentawais. History books say that it was Martin Daly, who took the boys out to a few other islands, and before that Lance Knight, who discovered Lances Right and Lances Left. The place was kept so secret for so long. Much of those early days has...
Experimental wooden boards
Ben Weiland has been on the forefront of arctic surf exploration for the last 7 years. Along with partners in crime like Chris Burkard the world has shrunk greatly since they’ve set their sites and cameras on cold empty waves.‘Mr. Kookbox’ is a short story about @nolecossart ‘s obsession in building experimental wooden...
Wild Times In Secret Chile
There is a headland in deep Chile that is still relatively inaccessible. Many years ago it was a popular camping spot for surfers who would set tents up on the hill, surrounded by the thickest, deepest forest of trees. Through the trees along the edge of the headland, you could see the lefts peeling off forever. One of...
Exploring Web3 Music Streaming
The example follows a musician that launches their debut album. In order to listen to the album & all subsequent works, a user needs to acquire a token of the artist and show that they are holding it.In order to buy this token (say: artistToken), the user spends ETH. The largest percentage of the ETH that is spent ...
Exploring Web3 Video Streaming
Over 2 billion people watch online videos, every month, around the world. The medium grows exponentially. Manipulating video on the web has become easy after HTML5 and the tag (along upper-level abstractions like Video.js). However, streaming remains complex."We once heard a large (~20%) share of Amazon’s transcoding ...
Victoria Vergara
French-born, Victoria Vergara, grew up between New Caledonia and Reunion Island. Victoria learned how to swim before she learned how to walk. Now, a professional surfer, she is on the world longboard tour, ranked 2nd on the European Championship and has been invited to compete in several classic longboard events. Victo...
Keramas and the Rainy Season
Bali has vied for our attention for so many years and for a myriad of reasons. There was always ever-popular Uluwatu, that people flocked to for years, and then there was G-Land across the blue expanse and waiting for us. All the other waves had value – but back then people didn't travel hard to surf a wave like Green ...
What about Programmable Art?
Programmable art is a new movement in which creators deconstruct their work into “Layers” and endow them with abilities. Collectors can then own and alter artworks through said Layers. Layers can even be hooked up to external data sources such as time to change autonomously.Read more @ https://edition.async.art/The opp...
The Best Surf Spots On Nias
Nias is hard to get to and is still quite wild, but the wave at Lagundri Bay is what dreams are made of.1. Lagundri BayOne of the best waves in the whole of the Indonesian archipelago, Lagundri Bay has an almost mesmerizing look and feel because it is so perfect. When it is small, it is a wave that suits everyone, but ...
Magic Carpet. 2 Years On A Boat
Maya is Canadian, obsessed with sailboats, and loves to play the violin. Aladino is Swiss/Italian, a boatbuilder by profession, and an incredible sailor. They met in the summer of 2017. Maya had just graduated from a 4 year university degree in Canada, and had accepted a job on a tall ship in the Mediterranean. Aladino...
Proposal #9 Fixing the ICO F$ckup
The past seven years we have been exploring the world of blockchain. We have seen both mind blowing innovation and untrustworthy projects. The biggest fail is no doubt the ICO, a kind of kickstarter with cryptocurrencies, or as Ryder Taff said: a crowdfunded crowdfunding operation. Many launched without having a MVP an...
Travel on the back of a truck
Estonian design collective Kodasema revealed a new prototype of Koda, a prefabricated, energy-efficient, transportable (and chic) concrete micro home that captured the imagination of tiny home enthusiasts everywhere.Measuring 25 square meters, or approximately 269 square feet, Koda can be built in a day and installed t...
The Web3 Fundraising Template
In its simplest form, a Bonding Curve is a way to fund and coordinate work around an objective, orchestrated in a smart contract(s). Bonding Curve gets its name from bonding a base currency (DAI in the example below) to mint a new token on a curve with price on the Y axis and Supply on the X axis.The council acts as th...
Discord Autonomous Organization
A DAO is an internet-native entity with no central management which is regulated by a set of automatically enforceable rules on a public blockchain, and whose goal is to take a life of its own and incentivize people to achieve a shared common mission. DAOs offer the tools to build infrastructure by attracting funding, ...
What If We ... Plant 1 trillion trees?
As long as huge price fluctuations plague the ecosystem, cryptocurrency could never be globally adopted as a currency for everyday real life transactions.Imagine if investing in cryptocurrency could guarantee steady returns, offered minimal risk of losing your initial investment, and helped make history by supporting a...
Run Your Business as a Democracy
Proposal #18 LTL Print Collection
The Print Space is an award-winning, print-on-demand service. They handle the art print fulfilment and send them to our customers globally & include a certificate of authenticity. They enable us to sell photographic prints, produced at the production facilities in London and Dusseldorf. For every professional photo...
Been there, done that, get a t-shirt
The cornerstone to any startup’s ascending path to stardom – the merchandise. How else do you get the word out about our new startup? The startup shirt has become such an iconic element that it has even sparked a snarky opposition movement. Ok, some joking aside, merchandise for our startup is an awesome way to identif...
We've got you covered @ P-Bay
Easy to wear, easy to style and still keeping with your organic aesthetics, we present the iconic men’s zip-thru hoodie sweatshirt. Laced with cool round drawcords in matching color with their metal tipping, a metal zipper, and eyelets, double layered hood plus a kangaroo pocket with wide double topstitch, you will def...
Boneyards J-Bay South Africa
This iconic unisex hoodie sweatshirt is the only way to take the cold seasons in style. Also, it’s organic so that’s a plus. Featuring a Double layered hood has a kangaroo pocket at front and a real tight-knit construction giving it better quality and durability. It’s not only beautiful, but it’s also comfy and soft to...
Portugal Pool Party #Buarcos
The Portugal Pool Party Tee provides breathability and snag-resistance, both during daily sports and lifestyle activities. Ultimate comfort and the heathered look help boost your confidence everywhere you go. Perfect to skate in a sweaty bowl, sip cocktails at a tropical pool party, or go for a afternoon surf session i...
New York Tee
The fabric is warm, flexible, stretchy, and very insulating, making it a popular choice for the layer worn closest to the body. This cotton is grown without the use of pesticides, herbicides or other chemical fertilizers, and is simply awesome. /*<![CDATA[*/ (function () { var scriptURL = 'https://sdks.shopifycdn....
Proposal #13 The Smart Company
App teams that pursue community ownership first (starting with a wide token distribution) risk engendering a community of speculators, rather than real users. Without a working product, ownership is worthless, and the community won’t stick. Many teams that have done this are unable to back into product/market fit, and ...
Whales, Turtles & Yala elephants
Just the idling engine of our boat. The soundless rise and fall of the Indian Ocean’s swell. A slight breeze and the sun breaking through the morning haze. Not a noise from the passengers either. We’re all too busy staring out over the gunmetal-grey water looking for that telltale sign: the waterspout. A 10-metre-high ...
Surf The Alps
Surfers are always discovering new waves and finding new locations to surf. Just when we think there is nowhere left to discover, that every square inch of Google Earth has been found, someone goes out and finds yet another wave. Mick Fanning's Snake, the Brand Brother's endless Angolan barrels, a new big wave spot in ...
Pillows Grand Hotel Reylof
Discover Ghent with Pillows Grand Hotel Reylof. This mansion from 1724, built in Louis XIV style, is located only 500 metres from the Ghent city centre. (video) The menu of LOF Restaurant is based on the gastrobar concept of the famous Dutch chef Ron Blaauw. Chef Hannes Vandebotermet translates this concept into beauti...
The Next Porsche
First, it was a shock for the 911 fans. How could their favorite brand to launch a family SUV with the Porsche logo on it? Moreover, how could they do that by sharing the platform with a Volkswagen? Well, all that happened and it did happen to save the brand. And the first generation of the Cayenne was the best selling...
JLS
The designer began his fashion career after studying at the School of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne alongside the late Yves Saint Laurent as a design assistant at Dior, staying on when Christian Dior died suddenly in 1957 and Saint Laurent was promoted to creative director of the brand.Born in Paris, S...
Serendipity came into play
The GΞNΞSIS collection is nostalgia mixed with a vision for the future of art. Not only is each individual NFT a mini-story that can stand on its own, but each is also able to connect with a larger narrative through the juxtaposition of the collection.These NFTs combine elements of historic value, heritage, and next-ge...
Hasselblad 907X 50C
The 907X 50C connects Hasselblad's photographic history into one system. These new offerings yet again expand the potential of medium format photography with modularity and flexibility, all while offering Hasselblad's renowned, stunning image quality. But really, it's a specialist bit of kit aimed at studio snappers. T...
Mystical World of Magic Money
Defiant ventured into the dark forest where nothing at all was what it seemed and unimaginable horrors lurked round every corner. Well this week we’re labouring the fantasy metaphor yet further with a languid lunge through illusion magic and scarcely credible financial finagling in what critics are already calling the ...
Proposal #1 LTL Pointless Token
Before you start waisting 11 valuable minutes reading about our 1st proposal to do a fair token launch, let me get straight to the point. It's complicated! Both from a technical and legal point of view. But the intention is simple, we want it to be fair. And we dislike ICO's with a vengeance. Either you get venture cap...
Let's Consider Rebranding LTL Maps
We are rebranding LTL Maps as Shaka Places. In Hawaii, everyone uses the shaka to express friendship, gratitude, goodwill, encouragement and unity. A little wave of the hand spreads a lot of aloha. For us the "Like" button is a core feature, as its a sign of trust, it only adds weight to the reputation of a place if it...
Envisioning this since 2017. LFG
As early as 2017, we have been advocating for the potential of NFTs in the art world and have been envisioning the development of an NFT marketplace.Our goal has always been pretty simple tbh, empower creators across various fields, including coders, designers, writers, photographers, and filmmakers.Each artwork in a c...
He who rises with the wave is not swallowed by it*. Olympus DAO
Dollar-pegged stablecoins dominate crypto and the dollar is controlled by the FED so basically we have given up crypto’s monetary sovereignty and opened crypto up to external dependencies that introduce systemic risk. While that was a logical risk to take in the early days, as we march towards mainstream adoption we sh...
Why DAOhaus
We will highlight some of the key reasons why DAOhaus is the perfect place for LTL Code Art DAO to summon an on-chain DAO. If you are unfamiliar with the MolochDAO framework, we highly recommend you check out this great explainer on Molochs and DAOs generally, which can be found here.Layer the DAOhaus platform on top o...
DayDream. No Loss DAO Funding
Imagine we have 100 people who add $1000 in the DAO .... that's a $100K fund! Alchemix allows us to lend $50K so we can get to work and let the community decide what we do with these funds. With Alchemix, the DAO can deposit DAI and borrow up to 50% of the deposited amount of DAI at a 1:1 ratio, by minting alUSD. This ...
The Platon Genesis NFT Collection
Platon’s Genesis NFT Collection is available on OpenSea. This collection features six mini documentaries and twelve photographs. Three of the mini docs focus on human rights stories, of which proceeds will support The People’s Portfolio, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission of documenting human rights abuses, and the l...
The dope stuff is dropping now
Welcome anon, to the next phase of Olympus.A new place to thrive and grow, to discover new wonders, to create, trade, and sing arm in arm with your brothers and sisters.Let us tell you the story of Odyssey.In the beginning, Zeus gifted mankind with a new financial paradigm: OHM. The OlympusDAO protocol saw rapid cycles...
NFT News Update
a16z Podcast: All about NFTs - Andreessen HorowitzFrom “I’ve never seen anything like this before” to “is this like ICOs all over again” to “it’s just a jpg I don’t get it” to “but what about the energy use!” -- this special deep-dive episode from the a16z Podcast network breaks down everything you need or want to know...
Level up. Claim your rewards. LFG
Imagine an NFT marketplace where you can transact NFTs with OHM without ever having to un-stake your OHM. Imagine instead of feeding royalties to OS, you instead have a marketplace to transact on that is fully OlympusDAO aligned. A decentralized marketplace where royalties feed both the collectors and the artist.Genesi...
Bankless DAO
The coordinating power of Ethereum allows internet strangers with shared values and goals to organize under a common banner, and enables them to steer the world towards their future aspirations. Internet communities align with digital tokens and use them as tools to focus capital and labor into productive outputs in pu...
Friends with Benefits PRO
We are a collective of unique individuals pushing for a bright future. A world in which prosperity is abundant and technology acts as a communal connective tissue. We believe in a web3 world, where data and payments are fluid and controlled by the creators. We believe in the pursuit of open knowledge for the greater go...
Dimitri Daniloff
From the heart of a vibrant world of artistic tradition, Dimitri Daniloff burst forth. The whispering languages of texture and matter were imbued in his consciousness as naturally as speech itself, his father, a master sculptor, his earliest mentor. As a burgeoning artist, Dimitri experimented with 4x5 view cameras, th...
Podcast Series: Making Bank
What differentiates a great podcast from an average podcast? Well, you can say it’s the audio quality or the guests who are interviewed. But at the heart of it all, the thing that defines a podcast as great is the host! The host is the glue that holds everything together. They determine what content is created, which g...
a16z Podcast: All about NFTs
This episode is all about NFTs. It seems like nothing has caught on and spread into mainstream interest like NFTs, where one hears everything from “I’ve never seen anything like this before” to “is this like ICOs all over again” to “it’s just a jpg I don’t get it” to “but what about the energy use!”So, in this special ...
Unprecedented benefits for borrowers
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol offering interest-free liquidity against collateral in Ether. By utilizing a novel liquidation mechanism and leveraging an algorithmic monetary policy it can offer unprecedented benefits for borrowers.Users can draw the stablecoin LUSD interest-free against their Ether used...
Rebalancing a piece of cake
PieDAO was kicked off just over a year ago (March 2020), and is one of the very few examples of a successful DAO from day 0, quickly becoming one of the three largest DAOs. The mission &amp; products are simple: PieDAO creates tokenised portfolios (Pies) with active strategies, so that users can actually own their fina...
Payroll for the Modern DAO
Coordinape is a scalable &amp; permissionless platform for decentralized operations built by Yearn for the demanding needs of the community &amp; emerging DeFi projects. Gift Circles allow DAO members to collectively reward eachother making community payments more equitable and transparent. Circle contributors directly...
The Blockchain Back Office
Founded in 2018, Gilded is backed by Techstars and the Association of International Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Gilded helps global companies scale by automating cryptocurrency payments and accounting. In 2020, Gilded announced partnerships with TrustToken, Paxos and Stablecorp to offer the world’s first B2B ...
People think that I am a shoe
Taking design cues from two icons of adidas' varied archive, the Superstan fuses tennis legend Stan Smith's eponymous sneaker model with the quintessential Superstar silhouette. Delivered with his signature dry humour, Stan himself announced the OG Stan Smith colour combination. Green is the new Black.As memorable as i...
Eye Love You, Eye Hate You
Two years ago, Platon presented his first series Eye Love You, Eye Hate You; a historic and monumental collection featuring magnified iris portraits belonging to an array of the world's most well-known figures. This first exhibition included 12 individual iris NFTs, thirty years in the making. Each NFT deconstructs a '...
"Media scripts human beings" @balajis
Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More“If code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.” — Balaji SrinivasanBalaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis) is an angel investor and ent...
71% of our planet is ocean
Nice earth curvature, with the sun glint! Beautiful to see the reflection track us on the sea surface as we’re floating above… a bit like being followed by dolphins (or am I going crazy?). We actually spend a large time of our orbit above the oceans as 71% of our planet is ocean, we call it the Blue Marble for a reason...
(3,3) Ohmies riding towards the sun
The story starts with 100.000% "APY". Catchy right? Now that I have your attention let's face it. Incentivization programs are temporary. While the bootstrapping of the OlympusDAO protocol was a huge success, we got to tune the engine so we can expand further.Sustainability is key, b/c we want to go big. The problem th...
Imagine having a Bitcoin Beach
El Salvador hosts some of the longest and most perfect waves in all of Central America and is particularly known for its roping righthand pointbreaks, which people have been surfing for half a century. In fact, the country’s cobblestone gems were a staple for an intrepid group of ex-pats in the ’70s, and today, native ...
Building and governing crypto indexes.
Yeah! A new episode of the Unstoppable Podcast! Guest speaker is Simon from Index Coop, a DAO focused on building and governing crypto indexes. In this fascinating discussion, they dive into the advantages of DAOs, what they offer over traditional companies, and Simon’s own experiences with Index Coop. Simon talks abou...
Why 2020 felt like a time warp
Some of my favorite blog posts were not planned out, they just happen. While I was ready to get some sleep, I scrolled one last time through my Twitter feed. It's so refreshing to start from scratch with my new alter ego and I now have a way better feed as I highly curated the people I follow, unlike my OG account that...
Gabriel Leydon - Designing Digital Economies
"My guest is Gabe Leydon, who is the co-founder and former CEO of MZ, also known as Machine Zone, the company behind huge games such as Mobile Strike and Game of War. Gabe has spent the last 20 years designing video games and is one of the most original thinkers I have talked to in a long time. In our conversation, we ...
Cath Simard Genesis NFT Drop Teaser
Cath Simard is a Canadian-born photographer, digital artist and SONY Alpha ambassador with an instantly recognizable style that meticulously blends reality with her own imagination. Her work has been shared millions of times on social media &amp; some of her clients include SONY, DJI &amp; Emirates Airline. Today, Cath...
Cine Mirrorless with Built in NDs
You get the same features found on expensive digital film cameras, allowing the capture of deeper colors, higher image detail, and a wider dynamic range between the brightest highlights and deepest shadows. It's the reason why feature films look so amazing ...The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro includes addition...
Decentralized Autonomous Association DAA
The DAA experiment has uniquely merged technology and law to create and run organizations that are both, decentralized and legally compliant. Many previous Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have been criticized for their uncertain legal status, liability, and ability to manage real-world projects. From a le...
Web3-powered tokenized SAFE
The vast majority of startup investing as it exists today is an insider’s game. Early adopters and believers don’t have access to venture capital markets, so they don’t share in the financial upside of their favorite startup’s growth. Web2 investing is insular and exclusive, leaving out the very communities that make u...
DAOs change the future of work
A DAO is an internet-native entity with no central management which is regulated by a set of automatically enforceable rules on a public blockchain, and whose goal is to take a life of its own and incentivize people to achieve a shared common mission. DAOs offer the tools to build infrastructure by attracting funding, ...
A Tennis Homage to the OG Punks
CryptoPunks was released in June 2017 as one of the first non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the Ethereum blockchain. The project was developed by American studio Larva Labs, a two-person team consisting of Canadian software developers Matt Hall and John Watkinson. The experimental project was inspired by the London punk sce...
Ultimate RIG for ATEM Mini Pro
Save time and space when you arrive on set with a self-contained ATEM Mini Pro / ISO rig. Don’t bother updating network settings as you move between the office, home, and location with a built-in router. A single V-mount battery or AC adapter powers the whole system and eliminates cable clutter. Mount it on a tripod, o...
Treasury Management for DAO's
How do we manage the money? What deserves treasury spending and what doesn’t? How should we diversify the treasury’s assets? Should we borrow capital? Most DAOs are still figuring this out. The best practices are being written. We’re all exploring this new frontier together. But there’s one thing for sure: DAO treasuri...
The Art Of the POAP is in the event details
Proof Of Attendance, better know as a POAP in the magic world of web3, is basically your passport to a community. People who attend an event become eligible to claim a unique Token Badge. Claim links are distributed, for example, to anyone who joined a Community Call on Discord. An iconic example is the Bankless NFT Ba...
Social Algorithm to Sustain Web3
SourceCred is a technology that makes the labor of individuals more visible and rewardable as they work together in a project or community. The goal of SourceCred is to use this technology to make rewarding labor as nuanced as human contribution often is. SourceCred uses an algorithm to determine how much value a contr...
Tribute to the CypherPunks Movement
Bankless DAO and MetaFactory are proud to bring their limited edition merch drop of Cypherpunks T-shirts to the market on June 21st, paying homage to OG's of blockchain encryption technology. There are 3 styles available for the drop:Cypherpunks tee designed by Sinjun. Each tee comes with a real floppy disk containing ...
Ikigai Labs XYZ DA.Club House
In our initial phase, Ikigai Labs XYZ will unveil the OG Mint Pass with a soft launch. This summer, an exclusive pre-mint opportunity limited to 333 editions will be available for those early adopters who have registered in advance.Season 0 &lt;&gt; OG Founders ClubDuring the inaugural phase, Ikigai Labs XYZ is set to ...
Moving from Wall Street to Crypto
Joe is one of the hardest working people in tech, putting in 16+ hours/7 days a week. He is an incredible mentor who uses positive reinforcement &amp; always defaults to respect.He began his career working in robotics, machine vision, neural nets, and software engineering. He then transitioned into finance, building tr...
First feature film ever as NFT
Trevor Hawkins introduces his film, LOTAWANA, as well as his historical approach of selling and premiering the first feature film ever as NFTs. OTAWANA is making history by being the first movie ever to forgo established industry channels by selling its Film Rights and World Premiere exclusively as NFTs. Be the first t...
The Defiant guide to Art and NFTs + 🔥 Docu
Following the great DeFi summer many have been predicting NFTs to be the tricky second album. This is a monumentally large subject with competing viewpoints and every level of talent from scammer to international superstar. In this episode they cover Robert Alice's Block 21 sale at Christie's through Anthony Pompliano'...
The Making of the Lady Gaga Portraits
In 2013 there was an unprecedented alignment of performer Lady Gaga, theater director and artist Robert Wilson, and the Louvre Museum in Paris.  For his solo exhibition, Mr. Wilson created a new series of video portraits with Lady Gaga, works that would stand beside installations and performances at the Louvre in suppo...
Pierce Brosnan Genesis NFT Collection
Artist, Actor, and Environmentalist Pierce Brosnan Explores the Digital Art Landscape with His Genesis NFT Collection on LGND! The collection features new work inspired by his original painting Earplugs, which Brosnan created while filming his first James Bond film GoldenEye in 1995.“Inspired by the how-to instructions...
Literally enough money to burn
Burnt Banksy is an anonymous figure who made history in the NFT community with the burning of an authentic Banksy artwork. This act received universal acclaim and was covered by leading publications such as Bloomberg, CoinDesk, GQ, CoinTelegraph, BBC, CBS, HYPEBEAST, Art.Net, and many others. Burnt Banksy has sold hund...
The Billionaire Crypto Degen
The Delphi Podcast Hosts, Anil Lulla and Jose Maria Macedo, chat with the one and only Mark Cuban about everything crypto. The conversation covers everything from Mark’s view on the Internet bubble vs crypto right now, DeFi, NFTs, and more!  Although he needs no introduction, Mark Cuban is the billionaire start-up inve...
The visual work of Pier Paolo
The visual work of Pier Paolo, a designer, animator, and illustrator.This is what I love most about NFT's! I see some random artwork, I ape into buying it for the simple fact that I love it. Not a clue what it is actually worth, just a strong conviction that I show support to the artist and that I potentially validate ...
Drawing with light, 33 shades of grey
Around 2001 LiveTheLifeTV provided innovative WebTV technology, and got featured on Apple.com for being a video-streaming pioneer in partnership with Akamai. As a freelance journalist, we interviewed icons from the surfing industry, photographers, and wrote for international surf publications. As a passionate photograp...
Check your hidden folder
Marketing is simply about letting people know you exist so that you can be of powerful and joyful service to the world.  It’s about sharing your unique messages in an authentic, compelling way so that the people you love to serve can find you, and identify that you’re the right one to help them.  Marketing is about bri...
Why are Craniums so Wicked?
The Wicked Craniums are the pictorial representation of the 10,762 Craniums that belong to the island of Osseous. They have over 180 differentiable features. Each cranium is also your ticket to The Cradle, a member's only social platform. Wicked Cranium has emerged as the new buzz in the NFT marketplace, reaching $4 mi...
NFTs with DeFi mechanics
The biggest use of NFTs today is in the digital content realm. That's because that industry today is broken. Content creators see their profits and earning potential swallowed by platforms. An artist publishing work on a social network makes money for the platform that sells ads to the artist's followers. They get expo...
Dario De Siena and Bushido Apes
The Bored Ape Yacht Club is an NFT project where the owners of the NFT gain full license over the art on their NFT. Club members can remix their NFT’s and sell derivatives and merchandise. It is a collection of 10,000 unique Bored Ape NFTs— unique digital collectibles living on the Ethereum blockchain. Your Bored Ape d...
Pricing NFT Art has no blueprint
Chicago-based artist-writer, Sophie Sturdevant, writes about creativity as our greatest responsibility. She's an expert in copywriting for multi-million dollar brand launches. I tend to agree with her recent article, there's no blueprint, there's no magic formula when it comes to pricing NFT's, or even Art in general. ...
Assets for the metaverse future
Ultimately, our Code Art Studio (UnbanksyTV DAO) is researching a novel way of applying ML to accelerate the 3D design process. This approach takes the first steps towards a future where designers can work together with ML algorithms to focus on the creative aspects and iterating rapidly on designs in order to achieve ...
Tether - Bitcoin's Biggest Secret
"A short history of the world's most controversial cryptocurrency: Tether Tether is a stablecoin cryptocurrency with tokens issued by Tether Limited, which in turn is controlled by the owners of Bitfinex. Many people have accused Tether of being fraudulent, but until now, the story has been told in pieces. Today I'm tr...
The Wild Journey of NateAlex
From a few dollars to millions to losing half of his money in march 2020 in the middle of quitting his job to go full time NFT we hear the awesome journey and rise of NateAlex.  NateAlex is a cofounder of NFT42 and has been in the space since 2017 where he got his start with CryptoKitties. He has also created 2 project...
The origins of ERC-721 NFTs
In the fast-paced world of digital art, a new technology has emerged that promises to revolutionize the way we think about ownership and authenticity. It's called non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, and it's a concept that has been quietly brewing in the world of cryptocurrency since early 2018. The origins of NFTs can be tr...
The Hunt for the Lost Robbies
Pixel Vault is a media company focused on elevating crypto-native assets across a variety of mediums through the development of intellectual property and empowered by decentralization. Their team expands the story and lore of static on-chain assets, accruing value to both stakeholders and the broader crypto community, ...
Best adventure is shared adventure (⚓️,⚓️ )
GM to all the Innovatoooors, the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently like ZEUS &amp; all the ohmies embracing our (⚓️,⚓️) culture. Every revolutionary and innovator looks naive before proving most wrong. You know it’s crazy earl...
Web3 Era needs a DCMS, asap
Web3 industry insiders are very much aware of their rights about the data and content they generate for likes of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. DAO's having web content management systems (CMS) need to ready themselves for this emerging decentralized world. Using Decentralised Technologies like IPFS, Blockchain ...
Play-to-earn gaming phenomenon
This is the story of one small community in the rural Philippines that turned to the NFT game, Axie Infinity, to earn an income in cryptocurrency during the COVID-19 pandemic. It shows how the "play-to-earn" gaming phenomenon is creating new opportunities for thousands of players around the world, especially in emergin...
Underground Sistine Chapel
The Underground Sistine Chapel is a free documentary on youtube telling the story of the street artist Pascal Boyart's construction of a modern Sistine Chapel in the heart of an old gold foundry in the suburbs of Paris, in what some would call a cut-throat area. The docu premiered on Jun 27, 2021. We have updated the a...
Perspective. Living The Odyssey Life.
A manifesto can serve as a mission statement for how you go about living your life and an outline for the kind of project that you want to be. Yesterday afternoon, I told everyone on the Odyssey team to write down not WHAT we are doing, but WHY.  It is whatever resonates with you. Here are some thoughts from MJR. He's ...