UFO

Nick Hollins
UFO

A podcast where artists, musicians and tech creators talk about the future. Hosted by Nick Hollins.

  1. Philosophy, Guilds and Open Machines — Ven Gist

    04/12/2024

    Philosophy, Guilds and Open Machines — Ven Gist

    Ven Gist is a philosopher of networks, designer of worlds. Researcher at The Open Machine which is a publication for the generation of experimental cultural and conceptual compliments to the decentralized web. He's an early member of MetaCartel, an org which funded many projects to develop open source technology and experiment with DAOs. Now working on Guild Guild. A locus of coordination for Creating, Stewarding, Enabling, and Studying Guilds. We talk about the open source movement. The historical context for where we are today. And what's coming up heading into 2025, where Ven is helping to stage Cosmolocal Playground in Amsterdam in the Spring. ___   UFO Sponsor Resources 🏙️ Towns — A feature-rich, onchain messaging experience that’s fully owned by its members. You build the space, set the rules, and make money. Build your community at towns.com ↑ Higher — A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. Higher is a lifestyle. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net  🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) — A DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund ___ @vengist @ufoclub.eth @hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm

    1h 10m
  2. Art, Music and AI with ORIGIN STØRIES — Sean Bradford

    08/11/2024

    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 — A feature-rich, onchain messaging experience that’s fully owned by its members. You build the space, set the rules, and make money. Build your community at towns.com ↑ Higher — A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. Higher is a lifestyle. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net  🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) — A DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund ___ @0xl @ufoclub.eth @hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm

    1h 19m
  3. Creating Onchain Media with Pods — Lucas

    25/10/2024

    Creating Onchain Media with Pods — Lucas

    Lucas is the Founder of Pods. A new way to publish, discover, and own your favourite podcasts. The place for bringing your podcast onchain. He's also Co-Founder of Fire Eyes DAO, a collective of crypto-natives who designed token economic and governance systems for projects including Optimism, ENS and Gitcoin. And was also an early employee at Bankless. We talk about what we've learned from a few years experimenting with onchain media. How minting works like a broadcast signal. And creators using platforms like Layer3 and Boost to amplify distribution by offering token incentives and rewards for people to collect their content. ___   UFO Sponsor Resources 🏙️ Towns — A feature-rich, onchain messaging experience that’s fully owned by its members. You build the space, set the rules, and make money. Build your community at towns.com ↑ Higher — A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. Higher is a lifestyle. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net  🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) — A DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund ___ @0xl @ufoclub.eth @hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm

    53 min
  4. Writing, Podcasts and Minting Base Colors — JAKE

    15/10/2024

    Writing, Podcasts and Minting Base Colors — JAKE

    JAKE is a pseudo anonymous internet creator. Going with the classic blue, colour code #0000FF as his pfp. Host at POD OF JAKE where he’s interviewed almost 200 guests over 4 years. Most recently Jacob from Zora and others such as Vitalik Buterin, pplpleasr and Mark Cuban. Writer at BLOG OF JAKE, where he’s published about creativity and writing, documenting his experiences as a podcaster, observing what’s happening on the internet, reviewing crypto news, thinking about how to learn and build. JAKE is also the founder of Base Colors, a new onchain collection where you can mint unique colour codes on Base and give them a name, an interesting primitive which many people are starting to play around and experiment with. We talk about the benefits of writing online. Go behind the scenes experiences of hosting a podcast. Thoughts on the crypto scene, Bitcoin and pseudo anon identities on the internet, decentralized social like Farcaster, and thinking too much about Colors. ___   UFO Sponsor Resources ↑ Higher — Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net  🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund ___ @jake @ufoclub.eth @hollins For more episodes, go to ufo.fm

    1h 32m
  5. Electronic Music Scenes — Sound Of Fractures

    10/10/2024

    Electronic Music Scenes — Sound Of Fractures

    Jamie Reddington is an electronic music producer, consultant and lecturer from London who recently released his debut album Scenes. His music is shaped by hiphop, UK dance music and soul. Leaning into telling stories, with textures and samples captured from his phone, featuring the sound of his daughter’s heartbeat. The record was released as a co-creation. ‘Over 350 memories were submitted and turned into Scenes, capturing a moment in time. People stopped, took time out of their lives and engaged in a process that connected music and emotions.' We talk about the past, present and future of music on the internet. What's most interesting for artists right now? ___   UFO Sponsor Resources ↑ Higher — Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net  🌐 International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund ___   @soundoffractures @ufoclub.eth @hollins   For more episodes, go to ufo.fm

    1h 23m
  6. Exploring the Memecoin Supercycle with IMF — Gami, Clouted

    07/10/2024

    Exploring the Memecoin Supercycle with IMF — Gami, Clouted

    Gami and Clouted are core contributors from International Meme Fund (IMF) and $MONEY. Their team believes it is now crucial to have native liquidity and financial infrastructure for the meme sector. They're both from Sydney and have shared interests in defi financial engineering, game theory and the memecoin phenomonen. We talk about financial nihilism. Memes as emergent properties of the internet. Why do some meme assets succeed when the vast majority fail? How do you choose the tokens that go up? (no financial advice). The internet is stranger than you think.   ufo.fm news.ufo.fm   SPONSORS Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net  International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.

    1h 12m
  7. Interpreting Technology with AIxDESIGN — Nadia Piet

    19/09/2024

    Interpreting Technology with AIxDESIGN — Nadia Piet

    Nadia Piet is Founder and Creative Lead of AIxDESIGN, a global community conducting critical AI research for the benefit of people, not profits. She's a designer, researcher, organiser and faculty member at ELISAVA's Design for Responsible AI. We talk about AlphaGO and Move 37. AI models being trained on creative assets without permission. And what's causing the rapid improvement of generative AI such as DALL-E and Midjourney? In the face of constant change, what are constructive ways to be thinking about AI?   ufo.fm news.ufo.fm   SPONSORS Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net  International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.

    1h 2m
  8. Rolling Forever with Skateboarding and Art — Dave Bachinsky

    15/08/2024

    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 (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.   ufo.fm news.ufo.fm karma.ufo.fm   SPONSORS Higher is a lifestyle. A community of optimists on Base that formed on Farcaster. To join high agency crypto natives in a new experiment in onchain brands, visit aimhigher.net  International Meme Fund (IMF) is a DeFi protocol for borrowing $MONEY against your memecoins with $IMF serving as the protocol utility and revenue token. Learn more at internationalmeme.fund Lore is a group wallet experience for co-ownership. Own expensive NFTs, move memecoins markets and win crypto games together. Check out how you could use Lore with your friends to earn more than you could alone at lore.xyz.

    58 min
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A podcast where artists, musicians and tech creators talk about the future. Hosted by Nick Hollins.

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  • Creator
    Nick Hollins
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    69
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024
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    UFO

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