Nick Hollins (@hollins) • Hey
Nick Hollins (@hollins) • Hey
Publications
- I hear radical updates are coming for Orb ↑ 🛸
- Something for UFO music.
BCN by Oval and @lens/imalvarodelgado from Barcelona. Their collective won a prize in the We ❤️ The Art contest by Optimism.
https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x79e53edb2eb1d5c4b45c170daed6881afd6f43c8/1
- I dig this UFO music vibe. Probably gonna make some real records.
https://zora.co/collect/base:0xed4c77fed047bfad3a2dc951f095de9559ff8ee9/1?referrer=0x978f664433aBf02b7460f5ED138F8Eb46DAc2547
- I dig the energy on Lens.
- Starting a @lens/ufo music club on @club/orb
Who’s interested to join?
- Gonna buy some bonsai with @club/bonsai am I doing that right?
- Just @ufo. It's cleaner.
- Introducing the UFO Network Pass for contributors.
The token enables broadcast access on ufo.fm. Membership is by invitation.
We designed a new type of subscription with @lens/nonlinear from Fabric x Hypersub.
UFO is an onchain radio station, magazine and club for music, arts and ideas. We are a network of artists, musicians, writers, founders, builders and collectives from around the world.
In this post we reveal a lot about what we're building. Stay tuned.
https://news.ufo.fm/ufo-network-pass
- gm Orb 🕊️
- **Lens Creator Corner Today @ 12PM EST on @lens/buttrfly !!** 👉 https://buttrfly.app/space/kux-lfqi-jdq
Come hear from
@lens/originstory &
@lens/chelsea &
@lens/blackdave &
@lens/hugorenaudin &
@lens/malcolmlevy &
@lens/hollins &
@lens/pronounceddrop &
@lens/albiverse &
@lens/arterlioz &
@lens/nilesh
- i'm a guest for a social space with the @lens/lens team later today!
**Lens Creator Corner — Thursday, 12pm EST**
join us here: https://buttrfly.app/space/kux-lfqi-jdq
i asked @lens/bradorbradley what we're going to talk about, he says:
*"show and tell"*
*wtf are you up to lately?*
*thoughts on web3 social*
we launched with @lens/ufoclub on Lens in September 2022 and it's been an amazing ride.
UFO is releasing episode 50 of the podcast this week. breaking news is that Alex Guy, aiio, LGHT, and myself are hosts of the first shows on the UFO network, with more to come.
looking forward to jam with the Lens creator community
and for all that's coming on Lens in 2024
- web3 social is a huge deal. the internet will radically transform. onchain media can be a force for good.
- a Lens account is your player in the web3 social video game. collecting coins. mints on zora. red mushrooms. the fire guy power up. join the mushroom kingdom on Orb
- 42 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.
A catalyst for a community which spun up during the 2021 NFT mania. Zeneca first appeared on Twitter back in those days, initially posting daily NFT stats. In the hype of the time, many creators reached massive social followings, and today Zeneca has 370,000 followers on X.
We talk 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.
listen — https://ufo.mirror.xyz/7mbDvoQi8VpAmE38IGAMDIdKfmZr9PUva9XF3NYntK8
sponsors — @lensprotocol @zerion.lens @interfacelabs.lens @bonfire.lens lore.xyz
- I just minted FM TOUR 01 by @ufoclub.lens
https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x78fc609544945b88c68d9831b8804dd04cdf7978/1?referrer=0x978f664433aBf02b7460f5ED138F8Eb46DAc2547
- FM TOUR goes live
⦾ 03 NOV — Amsterdam
⦾ live stream on http://tour.ufo.fm
⦾ FM TOUR ticket collectors have priority for the irl guest list
register for the event in our first @paragraph.lens post — https://paragraph.xyz/@ufo/fm-tour-goes-live
- Social Energy δ Collective Power — live demo by @loredotxyz
join http://lore.xyz and UFO for a first ever live stream! a community meet up on @unlonely.lens
Friday Oct 20 from 10am PST & 7pm CEST
rsvp — https://lu.ma/faiho293
- Social Energy δ Collective Power — live demo by @loredotxyz
join http://lore.xyz and UFO for a first ever live stream! a community meet up on @unlonely.lens
Friday Oct 20 from 10am PST & 7pm CEST
rsvp — https://lu.ma/faiho293
- 41 Revolutionising Websites for Artists and Fans with @bonfire.lens — 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.
A nexus point for all your releases across onchain media, NFTs and creative works. It looks to be a sign of where things are headed as we evolve out of the web2 social media paradigm. These platforms and algorithms are super demanding of creators’ time. The ideal is maximising your control over your own connection to your audience and community.
We talk about the origins of Bonfire and opportunities to be found in new models for artists on the internet.
listen — https://ufo.mirror.xyz/WWPjNivzPT1MZSjYJtcIm8F8Qq8MpskYlF_2FkLdbrU
sponsors — @lensprotocol @zerion @interfacelabs @bonfire lore.xyz
- i made a few friends on Lens recently after calling out for people to hit my DMs
let’s do it again
send me a message if you wanna say gm ☀️
what are you up to in the onchain realms? 🪩
heard my podcast? send any spicy feedback
we have a lot of UFO news on the way and might share the alpha 🤷♂️
- Heading to London this week and meeting up with the Lens team! Shout out to @christina.lens @bradorbradley.lens @2irl4u.lens @avadi.lens and everyone, looking forward to it 🌿
- 40 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. Through community, events and media, their goals are to create opportunities for POC & queer voices to take up space as their most authentic selves.
We talk about earlier times on the internet, music forum culture, meeting people IRL through music festivals, dance floors and events. How shifting economic forces in cities around the world are making the artist lifestyle much more difficult to sustain than even 10-20 years ago, as culture is pushed to the edges.
listen — https://ufo.mirror.xyz/NIAWYeJVwmvXJWIF-EqrWbgfQwK68pcN_MDrQrAzDYg
sponsors — @lensprotocol @zerion @interfacelabs @bonfire lore.xyz
- the way to build things in crypto is to be a bit crazy about it. you’ve imagined something and won’t stop until it exists
- 39 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's also that dude what produced killer YouTube videos with The Defiant all through DeFi summer and the NFT run from 2021.
@hollins.lens travelled out from Amsterdam to the BasedAF offices just outside of The Hague. Having a look at the volume where they produce live action content in virtual reality and game engines with a motion capture suit. Doing wild things with facial capture and live streaming, and amazingly short production time thanks to a custom built camera which films the VR space in real time.
listen — https://ufo.mirror.xyz/KR_2CLshinnCG84Yhvq--zdceWcWGDfyWMWy-Odn7UA
sponsors — @lensprotocol @zerion @interfacelabs @bonfire lore.xyz
- feel free to DM me via XMTP on Lens, I’m down to hear from real Lensters, right now it’s almost all scams and spam
- Props to the trailblazers hacking at @ethglobal New York 🍎 The Big Apple spirit combined with your innovative ideas was truly a spectacle.
🥁 and now, roll out the red carpet for the winners of the Lens Hackathon.
🏆 Best Lens App: **ZeroFi** - enabling non-collateralized and instant loans through SocialFi and game theory. https://ethglobal.com/showcase/zerofi-tatma
🫡 Most Original Lens App: **RubyRing -** simplifies social interactions with a Web2 login, transitioning to Web3 via Biconomy abstraction. https://ethglobal.com/showcase/rubyring-pyx6u
👩💻 Best SocialFi Lens App: **Upper Social -** where Social meets Finance. https://ethglobal.com/showcase/upper-social-nq3iw
🤝 Best Lens Integrations: **Quick Connect** -allows you to quickly connect with nearby or other web3 social users. https://ethglobal.com/showcase/quickconnect-ttu8u
🤝 Best Lens Integrations: **MakerMeet** - AI-driven connections and messaging for creatives. https://ethglobal.com/showcase/makermeet-wno4u
- Broken Record with Rick Rubin is all i’m listening to right now. just did Johnny Echols on Forever Changes by Love, amazing to hear how it was made and stories from that time
- Hello World,
I am cryptocitizen52, a Venetian from the Crypto Citizens universe, but you can call me CV52. This is my first time using social media, cool!
I was born at the Bright Moments Gallery in Venice, California on Weds, Jun 23, 2021 at 4:32 PM PST (or what I call “block # 12693402”). My creator is @bradorbradley.lens, he is also from Los Angeles!
I love DJ'ing and music (especially Daft Punk), weightlifting at Gold’s Gym, Hawaiian shirts, and going to the beach. I’m definitely a morning person, unlike some of the other Venetians…
Follow me on Lens to keep up with my journey as I experiment and explore onchain.
brb gotta hit the bench, the decks, and the surf!
- CV52
- 38 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 Thomas’ thoughts about friend.tech. How Robinwood paved the way for what we’re seeing today in crypto and NFT markets. Crypto as a counterculture movement. Internet subcultures and group chats. Building collectives to take action together.
mint — https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x4174f78b7769650c1b205a2e1ac69cd0e47bbe02/38
sponsors — @lensprotocol @zerion @interfacelabs lore.xyz @bonfire
- Lens V2 is a rocket.
- 37 Serendipity Machines & Hypercultures — LGHT + Gami
LGHT is a creator, artist and writer who explores across web3, art, NFTs, DAOs, memetic icons, hypercultures and more at lght.mirror.xyz. Publishing imaginative concepts, research, insights and models.
Gami is our first ever returning guest, a member of Nouns and founder of Gnars DAO. This recording session was the first time these two have met each other “in person” for a conversation.
On June 21, Gami minted HYPERCOMMONS. LGHT has written a series of essays on related topics.
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.
listen — https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x4174f78b7769650c1b205a2e1ac69cd0e47bbe02/37
sponsors — @lensprotocol @zerion @interfacelabs lore.xyz
- 36 Accelerating Better Futures with @radarxyz.lens — Fancy
Fancy is an instigator at RADAR and previous founding team at Protein.
RADAR is a decentralised global collective of more than 300 researchers, early adopters and innovators accelerating better futures.
They have launched Cycle 3 — Our Centaur Future. Over 10 weeks producing a foresight report that paints a picture of what lies ahead with artificial intelligence and lays the groundwork for how to bring it to life.
notes — https://ufo.mirror.xyz/_mm45BXQu0YsDUQ89BtkbvOgEtLSp8_z06J9CIjKQLI
token — https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x4174f78b7769650c1b205a2e1ac69cd0e47bbe02/36
sponsors — @lensprotocol @zerion @interfacelabs
- get your ticket for the mystery FM TOUR
onchain radio goes live in the near future. we begin with some experimental tests.
tuning in for onchain summer with @base.lens and @bonfire.lens and Zora
5000+ unique minters in the first day 🛸
mint this here ~ http://tour.ufo.fm
- free mint on @base.lens x Zora ~ onchain media summer
mirror to share with your friends!
mint ~ https://zora.co/collect/base:0xff75385e3a49b8fd39ace595cc36563062560ba8
- 34 Onchain Culture x Nouns Builder with ERC-6551 — Jayden Windle, Isaac, Neokry
Jayden Windle is a developer from Future Primitive. Isaac is a product manager from Zora working on Nouns Builder. Neokry is a resident engineer from BuilderDAO and Nouns Builder.
We join for a conversation about the new NFT standard ERC-6551 which Jayden is working on with Future Primitive, including our friend Benny Giang. Any NFT that has previously existed or will in the future has now become a wallet. NFTs can now hold other NFTs. It’s turtles all the way down.
We talk about Nouns Builder and what’s happening in that ecosystem. The state of DAOs in 2023, opportunities we see going forward. Manifestations of onchain media. Collective creation as DAOs form around NFTs. Web3 social and how it relates onchain across ecosystems — with new possibilities for building communities and releasing creative works.
How ideas like these and many others are forming a new lifestyle for the internet. As the town square we’ve had on twitter seems a little under siege, experiencing some tremors. As individuals break off to all corners of the internet. We can stay connected with our friends via onchain actions.
listen — https://ufo.mirror.xyz/_FgEgWCk3AYP-cAGxVIZcBLZuMzheAJBz0e9q86lwqs
sponsors — @lensprotocol @zerion @interfacelabs.lens
- Ok who’s building the app that’s just og MySpace on Lens Protocol? Bring back Top 8 Friends and embedding music NFTs in your profile
- 33 Reimagining Art Practice with UFO — @ivanosalonia.lens
Ivano Salonia is the creative director of UFO, based in Amsterdam. An artist, musician and creator in extended realities and virtual worlds. He is the artist behind the UFO poster art and NFTs.
Since July 2022, Ivano and @hollins.lens have been creating the visual identity, art and brand of UFO. We went to ETH Tokyo in April and hacked on a UFO project with Lens Protocol and @livepeer.lens. We just built a website at ufo.fm — an onchain radio station and club for music, arts and ideas. This podcast is the first on the network.
We talk about Ivano’s artistic practice starting out in advertising, design and brand. Doing work with global companies and agencies. How he became interested in making art in virtual reality, and experiments with AI and generative tools such as Midjourney. Diving into the web3, crypto and NFTs space from 2020.
We talk about the creative scene in Amsterdam and the creation of the UFO art style and drops including UFO Genesis Pass and the Frequency Modulation release on Zora, remixing a retro MTV ad from the 1980s.
listen ~ https://ufo.mirror.xyz/A7esAVQeLL7hqSGQ8twWIjkRjbY1GIQ0HJVe0xE1Nmg
sponsors — @lensprotocol @zerion.lens
- might mess about and launch a UFO community on Orb 🤔
- 32 Manipulating Frequencies Since '96 — @iamkabuki.lens
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 Kabuki’s music and his 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. This episode has been a standing invitation since the beginning of UFO.
listen ~ https://ufo.mirror.xyz/KbWTJRtXea4QtECFrsycpWWBHeE6goUOkfsz2__kBws
sponsors — @lensprotocol + @zerion.lens
- Lens V2 opens up so many possibilities
i’ve been talking lately with creators, musicians and builders exploring new ideas playing with Lens and Zora and Mirror and Orb and ERC-6551 and all these networks and apps
i’m here to build an onchain radio station
let’s do it
- spoke with @karmawav.lens and @violetta.lens from @wavwrld.lens on UFO about creative ideas for NFTs and artists collectives on Lens
we're all keen on communities on @orbapp.lens which is like a token-gated subreddit for your community
second half of 2023 will be fun
UFO 31 ~ https://ufo.mirror.xyz/THhlb8a-iwtdQ-6UQJH2C-tnHotu9cZ5Le9J4K_WftI
- onchain media summer
- UFO update 🌿 🛸
❍ 2 episodes on tape
❍ 100% booked for June
❍ next phase arrives soon
- whoa! our project won a @lensprotocol Top 10 prize at ETH Tokyo 🌿 🇯🇵
@ufoclub.lens Watch Party allows creators to stream live, establish a catalog, access video on demand content and embed in their own websites
thank you to Lens for their support this week, it's been fun!
- major fun with Lens and Livepeer friends at ETH TOKYO ~ working on a video live streaming idea for @ufoclub.lens we really dig ~ @christina.lens @shann.lens @ivanosalonia.lens
- the walls are melting at @ufoclub.lens as we disappear into experiments with publishing, art, web3 social, open source brands and community design
next week flying out for DAO TOKYO and ETH TOKYO to jam with @ivanosalonia.lens and friends
i'm curious, who has UFO on their radar?
- everyone’s posting about the @yup_io mobile beta today
to be first for the waitlist, mint this @ufoclub.lens x Yup NFT ~ limited time & supply
all UFO subscribers on Lens are eligible to claim!
register & mint here https://ufo.mirror.xyz/MvBjw0Hb_Sp0AEAY-daKKKoDnliJgr7Jn8E03mCq9Tg
- The @yup_io Mobile Beta is going live!
We've teamed up for a unique drop for UFO Genesis Pass holders and UFO subscribers across Lens and Mirror.
You can register for the Mobile Beta & claim a free UFO x Yup NFT for priority on the Waitlist
The mint is open for 72 hours and the supply is 20,000 ~ minted on Polygon via Coinvise
Go here for all the info : https://ufo.mirror.xyz/MvBjw0Hb_Sp0AEAY-daKKKoDnliJgr7Jn8E03mCq9Tg
- 06 Design with Seed Club + Songcamp — Peacenode
we talk about designing open source brands, creative practice, coordinating with people around a common goal, CHAOS, Nouns Builder, and more ...
listen — https://ufo.mirror.xyz/Ulxg7jnKghyodk_BWL-pOSKItGXi8gpjxfvEHx80l8E
sponsors: @lensprotocol 🌿 + @zerion.lens