Lindsey Mills (@lindseymills) • Hey

she/they/Fae 🧚🏼‍♀️ | Multimedia creatrix, bassist of Surfer Blood & subtropical swamp witch wandering web3

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Day of the Dead // Lindsey Mills Day of the Dead // Lindsey Mills Official video for the song, "Day of the Dead" from the album STONEFRUIT by Lindsey Mills with Handmade, Amigo! Originally released November 9, 2014. Filmed by Jeffrey Rose Written, performed, and edited by Lindsey Mills lindseymills.bandcamp.com
Pride Night 2023 ~ Norton Museum of Art featuring Terese "Chunky" Hill & Lindsey Mills Drag Against Injustice: A Harmony of Pride & Protest By Lindsey Mills “Creativity is the opposite of violence.” – Martha Beck In the balmy embrace of June in West Palm Beach, Florida, within the luminous expanse of the Norton Museum of Art’s Great Hall, a harmonious act of resistance unfolded. Adorned in kaleidoscopic drag and high-fashion outfits, allies, friends, and my mother—radiant in her unwavering support—gathered to orchestrate a resonant protest against the oppressive anti-trans laws recently passed by a radically conservative Florida Legislature. It was the Museum’s annual Pride Night and I had been invited to perform in their Great Hall for the occasion. The place buzzed, its usual melting pot of LGBTQIA+ pride. Yet something was missing: where were all the drag queens? For years, it was a Norton Pride tradition to include a raucous drag show–but in 2023, due to Governor Ron DeSantis' new law that threatened to penalize businesses admitting children to "adult live performances" (such as drag shows), the Norton opted to cancel the performance, rather than risk stiff fines or worse. As a queer, gender-nonconforming artist, I choose to navigate this chaotic world with art as my weapon of choice. Thus, out of sheer rage, I set about inviting my Queer community and allies to join me in protest by attending in some form of drag. To spread the word, I employed my favorite tool for making good trouble: the internet. I shared the museum’s promotional posts with my friends via DM, inviting them personally to be a part of this act of solidarity. Although there is power in platforms such as Instagram for disseminating information, too often it is a “pay-to-play” situation, wherein posts only get engagement if one pays for targeted advertising. I believe our collective power has been dulled by a dependence on these outmoded, gatekept technologies; I believe our collective power can be strengthened through genuine connection. When the night arrived, the first to grace the room with her art was the powerful Terese "Chunky" Hill, a queer Black woman. Her words, spun from the hard realities of her life as a law enforcement officer, painted a vivid tableau, creating a melange of our shared human experiences that touched everyone in the room. I was moved to see a crowd composed of a mix of Chunky’s fans and my own, diverse in age, gender expression and physical appearance, all hanging on her words. It’s time for open confession - To lift the things that are pressin’ n’ stressin’. To bear my soul and get butt-booty-nekkid on this stage - I wanna allow my emotions to be unclothed. Therese “Chunky” Hill Then, it was my turn. I stepped up, guitar in hand, and took a moment to speak. "Although I am so pleased to be here and play music for you tonight, I wish all the drag queens were here with me too," I began, my voice echoing. "Their bodies should not be policed and no government should be able to determine how a person expresses themselves. No government or society should be able to determine whether it's legal for us to exist. All of us here are loved. I love each and every one of you here just as you are. So I'm gonna play some songs of hope, and hopefully you'll know the words to a couple of them." The cavernous room full of people was on their feet, all hollering in agreement. With those words, I began to sing. When I came off stage an hour later, I knew with every photo I posed for that my effort to uplift my audience was received. Documentation of the event was widely circulated online, and is now permanently inscribed on the Polygon blockchain via Lenstube.xyz. Coincidentally, the very same day witnessed a federal judge in Orlando temporarily blocking DeSantis’s hateful law that dared call drag a crime, ruling that the law's attempt to regulate content likely violated the First Amendment's free speech protections. Norton Pride 2023 was more than a gathering; it was a testament to the power of community, of art as a means of resistance. It was a vibrant declaration against oppressive legislation, a refusal to be silenced, and a celebration of the beautiful, technicolor defiance of the queer spirit.
I wrote this one for all the undercover freaks out there. May we be loved for all that we are <3
𝖘𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖙 𝖇𝖊𝖆𝖈𝖍 // Lindsey Mills 𝖘𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖙 𝖇𝖊𝖆𝖈𝖍 Music & lyrics by Lindsey Mills Do you remember the warm summer breeze, the sprinkle of cool rain, and the euphoria of zooming down A1A? If you were among the cosmic group who joined us for the inaugural 𝖘𝖆𝖑𝖙 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍 𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈 𝖘𝖔𝖈𝖎𝖊𝖙𝖞 Full Moon Rollout on August 1, you'll know what I'm talking about. Our alter egos gathered at the southern trail head, a vibrant mix of skates, blades, bikes, and boards, and under the pull of the Aquarius Supermoon, this enchanting coven of 12 souls took a cruise I won't forget. I'm grateful to them all for lending their presence *and* their video footy to the music video for my song, "Secret Beach". It was such a joy creating this DIY-style with friends old and new. The final result showcases the Florida landscape in all its sun-kissed glory and the magic that's possible when like-minded people come together. 𝖘𝖆𝖑𝖙 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍 𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈 𝖘𝖔𝖈𝖎𝖊𝖙𝖞 is: Carly Cassano Stephanie Cimino Anneliese Coule Ellen Coule Mary Glazier Ates Isildak Lindsey Mills Gada Peel Laura Seaman Sierra Spellwater Sydney Squid Christine Sylvain Aquarius Supermoon ~ August 1 2023 **Get the limited edition #NFT version of the song on Sound.xyz! ***Subscribe to the 𝖘𝖆𝖑𝖙 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍 newsletter to learn about upcoming events first and never miss the magic!! ✨saltwitch.xyz/contact✨
Tove Lo - I like u (Official Music Video) Tove Lo - I like u (Official Music Video) Stream ‘I like u’ Out Now: https://tovelo.ffm.to/ilikeu Music: Tove Lo Special Thanks: Galverse Community Director, Original Character Design & Storyboard Artist: Ayaka Ohira Co-Director: Yuta Takamura Creative Directors: Tove Lo Charlie Twaddle Character Design: Satoshi Ishino Art Director: Hiromasa Ogura Art Production Company: Ogura Atelier Color Design: Miyoko Ichinose In-between Supervisor: Chiharu Satou Compositor: Kaori Ozawa Executive Producers: Team Galverse Ayaka Ohira Emi Kusano Devin Mancuso Jack Baldwin Producer: Nao Hirasawa Associate Producer: Yukie Abe Production Company: ARCH Animation Producer: Koji Nishizawa Production Assistant: Miho Nagato Animation Production Company: S.o.K Lead Animation Director: Ayaka Ohira Animation Director: Satoshi Ishino Key Animation: Youko Sirai Wei-Li Chen　 Yasuhiro Saiki Shiori Nakasone Satomi Tominaga Tomotsugu Sakakibara Ayaka Ohira Second Key Animation: Kanon D-dur Akari Saito Yiyang Dan Yuka Katafuchi Haruka Zushi Wang Xinping studio Paper Cranes Kuma Chomei Homei Syasu In Between animation and paint: Shanghai Phantom Animation Shanghai Honghuang Art Color and Cel check: Miyoko Ichinose Background Art: Ogura Atelier You Ryu Seika Sekiguchi Mayu Saeda 2D works: Marina Tosaka Ogura Atelier Akiko Hamanaka Lyrics Imma tell you the truth now Cause I’m too high to lie I wish I was girlfriend Is she with you tonight? You say sorry I’m taken Walk away with a smile I know I’m not mistaken You’re the love of my life You make it hard I guess I respect that Don’t take too long I’ve been waiting all night La la like you I la la la like you La la like you I la la la like you What do I do there’s nobody like you La la la like you I lala la like you I run into you everywhere But you push me away Does it mean you’re still with her She convinced you to stay I know it’s wrong but I cannot help it I I know it’s wrong but I cannot help it I I don’t know but Sometimes When you find love The wrong thing is right It might be hard But worth the fight Real love #tovelo #ilikeu #galverse
the first raw iteration of my upcoming single. all collectors of this demo will be gifted an edition of the upcoming official album version on Sound.
With a pure and innocent perception, behold each moment with childlike wonder~ Written & performed by Lindsey Mills Recorded & mixed by Rich Switzer Produced by Jill Switzer
It’s May Day aka Int’l Workers Day & I feel inspired to out myself as a collectivist anarchist~ I share the dream of a decentralized, self-managed society where individuals work together without hierarchy or government control to meet their needs ✊🏼
shipping credit card collects for Lens Posts
Stills from the lyric video for my new song, 𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭 & 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞 ~ I put the whole video up on @lenstube.lens as a free collect if you follow me 🍋💛 https://lenstube.xyz/watch/0x01c055-0x0c
Here's Oohlala Daily Playlist!! 🎶 @chaoticmonk.lens 's "Monk's Chill 5 Song Mix" is a chill and relaxed playlist to start your day with. #5SongMix was started by @mixtape, who leads the music discovery efforts in the @lensprotocol ecosystem 🎶 You can listen to music NFTs from @jamesfinnerty.lens , @karmavioletta.lens, @ruthless.lens, @internetfase.lens, @roadwaves.lens on this playlist #mixtape #oohlala #musicNFTs Check out the playlist here: https://www.oohlala.xyz/playlist/af06b04e-e6ba-448a-b477-0aadedfed529
let's meet the best people online this year ok? being more open and honest on the internet, showing more of who you are will allow the best connections you've ever had to come into your life
gm from the other side 🌞
SHINSEI GALVERSE: ORIGIN STORY - EPISODE 2 Welcome to the brink of the universe! You met the team in Episode 1. Now, hear how they took the concept of Galverse from an idea to reality, taking on the wild world of Web3 and anime at the same time! Shinsei Galverse is Japan's first breakout Web3 success story. 8,888 Gals shooting across time and space to make the galaxy a better place! Inspired by nostalgic 80s and 90s anime, the Galverse team aim to create something entirely new by reimagining these ideas with modern values and badass Gals at the front and centre.
**My suggestion for breaking the mold is pretty much the same for all creators:** -Keep doing what you're doing! -Imagine new tools you want to use (be active and thoughtful about this!) -Beg/pay/coordinate/collaborate with devs to get those tools built -Be a leader when exploring new tools -Collaborate and experiment like crazy, as long as it makes sense. All of that probably sounds trite and not exactly ground-breaking and I'm sorry. This isn't a new problem, it's actually as old as time. The same old principles continue to apply. What's different today is that we're in an era where users can write any data they want to the database. This is new to all of us. If it can be imagined it can be created. Creating apps to fill your needs and keeping an eye out for new ones are probably the best ways to "create your luck." Louis CK and Radiohead sold their work directly to fans over the internet at a time when it was very difficult to do so. Deadmau5 built his own app and failed. Building is hard, success is not guaranteed. Looking for emergent trends is another way. Snoop didn't build Instagram but he was the first celeb to jump on it. He understood the power it held. Ashton Kutcher raced CNN to 1 million followers on Twitter in the early days for the same reasons. Then you have people like Casey Neistat (YouTube) or Charli D'Amelio (TikTok) who combined these two skills. Neither were the first on their platforms but they were arguably the first who actually understood how to create in the new format. They recognized the emergent app/format and they also recognized their needs weren't being met. So they built their format themselves, on those platforms. They showed everyone else how it's done. **Now to move to specifics, which you absolutely did not ask for but I've thought about anyway:** The lowest hanging fruit we could all use here on Lens is a feed of just NFTs. It could be inside of Lenster or its own app. A feed where you must own the thing to share it. A profile where you can arrange what you've collected into collections. Having a feed where people can post and organize their collects enables discovery, curation, showing off, etc. A lot can be built and solved with just this idea alone. **Now moving specifically to music:** I praise sound.xyz all the time. They are a really great example of using NFTs as data. They created a tool for publishing music. Seems simple enough, but really take a look at how they use the data. The collectors get their names displayed prominently in lists sortable by both Top and Earliest. Collectors get to pick a timestamp on the track and leave a comment. The platform also facilitates coordinating the rewards systems, the golden egg, etc. Then when you look at the Viral charts they display the Sound + Artist + Top 3 Collectors for each viral sound. That's a huge! Imagine if the top songs on TikTok showed the top 3 collectors?? Billions of eyeballs looking at your name next to Beyonce's or Ed Sheeran, or the next undiscovered act? Then when you switch to the overall charts they break out Sounds/Artists/Collectors. That's a hell of a lot of features for collectors to interact with on Sound. Now compare collecting a track on Sound.xyz to collecting on Lenster: This is not to pick on Lenster! But if I collect a song here I hopefully get a shoutout from the creator 🤷‍♂️ And maybe the creator and can meet me on another platform and figure out some rewards or uses for the data there. And when the song drops out of being in everyone's timeline the artist/song/collectors are all out of sight, out of mind. Aggregators/platforms will continue to win on the internet. In a sea of infinite data the curators win. Sound.xyz is in the beginning stages of becoming a winner. What many in web3 are discovering is that while it's incredibly easy (structurally) to create a platform, it's damn near impossible to keep it going (nearly every PFP from Cool Cats to Doodles, Apes, RTFKT, etc are struggling platforms). **Platforms are rarely created from nothing.** **They almost always start with an app or product which then gets leveraged into becoming a platform.** Facebook was a simple poke/wall/photosharing app before it became a gigantic platform with marketplaces, instagram, whatsapp, vr headsets, etc. Uber started as a simple ride-sharing app before becoming a platform w/delivery services and more. Google was just search, etc. The good news is app creation has never been easier! (I say this as I'm currently struggling to build something) If you can build an app to solve what you as the creator want to accomplish, Lens + other existing platforms can make it really easy for you to jumpstart your own app, which can eventually be leveraged into a platform of its own. **An example using Sound.xyz:** -They have potential to become a successful platform. -They face immense difficulty succeeding against Spotify (users don't care about the database). -They need to enable apps to be built on top, both by themselves and by the community. This can transform them from being a singular app to platform. **So you, a musician, want to incentivize people to listen to and interact with your music:** -You create playlists which feature your songs + other songs they mix well with -You reward others who publish playlists using your songs (shout outs, etc) -You make enough playlists and shout out enough people where having an app to handle all of these behaviors would actually be easier **You build an app called SoundOff** -Users choose 5 songs from Sound.xyz's library -The collectors/comments info from the sound.xyz drop show up in this app as well -Users compete to create the best 5-song mixes, collects of these mixes are counted as votes -Those collected mixes now have up to 5 artists plus the collector's info, and can be tied back to all the original collectors of those 5 songs -Those collected mixes now become their own data format, which anyone else can build off of This app could become its own platform, which launches more apps, and the cycle continues. This process can apply to music reviews, music artwork, music use in video or photos. TikTok hit us over the head with the fact that music and sounds can now have network effects. ----------- I know that was probably a little disappointing in that there's no great secret to unlock. We're all in the same boat here. It really comes down to "imagine cool shit and build it." The Lens protocol is a -phenomenal- leap forward. It finally has us all creating a certain type of structured data. We have formats for profiles and basic media posts. That's a great foundation but we're all moving in different directions from this point. If we build simple, fun apps which use NFTs as data we can do what Lens did again, and again, and again... Protocols all the way up!
𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭 & 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞 lyric video 𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭 & 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞 🍋🍯💛 Written & performed by Lindsey Mills Recorded, mixed & produced by Rich Switzer Drum performance by Joe Mason Lyric video created with clips from my iPhone! 💐
𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭 & 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞 lyric video 𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭 & 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞 🍋🍯💛 Written & performed by Lindsey Mills Recorded, mixed & produced by Rich Switzer Drum performance by Joe Mason Lyric video created with clips from my iPhone! 💐
𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭 & 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞 lyric video 𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭 & 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞 🍋🍯💛 Written & performed by Lindsey Mills Recorded, mixed & produced by Rich Switzer Drum performance by Joe Mason Lyric video created with clips from my iPhone! 💐
Very much the perfect Sunday morning snippet
Check out the first snippet ‘𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭 & 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞’ by @lindseymills.lens 🚀 With its mellow, soulful melody and thoughtful lyrics, this track is sure to be a hit with fans of indie and acoustic music 🎶 Listen + Collect 💽 https://www.beatsapp.xyz/post/0x01c055-0x05
You have an incredible voice Lindsey 🌱✨
A sneak peek of my new song, 𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭 & 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞~ free collect for my Lens followers. Hope you enjoy. ☺️ {FYI loquats are an unsung hero of the subtropical fruit family coming into ripeness as I write this! Highly recommend eating by the bucketful if you ever get the chance…} ...& since today *is* Record Store Day 2023, I decided to put a special twist on this drop for you: if you love the song & want to have it for your very own as a beautiful 7" vinyl picture disk, you can acquire 1 of only 11 copies ever to be made right here~ https://store.triblymusic.com/nft/186 <3 Lindsey
QUEEN SEER OF SOUNDWAVES!!!
Hi lensfrens, I’m Lindsey ! Multimedia creatrix, bassist of indie rock band Surfer Blood, and Florida swamp witch wandering web3. Coming from the traditional music industry, I find the land of music NFT to be really wide-open & inspiring. I wanna be a disruptor of the broken system & co-create a better reality with people like y'all. Currently committed to releasing a song a month & working towards an album in 2024~ 🔮 In February, I had the privilege of being chosen by @crittie.lens to join the ranks at Catalog & released a song called 𝖘𝖆𝖉 & 𝖇𝖊𝖆𝖚𝖙𝖎𝖋𝖚𝖑 🔮 Earlier this month, I dropped 𝑴𝑰𝑳𝑲 as my entry to the Reveel x Decent.xyz creator grant competition 🔮 To top it all off, I also launched 𝖘𝖆𝖑𝖙 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍 𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈 𝖘𝖔𝖈𝖎𝖊𝖙𝖞, a private chat & monthly Zoom where magical people go to share alpha & occult wisdom { There's still 2 membership badges left 👀 https://store.triblymusic.com/collection/53 } Here for the community, connection & collaboration. Let's vibe 💘💘
Are we still CELEBRATING WOMEN? I'm going to the METAVERSE! by @charmtaylor.lens #Lenstube https://lenstube.xyz/watch/0x019978-0x14 #Lenstube @saraphillips.lens @jazii.lens @isadorenoir.lens + more paging the baddies @lindseymills.lens & @crittie.lens 💜 now taking all set list requests one week from the show. EVOLUTION EXPERIENCE PASS HERE: https://mversedao.io/exclusive-drops/events/womens-week