I’m terminally bad at talking about all of the things I’ve been working on, so how about a year end post? Most of my creative output in 2022 has been making stuff with friends at FWB
@planet_nerf
@neuxregime
@JoseRMejia
@being_on_line
(and many more...)
It’s been a long bear market but we’re still here. I made this NFT project as a love letter to web3 w/ stickers representing some of my favorite people and projects.
💦 Mint & decorate a 3D bottle
💦 Upload your own stickers
💦 Make ETH when people mint them
Stay Hydrated
Televisión iraní: censura en transmisión de atletismo femenino. En algunas partes del mundo es donde deberían darse las verdaderas batallas por la libertad.
After more than 2 years leading Product
@FWBtweets
it’s time for me to move on to new projects. I'm going to take a bit of time off and work on some new ideas, but I’m open to collaborations and interesting roles in web3. My DM's are open.
🦄 Embedding a customized Uniswap trading experience into any UI in a single line of code has been a dream of mine for over 3 years now
🙌 So incredibly excited about the Swap widget launch, with initial integrations in
@opensea
@FWBtweets
and
@oasisdotapp
New work with the amazing creative crew at Coinbase:
😲 WebGL & physics
😲 5,000 1/1 generative pieces
😲 ~100k mints, one per wallet, soulbound
😲 Mint from frame on Farcaster via
@syndicateio
😲 NFT holders unlock merch
😲 Built on
@base
Announcing some of the first recipients of Builder Grants in 2024:
-
@coinage_media
, a DAO putting media ownership onchain
-
@mikebodge
for Stay Hydrated's 'love letter to web3'
-
@OmniKingdoms
, an onchain MMO with gasless gaming
-
@theahchu
for
@basemint_tech
's key-gated chat
Who remembers Google’s project Ara? It was an idea for a modular phone where new weirdo customized components could be snapped in and out depending on your personal needs.
Facebook was bringing an undersea cable into the coast of Oregon (against the community’s vocal disapproval) and their drill broke so they just abandoned 1,100 feet of pipe, a drill tip, various other tools and 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid in the ocean.
Product 🔨
What does it mean to build the ultimate culture membership?
- Reimagined website (now live!)
- FWB Gallery
- Governance Dashboard
- Token-gated RSVP Portal
- City Guides
- Member Directory
Come build it!
Led by
@mikebodge
🎯
Can’t hold people to the beliefs they held when they were younger. Bloomberg was just a 72 year old teen when he enforced stop and frisk. He’s grown up a lot! 👶
Stunning news:
@MikeBloomberg
, who is preparing to run for president, is apologizing for his NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk at Christian Cultural Center. He has adamantly defended it for years, even as crime has gone down as stops have been reduced.
This week we welcomed
@mikebodge
as a Creative Resident at ICV! Mike is a product engineer and digital artist currently working on Megaphone, a big new social idea that just happens to use crypto rails:
When I was in middle school there was a asshole boy that was mean to my sister. He was obsessed with Pearl Jam (lol) so I wrote a program called AOPearlJam and sent it to him saying it was an AOL Pearl Jam haxor app. Deleted every file on his computer. Pearl Jam looool 🤣
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Lately I've been trying to make digital work that has the feeling of some physicality. These pieces are made out of stone textured webgl columns randomly generated and arranged at mint.
Live now on
@base
and powered by
@Highlight_xyz
Link below ⬇️
“…Yeaaaaaah so everyone was making a lot of money buying literally anything so we just said ‘good morning’ to each other all day every day for months…”
Take a walk in the park and around town.
Our Product Team’s Roadmap is here.
We believe the future of product design is centered around communities and not users.
We ask ourselves — How might we build a better community experience for our friends?
The release of Monarchs is an attempt to push through preconceived notions— his own and those of his peers —about NFTs, the value of art, and what it means to define your own parameters for success as a creative in Web3.
Friends with Benefits is excited to enter our second year.
For Season Five, we will be introducing new ways for our community to venture out and come together – both online and offline.
Welcome to Season Five: Social Spaces
This is incredibly stupid
@nytimes
. I’m staying in Hong Kong right now and I wake up DAILY to new graffiti outside my window. What is the point of having a non-local write an opinion of what’s going on here? As if a New Yorker flying in to let us know what’s going on is valuable.
Lot of people asking "wen FWB NFT" and that time has finally come.
We've reimagined what an NFT gallery would look like on our terms, thx to
@ourZORA
crew. More on that soon, but in the meanwhile:
The bidding for access to our sold-out party begins NOW.
❌ Delete Yourself Shop Now Open ❌
I’ve opened a store that sells 1 of 1 AI generated apparel designs. Every image is unique and goes out of stock after purchase. First product available is sunset sandals...no two pair are the same. 🏖
20 years ago the entire internet was just various Arnold Schwarzenegger sound boards where you could prank call people with “who is your daddy and what does he do?”
Howard Shultz made us embarrass ourselves by saying “grande” when ordering a medium. What level of insane fascism is he capable of if he gets to our nations highest office?
After FWB Fest we came back and went full tilt building a web3 social mobile app and have launched it to a hundred beta testers. In January we’ll release it to the whole community…it’s very crazy. More to come soon.
Introducing our first NFT series launching at Miami Basel
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This is a limited collection of FWB's iconic birds – reinterpreted by our favorite artists.
Bringing physicals with digital art, while this is the first of its kind, it’s just the beginning
Tried to explain to a Lyft driver what I did for a living...
Him: “so you basically go into a website and, like, make a 3D dog talk or something?”
Yes.
Running the pro’s and cons of watching tonight’s debate:
PROS
- Seems like important history to watch
CONS
- Won’t change my vote (obvs)
- Will be like injecting poison into my brain right before bedtime
- Twitter will recap the important bits for me so why watch it live?
"The algorithmic feed critique is not new, but right now there are no viable alternatives for creatives. I’m inspired to build social apps that are new and participatory rather than doom scrolling consumption." –
@mikebodge
🎉 Subscriptions 🎉
Subscriptions allow creators to monetize and become closer to their followers through exclusive experiences:
- Subscriber Lives
- Subscriber Stories
- Subscriber Badges
We hope to add more creators to this test in the coming months. More to come. ✌🏼
Oh and when twitter rolled out their bizarre hexagon profile pictures I made a weekend project of randomly generated WebGL gem shaped NFTs that you could use as your pfp.
The 90s feeling of getting out of a boring day of high school, getting into your first car, putting on Wu Tang’s new song “Triumph”, and going home to dial into the internet.
The person that designed this cover must have been shitting bricks knowing the code had to be readable by normal people and would be analyzed by nerds
....and they still missed a semi-colon on the first delay() call. 😬
After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.