MTALKS by MHOUSE: Recent Episodes
MHOUSE
Join us as we meet the innovators that are creating the new world of digital art, technology and finance. Each episode we deep dive with a web3 innovator. Artists, Businesspeople, Collectors, Developers. We dig deep into what they are doing, why they are doing it and what you can expect next in this new world
Ben Strauss is co-founder of Transient Labs and talks about his history as aerospace engineer, jazz musician, landscape photographer and developer of some of the most innovative smart contracts in the NFT space.
MTALKS is a podcast where you get to meet web3 innovators. Hosted by MHOUSE - https://mhouse.club
TOPICS DISCUSSED:
Topics discussed:
- 0:45 – Ben’s background – including photography and having 4 degrees!
- 3:55 – The birth of Transient Labs
- 6:20 – Transient Labs first projects – 24
- 13:40 – The challenge of explaining dynamic NFTs!
- 15:00 – Projects: The Neil Strauss book project – Survive All Apocalypses
- 18:00 – Projects: Time Magazine with Vitalik and Caitlin Cronenburg
- 18:20 – Book builder smart contract generally
- 21:08 – Disrupting the book publishing indusry – Mint on Demand & Reselling Books
- 23:10 – LIT projects - Robert de Niro, Peter Bogdanovich & Kim Bassinger
- 25:35 – Jeremy Cowart BlockQueens
- 28:57 – Lightograph from Jeremy Cowart
- 36:40 – Solstice Series Part 1 – Landscape photography with fluid dynamics exploring transitions between seasons (!!)
- 40:45 – Future project – Passage of Time
- 43:25 – The new shatter contract
- 58:00 – TL’s New Protocol to solve the issue of on-chain metadata on-chain
- 1:05:40 – More projects – Drip/drop by Dave Krugman
- 1:07:18 – Scaling the business
- 1:08:15 – Impact of market conditions (NFA!)
- 1:13:53 – Future of NFT industry – 2 - 5 year outlook
- 1:25:03 – Who to speak to next
- 1:29:05 – Advice for people in web3… and in life generally
Links mentioned in this episode:
LITERALLY TOO MANY TO FIT BELOW!!! GO HERE FOR FULL SHOW NOTES - https://mtalks.zencast.website/episodes/mtalks-9-ben-strauss-transient-labs-nft-photography-art-smart-contracts
- https://twitter.com/mpeyfuss
- 24 Series: https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0xb018e5fd857b46910d053c7fb4cf590f404fcd99/3
- https://twitter.com/neilstrauss
- https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin
- https://twitter.com/TIME
- https://twitter.com/caitcronenberg – https://twitter.com/LITWTF
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Basinger
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_De_Niro
- https://twitter.com/blogdanovich
- https://twitter.com/jeremycowart
- https://opensea.io/collection/block-queens-by-jeremy-cowart
- Lightograph - https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x48a513e9ece989b7b16c00a1af0c37fd8280df4f/1
- https://twitter.com/foreverlandsxyz
Solstice - https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0xb018e5fd857b46910d053c7fb4cf59...
In this episode, Def1nft meets Bruno Skvorc. Bruno is a web3 developer on Polkadot and Kusama and has created RMRK, an NFT protocol on Kusama as well as Singularity.app, an NFT marketplace. Bruno is now launching Skybreach, a decentralised metaverse project on Kusama.
Topics discussed: 0:45 – Bruno’s background 2:20 – Bruno’s start educating people on web3 3:40 – Bruno’s first NFT experiences 5:40 – Creating NFTs on Kusama 7:00 – Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems 12:00 – RMRK community 13:05 – NFT problems that RMRK solves 18:40 - RMRK NFT Legos 24:30 - Examples of NFT Legos 29:30 - Music NFTs on RMRK 32:45 - What's hot on Singular right now 34:35 - Getting started on Singular 35:40 - Rust & EVM rollout for RMRK 38:25 - Bruno's Secret Agenda and Ninja Moves and the new Metaverse 50:00 - Decentralised cloud compute with Phala 53:30 - More about Skybreach 55:00 - Back to the secret agenda 56:50 - Skybreach Land Sale 1:02:00 - Future of crypto, NFTs and web3 1:09:30 - Bruno's Inspiration 1:10:10 - Who to speak to next on MTALKS 1:14:25 - Advice to the world
Links mentioned in this episode:
- https://polkadot.network/
- https://kusama.network/
- https://www.cryptokitties.co/
- https://web3.foundation/
- https://www.phala.network/en/
- https://www.rmrk.app/
- https://singular.app/
- https://skybreach.app/
- https://www.yuga.com/
- https://unique.network/
- https://bit.country/
This podcast is hosted by MHOUSE - https://mhouse.club/
In this episode, Def1nft meets Daniel from Hashlips, an artist and developer who has built a large online community by teaching people how to release their own NFT projects. He is founder of Hashlips and is developing a new metverse builder that will allow anybody to create their own metaverse space.
Topics discussed: 1:15 - Daniel's background 3:10 - Traveling through China as an artist 7:15 - How Daniel got intocrypto and web3 11:08 - Starting Hashlips 12:50 - The name Hashlips 13:25 - How Daniel learned Solidity and started to share information 16:07 - Dealing with haters 24:40 - Daniel asks about the LINKED collection from MHOUSE 31:45 - A message for artists about web3 and NFT art 35:25 - How Hashlips resources helped people 38:00 - The Hashlips Metaverse 40:52 - What is the metaverse? 54:34 - The Hashlips Metaverse team 56:17 - How big the metaverse will be 59:55 - Building on Ethereum 1:01:10 - Scarcity & Interoperability in the metaverse 1:06:35 - MHOUSE gallery in the Hashlips metaverse? 1:08:15 - Future of the metaverse & NFTs 1:13:15 - Who to speak to next? 1:15:30 - Daniel's advice to the world!
Links mentioned in this episode:
- https://www.youtube.com/c/hashlipsnft
- https://hashlips.online/HashLips
- https://www.sketchyapebookclub.com/
- https://mhouse.club/
- https://mhouse.club/linked/
This podcast is hosted by MHOUSE - https://mhouse.club/
In this episode, Def1nft meets Sara NMT, a former architect who has now gone full time web3. She is the founder of Crypto Birds Cafe and the director of Arts and NFTs at CMORQ, a DeFi protocol. She hopes to become a Metaverse architect one day.
Topics discussed: 00:46 – Sara’s background 2:15 – Architecture in the Metaverse 3:40 – Intro to crypto and creating her first NFTs 11:45 – Discovering NFT PFP projects 13:30 – The inspiration to create a PFP project 14:15 – Meeting Daniel and Hashlips 17:20 – Designing the art for the project 23:00 – Assembling the art layers 28:30 – Deploying the smart contracts 31:10 – The front-end website and minting station 33:00 – Launching and marketing the project 38:40 – Being headhunted by DeFi protocol CMORQ and leaving architecture 43:20 – Where to buy the collection 44:40– What does a director of NFTs do? 46:55 – Next steps for Sara NMT 48:50 – Who to speak to next 49:50 – Sara’s advice to other people
Links mentioned in this episode:
- https://www.cmorq.com/
- https://cryptobirdscafe.com/
- https://twitter.com/sara_nmt
- https://hashlips.online/HashLips
This podcast is hosted by MHOUSE - https://mhouse.club/
This eisode Def1nft and Matt Jacobson discuss generative art, blockchain art and Plottables, a plotter NFT marketplace that is powered by ArtBlocks.
Topics discussed: 1:00 – Matt’s background 3:00 – The attraction of pen plotter art 6:15 – Generative artists exploring pen plotters 8:35 – Communicating with a plotter 12:20 – Growth of the plotter market 13:10 – The learning curve 15:45 – Plotter art buyers 18:00 – Digital to physical and live events 22:10 – Innovative physical manufacturing 25:40 – NFTs and plotters 27:00 – The future of plotters 28:10 – Powered by ArtBlocks 30:30 – The future of generative art and NFTs 31:55 – Where to find Matt 33:05 – Who to speak to next – Bright Moments
Links mentioned in this episode:
- https://twitter.com/numsinmotion
- https://www.plottables.io/
- https://doodlelabs.io/
- https://www.artblocks.io/
- https://www.brightmoments.io/
This podcast is hosted by MHOUSE - https://mhouse.club/
This eisode Def1nft and Bartek Sibiga discuss PFPs, Bored Apes, NFT security, [topic].....
Topics discussed: 1:11 – The 24/7/365 web3 workday 2:05 – Bartek’s Marketing Agency DDOB 3:20 – Removing yourself from your business 5:21 – Building an NFT focused agence - Fanadise 7:45 – Bartek’s NFT collecting journey 8:45 – The advantages of holding BAYC 12:40 – BAYC theft 16:10 – Forensics and tracking scammers 17:25 – Getting back a stolen ape 18:05 – Hacks & good security practices 20:05 – Fancy Bears – bringing PFPs to Europe 25:20 – Selling out an 8k PFP in 8 minutes 27:40 – Explaining the value of PFP projects 33:50 – Fancy Bears and the HONEY token 45:30 – Bartek’s team 48:20 – Roadmap, DAO and Fancy Bears song 51:45 – Wrapping up
Links mentioned in this episode:
- https://www.fancybearsmetaverse.com/
- https://fanadise.com/
- https://ddob.com/
- https://boredapeyachtclub.com/#/
- https://www.coinfirm.com
This podcast is hosted by MHOUSE - https://mhouse.club/
Dadara talks about being a full-time artist since the 90s. We explore his early career in the burgeoning house music scene designing flyers, posters and live painting at events around the world. He talks about his large scale projects at Burning Man, his fascination with human perception and how it can be influenced. Dadaism, art, blockchain art, NFTs and technology as an artistic medium.
Topics discussed:
- 1:20 - Dadara's Bio & History
- 3:00 - Dadara’s Inspiration & Identity as an artist incl Jules Deelder and Dada
- 5:05 - On (not) going to Art School, making a living from art and being a millionaire
- 7:30 - On following your passion regardless of opinions
- 9:12 - On peoples’ reactions and social media
- 12:00 - More on Dadara’s art - record sleeves, dance music, flyers, live painting at parties globally, burning man and more
- 16:25 - The web3 revolution and the new distribution platform for artists
- 19:30 - WTF? Learning by doing
- 22:45 - New technology through the years and NFTs
- 27:42 - web3 user experience (hint - it’s not good)
- 24:09 - Advice to artists on exploring web3 and NFTs
- 28:45 - Don’t shoot the medium, art is art
- 32:00 - (Crypto) Grey Man - Origin Story - OG: Original Greyman
- 35:07 - Crypto Grey Man - Physical V Digital and NFT
- 39:50 - Some of the advantages & disadvantages of digital / NFT art over physical art
- 44:10 - Burning man controversies
- 46:20 - Crypto Grey man - the big project
- 55:45 - Technology behind Grey Man
- 58:00 - Crypto Twitter Grey Man Day
- 58:45 - Only 7.9 billion left
- 1:00:00 - Trying new things and the long tail of art
- 1:02:12 - Advice to artists - stay true to yourself
Links mentioned in this episode:
- https://dadara.nl/
- https://kochxbos.com/Dadara/Getting-Lost-in-the-Beauty-of-Chaos
- https://cryptogreyman.com/
- https://burningman.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Deelder
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada This podcast is hosted by MHOUSE - https://mhouse.club/
In this episode, Def1nft hosts Sofia Garcia, a pioneer in the generative art, blockchain art and NFT space.
Topics discussed:
- 1:10 - Sofia's Inspirations and passions, incl Art, technology
- 6:30 - The value proposition of blockchain art and generative art
- 8:50 - Certificates of Authenticity & Exhibitions
- 10:33 - Artblocks and on-chain generative art
- 11:27 - Beyond digital art, tokenizing real world assets
- 13:30 - Chimera art project and Artblocks curation
- 15:40 - More on Artblocks curation
- 20:10 - The future of generative art
- 23:15 - Non-digital V digital art on the blockchain
- 29:40 - Some of the advantages of NFT art over traditional
- 31:55 - PFP projects
- 35:00 - The artistic integrity of generative art
- 37:48 - The beginning of Artxcode
- 41:10 - The Digital exhibition at Art Basel Miami and how to properly present generative art
- 49:30 - Advice on NFT exhibitions
- 50:20 - Ownership and display rights
- 51:30 - Code / Art and bringing more girls and diversity into blockchain art
- 55:00 - Crypto is open to everyone
Links mentioned in this episode:
- https://www.artxcode.io/
- https://www.code-art.com/
- https://www.artblocks.io/
- https://tylerxhobbs.com/
- https://dadara.nl/
- https://masterpiece.so/artist/dmitricherniak
- https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks
- https://www.instagram.com/ix.shells/
- https://www.the-movement.com/
- https://www.artblocks.io/project/233
- https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/
- https://gallery.so/ixshells
- https://thedigital.auction/
This podcast is hosted by MHOUSE https://mhouse.club/