Issue #20 - WTF is Loot, Telosa Utopia, History of Telfar, Meme Economy, New Pixar, Koodos, Upshot, Coinvise, Kalshi, Peach Tree Rascals, anaiis, & Yeek
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September 19, 2021
📰 News
⚔️ WTF is this Loot thing and what does it mean
🥷 A video covering every fashion reference from the DONDA album release
👘 Good artists borrow, great artists steal and this rings true especially for today's high fashion
💊 The Matrix is back with a new trailer
🤖 The final movie of the Neon Genesis Evangelion series released last month, 26 years after its introduction
🎥 Invisible Universe is building the next Pixar by being social media first
💡 Interview with Alvy Ray Smith, the founder of Pixar, his perspective on the future of pixels
🔌 Lamborghini resurrects the iconic Countach as an EV
🍎 Apple looking to reveal its own car by EoY
🛻 Rivian becomes the first to market with an EV truck for $60k+
😂 A primer on the meme economy and how crypto plays into it
💾 Disenfranchised hobbyists movement take it back to self-hosting
🇨🇳 What American apps can learn from Chinese podcasting apps
🥁 Why Distrokid is unicorn
💿 The moral dilemma of posthumous music releases and Aaliyah's relevance today
🔊 Kendrick Lamar announced his final album w/ TDE
📻 3LAU launches a new blockchain music company, Royal, after finding success in tokenizing his own works
🌆 Marc Lore, founder of Jet.com, partners with architecture firm Bjarke Ingles to build a more equitable utopian city
🧬 Billionaires invest into a secretive immortality lab
🎤 CodeVox, build on OpenAI's Codex, allows you to speak your apps into existence
🦾 Elon teases new Tesla humanoid robots
🧠 5 reasons why AI will not take over the human race
🌀 We all exist and see our world within controlled hallucinations
🦣 A new company launches to bring woolly mammoths back to life
☮️ There's a museum that holds the world's largest collection of LSD blotter art
🚇 The influence of IRAK, NYC's legendary graffiti crew
✊🏿 OMCA's latest exhibition focuses on the afrofuturism movement and how it has evolved from its early days as funk aesthetic
♻️ Undercurrent launches in NYC as an immersive art event addressing climate activism
🖼️ Interview w/ BT on art in a world of AI and blockchain and what this NFT generative art movement is all about
📺 Why Netflix wants video games to be its next frontier
🎮 The story of Playdate, the beautifully designed video game console from Teenage Engineering
🕹️ Products
Metaplex - Build and own your NFT storefront
DONDA Stem Player - Yeezy Tech x Kano
Basedash - Basedash makes your database editable, collaborative, and protected
River Runner- Find where the river flows
MobileCoin - Private payments for everyone
HydeFM - Online DJ sets
Zooniverse - People-powered research
NFTPort - Stripe for NFTs
Playbyte - TikTok for Gaming
Kalshi - Trade on events
Livepeer - Open-source video infrastructure
Upshot - Real-time NFT appraisals from experts
Koodos - A community for curators
Coinvise - A full stack platform for creators and communities to build and pperate tokenized communities
Airport - Discover TestFlight apps
🎧Music
Peach Tree Rascals - Popeye with AG Club
Baby Keem - issues
anaiis - chuu featuring Topaz Jones
Yeek - Lumbago
Ragz Originale - ring out .f/ 24hoursav
Tom Misch - The Wilhelm Scream [Quarantine Sessions]
Cuco - Under The Sun
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