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LGHTBased: I Need a Dev!
In August I minted Based. “A token for the early adopters.” Open for the whole month, it closed just shy of 46.5K tokens minted and over 33k unique wallets. The most resonant piece in my young onchain discography by many multiples. Immediately I felt understanding emerge in regard to Jack Butcher’s words about his Checks and Opepen projects. Retrofitted for this post, he spoke of the impetus to experiment with each collection (initially just single-piece open editions) coming after seeing the...
LGHTThe Greenpaper: What it can mean for you to "join Higher"
Co-authored by: Jihad Esmail & LGHT.ETH - Higher is an internet destination: a vibrant network of designers, developers, artists, writers, entrepreneurs, and athletes, leveraging open technology to work ourselves into our dream lives. Higher is a network for your ambitions, for refining your worldview, and creating the world you want to see among people who get it. Every day, we push each other to achieve new heights, explore new ideas, and create new experiences. Members have created athleti...
LGHTConcept Markets: Using ERC20s for Concept Proofing & Higher Production Hit Rates
Pre-context for this paper:The commodification of content using ERC20sUsing content interfaces that have memecoin backends to create concept parityRough theory of the funnel:IdeaConceptCoin the metadataGather market cap, trading volume, holder distribution + social media metricsManufacture what has proven demandHere are two examples you can view market cap, volume, and holder distribution:Custom Atlas ATVs.Would be a premium ticket, ultra-high cost item. Requiring tens of millions in market c...
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Memetic.
(adj.) has the qualities of or is related to a meme
Icons.
(n.) a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol
As culture hyperfies, we see increasing value in the representative symbols used to scale and manifest density around interests/morals onchain. Not only are we lending more credence to things like ‘brand’, or ‘design’, UI/UX, and ‘aesthetics’, we are trying to distill their wisdom for a globally coordinated reinterpretation, on blockchains.
Our first go at contextualizing this concept we came away with:
each hyperculture is centered around one
their aesthetic manifestations include skeuomorphic, abstract, and referential models (noggles, zorbs, & opepen silouhette)
Recently we added a little more context:
words, colors (gradients even), and symbols are working models
you can have more than one (Nike has the swoosh and just do it)
their functionality extends beyond cultural signaling
foundation for hyperstack proliferation (commerce, cultural, commons)
they are not the beginning of a culture, but the beginning of its iconography
It wasn’t until a recent conversation on UFO Radio that I was struck with new insight. A skateboard is a memetic icon. A tennis ball, or any sports ball, is a memetic icon. This opens up new possibilities for digitally native ones.
A skateboard provides kinesthetic-functions that our current crop of icons do not; while providing the same kind of cultural vertex. These functions include:
riding the board
designing the board
upgrading the board
discovering new locations to skate
bringing gravity to complimentary aesthetics (music to listen to, food to eat, friends to associate with, clothes to wear)
A sports ball has some overlap and its own set of functions as well. Again, I’m struck with the diversity we uncovered when looking at the skeuomorphic, abstract, and referential models.
At the current limits of my purview it feels best to pose some questions:
what does kinesthetic-function look like digitally?
what are the boundaries of ‘hardware’ v ‘software’ in crypto (when dealing with token mechanics for example)?
will additional functions pattern the aesthetic model of established memetic icons
noggles become ar glasses? or something entirely different?
zorbs become incredibly diverse yet functional hardware?
opepens become functional ‘avatars’? or skins?
and to what degree does kinesthetic-function play in scaling the icon?
Memetic.
(adj.) has the qualities of or is related to a meme
Icons.
(n.) a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol
As culture hyperfies, we see increasing value in the representative symbols used to scale and manifest density around interests/morals onchain. Not only are we lending more credence to things like ‘brand’, or ‘design’, UI/UX, and ‘aesthetics’, we are trying to distill their wisdom for a globally coordinated reinterpretation, on blockchains.
Our first go at contextualizing this concept we came away with:
each hyperculture is centered around one
their aesthetic manifestations include skeuomorphic, abstract, and referential models (noggles, zorbs, & opepen silouhette)
Recently we added a little more context:
words, colors (gradients even), and symbols are working models
you can have more than one (Nike has the swoosh and just do it)
their functionality extends beyond cultural signaling
foundation for hyperstack proliferation (commerce, cultural, commons)
they are not the beginning of a culture, but the beginning of its iconography
It wasn’t until a recent conversation on UFO Radio that I was struck with new insight. A skateboard is a memetic icon. A tennis ball, or any sports ball, is a memetic icon. This opens up new possibilities for digitally native ones.
A skateboard provides kinesthetic-functions that our current crop of icons do not; while providing the same kind of cultural vertex. These functions include:
riding the board
designing the board
upgrading the board
discovering new locations to skate
bringing gravity to complimentary aesthetics (music to listen to, food to eat, friends to associate with, clothes to wear)
A sports ball has some overlap and its own set of functions as well. Again, I’m struck with the diversity we uncovered when looking at the skeuomorphic, abstract, and referential models.
At the current limits of my purview it feels best to pose some questions:
what does kinesthetic-function look like digitally?
what are the boundaries of ‘hardware’ v ‘software’ in crypto (when dealing with token mechanics for example)?
will additional functions pattern the aesthetic model of established memetic icons
noggles become ar glasses? or something entirely different?
zorbs become incredibly diverse yet functional hardware?
opepens become functional ‘avatars’? or skins?
and to what degree does kinesthetic-function play in scaling the icon?
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