From the $BAMBINO-manifesto:

"We are the Bambinos
We’ve come to fetch you

We are the Bambinos
We live in a world ruled by money
so we make our own money

If you need to borrow a hundred, you’ll get a hundred
If you don’t want to pay it back, don’t pay it back
But if a Bambino needs a hundred, always give her a hundred!"

The past few weeks have been incredibly intense. Over the past year, we’ve been dedicated to creating a platform for our community, and we recently partnered with the podcast Café Bambino, which showed interest in launching a memecoin. In no time, hundreds of people signed up on our website, receiving wallets, memberships to our subscription service, and the chance to become $BAMBINO millionaires.

Background

One of the hosts of Café Bambino, Karin Pettersson, who also happens to be the cultural editor for Aftonbladet—one of the largest daily newspapers in the Nordics—approaches me with an intriguing idea: launching a memecoin. The hosts, Tone Schunnesson and Karin Pettersson, aim to "troll the trolls" and confidently take a bold approach rather than hesitating. The Café Bambino audience consists mainly of women, leftists, and individuals with great taste. So why shouldn’t they dive into blockchain, crypto, and web3?

"Let’s see where this journey leads. We don't understand anything of this!"

Given my long-standing curiosity about how tokens can foster communities, I can’t resist getting involved!

The project doesn’t have a budget, but it does have a significant audience. This means I need to simplify the process as much as possible, especially since many community members aren’t familiar with web3 tools or interfaces.

To bring the idea to life, I choose to launch the token on Base L2 on Farcaster through Clanker. Later, I come across Empire Builder, which provides a great platform to launch the Clanker token. I also focus on onboarding as many people as possible to Farcaster, which allows us to easily test the $BAMBINO token using small apps and frames. This approach not only streamlines the tokenized community case study but also opens up opportunities for collaboration with similar projects in the future.

One crucial factor in all of this is that I spent 2024 building sdvvvorks.io to onboard a local art-loving audience to web3. This approach simplifies everything significantly. Through the Privy integration, people easily get an embedded wallet when creating a user account. As they create their account, they receive a tier 1 subscription to our Hypersub, allowing them to seamlessly receive NFTs and ERC20 tokens. Additionally, we have implemented a native points system to incentivize specific participation, alongside a webshop that enables NFT purchases using the embedded wallet.

Over the course of a few weeks, we welcome around 800 individuals to sdvvvorks.io to take part in the $BAMBINO launch. Of this people apx 100 creates a profile on Warpcast and joins the /bambino channel.

$BAMBINO Launch Party

The AFK launch party for $BAMBINO was a delightful event. The Swedish publication Liberal Debatt describes it as follows:

Inside a bicycle shed on Hornsgatan in Stockholm, the intersection of technology and politics has found a new home.

The walls and ceiling of the windowless basement are coated in a thick layer of white paint typically meant for outdoor use. At the back of the otherwise empty room hangs a rail displaying T-shirts, caps, and even thongs. A thin neon light beam illuminates the clothes rail, highlighting the embroidered text: "love socialist crypto."

This is the release party for Café Bambino’s very own cryptocurrency, Bambino-coin. The podcast, produced by Aftonbladet Kultur and hosted by Karin Pettersson and Tone Schunesson, is now expressing its critique of contemporary society through the lens of blockchain technology.

The event on Hornsgatan traces its origins to a podcast episode from earlier this year, where the duo discussed the book Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It. In the book, author Joshua Davila explores how cryptocurrency could be used as a tool to create a more equitable, just, and potentially socialist world.

The venue was buzzing with bambinos, including notable attendees such as Nooshi Dadgostar, deputy chair of the Swedish Left Party; finance music DJ and style icon Tommie X; and even a few curious passersby who stumbled in and were swept up by the vibrant and transformative Bambino atmosphere.

$Bambino Community Resources 0.1

Dear reader,

$BAMBINO is here, and the excitement is real. Now, it's time to find our way as a "tokenized community" of sorts. If you have experience with scenecoins, memecoins, or niche ERC20 projects designed for specific communities, we would love to hear from you. Your expertise could make a valuable contribution to the bambinos. We're curious and eager to learn!

Who should we invite to speak? What resources should we explore? What topics should we dive into?

If you have ideas, I encourage you to help us by contributing to a reading list or sharing anything insightful for a community keen to navigate the dark forest of the internet through the lens of a left-curve memecoin project.

Please feel free to share any links or resources in this Google Sheet. You're welcome to include your name, username, contact details, or wallet address if you'd like to.

The Future

Aa a part of this journey SdVVVorks will make sure to make fun happen for the bambinos as well. In a few weeks we will crash the Intonal festival, "A sanctuary for experimental minds and bodies in motion. Since 2015." in Malmö, Sweden. And as a part of that we will open with a Bambino Event with Karin Pettersson present and a lot of lovvvely acts. Come!

Enjoy the unknovvvn

A three-day pop-up unfolds as a shifting space—part shop, part gallery, part portal to the unknown. It transforms into a site for performance, conversation, and exchange.

SdVVVorks, operating under the elusive banner of The Digital Soul Protocol, gathers musicians, artists, and researchers from across disciplines. Together, they navigate the entanglement of digital systems, data extraction, and the depletion of natural resources, drawing unexpected parallels with the energies embedded in minerals, stones, and the elemental forces of the earth. In collaboration with artist Emma Bexell.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DH_wn44NOe5/

We're preparing a svvveet exhibition and party for this September in Stockholm as well and we will make sure that you can use those $BAMBINOs to enjoy it to 100%.

Other than that we already have some bambinos preparing different projects that will include $BAMBINO. This is super exciting!

Café Bambino Podcast

Mini Bambino: Är det verkligen okej att raka sig?

Podcast · Aftonbladet Kultur · Tone Schunnesson hatar att ringas och Karin Pettersson vill inte skicka tusen sms. Så från och med nu ses dom en gång i veckan för att reda ut ett ämne, en gång för alla. De undersöker stora saker som ilska, fiktion, skönhet och pengar.

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Many people have some kind of whatsapp group, or similar (with like five childhood friends or something) where they're writing on a daily basis. It's a small enough group to expose oneself within, the people are best friends and they're probably seeing each other over a large glass of vodka in a bar or at someone's place every now and then. It makes total sense. Is that all we need in terms of private chat groups, really?

I see how many people are escaping X hoping for Bluesky to save them from something. It's a bit confusing to me. I see the incentive to be pretty early on a new platform like that to get a bit more attention among peers before it's too crowded. But if that's not all...why are people longing for a new place to point a megaphone at a vast sea of ​​people and bots who are busy shouting into their own megaphones? It's a longing for visibility and attention. I totally agree that the culture sector shouldn't be paying Meta to reach their target groups and hopefully get a few more people to come see their show or whatever it is. The performing arts sector shouldn't be putting money and human resources on social media presence. Especially not venues that are building a local or regional audience. Or should they?

I can't stop thinking about how much more a venue, company or artist would benefit from a smaller digital context with more attention from truly interested stakeholder and audiences. Yet I don't see many communities like that. 20-100 or 100-1000 true heads that are writing, exchanging and sharing ideas, wishes, thoughts, confessions or whatever on a daily or weekly basis. It's almost always 1-3 people who are writing every now and then, 20 people who react with some kind of emoji or something and 320 people who are silent. Maybe caring, maybe not. Is it so that the only truly social digital contexts we want are 1-2 groups of 2-5 people that we already have known for 10 years+? And other than that we just want to passively consume information about more or less random events and sometimes tell people about our upcoming birthday party? If not. Why aren't we (everyone...but thinking more of the culture sector and maybe the performing arts sector in particular) focusing more on building strong alternative digital social places with 100-1000 true fans/supporters/invested audiences instead of throwing time and money on Meta, or Bluesky? Because it's difficult to change peoples behaviours? Because it takes time, money and effort? Because Meta has really made our AFK relationship with our audience and new audiences much better?

If you've happen to have some alternative place with truly fun social ping pong with artists, venues and audiences online...let me know!

Unknovvvvvvn clouds sdvvvorks pop up flagship lab at Hornsgatan 147, Stockholm.

Three openings in three days. Performances, bar, music, boutique, champagne breakfasts, and more.

Unknovvvvvvn clouds is a dedication to just that. The unknovvvvvvn, clouds and the vvvonderful actress and kick ass artistic guardian angel, Kati Outinen.

We will open new works created by textile artist Anna Nordström, poet Anna Hallberg, lovvvely fashion brand and person (2in1) Albin Granaas and, behind the scenes, Jonas and Daniel (researchanddevelopment.se), Katarina Wiklund, Julia Jäntti and more.

On top of that we've got This is the still place in the room.

More details, program, etc soon.

Back in August 2014, when I didn't have an AI to ask for help with anything, I was sitting in a hotel lobby in Gothenburg with a friend and performer, Matias Salmenaho. As we were about to premiere a new circus production at Stora Teatern two days later we were pretty worried about what we're doing. The performance called "Underart - an ode to a crash landing" felt like a total disaster.

Suddenly we saw a familiar face outside the hotel. A woman was sitting on a park bench outside smoking cigarettes. We soon realized who she was. The Finish Palme d'Or-winning actress Kati Outinen. We needed help with our crappy performance and her presence right there and then couldn't be a coincidence. We invited Kati Outinen to the lobby and after a long conversation (and a bunch of beers and cigarettes) life felt much better. Kati came by our dress rehearsal the next day and survived the experience. That was enough to spark some joy the last few hours of rehearsal before premiere. It ended up playing around 300 times around the world. Kati's been a great support ever since.

Kati Outinen

Kati Outinen is nothing short of a legend.

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ALT-CIRCUS 4.0

SdVVVorks (SDV = "Strandberg & de Vylder", VVorks = "Works", SdVVVorks = "SDV Works") just presented our first live happening in the shape of a pop up flagship lab super sale. It happened in Södermalm, Stockholm in a beautiful and hidden venue at Hornsgatan 83.

Olle: So... Olle Strandberg Colling. You're one of the founding members of SdVVVorks. Can you tell me briefly about the thing you were doing the other week?
Also Olle: The happening is both a straight forward proposal and weird at the same time. I'm thinking of the concept as a new way to exist as a performing arts company today, and that includes thinking beyond and away from the very performance itself. It's like a gallery presenting new collaborations and releases by local artists, a shop, a performing arts micro festival, a studio and a club. It's somehow about performing co-existence in parallell vvvorld's at the same time. The flagship lab is highly influenced by web 3.0 aesthetics. While focusing on AFK meetings with local audience it's also a happening that invites digital audience to a loyalty program to create new relationships with unknown, and maybe unexpected, peers and potential audience.
Olle: That sounds fun and all...but also a bit over complicated, no? A bit pretentious even? I don't mean to be rude or anything but there must be a much simpler way to explain this concept.
Also Olle: I don't mean to make things more complicated than they are. I'm just writing how I conceive it, and within my way of explaining there's also a creative element. Like...I come up with the things as I write them and what I'm explaining to you is at the same time a narrative in the making. You see? I could say: "it's a shop, and at certain times a juggler juggles." That would be graspable. It wouldn't be more true though. It's just a lame way of saying it. Ok... What I'm trying to say here is that what we are creating is driven by a purpose. I would put even more value in that though and call it a purpo$e. It simple "Believe in art". Right... so If we are creating a shop or a gallery with merch, and artworks, etc we are at the same time doing it as art. As performing arts even. It's not artistic research. It's business as art and within that business there's different art and artifacts...and in the core of the performing arts is of course the meeting with the audience. The business only happens when audience meet the business, and then we use our loyalty program web3 stuff to have fun with audience also between the businesses...or performances..or whatever.
Olle: ...
Also Olle: Lastly I would like to say that 2024.10.03-2024.10.05 was the birth of alt-circus 4.0. We can already let you know that the next iteration of this happening will take place in Södermalm, Stockholm but in another venue. It will happen mid February. Just keep your February calendar more or less empty and make sure to come by.

About the episode
Yunchen Sun is a researcher in business studies at Uppsala University. Among his amazing archive of work he's the author of the thesis "Designing Routines for Industrial Digitalization" (2022).

"Industrial digitalization and its promises propel manufacturing firms to pursue digital reality. When changing ways of working, organizational actors often introduce digital artifacts to create a preferred situation where digital technology creates and shapes physical reality. "

Little did we know about this when we started talking with Yunchen about art, digitization of performing arts and our practices. 5 minutes later we hit the record button. This will be the first conversation with Yunchen Sun but more will come for sure. Enjoy the unknovvvn!

How artist's work...and evvverything. Yunchen Sun talks with Jay Gilligan. (Part 1)

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How artist's work...and evvverything. Yunchen Sun talks with Jay Gilligan. (Part 1)

Listen to this episode from vvvhatever vvvorks on Spotify. Yunchen Sun is a researcher in business studies at Uppsala University. Among his amazing archive of work he's the author of the thesis "Designing Routines for Industrial Digitalization" (2022). "Industrial digitalization and its promises propel manufacturing firms to pursue digital reality.

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We are happy to present the gilded popcorn on Metalabel. Popcorn #1 is at this moment being shipped to New York. Follow the link below to check it out and reach out if you have any questions.

gilded popcorn

Gilded popcorn** is an exclusivvve collaboration between Swedish artist duo [wiklundwiklund](https://wiklundwiklund.com//) and [SdVVVorks](https:/sdvvvorks). A series of seven Gilded popcorns in 3D printed ceramic filament with a gold leaf kernel. Each Gilded Popcorn is linked to a 1:1 digital proof of ownership NFT using an IYK.app NFC chip.

https://vvv.metalabel.com

Our latest release is the collaboration with Marcus Price and Untitled_Services.

Marcus appeared at the SdVVVorks pop up flagship super sale last weekend and performed an extremely exclusivvve set, including the banger VVVORTH that we are very happy to release.

Marcus Price has been behind the production of several well-known Swedish artists, but is best known for his efforts to reinvent his sound and moving the boundaries on the contemporary Swedish music scene. His breakthrough came when he won Rap Championships with the Swedish hiphop group @fattaru_2022 in 2000. After three albums, two Grammys and hits like “Mina hundar” and “Första femman” Marcus ventured on a career as a producer. Besides the solo project Basutbudet he has collaborated with artists like Jaqe, @rebeccafiona , @spoekmathambo, @baba.stiltz , @mapeiofficial , @malucamala , @ana.gnucci.rab, @kornelkovacs and the House genius @dj_carli . https://soundcloud.com/marcusprice

Untitled Services is a newly formed design studio specialized in moving images created with new tools for a new audience. https://untitledservices.com/

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We are also making some updates during the upcoming time:

• Simplifying and fixing the profile creation on our website.

• Updating the webshop at sdvvvorks.io. You will be able to by Anna Nordström's Streamlined Crypto soon!

• Making the zealy.io integration smoother on the website.

• Updating our hypersub. (This is the future and we are very eeearly.)

to

SdVVVorks Pop Up Flagship Lab SUPER SALE

Welcome to the first SdVVVorks happening ever. 

A three day experience including the opening of three new releases and exclusivvvvvve new merchandise.

Drinks, livvve podcast, livvve art, livvve music and lots of gifts and bribes.

Show up and sign up for SdVVV Loyalty Group Membership and receive a limited edt lifetime membership card.

RELEASES:

Gilded popcorn, wiklundwiklund

Streamlined Crypto, Anna Nordström

VVVorth, Marcus Price x Untitled_Services

3 DAY PROGRAM: LINK

SdVVVorks Pop Up Flagship Lab SUPER SALE

SdVVVorks Pop Up Flagship Lab SUPER SALE PROGRAM (in the making): THURSDAY OCT 3rd - DAY 1 07.00 - Building the lab 10.00 - Doors open. The 20 first who sign up to SdVVV Loyalty Group will receive amazing gifts. 10.00 - 19.00: Lab is open, walls are being painted, welcome drink, anti perfo...

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October 3-5

Opening Hours: 10.00-20.00

SDVVVORKS POP UP FLAGSHIP LAB

Hornsgatan 83

discovvver purpo$e

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Popping Popcorn at 30,000 FPS in Ultra Slow Motion [ Part 2 ]

Make or find animated gifs like Popping Popcorn at 30,000 FPS in Ultra Slow Motion [ Part 2 ] on gifs.com

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part i - altar

Listen to part i - altar on Spotify. Song · Jon Hopkins, Ishq · 2024

I'm not saying that's the case, but I think it's a valid question. I appreciate both combinations. I think it's even more interesting how physical art popcorn can be digitally represented as NFT, and whether NFT has an art status by this very act or is just a tool for a new kind of distribution. Web3 enhanced art popcorn is a niche market for sure. However, I think NFTs need artists more than artists need NFTs and regular popcorn is more like an ERC20 token, fungible, but art popcorn is non-fungible. I guess we can also combine these different shapes and forms to create a popcorn equivalent to ERC404.

As I discussed the economics of popcorn with Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, the scientific director of the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) Art Initiative, briefly over the phone while my children ran around trying to get my attention, Monthoux's wife informed him that the Ethiopian coffee ceremony often begins with or is accompanied by popcorn. I will record a popcorn podcast episode during a ceremony later. I will also try to get Pierre for a recorded conversation in not too long.

Reflect Over Popcorn 1

This headline is heavily influenced by a visual memory of a cassette with User Your Illusion 1 by Guns N' Roses. The first track is Right Next Door to Hell, and I see it as warning. Falling into popcorn capitalism might be seductive...but it's dangerous. Especially if one cares for cultural capital. The same with Guns N' Roses references. And circus? It's over.

As I was talking to circus director Trolle Rhodin about the art of selling popcorn there were a few things that struck me. First of all he initially approached our conversation with a certain distance. Maybe he thought this was pure irony or a joke? I don't blame him. Popcorn is a seemingly banal topic. I didn't really consider this aspect though. Had I only pin pointed the right questions earlier in the conversation we would have come further and deeper. Another thing I also came to realize is that there were a hesitation to talk about the capitalistic incentives for selling popcorn.

As circus Brazil Jack is an organisation in transformation, with a strive towards being recognized as an performing arts institution/company (specifically by state funding bodies) rather than mere entertainment, the popcorn issue is a a sensitive one to talk about. More than once Trolle ensured me that the main focus is not to force popcorn on the people. The audience should experience the high quality circus art first, and if some happen to buy popcorn over at the bar, go for it!

Some key take aways:

• Invvvolve the popcorn in the performance. The more intertwined with a performance, the higher the popcorn value.

• Consuming the popcorn should sync with consuming the artwork. The perfect calibration is when the popcorn experience is just an added value that blends seamlessly with the context it's presented in.

• Mushroom popcorn is the best. They crack open in a way that creates a great taste experience, yet the audience prefer butterfly popcorn. I read this as "beauty over function".

• My own calculation after buying a soda and popcorn at brazil jack is that if apx 200 people buy this combination every show and they play apx 200 shows/year then they should have apx 400.000 dollars on the revenue side for that combination only.

• Finally. The popcorn is truly more than a way to make profit for Trolle. I could see how his eyes sparked of joyful memories from a past time. Is it possible to engage with the combination of popcorn and performing arts without becoming sentimental and letting nostalgic under currents flow freely? F*ck yes. Let's find out how.

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The Art of Selling Popcorn ( or The Future of Financing Free Art on decentralized internet)

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I've been reaching out to Shaun Randall to hear more about his thoughts around flippin' seven 3D printed ceramic popcorns with gilded kernels. I haven't heard back yet. Here's his take on what i call The Popcorn Potentialities.

Hey! Thanks for reading.

Join SdVVVorks on https://sdvvvorks.io by creating a profile.

If you want to get hold of an exclusivvve personalized soulbound elite membership NFT, or get invvvited to live happenings. Go HERE and perform a few tasks. Just make sure that you create your zealy profile with the same email as your sdvvvorks profile.

You're reading a weekly newsletter on topics around vvveb3 and performing arts released by SdVVVorks, an art label and performing arts collective based in Stockholm, Sweden. In the beginning of the summer we released https://sdvvvorks.io where you can easily create a profile and earn a digital membership to get gifts, bribes, tips and a lot of inside information on amazing releases and collaborations with artists on and offchain. We have a bunch of new releases and merch coming out this fall. Many digital gatherings, live meetups and discussions on our Discord and Telegram will be had.

You can also subscribe to our Hypersub and become a member of SdVVV Loyalty Group, which means participating in the vvveirdest digital performing arts community in becoming.

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We're just beginning this journey from scratch. Follow us and spread the word. We will understand what this is all about along the way.

I arrived from Berlin Circus Festival this week. Super hot both on and off stage. Now back in a sunny Stockholm thinking about how to integrate office hours with sleep without losing capacity.

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I recently realized that SdVVVorks would greatly benefit from a deep understanding of the art of selling popcorn. I've been a part of the circus field since I was a kid but it wasn't until a few months ago I got to consider popcorn as a joy sparkler for real. It happened in the meeting with the stunning artist duo wiklundwiklund as they proposed 7 ceramic popcorns with gilded kernels as a collaboration with SdVVVorks. All of a sudden I understood that this is my chance to get deeper into understanding the backbone of the circus economy. Since we want to sell out this collection (without selling out) I feel an urge to deepen my understanding for the art of selling popcorn from the best.

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Sell out without selling out

A '90s and '20s counterculture clash

In the upcoming VVVhatever VVVorks podcast I will discuss this matter with Trolle Rhodin, who according to results from major search engines speaks nine languages, plays 15 instruments, lives in a caravan year-round and wears a hand-stitched suit with 3,000 sparkling crystals at work. Trolle runs circus Brazil Jack. And he should know about this. I met with Trolle in his circus tent as they were just ready with the setup in Stockholm.

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In the beginning of this year I saw someone posting about Hypersub on Warpcast. I instantly appreciated the idea that one could subscribe to a creator to get a bunch of whatever was being created. In some cases it's a little bit like subscribing to someones computer desktop or project folder, with a notification as soon as a new file has been created. A good way to get to know a bit more about what it's all about is to subscribe to the hyperactive podcast.

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Talking about zip releases you should also check this one out:

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mollysstuff

𝙢𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙛𝙛 is a series of 20 unique .zip folders, each containing 100 files, physically embodied as one-of-a-kind artist books.

The VVV podcast is out on Tuesday and this newsletter will be back in a week. Share it with frens and support vvvhatever this is!

All the best,
Olle Strandberg Colling
SdVVVorks

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In "Streamlined Crypto," Nordström and SdVVVorks bridges traditional craftsmanship with modern digital security, creating a thought-provoking commentary on value, labor, and technological evolution. "Streamlined Crypto" features an innovative security detail: a 25mm x 25mm washer-dryer safe copper NFC chip, designed to last 50 years, which pairs uniquely with an NFT.

Anna Nordström is a textile artist working with patchwork and quilting. Her works delve into themes of labor, hierarchies, and ideals. In a quote found in the basement of Hedesunda Hembygdsgård it says:

A craft object is not only form and function. It is first and foremost human time that has been saved away from the emptiness our life flows into. In front of his work, man can say 'This is my time, this is me. In another way I do not exist for myself.'

Properties

• Technique: Patchwork

• Size: 10x20 pixels (apx 150mm x 270mm)

• Material: Polyester

• Quantity: 49

• Artist: Anna Nordström x SdVVVorks

Visit SdVVVorks to acquire "Streamlined Crypto".

In the best of world our site would have been up and running very smoothly as a part of the relase, but as so often there's a discrepancy between the performing arts relation to a premiere date and the world outside of that tiny bubble. Instead we could focus on the purpo$e and thoughts behind the work we're doing, we could present upcoming art releases, our core squad of artists and the visual identity of the project. There were curiosity and excitement for sure. Plus a lot of bribes gifts!

Also very happy to see our fresh VVVhatever VVVorks T-shirts on stage later the same night!

After having deep dived into the world of Farcaster 24/7 in the beginning of the year i started seeing a way forward for truly innovative but still real audience development. Instead of building from scratch I tried to see how we could establish a weird kind of (performing) art label where we could combine our different expressions with builders, creatives and art lovers from the Web3 sphere.

The idea is basically to offer:

1. A loyalty program for our audience, where points can be used to get free subscriptions, discounts, merchandise, free tickets to live happenings etc.

2. A subscription service where our audience can contribute to ensure that we can create the art we want while we offer an immense amount of perks.

3. A common treasury for all members where a large percentage of all revenue lands. When it reaches a predefined threshold a new live art happening will be offered for all members.

4. Community forums where our members can collaborate on quests, discuss snapshot voting, ask questions, write about vvvhatever.

5. Podcast, Live Stream and Newsletter built onchain but that can easily be distributed to all audience.

6. Releases on our art label where we collaborate with a few visual artists, musicians and designers. Here we divide the revenue between the artists and the common treasury according to an agreement with each artist.

7. Live art happenings locally in Stockholm and Sweden but also opening up to new potential collaborations with events initiated by the Base, OP Stack, Farcaster community .

8. Release a social token for the performing arts sphere in 2024.

9. Distill all of the above into clear synergies between existing services and integrate it all on a website and then work full time with it during the upcoming years.

"Now how could it possibly be any issues when building this in a few weeks?" , You might ask. No idea! But we are for very near a proper V1 release now. What we have to stay true to is the low threshold for the people not used to Web3 with all its sexy back and forth between signing wallet, refreshing apps to make them work etc.

We have landed in a solution where our users can create a profile on our website with wallet abstraction. Then there's a possibility to subscribe to our Hypersub on our frontend using fiat or crypto (can't wait for V2 to be released), and then the points for bounties is fetched from zealy.io and integrated so that the users points are reflected with their profiles. When a certain amount of points are reached, a digital dynamic SdVVVorks Loyalty Group Membership card is granted to the user. When a user with a digital membership card participates in a live art happening the get a physical NFC membership card, which is helpful for the staff to know how many bribes gifts they should get. A blip shows the profile stats.

We release the podcast at pods.media, the newsletter here on Paragraph.xyz and our intension is to offer weekly artful live streamed weirdness on unlonely.app.

We have also just started exploring IYK.app and have minted three different artful releases with their chips. As soon as the website is what we want it to be I'm happy to invite all readers to explore our releases. Here I will dedicate one newsletter per release to let you get deeper insight.

As for now we have created the /discovvver channel on Farcaster and a token gated group chat for Hypersub subscribers. Our live audience have not found their way to Farcaster yet but we see those channels as a way to build relations with builders, artists and creatives over time. For our audience Telegram and Discord will be the ways forward (even Discord is a bit too high threshold for many.)

The issues? One hundred million api's braided neatly together to meet a delicate frontend with the art direction by researchanddevelopment.se. A soon as we're up and running I will send a short newsletter to all of y'all and ask you to create a profile.

We come from performing arts, visual art and contemporary circus. We have been creating performances, exhibitions, festivals etc for over 20 years. The Internet is broken and the social is captivated by anti-art algorithms. We need to find new ways to strengthen the relation with our existing audience and ecosystem as well as reaching new audience and inVVVite and inVVVolve our community in what we do. With an expanded notion of "we".

We want to bring together a curious and devoted group of people to enjoy an exclusiVVVe journey towards reVVVealing the purpo$e of performing arts.

Join us early. We need you and we want to throw heaps of bribes rewards at you and haVVVe fun together with you. Live and async; AFK and digitally.

Thanks for reading. Next episode of the VVVhatever VVVorks podcast is out anytime now. It can be found where you listen to pods. (Where still working on solving an issue with apple though. Fixed any day or hour.)

Love,

Olle Strandberg Collling
SdVVVorks | VVVhatever VVVorks

With a foundation firmly rooted in the performing arts and informed by over two decades of experience, we have founded SdVVVorks; a label that acts as a catalyst for unforeseen artistic collaborations, strengthens the relation with our audience while introducing new ways of engaging with our art.

Things have been moving quickly. I was thinking about creating a new label with Sara de Vylder as late as this January and now we're releasing the beginning of a beautiful mashup were our local Stockholm audience meet Ethereum OP Stack and Base and vice versa in the most VVVeird and fun way. We come from performing arts but have been experimenting in the intersection of blockchain, Web3 tools and the performing arts ecosystem for almost 8 years now. We're still sooooooooo early but this time around we're putting all focus on audience development and building long term relations locally, within the international performing arts sphere and Web3 community.

In the past when we initiated The Sphere back in 2017 we tried to onboard performing arts loVVVers from all over Europe which became an amazing seed for a new way of producing and financing contemporary circus and performing arts. We will release the book "Digital Soul Searching" on our website today, paired with IYK NFC chips that connects each of teh 300 books with an NFT. Thanks a lot for all support lovely IYK people. This book is a great way to get familiar with a peculiar and brilliant project that is entering a new phase in this very moment. Kick ass Erik, Lene, Pedro, all the artists, etc!

So what are we DOING now!? Do we even know!? Enjoy the unknoVVVn! WAGMI! HaVVVe fun! We are proposing something that is completely new for us. First of all we have invited five brilliant artists to our core squad to be SdVVVorks with us. Jay Gilligan, Henrik Agger, Louise Bjurholm von Euler-Chelpin, Methinee Wongtrakoon, Simon Wiborn. Performing artists that exist between contexts in many ways. We will co-create a lot of live art happenings that are something between a SUPER SALE, performance, conference and an exclusive membership community.

On top of this we've initiated long term relations with some visual artists we have been loving and collaborating with in the past. In the upcoming month you will see releases together with wiklundwiklund, Anna Nordström, Marcus Price, Untitled Services, Research and Development, and more.

For our audience and community we're introducing SdVVV Loyalty Group, initially inspired by the Lidl App. This is both a subscription service for people who want to support and enjoy this project and all its outcomes. As a member in our loyalty group you will get points for different bounties that can help you reach new membership tiers with new perks. If you come from the performing arts side of things you will get a soft introduction to Web3 through participating in our happenings, on our website, group chats, etc. If you're a Web3 native art loVVVer you will enjoy unusual gifts, bribes, drops, tickets, travels and strange combination of Hypersub (love it!), Zealy, Paragraph, Farcaster, Telegram, Zora, Degen, Unlonely, pods.media, IYK, Snapshot, Stripe, Privy, and more and more and more.

Today we go live with an intention to have a lot of fun over the years to come. We have a lot to learn and we've still got a lot of buidling to do. But we want to inVVVite you to this adventure already now.

What didn't I mention? OH! SdVVV Loyalty Fund! We want all revenue to go straight to the artists we collaborate with + our members. A certain % of all revenue will go straight to a common treasury that will be released when it reaches a certain threshold. When that happens a live performance will take place, and more merch, gifts, etc. Initially we're working towards releasing a great happening in Stockholm this fall. If you're from far away...come here! Help us make that happening be worth it! Later on we're very curios to learn how our art can infiltrate different web3 happenings in the world. This upcoming fall we will also let Purpo$e rain over our members. It's amazing to be Purpo$e driven.

One last thing...if you wanna keep up with everything we do. Follow VVVhatever VVVorks! It exists as this newsletter, a podcast and a weekly live stream.

See you on https://sdvvvorks.io after the release this afternoon CET.

Encrypted & Chainlabs, Research and Development, Roni Kaufman, Produktionproduktion.se, Pixel Perfect, Amy Fee and Creative Europe Programme of the European Union! You are amazing!