Brian Shepherd (@b_shep) • Hey
Serious hobbyist photographer shooting mostly film in 35mm and 120 formats, digital images on occasion. I am an Emmy Award winning Audio Engineer working i
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- Fog lifting in Fort Point in San Francisco made for some great layers here, shot on my Pentax 67 using Kodak Portra 800.
- The value prop of web3 gaming is not: owning a collectible or composable sword.
Taking that sword from game to game will be possible but in practice more rare than people may suppose.
**The value in web3 gaming is the same as everything else in web3: Collaboration **
The example I give normies all the time is Fortnite: right now it’s up to Epic Games to make all the data in the Fortnite database useful and valuable. It’s up to Epic to create new seasons, new skins, new tournaments, new rules, etc.
If they start moving data to a blockchain it allows others to collaborate and make the data useful and valuable. Anyone else can create with the public database and the value still accrues to the underlying game.
If Fortnite data becomes public it means anyone could create:
-skins for top 10 players
-digital fashion empires
-digital fashion collabs (Nike, RTFKT, Adidas, Tiffany, etc)
-tournaments based on stats (the fastest killers, most accurate shooters, the longest survivors, etc)
-rewards/coupons from others
—Starbucks could give free coffee to people who wear a Starbucks skin on International Coffee Day
-apps for Fortnite players
-media based around the data analysis (Sports Center for Fortnite)
-private communities in other apps
Fortnite would become more valuable from more people accessing and making use of the data. It would become a platform upon which anyone can create and publish.
It’s ridiculous to me the amount of bad takes I hear on a daily basis, especially on NFT-specific podcasts and Twitter, about web3 gaming as if it’s a completely new thing and no one can figure it out.
The superpower of web3 is collaboration. It allows anything to become a platform. It allows people to build upon your thing. This applies to everything blockchains touch: money, media, games, supply chains, etc.
If you’re building anything in web3 I’d highly recommend to start your thinking with these principles in mind.
If you’re thinking of building another web2 clone on Lens, for example, please don’t. Please build something web2 could never do. Please build something focused on collaboration.
gm
- The value prop of web3 gaming is not: owning a collectible or composable sword.
Taking that sword from game to game will be possible but in practice more rare than people may suppose.
**The value in web3 gaming is the same as everything else in web3: Collaboration **
The example I give normies all the time is Fortnite: right now it’s up to Epic Games to make all the data in the Fortnite database useful and valuable. It’s up to Epic to create new seasons, new skins, new tournaments, new rules, etc.
If they start moving data to a blockchain it allows others to collaborate and make the data useful and valuable. Anyone else can create with the public database and the value still accrues to the underlying game.
If Fortnite data becomes public it means anyone could create:
-skins for top 10 players
-digital fashion empires
-digital fashion collabs (Nike, RTFKT, Adidas, Tiffany, etc)
-tournaments based on stats (the fastest killers, most accurate shooters, the longest survivors, etc)
-rewards/coupons from others
—Starbucks could give free coffee to people who wear a Starbucks skin on International Coffee Day
-apps for Fortnite players
-media based around the data analysis (Sports Center for Fortnite)
-private communities in other apps
Fortnite would become more valuable from more people accessing and making use of the data. It would become a platform upon which anyone can create and publish.
It’s ridiculous to me the amount of bad takes I hear on a daily basis, especially on NFT-specific podcasts and Twitter, about web3 gaming as if it’s a completely new thing and no one can figure it out.
The superpower of web3 is collaboration. It allows anything to become a platform. It allows people to build upon your thing. This applies to everything blockchains touch: money, media, games, supply chains, etc.
If you’re building anything in web3 I’d highly recommend to start your thinking with these principles in mind.
If you’re thinking of building another web2 clone on Lens, for example, please don’t. Please build something web2 could never do. Please build something focused on collaboration.
gm
- Picturesque sunset from a work trip to LA last January, Manhattan Beach Pier is a wonderful place for a nice walk and good photos. Shot on my Fuji GA645 using Kodak Portra 800 medium format film. Trying to make photos that appear like they could be paintings has become a new approach for me. Cheers!
- A shutter misfire on my Pentax 6x7 resulted in this happy accident image of my pup Jack, needless to say he's my go-to model. Shot on Kentmere 400 120 B+W film. Cheers!
- Surfer prepping for the waves by the bridge in San Francisco shot on 120 film with my Pentax 67 and Kodak Portra 400. During my week long trip there last March I shot 30 rolls of film and most of my favorite images of 2022. Excited to share them with you here!
- Hey Everyone,
I’m a film photographer based out of Louisville that travels for work, I have a large collection of photos from my travels and personal life. Hope you enjoy some!
-Brian