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Embracing the chaos.
Publications
- Sandy toes, sun-kissed nose!
- "Happiness is not a destination, it's a way of life."
- May the Year of the Dragon be filled with an abundance of smiles and laughter. Wishing you safety, good spirit and peace wherever you go. Happy Chinese New Year.
- Just enjoy the roller-coaster ride called life.
- Our life depends on our deeds. Do something new every day. Have a great day ahead, dear.
- Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.
- The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.
- Live for each second without hesitation.
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― **Anne Frank**
- **Unapologetically me**
- “Never doubt, when you begin with something that it will end in failure. Our thought is transformed as picture in our mind.”
― Napz Cherub Pellazo
- Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
- *Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes. A man has to try in order to grow, and try again. The point is that it’s the trying that does it, and not necessarily achieving what he is attempting to do.*
- Checking my flowers
- There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
- Over the years I have felt the truest, purest love the love of God, really, I imagine that's what God's love feels like is the love that comes from your dog.
- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
- It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression ‘As pretty as an airport.
- Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- Life is a song sing it. Life is a game play it. Life is a challenge meet it. Life is a dream realize it. Life is a sacrifice offer it. Life is love enjoy.
- Have safe day everyone
- “I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life.”
- "If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve." —**Jeff Bezos**
- “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — **Marilyn Monroe**
- "Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise." — **Kobe Bryant**
- In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is
a kind and gentle spirit.
- Nature ride
#Lens
- Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Is it true?
- Chilling
- Coffee
#Nature #GM
- all the good things…having yuzu vegan ramen with @christina.lens and got the baby his first pair of kicks
- Scheduling your @lensprotocol.lens post using @orbapp.lens
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
- People who post on Lens makes Lens
- GM
Having a great day
- 🔔 Exciting news! We've just added a new toggle to switch between **Quality Filters** & Regular mode for your notifications! 📲 Gain control over the notifications you receive, and tailor your experience to your preferences 🎛️
Give it a try, and share your feedback with us!
- “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
- Le Grand Bleu, exquisite 🌊
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2lZbBLHB-I
- Big news: Sound will soon be open to all artists 🔊
We always promised to build an open platform.
Now we’re getting close…
A thread 👇
From day one we promised that Sound would eventually open to everyone.
All artists should have access to the best Web3 tools.
We’ll have more details soon, but today we wanted to give you some transparency on the thought process behind opening up…
🔶 The tl;dr
Before Sound opens, we need to make sure everything is ready:
1. Smooth onboarding process
2. Building features for a mass audience.
3. Battle testing the platform.
4. Do things that don’t scale.
5. Verifying audio ownership
6. Thank you for being patient 🙏
Let’s go through them…
🔶 1. Smooth onboarding
So far we have personally onboarded all 400 artists one-by-one on video calls. By doing this we learned all the pain points and deeply understood who we are building for.
Now we can turn that process into seamless onboarding for all artists.
🔶 2. Building features for mass audience
We are thinking big. Sound needs to be ready for millions of music fans and tens of thousands of artists. That means building features that work at scale, such as:
🔹Simplifying the user experience
Email sign-ups
Credit card payments
Mobile app
🔹Building a discovery layer
Better ways to discover music on Sound beyond the first 24-hours of a drop.
And the ability to browse through thousands of artists.
🔹Sustainable drop methods
Offer an alternative to the ‘sellout’ mentality.
We wanted to give artists a sustainable, long-term way to sell their music, which is why we built Sound Swap.
These features are rolling out to all artists over the coming weeks.
🔶 3. Battle testing the platform
To get to the point where we’re ready for millions of music fans, we needed to stress test every part of the platform and iterate fast.
Working closely with a curated group of artists allowed us to do that and get feedback in real time. Together we’ve experimented with hundreds of features and honed the product until it's ready.
We figured out what works.
What didn’t work.
We refined it.
Now we can roll it out to everyone.
🔶 4. Doing things that don’t scale
A core principle of building a startup is doing things that don’t scale.
We onboarded every artist with a white-glove service.
We hosted daily Twitter Spaces to showcase artists.
We tweeted about every drop.
We spoke to artists and collectors every single day.
All of these things were essential for kickstarting the flywheel. Now there’s enough momentum that Sound can accelerate on its own.
🔶 5. Verifying audio ownership
Opening up Sound will bring new challenges for our team… For example, what happens if someone uploads music that doesn’t belong to them?
We’ve been building tools to counter this problem (such as audio footprint technology). We also wanted to focus all our resources on the core product rather than fighting legal issues at such an early stage.
🔶 6. Thank you for being patient
We know that hundreds of artists have applied to Sound and waited patiently. We hear your feedback about decentralization. Trust that we’ve been working towards this from day one and we’re nearly there.
Within three months every artist will have access to Sound and all our artist tools. The next era of music NFTs is coming. Thanks for coming on this journey with us.
- "The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
- SHINSEI GALVERSE: ORIGIN STORY - EPISODE 1
Shinsei Galverse is Japan's first breakout Web3 success story. In the first episode of this mini doco-series, meet the team and hear about how they first came together to create Galverse!
Inspired by nostalgic 80s and 90s anime, the Galverse team aim to create something entirely new by reimagining these ideas with modern values and badass Gals at the front and centre.
Gal NFT holders take part in the animation process, submitting ideas and creative works that are incorporated into the animation and production process. They also receive a backstage pass to learn about the process with behind-the-scenes videos of the animation studio and team's creative work.
The Galverse team is passionate about introducing Japanese culture to the world, introducing fans and newcomers to a deeper understanding of anime, Gal culture, and the country's creative scene.
- If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
- Lens signless transactions are now better, faster, stronger!
You can upgrade your signless transactions on @lenster.lens: https://lenster.xyz/settings/dispatcher
Coming on other community-built applications 🔜!
- “It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a life for me and I’m feeling good.”
- 🎉🚨 Hold on to your hats, Lens Frens !!
The public sale is coming in less than 2 weeks! 🚀🎉
On April 18th @ 5pm CET, be ready to bid on the Bucket auction and own one (or more!) Smurfs! 🧑🎨💙
But wait, there's more! 😱 Over the next few days, we'll be giving you DAILY updates on future utilities, MORE Smurfs, and EPIC artist collaborations! 🎨👾🌈
PLUS, we'll dive deep into what a Bucket auction is, so you can crush the bidding game and WIN something EXTRA SPECIAL! 🔥👀
Mark your calendars and get hyped, because the Smurf-nado is coming! 🌪😍💙
- “The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.”
- We’re all gonna make an anime (together).
多元宇宙に散らばったギャルバースNFT、アニメ化計画始動💕
参加したい人はフォローしてね🌠
- “The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.”
- “If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.” ―Buddha
- Hands
Music and video by José Manuel Serrano
Song: Bowie y Zappa en Wonderland
Album link: https://open.spotify.com/album/4GoNstqo1CYZFmWuiFs2Ue?si=9rD9C_YLQMCkt_yBS0pwkQ
SUPPORT MY WORK VIA PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/VelutUmbra