Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and Fort Minor fame joins Kevin to discuss why he was initially reluctant to embrace the NFT scene (in spite of setting Kevin on the path to his own obsession), drumming up acceptance of NFTs in the mainstream, industry skeuomorphism, current collaborations, the state of unreleased Linkin Park music, and where people can go to await Mike's upcoming ZIGGURATS drop.
SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE
- Connect with Mike Shinoda: Website | Twitter | Discord | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
- Linkin Park
- Fort Minor
- CryptoPunks – The NFTs That Started It All. Their Origin Story and Future Plans | Modern Finance
- Palm NFT Studio
- Kings of Leon
- Decentralized Auction Protocol | ZORA
- The Bored Ape Yacht Club
- Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs | Art Blocks
- Ringers by Dmitri Cherniak | Art Blocks
- Mutant Ape Yacht Club | OpenSea
- Chromie Squiggle by Snowfro | Art Blocks
- ArtCenter College of Design
- Pre-Linkin Park Band Xero’s 1997 Cassette Sells for $4,500 | Metal Injection
- System Of A Down
- Deftones
- Alice In Chains
- Platonic Love by Esteban Diacono x Mike Shinoda | Nifty Gateway
- DECASENTRY by Mike Shinoda | Async Art
- The Song of Nine Paths by Lee Gaito, Pak | Async Art
- A Blockchain Designed to Evolve | Tezos
- Mike Shinoda Teases “Generative Mixtape” ‘Ziggurats’ | NME
- Faster, Cheaper, and More Powerful DeFi | Project Serum
- VeeFriends – Gary Vaynerchuk’s New NFT Project | Modern Finance 9
- Brain Dump by Mike Shinoda | objkt.com
- Mike Shinoda's Creations | objkt.com
- Adam Bomb Squad | The Hundreds
- What Hic et Nunc’s Resurrection Says About Decentralized Infrastructure | CoinDesk
- Digg | Wikipedia
- HicEtNunc.art
- Ziggurats.xyz
- What is Skeuomorphism? | Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)
- EtherOrcs
- Ethereum's Internet of Blockchains | Polygon (Formerly Matic Network)
- Friends With Benefits DAO
- Audius
- Own Your Favorite Music | Royal
- Coinbase NFT Is Coming Soon: Join the Waitlist Today for Early Access | Coinbase Blog
- A Crypto Wallet & Gateway to Blockchain Apps | MetaMask
- Dos-Punks by Max Capacity | HicEtNunc.art
- Cogswell’s Caper Hex Glitch by Max Capacity | objkt.com
- Breaking the Fourth Wall by Nate Hill | HicEtNunc.art
- Radiohead
- Artist Spotlight: Twin Flames with Justin Aversano | PROOF
- Member Application | RAW DAO
- NFT Project Spotlight: Quantum, the NFT Photography Launchpad | Crypto Briefing
- Quantum Art
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Deathbats Club
- Meet the Crypto Fans Who Paid $4 Million for Pharma Bro Wu-Tang Album | Rolling Stone
- How Many Albums Had Tupac Managed to Record Before Dying? | 2PacLegacy.net
- Rolling Stone Unveils First Ever Digital Cover NFTs With Bored Ape Yacht Club | Hypebeast
- "Permission to Come a Bored?" | Jimmy Fallon, Twitter
- Universal Music Announces New Bored Ape Yacht Club Music Group | Dancing Astronaut
- Gorillaz
SHOW NOTES
- Who is Mike Shinoda? [00:56]
- How Mike was single-handedly responsible for getting Kevin hooked on NFTs, and why he himself was a little late to embrace them. [01:43]
- Does Mike own any CryptoPunks? What other NFT projects has he collected so far? [06:58]
- The NFT artist whose work Mike wishes he had in his collection. [08:38]
- Mike's path from aspiring illustrator to genuine rock star, and the red flags that made him doubt the artistic integrity of some of the earlier NFT projects he was seeing. [10:17]
- How do layered NFT projects on Async work? [14:06]
- Mike shares the details of his current generative music NFT project. [16:45]
- The drawbacks to the rapid pace of change in today's NFT space. [22:57]
- What got Mike back into NFTs after his initial reluctance, and why he found the experience so satisfying. [24:28]
- NFT artists with whom Mike has been collaborating. [26:00]
- How much will it cost to mint fresh ZIGGURATS? [27:10]
- What attracted Mike to Hic et Nunc (HEN) and Tezos? [27:19]
- Thoughts on the recent Hic et Nunc drama and if it will have any effect on the ZIGGURATS drop. [29:22]
- Where can people go to await the ZIGGURATS drop? [32:31]
- How does Mike see the technologies surrounding NFTs affecting the business side of media and how it's packaged for the consumer? [34:14]
- In what ways will audience participation be empowered by blockchain to support artists? [37:42]
- The benefits to drumming up acceptance of NFTs in the mainstream and the countless ways they can be utilized beyond their popular perception as expensive JPGs. [41:10]
- Are decentralized solutions the answer to everything? [44:08]
- As an artist himself, what does Mike keep an eye out for when he's collecting NFTs? Who are the artists who have captured his attention lately? [44:41]
- Thoughts on photography-based NFTs, the DAOs that want to buy them, and the platforms that want to host them. [49:52]
- Does Mike plan on integrating NFTs with Linkin Park or Fort Minor? [51:54]
- Why NFT collectors should have Avenged Sevenfold on their radar. [53:22]
- On the PleasrDAO rescue of Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album. [54:58]
- How many hours of unreleased Linkin Park material is Mike currently sitting on? [56:17]
- It's been a busy week for a Bored Ape. [57:58]
- Parting thoughts. [1:00:45]
PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Ryan Hoover
- Billy Markus
- Tim Ferriss
- XCOPY
- Banksy
- Mark Wakefield
- Chester Bennington
- Esteban Diacono
- Pak
- m4t
- Gary Vaynerchuk
- Dylan Reed
- CodeCrafting
- Rafael Lima
- 3LAU
- Diela Maharanie
- Des Lucréce
- 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔩?
- Dalek
- Max Capacity
- Nate Hill
- Wax//Wane
- Mumu the Stan
- Justin Aversano
- Matthew Charles Sanders
- Brian Elwin Haner Jr.
- Tupac Shakur
- j1mmy.eth
- Nick Adler
- Post Malone
- Timbaland