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The Bitcoin MuseMICHAEL GAMBINO | A friend and creative polymath discuss creativity and Bitcoin in-person | #023"When I hear people talk about Bitcoin it's like a movie trailer for the future."— Michael GambinoThis week on the world’s premier Bitcoin art podcast I’m joined by my friend Michael Gambino, co-owner with his wife Lisa of an advertising agency, Kangbino, a college professor and a painter, illustrator, filmmaker and musician. We sat down together in my living room to bring his unique perspective on the matters of bitcoin art and creativity. While he's not a steeped in the bitcoin ethos as I am, I think his innate sense...2023-10-2948 min
The Bitcoin MuseWORLD OF RUSTY | A graphic artist deciphers the world of Bitcoin memes | #022"If someone says they want to be dressed as Rambo riding a unicorn over a rainbow, I'm your guy. I'll make that happen."— World of RustyThis week on the world’s premier Bitcoin art podcast I’m joined by World of Rusty, a memetic engineer, a meme artist, a memer...It's hard to find the right term for this low-fi, brutalist form of messaging so he's our guide to the abundant world of bitcoin memes. As a member of the non-existent collective known as the Memefactory™, he's a passionate artist often consumed...2023-10-2243 min
The Bitcoin MuseMOOZI | A avowed maximalist trains his own AI models to evoke a Bitcoin ethos | #021"I see Bitcoin as a counter-culture like Punk or Grunge."— MooziThis week on the world’s premier Bitcoin art podcast I’m joined by Moozi, a creative voice that only recently popped onto my radar. An avowed bitcoin maximalist who is training his own AI models to evoke what he sees in bitcoin. Weather it’s his Persian-inspired painterly swirls or glimpses of an emergent fashion, his work focuses on an ethos of liberation and sovereignty as a means of ushering in the bitcoin-based future.Guest Links:2023-10-1547 min
The Bitcoin MuseCHRIS TRAMOUNT from SCARCE CITY | Building a Bitcoin Art MarketplaceThis episode features Chris Tramount, co-founder of Scarce City, a marketplace to sell bitcoin-inspired art through auctions or directly by using bitcoin. He believes that bitcoin’s finest goods should be sold according to the network’s properties of pseudonymous, borderless, permissionless, trust minimized, and verifiable authenticity and supply. We wander across numerous topics, some triggering, but mostly optimistic around the role technology and artistic intention might play in forging our bitcoin world.This conversation has been a long time coming as his name has come up a few of my previously recorded rips. He s...2023-09-1747 min
The Bitcoin MuseA Reading of "Areopagus Volume LII""In life we get nothing at all without some effort, and the best rewards of all are those we receive after hard work." — The Cultural TutorIn this episode, I don’t have a guest. Instead, I decided to channel Guy Swann and Bitcoin Audible to read a work from a newsletter I get every week written by The Cultural Tutor. Specifically, it’s Areopagus Volume LII. In this particular missive he deviated from his normal format and touched on a perennial lament that I thought would resonate in bitcoin circles around the problems modern...2023-08-2741 min
The Bitcoin MuseGARETH ECKLEY | A life-long jewelry designer and precious metalsmith making bitcoin-inspired gemstone art"Great art provokes an emotional reaction in the person that sees it. With great art, your heart responds to it. We need people to have that kind of attachment to the bitcoin philosophy." — Gareth EckleyIn this episode, I tumble in conversation with Gareth Eckley, a jewelry designer, gemstone carver, metalsmith, and an inspired bitcoin artist whose precious art objects can be found at artofsatoshi.com. Gareth and I mine a range of topics from eliciting emotional responses to art and the molecular structure of opals, to the stark dichotomies of modernity and potential new...2023-08-1353 min
The Bitcoin MuseFLO MONTOYA | Tapping deep creative traditions to satisfy her obsession with bitcoin"With bitcoin culture we are going to have beauty again. We deserve it. Everyone deserves it." — Flo MontoyaI’m joined by painter, illustrator, engraver, and now screen printer, Flo Montoya, whose self-described obsession with bitcoin has her expanding her skills and tapping art history's masters to explore deep and perennial concepts like justice, love and hope. She got on my radar because of her wonderful illustrations for the book, Rhyming Bitcoin, published in collaboration with Brekkie and Simon but as you'll hear, her ideas and talents are wide ranging and ever expanding. From fine...2023-08-0743 min
The Bitcoin MuseTOM BADLEY | Banknote designer and author of "Art & Money" explores history, symbolism and the aesthetics of trust"Bitcoin is one of the few things in this world that is truly avant-garde." —Tom BadleyI’m joined by banknote designer and author of Art & Money, Tom Badley. His rare skill sets and unique perspectives on history, symbolism and meaning, and art's role in, around and on money are the currency for our conversation. He brings deeply thoughtful reasoning to his own work and weaves a path back to the Baroque for all of us to better understand and ground ourselves for the future. While we have our differing opinions on NFTs and othe...2023-07-3153 min
The Bitcoin MuseLENA | A product designer taps her creativity and customer focus to honor bitcoiners"With my custom-made shoes, with the canvases and the clothes I'm making, I just want to honor the customer, the bitcoiner, the builders, the people who think different, and make a statement with their belief in bitcoin and change something."— LenaLena is a bitcoin artist hewn from the world of high-end product design. With her eponymous brand, she is now dedicated to painting custom sneakers, making clothing and designing jewelry with plans for more. Her emotional connection and meticulous focus on customer satisfaction balances with her artistic impulses. Prioritizing her clients' sto...2023-07-2444 min
The Bitcoin MuseBREKKIE VON BITCOIN | Pivoting into sculpting and the role bitcoin plays in his effortsI speak with Brekkie Von Bitcoin about his pivot into sculpting and the role bitcoin plays in and around his efforts. Brekkie is someone I’ve admired from afar for years, his commitment to mastery and courage to learn in public wasn’t lost on me so it was a thrill to have this conversation. I hope you enjoy it.This podcast is my fledgling effort to move the needle for bitcoin so your ratings and reviews help immensely and I’d really appreciate you sharing this pod in your circles. I have no sponsors...2023-06-0530 min
The Bitcoin MuseALLADAN from BITCOIN TRADING CARDS | Taking bitcoin mainstreamIn order to joyfully bring the intimidating and complicated ideas swirling around bitcoin into the mainstream, Alladan created Bitcoin Trading Cards. Carefully curating and enlisting artists from around the world to help him distill bitcoin down to easily digestible and fun trading cards, his process and path are equal parts passion and rigor. Don't be fooled by the pop-culture nature of his efforts. He's a dedicated and optimistic player in bringing about hyperbitcoinization.Rundown:0:00 Quote0:32 Title1:19 Artistic beginnings4:02 Intro to trading cards and collectibles5:20...2023-05-2650 min
The Bitcoin MuseThe Bitcoin Muse TrailerThis is a two minute introduction to The Bitcoin Muse. Give it a listen and spread the word. I've got lots to accomplish and share. -ClayMusic by Brandt EnosV4V on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/Auz9HAPsv8VRKBaiEXLwLinks:The Bitcoin Musehttps://podcast.show/thebitcoinmuse/Clay Enos PhotographyFollow Clay Enos:VeroTwitterNostr public key: npub1kl6j2296mvw05ng6m86n4ra34ytycxqxv8df2nx6hk9ytkr06amq3kg5kuWe...2023-05-2202 min