In my opionion, one of the most interesting Creative Scenes happening in the world today is these guys, the Bored Ape Yacht Club founders. This is the first serious interview I've seen with these guys, other than this early documentary by The Defiant. And just for the record, some of these founders were BMXers and skaters, into punk and hip hop, Miami locals back in the day. They mention that in the documentary. So they have a little action sports roots, as well, which is cool.
You can talk smack about NFT's, Web 3, blockchain, DeFi, and the whole crypto world. It's cool right now, most people are already on that bandwagon. That whole world is getting trashed right now. There were a lot of slimeballs, and just like the early internet, this crypto winter is shaking out a lot of the garbage in the crypto/blockchain/Web3 domain, which is healthy. But in the middle of this interview, they go into a lot of the amazing ideas and potential of all these technologies for creative people and entrepreneurial people. For all the lame stuff in the whole blockchain realm, there are also all kinds of amazing possibilities for creative people. This interview gets deep into these.
For those few of you who have read my idea of The Phoenix Great Depression, these guys, and people and other creative scenes like them, are the Phoenix part. Big chunks of our world today is still run by people with and old, 20th century, Industrial Age mentalities and that's breaking down, bit by bit, industry by industry, and being replaced by Information Age versions or new industries altogether. People and groups forging into new areas, technological, creative, and any other way, are building whatever form of society we evolve into, after the remaining parts of the Industrial Age die off, and we move closer to whatever the true Information Age, whatever that ends up being 10-15-20 years from now.
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