The countdown has begun folks … DIRTY WORDS #4 [COMMUNITY] — our beautiful collaboration between Protein Community and Protein Agency — is launching with a special online event on Monday 15th May. So, if you want to understand what ‘community’ means today and be the first to get your hands on the full report (as well as some tasty extras), then sign-up below and tell your friends, as you won’t want to miss it:
It’s a slightly shorter Supplement this month, as we’ve been focused on getting ready for Season 6 and a bunch of exciting new initiatives, but more on that next month. In the meantime, if you’re looking to earn, learn, and grow with a bunch of other culturally curious creatives, Protein Membership applications are open again, and before we get to the links, here’s a brand new track by our very own baby guava (note: maybe don’t play this on the office Sonos, as the lyrics are 😳)
- Spellpage is an AI-powered self-completing to-do list
- The New Yorker says there’s no AI
- MidJourney 5.1 is here and it’s nuts
- Some essential reading from the folks at Forefront (gated)
- A visual ode to Hungary’s declining pub culture
- And also what happened to the Salford community in 1963 and 1980s
- Post Office is a cooperative space to prototype our collective futures
- A timeless manual from 1974 on how to design and build your own living structure
- And also this by Enzo Mari in the same year for any table makers out there
- Don’t call it a mood board, it’s a world
- Timeless tips from Steve Jobs on brand storytelling
- A useful list of online tools for any content producers out there
- Musicians will own the next generation of creative agencies
- Radical Xchange on rethinking art ownership
- IKEA experimenting with time as a currency
- Li Jin and Jesse Walden on designing ownership experiences that people want
- .SWOOSH successfully completes its first drop and we couldn’t be more proud
- Seed Club goes all in on consumer crypto and we’re here for it
- a16z’s 2023 State of Crypto is worth a read
- A good case study on how Starbucks is using NFTs to boost brand engagement
- And what web3 could mean for sports
- We’ve just ordered one of these for our upcoming Protein events 👀
- Manifold now allows you to burn multiple NFTs to create a new unique token
- Zora Zine is a printed NFT
- Satoshi’s original Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of Mac OS
THANKS
We give 200 $PRTN for any link that makes the Protein Supplement. So, a big shoutout to the following members, we’ll be in touch shortly to sort your tokens:
7babyguava7, Andrea Brena, Super_Fiction, weekendhacker, AnaRoman, AmirCaten8ted, Super_Fiction, gursharan, paktin
Until next month, your friends at Protein 💚
SMALL PRINT
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