Hearse Pileup @hearsepileup@metalhead.club

This episode of Star Trek DS9 is just amazing. One of the best performances I think I've seen in start trek full stop. Also brought back painful memories of anxiety attacks I've experienced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwzgtCwAnf8

Our frontman hosted his first episode of Rantbox TV on role of stories in modern culture. We had some pretty cool discussions about storytelling, capitalism, justice narratives, the portrayal of evil. All in all pretty enjoyable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhLPuAULdi4

I think video from vsauce is pretty important - it highights the flaws in human reason. It also starts to touch on important ideas about our evolutional need to exist in communities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ArVh3Cj9rw

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/797167

How do we answer #NFT? I've taken part in conversations suggesting that running smart contracts on localised blockchains could be a little more responsible; i.e. not treating such chains as trading platforms but as decentralised trust sources. This sorts out the digital rights side, at the cost of treating an NFT as an investment; making them kinda pointless. The deeper question is around how we value and bring value to music. And if that isn't monetarily, how else? Artists still gotta eat.

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJnPIa98zbM&t=823 )

What I'm watching right now

I should also mention that Rantbox is now being kept up to date on a properly syndicated podcast feed - listen to it wherever you get your podcasts!

https://anchor.fm/rantbox-tv

#podcast #podcasting

I'm a regular guest on RantboxTV, and this time I got to share some of my knowledge on the subject of #NFT. I'm not an expert in blockchain technologies, but I think I have enough understanding to know why it doesn't gel with me. I appear in the second half to talk about some of the percieved negatives.

I intend to do research going forward on alternatives wrt smart contracts and how we value music; all input welcome!

#blockchain

https://anchor.fm/rantbox-tv/episodes/RNTBXTV-NFTs-Good-or-Bad-Parts-1-and-2-e11b075

#pixelart #gamedev

Work continues apace on the music video for Realise whilst matt works on recovering his voice. Here's one of the characters you'll be meeting in it. Would you buy a car off this man? 🤣

Artwork by @gaffen

This prompted me to revisit my old #newgrounds account too, you can now find the song here:
https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1032000

Sidoopa frontpaged with her animation using our song Grindstone on #newgrounds! I haven't logged in in legit a decade 🤣

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/794003

An irish animator chose our song Grindstone for her most recent work. It's an absolute honor for our work to be used in such a kickass way!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_RthvPRQFY

Checkout @sidoopa​@twitter.com for more of her work 🤘

A lot of people saying that this will be the death of London, and as a lifetime resident I kinda hope so. Corporate hellscape that it is. So many great venues and places that I used to love to visit have been closed down and turned into sanitised boring bullshit.