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Digitally Rare

Digitally Rare

By Jonathan Mann

Matt Condon and Jonathan Mann explore what it means to own things on the blockchain and beyond.
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NFT-Shirts?! Matt Says Yes, Please! (With Dani Grant from Union Sq Ventures)

Digitally RareNov 01, 2018

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Sketch-y Art-i-facts w/ Mackenzie Davenport

Sketch-y Art-i-facts w/ Mackenzie Davenport

We're back after a lil hiatus! This episode we talk with Mackenzie from Ensemble dot Art about artifacts, how we met, and the really cool sketchbook they've released!

Nov 02, 202351:32
Animal Software and Cutility Maximization w/ Sam Spike Animal Software and Cutility Maximization w/ Sam Spike

Animal Software and Cutility Maximization w/ Sam Spike Animal Software and Cutility Maximization w/ Sam Spike

How the Finis came to life & more, told by Sam Spike of Fini, JPG, and Fingerprints.

Jul 21, 202357:21
On-Chain Art and the Always On Computer

On-Chain Art and the Always On Computer

@ChainLeftist, the on-chain glitch artist known for Chaos Roads, speaks about on-chain art, the history of nfts, and what it means for an artwork to run on the always-on computer.

Jul 02, 202359:02
What's in the Secret Stashh

What's in the Secret Stashh

Digital space, digital place, and digital face with Tor Bair, cofounder of Stashh.


Digitally native space and cross chain identity with Tor Bair, cofounder of Stashh.

Jun 02, 202355:16
Is This Good Material? BINGO w/ Kevin Esherick

Is This Good Material? BINGO w/ Kevin Esherick

We learn about the latest artistic additions to his jeans (the Material) and about Kevin's latest work, Artist Bingo.

May 01, 202301:10:01
The Meaning of Minting w/ Giancarlo

The Meaning of Minting w/ Giancarlo

A conversation on the wider NFT market, what mass adoption may look like, and what gives these digital objects meaning.

Apr 06, 202301:02:34
Copyright Click Save w/ Brian L Frye

Copyright Click Save w/ Brian L Frye

Join us for a wildly fun conversation about the NFT art market, copyright, plagiarism, and more with IP lawyer and conceptual artist Brian L Frye.

Mar 25, 202358:02
Embracing The Chaos That Comes With the Summer Haze

Embracing The Chaos That Comes With the Summer Haze

Artist Cole Sternberg chats with us about environmental composition, analog and digital patina, and the background of his work, on- and off-line.

Mar 10, 202301:02:57
Getting 0wned w/ Rhea Myers

Getting 0wned w/ Rhea Myers

OG crypto artist Rhea Myers on Inscriptions, the intent vs letter of the code that is law, her upcoming compendium of written pieces, and her new digital work showcased in Berlin.

Feb 27, 202301:06:04
Open Ended Open Editions

Open Ended Open Editions

Jonathan and Matt catch up over open edition hype, ordinals, and who knows what else!

Feb 13, 202356:38
Speculations on NonExistentTokens w/ Sarah Meyohas

Speculations on NonExistentTokens w/ Sarah Meyohas

Sarah Meyohas on conceptual crypto art history, Bitchcoin, prompt generation as artistic medium, the relationship between human labor and art, art as alchemy, and so so much more.

Jan 30, 202356:59
Music NFT Aggregation: Which is the Right(s) Way?

Music NFT Aggregation: Which is the Right(s) Way?

A thorough dialogue between web3 musicians Verite and Black Dave on the topic of music NFT aggregators, the forces of innovation, and the direction they’d each like to see the web3 music space go.

Jan 12, 202301:02:25
We're all still NEW HERE w/ Dan Sickles

We're all still NEW HERE w/ Dan Sickles

Sundance winning director Dan Sickles joins us to talk about NEW HERE, his documentary about the NFT ecosystem and culture that, of course, uniquely exists within the world of NFTs. We talk peculiarities of Hollywood's production model, web3's flexible identity model, how the film engages with digital ownership, and much more.

Dec 19, 202201:01:21
Bid to Earn? The GBM Auction Mechanic

Bid to Earn? The GBM Auction Mechanic

Hugo from myNFT gives us the illustrious, 5 year journey of his team, talks NFT standards and walks us through a novel digital auction format they call a GBM auction.

Dec 07, 202253:49
Kaigani on What Mxtters

Kaigani on What Mxtters

We catch up with Kaigani, famous decompiler of the CryptoKitty genome, and chat PFPs, Meebits DAO, his ArtBlocks projects, artist sustainability, Hollywood and of course his current project, Mxtter.

Nov 23, 202257:52
Hidden in the Ether: NFT Archaeology w/ Adam McBride

Hidden in the Ether: NFT Archaeology w/ Adam McBride

NFT Historian Adam McBride tells us how he scans for gold amongst the dust of the past: finding and identifying old NFT contracts, resurrecting prescient projects, and reconstructing the timeline of on-chain digital ownership.

Nov 09, 202201:18:04
Royalties are Dead, Long Live Royalties (w/Mitchell F. Chan)

Royalties are Dead, Long Live Royalties (w/Mitchell F. Chan)

Iconic conceptual artists Mitchel F. Chan walks us through the ongoing debate about NFT artist royalties in the wake of Sudoswap’s dismissale and his EIP’s solution.

Oct 11, 202201:06:23
Tomb Time w/ David Rudnick

Tomb Time w/ David Rudnick

We chat with David Rudnick about his practice and so much more, including the Tomb Series and each Tomb’s curatorial powers, sustainable and evolutionary objects, Stems I, II, III, and IV.

Sep 29, 202201:01:14
Season 3: Now, The Future, And We’re Still Here

Season 3: Now, The Future, And We’re Still Here

WE ARE BACK FOR SEASON 3 BABY!

Sep 20, 202257:18
Then And Now: 4 Years of Digitally Rare

Then And Now: 4 Years of Digitally Rare

Matt and Jonathan celebrate Digitally Rare’s 4 year anniversary by listening to some old clips and wondering how we got here.

Jul 17, 202201:05:48
JPG2k + Digitally Rare = [this podcast]

JPG2k + Digitally Rare = [this podcast]

It's a crossover episode! Well, almost. Matt did not wake up in time, and so Jonathan talks solo with Noah and Viv from the excellent NFT pod, JPG2k. We cover everything from Noah's new Chicken's NFT project, to how they got into NFTs and all kinds of other great NFT content. 

Jul 13, 202201:16:39
Emitting and Admitting — 'Amends' for ETH

Emitting and Admitting — 'Amends' for ETH

With his project 'Amends’, Kyle McDonald measures NFT activity on Ethereum during PoW and captures the historical emissions of three NFT marketplaces as handmade glass sculptures, to be auctioned during the merge, when Ethereum switches to Proof of Stake.

Jun 28, 202201:04:53
Out of Chaos: 45 Tracks

Out of Chaos: 45 Tracks

Matthew Chaim from SongCamp comes on the pod to discuss Chaos, the SongCamp's headless band, formed and re-formed each week, which produced 45 tracks in 6 weeks. 

Jun 21, 202258:38
web3 could be going a few different ways

web3 could be going a few different ways

We chat with Molly White—author of 'web3 is going great'—and proudly join the ranks of those who have failed to convince her that blockchains might actually be pretty neat. We chat negative externalities, the power of economic incentives, and whether or not the NFT in Matt's hand is morally ok.

May 27, 202201:08:41
Choosing Peacefall (Or Not!)

Choosing Peacefall (Or Not!)

Cameron Koczon from Fictive Kin brings us to a land of warriors and fighters battling it out on Ethereum to gain levels and be the very best that ever was.

May 17, 202201:05:11
Welcome to the BoysClub

Welcome to the BoysClub

Boys Club is social club and soon-to-be DAO that is welcoming the next 1 million women and non-binary people to web3. Their supporter NFTs launch to the public on May 14th, 2022.

May 11, 202201:00:24
Immateriality is in My Jeans

Immateriality is in My Jeans

Kevin Esherick walks us (hah) through Material, a continuous art project exploring materiality, tangibility, and the ephemeral, via an absolutely sick pair of jeans.

May 03, 202201:23:03
pr1s0n.art — Restoring Justice And The Dignity of Returning Citizens

pr1s0n.art — Restoring Justice And The Dignity of Returning Citizens

<em><strong>Abe Uccello is establishing pr1s0n.art, an initiative that helps formerly incarcerated individuals lessen the financial burden of reentering society by coupling their personal artworks and documentation of their restorative journey in an NFT.</strong></em>
Apr 18, 202241:35
Ampl(ed) Reasons to Join a MetaLabel

Ampl(ed) Reasons to Join a MetaLabel

Austin Robey (@austinrobey_) joins us to discuss the Bandcamp ➡️ Epic sale, the CryptoPunks ➡️ Yuga sale, and alternative organizational principles for communities, collectives, and a novel structure of the 'think-and-do tank’ that Austin calls the METALABEL.

Apr 06, 202253:07
Disco: A Digital Backpack For the LARP That Is Your Life

Disco: A Digital Backpack For the LARP That Is Your Life

We chat with Evin (@provenauthority) about what’s-old-is-new technology standards that Disco is using to encourage a user-centric model of the web. Tune in to learn about Verified Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, and all about Disco’s tech.

Mar 28, 202201:03:05
free jesus pamphlet fast cash money cash plus dot biz crypto god king condiments

free jesus pamphlet fast cash money cash plus dot biz crypto god king condiments

A whimsical journey in which we bring steviep into a not-so-abandoned stairwell and discuss the mark of the beast, fast cash money cash plus dot biz, jesus pamphlets, discarded condiment packages, and the conceptual brilliance of free tokens.

Mar 02, 202252:21
Rule Breakers Following Rules

Rule Breakers Following Rules

Rule-based art, speedruns, derived digitally scarcity, craft & care & flow states & attention over time, defining constraints and iterating in surprising ways within them, legibility vs complexity, desert society, and generative art transforming from an artist’s tool into the artist itself.

Feb 11, 202201:07:25
Song A (Finally) Done!

Song A (Finally) Done!

Matt gets high and Jonathan reinvents RSS (again). We shit-talk beniemaxi and discuss SongADAO, why Matt can’t stop buying conceptual art NFTs, the map and the territory, the temporal nature of information, steviep, and religion.

Jan 07, 202246:12
Wen Pete Davidson & Kim Kardashian Sex Tape?

Wen Pete Davidson & Kim Kardashian Sex Tape?

The Most Famous Artist(s) collective is rewriting the rules of the art world w/ collaborative art careers, building a literal city, how brands should embrace web3 in ways that don’t suck, why the innovator’s dilemma doesn’t apply to discord, what ConstitutionDAO did wrong, gas prices (lol), how to save the world with NFTs, and the art-ification of route 66 into the American cultural highway. Also RIP Virgil.

Dec 17, 202101:08:00
Socialism? On My Blockchain? It’s More Common Than You Think!

Socialism? On My Blockchain? It’s More Common Than You Think!

The Blockchain Socialist & the boys deal with the haters, talk about Cybersyn, discuss how DAOs are just cooperatives, and how libertarians rediscovered sociocracy.

Dec 08, 202157:48
Listen To This Space! w/ Latashá

Listen To This Space! w/ Latashá

Latashá and your hosts get into music x crypto, education, and the opportunity of building a new system with new tools.

Nov 22, 202154:38
w*b3, and N/F/Ts, w/ Dan Olson

w*b3, and N/F/Ts, w/ Dan Olson

SPICY TAKES from both sides as we deep dive with web3/NFT skeptic Dan Olson of Folding Ideas. We ask and get asked the hard questions about what web3 is about, and whether the dominate powers of yesteryear have their claws in the future.


Nov 13, 202101:38:36
DADA.art: Parenting the Crypto Art Movement

DADA.art: Parenting the Crypto Art Movement

We catch up with Judy and Bea to see where dada.art, a pioneering 2017 digital art movement is today, following the relaunch of their iconic 2017 collection Creeps and Weirdos.

Oct 21, 202101:22:37
A RAW Discussion w/ Luis of Fingerprints

A RAW Discussion w/ Luis of Fingerprints

Luis from Fingerprints discusses DeFi + NFTs, scaling a Dao from 15 to 200 members, photography finding its medium in NFTs, and the power of community.

Sep 30, 202158:10
An In-Depth (Troll) Debrief

An In-Depth (Troll) Debrief

Matt and Jonathan decompress from the wild ride that was August 2021, and chat about the Fuckin’ Trolls and their Tunes, the Doge NFT, SHL0MS’ toilet, sushi’ing OpenSea (#first), PaperclipDAO, NFT Archeology, Loot, and AMULETSSSSS.

Sep 20, 202101:12:32
Off and Lifeforms: Is This an Art? (Yes)

Off and Lifeforms: Is This an Art? (Yes)

We catch up with artist Sarah Friend (@isthisanart_)—starting with stories from NFT history past—and learn about Off, a coordination experiment with NFT art and Lifeforms, digital NFT entities that one must keep alive. 🌱

Sep 05, 202101:04:12
NFTs for (Offline!) Community, w/ HOLDERSLAND

NFTs for (Offline!) Community, w/ HOLDERSLAND

Haleek Maul  is using his NFTs to bootstrap and support a Caribbean creator community, online and off, called HOLDERSLAND.

Aug 25, 202155:24
How Now, Noun DAO? (4156 Interview)

How Now, Noun DAO? (4156 Interview)

Punk 4156 talks the Nouns visio, covering innovative IP, governance, and cinematic universe b. Also: PFPs as a new medium.

Aug 16, 202155:11
The Song That Owns Itself

The Song That Owns Itself

Aubrey Anderson and George Howard helped create STOI, the Song That Owns Itself — they experiment with modern crypto-based royalty and licensing, on-chain governance, and human-facing interactive AI, all in the name of the autonomous entity that is God Particle.

Jul 28, 202154:25
A Poppin’ Profile Picture Project Party

A Poppin’ Profile Picture Project Party

Learn why profile picture NFTs took off recently! Plus, we drop knowledge on NFTs + social spaces, talk shit about NFT projects discuss how vested interests shape online narratives, and matt introduces a new protocol called Epoxy.

Jul 19, 202158:45
Cataloging What Works w/ Jeremy Stern

Cataloging What Works w/ Jeremy Stern

Supporting musicians, building on top of Zora, and the social dynamics of music listening and ownership with Jeremy Stern, the co-founder of Catalog.

Jul 14, 202101:08:09
Music Royalties, but make it DeFi

Music Royalties, but make it DeFi

Gary Young from Royalty Exchange gives us a look inside the music industry and how we might use NFTs to invest directly into an artist's off-chain royalties.

Jul 06, 202157:46
In Which We Vibe With Austin Griffith

In Which We Vibe With Austin Griffith

Literally just a delightful conversation with the lovely builder of all things Ethereum, Austin Griffith.



Jun 24, 202101:09:47
Thinking Outside the Glitchbox: 0xDEAFBEEF's On-Chain Generative Art

Thinking Outside the Glitchbox: 0xDEAFBEEF's On-Chain Generative Art

Generative artist 0xDEAFBEEF constantly pushes the edges of on-chain generative art—we chat about how and why his projects are exploring the boundaries of the medium of generative art.

Jun 14, 202101:06:35
Welcome to the Cool Zone (of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility)

Welcome to the Cool Zone (of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility)

How conceptual artist Yves Klein predicted 2021 in 1958, and how the digital manifestation of his work was brought to life in 2017—just after CryptoPunks—by Mitchell Chan.

Jun 08, 202101:03:13