Jonathan Mann is widely known as @songadaymann, as he has been writing a song a day for 12 years. These range from pop culture (Baby Yoda) to political humor (The Hillary Shimmy) to frequent songs about and on the cryptoverse – available as NFTs. He’s kind of everywhere – https://www.jonathanmann.net/ – and also works on the @digitallyrare podcast.

Jonathan wrote his first ever song on the back of a pizza box, sitting in the front seat of a car, driving home from the store with his dad – back in 1994. It has unfortunately been lost to history. BUT, he does remember the first line, and his prompt asks us to collectively continue it, and to do so on-chain – so it can never be lost again.

Prompt: Collaboratively write the rest of this song: I look into the distance, I need to be helped…

Participate now!

M00sv1 | @m00sv1 is the founder & lead strategist @tdcgallery and is a founding member of @ProteanDAO & @aGENDAdao. Tara Digital Collective is a hybrid digital strategy consultancy and gallery program that is also home to an on-chain artist collective. Their simple ask has us re-think what memory is, and “which” Internet remembers (and how ie web1, web2, web3..).

Prompt: What is the Memory of the Internet?

aGENDAdao | @aGENDAdao is a DAO for trans+non-binary people in the web3 community providing direct support and visibility / founded by @katecursed, @ariafaithjones, @m00sv1 and @Gwyn9x_.

Their Discord is here

Prompt: In six words or less, describe an idea that changed the course of your life for the better. Then, describe a recent moment in your life where that idea was manifest.

Dom Hoffman | @dhof needs no introduction to the world of Crypto and NFTs, but we’re going to sing his praises anyhow. The co-founder of Vine – where we could share six-second-long, looping video clips – Dom also created Loot, arguably one of the biggest and most important NFT projects of the last year, and one which heavily influenced our thinking and aesthetics. Blitmap, supdrive, and more, and he was kind enough to answer our cold call, asking for a prompt… which is an awesome play on writing and games using only text-graphics on-chain.

Prompt: Create an alphabet of up to 10 letters and write a very short story with it. Bonus points for fewer letters or a title that incorporates most letters.

More on Dom:

• Dom’s website
• Foundation
• vine (rip)

Sarah Friend | @isthisanart_ is

Sarah Friend is an artist and software engineer, specializing in blockchain and the p2p web. She is a participant in the Berlin Program for Artists, a co-curator of Ender Gallery – an artist residency taking place inside the game Minecraft – an alumni of Recurse Centre – a retreat for programmers – and an organiser of Our Networks – a conference on all aspects of the distributed web.

Sarah is on the advisory board and was formerly the smart contract lead for Circles UBI, a blockchain-based community currency that aims to lead to a more equal distribution of wealth. She was also the technical lead for Culturestake, a project that uses quadratic voting to lead to better decisions about arts funding. She is also a co-founder of bitspossessed, an art and software development consultancy that operates as a coop. Sarah’s prompt asks us to think outside ourselves.

Prompt: Describe a mundane item or daily task in your world from the perspective of an alien consciousness; try to imagine a perspective as far away from your human one as possible

More about Sarah Friend:
• Lifeforms
• Medium Interview

Interdependence | @1nterdependence is a podcast by Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, covering the people, projects and technologies shaping 21st century culture. They call themselves a $5 Grad School. It’s our favorite. You should listen to it. We learned A LOT from them when first starting with AI and Blockchain, and still listen to every single episode.“We will publish conversations with good people at the forefront of music, technology and policy from our studio in Berlin,” they write.

I would argue that the pair study everything through the lens of relationships – transactions on the Blockchain, and aggregate human via machine learning. So they ask us to bring a real-world relationship on-chain.

Prompt: Call a friend from an earlier period in life that you haven’t spoken to for a long time and ask them for some general life advice. Summarize here.

More about Interdependence:

• Pitchfork Article

Priyanka Desai | @pridesai is the VP of Operations at Open Law, which is building a technology stack to help power next generation “smart” legal agreements. She has been an active member of and early progenitor around many DAOs, including The Lao and FlamingoDAO. As a strong voice around what decentralized voices can do, she is outspoken and has appeared on numerous podcasts and interviews. Her prompt begs sincere responses:

Prompt: Your best Shitposts below, frenz

More about Priyanka:
• Proof Podcast on Flamingo DAO
• Koji Capital interview
• Priyanka Desai & Aaron Wright on Interdependence

Katherina “Kate the Cursed” Jesek | @katecursed is a multimedia artist, curator, writer, and transgender activist from New York (b. 1999).

Kate’s artwork focuses on authentic, outdated display technology, making heavy use of cathode ray tubes and more recently, vintage oscilloscopes. She’s been publishing glitch art on the internet under the name Kate the Cursed since August 2019, and has sold hundreds of non-fungible art tokens across a handful of blockchains since beginning her cryptoart career in October 2020. Her artwork has been exhibited in New York and Prague, as well as digitally in Decentraland and Cryptovoxels. Her work often feels like a tribute to outdated technologies, but in new forms. And with her prompt, she asks us to memorialize ourselves.

Prompt: If you have only five words to be remembered by, what do you want your immutable legacy to read like?

More about Kate the Cursed:
• 1/1 Editions on OpenSea
• 1/13 Editions onOpenSea

Ana Maria Caballero | @CaballeroAnaMa was born in Miami in 1981, but spent most of her childhood in Bogotá, Colombia. She is an award-winning poet exploring the female voice of the home. Her writing has appeared in numerous outlets, including the L.A. Review of Books, Tupelo Quarterly, Sundog Lit, The Southeast Review, SWWIM and Jai-Alai Magazine. 

Ana is one of the co-founders of theVERSEverse where poems are valued as works of art via blockchain technology – among other means. Her playful prompt explores storytelling with constraints.

Prompt: Write a dialogue of a couple arguing–but each person must speak no more than two words per “turn”

More about Ana Maria Cabellero:

• Co-founder of The Verse Verse
• Link Tree