Before Brick Studio, I didn’t own shit to be honest with you, I just started renting a place that feels like home and I’m less than a year from 30. But it's a sign of the times, our experience sifting like sand through our hands, the digital in’s and out’s.

A year in with Brick Studio, and things are kind of starting to make sense. The team is growing beyond myself, fantasies are now tangible forms of execution, and a bear market quiets those most distracting with grandeur; a cold winter but it feels warm inside when I’m building. 

I guess that’s where the names of our projects and the subsequent themes come from: this desire to imbue object permanence, or at least the feeling,  to the digital, to let you touch and hold the thing you see, to make the internet ours, not just theirs.  

Mine.fm is this thing that I wanna give up to you. The first product seeded from Brick. If I could write you a poem and manifest it into a product that grows with the desires of those who hold it, I would be shilling poetry NFT’s at this very moment, but instead, I’m sitting here sifting thru solidity docs, and over thinking tweets that let you know I’m living and very much building something I care about. 

Tools that make the sounds of our lives boundless. Creating systems of vibration that enrich a community.

Brick for all of my overthinking functions as a home for creatives to gather, learn and eventually build. In the first year, to make the vision more complete I started to practice what I preached and expanded myself. I joined Zora to work as eng lead for nouns builder, I took myself out of my comfort zone and shared my incomplete ideas in three dimensional spaces, and I guess by writing this I’m moving to that fourth dimension: the internet, to doxx my ambitions and bang my head with precision until I understand how to turn these zeros into ones. At best we are a blueprint, a puzzle piece of community infrastructure that you could borrow to make your own Brick. Mine.fm, is born from that piece, a digital bridge masquerading as early 90’s MTV, FYE stores, Limewire in the 00's, music blog forums, the record shop that smells of incense and old cats, but decentralized and so beyond the scope of what previous generations thought possible. It’s made for how you feel, the mood you experience via sound and color. 

Okay, a pause on the poetics.

Mine.fm is both a platform and a tool for music discovery that will lean more on discovery via communal forms of distribution and media consumptions vs algorithms. The platform Mine.fm is for the community to interact, and the software tools (and maybe one day hardware too) we build are meant to proliferate the curated sounds from our community.

Brick Studio after a year is a culture and product house. Culture, meaning the context in which we operate as biased human beings: our branding, language, events and initiatives have a shared sense of culture (IYKYK) based on open-source technology principles, valuing diversity as an asset, and enabling ecosystems that let creators create. Product, meaning we create tools and apps to first serve an end to our needs and then extend those technologies to other communities as a way to scale outside of ourselves, and thus discover value by creating something that is useful to others.

If you find any of the words I shared inspiring, interesting or maybe even a little stupid but you want to help make us better then feel free to reach out to me at bobby@brickxstudio.com**
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Boubacar “Bobby” Bah