I Have Pop™

Collector #3

Ten concrete Nikes, no author, no sale. One year of rumor does the marketing. Issue 1 - Scarcity as Structure shows how absence flips hype into currency.

I Have Pop™

Collector #8

Graffiti's value system prizes risk and visibility. Wiped clean? Nothing to see here, but now you can't unsee it. Collect This! Issue 4 is about Absence as Protest.

I Have Pop™

Collector #4

Collect This! Issue 3 stages an “illegal street-art exhibition” with nothing but a plywood sandwich board. The sign promises danger, offers no clues, and lets curiosity spin its wheels, turning confusion itself into a temporary spectacle of value. For real!

I Have Pop™

Collector #3

Concrete skateboard decks hung gallery-style at former LA and SF skate spots flip the script on cultural legitimacy. Issue 2 shows how a frame - lifted outdoors - can mint or drain value instantly. Here, context isn’t just background; it’s the currency art is valued in.

I Have Pop™

Collector #5

When design plays like jazz: spontaneous, responsive, and performed under a ticking clock. Collect This! Issue 5 is about Action as Ownership.

Metalabel squad

Collector #679

Where are we now as creative people? Where are we going? What do we vision for the future? 75 creative people anonymously share the dreams, concerns, and joys grounding their creative thinking for the year ahead.

Hard Art

Collector #139

In late 2022, a handful of artists, scientists, movement builders, musicians, and democratic innovators came together to explore making a future based on care and freedom. The process we've called Hard Art began. This series shows how it all started, the frameworks we're using to collaborate, and how it's going.

Metalabel squad

Collector #98

The original essay, ideas, and research that inspired Metalabel, including: — Unpublished research and thinking from May 2021 — The initial manifesto, first published in February 2022 — Further research, first published in October 2022 Preserved and collectible as a new media archive.

A Thousand Forests

Collector #339

"Legal Structures for Creative Practices" is an illustrated zine designed for creative entrepreneurs that unpacks the pros, cons, and nuances of various legal structures to help choose the one that will best suit their unique practice. View the digital zine at: AThousandForests.com

The Ideaspace by Yancey Strickler

Collector #43

Since 2017, the Ideaspace has been my outlet for exploring creative forms and sharing ideas. This release shares audio of four of my favorite interviews — with artist Hank Willis Thomas, economist Marianna Mazucato, and authors John Higgs and Eric Wargo — in a free .zip download.

Autonomous Worlds Network

Collector #234

The Autonomous Worlds Network’s first publication offers a new vocabulary for a new era of worlding.

Sublime

Collector #10

A meeting place for the voices, perspectives, provocations and wisdom of myriad thinkers, creators and doers who have dedicated themselves to realizing a new vision for the internet.

Underground Art And Design

Collector #100

Worlds Unfolding is a guide and inspiration hub for virtual world-making, offering curated prompts, community-contributed projects, and ideas that blend storytelling, design, and imagination. It explores how virtual spaces can foster connection, creativity, and care while critically examining their ties to the dominant paradigm.

Metalabel squad

Collector #274

Will we still be asking people to like and subscribe in 10 years? "After The Creator Economy" explores constructive alternatives for the ways we produce, distribute, and monetize creative work online. Co-edited by Austin Robey (Metalabel) and Severin Matusek (co—matter), this release preserves and digitally reissues the zine.

Metalabel squad

Collector #68

In June 2023, Metalabel put a yellow newspaper box on the street of the Lower East Side in NYC, and filled it up each day with copies of a free zine that celebrated a New Creative Era. This release documents that original release and makes the zine available for download.

On The Hierarchy of Clouds

Collector #12

A diary from a biocentric future city. Where governance grows like ecosystems, and charters are co-written with birds, storms and neighbours.

The Dark Forest Collective

Collector #124

A book about how to survive on the internet. It’s about the cozy web, the dark web, the dark forest, the clear net, the dark net, and a new social world emerging around us. This is the Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet.

Build In Public University

Collector #4

Human value is fundamentally memetic - we're valuable for the ideas we create and share, not as resources to extract. Our economic systems must recognize how communities amplify unique contributions, ensuring everyone has at least one community that "sees" them.

The Dark Forest Collective

Collector #378

Why do some ideas spread like wildfire, while others resist being seen — despite their importance? A new book by Nadia Asparouhova explores the emerging phenomenon of antimemetics. Published by the Dark Forest Collective. Digital version available now. Softcover ships early June 2025.

Aksioma

Collector #10

Subcultural Memories and Vernaculars of a Layered Imaginary