AM Alanes
My loves include helping people connect socially, Web3 - art, music & film, acting, and fashion.
My current missions are to:
- help people create and maintain friendships in adulthood in fun ways via my passion project, TogetherlyChicago
- help independent filmmakers, experimental storytellers, and media creators with distribution and monetization using Web3 technology, as COO of Any Colour You Like (ACYL)
- help form what Chicago is in the eyes of fashion by helping organize events, resources, and embracing experimentation above all, and the designers who choose to stay in Chicago
- help bring more eyes to artists and musicians in Web3
Events - Past / Present / Future:
TOGETHERLYCHICAGO
- "Golden Hour Club" - a get-together to share Chicago gems between locals and Chicago newbies
- Upcoming social skills and improv workshop for "Creator Week" in early August 2025!
- Upcoming show highlighting the groups that help us forge friendships
ACYL
- "Ctrl + Alt + Film" - A panel discussing the current status of Hollywood and how ACYL, PODPLAYR, and Web3 are changing the script
- "Reel Colours" - A monthly arthouse screening that brings more eyes to the works of independent filmmakers, experimental storytellers, and media creators
FASHION
- Plans in progress
WEB3 Art & Music
- "What's the Meaning of This?!" - a monthly audio show featuring art interpretation of pieces by one Web3 artist and 3 of their artist friends
- "Minted Music LIVE!" - a bi-weekly simulcasted audio show featuring performances by NFT musicians and performers [online]
- "Rare Digital Art Feast" - a food & drink-centric NFT art exhibit and auction (for MakersPlace)
- "Pretty Pixels + Morning Provisions" - a projected NFT exhibit and Q+A brunch (for MakersPlace)
- "Proof-of-Steak" & "Crypto Summer Sip & Sizzle" picnics (for SF Ethereum and Starfish Mission)
- "Block is Hot: Creator Edition" - a mini-conference and music celebration for and by creators and musicians (for SF Ethereum, Starfish Mission and Block is Hot)
- "Design Jam: Let's Make Doughper Ethereum Blockchain Applications!" - a design jam to create a better experience for Ethereum-based app users (for SF Ethereum, Starfish Mission & San Francisco User Experience Designers)
- "Distributed Saturdays" - a bi-weekly blockchain learning mini-conference for people of all knowledge levels, nontechnical and technical (for SF Ethereum, Starfish Mission and Blockchain Connect)
- "Blockchain 101 + The Art World" - a blockchain basics class within the NFT music and arts frame, including the ConsenSys-created game, Nakamoto's Market (for SF Ethereum, Starfish Mission and Stanford University Continuing Studies)
- Post NFT conference "Coldie + Ann Marie Karaoke Night" events
Miscellaneous
- "Whole Day in Half Moon Bay"
- "Create-Your-Own Superhero" Pub Crawl
- "Onesie Bowling"
- Various Karaoke events