He purchased Bored Ape #6184 on March 1 and will open Bored & Hungry, the world's first Bored Ape-themed restaurant, on April 9 in Long Beach, Calif. A lifelong Orange County resident, he has co-founded more than a dozen restaurant concepts including Afters Ice Cream, Matte Black Coffee and Trill Burgers. The Food Fighters Universe NFT collection will launch in May, with a mint date to be announced soon.Īndy Nguyen grew up in Southern California's Little Saigon district, the son of Vietnamese immigrants who moved to America during the Vietnam War. One percent of revenue from the Food Fighters Universe NFTs will be donated to food sustainability and world hunger charities, starting with Abound Food Care and Action Against Hunger. Ownership and commercial usage rights for the IP (intellectual property) will be given to NFT holders. The project is being developed by frensHouse, with augmented reality and 3D artwork by Bad Decisions Studio.Īrtist frothyoatmilk designed the collection of NFT characters, which will include "Super Foodies" such as pizza, ramen, ice cream and sushi – each with unique rarity traits assigned at random. Rap legend Bun B ( Bernard Freeman) and NBA All-Star/entrepreneur Baron Davis are part of the Food Fighters team, which also includes NFT advisor and consultant Josh Ong. Nguyen and Seo will bring their favorite chefs and favorite people together to create concepts and food experiences.
I saw the Web3 space as a way to fix those problems and save the restaurant industry." "This project got inspired by seeing all the problems that are currently happening in the food & beverage industry. "Food Fighters Universe is an extension of that idea. Lou Reed, R.I.P."We launched Bored & Hungry to show people that NFTs are more than 'just a JPEG', that the IP can be used to create brands and businesses," said Nguyen, co-founder of viral restaurant concepts including Afters Ice Cream, Matte Black Coffee and Trill Burgers. Goodbye, Lou Reed: New Yorkers Lovingly Celebrate His Life and Music SPIN’s coverage of Lou Reed and his legacy: don’t respond in 30 minutes or less, then their Bandcamp demo stream is free.Įnjoy a personal favorite slice of Personal, Raw Pie‘s “I Don’t Wanna Be No Personal Pizza,” below. Well, the year is almost over, but its biggest rock’n’roll beef (see, we knew Burger Records would fit in here again somehow) has only just begun. You got all that, right? Kill first, file lawsuits later.
Contacted by eMusic, Personal communicated the following:ĭONT MESS WITH THE FUCKIN’ PIZZAS, PRICK. Well, Personal & the Pizzas, whose songs include “Pepperoni Eyes” and “I Can Read,” have now responded to the Pizza Underground - and responded with anchovy-topped vigor. “The takeaway here,” we wrote, was that Personal et al.’s “biggest mistake was not taking their ‘za novelty far enough.”Īlso Read Peter Buck and Kim Thayil Joined the Black Crowes to Cover R.E.M. When we heard of the project, our thoughts immediately turned to San Francisco pizza-punk heroes Personal & the Pizzas, whose 2010 Raw Pie cassette (on beloved Burger Records, but let’s stick to one food theme for now) came complete with a pepperoni-themed reworking of Iggy Pop’s 1973 Raw Power cover art. But the big pizza-wave story is the existence of Macaulay Culkin’s pizza-themed Lou Reed cover band, the Pizza Underground, with song titles such as “Pizza Day” and “I’m Waiting for Delivery Man.” Okay, so earlier this week Foo Fighters played a warm-up gig at an actual pizza restaurant, never mind that pizza leftovers can also be good cold. But at least in the past few days of these between-holidays, list– focused music doldrums (thank you based Burial), pizza really has loomed, um, large. That’s a tweet from Gordon Voidwell on December 11, and the New York soul-funk-pop shape-shifter is typing from experience: His name may be in your iTunes library thanks to his work with “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” rappers Das Racist, of SPIN cover fame. “Surprisingly very few articles re: the influence of pizza on the last 5 years of musicmaking.”