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Leighton McDonald

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Concept Designer / AR + Spatial Partner @meta and @snap / Ft on: Netflix, The Verge / Carolina kid, NYC living

New York, NY
Joined April 2010
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Leighton McDonald
3 days
Thank you to @ourZORA and Imagination Studio for featuring me and my designs on the latest Upload Imagination series. Show your support by minting and collecting this moment here:
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4 years
Telfar Runtz , we been global
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4 months
Love how sticky everything is in space with the Vision Pro
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5 years
This person at work literally quit today by replying to someone else's farewell email by hitting reply all and saying "Ditto!" lmaoooooo
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7 months
Custom fitted 3d printed eyewear for a client 🪩🕶️
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3 years
WOKE UP AND DRAKE IS USING MY SOULJA BOY INSTAGRAM FILTER 😂😂❤️‍🔥
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5 months
Designed a new AI companion
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4 years
You guys merely adopted the hotep meme, I awoke and became it.
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5 years
KISSLAND and My Dear Melancholy are my two favorite post-Trilogy Weeknd projects...aint a bag big enough to describe how deep he was in it.
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4 years
@DylanTheTwit @manimansun * HORNS FROM HEAVEN BLASTING THE SOUNDS OF THE APOCALYPSE * “ ALL MY FRIENDS...KNOW THE LOW RIDER”
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3 years
DJ VLAD = D-epartment of J-ustice V-irtual L-aw A-nd D-etainment
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4 years
Ahem....so all those filters paid off....because I’m officially one of the first ever Spark AR Partners! Only 100 of us in the world. Thank you Spark AR , the team, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for going full force into augmented and virtual reality 🔥🙏🏽💪🏽🖤
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Leighton McDonald
3 years
the character development of this brand is wild!
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TELFAR
3 years
TELFAR IS GOING TO THE OLYMPICS as OFFICIAL SPONSOR of the LIBERIAN NATIONAL TEAM 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷 Watch the OPENING CEREMONY [July 23] to see the FUTURE. Our Runway. Run way. THANK YOU Emmanuel Matadi and Kouty Mawenh — WE ALL-READY WON.
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1 year
@NP_Smuccy @DennisDSpurling This will never not be funny
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3 years
thanks for changing my life, Virgil
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5 years
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4 years
@dedeelennae The arbitrary Credit system is not a measure of a person's personality, character, or potential. This is just a terrible person.
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4 years
@potsy9856 @News12 @News12LI Well it started as once every 72 hours just a few days ago lmao
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3 years
@Sir_JHud @dallaswise25 I got these in my closet rn in black no lie
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3 years
VR is the real next gen gaming
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4 months
@KevOnStage Facts the royalties gonna go crazy
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2 years
My favorite type of art is "how the fuck did they do that" or "I wish I thought of that" type art
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3 years
anyway. this is my first weekend making $100k+ in 3 days.
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4 years
Lolll
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6 months
Nah it’s equal opportunity Americana bullshit on all sides 🔥🔥
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Sir 🐗 Ferguson
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This game bout to set black ppl back a 100 years but 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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4 years
@demigoddessnik Nah fr they are humans basically
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4 years
Lana Del Rey hasn’t used one drum or made a song over 75bpm in years and is mad at black Women for making empowering good music that gets number 1’s on the charts 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Leighton McDonald
4 years
This weekend I wanted to be able to see more info on my Apple Watch. The best way to do that would be w/ Augmented Reality. I call this the Clover UI. This demo is focused on physical activity & would be fully customizable to show extra info with the aid of AR glass/contacts.
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Leighton McDonald
9 months
This is what I’ve made in one week since buying my first 3D printer
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Leighton McDonald
2 years
I’m in a “self driving” car watching myself talk about the future of Augmented Reality on Netflix 🤯
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2 years
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3 years
The proper use of QR code
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Yatclub
3 years
Stripping in 2021 going up 😩
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3 years
The future is here
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2 years
Humans are idiotic, fighting over land on this tiny little rock in the grand scheme of existence. Peace is our salvation. We own nothing but our souls.
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2 years
I AM EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT I'LL BE FEATURED IN THE NEW @NETFLIX DOCUSERIES: 'THE FUTURE OF' RELEASING JUNE 21! "In our new docuseries, The Future Of, we look at how innovative technologies will change our everyday lives hundreds of years from now."
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4 years
Sleep Schedule in the trenches
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5 years
@hurdiwascancel1 Why they putting hands on my family?? 😭
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Leighton McDonald
3 years
Welp lol looks like I just minted my first NFT on FND. I made this display for my MOONCAT so it could have a cool home. The highest bidder gets the Mooncat and the NFT. “MOONCAT - 0x00dd2267b9 ” for sale for 10 $ETH on @withFND ! 🌐 Check it out →
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Leighton McDonald
4 years
“STAY SIX FEET AWAY” ... but what does that really look like? I’m beta testing some augmented reality concepts that would help with enforcing the need for social distancing. In NYC we are usually really close at certain parts of the day, so this is helping me keep a visual
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3 years
@ayocovi @Sir_JHud @dallaswise25 Aye i really wish i was kidding lmao
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Leighton McDonald
5 years
CONCEPT : FB/IG probably won’t approved because of the small text...but as a person who went to school for human centered design and as a transplant to NYC from SC, this AR subway map for the NYC MTA system would be a game changer for accessibility. Who would use this?
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Leighton McDonald
3 years
not a company with a net worth of $200 Billion and a 2020 profit of $25+ Billion only tryna pay me $2k for an original AR filter + licensing of the project files + asset template + (3) 2 hour speaking engagements + my usage of my face ……for less than 1 $ETH 😂😂
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Leighton McDonald
3 years
The time is now... My *first* virtual shoe for the metaverse... The grid_RUNNER [ GRDRNR ]
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3 years
Just minted my original drawing for the Lil Uzi Vert vs The World Tour merch to @ourZORA ! I made this for a client and somehow Urban Outfitters sold it and I didn't even get a cut. No contract/no agreement. Buyer gets the Photoshop file as well.
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3 years
i might have to mint an illustration that was created by me and used without my permission on some garments for Urban Outfitters...........that’ll be some nice long payback.
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4 years
My first augmented reality mini game is available to play now! You must have Instagram to play. Objective: find the 3 missing power supplies + mark the locations Challenge: Find all 3 in 15 seconds (one story post) Play it here and follow me @late_fx :
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3 years
in the business of capturing planets
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4 years
I couldn’t afford the $645 dollar version of these Maison Margeila sunglasses, so I just digitally bootlegged them 🤷🏾‍♂️ , Luxury Glass Instagram filter coming soon ✨
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5 years
Working on my design portfolio...I had to sit back and reflect on my journey when looking at my clients & projects page...
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4 years
@MKBHD Maybe you could use this AR UI I created for the Apple Watch when we finally get consumer AR glasses
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Leighton McDonald
9 months
Got a 3D printer yesterday , designed a shoe in an hour to test — there is nothing better than the dopamine hit of waking up to to a new shoe in the morning 👟
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Leighton McDonald
3 years
uzi diamond filter otw test here : ty @jnicely for the idea!
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5 years
‘Just KAWS’ hologram filter, coming soon..
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Leighton McDonald
4 years
My friends are amazing, please use this app when posting protest photos.
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4 years
I created an iOS shortcut for those who are out there protesting. This shortcut will blur faces and make a copy of the photo—which will have zero metadata Feel free to donate: money is for server & software costs Cashapp: $noahconk #BlackLivesMatter
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3 years
Ayee ya boy is a verified Lens Creator on Snapchat 🥳🥳
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1 year
I've been updating my portfolio lately and wanted a new way to visualize and organize the past 10 years of my collaborations with creatives and brands. I split the categories up by Industry to make it easier to show the diversity of my craft. These are my zones of design
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3 years
Aight, so pretty crazy, but my NFT song “Entitled” sold for $1234 on @ourZORA , the most I have ever made from music lmao Thanks to everyone who gave $10 to fund the mint! You made your money back 10x (had to take a little off the top for transfer fees) What a dope experiment
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3 years
I dare 10 ppl to send me $10 to my cashapp $latefx so I can mint this unreleased track as an NFT tonight on @ourZORA ! I'll split the potential profits of the sale equally and redistribute via cashapp as $btc or $. must like tweet and dm screenshot of the send to qualify ~
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3 years
@MetaHero_ just joined the metahero universe #3282
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4 years
Welp, since visiting my mom for Mother’s Day in 2020 is a horrible idea, I decided to make an Instagram filter for Mother’s Day so we can still “take a selfie” together 😂🥰
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4 years
@Miamiboi_dre I did not know Pastor John Gray was part of GP 😳😳😳
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2 years
watching 85 South in Italy >> 🇮🇹🔥 @85SouthShow
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4 years
Made some updates to effect, now the lasers are activated when speaking truth to power. 👁
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4 years
You guys merely adopted the hotep meme, I awoke and became it.
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3 years
This is a very defining moment for me. Heres a pic of my mom viewing my BlackSoul Gallery for Snap / @Spectacles . She was in awe and said it was indescribable and wishes she could show all her friends the experience behind the Spectacles. She likes this more than the Oculus too😂
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7 months
@FEELZ_____ Drake doing a chitlin run is insane
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2 years
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19 days
Alien, finished with a black soft touch rubber coating.
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3 years
A 2017 OG Era Mooncat on the Apple Watch 5 might cost more than a Richard Mille in 2 years
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7 months
I’m loving this, blending miro and tumblr into a social media app with a modular feed is much needed 👌🏾
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amo
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You are more than a profile pic and a grid of edited photos. You are everything you wear, say, do, and love — a beautiful and chaotic mess that means you’re human. ID by amo is a new kind of social profile that you make with your friends, on a limitless board. No grid to
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3 years
“is this the same exact height of the yeezus mountain and the tlop stages??” me in my anon account in another dimension on ktt
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2 months
ZORA + Apple Vision Pro + 747 Flight Pin = Higher views and Higher Orbits
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2 months
Didn’t realize you can do AR on @ourZORA Zora 🤯 Mint FLIGHT PIN - AR - free mint! @747crash
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2 years
Engaged 🏔❤️🥂🍾💍🇮🇹
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3 years
someone also bought a 3 tag Cardanobit mummy for 20K ADA 🔥🔥 #cardano $ada @CardanoBits
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1 year
Designing a boot collab between Rick Owens and Salomon in midjourney
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4 years
@MAL___ Leave that man alone lmfao
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2 years
they shoulda never gave me 40k for a 4 day execution for a IG filter.....im big spoiled now
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3 years
did someone say wearable AR NFTs?
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5 years
”RENDER ERROR” effect coming soon
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3 years
We should stop trying make documenting yourself a "bad" thing - literally no one else is documenting you -
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Dylan Viner
3 years
This is depressing on many levels
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@KevOnStage Omg never seen that man have to sing a song ever again 😂😂
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3 years
manifesting positive life changing opportunities
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4 years
My dad went to segregated schools , so I’m old black, we don’t do this, we have bowls
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Scottie🥇
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Lol y’all new blacks something else. I grew up in the country and my family has always done this 😂 you clean the sink before and after. It’s nothing wrong with it.
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3 years
I am so sick of people using black bodies to get money. stay the fuck away from us.
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6 months
Got these 3d printed shades looking good 🕶️
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3 years
woww apple maps >>>
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3 years
@IOHK_Charles @mcuban Investing in Cardano is more financially responsible than investing in Doge. I’ve minted NFTs on Cardano and have done $ada transactions OTC even before smart contracts come out. Plus it’s proof of stake, much more environmentally friendly and cheaper than $eth and $btc .
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Leighton McDonald
3 years
i might have to mint an illustration that was created by me and used without my permission on some garments for Urban Outfitters...........that’ll be some nice long payback.
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Leighton McDonald
3 years
i need $1 Mil by August
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4 years
Jay Versace producing drug/killer music is so funny 😂 Imagine Griselda shooting at you and you look in the back seat of the car and see this
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4 years
In my bag
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4 years
Bout to get in my bag
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2 years
Check this out, too many people are ignorant on the Black experience in USA + the psychological warfare - some ppl are willingly ignorant to realize we are 50 years removed from our parents not being able to LEGALLY drink out of the same water fountains or go to the same schools.
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4 months
@jnicely Yeah I’m technically just splitting a bunch of safari windows here but you can also run multiple apps too and leave them, essentially widgets lol
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@rmcentush I remember my first time learning about “jump jets”
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3 years
my whole life i thought this was cgi
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Gorillaz Plastic Beach (2010)
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2 years
going to SCAD is wild....one old roommate is now a super successful children's book illustrator with awards, another just did their first DC Batman comic cover...another one is on heroin...
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Leighton McDonald
3 years
Anyone making AR NFT Mini games yet? might have to drop this scavenger hunt I made - 🔋
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Leighton McDonald
7 months
Celebrating 9 years as a concept designer at Under Armour this week by showing y’all a pic of me from 2009 , my senior year of high school, wearing UA gloves and base layer that I bought with my own summer job money. Also, some of my favorite projects I worked on - details below
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Alien
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