The History of ARTzone (https://www.steemit.com/@artzone)
- by @surfyogi
On March 6, 2019 @artzone celebrates One Year of collecting so many great contributions, contributors and reviews.
The long term potential is that our community and automated tools and infrastructure, will create a culture and a brand for the
#artzone tag.
Hopefully the @artzone will be also followed by many that encounter it's followers and the account will be very valuable for the community and for the owner as well.
Results:
- In the first 2 months of @artzone, we had 6000 followers!
- After 12 months we now have almost 11,000 followers
- 5000+ artworks posted and viewable on artzone.live
- A dedicated and skilled curation and management team
- A first example of how powerful a Community is on the Steem platform.
Overview:
Working on a white paper recently for ARTzone; we have had so many great talents contribute and I wanted to point out we have the artzone.live domain now, soon to be a new powerful way for the community to browse ART, graphics and photos on the INTERNET!
I believe this new User Interface, specialized for the task of Discovery of new Art, and paying our users to be both our Patrons, and our Curators via rewarding them for their participation, is a bold new step in Social Media, and Artistic and creative persute across the board.
These concepts are media specific (content type specific), thus have a specialize intention I believe can be modified for this specific task in our own Creative Social way.
Much like a search engine, we will have filters and allow users to view Today's selections, for the last week, month or year, etc.
Original INSPIRATIONS For ARTzone:
Several artists from all over the world were chatting me up and asking me to upvote their artworks posted on Steem. I found it difficult to ignore them, especially since they were very talented, obviously working very hard to grow in their skills and I admired their work very much.
Some of course are stunning young women from places I have never visited, and there was also something of a curiosity involved. It would be so great to be able to join hands and support each other's work.
I felt it was important to explore...
@vitalina
(Posting images of her Proof of Work (POW))
And her photography was really great as well, she really made me think.
A very nice lady to talk to guys!
She would send me posts of her work and ask me to upvote it. For SOME REASON, I could not resist! LOL
Quickly, many other artists from Russia, Uzbeck, India; all over the earth..
are doing everything possible to attract attention, including drawing portraits of @ned and various other Elders, including @timcliff and myself.
After a while, I realized artists writing to me on steemit.chat was never going to scale, so we should form a Society of the ARTs, and all share in a community to enjoy each other's contributions.
But, who and what to include?
This has always been a question; but we tried to feel our way forward and not be afraid of the uncharted waters ahead.
POW:
Of course with so many of these artists (and of course our curators!), THEY ARE THE WORK OF ART themselves and this can not be ignored in any way.
Meanwhile, the Steem network continues to evolve and just today, the SCT has a new market and is starting to trade in it's own eco-system. I do believe we have a revolution for DAPP development here, and this is my greatest dream in many ways.
SHOUTS go out to:
@misrori for inventing so much of this, and being such a great soul, a master of the internet; he is so brilliant, thank you.. again and again.
@rocksg for contributing some of the first great artworks to ARTzone to launch the platform. Footer graphics, logos, etc.
(See below)
@artzanolino - thanks for putting us on the map and making sure we did not fail in the early months of our first steps. Your contribution will never be forgotten. There is always a place for you here. Thank you for finding many of our current contributors and curators.
@twirble - you are so great, please continue to contribute so much as you have, you are amazing, I love your work! (And I am really sorry I was so busy when you first started at @artzone)
One Year anniversary Party is this weekend on Sat, watch @artzone for the official announcement. We will have a special big announcement before SAT as well, much coming this week!
NOTE: The image above is A PARODY of Masonic Art and in NO WAY espouses an affiliation, whether implied, inferred or otherwise.
Congratulations to you and your team dear, many years of celebration awaits #artzone.
A beautiful review @surfyogi and I congratulate the @artzone and all subscribers on the anniversary, I wish you all good luck and creative success!
Once again, happy anniversary to @artzone. Thank you @surfyogi for giving artist this great platform to showcase all these beautiful art work.
I use #artzone every single day! I love that so many great artists are huddled together.
I will check out all of the artists you mentioned in this post if I didn’t already follow them. Many lovely/talented artists featured in this blog.
I look forward to visiting the new domain.
Congratulations to Artzone on her one year anniversary.
Well done Jeff and the team for helping reward undervalued art works and talents on the steem blockchain. This is highly commendable.
Keep up the good works, wishing Artzone greater heights in the coming years.
Happy to know that today is One year anniversary of @artzone. I really liked the concept of @artzone very much. Cz it is a great field where people can show their innovative ideas, art, talents. Doing a greay job @artzone. & respect for @surfyogi sir. Your always supports all the talented people... these days its hard to find a kind man like you... so, my respect will always high for you sir @surfyogi.
Congratulation to artzone for their one year anniversary I do follow the great and creative works of artzone users and I must confess there are alot of artistic artist on artzone @surfyogi
I still couldnt stop looking at those wonderful artwork. This is so beautiful and to a perfection. Thanks for working this out for our good @surfyogi. It is going to be so helpful to many users and get rewarded for the beauty they share. Upped and resteemed.
Great way for steemians to showcase the talent :D
Wow, that's a great journey... and what a success! I'm just stoked about it because of the great way this is a living "usage example" of the Steem blockchain and our community for something other than just blogging, crypto stuff and app development!
I agree, there are 100 use cases we have not attempted yet..