Hello People of Steem,
I'm here completely by accident. But I'm glad to be here. Blame it on the Drink!
Here's my story:
I lived in Westchester NY for much of my adult life but 8 years ago I had to move down south to take care of family issues. I just recently moved back to the area after everything was taken care of!
So a A few weeks ago, I was waiting at the Bar for a blind date at a nice Restaurant in Hartsdale. Drinking a Beer.
And I got surprised when somone slapped me on the shoulder from behind, Much to my surprise saddling up next to me at the Bar was my former Boss Rich (@richatvns). He said he saw me on the way to go play in his Poker game and came over to say Hi. I was surprised he looked alot different from 8 years before. But it was great to see him.
He ordered Diet Coke and immediately started flirting with the Bartender (a cute brunette) and we started to wrap. I mentioned that I had gone on to use the stuff he taught me to get a job working for renovation company in Atlanta after I left NY. He was impressed.
I asked him how everyone at the Company was doing (I knew he'd hook me up with a job because he was always a righteous dude).
I was surprised and sorry to hear about about the series of crappy situations that killed his businesses. I felt real bad because I know he spent alot of years building them up and helping alot of people. The one thing he was always about was saving techniques and items from be lost because poeple no longer were in the those industries and there were no legacies. He literally lost over 15,000 molds and all of his documentation he had hand written and copied in multiple manuals were lost when he lost the storage units with all the businesses equipment while in the hospital. It was a sad state. Outward he claimed it did not seem to bother him, but I could tell it really bothered him.
After all Arkahdia Arts Motto was "Creating the New and Saving the Bygone" and he took that to heart on the way he ran the business.
But he had an idea. He still knew all the techniques, and had all the pictures of everything we produced. In addition there still were documents on backup and even some videos.
 | His idea was to create a project that would continue his idea to save the bygone by putting the images online with as an open source library. |
So how many images exist you might ask? Well Arkahdia Arts had a 600 page catalog with around 10 images pages. And the online site used to be over 10,000 different products we made with over 70 standard finishes. That's not even counting custom work! Every product that was put up for sale that we cast had at least 10 pictures taken in at least one finish. Considering we took pictures of over 200 different items a month for at least 10 years.. That's over 200,000 raw images alone!.
here's a couple of items:
Easily there are over 100,000 images....
He told me, it was a shame he had no time to actually do it, because he thought that the Steem Blockchain would be a simple and easy way to actually accomplish it.
The fact was I took a lot of pictures and learned many of the techniques from my co-workers and directly from him. Means I am in the perfect situation to help out. I told him that I'd be more than happy if he could direct me.
He said we'd split the money and I was all in!
Here's a old sample video of Modesto and Armando doing a hand layup and roll casting at the same time of two large pieces
We will be writing a lot of information about techniques and why certain things work in the coming months.
So I'm here to Show and Tell.....
Please follow along ...If you have questions we will field them!
Thank you and see you soon....
Sounds amazing!! Good luck! I'll be following your journey! my name is Francesca! do you plan on using #dtube for your videos? it's a decentralized dapp that works with the steem blockchain. That be sweet!
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Welcome to Steemit! Very interesting skill you and your boss have. I gave you a follow!
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He's kinda a jack of all trades, take a look at some of his posts they run the gamut....
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Welcome to steemit! It's really a good platform for the enthusiast writers and for the people who want to share their good work with the world! ;)
Hello and welcome to Steemit, lord 😉
You are a Steemian now! And your first blog is online. Better late than never, and I'm sure one day we will say those were the very early days of Steemit, so congrats! Whats essential here is regular posting off good quality blogs.
So start writing ! Tell us about your life, passion, animals or your work.
That Will attract possible followers.
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Look up the free Steemify app in the Appstore or read this blog https://steemit.com/busy/@exyle/using-steemify-to-stay-up-to-date-about-the-blockchain-like-project-destiny-please-consider-blockbrothers-for-your-witness-vote Thats helpfull too.
Next to Steemify I use Appics to post.
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Hope this helps for now. Good luck, and Full Steem Ahead! Let me know if you have questions,
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What a pleasure to have you here, for what I see you know what sacrifice is, we have a very good project, if you like to go through our blog
Hi buddy,
This is a superb introductory post, you have taken your precious time to let us know you more and better and even say hi to the steemit community!
We are here as a community to encourage and grow one another.
I would advise you to start posting and not just post but post quality content. Take your time to develop good videos and stories. Comment on others users content to help get noticed and to maximize the platform
Feel free to comment on my content and I'll up vote your comments! Drop me a follow so you can comment a lot and get a lot of my upvotes!
Welcome to the Steem Community @lordoffaux!
I would love to feature your new introduction post in my weekly curation blog if you don't mind! You can find it on my profile, @Ma1neEvent.
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Welcome to Steem! Happy to see so much effort put into an introductory post. I see that you've much to share and it's going to be interesting to follow along with your 'show and tell' tutorials.
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