Steem Cartoon : Creating a Wave in the Art Community

Words
576
Reading
3 min
Listen
Play
9y

History in the Making


It has been a while since I got so excited. Today I met with the Minister of Tourism Tan Sri Nazri in our Cartoon Exhibition in the National Museum. I get to meet our long time supporter of #steem-cartoon the quiet kevinwong@kevinwong and supportive bitrocker2020@bitrocker2020. I get to meet the super talented stahlberg@stahlberg who was so nice to turn up for our event after being invited by perennial@perennial from his busy schedule.

pic 12.jpg
(from left: rambai@rambai, killuminatic@killuminatic, kevinwong@kevinwong, bitrocker2020@bitrocker2020, cartoonistpandan@cartoonistpandan and aurah@aurah (myself))

pic 03.jpg
(Tan Sri Nazri Aziz, the Malaysian Minister of Tourism paying our cartoon exhibition a visit)

pic 02.jpg
(you can see Awang Khenit and Badang which are two of our creation that is part of the Malaysian Cartoon Industry with a viewership of 700,000 viewers each episode)(photo taken by my friend)

That was the morning event. The event did not abate in the afternoon when sireh@sireh and perennial@perennial turned the heat up with some really awesome work. I personally know these two individuals and they are the ones who got the engine of #steem-cartoon running with effort that not many can pull off.

20180123_145508.jpg
(photo by shuazir@shuazir)

New Initiative


perennial@perennial took the opportunity to introduce two new initiatives to the audiences that exceeded 200 people. These initiative is the announcement of a new community called #steem-music led by calebleejl@calebleejl, zhusatriani@zhusatriani and perennial@perennial. The second initiative is a sub community within #steem-cartoon that is known as Urban Sketchers led by kymio@kymio the talented son of our very own abgmie@abgmie.

IMG_20180123_144950_HDR.jpg(photo by hanbun@hanbun)

The day started off with 3 wonderful music performances by the talented zhusatriani@zhusatriani and papisaxy@papisaxy. We were entertained by the charismatic muslyramlee@muslyramlee and zulkiflisaadan@zulkiflisaadan who are both recording artists.

IMG_20180123_145857_HDR.jpg(photo by hanbun@hanbun)

I couldn't believe my eyes when stahlberg@stahlberg turned up. His work is legendary in our field and many art students would have used his works as references.


(work by stahlberg@stahlberg)


Being Legally Enlightened


We were all quite entertained perennial@perennial who is surprisingly quite a good speaker. He gave us enough reason to believe why cryptocurrency is legal in Malaysia and shared with us his personal experience as a lawyer involved in banking and finance law. He is quite an effective speaker giving speech in both in the Malay Language and the English.

a11.jpg(picture by sireh@sireh)

I am still smiling reliving my memories from the morning. This has been the most entertaining event that I have attended in quite a while. Usually it has been quite boring and formal in nature. But this one that is planned by sireh@sireh and perennial@perennial is simple a different class of its own, there is ample performance, light hearted jokes, enough engagement from the audiences and strong visuals to deliver the impact that drives home the message that Steemit ought to deliver.


I Found My Home


After today, I felt more at home within my creative community. Yes, the money is there but the camaraderie counts a lot for me. I could not be happier working with people like perennial@perennial, sireh@sireh and bitrocker2020@bitrocker2020. I wish to do more than what I am currently contributing to #teammalaysia and #steem-cartoon.

I would also want to thank sndbox@sndbox for being ever so supportive of our small community. It is not easy to move such a big initiative that is so actively engaging everyone in the art community and be so effective in doing so.

pic 05.jpg
(a happy me with a character that I help create)



credit to zomagic@zomagic

Steem Cartoon : Creating a Wave in the Art Community | Ecency