State of the Arts Steemit Promotion

"It has been an incredible month of sharing and promoting steemit on other platforms with visual and performing art!"

Note to the viewer

We're a community of creatives and innovators that have come together to harness ideation and the arts for the benefit of steemit and beyond. This month long initiative we called March Art Madness invited greater awareness and new members to steemit.

We now present these fantastic arts, efforts, and ideas to the general steemit community and through you to even more reach beyond. So, judge your favorites below, resteem, repost, and invite the outside to come and see what steemit has to offer.

Judging Instructions | It's simple | Select your favorite choices from below

• Just go down to the "Reply" section
• Push the first "Reply" button and tell us your favorites
• Describe your top 3 or top 10
• The finalists are numbered below on this post

That's it. Judging lasts through all day Thursday, April 5, 2018; US Pacific Time. We'll tally the totals and update this post periodically from the "Replies" given below on this thread.

By supporting steemit and these amazing creatives, you automatically help everyone on this platform and give more awareness to people on the outside. If you vote for one place only, your vote equals 3 points for the artist in the contest. If you vote for ten places, your first place vote = 10 points; Second place vote = 9 points; Third place vote = 8 points; etc. to tenth place vote which equals 1 point.

Note to whales

Are you a whale out there with goodwill and vision?

If you are and can give a little "love" (whitelist for example?) there's a lot of people here that say thank you in advance for your good will and generosity. Thank you greatly! You're a person who cares about worthwhile causes (in this case promoting steemit itself), can catch the vision, and reach out as we have done and yet do in our own way.

On first glance at our community you might ask, "Why should I even care?" You may just see an arts-sharing minnow front and center, and miss the significance of what we're doing here. For instance, during the process of this month-long March Art Madness initiative before your eyes we have raised awareness for decentralization, promoted outside of this platform, and brought in people to steemit. All of this benefits you of course, but so many others too.

Sketch by

@stevenfletcher

We are a community that has come together with a common interest to harness the power of creative prowess, the arts, and innovation for the benefit of the steemit community at large; but also far beyond. This initiative is evidence of our potential. So please don't let the first impressions of art-sharing fool you. That's the daily, weekly, monthly work to nurture an innovative community that can do this.

For one, think of what it would have cost steemit to pay to advertise to the public like this. It has taken countless human work hours to do the intellectual property on display before you, bring it to bear in benefit of steemit, the steemit community at large, and focus it upon getting word out about the potential of block chain in general. And make no mistake, it takes a lot of human-hours to nurture a community that can come together to promote a cause like you see before you with this quality.

"It is truly amazing what is happening here.
And it couldn't be possible if it weren't for a real community with people behind the scenes that give sincere direction. I couldn't be more thankfull for what's happening... It seems small for people who don't know any details but you know, we know ...WHAT IS GOING ON"

@life-on-earth

Dear whale with influence, a little "love" and support to lift a minnow (with potential) will be appreciated by many a fish in this school mobilized to elevate things and serve causes here and beyond.

Note to participating artists

Let us know by commenting on this thread by the end of Friday, March 30, 2018 Pacific Time, if you're an actively participating artist and have not yet been moved into the "Finalists' Pool" below.

You get into the finalists' pool below by voting for your second and third place favorites of the initiative. (Or better yet, vote for your 2nd-10th places.) That also brings the piece you voted for into the finalists' pool (if it isn't there yet). You receive one first place vote (10 points) for yourself when you vote for at least two.

Time to start sharing those accomplishments with all "the world". So post your success stories to the feed below. Inform us of the external "views" and "likes" earned and the accomplishments of steemit exposure. Share your personal success stories. Did a friend join steemit because of your post? Did people ask you about steemit? How did the initiative work for you? Were people interested? We want to hear your story.

Sharing Steemit through Visual and Performing Arts

State of the Arts External Initiative

As creatives who came up with some absolutely incredible ideas for March Art Madness in order to promote steemit on the outside, you've brought new awareness and participants to the platform. Not the least of which, we've seen several of our own friends and associates come in to give it a try.

We feel the Steemit blockchain is providing one of the coolest opportunities for people. It is still young and there are of course some kinks that they are working through. But, a decentralized platform where people can get paid and recognized for their work directly can potentially benefit people around the world in so many ways. It can build opportunity, create vision, and problem solve across all disciplines.

This is the vision that we have seen with Steemit, and that we are trying to promote. We've all shown a glimpse of what's possible. This is the reason for the contest, to help others realize how great Steemit really can be, and how it can be impactful. Building the greatest decentralized artist/creative community or "guild" is our goal.

As artists and community at large become more active on the platform it will naturally draw attention. The platform will continue to grow as people begin to see success and have their work recognized better than elsewhere (instagram, youtube, etc). This is a huge problem for social media right now, and Steemit offers a potential answer.

Hopefully this contest has encouraged you to be active on steemit, and encouraged you to follow and upvote your fellow steemians. Imagine if instead of "liking" a piece of artwork on instagram or facebook you could upvote their work and they could receive steem for their hard work. This would allow people to continue to produce quality content that YOU enjoy. Support each other. Be active. Help create the greatest decentralized platform on the internet.

Announcement of Winners Begins on Friday, April 6, 2018. Voting extends until then.

There's still time to vote. Select your favorites and tell us below.

There's still time to select your favorites until the winners are announced.

Extra Judging Details and Minutia

See numbered entries in the finalists' pool below.

Finalists, you also vote. To the general steemit public, if you vote for one place only, your vote equals 3 points. If you vote for 10, a first place vote is worth 10 points (There will be 10 winners); A second place vote is worth 9 points; A third place vote is worth 8 points; A forth place vote is worth 7 points; A firth place vote is worth 6 points; A sixth place vote is worth 5 points; A seventh place vote is worth 4 points; an eighth place vote is worth 3 points; a night place vote is worth 2 points; A tenth place vote is worth 1 point.

For an even larger selection of entrants, you may like to see the comments sections in these links:

Week 4: You're here now in the week 4 thread.

Week 3: http://steemit.com/steemit/@stateofthearts/march-art-madness-or-photographers-videographers-musicians-or-usd500-prize-pool-or-promote-steemit-with-art

Weel 2: http://steemit.com/stateofthearts/@stateofthearts/march-art-madness-week-2

Week 1: http://steemit.com/art/@stateofthearts/march-art-madness-contest-usd500-prize-pool

Remember we are creating the greatest most connected artist and creative community on social media. People should be excited to join Steemit and join what has become an awesome linked community here. We have had a blast looking through all the submissions and artwork. We hope you had a good time upvoting, sharing, and commenting on your fellow steemians submissions as well. Hopefully you even made a few new friends here on steemit.

There are incredible creatives on Steemit and we have a great community here at State of the Arts. Lets keep sharing this with all photographers, musicians, videographers, artists and link creatives on the greatest decentralized social media platform in the world.

Finalist Pool

In order to vote, use these entrants' numbers below.

(If you want to promote an participant to this finalists' pool, comment below and link to the creative's submission. To peruse all of the submission, see the links to weeks 1-4 above. • Based on your votes, the finalist's pool will continue to grow until Friday, March 30, 2018)

Performing Arts

Finalist #.007 • life-on-earth

Click to listen (and then click again on the image with the arrow): http://steemit.com/music/@life-on-earth/expressing-with-music-self-made-song-boss-rc-50-loopstation-keyboard-alt-saxophone-and-voice-recorded-with-phone-easytechnology
By life-on-earth

Total points so far: 35
SOA points so far: 10
Peer points so far: 4
Voting participation: 10
Public vote points so far: 11

Finalist #.010 • spawnband

Click to listen: http://steemit.com/dsound/@spawnband/20180319t164005014z-march-art-madness--lunatics-by-spawn
By spawnband

Total points so far: 49
Public vote points so far: 20
Peer points so far: 9
Voting participation: 10
SOA points so far: 10

Finalist #.014 • gypsymoon

Click to listen (and then click again on the image with the arrow): http://steemit.com/stateofthearts/@gypsymoon/soar
By gypsymoon

Total points so far: 39
SOA points so far: 10
Public vote points so far: 5
Voting participation: 20
Peer votes: 4

Creative Prowess • Media

Finalist #.006 • imaginalex

http://steemit.com/stateofthearts/@imaginalex/here-is-a-submission-for-the-art-contest-at-stateofthearts
By imaginalex

Total points so far: 16
Public vote points so far: 4
SOA points and activity so far: 5
Per vote points so far: 7

Finalist #.009 • stevenwood

Poem by stevenwood

I've had some fun, I've met good friends, I hold in high esteem...
Upon this awesome platform on the blockchain they call STEEM.
I've even earned some crypto, for sharing things I see,
For upvoting mates, rewards are great, that come to you and me.

My content here is valued, not stolen by the owners.
Not censored or demonetized, by trolls and hacks and moaners.
We're all in this together, decentralized of course.
Here, we can air our views, without shouting ourselves hoarse.

Do you have some knowledge?, a passion in a niche?
Steemit pays you well for it, see what I mean, Capiche?
You could earn a little or you could make a tonne.
Just writing down your musings to share with everyone.

I think I found my calling, I'll retire, earning STEEM.
Of all the social platforms, I have found the winning team.
It didn't cost a thing to join, in week one, I earned a remit.
I'm so happy that I found this site, I BLOODY LOVE MY STEEMIT!

Total points so far: 54
SOA points and activity so far: 10
Peer vote points so far: 6
Voting participation: 20
Public vote points: 18

Finalist .011 • seenitallfilms

http://steemit.com/music/@seenitallfilms/calling-all-steem-musicians-how-to-get-your-work-noticed-on-a-budget
By seenitallfilms