Curie Author Showcase (June 5th, 2018)

• In spirit of Curie's mission to promote undiscovered but exceptional content, we wish to use this twice weekly section to provide an author showcase for some of the outstanding authors who received Curie upvotes in past week. Curie curators and reviewers nominate authors for inclusion in this showcase and author approval is sought and attained.

• For those new to Curie, please follow @curie, and join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/jQtWbfj

• Follow @curie's votes to support the authors. Please consider following our trail and voting for curated authors. If you are a SteemAuto user, @curie is an available trail to follow.

• Vote for the @curie witness to support Curie operations (all witness payouts are used to fund Curie operations).

If you would like to delegate to Curie you can do so by clicking on the following links:

50 SP, 100SP, 250SP, 500SP, 1000SP, 5000SP.
Be sure to leave at least 50SP undelegated on your account.

Featured Author: @letsgetquirky
🌹 Mental Health: My Journey 🌹

Images used are property of @letsgetquirky

Today's Author Showcase starts off with an extremely heart-wrenching story. Luckily it has reached a happy and healthy middle of the story now and will hopefully continue on to a happy ending.

We all have our stories, and the most amazing thing is that we are still here and able to tell them, perhaps for our own personal growth or to help/guide others that have been, or are in similar situations. Today I am feeling like I want to share with that hope in mind, for the first time ever. - @letsgetquirky

Hers is an amazing story or perseverance. It goes from a troubled childhood filled with abuse and using coping methods such as cutting, to an emotional center and release, a fair amount of counseling, and now finally to the present day where @letsgetquirky is living a happy and full life and doing the things she loves. It is great to see the current state of this emotional journey and just how well she is doing.

Go visit Lauren's page to learn more about her recent gardening or her dog Roxy who is convinced her attention would be better spent petting her than on some silly garden.

Featured Author: @grobens
TRANSFIGURATIONS: a study in modulating sound

Next up we have a very unique project that is a study in modulating sound. When I heard the final result of the project it reminded me of different periods in the career of the band Pink Floyd. If you have ever seen the story behind the making of some of their albums you will know they used many extremely unusual techniques to create some of the iconic sounds on their albums. Many portions of which I can sort of relate to this piece that @grobens shared in his post.

The problem with this project was very Sartre-like: the content came before the concept so we had to think about what we are actually pursuing here. Everything started with Bojan filming a short slow motion video of his girlfriend putting a black shirt over another shirt and then eventually taking the black shirt off. It was filmed because it looked good and after the video was done, Bojan thought of the term TRANSFIGURATIONS. It is actually a religious term and, put most simply, it means a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state.. - @grobens

Be sure to follow @grobens blog page to hear some of the other great sound innovations he is sharing.

Featured Author: @arseniclullaby
Steemit Exclusive / Sneak peak - Kids cartoon pitch/storyboards pitch

Our next creator, @arseniclullaby brings us a Steem Blockchain exclusive look at their pitch for a children's TV show, The Yeti Named Eddie. They were contacted by a cable network and asked for a pitch for a children's cartoon. Despite their target audience usually being a much older age range that usually gets their darker humor a bit more than younger children they started working on something. Of course nowadays many if not most children's cartoons are loaded with many references that only the adults in the crowd get. See for example, The Simpsons and Family Guy.

@arseniclullaby vision for The Yeti Named Eddie was a story that follows the trials and tribulations of being a 6-foot tall teenaged yeti living with your human family. While the original network that requested the story passed on it they are now shopping it around to try and find Eddie, his brother Scott, and family a new home.

You can see many other stories from @arseniclullaby , like yesterday's Arsenic Lullaby Comic- The Demon and the Ouija Board on his blog page.

Featured Author: @aksounder
Take a look at my tremendous conflagration

Images used are property of @aksounder

It is truly amazing what sorts of dangerous jobs some people will do for a paycheck. What makes it even more incredible is how so many can actually love doing these jobs. A few weeks ago the Author Showcase featured a wild fire firefighter. This week we move to a firefighter in a different kind of specialty, @aksounder is an Aircraft Rescue Firefighter.

While most days pass by safely—or with only minor incidents—we remain vigilant, constantly aware of the potential to respond to "the big one" at any moment without warning. - @aksounder

I am pretty certain you could not pay me enough to walk out into a pool of 1,800 liters of diesel fuel and then PURPOSELY light it on fire! It takes a special kind of person to do something like that. Luckily for travelers everywhere there are people like @aksounder out there to help keep them safe in the unlikely even of a major catastrophe.

Featured Author: @damianjayclay
Writing Workshops 101

Writing is a mostly solitary occupation. We spend hours, days and months working on stories, novels and poems in seclusion, developing our craft as we go.

As our author @damianjayclay goes on to point out at some point we are usually forced to actually interact with actual real live humans. Of course that is when everything in life gets tricky. He helps us to understand all of the basics of how writing workshops work, when you should take the leap into doing them, and what you can expect.

Are you ready to have your work critiqued, or worse returned to you covered in a bunch of red ink to indicate your failures? If not perhaps you need to remain in solitary confinement a bit longer. In many careers getting feedback and learning from it can help. To the psyche of a writer however it can be a crushing blow, yet one that often times needs to be handed out by a critic or editor to make your work better.

@damianjayclay talks about all of that in this in-depth breakdown of what to expect and how to handle it like a pro.

Featured Author: @lillywilton
Steemit OpenMic Week 87 - "Summer Rain" (original)

Image used is property of @lillywilton

I have been trying to avoid using authors and artists more than once in the Author Showcase lately in an attempt to give more people a chance to have the spotlight shine on them. However sometimes I come across something that I simply cannot move past without sharing, regardless of how many times they may have appeared in these pages.

That is the case today with @lillywilton 's newest Open Mic entry. I mentioned in the comment I left on this post how I love the videos that musicians often do here on the Steem Blockchain where they record themselves playing four or five instruments and then maybe record themselves singing three different harmonies and then spend hours editing it all together to make it perfect.

Well Lilly does something similar I feel, the thing is like a great art post here on the platform where the artist shares all the process steps, she does the whole thing on camera showing us all the parts - with no editing! What's even more incredible is not only is she doing he different harmonies, she IS all of the instruments as well.

In her post she shares the following about the story behind the lyrics.

I think the metaphors are pretty obvious here so there won't be much of a "behind the song" this week, but to me this is about a desperate need for cleansing.

I played with the syntax of the lyrics as if they came from someone walking through the streets and getting knocked the fuck down with memories they weren't anticipating.

When the rain comes in, I hope to create a feeling of relief as well as sorrow that it's actually happening.

This Curie Author Showcase was written by Curie Curator @randomwanderings (Gene) with input from other Curie curators and reviewers. Author permission was sought and obtained from all authors featured in this showcase. All works are the copyright of their respective authors and used with permission.