Tools that give artists the ability to self distribute are badly needed. Steem is a beautiful platform but it needs a lot of work in order to compete with our evil step mom platforms.

You know the ones. The vampire social media platforms. Those for profit centralized platforms that make money off of your creative spirit. The platforms that, let's face it, most people use. How are we going to convince artist to move to a less populated and unfortunately spammy platform? A good community is the number one factor that will bring more users to steem. Financial support is the engine of steem, but it is nothing but a low grade cash grab without quality users to interact with.

Luckily steem already has a great community. Still a work in progress, it's young, active tag groups are few and it lacks certain essential tools. Filtering of tags and feeds is very behind other sites, making it hard to wade through all the garbage (what is considered garbage is any one's personal preference). This is why I'm asking for your help, I find steem is still hard to navigate.

Community is where i'd like to focus my efforts in order to help the steem chain bloom.

As an artist and cryptonerd, I'm gearing up to be an advocate for artists on steem and blockchain/crypto tech in general. I'm here to support the artists of steem, help build steem into a better platform for artists, and introduce real world artists communities to these platforms. The details of my long term strategy will be made transparent in an introductory post in the coming weeks, but I couldn't wait to dig deeper into what steem has to offer.

Guidelines:

As any curation is a type of filtering, i'm looking for artists that tell a story or critique culture. Those that display a unique voice and who aren't afraid to change the world through the magic spell of their own art. Pictures of sunsets and flowers are nice (please excuse my own flowery art pictured above), but i I'm interested in artists that take it at least one step further, those that move you in ways you can't quite pin down.

Edit: I had a list of types of art that I wasn't interested in, but i decided that was in bad taste. If you have something you believe to be good art then please share it!

Artists:

Upvotes and Follows!

I'm looking for the best artists on steem to support with upvotes, and resteems. My feed right now is full of too much crypto garbage, and steem chain circle jerking! I don't make a promise to upvote or subscribe to anyone, but if you leave a comment, i'll check out your work and would love to add you if it's my vibe.

Curators:

15 $BD give away! Distributed for those who introduce me to new artists to follow
Here are the rules:

• 15 sbd Total
• 3 sbd for each suggestion split between my top 5 picks of suggested artists
• users can collect on more than one suggestion, as long as they are a top 5 pick
• repeat suggestions will go to user comment with earliest time stamp
• SBD will be distributed after this post has matured.
• you can't get SBD for suggesting yourself (but again, i will up vote and follow you if I like your work)

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I am working on plans to help grow a thriving artist community on steem, and advocate for features that gives us the proper tools that we artists need. Stay tuned and please upvote and follow!