7 Years of my life on the BlockChain

A couple of my first NFTs before we had NFT Showroom on HIVE! Here is an artwork of Carnage from the Marvel/Spider-Man Universe. I was asked to be a beta tester for Maker's Place, an NFT platform built on the Ethereum blockchain.

In fact, my most successful NFT was the Amazing SpiderMan image you see below. I still have most of my pay from that image and I have to say it's been a feather in my cap of Web3 Inspiration!

_{Spider-Man - Original Artwork by @castleberry}

Along the way of growing into who I have become here on HIVE... i have to give some credit to Taraz for delegating me some HP/SP back in the day that helped me get the voting slider before it was common practice to have one. Taraz and his bro have been pillars of the Hive community in general as well as good role models for how to conduct this thing we call life.

They say it takes a village to raise a child... and in this case, it took a lot of children to create the Hive village we see today! Thanks to Taraz for being the bully on the block that just wanted to make the block a better place for everyone!

This has always been a welcoming and amazing place to share my art! I am everso grateful for the opportunity to have profited from what I felt to be just an endeavor of something that I enjoyed. Art and all of it's forms has and will always be my passion. But to see that passion overlap with so many different displays of output has really inspired me in many different ways!

_{CRAYOLA QUEEN ~}

My primary focus has always been analogue and traditional art. Now, I get to add in the digital art to that list. It's been amazing to keep up with and participate in the inception of AI and it's influence over art. To watch AI make shitty art with 12 fingers per hand to now make an image that is almost indescernable from a real to life image... has been one of the most pinnacle moments of my life.

_{Giant Slayer}

I have also had some gaming posts along with my photography that has been proportionally valued! I think this one below did well because of the nostalgia that it hit on and there was a cool history I uncovered in researching the gaming culture develop from my generation's perspective. It's still worth a read if you enjoy gaming or just video games in general!

_{Hive Gaming Community - MY Best Video Game Memories}

Some of my posts have been a commentary on pop-culture from when I was growing up! Like the example below! I scanned each one of those cards to make an image.

_{Garbage Down Memory Lane}

I also participated in many contests and challenges that stimulated my creativity along the way. I did color cutouts on paper to make the images below. You can click any of the blue links in this post to visit the old original posts and see in full what I am describing!

_{HiveGamingCommunity ~ Drawing Contest}

Some of my photography posts have been taking shots of my artwork from different macro angles that present in a totally different way!

_{Expectant Agog : Orientations}

I tried to go fish for old posts that I thought would be nice to check out without having to scroll through 7 years of posts. It was cool for me to take the proverbial stroll down memory lane.

_{The Feels....}

Being on Hive has been an amazing experience. I have been fortunate to have made many new friends from all over there world because of this opportunity. I don't think Hive is a place to just focus on profits and the potential financial aspects to the benefits of participating. I think more value is to be found in bonds and memories that are priceless!

I know many scammers have come and exploited the system here, I have had to deal with many of them when managing the communities! But I also don't think we would have too many people here who would just do it all for free if there was no monetary aspect to this gamification of social media either.

Everyone is entitled to do what they want with their rewards here and I respect that. But, I have also respected the system and community in these 7 years enough to have only done 2 powerdowns in my time here. Those were both to help pay for diapers and other essentials for my kid... who will turn 1 year old next month.

_{My Son of Thunder}

It's been a crazy year to say the least... but it's also been an amazing 7 years of actualizing the opportunity.

It took a long time to grow considering many of my early posts averaged maybe about .30 cents. If profit and gain was my goal I would have walked away a very long time ago. I can say it's been nice to finally actualize some profits here because of my longterm approach to how I view Hive.

_{The Art of Life}

I really feel like the core of users that have put in the most time, effort, and skin in the game (even if it wasn't money) are the users that set the best examples and have the best ethics when it comes to making this a place somewhere we all want to be. New users come in waves and over the years some of the newer users are the ones that I have connected with the most. Now, some of them are not new at all anymore and have outgrown me! hahaha

_{Inktober - Garfield}

This October is going to be more special than usual. Hopefully, I will try to get a little ink put down this year! It's taken me 3 days to get this post across the finish line! So, happy belated Hive Birthday to me now! hahaha

I'm looking forward to seeing what the future has in store for us all here on the Hive Blockchain. It would also be super cool to go to HiveFest at least once in my life considering how that has just finished for this time around. How fast time moves and how slow I am to react or have the ability at times to respond is incredible.

Ok, before I start to rant or go too far off on my tangents and delay this post another 3 days... i will call this a wrap. Thank you for taking time to check out my post and read my meandering thoughts. A special thank you if you took the time to go see any of my old posts as well.

Thank you to everyone who has crossed my path here on Hive in the last 7 years! I hope for many, many more years of Hive experience to come for us all! Take care