Upvotes of the Week (01/22-01/26): @sndbox-alpha Initiative

Upvotes of the Week: @sndbox-alpha Initiative

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@sndbox-alpha is a curation account with rotating themes and liaisons. Each month, a new theme will be announced alongside a new team who will be tasked with upvoting content. “Alpha” is a community account created for the first cohort of the @sndbox incubator; a diverse group of 100 Steemians representing nearly 20 countries and languages.

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Monday

Steemit Record Pool | Song of the Day: Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight (1979)

@scuzzy submitted a record pool post featuring Rapper's Delight. Ranked no. 2 on VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs, no. 251 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and preserved into the National Recording Registry in 2011, "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang was the first commercially successful full-length rap song that introduced hip-hop music to the United States and the world.

Steemit Poets United: Your Daily Dose of Poetry and Prose #3 (Poetry Curation Effort)

Inclusive Daily Poetry and Prose initative hosted by @angelvesenlinov. New for all of our members to get your poems included in the daily dose use #poetsunited so I don't miss you as well.

Galaxy Art of the Day (no. 13) + poem

Artist: Robyn Eggs Photography @robyneggs
Dimensions: 3024 x 3024.
Device: Samsung Galaxy S8 (smartphone).
Editor: Pixlr.

Surreal Art Contest: Day 3

@sethlinson hosts a surreal art contest and provides high quality pieces of art for inspiration.

Yucca Rose Paintings - Balinese Dancers In The Village (#052)

Balinese Dancers by @yuccarose - Three traditional Balinese Dancers performing in a village market place - Acrylic on structured art paper (Reworked and color corrected).

MUSIC RENDITION OF JAMES ARTHUR (Roses)

I was in the studio after a successful recording session I decided to cover this song.
Here it is! @lifeofobas

Designing With Virtual Reality!

I was able to record my entire process for designing environments in VR! From sculpting in Oculus Medium to painting and sketching in Photoshop you’ll see it all! Please don’t hesitate to ask any questions and make sure to share this post with all your art buddies! @reeceypie

A Quick Guide to Grime Music (UK Rap) for Americans.

Grime music is derived from a mixture of Garage, Jungle and Hip Hop, the exact definition of Grime is when you spit bars over an instrumental at 140bpm, but it’s essentially our take on Rap music. @bloodycritique

Steemit Record Pool // Song Of The Day - "Stand Tall" by Childish Gambino

After a short break from posting I'm back with my theme for January - Empowerment - for the Steemit Record Pool with this beautiful song from Childish Gambino AKA Donald Glover's 2016 Awaken, My Love! album. @vandigital

Commonwealth Treasurez - New Video and Track ( Hurt )

The International Crew based outta Kuala Lumpur ( Malaysia ) have just released their new track and video named 'Hurt' a compelling track with a thoughtful engaging beat produced by the upcoming maestro PH1 hailing from Subang Jaya and feat UK's Veteran One10%. @one10

Tuesday

Original Art: A watercolour sketch, Streets of Sevilla 2

Beautiful watercolor painted by @coldmonkey

Frederik

Photograph of calm sunset at the port of Klaipeda. The vessel is proceeding inside the port for some cargo operation.

JPEGMAFIA - Veteran ALBUM REVIEW

Veteran is sure to be one of the most in-your-face, off-the-wall and creative rap projects of 2018. @theneedledrop

Violin sculpture , the end step #7 (FR/EN)

The creation of a beautiful violin sculpture.

Gray Matters

Listen to an original classical guitar composition by @grayarty.

Draw Diction #10 | Antelope

I've also been itching to geometricise an animal for a really long time. When I came across the word antelope, I knew there was no turning back from it. I'm quite happy with this one. I would generally paint the watercolours before inking but I was inspired to use them only after completing the drawing and so I went for it anyway. The triangle came at the end, because they're my favourite shape, and fit perfectly here. @manouche

My California Poppy Photo & Painting

Beautiful process of painting by @pyrowngs

[Contest Entry] The Sup from "On the Exotic Shores of a Black Hole contest "

My entry for this contest by @geekpowered

The contest:
Draw something from his story.

My pick
The sip that got stuck near a black hole @wolv

Photography - Into the light

I've spent the last 10 years of my life looking into the light.

This image shot on a Canon 5DMKIII with a Canon 100mm 2.8 true macro lens with Alien Bee strobes. Photo by @mikesthoughts

The Whale: Adding to my Bescouted Collection

This piece was done for a surreal challenge. My work often borders the absurd or sometimes happily lives in the domain of Whimsy, so this felt a direction I could happily travel. @donnadavisart

As If - Original Art Work For The Surreal Art Contest

This painting I named it, As If, and specifically I work to participate in this contest. Thank you very much for carrying out such a challenge and it would be great if every contest I could get involved. @footsteem

Wednesday

My entry to @sethlinson's #surrealart contest

Art piece with Oil Pastels. I found inspiration from my walk to the beach the day prior (photo below) which felt surreal due to how cold and desolate it was - with the exception of the seagulls. @zheimberg

Look at what we've done. Look at what we can be. Lets wash our hands. (Original Painting)

2011

18" x 24" Oil on Canvas

Painting inspired by Terence McKenna writing. @stanhopeofficial

watercolour painting of birds and blossoms

Beautiful watercolor of birds and a step-by-step tutorial by @li-art.

My new digital picture -Cersei Lannister "Games of Thrones" . creation process: photos and videos

This is a digital painting of Cersei Lannister by @elenasteem

Born The Light 04

A lot of colors in this artwork, darker but with a lot of bright colors to give it balance. Sky meets trees meets hills with some fields and roads to put in front of it. more purple than normal but I like the feel of it, just seems to fit nicely with the sky. @ery

Midsummer Morning Sun (Original Composition for Classical Guitar)

Today I am sharing with you a new piece for classical guitar that I have been working on over the last few days. While the work is still in the early phases of development the idea was to try to express the brightness and simple joy of a shaft of morning light, which each day cascades through my window and lights the room where I am writing. @byrongrant

“Song of the Wind” (Original Piano Piece)

Original piano piece from album Reflections by Drew Ley @drewley

The Mundane as Art Round Nine. Moss and Lichen

Fantastic picures of moss and lichen by @nelinoeva

Scribbling Self Portrait

I wanted to have fun and scribbled a self portrait. I was thinking of having a new profile picture and thinking of doing a portrait sooner or later. This portrait doesn't actually portray my emotional side as the look is quite sturdy and mature, which I am not. Although a introvert, I like to have fun in my own way or terms as well as easy going guy. @yogesssh

Even when we travel together, we travel alone. [Fine Art]

©2015 @rubencress

Go see the world through your own eyes.

Even when we travel together, we travel alone.

Thursday

I Spent Today Learning Something New

Here are the results. By @the-dagda

Gem Trails: Environments One - Morning Beach

For years as a touring musician, artist and traveler experiencing the world through various environments and quick dips into foreign cultures it struck me that the sounds of each surrounding played a huge part in the make of of each place's collective sub conscience. I began collecting field recordings and samples from these environments and layering ambient guitar & electronic compositions over the top. I call the series simply "Environments", modeled after the great late 60's & 1970s Warner Music released series of the same name.

A Year of Digital Art - Week 3 - Learning to draw an eye [+ SPEED DRAWING]

Speed drawing of eye by @wilmarnm

King Vulture – Art 3D

Process of creating amazing 3D vulture art by @fanisk.

Ilustracion de un rostro Grafito Como lo hice?

Graphite portrate and process by @kennyvaldez.

Drømmefangeren - Drømmeaktivitet (DSound Exclusive Original Track)

Here we go with yet another DSound exclusive track by my project 'Drømmefangeren'. The track name 'Drømmeaktivitet' translates to 'Dream Activity'. I am not really sure where I was going with this flow, but maybe some of you will enjoy it! @xtetrahedron

Emotional Piano Music - Dusk (original)

Original emotional piano piece by @timspeer.

It's better if you don't understand

Music (27%) of the human data stream.
Totally GMO free.
Do you understand? :)

My improved illustration.
Digital work with Wacom cintiq
2018 by @zsolt.vidak

Capricorn - Painting

"Nothing ever goes away until it taught us what we need to know." - Pema Chodron original painting by @feralplays

Making the Music Video: Criminal (Panopticon), Part 3 - Draw Till Ya Drop

Drawing process for animated music video by @derosnec.

Friday

https://steemit.com/@sea-otter/rise-of-the-machines-fearful-thought

The image represents my fear of a future where AI machines rebel against and enslave the human race. For those of us, sci-fi aficionados, mixing robots and artificial intelligence is a scary combination. We watched Battlestar Galactica. We know what happens when machines evolve. In Battlestar Galactica, intelligent robots called Cylons almost destroyed mankind in a 1,000-year war. @sea-otter

Interactive paintings: The Vagabonds #2

This is the second of my Vagabonds-paintings: small paintings of weird creatures, but I like to present them with an interactive twist! @marty-art

Original Art: Streets of Sevilla 3, watercolour sketch

Original watercolor sketch by @coldmonkey

'Mirage' • Coloured pencil on paper

Mirage, 2015
Pencil on paper by @mosessa

My self-portrait in honor of my 22nd birthday

Self-portrait and great story by @ferjart

Acrylic Paintings

Over the years I worked a lot with traditional tools like pencils, paint and ink. Being new to this platform and having loads of art I wanted to show I will try to post artworks that kind of are made in the same time span or in the same kind of genre. The two paintings in this blog are made in the same year 2016. I started more but they never got finished. As I was used to draw a lot with pencils and no color this was really out of my comfort zone. I used linework with ink and combined it with acrylics and a little bit of markers. @sanderjansenart

Creating Art in the Deep South

I call my art style "Subconscious Meandering" because I basically let my mind wander when I create, with little thought to subject matter or composition. During the course of creating a piece of "art", various ideas begin to coalesce and take shape before my eyes. I definitely enjoy this process, and even though I do many things in a similar style, every single thing I do is an unexpected adventure. @joemacgown

Swedish Pike Fishing Transport

Swedish Pike Fishing Transport and Fish design process by @goldenpillow

Recording and Audiostuff #4 - Audio Interfaces

This is my Fourth post on this series, as I said on the last ones, this is meant for musicians who don't know much about recording, or people who aren't satisfied with the quality of sound they are getting from their equipment.@luisferchav

PEN FACE - INK DRAWING - BY @josephkirkhamart

Amazing line drawing by @josephkirkhamart

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Steemians, we hope you liked the art created this week. Check back tomorrow for info on this week of curation.

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