State of the Sndbox is a weekly newsletter that provides the latest in Sndbox activities, projects, and provides the best resources in creative empowerment for the Steemit community. To get up-to-date on all of our development throughout the week, be sure to follow us @sndbox. This SoTS was guest authored by our very own @luvabi!

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This Week in the Sndbox

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Welcome to the 35th State of the Sndbox newsletter! This past week, we shared the results of our Bitcoin Logo Art Challenge, photos of the park that Blockchain built, a great Korean ad about Steemit and chicken, a cool challenge about sharing cultures from all over the world, project updates, details on the Con Artist Collective, and our monthly State of the Sndbox thumbnail competition.

For a more thorough breakdown of what our members have been up to, be sure to go through our weekly Sndbox Selections of the Week post that we publish each Monday.

Getting Creative with Bitcoin

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Inspired by an article on how most cryptocurrencies get their eccentric names, we launched a call for Bitcoin and Art to come together through a Logo Art Challenge. Our favorites look like they seriously belong to an Art Gallery, drawing inspiration from the likes of Salvador Dali and Takashi Murakami.

The Park that Steemit Built

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The Creative Crypto, our Steem-powered in-house Magazine on the blockchain, features the Park in Brooklyn that Blockchain built. It was an exciting journey, raising over $10,000 by publishing 30 articles, designing and prototyping to get to this end result of providing benches, planters and park signage to this historic part of Brooklyn. To know more about the project details, visit @creativecrypto.

Steemit, making lives better one chicken at a time

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We got extremely excited about the general population of Seoul seeing these subway ads in their daily commute. This ad design by @carrotcake was showcased on the subway by @gopaxkr. It sparked a trend of #onepostonechicken posts as everyone celebrated by getting chicken for their next meal and sharing their photos using the #onepostonechicken tag.

A Steemit Story Challenge

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The #aboutmyculture challenge ended on March 28 with a ton of great contributions showing us just how culturally diverse the Steemit platform is! This challenge was graciously hosted by @aaronli. We appreciate everyone who shared their interesting stories from all over the world to everyone here on Steemit. Winners will be announced soon!

Project Updates on Education, Marketing, Art + Empowerment

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A walkthrough of empowering projects on the blockchain starting with @kr-marketing that gives us cryptocurrency information that is great both on and offline as prints. Next up is @blockmountain with their Steemit community powered music album and their call for Artists, Creatives and Performers to join them. @phillyhistory is a graduate level history seminar formed by 17 students who are leveraging the Steemit platform to blog, document and share their ongoing research for the seminar. Community planning and housing in South Africa is @urban-thinktank 's project. The Musicianís Guide by @mattsokol aims to onboard more music professionals on Steemit. Lastly, @mrblinddraw's #whisper Gallery which calls upon artists to interpret art of different media, passed along like the game "telephone."

Save the Date: Con Artist Collective Talk

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The Con Artist Collective is one of the prominent design spaces in New York located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Our talk on Thursday, March 29, will be focused on the Steem ecosystem as avenue for empowerment of artists and content creators. It's time to bring them out from traditional foundations and breaking ground in a more innovative space for their professional practice.

State of the Sndbox Monthly Thumbnail Competition

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We launched another round of our State of the Sndbox Thumbnail Competition today! Click here to view the Competition Rules. Last month we received hundreds of entries wherein we picked 5 finalists. Watching your creativity shine through in your design submissions is a gift to us so make sure to be ready with your entry before Tuesday, April 3, 2018 5pm EST.

Cryptocurrency and Cars

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@steemph teams up with UP Gears and Pinions in the 23rd Rev UP Motorshow which will be covered by large media outlets in the Philippines such as INQUIRER.net, InqPOP, SparkUp, and Wave 89.1 A booth where you can ask Steemit and cryptocurrency questions awaits! Expect a Carshow x Vintage Car Exhibit x Tamiya x RC Drift x Bands x Meet and Greet, and more!

Guest Author @luvabi

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A warm thanks to @sndbox's SoTS guest author; @luvabi. Abi is a member of Sndbox's first Cohort. A special thank you for sharing more about the upcoming Rev UP Motorshow by @steemph in the Philippines! [Guest Authors receive 20% of the SBD rewards, and an opportunity to showcase projects developing within the incubator / broader Steemit community.]

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