My First Year at Steemit - An Overview

Dear friends and followers,

after being a member of steemit for one year, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of my highlights with you.

Statistics

This is actually my 444th post, while I made 2,897 comments.
That's about 9 comments/posts per day.
I registered as user number 28,396 at July, 19th 2016.
This was my first steemit post.
I voted more than 16,000 times, which means that I voted more than 43 times a day.
_{(Stats by steemstory.com)}

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Hello World

This had been my introduction post:

Who am I?

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Design

In the beginning I made some steemit related designs:

Steem Advert Design Concept




Just Steemit Viral Poster Campaign




Steem-Billboard Ad Design Study

And also a steemit video opener:

Steemit Video Opener

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Poetry

I started to post poetry:

Poetry Slam Challenge 4: Ping Pong



Artificial Steemit Poetry
_{[Image by Christopher Michel (CC-BY 2.0)]}

And that was the beginning of an artist friendship with @opheliafu, who was the first person, that resteemed one of my posts and also the first one, I did a collaboration with:

Dolly [at the steemit-theater]

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Collaborations

"Artist's Eye" - My Collaborative Art with @everlove

... one with @skapaneas ...

My collaborative art with @skapaneas "Ropeman Dali"

... and some with @katharsisdrill ...

Collaborative Artwork with @katharsisdrill - Disco Queen

... which actually led to my most important collaboration on steemit...

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Phill from GCHQ

Phill's website.



Phill vom GCHQ - Seite 1

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Spreading the Word

I tried to bring interesting people to steemit:

Im Rampenlicht #1 - Jazzgitarrist Hagen Horn
Cindy Lane - This artist does amazing paintings of whales and dolphins
People I like to see at steemit - Joseph Herscher
Im Rampenlicht #2 - Künstler und Musiker Achim Zepezauer

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Art

I started a daily art series 11 month ago, which I first called "doodle of the day" and then changed to "Artwork of the day" later on. As of today I did about 90 posts in this series.

Doodle of the Day #1 - Sax 'n Phone

Here are some more examples:

My most undervalued Art-Posts - Meine übersehenen Art-Posts #1
My most undervalued Art-Posts - Meine übersehenen Art-Posts #2

Recently I also started posting about documenta and other art exhibitions

Documenta 13: Geoffrey Farmer - Leaves of Grass/Grasblätter
Documenta 13 - Thomas Bayrle Airplane/Flugzeug
Documenta 13: William Kentridge - The Refusal of Time
Documenta 14: The Parthenon of Books / Der Parthenon der Bücher

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Photography

I also started a photography series called "Heaven and Earth", which had 16 parts until now:

Heaven and Earth 1 [Original Photography]
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Heaven and Earth 16

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Steemfest in Amsterdam

I was lucky enough to be able to attend Steemfest1. Here are some of the posts I made about it:

Artwork of the Day #54 - Steemfest Scribbles
Steemfest 'Tobacco Theater'
SteemFest Inspiration #1 - Rucksack Orchestra
SteemFest Inspiration #2 - Follow your Passion!

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How-to

My most notable how-to post is this one about the two column design, I use for my bi-lingual posts:

How to design a two column post - Wie man einen zweispaltigen Post gestaltet [english/german]

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Philosophy

My most important philosophy post is probably this one about truth:

Es gibt keine Wahrheit, außer dass es keine gibt

Here is the english version!

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Notable German posts - Interessante deutsche Posts

Besides english, I often post in german language, because it's my mother's language and there is also a very supportive german community at steemit. Here are some interesting german posts:

Warum Orwells "1984" wieder Nr. 1 Bestseller ist
TIL: Martin Luther war ein Hassprediger
Warum ich meinen Freunden gesagt habe, sie sollen WhatsApp und Telegram nicht mehr benutzen
Euer Laserdrucker arbeitet für den US-Geheimdienst!

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Music

As music is one of my greatest loves (besides art), I also did some posts about it (mostly in the context of #danceweekend).

What's your favorite Anti-War/Peace-Movement Song?

Electronic Dancemusic from People I Know

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Art-Market

One of the coolest experiences I had at steemit, was the the abilty to buy art with cryptos. I'm still so happy, that I bought this artwork from @yoganarchista

TIL: Buying Art at Steemit is the most satisfying Experience

I also recently started a series, where I sell my own artworks:

Art or Garbage? - Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?

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Charity

Another cool thing you can do with your steem, is to help other steemians in need. For example, I recently donated steem to help @girlbeforemirror covering her healthcare costs. Earlier I also donated some steem to a homeless steemian in need.

There is even a charity NGO at steemit, which you can support with your votes.

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Bottom Line

My first year at steemit was a wild ride, that already changed my life. I met so many interesting people here, that I was able to collaborate with, like never before. I even consider myself being a blogger now and maybe I can manage to make a living out of my writing and art...

That would be my wish for my next year at steemit!

Thanks for reading and steem on!

I did several collaborative artworks for the "collaborative art journey" offered by @everlove ... The most important collaboration for me was the idea to translate the webcomic about "Phill from GCHQ" by @katharsisdrill into german language. It led to a vivid and very inspiring cyber-friendship with this danish steemit-artist, that I never experienced before in all my internet history. I translated 35 pages until now and after a few pages @vcelier jumped on the train and began to start a french translation. I'm very happy, that all the pages and their translations are now also viewable at the @shortcut