The Community

After my initial phase of how does this scam work I started to dive deeper into the posts. I realized that underneath the sticker shock of the trending posts there is more to it. We already have a lot of quality content and the backlog of things I need to get through is only building. I would ask everyone to slow down in their posts, but that isn't fair really just so I can catch up on things.

If any of you are still reading this by now you are asking yourself what does this have to do with powering up. Well I already understand the financially sound reasons to do so, but that isn't the real reason for me at least. I bought my #steem on Poloniex yesterday. I got in early and made a decent profit . I thought all yesterday on whether I should go ahead and sell before the price started to dip with upcoming craziness that is the ethereum hardfork. I decided to sleep on it.

I woke up this morning checked the price to see that it had dropped a little. I was about to sell out of steem and go back into another coin. I paused and clicked on my steemit tab. I started to read new posts. I went through some older ones. I was reading content for contents sake. I was not analyzing why it is doing so well or what I could do to capitalize on it. I was just enjoying the content. I realized I wanted to be a part of this community. So with my mind made up I transferred my steem on Poloniex to my wallet here on Steemit. Without even hesitating I powered up. The physical act of buying in even though it isn't a huge amount of money was the last step. It solidified the mental switch that had already flicked on.

When I initially came here I didn't do an introduction post. I guess I saw no reason to. I would just be a shadow. So I want to use this post as one. Transforming from a shitty steemit user to hopefully someone who can contribute value to the community.

So now for the introduction. Hi I am Matt and I use to be a shitty steemit user. I have been a performing artist for the past 12 years in some form or another. Initially I was in a band with my friends for 8 years(technically we still are a band since we never broke up). After music I starred in two independent feature films. Won a few awards for original soundtrack and best actor. Nothing major mind you, but its nice that someone appreciates your work. I have a lot of friends who are creators, artists, musicians, and writers. I hope I am able to get them to come contribute to this community with me. I reached out yesterday to four of them and they all looked at me like I was a little crazy. I believe they will come around though.

Last of all I am leaving a link to a video on vimeo of one the of guys I want on here Daniel Mccord. This is Demo reel from 2014 and if you look closely starting at the 1:05 mark I am the long haired weirdo in Lighter.
And for those of you who are skeptical some behind the scenes photos for proof.

Daniel, Ronnie, and I checking out the framing.

Late night shooting with Nikki she had to fly out the next morning. We were out there until 4 am getting the final shots.

The gentleman on the right wasn't part of the film, but we let him jump into the picture anyways. This is behind a dive bar we showed up to with no notice to grab a few shots because another location fell through. They were great sports.

I feel like there will never be a better picture of me taken ever.

A short film that I was in that Daniel Mccord shot. Daniel is also the one who took the photograph. So meta.