Trying to hit a handful birds with just one stone.

in #ntopaz5 years ago (edited)

As I've already said in my previous post. I'm still exploring the nTOPAZ platform and its behavior within the steem blockchain.

And to continue with the explanation of my recent discoveries and other descriptions. I will use another piece of audiovisual music mashup. This time through a video clip that I made four years ago in tribute and homage to an exceptional band and song. In a re-work, re-edit and reissue of equally exceptional images and footage I found which I fused together with this great track to achieve the goal.

Since on the nTOPAZ dashboard you only have available 50 characters for the title and up to 5.000 characters for the body of your post, I guess I will finish the wordy stuff until here. And I will add the rest of my findings and verbatim for later on the steemit.com website.

Software tools used to create this 'Piece of Art':

Ok, I'm just exploring the platform and I've already seen that the video I've uploaded and shared over there doesn't show automatically here on steemit. So, let's add the video on steemit right away to follow with my explanation.

¡Holy Cow! ¿What can happen when you suddenly find yourself with two rare & very valuable A/V pearls between hands?
A kickass old fav song of mine which never had any visuals to honor its mighty soul and the proper energetic imagery and action footage to come fit along?
Of course mate, of course. We MUST melt the hell out of these & build the ultimate alchemistic audiovisual fusion. ¿Right?

Ok pals, I have to admit that I'm enjoying the experience thru the nTOPAZ platform so far.

And then, let's start describing my new findings:

This is just another video that I've selected as an additional test while exploring the nTOPAZ platform and its proper interaction with the steem blockchain. It is evident that this DApp is still a 'work in progress' and they are still developing new tools and great features in the process for your delight. And as you know, Rome was not built in a single day. ;)

One thing that you will notice and will appreciate immediately, is that over there you will find again the "view counter" as to have a close idea about how many people has seen your post. Yep! a much desired feature that now is vanished from the steemit.com UI long time ago when 'they' decided that it was unnecessary for us and too easy to game it.

Check this out...


Yup, almost 300 views at barely 60min of publishing it. Not so bad eh?

So, I suppose there must be some creative and artsy people who would like to see how many EYES they could attract to watch and appreciate their Art at a given time. ¿Isn't it? ;)

One minor thing that I've noticed is the fact that you can't include emojis or little graphic emoticons in the body of your textual content. I'm still not sure if this limitation has something to do with nTOPAZ dashboard or if it's due to some new limitation introduced on the steemit.com posts editor. I will have to research this further since I've also found that I was unable to edit this post from nTOPAZ UI doing click on that 'edit icon' in the upper right hand beside the trashscan of their interface.

But yeah, I guess there is no problem with that while you just use nTOPAZ and their interface to publish your work and simply add up to 5.000 characters to merely describe the Art Piece and your creation process. I bet that must suffice. :)

I'm well aware not everyone is a curious babbling beast always trying to make unusual experiments here, there and over there all the time and then be short of space to describe his reckless wordy acrobatics.

Therefore, to not make this post so long and tedious, I'm gonna finish it right here. After all and as the title says; this post was mainly created with just the purpose to kill five birds with one stone:

  • 1rst dead bird: As my musical contribution and participation for this week on the Now Playing: Week 59 weekly #nowplaying contest. (Despite not having complied with their traditional rules to participate) };)

  • 2nd dead bird: Enter in the Share Your Music Sunday - community contest 2 sponsored by @sndbox and try to revolt my luck to see if I can be able to attract and land that big & fat upvote on my lap.

  • 3rd dead bird: Continue sharing not very well known and unconventional #music with my audience and contribute to expand their musical knowledge with unstoppable appetite and curiosity.

  • 4th dead bird: Provide you with some tips and hints in advance to encouraging you to explore and use the nTOPAZ platform by yourself, that unlike me, if you actually are really a true artist willing to show your artwork you must try it to get greasy upvotes and earn steem as you really deserves.

  • 5th dead bird: Giving to myself the license to enjoy my time with new material and some inspiration to keep creating a bunch of ¿useful? articles where I can still spill some of my outlandish babbling and 'Abstract Aural Bits' with everyone for the enjoyment of the entire community. }:)

So, be my guest to witness jointly with me, to see how many birds drops dead with this one stone.

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Cheers!! :)

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I've seen more people posting on nTOPAZ lately! Glad to see this app exists and is focused on creatives. Indeed, no app will start out 'perfect', but having a passionate community full of ideas it can develop into something beautiful for sure :-)

Slick video by the way!

Yeah! that's right @soyrosa. As you know, there are plenty of amazing real artists on the steem blockchain. In all sort of visual and audiovisual arts. And evidently nTOPAZ looks very attractive for them to show and expose their artworks. So, no wonder that you've seen more people posting on nTOPAZ lately. Since nTOPAZ looks like their natural home within the Steem blockchain. :)

Let's hope that all them may find soon new paths of joy and better rewards for their talent, time, dedication and effort sharing their stuff with us using a platform specially dedicated for the creative visual minds among us in this community.

While we can build more avenues to attract and onboard new talented users on the steem blockchain and a lot of them may exist, no doubt that more rewards and benefits we'll have for everybody.

Slick video by the way!

Hahaha yeah, slick such as my profuse babbling!! };)

[nTOPAZ Coordinator]

Hola @por500bolos. Para nosotros en un gusto que participes y promociones nuestra plataforma. Tu nombre de usuario es original =) nTopaz invita a los artistas a compartir sus creaciones, el arte debe ser el foco principal de las publicaciones acompañado de una oportuna descripción del trabajo, no es necesaria una extensa descripción tipo blog.

Para utilizar la etiqueta CR el trabajo debe ser propio, si has utilizado contenido de otros autores es necesario que cites las fuentes para evitar que sea considerado un abuso. Hemos encontrado contenido similar a tu publicación:

Fuente: Click aquí.

Cualquier pregunta, no dudes en contactarnos, los coordinadores estamos para brindar apoyo.


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Hola @smeralda. Muchas gracias por tu comentario y amables palabras. :)

Estoy completamente de acuerdo en que dentro de la plataforma de nTOPAZ es el arte el que debe ser el foco principal de las publicaciones acompañado solo de una breve sinopsis y de una oportuna descripción del trabajo y su proceso de creación. Y que si ahora lees en su integridad mi 'artículo de investigación' notarás que así lo he destacado y reseñado. };)

En cuanto a cualquier posible temor de recompensar mis publicaciones adecuadamente por presumiblemente no haber citado alguna fuente incluida en mi contenido, te comento lo siguiente:

  • 1.- Al igual que mi nombre de usuario, básicamente todo mi contenido siempre es original.

  • 2.- En relación a citar las fuentes originales y material de otros autores utilizados en la creación de éste video en homenaje a ésta gran banda del pasado reciente y a su muy singular joya musical en el mundo del Rock & Roll. También notarás que todos los créditos a dichos autores ya están presentes y claramente identificados tanto en el contenido audiovisual del video como también en la descripción textual que proveo en mi canal de youtube.

  • 3.- Sobre esa otra 'fuente' que dicen haber encontrado con contenido similar al de mi video. Solo mencionarles que si se toman la molestia de buscar aún más a fondo, siempre van a encontrar muchísimo más material similar al que yo he utilizado en la elaboración de mi tributo musical. E indudablemente, esas otras fuentes que encontrarán ni siquiera se corresponden a la de los autores originales sino a la de otros muchos usuarios a través del internet que también comparten el mismo exquisito gusto por tan impresionante cinematografía y tan impecables técnicas de producción y filmación.

  • 4.- De tal manera. Que si existe alguna preocupación en recompensar 'mi obra' por temor a que se pueda haber incurrido en algún tipo de abuso en cuanto a derechos de autor, mencionarte también lo siguiente: "Éste es un video que ya lleva más de 4 (cuatro) años publicado en mi canal de youtube sin jamás haber sido objeto de reclamo alguno. Por lo que solo por ese hecho, ya pueden estar tranquilos que todos los trámites de derechos de autor ya han sido cubiertos." O como me gustaría dar más a entender; que todos los autores en mi homenaje han quedado contentos y satisfechos con mi versión audiovisual. :)

Un fuerte abrazo y continuaremos husmeando, experimentando y reportando sobre las delicias de nTOPAZ para la opípara degustación de ese banquete a canilla libre para toda la comunidad de auténticos artistas en la Steem blockchain. 🤑

@por500bolos agradezco su tiempo y buenas intenciones. Le invito a revisar el video que le compartí aprox. Min 4:10. Por favor, siga las recomendaciones que le indico. Comparta contenido original (grabaciones propias) y cite las fuentes correspondientes para evitar que sea considerado un abuso.

Muchas gracias también a tí por haberle dedicado parte de tu escaso tiempo a un nuevo comentario. Pero tengo la corazonada de que no has leido en su integridad y con total atención a lo que allí te respondí. Porque de haberlo hecho, con toda seguridad te habrías ahorrado el trabajo.

Solo lee el más corto comentario de abajo en respuesta al de @drakernoise si es que el original que te hice a tí en respuesta a tu comentario te ha resultado muy largo de leer.

Un abrazo!! :)

Hola @smeralda,

La fuente que citas dudo que sea la original, sólo hay que ver la calidad. Más bien querrás decir : Fuente Original a la cual he llegado siguiendo las referencias que aparecen en el video original que nos presenta @por500bolos el cual es un 'remake' perdónese el anglicismo según cita al comienzo del post

In a re-work, re-edit and reissue of equally exceptional images and footage I found

Es sólo un apunte.

Saludos

Como mencioné anteriormente, hemos encontrado contenido similar, su aporte @drakernoise es Bienvenido. =) Los coordinadores buscamos orientar a los usuarios de acuerdo a los lineamientos de nTopaz. Cualquier duda estamos a la orden.

Muchas gracias por tu muy oportuna y acertada intervención y aclaratoria mi estimado @drakernoise.

Me temo que en éste caso ha sido nuestra querida @smeralda, la que debido a su agitada labor de curadora, ha sido la que lamentablemente no ha dispuesto del tiempo necesario como para leer completamente y con atención mi respuesta a su primer comentario. Y de ahí la confusión. }:)

Así que, a continuación intentaré una vez más referirla a solo un extracto de lo que allí le respondí para que lo vaya consumiendo bocado a bocado.

2.- En relación a citar las fuentes originales y material de otros autores utilizados en la creación de éste video en homenaje a ésta gran banda del pasado reciente y a su muy singular joya musical en el mundo del Rock & Roll. También notarás que todos los créditos a dichos autores ya están presentes y claramente identificados tanto en el contenido audiovisual del video como también en la descripción textual que proveo en mi canal de youtube.

Para los próximos bocados, por favor consumir los puntos ya indicados en el siguiente órden: '3' '4' y '1'

Un fuerte abrazo para ambos!! :)

It's brutal @por500bolos ! I've enjoyed it as a child with new shoes :)

Two birds dead in my case : new music to my ears and new platform ( nTOPAZ) I'll take a visit when I have some free time.

Thanks so much for your contrib . Another thing, love your writing both english and spanish. You made it fun to read, thanks so much!

Hugs

Zapatos de charol & shining new shoes for you my dear child!! :)

Enjoy now those glowing shoes by running to visit nTOPAZ with one dead bird on each hand. And drop 'em over there to start impressing us with your own art.

Sure, I'll be always grateful and glad to be able to serve to readers like you with some fun entertainment through my musical sharings & my long serious babbling. };)

Hugs!!

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