New GIF animation commissioned by @ACKZA showing the whale "blockchain reaction" featuring steemit favorites, @DAN, @NED, trickling steem down to @STELLABELLE, @SWEETSSSJ, @SURFYOGI, passing it to @ACKZA who passes it to minnows like artists and africans

NEW GIF COMMISSIONED BY @ACKZA SHOWING THE WHALE BLOCK CHAIN-REACTION. FEATURING @DAN, @NED, CREATING STEEM ALLOWING IT TO BE SENT DOWN TO OTHER WHALES LIKE @STELLABELLE, @SWEETSSSJ, @SURFYOGI, WHO THEN USE THE STEEM TO DISTRIBUTE IT TO SMALLER ACCOUNTS VIA @ACKZA LIKE @WEB-GNAR, @TRUESTORY157, @STEEM4DEPOOR, @TJ4REAL, WHO ARE USING IT TO DEVELOP COMMUNITIES BASED ON THE STEEM CURRENCY, BLOCKCHAIN, AND BLOG.

As you can see, @dan and @ned are the top of the whale chain, people of that caliber are able to delegate out the most rewards from the reward pool. It trickles down to smaller whales like @surfyogi, @stellabelle and @sweetsssj, and then to dolphins like @ackza, who then help distribute it to minnows like @web-gnar and the TEAM GHANA people. Its trickle down economics. It's just bad when there is corruption in the system.

@dan is working on a much faster blockchain than steemit, which is still Delegated Proof Of Stake like steem, but will be able to function like Ethereum where you can build Apps and stuff in the blockchain. it will have transaction times of something like 10,000 a second. It's not out yet but the ICO for it is, and you can get that by downloading the exodus wallet and exchanging other crypto for it. Its should be a good investment. There are a lot of REALLY top TOP programmers in the world working on it and its going to be the first massive worldwide DECENTRALIZED supercomputer.

Here is a version before the objects were added. I was up late last night staring at this for hours.

Here is a process shot of the Adobe FLash screen I was looking at while I was making the Gif. These are really cool to make, they remind me of printmaking. It is also a lot like photographic developing processes where you lay the stuff out how you want it and then export it and it comes to life. Its hard to see what it is really going to look like before you export it. A lot of quality in the colors is lost because of the GIF format. It would be nice to find a way around this.

I'm not sure if I like it when the whales and people's heads are still rather than moving. I think in the final moving one, there is too much going on. Too many colors or something. Here is a still one with objects, without the whales moving. These were exports that are just part of the process to make sure everything is looking right and none of the pieces of the collage are corrupt.

@ackza is at it again, blasting text messages to all the people he helps. @web-gnar is one of them. Taking steem to the streets, @ackza is all about trying to get STEEM out of just cyberspace and into the real world.

@ackza is now putting out calls for artists who know After Effects so that he can employ higher quality digital design work to use as instagram ads. Steem is a cool blockchain, anyone can get it, and the Steemit website is something unique in its own way too.

Even if the price of steem went way down or whatever, which is probably wont. (Did you guys know that STEEM used to be the number 2 cryptocurrency in mark cap after Bitcoin?) People will still use steemit even if there was no crypto currency affiliated with it. Like the #steemskate community, we are doing it just for fun. All the money it makes is just a byproduct of the fun and the community building. We are developing a huge online skate community where we actually get together each week to skate with each other through the internet! Its super futuristic!

Here is a prototype for something that could be used as an Instagram ad for steemit.

It could be cleaned up a bit, but those explosions are kind of crazy arn't they?

Well, I actually need to try to go outside and get a clip for this week's STEEM SKATE. It's 40 degrees here in Chicago and it is not going to be fun trying to land a hard trick in the cold. But then again, skateboarding always ends up being pretty fun and I could use some exercise.

Imagine your steemit account as a stock and you want that stock to go up. You have to find a niche and then keep working that niche here on the platform like a job. I forgot what website I was at last night where I found this.... but it says what percentage your growth is. I made 70 dollars last week and It's hard but I want to keep trying to make more.

Well, thats all for now folks!

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