Welcome to The 5, a weekly selection of five #creativecoin artists and their posts curated by the Creative Coin Fund.

The Creative Coin Fund is an investment and curation account dedicated exclusively to Creative Coin. To learn more about us, please read the latest edition of our weekly Investor Report.

A couple of announcements before we get to our featured posts for this week:

Help wanted. We're looking for curators to join our team. We especially need help evaluating Spanish literature and graphic art. Curators will be paid 1,000 CCC weekly for their work and help select the artists featured in The Five. We have over 340,000 staked CCC available to curate with; if you would like to help us reward the artists of Hive, send a message on Discord to cliffagreen#1444.
Artist Payments. As we announced in our latest Investor Report, beginning this week, artists featured in The Five will receive a one-time payment of 1,000 CCC each.

And now to our five selected works for the week of July 21 to 27.

The painting of @zullyscott

Many painting and drawing posts show us the step-by-step process of creating the featured work of art, and for those with intimate knowledge of the medium in question, a series of snapshots at different stages of production may hold some interest. In "Sunset with meteorites on the beach," @zullyscott goes beyond a bland step-by-step and shares the experience of her creative flow. Along the way she raises a point of reflection for any artist: how useful are habits of discipline and patience in creative work? Does simply having fun more likely lead to, as she puts it, "rapturous encounters with the muses?"

The poetry of @nsfwjavgreen

Many of us can relate to the addiction bemoaned in Caffeine/Digital Collage. We also like the lean presentation here: two versions of a wondrous digital collage used as front and back covers for an engaging text.

The digital art of @takyarts

In Art #35, @takyarts created her own Pokemon character, Chubblebum. Along with the several colorful images, her detailed post includes a 250-word character sketch, three paragraphs on the inspiration for her character, and a two-minute time-lapse video of her drawing work. It's a complete post and a humorous read.

The fiction of @jesuspsoto

"The House" is a bizarre tale written so that it is full of urgency. Its bizarreness reminds one (perhaps remotely) of Kafka, and the story is enhanced in strangeness by the illustrations. As readers, we careen around with a desperate protagonist, yet are led relentlessly along a "trail of blood" to the inevitable, satisfying, and bittersweet conclusion. And, the best part, perhaps, is that the fullness of that conclusion will be understood by every reader, even though it is not explicitly stated.

The music of @thresholdoffaith

We were excited to discover a rock band on Hive. Threshold of Faith is based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Their instrumental, "Flying Blind," features good ol' electric guitar rock, while the accompanying video takes us for a drive through the night streets of (presumably) St. Petersburg.

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Thank you for your interest. It would be best to discuss this in detail on Discord: my username there is cliffagreen #1444.

In general I'm looking for someone who can dedicate 5-7 days to curation. It usually takes me an hour or more to use 20 percent of cccf's voting power; with two curators we each would be using 10 percent.

I'm looking especially for someone who can focus on Spanish literary work. I don't know Spanish at all, so I can't really judge how well a piece is written in Spanish. I can translate it, and get the gist of what is written, but I have no idea how well (or not well) the writer is using language.

As far as the technical aspect goes: I have never done this, so I need to learn how to set it up. Could take a few days or a week before I understand that completely.

If you're still interested, I'd like to talk to you more in-depth. When would be a good time to chat on Discord?

Thanks again for your interest.

The Five, Volume 1:8 – The Creative Coin Fund Curation Weekly