Hello EB Community! My name is Powder Monkey

[Powder Monkey]

Hi fellow Lego fans, Powder Monkey here! 
How's it going?

Some words about myself: I'm Austrian, born in 1991 as the second of five kids, loving parents, fantastic childhood. Graduated in graphic design, worked for design agencies, started my own advertising agency in 2014. I'm married and father of a boy and a girl. 
I love being creative. Be it drawing, designing, modelling, music, writing, developing story scripts or new business strategies. In fact, I'm so interested in finding new ways of expressing myself that sometimes I just don't know how to reconcile it  But I think it's all part of that process, and it's definitely one constant in my life that keeps me going.
And I'd say I'm an open, warm hearted, and very, very interested person. In everything. You have a topic to you wanna talk about, I'm in :)

Now how's Lego fitting in? Well, technically I had a lot of Duplo (which was and is great, loved the sets back then, and Toolo - wow, screwdrivers!!  - you guys also wonder why they cancelled it after 2,3 years?) but that was just the prelude for my Lego adventures. I was lucky to "inherit" some of the 60-70s Lego from my mom and a lot of 80s Lego from my older brother. With me and my younger siblings a constant flow of Lego was ensured for more than two decades. And I was so addicted to it - because it just hit the right spot at the right time. Sometimes I wonder if Lego was just the perfect tool to fully unleash my creative side, or the root of it :) I might never find out. Anyway, once the "new toy every day" concept really kicked in it was THE thing for me that gave me the most pleasure.
I built Castle/Pirates/City/Aquazone/Adventure/Space/StarWars/Dinosaur based things, some Technic creations and I had Slizers (in retrospective I find them super visionary) and - of course - Bionicle. 00s baby 
Even with my first self-earned Euros I still ran to the closest toy store to buy a Lego set. But after some time, guess what, the Dark Age cast its menacing shadow over my bricking future.

15 years later, probably through the Covid19 pandemic and my own kids, it was all back in a flash. BAM. I started MOCing again, somehow a lot of Pirate inspired MOCs. Recently I got increasingly interested in Lego Box Art (or Packaging Design). Especially for me as a graphic designer this is a whole new universe to discover in terms of how to present sets and play with imagination. There might be a thread to this when I know how to move here on EB :) 

That's it, thanks for your kind attention and I'm excited about the things to come.

So, what to do next? Any recommendations? 

[Yperio_Bricks]

Inspiring story! Welcome to the Eurobricks party! Hope to see some of your pirate mocs

[Powder Monkey]

Thanks for the welcom Yperio_Bricks! I'll definitely show some of my MOCs sooner or later, but I need to get a better camera and studio lamps/soft boxes or so first  In the meantime I try to get a feeling for this forum :)

[Yperio_Bricks]

2 hours ago, Powder Monkey said:

but I need to get a better camera and studio lamps/soft boxes or so first 

Ha! I face this problem too