As promised, Mitski has returned with a new song. It’s called ‘Waiting for the Knife’, and it was co-produced by Mitski and frequent collaborator Patrick Hyland. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Zia Anger with Ashley Conner and filmed at the Egg in Albany, New York. Check it out below, along with Mitski’s upcoming 2022 tour dates.
“It’s about going from being a kid with a dream, to a grown up with a job, and feeling that somewhere along the way you got left behind,” Mitski said of the new single in a statement. “It’s being confronted with a world that doesn’t seem to recognize your humanity, and seeing no way out of it.”
Mitski released her last album, Be the Cowboy, back in 2018.
Mitski 2022 Tour:
Thu Feb 17, 2022 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
Fri Feb 18, 2022 – Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz
Sat Feb 19, 2022 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
Mon Feb 21, 2022 – Birmingham, AL @ Iron City
Tue Feb 22, 2022 – New Orleans, LA @ Civic Theatre
Thu Feb 24, 2022 – Houston, TX @ The Lawn at White Oak Music Hall
Fri Feb 25, 2022 – Dallas, TX @ The Factory in Deep Ellum
Sat Feb 26, 2022 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live at Moody Theater
Mon Feb 28, 2022 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
Thu Mar 3, 2022 – Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Exposition Hall
Fri Mar 4, 2022 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
Mon. Mar 7, 2022 – Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Wed Mar. 9, 2022 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
Sat Mar 12, 2022 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
Mon Mar 14, 2022 – St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre
Tue Mar 15, 2022 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Riverside Theater
Thu Mar 17, 2022 – Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
Fri Mar 18, 2022 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
Sat Mar 19, 2022 – Montreal, QC @ St-Jean-Baptiste Church
Mon Mar 21, 2022 – Boston, MA @ TBD
Thu Mar 24, 2022 – New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
Fri Mar 25, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
Sat Mar 26, 2022 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem
Tue Mar 29, 2022 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
Wed Mar 30, 2022 – Louisville, KY @ Old Forester’s Paristown Hall
Thu Mar 31, 2022 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
Thu April 21, 2022 – Bristol, UK @ Marble Factory
Fri April 22, 2022 – Leeds, UK @ University Stylus
Sat April 23, 2022 – Glasgow, UK @ Queen Margaret Union
Mon April 25, 2022 – Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street
Tue April 26, 2022 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz
Thu April 28, 2022 – London, UK @ The Roundhouse
Sat April 30, 2022 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique
Mon May 2, 2022 – Tourcoing, FR @ Le Grand Mix
Tue May 3, 2022 – Paris, FR @ Le Cabaret Sauvage
Wed May 4, 2022 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
Fri May 6, 2022 – Zurich, CH @ Les Docks
Sat May 7, 2022 – Lausanne, CH @ Les Docks
Mon May 9, 2022 – Berlin, DE @ Metropol
Tue May 10, 2022 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
Wed May 11, 2022 – Stockholm, SE @ Nalen
Thu May 12, 2022 – Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller Music Hall
Sat May 14, 2022 – Hamburg, DE @ Fabrik
Sun May 15, 2022 – Cologne, DE @ Stollwerck
Tue May 17, 2022 – Vienna, AU @ WUK
Wed May 18, 2022 – Prague, CZ @ Rock Cafe
Thu May 19, 2022 – Munich, DE @ Strom
Julia Shapiro has unveiled a new single called ‘Wrong Time’, alongside an accompanying music video. The track is taken from her upcoming album Zorked, which will follow 2019’s Perfect Version and includes the previously released singles ‘Come With Me’ and the ‘Death (XIII)’. Check out the Colby Makin-directed visual below.
“I wrote this song in June 2020, after fully coming to terms with the fact that I was now living in LA during a seemingly never-ending global pandemic,” Shapiro explained in a statement. “This song is about being cursed, but not fully admitting it—fighting hard to keep your life together, against all odds, and cursing yourself even further in the process.”
Colby Makin added of the video: “‘Wrong Time’ visualises the internal feedback loop of stuck-at-home limbo. Once vaccinated, Julia and I spent a lazy afternoon filming some of her typical 2020 day-to-day routines: puttering in her room, scooting around the neighborhood, playing guitar on her bed. I then holed myself in my own room, experimenting with our footage using an analog video mixer and some old camcorders. The result was a surprisingly ambient collage of textures and clouds. Julia is leading the way, but the video ended up feeling more like a collective reflection of those drifty days we all shared from afar. By the end I found a warm comfort in all the blue!”
Silverbacks have announced a new album called Archive Material, which is set for release on January 21, 2022 via Full Time Hobby. Today, the Dublin art-rock outfit has shared the album’s lead single and title track, which follows previous outing ‘Wear My Medals’. Check out the music video for the track, directed by the band’s Daniel O’Kelly, and find the album’s cover artwork and tracklist below.
“The initial demo version started from a drum sample taken from the opening of Jean-Pierre Massiera’s ‘Bonne Annee’,” vocalist and guitarist Daniel O’Kelly said of ‘Archive Material’ in a statement. “When we fleshed it out as a full band and Gary gave the track his usual kick up the arse, the song went full Les Baxter exotica mode.”
He continued: “When writing the lyrics, I imagined a bunch of government officials in the deep underground of their building digging into archives. As the night continues, they get unusually aroused by the access they have to top secret information that the common folk never see.”
Silverbacks released their debut album, Fad, last year.
Archive Material Cover Artwork:
Archive Material Tracklist:
1. Archive Material
2. A Job Worth Something
3. Wear My Medals
4. They Were Never Our People
5. Rolodex City
6. Different Kind of Holiday
7. Carshade
8. Central Tones
9. Recycle Culture
10. Econymo
11. Nothing To Write Home About
12. I’m Wild
Big Thief have revealed plans to release a 20-track double LP in 2022, Mojo reports. The band recorded it in four different locations after a two-week quarantine in the Vermont woods in July 2020. Two of the songs featured on the LP are the unreleased ‘Spud Infinity’ and ‘Red Moon’, which the band has already played live.
“We accumulated so many songs that we loved, maybe about 50,” lead singer Adrianne Lenker told Mojo of the upcoming album. “Twenty could be whittled down to 12, but not 50.”
“I’ve noticed that a lot of this record is more uplifting and hopeful,” Lenker added. “Which is funny, given the time we’re in. And there’s more acceptance of the self and of the while paradigm we’re in. The mysteries of humanity and how it’s all unfolding. I’ll probably be writing about that until I die!”
Back in March, guitarist Buck Meek said the new Big Thief record was “pretty much done” and “certainly different.” He added that “lockdown was a well-needed respite. I needed a break, and then Big Thief ended up making new music for nearly six months, which was really nice because we’ve been touring so hard we’ve had little chance to record in the last couple of years.”
Are you interested in improving the performance of your business? If so, then you should consider the best ways to boost levels of productivity in your company. There are a few key options worth exploring here. Let’s dive into some of the best possibilities.
Invest In New Tech First, you should think about investing in new technology. Upgrading technology is one of the best ways to improve productivity levels because it means that you don’t have to worry about faults slowing your business down. For instance, if you are working in the marketing industry, then new inkjet presses could provide you with the productivity boost that you need. It will mean that you don’t have to worry about it taking precious extra minutes to print the marketing materials that you need.
Hire The Right Employees
As a business owner, it is in your best interest to seek knowledgeable, responsible, and hard-working employees. If you ever felt you are suffering from one of these pain points, such as high staff turnover rate, lack of processes for staff training, or difficulty for having efficient processes in place for taking job orders, then you should think of referring to a business coach for staffing processes so that you can add your personnel with skillful employees who are also motivated. The right coach will help you increase your revenue, increase business and team performance as well as will give you the opportunity of having more free as a business owner as the majority of duties will be organized by him/her as a professional in the particular sphere.
Use Training
Next, you should think about using training to boost levels of productivity in your business model. The right training will empower team members to complete more jobs and roles in your business without needing someone to constantly monitor their progress. You could be worried about the cost of training and you are certainly not alone here. The good news is that training is always going to pay off in the long term. It can even ensure that you don’t have to worry about high levels of employee churn. Massive levels of churn can obliterate productivity in your business and drive costs through the roof.
Encourage Employees
Sometimes the easiest way to improve productivity standards is to make sure that you are offering your team members the right level of encouragement. For instance, you could think about offering team members rewards for performing at the right level in your business model. These rewards could be anything and might function similar to a raffle. This depends on the money that you have to spend in your budget. But it will pay off to be more creative than just offering your team members a higher level of pay.
Rethink Your Work Model
Finally, you could reconsider your entire work model as a way to improve productivity in your business. For instance, you might want to think about allowing your team members to work from home. Research shows that a lot of businesses are thinking about offering employees the opportunity to work from home because it has been connected to higher levels of productivity overall.
You might want to think about the changes that will be required here. For instance, you will need a cloud server running in your business. This will ensure that team members can access all the data they require.
We hope this helps you understand some of the key steps that you can take to improve productivity levels in your business. If you explore the right options here, then you will give yourself the upperhand over key competitors on the market and ensure that your business has a strong presence overall. You can even impress your clients with a superior turnaround compared to other choices available to them.
On ‘Stuck in South’, a track from her 2016 debut album Beyond the Bloodhounds, Adia Victoria sang about “dreaming of swinging from that old palmetto tree.” The South Carolina-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter and artist has explored her complicated relationship with the South ever since, including on 2019’s Aaron Dessner-produced Silences, but takes a slightly different approach on her latest release, which opens with a declarative statement: “I’m gonna let that dirt do its work/ I’m gonna plant myself under a magnolia.” Though seemingly more straightforward than her previous records, A Southern Gothic is no less unrelenting in its vision or searing in its intensity, as Victoria finds new ways to play with and subvert the tropes of blues and folk music while examining the traditions of the Southern gothic.
This time, her character-based, loosely connected narratives are grounded by darker, grittier, and more rustic production courtesy of Victoria and her creative partner Mason Hickman, who co-produced the record after experimenting with various instruments at home, with assistance from executive producer T Bone Burnett and guest contributions from Margo Price, Jason Isbell, the National’s Matt Berninger, Kyshona, and Stone Jack Jones. As much as the familiar, often uplifting arrangements have a way of elevating and illuminating even the album’s heaviest, most haunting tales, they also bring us closer to the soil of the earth, leaving us scrambling for meaning as nature continues to do its work.
We caught up with Adia Victoria for this edition of our Artist Spotlight interview series to talk about her relationship with the South, the inspirations behind her new album A Southern Gothic, and more.
The ideas for this record started to take shape while you were in Paris, a place you’ve said has helped you reconnect with your home and Southern identity. But I was wondering if actually being there also made you kind of think about how those stories and experiences may resonate with people who don’t necessarily share those roots.
Yeah, Paris for me is just my favourite place to go and create. It’s my favourite place away from home, away from the South. I spent a month there writing and recording the initial phase of A Southern Gothic, and I wanted to share what Paris brings out in me as an artist, as a writer; this real cerebral side of me comes out on there, and I wanted that to be reflected in the atmosphere. I feel like Paris is one of those places that has this vibe, you know – you walk different when you’re in Paris, you feel yourself differently and I wanted that to come through on the songs, to capture that moodiness of Paris.
I wanted these stories to be universal. People that aren’t from the South still understand the human experience of feeling isolated, they understand that experience of the way people perceive you being different from the way that you perceive yourself. They understand the experience of running away from home, wherever home is, needing to have space, needing to go somewhere to recollect yourself. And so I wanted the stories in this record to not be strictly autobiographical, not just mine. I think that good art is the ability to make an experience universal even if it isn’t your own; to put yourself in another person’s shoes, that kind of empathy that’s required to make art that connects with people. I would like to think that’s what people are finding in this record, is their own stories being reflected back to them through the experience of this Southern black girl.
You mentioned the word “cerebral” to describe how being away from home affects you creatively. Could you elaborate on that?
For example, I’m fluent in French, but it’s not my first language, so I have to think about words differently while I’m there. My relationship with words is not the same as when I’m back home in the States. When you’re home and you’re speaking in your native tongue, you can kind of go on autopilot, you can kind of be thoughtful and quickly respond to things. But when I’m in Paris, I’m listening different. I’m listening closer to people; I’m watching people to put together the meaning of what they’re saying. So, the visuals of body language, they count as much to me as the words that I’m hearing. And I think just having that level of concentration and intention and communication leads to a higher clarity in my art. I really try to get to the heart of what I’m trying to say in Paris, so I feel like my writing is clearer, it’s leaner, it’s less beating around the bush. You know, it gets to the point, and I think that’s reflected in the songs on A Southern Gothic.
So you find that being able to observe your surroundings more intently also enables you to focus on your songwriting in a different way?
Yeah. You know, Paris is notorious for people-watching. You sit at a desk and you just watch people. Time moves differently there. I can be in the world but still have my solitude in Paris, I’m able to digest my thoughts. A lot of these songs I wrote while just like walking around and getting lost with myself and keeping myself company, taking myself out on dates, really asking myself hat I’m thinking about and my perception of things. And I think that those are all the ingredients of making quality art.
What sorts of things were you thinking about?
I was thinking a lot about the land that I came from, the sounds that the land makes, the sounds that the people who live on that land make. I was thinking about what it felt like to move through the world, what it felt like to be a part of my community growing up, which is very Southern, conservative, religious, and also the feeling of being apart from it. And the way we create meaning and belonging with our language, but we also create separation and distance as well. We create others with our language. So I guess in Paris, I was just thinking of the ways that I had learned language, the way that language created meaning for me and what new meaning could I get from a very old place that I came from, what new insights I could get being that far from home.
Your relationship with the South is something you’ve explored throughout your career. Could you talk about how that relationship has shifted over time, and how those new insights informed A Southern Gothic?
I’ve made a lot of peace with a lot of my struggles with where I’m from. I think in the past year, I’ve put a lot of things in perspective, a lot of struggles, and it allowed me to lay down old burdens and old blues that I had, if only for the reason that I had new troubles coming my way that I had to make room for. So, I learned how to digest a lot of my issues and a lot of my pain, and to make peace with it, and to let it go. And I allowed myself to question the South in a lot of ways, to not take it for granted, the surface of it, to really dig under the surface and get into, like, the dirt of the matter, get into the subterranean of a society. That’s where the interesting stuff is. It’s like, “What do you believe? What do you feel?” And then the question is, “Why do you feel that way? Who put that into your mind?” You can’t just accept that this is the way things are, it’s like, “No, they are this way because someone made it this way. Now, why did that happen?” And I put all that questioning into my art, into A Southern Gothic.
Were you surprised by any of the possible answers to those questions, that you hadn’t thought about that much or that deeply before?
Yeah, you know, I realized that growing up, I felt alienated. But I realized the reason why I felt alienated was because I trusted myself, and I made a home within myself, and if you do that, if you can be at home within yourself, well, then society loses a lot of its power. The roles that people follow just so they will belong to society, they aren’t as necessary, they aren’t as threatening. You’re not afraid to break them. And I realized now looking back on my childhood that I knew myself, and I accepted myself, and I had my own code. And I wasn’t an alien. The people that needed God, that needed morals and needed to tell people what was right and wrong, good and bad, heaven and hell, that those were people were alien within themselves. And there’s nothing more lonely than being lonely inside yourself.
Even just by titling the album A Southern Gothic, you’re also engaging with a literary genre that has its own complicated history and its own rules. Was that something you started thinking more about after writing the songs, or was it actively on your mind during the writing process?
I mean, I love Southern Gothic literature, I love American Gothic culture. You know, the Gothic is concerned with the society’s fears, its suppressed truths about itself. The Gothic is what sleeps below the surface, that never leaves a society alone; it haunts a society. In the Southern gothic, you have writers like William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O’Connor who were able to expose the psyche about the South, and so I wanted to write a Gothic that was centered on a young black girl’s experience. Like, what would she look out at at our society that seems so normal and seem so moral, and what secrets would she able to find be able to find just looking at it? What grotesque elements could she spot in like, her preachers or all the moral good Christians around her? How could she look at them and see them as haunted and see them as dangerous and see them as strange when the whole world is telling her that she’s the strange one? What if she stood in her truth and gazed back out at the world and made her own judgments on it?
One song that stood out to me in that regard is ‘Troubled Mind’, which I think encapsulates that mood that you were talking about. You mentioned the words “haunted” and “strange,” but I was curious if the word “troubled” had specific implications for you in that context. Was there a reason that you landed on that word to communicate that distress, as opposed to any of the other adjectives?
Yeah, “troubled” for me differs from “haunted.” “Haunted” suggests some foreign element, something outside of yourself, that is looking to implant itself within you; a ghost, a memory, something that you’re trying to evade. “Troubled” to me seems to speak more so to internal concern, internal disturbed waters. It’s less fear than a sense of disquiet, of discomfort, that all is not well. And I wrote that song – those lyrics are literally a prayer that I was engaging with, you know, with God. One night, in the middle of the night, I just woke up and there was so much in my heart and in my mind, and I just, with my eyes still closed in the dark, I just called out to God. There’s so much on my mind that is troubling me, and I think that it doesn’t get more intimate than to hear someone inside of their spirit, talking to God.
That intimacy is definitely why it resonated with me. And darkness is also something that plays a vital role and is referenced throughout the album.
I think darkness, for me, can oftentimes be more illuminating than the light. I feel that the darkness, it tests you in a way where it calls on you to question what you saw, what you think you saw, how the darkness is influencing or colouring your perception. You know, I think that the mind can play tricks on you in the shadows, and darkness can show reality based on your reaction to it. It’s easy to be at comfort in the light, when everything is seen and available and easily determinable, but what happens when things are more murky, when things are more ambivalent? Who are you then, when you don’t have the guiding force of light around you? Who are you when times get hard, when night falls?
I feel like that goes hand in hand with the rawness of the production, which I know came partly from the restrictions of recording during the pandemic, but also from listening to Alan Lomax’s field recordings. Were there any other influences that helped you connect with the land in a similar way?
Just the land itself, you know. Here in Nashville, I live with my mom, and going outside and touching the dirt and walking barefoot through the grass, hugging my magnolia tree, that was an important grounding practice for me over the past year. I put out a hammock underneath my magnolia tree as well, I would just go out there and some nights I would just spend the night outside under the stars. And it helped to locate me when I felt like I was going to dissolve into anxiety and just, you know, flake away in the wind. Just literally touching the South, the land, it reoriented me in a way and it gave me my backbone, it gave me the strength that I needed to carry on.
In what ways did it help you reorient yourself?
It helped me to see beyond a lot of the manmade mess that we were living through, because it reminded me that the dirt’s been here for God knows how long, this tree has been here who knows how long. And it also made me respect nature in a way because nature does not seek to control, it does not seek to manage, it just lives and then it dies. Nature shows all of us that we are impermanent and I think that man has been too foolish and too vain to accept that about himself. That he came from nature, he goes back to nature, he never really leaves nature. He just plays these games to pretend that he’s elevated himself away from nature, but it’s like the Bible says, “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” You go back to the earth from whence you came. And it reminded me that I’m alive for this brief bit of time but I will surely die and I will surely pass, and that’s exactly what I’m supposed to do.
You wrote and recorded a lot of the album with your longtime bandmate Mason Hickman. What did you like most about working with him on A Southern Gothic?
We were just on our own and we were able to spend as much time getting the sounds that we wanted. This was a very personal record and we were able to grow it in a way that was organic. We didn’t have a bunch of people giving us feedback, and it felt true and it felt of the time that we were living through. We were able to experiment, we were able to try new things and not have a record label or a producer pushing us, so I feel like this record is just he and I together, you know, surviving a pandemic. We were able to play more on this record and I feel like that’s something that I was losing in my art before, the enjoyment of it.
Could you talk a bit about the timeline of the record? And more specifically, what was it like when you were able to finally go into the studio with the album’s executive producer, T Bone Burnett, and did that change the direction of the songs at all?
I started sending him back in the spring of 2020. We weren’t able to go into the studio to record because of the pandemic, but after he and I had been vaccinated this spring, we were able to do the mixing together, and he was part of that process of placing the sounds in the song and showing me how to do that in a way where you can create whole atmospheres, whole worlds. And that was a really cool part of having him involved. He told me while I was writing the record that I don’t need to have someone else’s hand over my hand while I’m trying to write, to basically go with my gut and believe in my vision because I’m the only one who understands what that is. That was the biggest thing that I got from him.
Although the album centers on character-based stories, it still feels like it comes from a personal place. One of the songs that felt the most personal and introspective to me is the final track, ‘South for The Winter’. We were talking earlier about the effect of being in different cities, and one of my favorite lines here is “any city can make you a ghost.” With that in mind, what do you ultimately feel you’ve learned about yourself as a person and your relationship with the world as a result of working on this album?
I’ve learned that there’s no clean ending. There’s no such thing as closure. My world just moves in circles, and whenever I think I’m gone, I’m back, and when I’m back, I’m leaving again. And there’s no happy ending; there is no ending. You know, your life is just a cycle, and sometimes that’s a cycle of leaving and sometimes that’s a cycle of homecoming. And I love that about my journey.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
Arca has announced the follow-up to last year’s KiCk i.KICK ii, the second in a four-part series, arrives December 3 via XL. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Born Yesterday’, which features Sia. Check out its music video below and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork (by Frederik Heyman) and full tracklist.
Last week, Arca released her Spanish-language single ‘Incendio’, which landed on our latest Best New Songs list but does not appear on KICK ii. In addition to Sia, the album will feature contributions from Cardopusher, Boys Noize, Mica Levi, Jenius Level, Wondagurl, and Cubeatz.
The stage is set for you to walk down the aisle – you’re entering a new phase of your life. But before you do that, it’s important to plan a memorable fling with your besties. This doesn’t mean you need to follow the tired old format for a bachelorette party – there are loads of creative ways to make your bachelorette party memorable.
Not sure how to make your Bachelorette extra special and unique? Don’t stress – we’ve got it covered. Here’s how to make your pre-wedding celebration unforgettable.
Get in the Groove with some Spinning
Spinning or indoor cycling is an awesome way to begin your bachelorette party celebrations. For starters, it helps burn out those calories, refreshing your mind as you break a sweat. You’ll find private spin classes with bachelorette-themed sessions for a lively group of gorgeous ladies.
So, put on your workout gear and get ready for some serious fun later. Combining a spin session with your favourite music will boost your mood and get you energized for the rest of the festivities.
Visit a Spa
What’s better than a bit of pampering, especially to melt away those pre-wedding nerves? You can indulge in a massage, facials, and soak in the rejuvenating atmosphere at a professional spa.
This pampering is not only super relaxing, but it will give you all a glow and get you ready for some awesome selfies later! With a spa session, you and your girlfriends will come out refreshed and ready to rock the party.
Plan a Road Trip
If you are more of a nature-loving group of girls, turn your bachelorette party weekend into something unique with a road trip. Rent a pink vehicle and get dressed in matching colours for the ultimate girly experience! Be sure to pack some homemade delicacies for road snacks.
Go Surfing
If you aren’t afraid of the sea, why not jump right into it? Surfing isn’t just a sport – it’s loads of fun too. Riding those strong waves with your girl squad will add some adventure to your pre-wedding celebrations. Even better, set up a camera on the beach and capture the girls in action. Some time under the sun will boost your mood and put you in the mood for interior fun later.
Warm-Up with Some Karaoke
Rent a karaoke machine and creat a playlist of all your groups’ favourite songs. It’s time to grab the mic and sing along! To make the karaoke extra fun, try to sing songs belonging to other languages. The lyrics will appear, but you’ll have no idea how to pronounce them. Trust us, you and your girls will end up having a blast.
You can even record the Karaoke session and make your own bachelorette party video. And don’t forget to take some pics of all the girls posing as their favourite pop star!
Time for Fantastic Games
Party games are not just for kids – they can be seriously fun, especially after a couple of glasses of champagne.Bachelorette Party Card Games are specially designed for ramping up the fun. These games have all the fun elements that can turn your drinking session into a memorable one. Prep a few games in advance and let loose. After all, this is the perfect night for you to really let your hair down!
Indulge in Art
For a truly memorable activity, have your bachelorette party guests paint each other’s portraits. It’s true that most of us aren’t good artists, but your drawing doesn’t need to be perfect. It’s more about unleashing your creative side and bonding with each other.
If your not keen on portraits, choose a theme and have the girls paint their favoured object. To make painting even more fun, you can challenge the girls to use their non-dominant hand while painting. So right handers will need to paint with their left hand, and vice-versa.
Photos are Mandatory
Snap all the special moments with your girlfriends and place the order for an album. The world is digital now, but an album will last forever. Instagram, Facebook, and other image-sharing sites will provide instant gratification. But a physical album will let you look back on your memories for years to come.
You can even go old-school and make your own bachelorette-themed scrapbook. Just like your school days, you can make a collage with your photos and other cherished momentos from the night. Every activity, be it adventurous, fun, or even simple, can end up in your beloved scrapbook.
Wrapping Up
Your bachelorette party doesn’t have to be limited to dancing and drinking. It should reflect your tastes and personality. Brainstorm ideas with your bridesmaids and other friends to come up with fun and unique activities. Or choose a theme and let the group’s interests guide the party!
Vaping is increasing in popularity, with both young and old people. The surge in vape usage is due to advances in technology, experts say. No longer are expensive and harmful cigarettes necessary. Instead, people can get their daily nicotine cheaper and more efficiently, polluting their bodies with fewer harmful chemicals. The devices are also very aesthetically pleasing and fun to play with like IQOS Terea Teak. Some people even use vape devices to smoke Cannabis and CBD products. Others just use flavored vapes for pleasure.
In this article, we will present you with an absolute beginners guide to vaping:
Buying Your First Vape
When you’re getting into vaping, the first thing that you’ll want to do is to buy a vape device. When it comes to portable vape devices, there are lots to choose from. For your first vape device, you’ll probably want to buy a starter kit like the Vaporesso Xros 3 Pod or a throwaway vape pen. Starter kits will include everything that you need to start vaping, including juice.
If you’re going to take up vaping to quit smoking, then you’ll need a more high-performance vape device than a starter kit can offer you. To help you quit you’ll probably want to invest in a box mod, which is a type of vape device that gives you greater control over your device’s functions and has a longer battery life than most entry-level devices.
Acquiring Vape Juice
If you invest in a starter kit, then you’ll already have vape juice included. If you’re buying a high-performance vape device then you’ll need to buy it separately. When it comes to vape juice, you need to make sure that you acquire a flavor that you like. Unfortunately, many vape flavors can be overpowering and taste artificial.
If you look around and do your research, you shouldn’t have a problem finding a vape juice that’s right for you, however. There are lots of retailers who specialize in creating authentically flavored and natural vape juices. One thing to watch out for is the chemical content in vape juice. You don’t want to buy one that’s produced with lots of harmful chemicals. Instead, try to find juices that are as natural as possible. While some chemicals are to be expected, you should try to minimize the amount that you’re exposed to.
How Much Can You Spend?
One thing that’s worth giving thought to is how much you’re willing to spend on vape devices. A device’s quality is usually reflected by its price, so try to avoid buying the cheapest option that you can. When you’re buying vape juice it might also be worth buying it in bulk, which can save you a lot of money. You need to sample individual juices before you can confidently buy vape juice in bulk, however. As we mentioned before, you need to find the juice that’s right for you, in a flavor that you like. If you’re vaping to quit smoking, then you will be happy to know that a single vape capsule can provide up to 400 puffs, which is the equivalent of over two packs of cigarettes.
Nicotine or CBD Vapes
If you’re buying a vape to help you quit smoking, then you’ll need to buy vape juice that contains nicotine. Vape juices that contain nicotine vary in strength, so you can buy weaker and weaker capsules as your addiction begins to fade. Make sure you research what strength nicotine capsules you need to start out with so that you don’t end up vaping higher concentrations of nicotine than you would find in your cigarettes.
You can also buy vape capsules that contain CBD (as well as THC, the Cannabis plant’s psychoactive component). If you’re interested in trying CBD medicinally, then make sure you do your research and find the best brand that you can. The same goes for THC capsules.
Ingredients
As we mentioned once already, you need to carefully watch your vape capsule’s ingredients. Vape capsules are either made from propylene glycol or vegetable glycerine. Capsules that are made from propylene glycol are usually more flavourful, although a lot of people have allergies to this chemical so it might not be best if you’re prone to allergic reactions. Propylene glycol also generally produces less vapor than vegetable glycerine, which means you won’t be able to perform smoke tricks as well as you would with vegetable glycerine. It’s also harsher on your throat – if you want a clean vape, then you’ll want vegetable glycerine.
Propylene glycol, on the other hand, is a more efficient nicotine carrier, which is why it’s most often used by former smokers.
If you’re interested in getting into vaping, then you’re not alone. Millions of people from around the world are picking up vapes for the first time, exploring its benefits and the fun that it offers. Make sure to take all of the points in this article into consideration when you’re buying your first vape device.
Fine art photography is sometimes a source of contention among photographers. This article will help you understand fine arts photography and how to get started.
There are many people who do not consider photography to be an art form. This is because photography is used in so many genres, such as journalism and documentaries. While millions of individuals share tons of photos every day, our thoughts are frequently cluttered by this fact, and we cannot easily comprehend it in terms of art.
Fine art photography does not have a definite genre or style, but there are several characteristics that can help clarify what it is. A photographer that uses his photos as a medium of artistic expression, to convey his vision and intent, is said to be a fine arts photographer. Before becoming a successful fine arts photographer, one must acquire a variety of skills.
If you want to be a fine arts photographer but don’t know where to begin, you’ve come to the perfect place. We’re going to show you some pro-level techniques and tricks that will make your newbie fine arts photography experience a lot easier.
Things You Need to Know to Get Started
You can find many useful guides on the internet, such as the artincontext art guides. That, when combined with the expert secrets we have, will take you a long way. Here are the most important fine arts photography tips from professionals.
Find a Good Personal Project
Having a personal project is crucial for beginners. But what exactly is a personal project? A personal project is when you photograph objects that have a special value for you. This might be nature or your grandmother’s old rocking chair with her beloved blanket laying over it. It should be a photograph with a narrative that only you are aware of.
If you can sense the emotions underlying the image, you can be confident that the viewers will too. Personal projects are an integral part of a fine arts photographer’s growth and development.
Embrace the Process of Learning
The first few pictures you shoot as a photographer will disappoint you. But that’s perfectly normal. You will notice the improvement that comes with practice after two or three years of struggle and hard work. Don’t be afraid to keep learning until you’re satisfied with your results.
Make a list of some of your favorite photographers. Take apart each component and research their work. Spend time studying the methods they employ. Work for at least some time every day. Put in the effort and time to make it a success. That is what will push you towards your desired success.
Be an Artist thief
Finding someone you admire and copying their work is the quickest way to learn. You’ll pick up many new abilities and strategies while copying, which will help you find your own voice. After that, you might begin on a quest to discover your genuine artistic self.
Every start is unique, and there is nothing wrong with trying to imitate something you adore because you will discover yourself in the process.
Don’t Abandon Your Day Job Just Yet
It will take at least 4-5 years for you to get better at taking pictures and developing them until you get one that you really like. During this time if you end up being broke because of quitting your day job to pursue fine arts photography, it can be a huge burden. If you have a family to support or are single, you will need the money to continue with your daily life.
Not gaining a fast audience while not having money can seriously demotivate you and hinder your growth and learning process. So unless you find a job in the fine arts sector that you absolutely love, consider continuing the one that you already have.
Interior Design Photography
If you’re sick of your day job, however, wedding or interior design photography could be a good way to supplement your income. This is a wonderful method for novices to practice while earning money at the same time.
If you want to be a professional photographer because it’s all you know, and it’s the only way you can make money, you should start with interior design photography. Real estate brokers have a strong need for high-quality photos, which has resulted in high demand for photographers in the market
Focus on Social Media
Using social media is the most efficient technique to reach a large audience while also gaining clients. Create a TikTok, Instagram, and Google+ account. Companies will be more likely enticed by your work and will most engage you for their forthcoming projects if they notice that you can build stories and attract people.
Even if Google+ was popular back in the day, if you upload high-quality photographs there, you will almost certainly be pushed to Google Images, where huge companies will find you, and can even sign contracts to be featured in their galleries.
Find Good Magazines to Be Published In
Getting your work published in magazines may appear challenging, but it is rather simple. Magazines are always looking for new content, so all you have to do is be persistent until one chooses your work. Pick five of your finest images.
Go to your local bookstore and look for magazines that you adore and would like to be featured in. Then, with a message introducing yourself, email your images to the editor-in-chief. If they like your work, it might get published. That’s a terrific method for a rookie photographer to get their foot in the door.
Lastly, Have fun While Clicking the Photos
Finally, but certainly not least, remember to have fun throughout the process. Fine arts photography is filled with emotion and passion. A fine arts photographer’s ultimate goal is to capture the actual spirit of a moment. So, if you think you have an artistic eye and can devote yourself fully to this adventure, get started.
Best of luck!
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