DISCOVER YOUR REAL POTENTIAL
Italian portrait painter Giovanni Boldini was also taken by her beauty and captured her on canvas and paper several times. An opportunity to acquire one of those drawings is coming up on 28 September when Bonhams New Bond Street, London will be auctioning a magnificent, signed, black chalk portrait, 12.5 x 19.5cm, in their sale of 19th Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art. The estimate is €29,000 to €41,000, so take your chequebook.
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You’re allowed 30 hashtags per post (that means caption and comments combined), but just because youcan use 30, doesn’t mean you should. Filling up your hashtag quota with irrelevant hashtags won’t help you in the long run. In fact, it may end up hurting you.
Avoid the temptation to use spammy hashtags like #f4f (follow for follow), #follow, #s4s (share for share), and #l4l (like for like). You may end up getting likes or follows from these initially, but you’ll be attracting the wrong audience.
Adding even just a few hashtags to your image caption can look a little spammy, and if you have more than 10, it can get downright annoying for fans. People are there to engage with your content, and these hashtags can make things look fake and overly promotional.
Instagram’s Explore page is going to be your best friend when it comes to discovering effective hashtags. The first method is to use the search bar to find some potential hashtags. Not only will this tell you how popular certain hashtags are, but it will also give you some suggestions for related hashtags.
The next method is to look at the hashtag sets that other similar artists use to get some ideas. Target other bands and musicians who play a similar style to you and scroll through their posts. Just like before, if you see a promising hashtag, click through and see what kind of posts are tagged to it.
For the most part, hashtags are used as an inbound way to attract fans, but on Instagram, I’ve found that some of your best followers will actually be other musicians. In fact, these fellow artists may actually lead to more growth on your account than anything else.
You’re not going to just happen on the perfect set of hashtags in one go. Instead, experiment, and use an analytics app to figure out which work best.
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Whenever we put ourselves out there, we open ourselves up to haters but is that a good enough reason to put us off doing what we love? No!
They want to get inside your head taking your energy away from focusing on the important stuff and force you to focus on pointless dramas instead. Don’t let it happen.
First, if you do know them- stay away from them. Block from your social media, emails, phone and just get on with your life.
If you don’t know them, just ignore. It will very soon die down if you don’t respond. There might be times when you feel like you want to defend yourself (if rumors are being spread for example) and that’s understandable but in that case, respond once then don’t look again.
- Ignore.
- Quickly re-focus your mind thinking of 3 things that make you happy and visualizing your end goal. If you are struggling to re- focus, take a break and do something that lifts your mood- go for a walk, take a bath, go to the gym, read a book or whatever works for you.
- Keep on kicking a*s and doing what you do.
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Two years ago, the choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion created The Elders Project, a small gem of a work that celebrated the experience, wisdom and grace encapsulated in the bodies and the memories of older dancers. With a cast ranging in age from 54 to 70, The Elders Project revolved around a series of solos in which each dancer performed a highly personal and concentrated sequence of movements, accompanied by songs whose lyrics had been taken from the performers’ stories about their lives and careers.
Photographs by Hugo Glendinning.
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As the audiences at Harry Potter and the Cursed Child prove, you don’t have to know any rules to be fully engaged in the theatre, you only have to want to be there and be told a really good story in an imaginative way.
When I spoke recently to Harry Potter’s director, John Tiffany, whose production of The Glass Menagerie is at the Edinburgh international festival, he talked aboutrealising how important it was to get the Potter play right for an audience who are heavily invested in the story, but for whom theatre is not a familiar medium. It was a responsibility he took very seriously.
“I knew in my heart that this is theatre on trial, because we’ve all read the books and we’ve all seen the films and have an expectation. Sixty per cent of the audience who have booked are first-time theatregoers, so I wanted to create a love letter to theatre and say to people it’s not about comparing the stage show with the books and films, but [rather]: ‘This is what theatre can do and no other art form can.’ All we need is your imagination. So, that was the guiding principle for us – it felt very pure because of that. Like a kind of rough magic.”
Photograph by Manuel Harlan.
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