Your curiosity manifested in questions tells those around you about your own interests and desires. It creates feelings of connection. Sparking an interesting conversation with a stranger can be a fun way to break the monotony.

These questions are written with the intention of healing the relationship, processing the conflict, and growing together. These questions are meant to be visited in the case of a disagreement, minor offense, or miscommunication. These questions are most effective when utilized to resolve conflict that prompted or resulted in an emotional reaction. Your ability to listen to the answers to these questions and apply them to the relationship can determine its sustainability. These questions can be applied across relationships between equals: Couples, Coworkers, Friends, Siblings, Roommates, Teammates, etc. It can be helpful to invite a trusted leader in to mediate some of these conversations.

The goal of conversations like these is to understand the health of your team. As a leader, it is important to understand the expectations and goals of each team member and steward their time in the most effective way. When asking these questions it’s important to understand why you are asking each question. Asking follow-up questions to dig deeper is going to be important in understanding each individual. It is about having a conversation and listening intently.

One of the riskiest thing that an artist can do is present a self-critique within the genre it is trying to exist in. Tierra Whack is exploiting the technologies that exist in 2018 in order to critique the technologies themselves and the limitations that innately accompany them.. Tierra Whack’s Whack World Is a genre-bending conceptual album that hyper-aware of itself and the context in which it lives. In our fast-paced consumer culture, Whack presents a hyper-consumable album in the form of a set of fifteen, minute-long tracks. Although each track can be streamed by itself, the collection of tracks are best experienced through the fifteen-minute music video released on YouTube. Originally released on Instagram in one-minute music video form, the debut album gives listeners a taste of the creative, self-aware, and surrealist work to come from Tierra Whack.

School is out. The sun beats down on every city in America. Kids of all ages, backgrounds, colors, and genders gather at the gates of a temporary chain link fence surrounding a parking lot, a pavilion, a field or an amphitheater. They wait in line, some wait for hours, for the gates to open and to experience the “best summer ever.” On the other side of the fence, bands and artists from all over the world gather on half a dozen stages in one city. These kids get the chance to see their favorites and discover new, fresh, never before seen or heard music. They experience 12 hours of non-stop music, mosh pits, and mania. This has happened 41 times over the course of 8 weeks during the summer for the last 23 years. This is Vans Warped Tour.

Although contrary to what the name implies, Deja Entendu projects inventive tracks that aim to allude to classic punk rock like Dashboard Confessional and The Eagles and create the feeling of familiarity in the act of listening to Deja on vinyl. These tracks have become iconic in the underground and cult alternative punk scene that was born out of the emo-punk scene of the late 90’s and early 2000’s.