Social Media Experiment

@lst_lvs This is Day 2 promoting my full length album “Age 40 - 1985”. Follow me on this journey!! #mathrock #midwestemo #emo #lstlvs ♬ original sound - LST LVS

For the roll out of this project I'm conducting an experiment for this record. Recently I had downloaded the Tik Tok app and made a good amount of videos to start the roll out from September 1st to 29th. As of late the landscape as an artist is pretty cruel and everyone wants to be on top of the game. I for one don't give a shit, but curious to know how one could get engagement for a record.

The plan was to use my old school digital video camera to shoot some stuff and have a template ready so that videos are easy to render on Adobe Premier. These can be simple videos made merely of me doing a video self portrait or a video of me doing simple things. The roll out had already begun and it's been interesting to say the least.

I'm doing this because I want to celebrate two things:

1. Turning 40
2. Releasing my *first* official full length record

After that I'm not sure what the hell I'm going to do lol. If anything I'll just keep it there for the archive. Doing this promo stuff is exhausting and I'm not really good at PR, but I need to learn how to exercise those muscles. Probably on the next promo I'll be doing the same thing where I'm just promoting other work and stuff with the templates in mind.

What's been fun is using my FlipCamera to shoot some of these types of vids and I'm kinda glad that I got this thing. It's so crappy hahahahaha. But when you're doing home movies that's what you should expect. It's giving me some ideas on how I can make other videos in the next few months just based on how I process certain things. Other than that I think that I'll keep at it with the posting and see what happens from there. I'm not very optimistic about the roll out, but we'll see what happens towards the end of the series. After that who knows?

- Arthur (the Artist)