We love the winter season here at Flare, but sometimes it's nice to pretend we're on holiday ironically enjoying a nice chilled smoke.
DIE HARD, SMOKE HARDER
Locked in a garage. It's cold. It's damp. The doors are barely keeping anything out. There's no food. We have Diet Coke. So there's nothing to drink either. The wildlife seems to sense the desperation. Paranoia tells me the spiders are hungry.
However, my best friend is here. We have everything we need for a solid smoke - and you know what? You mix all this together and without realising, I suddenly have one of the greatest evenings I've had in a long time. The warmth of long overdue conversation flowed as effortlessly as our smoke.
Complete accident? Maybe. All I know is, if I had to change any detail about tonight, I wouldn't change a thing.
THE SHISHA SHRINE
As water features go, I think it's fair to say that this one is rather special.
"DON'T YOU THINK YOU SMOKE TOO MUCH?"
"Nope."
LOST IN THE GARDEN OF SMOKES...
Our Friday evening is set to chill - what is your evening set to?
HALLOWEEN WEEK!
Things are getting super scary in the office as we prepare for the Halloween week!
We spent the day today making 'Smokey the Shisha Smoking Pumpkin' and a Flare Pumpkin base Shisha for ourselves - the flavour and smoke is really incredible!
We hope everyone enjoys this Halloween Week with scary festivities!
SMOKING CLOUDS
Oh so you get amazing plumes from your smoke do you? Well this may be true, but I bet it's never been smoking cloud level amazing plume has it?
HISTORY IV
This photo of a man smoking his pipe in Cairo brings me so much solace on a Monday morning. The weather today is neither hot nor cold, it is the beginning of the Autumn days where everything will slowly start to turn and change. The days will become shorter and the nights ever colder. You'd imagine this beginning of dark times would make us cherish what warmth and light we have left from our days until winter fully crawls over. However, this reminds me to stop and think about the important things, what does matter and what actually does have an effect on me - these things are never dependent on the season!
The quiet times smoking shisha - where some of the best thinking is ever thought.
WITHOUT THE NCB II
"LOL what are you doing? Where's your Naz Coal Burner!?" Sigh...and yes, I did actually say the word 'LOL'.
IOOI HOOKAH
We love seeing traditional shisha reinvented into something new and modern, which is why we like the design of the IOOI Hookah by Christian Zanzotti. Zanzotti has applied modern methods and materials such as anodized aluminum, polished brass, 3D printed parts, automotive-standard fabrication to make his shisha pipe design come alive into this modern age. Zanzotti is based in Munich and as you can tell from the precise design, it's manufacturing in Germany will be nothing less than perfect. Made to order, the IOOI Hookah truly is stunning.
IHOOKAH
With this kind of torrential rain in the UK, you'd think we need to add a monsoon season to our calendars - am I right?
Well let's try to distract ourselves with the thought of, if Apple make hookah pipes, what would they look like?
Here is a concept design that a Malaysian designer has created.
ONLY BY INVITATION
We've been checking out the newest and most exclusive shisha place on the scene. Taking a modern step back in the time, this shisha garden is a hidden Aztec gem with an amazing unique feel for its members. Needless to say, we love it.
BLOOD MOON: THE RETURN
Tonight and tomorrow night for those on the east coast of the Americas, Australia or the Pacific Ocean - hopefully many of you will see a lunar eclipse in the form of a Blood Moon - the moon passes into the shadow of Earth called the umbra which gives it this rare beautiful appearance. This is the second red moon this year as the moon is currently going through a tetrad which means that this will happen another 2 times in six month successions.
So as you gaze up at the stars and fall deep into trance over this natural phenomenon, we hope that the red moon reminds you of the Flare Shisha red as you light up your coals for a smokey contemplation on the Universe and lifes big questions...
FLARE PICK UP LINES
"Baby it's cold outside....come here and warm up next to my Kaloud Lotus"
This is guaranteed to work successfully every time! Well when we say every time, we mean like most times. You know like every other time. Okay maybe like in 10% of scenarios. If you say it really quietly. No no, like in a whisper. Maybe make sure only you can hear yourself. That might be better. Okay maybe don't use this line. Actually never use this line and forget about ever reading this post. Sigh, this deescalated very quickly.
MADE PHOTO
Loving this superb picture sent in by @Maz_MADEPhoto and we couldn't agree more ;)
FLARE RINGS
Tonight we have a team shisha testing session - an in-depth evening pushing shisha boundaries and testing ideas for the new products we have working designs for. This evening has been highly anticipated by everyone on the team and for us it is the best way to end the week!
Happy Friday Smoke Rings Everyone!
(And yes we do shisha with red smoke. True Story.)
HISTORY III
Here we have a fantastically historic picture from 1980 of a Gaddi village man with a shisha pipe - this was taken on mountain path near Dharamsala, India.
NINJA HOOKAH
We come across some pretty amazing shisha pipe concepts and designs, but the Ninja Hookah concept just looks so subtle, yet so menacing.
#BENDGATE
You know what aluminium device won't bend under any pressure? Your solid one piece billet aluminium Aura handle.
THE GREAT INDOORS
As the first few days of Autumn swiftly comes around and settles in, the sun will feel crisper, the air feels lighter and the leaves will all change colour varying from bright yellows, warm oranges and hot reds. Enjoying this beautiful seasonal change however comes with the cost of colder evenings, thus, now comes the seasons of indoor shisha smoking!
Happy Autumn Smokes Everyone :)