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Here comes Fuji, once again, giving me an amazing opportunity to activate sidelined systems in my brain in the context of adventure — and also sharing some of his jolly mischief with electronic components and noise:

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Fuji and i challenged each other throughout the month of October to experiment with different habits and create something new every week. We made videos describing our process and results and sharing our dialog here on my blog. It starts with Fuji & Mika #0 — Creative October Challenge, where we explain the concept and share our first challenges to each other. To read and watch all posts from the challenge in chronological order, visit Creative October Challenge.

If you prefer to start with some results from the challenge, then i recommend fiction_Extract_test1.0 or The Stubborn Face of Matter 🙂

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Experiments: Creative October Challenge; Fuji & Mika

This is my next challenge to Fuji along our Creative October Challenge 🙂 Although it has at least one very elegant mathematical solution (which i’ll share afterwards for those of you who may not know what i’m talking about), i’m especially curious about how a bold artist like Fuji might approach it!

In the video, which wound up getting much longer than i’d have liked, i also spend some time motivating the challenge by questioning the concept of ‘performance’ (in art) — what is it? Does a performance happen on stage, or in the spectator’s subjective experience, as many illusionists will say? To what extent is it a secret (and different) exchange, in public, between artist and each audience member?

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Fuji and i challenged each other throughout the month of October to experiment with different habits and create something new every week. We made videos describing our process and results and sharing our dialog here on my blog. It starts with Fuji & Mika #0 — Creative October Challenge, where we explain the concept and share our first challenges to each other. To read and watch all posts from the challenge in chronological order, visit Creative October Challenge.

If you prefer to start with some results from the challenge, then i recommend fiction_Extract_test1.0 or The Stubborn Face of Matter 🙂

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Experiments: Creative October Challenge; Fuji & Mika

A little over a week ago, my friend Fuji challenged me to write a song using exclusively items from my kitchen. This was an incredible opportunity for me to mesh two of my greatest passions — music and adventure!

In the video below i talk a bit about my process throughout the challenge, presenting the results at the end. If you just want to hear the song, it starts at 2:35 🙂 Enjoy!

In the video i mention my partial update a couple of days into the process, and also a detailed description of my backpacking kitchen — just follow the links to read/watch more!

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Fuji and i challenged each other throughout the month of October to experiment with different habits and create something new every week. We made videos describing our process and results and sharing our dialog here on my blog. It starts with Fuji & Mika #0 — Creative October Challenge, where we explain the concept and share our first challenges to each other. To read and watch all posts from the challenge in chronological order, visit Creative October Challenge.

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Experiments: Creative October Challenge; Fuji & Mika

Another quick update from Fuji on his early mornings, followed by another one of his video editing experiments — i really, really like this one!

Check out Fuji & Mika #4 — fiction_Extract_test1.0 to read (and watch) more on Fuji’s approach to video editing.

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Fuji and i challenged each other throughout the month of October to experiment with different habits and create something new every week. We made videos describing our process and results and sharing our dialog here on my blog. It starts with Fuji & Mika #0 — Creative October Challenge, where we explain the concept and share our first challenges to each other. To read and watch all posts from the challenge in chronological order, visit Creative October Challenge.

credits

Clips from Gattaca and Only God Forgives. Music: Sleeping Dragon, by Lobo Loco.

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Experiments: Creative October Challenge; Fuji & Mika

This is one of the things Fuji has been working on in his early mornings!

In Fuji’s own words:

“I have a great admiration for the cinema, sometimes I see a clip, and I want to watch that five seconds over and over and over. My entrance into video editing is of course as a novice. A beginner, as I try to figure out what does this do, and this. I also bring my sensitivity as a choreographer into it. Repetition, variation, nuance, contrast… Always fun to put knowledge into use in new medias. If you are aware that you know nothing, you always learn something new :)”

Thanks for sharing, Fuji — and knowing a bit about your process makes me appreciate it a lot more 😀

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Fuji and i challenged each other throughout the month of October to experiment with different habits and create something new every week. We made videos describing our process and results and sharing our dialog here on my blog. It starts with Fuji & Mika #0 — Creative October Challenge, where we explain the concept and share our first challenges to each other. To read and watch all posts from the challenge in chronological order, visit Creative October Challenge.

credits

Clips from Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension. Music: periculum, by Kai Engel. “Trippy segments” are pictures remade and remixed by Fuji, processed in Resolume Arena 6 , then exported to Windows Movie Maker.

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Experiments: Creative October Challenge; Fuji & Mika