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In his previous two challenges, Fuji set off to activate my musical and poetic layers. What’s does he have for me next? Watch the video to find out!

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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, The Stubborn Face of Matter or Haikus from Borzhava🙂

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Experiments: Creative October Challenge; Fuji & Mika

What is it like to be me in the mountains?

Two weeks ago i went hiking on the Borzhava Range in the Ukrainian stretch of the Carpathians. My friend and artist Fuji then challenged me capture and share some of that experience in haikus!

A ‘haiku’ is a short poem juxtaposing and contrasting two images or ideas. It traditionally follows a 5-7-5 distribution pattern of syllables across three lines. Haikus were originally developed by the Japanese. [Wikipedia, wikiHow]

I’d never tried writing a haiku before and, as i mentioned in my last update after just coming back a week ago, i greatly enjoyed the process — most notably, it made me more aware of how judgemental i often am of my own experience in the mountains :p

I hope you’ll enjoy the results — if you like them, there are probably a couple more where those came from, and i think i wouldn’t mind putting them together as well 😉

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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 video picks up the Creative October Challenge from where we left off last week! If this is your first time here, this is a collaboration with my friend, artist and supporter Fuji Hoffmann — we’ve been challenging each other to try out different methods and processes throughout the month of October and share the results on my blog.

My last challenge to him boldly sent his mind where it had not gone before — an emotional/cognitive state he now generously shares with us through his video-editing art:

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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 quick note on what my time in the Carpathian Mountains this past weekend felt like with the special task of writing haikus describing to Fuji “what it is like being Mika in the mountains.”

That was paradoxically quite a long sentence! I promise i’ll stick to the format when i share the haikus tomorrow 😉

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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