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Filming “Stars” on Niijima
Here is the latest video with the Frolicaholics. We filmed it on Niijima during Guru-Guru Camp and it was such fun that I want to share the behind the scenes bits. The Recording We sat in our campsite early in morning – there were no other campers in residence yet – and tried perhaps ten…
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Me, the Sea, and the Sunrise
One of the quiet delights of camping on Niijima is a morning walk to the beach. This year, I saw several sunrises emerging blood red from the ocean. For some of them I was busy hooping while Rob filmed me for our video project. Sunrise. I am sitting atop a 4 meter high koga stone…
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Roller Coaster Weather
Almost every day last week, I discussed the weather forecast with Heather. It was making unpleasant predictions for her hanami party on Sunday. It declared High: 11 – too chilly for infants to enjoy a picnic – and each day brought new doomsaying of rain with varying percentages of chance. At one point it told her it…
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The Frolicaholics Play Hoop Lounge
Memorable birthday! Instead of going out to dinner or pigging out on cake, Tod & I played a show at Hoop Lounge. We were in a terrific line-up of acts that included a diablo player, a performance artist, and a Cirque du Soleil dancer/clown. Backstage was warm and chatty as we got to know one…
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Butterfly: Country Roads
Here’s the video that Swinky, Jesse, and the Frolicaholics made earlier this week in our living room for The Butterfly Project. Swinky will be appearing on a popular Japanese tv show later this month and John Denver’s “Country Roads,” which is probably the most famous English language song in Japan, is her way of saying…
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Butterfly Project Session
Last night, Tod & I were inducted into the Butterfly Project, Swinky’s collection of casual music videos. Jesse brought a ton of equipment from their studio and while I made us some dinner, Jesse set up a six-mic-four-camera studio in our living room, including my special double mic stand kludged together with chopsticks and hoop…
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Frolicaholics: Radioactivity
A couple of weeks back on the ukulele subReddit, there was a challenge to cover a Kraftwerk song. Electronic music on the ukulele, really? I was intrigued and Tod was interested, too, so we decided to make it a Frolciaholics project. We spent two weeks selecting a song, breaking it down into bits, learning to…
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Acrobalance
Miki and I got together this afternoon to do some acrobalance. Although I lead an acro segment in the Circus Fitness workshops, I’m not an expert. Miki’s got lots of experience and I was happy to get some new ideas from her today, especially for training. I need more flexible hips and a stronger core…
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Winter Hoop Dance
I joined a group on Facebook called The Hooping Game. Players are assigned songs, then have 48 hours to make a hoopdance video and post it back to the group. I got my song yesterday morning and braved the almost freezing temperatures at Yoyogi park to make my video. You may notice the orange-hatted preschoolers…
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Frolicaholics’ Tokyo Debut
Tod & I played a 25 minute set at What the Dickens on Saturday night. It was our first show in Tokyo. I had a happy and positive evening, despite stage fright and mistakes as I played. Here is the last song of our set. Being in a band is fun and it is scary.…
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