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We won the #minsgame
Tod & I both played through the Minimalism Game this month with great success. 1576 items left our apartment in 31 days. What?! I started the game thinking I didn’t really have that much clutter and that reaching the goal – 496 items – was going to clear out my spaces very well. As it…
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Minimal Wardrobe Experiment
I am trying out the idea of a very minimal wardrobe. I put away all of my clothes except five layered outfits, two pairs of pyjamas, and four each of socks and underwear. I’ve got one sweater, one fleece, one coat. Four pairs of shoes. It’s been a week since I started and I am…
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Minimalism Game
Tod & I are planning to move house this spring and we are also striving to simplify and downsize. We’ve been in our current apartment for over 13 years, so even though I frequently purge things, moving is going to be painful. So I was sort of delighted when Tod agreed to play the Minimalism…
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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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