Ewrick's Rabbit Hole

The random quote today led me to a comment in the group story I wrote a little more than a year from now.
I found in it a renewed res­o­nance this morning…

(*) After he sent his reply to Yann, Yurick took a deep breath in appre­ci­ation of all that had been done the last past days.

However tedious, all in all, it had allowed him to stay away from other people’s trauma, and stay focused on his own issues. Now, the feeling of the energy at hand was starting to become lighter. Like a thin ray of light poking through a thick layer of rainy clouds, announcing that the silver lining was more than just a con­so­lation. It was announcing the sun to come.

He took the book of stories that had been unburied (like his pleasure to write) from the bottom of the sofa’s cushions when they’d received hosts last week-end, and looked with amusement at the opening note about the “random quotes”.

A strong sense of an inkling started to dawn at him.
Thanks to the random quotes — or more appro­pri­ately said, to con­ve­nient syn­chronic­ities — “stuff” was never lost or buried in the insides of that ever-growing story, which was eating with gluttony at the edges of its expansion. Things were popping up here and there, reminding of old loose threads, or per­tinent inclu­sions or links to be made.

But there was more. He, for a long time, had thought that imag­i­nation was expanding things to make physical reality look smaller in pro­portion than it was. Like when they’d looked at Dory’s pic­tures, and every­thing looked so big on them. Even the mere thought of nine dogs was huge. But when they’d met her, and Dan, and the dogs, it was all so much smaller. Even seeing Dory manage her dogs made having nine dogs seem man­ageable.
But the reverse was true: physical reality had its way of dwarfing imag­i­nation. Not so much making it smaller, but com­pacting it, making it fit in an unbe­lievably con­densed and small space.

Take that book. Thou­sands of words, bil­lions of prob­a­bil­ities, endless threads and hun­dreds of char­acters, all packaged in a small stack of inked paper. The trick was that when you look at it that way, when you got that small stack of paper in your hands, it all seems so man­ageable; one starts to get accus­tomed to it, then fails to see the newness in it each time it’s opened to tell a story.

Imag­i­nation is the true gauge of the vastness of the uni­verse. It’s so easy to forget…

written by Yuki

I recently tried some­thing new to reconnect with the joy and the flow of inspi­ration that one can expe­rience while writing. Bear with me for a moment before I tell you what it is. And if you can’t, it is all fine, you can jump to the end of the post, and you would have proven the point I am making.

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written by Yuki

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written by Yuki \\ tags: art, blue, creative, ezine, photography, stories, wisp

Some tiles’art for the year to come…

If you remember the “tiles” (see below), you’ll probably like this cal­endar for 2009 where beau­tiful imageries have been put together around this concept, with pho­tog­raphy and 3D renders by Jib.

Tiles were intro­duced early in the col­lab­o­rative story (Circle of Eights, p.229) in this entry, where Midora, a char­acter in our future, uses her favourite handbook of symbols:

[…] So she had found a compass… Now, she would have to learn how to use it. The intro­duction of the book said:

The tiles pre­sented in this book all have dif­ferent func­tions; they can be pri­marily under­stood as focal points which enhance spe­cific uses of energy. […] As far as we know, they can be dis­covered in many sit­u­a­tions, either objective events (e.g. some­thing that catches your gaze in the street) or in the sub­jective (dreams, visions, inspi­ra­tions etc.). In both cases, the recog­nition is instan­ta­neous, as each tile carries a dis­tinctive ener­getic sig­nature which is the essence of its “function”, so to speak.
As such, it can be used the­o­ret­i­cally in both sit­u­a­tions (sub­jective and objective), though, as far as we have explored, sub­jective inter­action with them seem to be the easiest and most quickly rewarding way of accessing them.

It was inserted in April 2008 without really any fore­thought about which book it could actually come from — that’s the greatest fun in writing works of fiction and fantasy! And only later (November) it became the intro­duction of a little book we’ve been putting together on a whim with Jib, to present with more details than on the website the sig­nif­i­cance and also the advice each of the tiles can give to you when you are pre­sented with these symbols (while keeping it a rea­sonable size: 42 pages, instead of the whopping 350 of Circle of Eights ) .

The book has been called “Some Tiles Of The City” (can be ordered from Lulu at the link).

We’ve been ordering a few books for our­selves, and have sent per­son­alized ver­sions to a few people who were acquainted with the tiles concept. The feedback has been great; it has been a very inter­esting expe­rience to see that most of them also con­nected in various ways with the symbols.

These tiles are really funny to play with, and can pop up at very unex­pected moments.

For instance, when we were trav­eling in NYC recently, we were waiting for the opening of the locker room where we had put our luggage for the night, and I was beginning to become worry the people would be late for the opening and that we may miss our bus.
And right after that, as if to reassure me, one of tiles seemed to appear very clearly like carved into the cracks of the wall. Jib noticed it too. And it dawned on me that we con­nected this tile to “reunion after sep­a­ration, coming back as one”. So, it was like a con­fir­mation that we would be reunited soon with the luggage; and only a few seconds after that, the people came to open the room.
And of course, we didn’t miss our bus.

So, this cal­endar is also a good way to become adept at spotting them, and cre­ating one’s own symbols.

Enjoy!

written by Yuki \\ tags: art, fun, tiles

The long wait is now over, our favourite “out there” mag­azine Wisp is now available in a much expected printed format.

Two volumes have been made so far, each full color, with 100 pages of 3 con­sec­utive issues.

Follow the links below if you want to order your copy. The archives can still be seen for free on the website http://wisp.focusphere.net.

Wisp — Volume 1 (2008)

Wisp — Volume 2 (2008)

written by Yuki \\ tags: book, links, lulu, print-on-demand, stories, syncs, web, wisp

The book has arrived this morning!

It’s a com­pi­lation of the stories we’ve started to write about a year ago (Sept. 12 2007 to be accurate) at 8 hands (Tracy’s, Lee Muir’s, Jib’s and mine). Circle of Eights the title, is a ref­erence at the inter­locking circles that brought our interests together, as sym­bolized by the pseu­donym for the author’s name which is made by merging our nick­names.
It is much more than one story actually, and quite dif­ficult to sum­marize as it’s inter­active, non-linear, and spans many interests at once. A bit of a chal­lenge to get the hang of it, but immensely rewarding in fun.

We’ve decided to publish a first volume of these stories as much for our own per­sonal pleasure as it’s also a way to have the content more easily explored. Coin­ci­den­tally, the 888^th addition to the stories was made on August 8^th 2008, but it’s only one of the many syn­chronic­ities that sur­rounded the creation.

I chose Lulu to print the book, which is a self-publishing service, and the quality is really great, as you can tell on the pictures.

It’s a really large book (350 pages black and white, perfect bound). The exterior (paperback) is all shiny and Tracy’s picture of the cave in Jimena, Spain is looking awesome on the back.

A look inside, with illus­tra­tions I created along the stories

If you want to give it a read, there is the stories website, and the link to order Circle of Eights.

Woohoo

(2009–03-12 EDIT: the second volume is out too)

written by Yuki \\ tags: book, circle of eights, elikozoe, pictures, stories, yurara fameliki

Ideas and inspi­ration are much like plants. Usually they don’t require our attention to grow by them­selves in nature, and some of them, like dew­berries, are even sweeter and more deli­cious when picked on their wild thorny bushes than in a neatly groomed garden. But when we want to save our­selves the hunt for the fruits, there is mutual benefit found for both the hungry human and the plant in a gar­dening coop­er­ation.
However, no matter how stubborn and greedy humans may be, nature still has its say. When the soil isn’t ade­quate, or when it isn’t time, then, no point in digging to stretch the roots, like tra­di­tional Chinese wisdom says. And in the reverse, no matter what, it’s amazing how these smallest things grow when you trust they will.

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written by Yuki \\ tags: attention, magic, photos, plant, playfulness, process, success, tomato, tree

 Wisp is released

written by Yuki \\ tags: ezine, wisp

Wisp is released

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written by Yuki \\ tags: ezine, wisp

A list of inter­esting funny syn­chronic­ities which have bumped into our awareness since we came back from Spain.
Screen­shots from The Last Mimzy… (click on the thumb­nails for the big pictures)

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written by Yuki \\ tags: fractals, rabbit, syncs