Ewrick's Rabbit Hole

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

Some­times, there are stories which are par­tic­u­larly mean­ingful to us.

Dis­cussing with Finn about her floating on a raft com­ments, and her serendip­itous dis­covery of the book Life of Pi by Canadian author Yann Martel, I was reminded of a similar period where I found great comfort in reading such an adventure of drifting on the oceans.

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written by Yuki \\ tags: book, earthsea, elikozoe, magic, process

With the col­lective story expanding that fast, nav­i­gating through it was no longer very easy…

• First attempt: pag­inate the results, on the same “old” archi­tecture
  Benefit: a modicum of comfort for people posting com­ments who didn’t have to load the 144 long com­ments each time.
  Drawback: uneasy to find a pre­vious piece of infor­mation, lost in the many pages.
  And lots of in devel­opment

• Second attempt: create a whole new section, and migrate the com­ments to that “new” infra­structure almost already developed.
  A bit of trust in the feeling of having found the “perfect” answer to the needs, and lots of playing with the toy.
  Fin­ished tonight! thanks to a forum with scents of “vanilla”.
  And it was smooooooth transition.

Sounds a bit geeky, but when you look at it, it’s not unlike the Shift in a way.

Lots of bumps in the beginning as we prepare for the big changes. A feeling of a bot­tleneck, but only to keep the balance at this moment of moving to the new expanded, smooth and playful con­fig­u­ration of mass beliefs.

Hope­fully only the best is to come now

written by Yuki \\ tags: discussion, elikozoe, forum, shift, stories, vanilla

Just a high­light on my last painting update…

I’ve been doing this painting trying to show the intri­cacies and inter­min­gling of our essences and worlds views in writing our group fiction.
[NB: Naasir is the name of the dragon central yet peripheral to the all group story]

Then I just thought, oh, why not try to make a new panorama out of this picture, as it would better capture the sense of fullness and the “no-beginning-nor-end” of the interactions.

Heck, these panoramas take quite some time to put together, but the result is worth the sweating

Enough said, just click on the link below:

<http://elikozoe.net/Articles/Naasir_Dream>

written by Yuki \\ tags: art, elikozoe, painting, panorama