Well, sort of...
Hey everyone!
As you know, Pino is in Japan, and we, are back in Montreal until February, to spend time with family and friends. Some of you have been asking, "What's next for hundredrabbits?"
Well, we're back to the drawing board, researching the things we will need to know and need to have, to sail across the Pacific back from Japan to Alaska — And what our goals will be once we get back to the west coas...
2019-10-03 14:29:13 +0000 UTC
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We left Japan, leaving Pino behind... for a time. It's not forever. We want to spend more time cruising there and in order to do that, we need to leave for a few months — that's the truth of it. We spent 3 1/2 years trying to get there, we're not ready to leave just yet. We will return soon enough. In the meantime, we'll continue to do vlogs on our land travels and ongoing projects.
We're happy that we'll get to see our friends and family in Canada again, it's been ...
2019-09-14 01:02:17 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
Here's a story of our time in Minamiise, with anecdotes about Japan and some good sailing moments. I had so much to say about this place. Hope you guys like it. If you want, you can also read it on our website.
As always, thank you for being so supportive. You guys are the best.
Enjoy.
- Rek
Departure from shimizu
2019-08-11 22:38:04 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
Just added 40 minutes of ambience from our recent videos to the Hundred Rabbits soundtrack.
You can listen to this pretending you are in a capsule, adrift, on a sunless shore...
"I'll make a voice like all of time and all of the fog that ever was; I'll make a voice that is like an empty bed beside you all night long, and like an empty house when you open the door, and like trees in autumn with no leaves." -Ray ...
2019-08-09 06:18:56 +0000 UTC
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This month, we traveled to Tokyo with plans to visit Odaiba by bike. We did, but the trip ended there. Accidents happen.
The accident gave us a chance to dive back into games, and to discover the Japanese TV show Butt Detective. We'd like to thank our friend Chase for driving us around to the show and to some restaurants (due to my injury), would have been sad to leave Tokyo without some good Chabuzen ramen.
In this video, we also talk about 2019-07-31 04:48:11 +0000 UTC
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Ronin is our studio's image processing tool.
In 2016, somewhere on the shores of Mexico, my laptop's logic board failed. Short of a computer, we devised ways to keep working. Ronin came into being during that time, but this first version wasn't flexible enough, and it eventually fell into disuse.
Some countries/years later, Ronin is back. We made this video to show you some of the basic functions. We are super happy with what we've made. It is ...
2019-07-26 10:04:53 +0000 UTC
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How did the Hundredrabbits ecosystem come into being? It's a long story, but here's a summary.
What is the Hundredrabbits tools ecosystem?
It is the set of tools that we've made, and that we use on a daily basis to do art, music and writing.
ORCA — an ex...
2019-07-21 00:39:15 +0000 UTC
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The rainy season (梅雨 "plum rain") has started.
We're spending more time indoors — this isn't a problem, not for us. We've got plenty of projects to keep us busy!
In this video, we show the progress we've made with the Monome NORNS (tutorials and experiments) and Circa. There is also footage from Devine's
2019-07-03 04:45:41 +0000 UTC
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Recently, someone asked us this:
"What's it like to spend months at sea, and to now cross the world twice (by plane) in just a few days?"
"It's like taking the train instead of biking between the two locations. You miss everything, plus it's long and stressful." Devine replied.
Taking the plane after crossing the pacific is strange, while in flight we'd look down at the ocean and imagine Pino there, sails up and riding the waves...
This month we tra...
2019-05-30 10:53:07 +0000 UTC
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We're super excited! We've been keeping this news to ourselves for far too long...
Hundredrabbits will be speaking at the XOXO festival this September in Portland, Oregon! We'll be sharing the stage with many other amazing creators, the full list hasn't been announced yet but it's cra-zyyyy.
See you there?
Rek & Dev
SY PINO
2019-05-14 22:23:38 +0000 UTC
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Our new video is out!
In this one, we spend our remaining days in Shimizu cycling around, building a DIY soda stream and getting prepared for our trip to the UK next month. As you know, Devine will be performing and giving an ORCΛ workshop at Algomech festival 2019.
The activity around ORCΛ has been kind of insane lately, it's been keeping us busy..! We love looking through twitter and instagram in the mornings to see your works.
In t...
2019-04-30 08:19:41 +0000 UTC
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Finally got around to writing a blog post about our arrival to Shimizu. The post is entitled "Hello Fujisan", appropriate considering this gorgeous mountain was the first thing we saw when we arrived near our goal.
It was... a wild ride — kind of an understatement actually. We described it all in detail in here for you guys, it also serves as a reminder to ourselves that we're stronger than we think.
Read the blog post 2019-04-29 07:36:46 +0000 UTC
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Interested to learn how to use ORCΛ? Here are a few events you can attend, if you're in the area:
ALGOMECH FESTIVAL 2019
Sheffield, UK
Devine will give a workshop on May 19th. For more info
** new event, added 19/04**
ORCA WORKSHOP
Tokyo, Japan
Our good friend
2019-04-08 06:54:20 +0000 UTC
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We've arrived in mainland Japan! We missed our target, we were supposed to head into Wakayama but the wind didn't permit. So, instead we pulled into Shimizu port further north. We hadn't planned on coming here at all, but now that we're here we're enjoying it.
The sailing community is amazing. Local sailors have adopted us and are making sure we're happy and comfortable. In truth, it's been kind of overwhelming! Japanese omotenashi is very intense, we're not used to that kind of atten...
2019-04-04 08:57:41 +0000 UTC
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Four years ago we decided to teach ourselves how to sail in order to return to Japan.
We have finally arrived.
This was our toughest sail yet, but Pino got us there. We are in Shimizu, licking our wounds and enjoying life in our favourite place in the world.
Thank you for your support, what a crazy ride this was.
Rekka & Devine
2019-03-15 07:01:20 +0000 UTC
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I've written a blog post about our feelings on arriving in Japan, and on our impressions about the island of Chichijima. Read the whole story here.
"After a long 21 day passage, seeing the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal. This was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil.
We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by your own e...
2019-03-01 01:43:33 +0000 UTC
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You have no idea how glad we are to be here.
We're on an island that is east of Tokyo, but it's still Japanese soil and we are so happy and proud of what we did! It was a 21 day sail from Majuro to Chichijima, it wasn't an easy ride, and many things did break on the boat, including our inverter, tachometer, some sail slides and our wind meter (a revenant). But now we're here and we can relax a bit, we plan to spend two weeks here, having delicious Japanese food, taking long walks ...
2019-02-27 01:49:26 +0000 UTC
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Since we've arrived here in Ogasawara, we've been buying local produce and cooking everyday. Now that we have access to japanese ingredients again, we finally made an okonomiyaki recipe.
It tastes AMAZING. While this recipe is for four people, we actually ate the entire thing ourselves, it was that good.
It requires a few specialized ingredients, but in the recipe we suggest s...
2019-02-22 00:15:48 +0000 UTC
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After 3 weeks at sea, we have finally arrived in Ogasawara. Our internet access is restricted but we will collect all our notes in the next video. This is the realization of a long time dream of ours, thank you all so much for making it possible for us to do this!
We'll be moving forward toward mainland early next month, stay tuned!
2019-02-17 02:41:31 +0000 UTC
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Our time in Majuro is ending. This month, we visited the Wellness centre garden in town, and made some fruit beer, courtesy of SY She-san. Next stop, Chichijima!
2019-01-21 02:06:46 +0000 UTC
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Hi!
Our last video of the year is out! We've released a ton of stuff this month, we'll try to wrap it all up in our next newsletter/post. But for now, here's our latest video!
Happy New Year :)
Rekka & Devine
2018-12-27 09:04:16 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
We updated our website. Now, the splash page is lighter and the database of projects is more complete.
It now features all of the games we've made. We hope to include Wiktoph...
2018-11-30 22:48:00 +0000 UTC
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Yokwe!
Yokwe means 'hello' in Marshallese, and is pronounced 'yi-yak-wey'. As always, we learned this word AFTER getting there - better late than never right?
Rekka just finished writing a follow-up blog post to "Doldrumming". That post, was about our passage and this one is about our clearance into Majuro in the Marshall Islands.
In this story, we talk about our ...
2018-11-25 23:15:27 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Our latest video is out!
With it, we're also releasing a blog post called "Doldrumming" that gives more detail on the passage! Give the video a watch, and the blog post a read and tell us what you think!
Enjoy!
Rekka & Devine
SY Pino
2018-11-21 00:26:30 +0000 UTC
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I know what you're thinking - we were supposed to sail to Tuvalu no? Well. Yes. We decided to skip it. We don't normally change routes like this. This is a first.
This change added 1,200NM to our passage - a considerable amount.
SO why? Why do this to ourselves? Why spend more weeks at sea than we have to?
Because we enjoy it.
Spending time at sea gives us to t...
2018-11-15 20:31:29 +0000 UTC
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Our latest video is out and even a bit early, for once!
We hope you enjoy it, we've been working on a ton of little audio visual projects, we'll share some details on these in our mailing list later today :)
We're leaving tomorrow morning for Tuvalu — Talk soon!
2018-10-21 02:08:30 +0000 UTC
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We've added tutorials for Dotgrid and Left on the hundredrabbits website, these include general descriptions of each app, an explanation of each function as well as a shortcut quick-list.
DOTGRID
Dotgrid permits the creation of designs quickly, in a environment that is lean and light.
Our tutorial explains what each f...
2018-10-16 20:24:07 +0000 UTC
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Markl is going well.
We've simplified the game, which means that for now it won't feature runes. These runes were made to represent blocks of code visually, used to build your character's fighting style.
Why? Because the game doesn't need it. Right now our focus is on building something that is solid for release. We don't have a date yet, but will soon.
We've implemented, and animated the
2018-10-13 21:11:54 +0000 UTC
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You can be sure that if we find any breadfruit - or breadfruit derivative - that we'll make something new with it.
We found some breadfruit flour at a shop here in Fiji, and made these lovely strands with it. We know this is a specialty ingredient and that it's not easy to find, but if you ever travel to this part of the world, look for it.
We travel for food. Mostly. Food and inspiration. Traveling to some far away place to cook is a perfectly reasonable goal.
2018-10-12 00:34:48 +0000 UTC
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We travel west to Leleuvia, Suva, Momi Bay and Malolo Lailai. Iggy the dinghy is on sick leave, but Tippy is there to help!
We did get Iggy patched up in the end - phew! Awesome of our neighbours to have lent us a dinghy like that, don't know what we would have done without their help. We can always count on the kindness of strangers - in the sailing world anyway.
We're enjoying our last few weeks in Fiji, before we head on north! Time to eat as many fresh veg as we can, because there ...
2018-09-29 03:52:32 +0000 UTC
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