Telling the adventures of local legends and yokai!

September 16, 2023

Medium
- Comics/storyboard
  - Connecting with storyboard artist
  - Sunday comic format
- Children’s book
  - Digital with animation
- 10 days of pre-residency experiments
  - https://twitter.com/heykzhai/status/1694933773622902869
Content
- Spirits a good place as any to start
  - Any locals we can ask to confirm local folklore?
- Collab: (Update0902 @Qi Wang) Nishiizu Human Collection Project
- Mushishi
  - Mononoke
- Akiya mascot
- American Elf, storyworthy
Goal
- For myself vs for Akiya project
  - Output can be considered a digital, cultural bridge
- Leading metric vs final output

Medium

Could be zine or short-form animations posted through social media 3x a week.
Stretch goal: learn AR development and create a web app that populates Izu with folklore
Geocaching
- Draw sigil, NFC chip
Week 1: Five four-panel comics and looping shorts
- Alternating stories between Kainan hoshi and Jorogumo?
Week 2: Turn one comic into a short animation
- Or children’s book