Trip Vest

"Nude Waves" (Radiohead - Nude) A visual meditation on the ocean and its many personalities. Filmed with the DJI Mavic Air 2 drone on the coasts of Portugal. This was a year-long project that served as a channel for me to explore my creative process, the ways reason makes it difficult for me to connect to intuition, and my fears creating things I care about. I'll write up the stories behind it soon. Much thanks to @samvestcomics and @duel_citizen for help learning the tools, and everyone else who contributed their thoughts and feelings so this could become what it is now. #radiohead #drone #ocean #meditation #dji #nude

Somatic Summits Ep 1 - “Enter the Glen” I’ve been developing new group creative experiences, and this is the first prototype of codename “Movement Hike” (still working on the name). Concept is simple: 1. Pick an inspiring natural environment / trail. 2. Gather 4-8 people for a 2 hour hike. 3. During the hike, tune into the space, and the people around you. Move, dance, and flow around as inspired by your surroundings. 4. One person records what they see with a camera, from their unique perspective. Switch who has the camera throughout. 5. Edit together the footage as a group to capture the essence of the experience. Inspiration from the experience came from doing outdoor events over the years (noticing how the unique energies of the environment shape how people feel and interact), and from learning about improvisational choreography while I was in New York last year. I met a professional dancer named Rebecca, who told me of a collaboration she did as a choreographer with the architect of Japanese botanical gardens. They together explored the intention and energies of specific sites, and Rebecca developed a variety of improvisational scores for her dancers to take the unique qualities of the spaces into their bodies to create movement. Needless to say, I started doing them almost everywhere I go. A few examples include: 1. Tracing the lines and contours of the space with different parts of your body (fingers, eyes, knee), one at a time, then layering them together 2. Listening to the natural sounds of a space, finding the inner rhythm, and moving from it 3. Notice the 3D nature of the space, and explore the relationship of your body to it as you move through 4. Notice the visual textures of the space, and explore how those can be expressed through your body If you have any others you do, or ideas to try, let me know! Shout out to @gracegella and @merrickj_ for being so down to play and experiment 😊 #movement #dance #movementismedicine #creativecollaboration #play #improvisation #danceimprovisation #nature #forestbathing

Over the past year I’ve been playing with acrobatic dance / contact improvisation, filming dance with drones, and making video edits of movement experiments. I hope this is the first step in building a habit of actually sharing them 😛 Here’s one with @candicecandela . I met her last year at Burning Man, as I was warming up for my first dance performance. We shared what is perhaps the most memorable dance of my life, exchanged what couldn’t have been more than 20 words, and parted ways. As I was leaving the playa, I realized I would be sad if I didn’t at least try to find her so we could someday dance again. I left a note in the middle of the giant village where I met her, with my number on it, and left the rest up to the universe. How thankful I am that note somehow made it to her. #contactimprovisation #dance #drone #acrodance

Winter time = collaborative creative projects! Fill in the Missing Piece uses Shel Silverstein’s “The Missing Piece” to give you an opportunity to reflect on life, connect to that creatively, and share with others. Want to join? I have 20 unclaimed copies in San Francisco - reach out for one. Otherwise everything you need to join is below. Share your creations to #fillinthemissingpiece https://www.tripish.co/idea-buffet/2020/12/12/fill-in-the-missing-piece #creativity #mindfulness #arttherapy #collaborativeart

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” - John Lennon

Digging up some old sketches from notebooks. From Bodega Day 2019. Method of drawing a scene where you ignore layout and proportions, and let the pen follow your curiosity. Eventually you have a scene that doesn’t fit together as it looks in reality and get a puzzle of how to bring things together. Interesting to have several friends do the same scene and compare the differences.

Nothing like a nice swing on a crisp morning #SwingBombSF

What's in a silhouette? Fiddling with personality-preserving abstractions