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“Tuning into Radio Muju” – A Documentary

I’ve known Mr Muju for almost 20 years and Miss Muju for maybe 1/2 that. They are and continue to be not only some of my best friends but a constant source of inspiration.

Mr Muju, one of the most talented artists I know, is responsible for me first seriously picking up a camera and must be credited with introducing me to Buddhism long before he was the catalyst that made me go to India thereby changing the course of my life forever.
I feel genuinely lucky to be his friend.

Miss Muju is also an incredibly talented artist whose plush and resin work has delighted and amazed fans & fellow artists from around the world. She drives a VW Camper and is quite simply lovely.

Together they form Mujuworld…..Paintings, drawings, plush and bio-resin designer toys from a unique shared creative vision.

They are easily the nicest, most relaxed people I know.

I did a photograph of them for my “Talented Friends” series several years (2009 to be exact, when they visited me in Tokyo) ago but I’ve always wanted to make a short documentary about them and their amazing work. Unfortunately, they are legendarily camera shy and put off doing an interview for years. By a process of wearing them down, moaning and emotional blackmail I finally managed to get them to sit down and talk on camera late last year.

The result, along with a lot of accumulated archive footage both mine and theirs and many examples of their work is the 20ish minute documentary “Tuning Into Radio Muju”.

So sit down with a cup of tea and take a trip with us to Muju Mountain!

Their incredible work can be seen at www.mujuworld.com

The film contains music used under a creative commons license, as always many thanks to the artists who made their work available:-

7-Version – Untitled People Riddim by Lions’ Flow Productions
soundcloud.com/lionsflow-asso/7-version-untitled-people-riddim-lions-flow-productions
USED UNDER CC BY-SA 3.0

DuBoLoGy – Xylo Riddim + Dub (Yellow Dub) by DuBoLoGy
soundcloud.com/dubology-2/dubology-xylo-riddim-dub
USED UNDER CC BY 3.0

MatDTSound & Cloud meets Woody Vibes – Amnesical Dub – Part II by MatDTSound
soundcloud.com/matdtsound/matdtsound1-cloud-meets-woody
USED UNDER CC BY 3.0

Dub Kontrol Skank by negritage!
soundcloud.com/negritage/dub-kontrol-skank
USED UNDER CC BY 3.0

More Than 2 Sides by Jeris
ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/33241
USED UNDER CC BY 2.5

 

Directed/Shot and Edited by Uchujin/Adrian Storey ©2018

Uchujin On Tour – Mujuworld in Cornwall Edition

Last week we finally managed to make it down to Cornwall to see my dear old friend and amazing artist Mr Muju and his equally awesome partner Miss Muju in their beautiful little country cottage.
A blissful week of epic Cornish scenery, lovely veggie food, reggae tunes, travelling in style in Miss Muju’s VW camper van and even a day of body boarding!
I couldn’t just have a holiday though, where would the fun be in that?
So with my new CAME TV Optimus gimbal (a great excuse to put it through it’s paces) and trusty Sony A7SII I filmed loads of stuff for my documentary in progress on Team Muju and put together this little film of our week.

Found a great tune to use under a creative commons licence for the soundtrack by DuBoLoGy  – “Xylo Riddim + Dub (Yellow Dub)”

www.soundcloud.com/dubology-2

Many thanks for making that available :)

The Optimus performed super well despite my lack of practice using it, even on top of seriously wind blown Cornish headlands.
I love it :)

Please go and check out the work of the awesome Team Muju at www.mujuworld.co.uk

See a load of photos I shot too over on my Instagram account

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Muju World Promo – Tokyo Dreams

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A good and ridiculously talented friend ‘Muju’ recently hired me to do a few promo shots of his newest T-shirt designs but being the contrary trouble maker that I am I decided to make a promo video instead – a trick only really pullable when the client is one of your oldest and dearest friends.

Capt. Muju

TeamMuju-©Adrian Storey 2009
It’s been a long month.
The Beats exhibition, house guests, domestic travel, increasing temperatures and the usual slew of rude people on the trains.
Not much time for photography or keeping up with my rss feeds and even less time for blog writing.

I did find time, however, to shoot a portrait of a dear friend and his lovely girlfriend who stayed with us for a week or so though.

Meet ‘Muju’.
It must be 15 years that we’ve been friends now and it still feels as inspiring and fresh as it did when we first met.
An extremely talented artist and photographer, a dub fiend and an oasis of calm in a crazy world, Muju is responsible for me first picking up a camera for anything other than holiday snaps and must be credited with introducing me to Buddhism long before he was the catalyst that first made me go to India thereby changing the course of my life forever.
I feel genuinely lucky to be his friend and even though we now live on opposite sides of the world, his thinking and world view are still so much a part of me that the debt I owe him for all he has shown me and all we have shared is unrepayable.

But enough eulogising.

The portrait of Mr and Mrs Muju was shot in a local park with three nikon speedlights, a couple of umbrellas and a little red LED flashlight.
The idea was to get all the elements in one shot.
The easiest way of course would have been to shoot Mr and Mrs Muju, the glowing Muju doll (handmade by Mrs Muju and part of a huge family of Muju dolls) and the light painting as seperate shots and composite them in photoshop afterwards, but where’s the fun in that?

What you see is essentially what came out of the camera (obviously cleaned up a little – stray hairs, slight contrast adjustments etc.)

Muju can be found all over the interwebs, but of particular interest are :-

Muju’s Flickr
Muju world

Drop buy and order a Muju doll or a muju T-shirt or even a print of one of his amazing drawings.

Oh and if Mr or Mrs Muju are reading this:-
It was GREAT to see you both, lets not leave it so long next time.
Big huge Jah love to you both :-)