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My name is Minori Murakami.
I'm a graphic artist.
Well, Mi-Zo is a collaborative duo between Zoren and I.
Basically what we deliver is just not traditional photography
but more like conceptual ideas as a photographic medium,
and that's what we do.
My name is Zoren Gold.
I'm the photographer part of the unit.
I mostly take photographs.
Minori mostly works on the computer.
We both conceptualize core projects together.
When I met Minori it just kind of resurfaced
the desire to do much more or to create different kinds of images,
and we can empower each other too,
like suddenly we became a different kind of artist where we didn't have any idea
what we could be before.
[Minori Murakami] Zoren and I lived in Tokyo for about 7 years.
It was a great, intensely creative time.
After we decided to come back to Los Angeles.
[Zoren Gold] The lifestyle here, you can have a garden, you can live outside.
The weather is great.
That's one of the best things about this house is that we have this space
where we can just leave the computer and just step outside
and then sit outside, lay in a hammock or work around the garden a little bit.
A typical day--we get up in the morning 6:30-7:00,
go to yoga, come back from yoga, have breakfast
and spend some time on the computer a little bit
until we go shoot somewhere or we go scout a location.
Ideally we prefer projects where there is still room
for some randomness and for some spontaneity.
In the beginning of the project we both were pretty equal parts.
We just think about ideas.
We think how can we do it and what do we have to do?
And we organized all the things together,
and then after the shoot we select the images together,
and we think about what's the best, and Minori gets started.
[Minori Murakami] The creation work itself is very driven by
an unconscious level.
I look at the picture, what we shot together or what he shot.
I look at it, and then I just visualize it.
I kind of create a story from it,
and so I will just start collaging or deconstructing the image,
and then I start to see what I like.
Using Photoshop it's just the perfect tool for me
to explore something I can't do physically.
Photoshop is very unpredictable,
and it's totally allowed us to be unpredictable
and just to discover what you like.
I really respect Zoren as an artist,
and I think he's a great photographer.
He's a best friend.
He's a great creative partner.
But then we've been working 11 years,
so to keep this chemistry,
keep going is not easy.
It's challenging, but also it's really rewarding.
[Zoren Gold] Working with Minori when you have this kind of communication
which happens on a very subtle level you can't explain it, exactly why,
but it's just there, and it's very fulfilling, and it makes you happy.
That's definitely the driving motive of why we're working together.
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