sou desu ne...

so i haven't talked about new york yet. or san francisco. i think lately i'm just lazy to explain anything, even friends. here, look at pictures and see for yourself! of course what i take pictures of is far different from what one experiences. albeit a tiny bit more romantic with maybe a bit of quirkiness?

new york. yeah. i could never live there unless i was rich. too many vices. too many distractions. fast and easy friends. i could see it being full of people yet very lonesome. i feel this way about tokyo. i'll keep them as vacation spots. places to run to when i want to feel alive again...when los angeles is boring. our film played at Tribeca, while i didn't quite partake in the festival events, i did manage to see natalie portman in person at a small Q and A event. she was like 15 feet in front of me. yeah. highschool/early college crush. she has a big head.

i think i like to trick myself into thinking things aren't as important as they should be. partly humility. from what i hear our film was well received. technical difficulties aside, it certainly had heart. as with the format of short films, it was the only one in the lineup of screenings we were paired with that didn't rely on a dramatic gimmick that short films often have. we have an end, and it's not a happy one. we certainly weren't the slickest of them, in fact probably the most "amateur." but it's ok. amateur = love.

i met some new people out there, missed some i wanted to meet, drank too much, ate too much (but never enough), spent too much, sang karaoke, slept, walked, shopped. i had a nice dinner with a friend, we walked off our shochu buzz and sat in two different parks on a surprisingly warm night before we decided to part. i took a few pictures of her. we'll see how they come out. the last night in new york i spent at an underground sake bar with some close friends. i somehow ended up on the street taking pictures of my friends play fighting and all of us miserably failing to take pictures of ourselves jumping in front of the camera.

i flew back to burbank and the next day boarded another plane to head to san francisco. bi-coastal! there was a group show i was in. there was a lot of unnecessary hoopla and random speeches being made to waste time and pat city council members on the back for no reason other than because it's the chinese way to give importance to something. the show itself was not bad. i guess i don't really consider stuff of my family "work" but it's ok.

so now i am back at work. the day job. still broke. the 8 rolls of film at the lab will burn more money. maybe i will find something in them? i think i like writing in fragments. perpetual ADD. here is another tangent: i might go to taiwan in august for 2 weeks to help a friend shoot something? awesome. but nothing is concrete. just like the rest of this year. there are plans to head back to tokyo again this october which already feels like a 2nd home.

what's next? i'm ready.