The Japan Society CUTS Contemporary Japanese Film Festival is one of my favorites.
This year we saw four very different but delightful (in their own way) fims, all of them USA premieres and Co-presented with the New York Asian Film Festival:
The Festival Opening Film, with Introduction and Q&A with Director Toshiaki Toyoda, and after film party. Interesting story about death, life, cults…
Of course, while we were in the area, with so many Japanese restaurants in 47th, we tried:
This weekend we bought our wedding bands. After an extremely special and personal engagement ring, the wedding bands had to be special too!:
MÖBIUS – a Danish design classic. We bought it at Georg Jensen – 687 Madison Ave., NY.
The MÖBIUS ring is inspired by geometry, a magnificent example of post-modern innovation. In math, a MÖBIUS is a shape with one surface and one edge (boundary). It is a fluid, infinite shape that inspires reflection.
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The good weather means more outdoors. In NYC it means more “city”, but also “more things going on in the city”.
This weekend we have walked a lot, and seen quite a few interesting things around town (caveat: I am no expert in NY, although Spanish newspaper Expansion interviewed me about it last week), like:
A Chinese-Spanish cuisine restaurant (no, I have no desire to try it any time soon; there are many others higher on my list) Yoga in Bryant Park A looooooong line of police cars going by The Orly Genger art installation at Madison Sq.
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Last week we had a few home cooked treats at home: paella (or as close as it gets with local ingredients), sangria, and peanut butter – chocolate chip – chick pea cookies! Try those cookies with hazelnut “milk”. Delicious.
I started my 4th of July “celebrations” one day early, by visiting the Declaration of Independence & Bill of Rights, handwritten by Thomas Jefferson, exhibited for the first time together, at the NYPL.
Then, today (4th of July) I went to a protest to demand the restoration of the Fourth Amendment:
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“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…”
Yesterday, on my way to a financial presentation, I stopped at Kinokuniya Bookstore to browse books and to enjoy the origami they had on display as part of the OrigamiAsArt exhibition.
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To round the Japanese-themed day up, I went in the New York Public Library and got two films:
Densha Otoko (Train_Man) Fish Story ^_^
