Some see silverware as nothing but eating utensils. Some don’t think nothing much of it as they can purchase silverware from their local department store for cheap. While others, especially those who care and are quite selective over the silverware they own, they choose brands Read More …
It was 1939 and World War II and the Nazi Germans were coming. What does director Jean Renoir (“The Grand Illusion”, “The River”) do? He creates a film titled “La Regle du jeu” (The Rules of the Game) that is part of an adaptation of Read More …
It was something that I have contemplated but wasn’t sure if I wanted to go through with it. And that’s to go for a hybrid vehicle and choose to go with a car that would provide me more saving and may not have the greatest Read More …
Vanguard is a reputable company when it comes to photo and video-related products for 30-years and when it comes to tripods, the company’s reputation is partly due to the quality of their tripods. Vanguard has continued to grow as a company and now integrating an Read More …
For those who follow my work on social media probably know that several weeks ago, I interviewed and had a photo shoot with Japanese pop star KOM_I of Wednesday Campanella (Suiyoubi no Campanella) in San Francisco, which will be featured on J!-ENT for their annual Read More …
Every director has their beginning but for Jean-Luc Godard, his 1960 film “À bout de souffle” a.k.a. “Breathless” was the beginning of a cinema revolution and bringing the world closer to nouvelle vague, the French New Wave. Godard is a unique director who attracted attention Read More …
In 1926, Meiji Jingu Stadium opened in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. While many college baseball games are played at this stadium, including leagues such as the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League and the Tohto University Baseball League, the stadium is best known as the home stadium for Read More …
“Shoah”, the biblical world translates to “calamity” and in Hebrew, it is the term to describe the Holocaust, the genocide of six million Jews during World War II by Nazi Germany. The word is also the title of French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 nine and Read More …
I order a lot of Japanese magazines and automobile accessories through Amazon Japan. And having ordered dozens of times from them, many people have asked me questions of “how I order from Amazon Japan?”, “how quick things take to get from Japan to the US?” Read More …
For many years, silent film fans have hoped to watch Paul Fejos’s “Lonesome”. Most have heard comparisons of Fejos’s film to F.W. Murnau’s “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” and Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”, but the fact was that for many years, “Lonesome” was a rare Read More …
In 1920, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) opened. Located on Wilshire Blvd. in the Miracle Mile area in Los Angeles, right next to La Brea Tar Pits, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States and has over 150,000 Read More …
There is something calming for me about watching sailboats. I don’t know how many times that watching people from the distance, I’ve always wondered how it would be on the other end? While I was younger, I always felt that perhaps, I would never be Read More …
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Before Clark Gable and Carole Lombard would become Hollywood’s super couple in real life, both worked on one film together back in 1932 titled “No Man of Her Own”. Directed by Wesley Ruggles (“Too Many Husbands”, “Arizona”, “I’m No Angel”, “True Confessions”), the pre-code Hollywood Read More …
May 1968, France’s economy was shut down. The largest general strike in an advanced industrial country, 11 million workers were on strike for two weeks and student protests ran rampant. It was a blow to President Charles de Gaulle’s government and groups revolted against modern Read More …
To tint or not your tint your car? I recommend tinting your vehicle and I can tell you that from experience, by doing so can save you on repair bills in the long run. One of the problems that I had with vehicles I never Read More …
Throughout my life, I have alternated years of vehicles from sporty to something of convenience and back and forth. While my parents had a Mercedes and big trucks, I have always been in the position of wanting a Mercedes, BMW, Infinity or Lexus but then Read More …