I'm a New Yorker livin in the big apple who wants to get into the film industry big time. I graduated from SVA with a BA in Film/Video and I have lots of goals. Traveling and Film are big joys in my life but I also have small joys too; reading, drawing, skipping rocks like Amelie, lighting candles, partying at the Mercury Bar, taking photos, writing in my journo, looking at old pictures, playing vid games (my inner geek), watching movies and so much more.
I'm a pisces, so yes, i do have a bit of an imagination and i do tend to wander off into my own wild world but i feel that's what gives an artist strength. So i use it to feed my own creative hunger.
come check out my blog @ http://mrsubconsciouswrites.blogspot.com/
or just check up my Journo to see what i'm thinking this minute!
check out my thesis film on VIMEO:
http://www.vimeo.com/1178776
FUN FACTS (yay!)
- Dad's a remarried graphic designer-turned-sushi chef who wants to make his own restaurant in an airport. =)
- Mom's a 'taken' full time dental assistant.
- First born.
- child of divorce.
- And because of the above mentioned, i was a bitter young lad through high school. Very bitter.
- Known to sleep walk from time to time.
- can't beat you in ping pong. Which means I'm the worst player. =/ And yes... my brother, Kohei, has beaten me on many occasions
- loves mixing sprite and cranberry juice. What do you call that?
- Many born and bred New Yorkers can't stand Chicago-style pizza but on the contrary--I do. And yes, I'm born and bred.
- NY Mets fan. We're talking Die hard.
- Went to a science middle school, only to attend a visual/performing arts high school, but then ending up a filmmaker.
- Fan of Chelsea & Manchester Utd. football clubs.
- Big tennis fan of Svetlana Kuznetsova, Rafael Nadal, Dinara Safina, and Ai Sugiyama.
- can't stand it when people chew with their mouths open.
- can stare at a moon for a long time. (was once clocked in at one hour and forty-seven minutes looking at the moon. No lie)
- I like Winterfresh gum more than Doublemint.
- Fan of the Hanshin Tigers.
- Prefers to read the book after watching the movie.
- Never really warmed up to my Japanese side until I finally took a language course in my senior year of high school.
- fear of insects.
- can sing and dance in the likes of Elvis Presley.
- fav authors are Edgar Allan Poe, Dostoyevsky, Hawthorne, Camus, and Shakespeare.
- Influential filmmakers (dead and alive) are Kubrick, Fellini, Kurosawa, Scorsese, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Woody Allen, Takeshi Kitano, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Spike Lee, Chris Nolan, and David Fincher.
- My middle name is Valentin but I rarely use it.
- Can never decide between onigiri and arepa. Way too hard.
