So now I really am leaving Tokyo, bags packed and all.

Last night I got to meet up with Nagi Noda, after all. Visit the link to see her work from bearbricks to handpanda to her films and videos. She had just come back from Angkor Wat.

I can't think of a better way to spend my last night here, in the presence of someone I respect so much, honored to meet them. Sometimes that make me too shy but I discovered as she would say "human to human" that despite our difficulties in language I met someone who is a kindred spirit. I work very alone and so it was amazing to meet someone in another culture who has some of the same feelings about filmmaking, or how to put ideas together.

So here's the last thing from Japan, and I explain too much on this blog, and Nagi has made me promise I will never explain this. it's a secret. But it's my first piece of original artwork from her so this is getting framed on my wall back in Brooklyn. This says everything.