Contemporary Japanese calligrapher and performance artist, Koji Kakinuma gives us Rinsho—a study from the great master. Regardless of whether he is in the midst of creating large-scale works or performances, he practices Rinsho in his studio for several hours everyday.

I’m fascinated to see years of practice  represented in a moment—a singular hand gesture signifying a lifetime of work. Being a painter and spending hours upon hours on producing one work, I get so drawn into the facility with which he achieves his work.

Being brought up in both the US and Japan, losing something from one place, and picking up new things from another to create what I suppose is a bi-cultural identity, I am gravitated toward seeing things that appear in unlikely places.

Not sure if this is an example of that, but growing up listening to hip-hop and then seeing Anne Hathaway rap unexpectedly, it was the perfect union of two disparate things—a mismatched uniqueness that I simply enjoyed.

An all-time classic from the 80s. I remember this was the very first movie I saw when I moved from Japan to live near LA for a few years. Even though it’s a very straightforward Hollywood movie, and perhaps almost too famous, I still enjoy the un/conventional life that Michael J. Fox lives in this trilogy.