Thaaaank you truly! :'-) I didn't use a special recipe (really simply looked up "Zwetschgendatschi vegan" and used the one from veggie-einhorn.de) but I made a yeast dough with plums and butter crumbles on top. 👌
Have fun returning to Japan! I think I discovered you via a vegan in Japan video you had posted and stuck around due to your artistic sensibilities and charming sense of humor. Random thing about myself? I've been a student of Japanese language and culture most of my life but have only visited the country once for a few weeks in the 1990s and reside in California, but I am also a student of Nyingma Buddhist mysticism and in half a year may even be ordained as a lama? Is that random? It sure feels weird sometimes given the sociopolitical reality in which I exist geographically!
In the 1990?? OMG I'd have loved to experience Japan in the 90's, especially Harajuku! And yes, maybe being ordained as a lama is beautifully random hahaha. May I ask how did your curiosity for Japan start? Thank you so so much for letting me know how you found this corner of mine on the internet and why you decided to stay. Creating art and content is fun, yet it can feel quite one-sided. 🙇🏻♀
@@ellstration I don't really remember where my interest in Japan began anymore. I was told that we had a gardener who was Japanese American when I was younger, but I don't remember that person. In preschool one of my friends was the daughter of a pilot for JAL and I remember her fondly as well as her family a little bit and learning some playground Japanese for lack of a better description? By the time I was in second grade, one of my friends was half Japanese (his father was in the US Army and met and married his mom when he was stationed in Japan) and I learned a LOT more from him and his family (his mom was also an instructor at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California) but it was much more informal and vernacular. I have memories of sleep overs at that friend's house where they would watch VHS recordings of Japanese television around the dinner table from when they would visit his mother's family, as well as watching movies and anime all without subtitles. It was great! Even if I was a bit out of my depth linguistically. By the time I was around six years old, I also realized that a lot of the popular culture toys and artwork I appreciated (e.g. Battle of the Planets [科学忍者隊ガッチャマン「kagaku ninja-tai gatchaman」 lit. Science Ninja Squad Gatchaman]), Bandai's Godaikin mecha toys, Mattel/Marvel's "Shogun Warriors" (basically bowdlerizations/reinterpretations of 超電磁ロボ コン・バトラー V ブイ「chōdenji robo konbatorā bui」 lit. Super Electromagnetic Robot Combattler V, 惑星ロボ ダンガードA「wakusei robo dangādo ēsu」lit. Planetary Robot Danguard Ace, and 勇者ライディーン「yūsha raidīn」lit. Reideen the Brave), even the animated movie The Hobbit (produced by Rankin Bass but animated primarily by 株式会社トップクラフト 「kabushiki-gaisha toppukurafuto」also written as "Top Craft" which was essentially proto-Studio Ghibli) had deep ties to Japan and I began to focus a lot more of my attention on learning as much as I could whether from friends in school with ties to Japanese culture ethnically, or at the library in books and such. My high school required that we take two years of Latin and three years of another language (with options of Spanish, French and German. I ended up studying German for four years) but between my freshman and sophomore years I took a class in Japanese at a local junior college for my own edification. Eventually I graduated from University with a degree in 言語研究「gengo kenkyū」(Language Studies, focused on Japanese). Thankfully, one of the friends I made in high school (a year below me) was also Japanese (his parents moved to the USA but still kept a home in Japan as well) and we are still friends to this day, though now he lives in さいたま市「saitama shi」so we don't get to see each other in person with much frequency anymore (his family was here earlier this year in the summer, prior to that it had been about a year since we last saw each other). Art is awesome! Admittedly, I don't really consider myself a "content creator" and don't have an account on Instagram. A lot of my career has been in the realms of IT and code, which is a bit less tangible, more infrastructure related? I am particularly fond of the so-called "demo scene" but while I have worked with and know people who have created things such as Fairlight + CNCD's "Another One" (you can look that up on RUclips but that's just a recording of executable code created with a realtime VFX tool known as Notch) I've probably expressed my own artistic creativity more in the realms of instrumental music and deejayin so far aside from some art classes in high school and earlier.
@@grey5626 Sheeeesh what a story! It's wild to me that you experienced all of these things at such a young age. 😮 Even just that you understood at the age of six that your fave toys and artwork had Japanese roots in common - wow. Back in the day, I didn't grasp that the portrayed world in manga and anime, for example famous places in Tokyo, Japanese pop culture in general, does really exist haha. I needed some time to understand that. Interesting that you haven't been to Japan more often with that background.
Tell me one random thing about yourself. Bonus points if it's so random that it confuses me! :D
GREAT Video! I love your filmography and messaging about letting go of what is no longer serving you :)
Yeeees!! The "for what?" part is key in this. Thank you Tiffany! 💓💓:''-)
Wie immer ein mega Video! Vielen Dank
And I thank you for the kind words you always leave me Sandra! ❤❤❤❤
Loved the video 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Ramdom thing:
I have about 40 blouses in my closet, bc I love to select them hahaha
I mean even Marie Kondo said "if it sparks joy keep it" hahaha. ❤
Such a nice video 🥰 The plum cake looks delicious 🤗 Do you have a recipe? Oh waouh group exhibition in Japan sounds so cooool 🌟💫 Congrats 🫶
Thaaaank you truly! :'-) I didn't use a special recipe (really simply looked up "Zwetschgendatschi vegan" and used the one from veggie-einhorn.de) but I made a yeast dough with plums and butter crumbles on top. 👌
Have fun returning to Japan! I think I discovered you via a vegan in Japan video you had posted and stuck around due to your artistic sensibilities and charming sense of humor.
Random thing about myself? I've been a student of Japanese language and culture most of my life but have only visited the country once for a few weeks in the 1990s and reside in California, but I am also a student of Nyingma Buddhist mysticism and in half a year may even be ordained as a lama? Is that random? It sure feels weird sometimes given the sociopolitical reality in which I exist geographically!
In the 1990?? OMG I'd have loved to experience Japan in the 90's, especially Harajuku! And yes, maybe being ordained as a lama is beautifully random hahaha. May I ask how did your curiosity for Japan start? Thank you so so much for letting me know how you found this corner of mine on the internet and why you decided to stay. Creating art and content is fun, yet it can feel quite one-sided. 🙇🏻♀
@@ellstration I don't really remember where my interest in Japan began anymore. I was told that we had a gardener who was Japanese American when I was younger, but I don't remember that person.
In preschool one of my friends was the daughter of a pilot for JAL and I remember her fondly as well as her family a little bit and learning some playground Japanese for lack of a better description?
By the time I was in second grade, one of my friends was half Japanese (his father was in the US Army and met and married his mom when he was stationed in Japan) and I learned a LOT more from him and his family (his mom was also an instructor at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California) but it was much more informal and vernacular. I have memories of sleep overs at that friend's house where they would watch VHS recordings of Japanese television around the dinner table from when they would visit his mother's family, as well as watching movies and anime all without subtitles. It was great! Even if I was a bit out of my depth linguistically.
By the time I was around six years old, I also realized that a lot of the popular culture toys and artwork I appreciated (e.g. Battle of the Planets [科学忍者隊ガッチャマン「kagaku ninja-tai gatchaman」 lit. Science Ninja Squad Gatchaman]), Bandai's Godaikin mecha toys, Mattel/Marvel's "Shogun Warriors" (basically bowdlerizations/reinterpretations of 超電磁ロボ コン・バトラー V ブイ「chōdenji robo konbatorā bui」 lit. Super Electromagnetic Robot Combattler V, 惑星ロボ ダンガードA「wakusei robo dangādo ēsu」lit. Planetary Robot Danguard Ace, and 勇者ライディーン「yūsha raidīn」lit. Reideen the Brave), even the animated movie The Hobbit (produced by Rankin Bass but animated primarily by 株式会社トップクラフト 「kabushiki-gaisha toppukurafuto」also written as "Top Craft" which was essentially proto-Studio Ghibli) had deep ties to Japan and I began to focus a lot more of my attention on learning as much as I could whether from friends in school with ties to Japanese culture ethnically, or at the library in books and such.
My high school required that we take two years of Latin and three years of another language (with options of Spanish, French and German. I ended up studying German for four years) but between my freshman and sophomore years I took a class in Japanese at a local junior college for my own edification. Eventually I graduated from University with a degree in 言語研究「gengo kenkyū」(Language Studies, focused on Japanese). Thankfully, one of the friends I made in high school (a year below me) was also Japanese (his parents moved to the USA but still kept a home in Japan as well) and we are still friends to this day, though now he lives in さいたま市「saitama shi」so we don't get to see each other in person with much frequency anymore (his family was here earlier this year in the summer, prior to that it had been about a year since we last saw each other).
Art is awesome! Admittedly, I don't really consider myself a "content creator" and don't have an account on Instagram. A lot of my career has been in the realms of IT and code, which is a bit less tangible, more infrastructure related? I am particularly fond of the so-called "demo scene" but while I have worked with and know people who have created things such as Fairlight + CNCD's "Another One" (you can look that up on RUclips but that's just a recording of executable code created with a realtime VFX tool known as Notch) I've probably expressed my own artistic creativity more in the realms of instrumental music and deejayin so far aside from some art classes in high school and earlier.
@@grey5626 Sheeeesh what a story! It's wild to me that you experienced all of these things at such a young age. 😮 Even just that you understood at the age of six that your fave toys and artwork had Japanese roots in common - wow. Back in the day, I didn't grasp that the portrayed world in manga and anime, for example famous places in Tokyo, Japanese pop culture in general, does really exist haha. I needed some time to understand that. Interesting that you haven't been to Japan more often with that background.