How many times have you heard, “I have everything that I need” only to find out that they really don’t? Rather than ask again, this year our editors have collected cool, on-trend unique, gifts for him, just in time for you to say thank you for all that you do!
Backpack by Daniel Patrick
Daniel Patrick’s collections draw a number of inspirations that are true to who Daniel is and this identity become more and more poignant from collection to collection. We have chosen this brilliant DP backpack.
Stow First Class Leather Tech Case
STOW has disrupted the world of travel accessories. Their contemporary, colorful and practical designs are meticulously hand-crafted for a lifetime of use. We have chosen this stunning leather tech case for that special someone.
ARRAW Spider-Man Watch
RJ Spider-Man Watch Collection, time will tell with this technically innovative collection, created in partnership with Disney and MARVEL, the ARRAW Spider-Man Tourbillonand the new skeletonized ARRAW Spider-Man mechanical timepiece.
Eastern Standard Provisions Gift Box
We are all in love with this Boston-based brand, their deep roots throughout New England, is fiercely passionate in their pursuit of making the best soft pretzels on the planet, and our entire team agrees!
Oceano Chardonnay Wine
Oceano Wines is a joint venture between Rachel Martin and Kurt Deutsch. Together they decided to make wine from a very specific place, Spanish Springs Vineyard, on the coast of San Luis Obispo, California. We stumbled across this refreshing and truly delicious chardonnay, a must for this holiday season.
Lasvit Fine Collection of Mouth-Blown Glasses
The fine collection of mouth-blown table glasses is composed of individual pieces, all handcrafted by traditional artisan glassmakers. Lasvit offers this flexible copper mold that allows the fluid glass to form its distinct shape of free-flowing circles. Every piece is one of a kind, for him.
Speedster Capsule Heritage Leather Jacket
Speedster Capsule Collection Heritage Motocross Leather Jacket, drawing inspiration from the legendary Porsche Speedster automobile, practical with sporty details. Keep him warm this holiday season.
ROAM Luggage
ROAM Luggage, the first brand that allows you to fully customize your suitcase to match your personality. When two founders were building the TUMI brand, they were propelled by a desire to create the best luggage in the world. That quest for the extraordinary has always been what drives this unique brand.
Men’s Wool Felt Slippers
Step into a pair of handcrafted men’s wool felt slippers and step into something good. Made by Nepalese women with natural wool from New Zealand sheep and Himayalan buffalo leather soles, the simple slip-on slippers keep feet warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Many couples say they have no secrets from each other and most likely they’re lying. However, there are still some things that should be kept under a hat. Some psychologists ask their clients: “Imagine that your whole life, from the beginning till this moment, was filmed on videotape. Do you agree to show it to your boyfriend?” The answer depends on what we mean by frankness in relations. According to American psychologists, couples where partners hide information from each other that can hurt their soul mate are stronger and happier. So, what does your partner should not know?
He is not the best lover in your life
You have probably had some breathtaking sex adventures in your previous life. So what? Many online brides from Ladadate will prove: it is so rarely happened that sexy machos are good husbands and fathers. Those women who are well aware of this finally choose simply good guys as partners. So you did, right?
You should never tell your boyfriend about your ex-es, especially talk about them with admiration. You should never tell that the ex-boyfriend was more caring or attentive. If a woman compares her man with her ex, it will create a lack of confidence between you. Indeed, good sex can be achieved if both of you want it.
2. Your mother thinks you deserve better
Your mother dreams of her son-in-law to have a yacht and family castle. So what? Is it necessarily mean that you will be happy with such a man? Your parents probably love your boyfriend, especially if they see that you are happy with him.
On the contrary, it does not worth discussing his relatives with him — he did not choose them. Therefore, you should be patient and keep your mouth shut. If relatives are unpleasant in communication, you can try to meet them less often. Tell about it very delicately, so as not to create the impression that you are pushing him against his relatives.
3. You have extra expenditures
Of course, the family budget is a hot topic and you should discuss all the huge expenditures together. However, if you worked hard and saved some money for a brand autumn coat don’t tell your BF about this in detail. Let him be happy for you without thinking of extra-hours you took at the office or money you saved on lunches. Thus, you emphasize he is not able to earn money to meet his girlfriend`s expectations. It will make him less confident and more disappointed.
Loving, sincere, warm relationships and the desire to tell your soulmate every single thing are two different sides of the coin. Before you say anything, make a balanced decision, and let your words be followed by love, tact, and delicacy.
Director William Sullivan‘s Jane Wants A Boyfriend, features the story of a young girl, Jane, who’s looking for romance in New York City–and not in the Carrie Bradshaw kind of way. A rose-colored movie on familial bonding and the struggles of developmental issues, Jane Wants A Boyfriend will be premiering at this year’s Lower East Side Film Festival on Friday, June 19 from 7 pm-9 pm. Another short animated feature, Monster, will be screened before the film.
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LESFF summates Jane Wants A Boyfriend:
This romantic comedy explores a week in the life of Jane (Louisa Krause), a young woman looking for love in New York City. Despite dealing with the everyday challenges of being on the autism spectrum, Jane looks to her older sister Bianca (Eliza Dushku), to help her find her very first boyfriend. As the innocent Jane embarks on new territory, and as Bianca worries that Jane’s heart will be broken, they open up a new chapter in their relationship as sisters.
Downtown Magazine got to sit with Will and gather his thoughts regarding the new sold-out film before it debuts in Lower Manhattan:
What about Jane’s character makes you feel more human? What about her warms you?
I’ve always, from the very first draft of Jarret’s first script, felt that there’s a little piece of me in Jane. I’ve spent many years of my life being scared to pursue what was going to make me happy, and not speaking up for what I deserved. And I think Jane is at that really wonderful crossroads where she’s finally built up the courage to say, “I’m a woman, I’m a person, I deserve love just like everybody else.” In so many ways, just through the interaction she has with the world, she’s been made to feel like she’s a child and that she is maybe not worthy of the same things other people are. She sees her big sister having it all. Her big sister has a career, a fiancee, a new apartment. She wants all those things. And I think it takes a tremendous amount of courage to say, “I want this, too.”
I’ve spent so many years of my childhood growing up, feeling like I couldn’t be myself. Or I wasn’t ever going to be able to find love. I was developing this script right around the time I was coming out and starting to figure out who I was. It was very scary and I feel very close to Jane in that way. That you have to stand up for yourself, your right, and your path.
So Jack’s character is living his life a decade after college, and he feels the pressure to get married and “do things” is on. It seems that he’s got a good awareness of the loneliness and cyclic activities that come with the adult lifestyle, but he doesn’t quite have a good handle on it. How do you think Jack’s character complements the rest of the characters––more so, how does his character complement the rest of the party goers as a symbol?
Well I think that the movie at its core, is a female driven story–a story about two sisters. And I think that it’s really important to have Jack in the film as a compelling and complex character, because the relationship between Jack and Jane being believable is something that the movie hinges on completely. So we really needed to find this man who was at a crossroads with his life and almost sort of beaten down enough tobe open to the realization that he could take a couple giant steps in a different direction that would lead him closer to being happy.
I think many people come out of school thinking they know exactly what they want to do; for some, it takes time to stop comparing yourself to others, and to an idea of what you think you should be doing, and how you think life is going to play out. Is that making any sense?
No, it makes total sense. I feel a lot of people think they’re going to be living their dream life and working their dream job by the time they’re 25, and they’re not.
W- Yeah. I did a film called Percival’s Big Night. That was about the post-collegiate crisis many of us face when we graduate; but it’s been many years since I’ve made that movie. And with Jane Wants A Boyfriend, I wanted to focus on what is it like to be in your thirties and seeing everyone around you start to settle down and get married––the pressure that Jack is feeling when he goes to this party with Rob and Bianca. He starts to see everyone look, act, and think like “adults,” or at a least what he thinks of as adults. He doesn’t relate to them anymore, he feels left behind, and I think that creates a tremendous amount of pressure for him.
I feel like during the film–especially the beginning–smoking plays a role within the characters of Bianca and Jack, as well as how Jane feels towards the habit. It kind of made me think of Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee & Cigarettes. In what ways do you think cigarettes relate to conversations? And taking “breaks” from places and people?
That’s a really interesting question. It’s such a thing in the restaurant/hospitality industry; because it’s such a grind, and the hours are so brutal. It’s hard to say “I need to go outside and get some air, I need to step away.” By saying you need a cigarette break, it’s like carving out a space and time for you to reset and recharge.
I think it’s a really helpful–and even clichéd–way of setting up scenes in movies. What was useful for us was to show that Jack’s [his character], starts off as this heavy smoker, and eventually by the end of the film, he has given it up for Jane, who doesn’t like to be around smoke. When he meets her for the first time, he puts out his cigarette, and just realizes this isn’t the kind of girl he’s used to hanging out with. I think that’s a really important story telling point.
I don’t really want to be putting smoking in movies. I certainly know less people smoking now then I did in college. Bianca has quit, and she’s moving away from that. Jack just keeps dragging her back into the world of cigarettes. By giving it up – I think it’s a really wonderful way to show the transition away from his old life, into his new life.
Relaying towards the date sequence where Jane is on her first date with Steve, what inspired you to shoot that the way you did? The fuzziness, the disorientation? Why did you feel that it was the best way to depict what was going on in Jane’s head?
I worked with a wonderful director of photography named Brandon Roots. We spent a long, long time trying to figure out a way to visually portray what it feels like when Jane hits a sensory overload. We did a lot of playing around with camera tests, trying to feel out how we could sort of warp the environment. Ultimately, we settled on this “lens baby” effect. That’s the product we ended up, it’s called a “lens baby.” I think it’s sort of a very imprecise piece of camera equipment. You have to hold it in front of the camera, and I think that instability–the impreciseness lends itself to the focus shifting in-and-out. If you’re being overwhelmed by something, you can’t actually focus on one thing because things keep hitting you from different angles. After a lot of playing around, we sort of landed on that as the trick we were going to use to try and let the audience know what it felt like to be in Jane’s world. That, coupled with the sound design of, what does it feel like to be flooded with all these noises and sounds, that discomfort. When you watch it in the theatre, it’s kind of unnerving.
How important was New York City to you during filming? What about Manhattan charms you?
I’ve been here for many years. I think as a New Yorker, you get a little bit jaded about the city. It was really fun to see it again through Jane’s eyes and let it be somewhere that was special, and intriguing, and fun–in the way that it can be in a Woody Allen movie. When you’re doing production in New York, it’s so hard. Everything is so difficult; but when you watch it on the screen, it’s so romantic and idealized. I think just being able to find locations that took our breath away, like the rooftop overlooking the Empire State Building. It’s like when we felt like we could translate what was described in the script, into an actual, practical location, it was so fulfilling because it’s almost like we could tap into this idea that Jane has–that everything is a perfect world, a black & white movie.
Lastly, what other filmmakers do you draw your inspiration from? What are some of your favorites?
I think that the best directors adapt to the story that they’re trying to tell. I think the directors that I’m attracted to, wouldn’t necessarily have a similar tone to the film that I just made. I’m a huge fan of the director Joe Swanberg, who does his movies completely improvised. I just have another film within the festival circuit called That’s Not Us. And that is completely improvised. I really wanted to explore a very different kind of film from Jane.
In terms of a director that could probably make a Jane-esque movie, I’m huge fan of Sam Mendes. Just because he has the ability to pull performances out of an actor. I think that’s always what I’ve prided myself on, is my ability to work with actors and really pull performances––or coax performances out of people that other directors might not be able to. I really like performance-based films.
View the trailer for Jane Wants A Boyfriend, below:
