In my job, I've been interacting a lot with the brilliant Ryuichi Sakamoto. We released a documentary some year ago titled CODA, in which he reveals his passion to reverse the nuclear grip on Japan following living through the experience of the Fukushima meltdown. We can certainly add that the long list of quality content that is in no danger of being interacted with my Peter or his echo chamber.
Remarkable isn't it? There is lived experience, and expertise all over the planet loudly calling out the dangers and the heinously large costs. Yet Peter is not for turning. He's got a sort of a policy that Gina and Sky approve, and off he goes. What a backwater Australia is at times.
The dynamic is depressing af, but I'm wondering if there isn't another side to all this, that this sort of nonsense is a leading indicator of change more generally? Positive change, I mean. Or maybe I'm clutching at straws. I'll expand on this in a post next week. (Keep the Marseille photos coming!)
Cracker of an article TD - uplifted my spirits immensely. Well fancy that: Kôji Yakusho - I saw 'Perfect Days' recently and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was immediately transported back to Japan 2019 when I visited sites in an attempt to understand how a country and its people can deal with so much turmoil - Hiroshima/Nagasaki, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami & of course Fukushima. Naimi was a town of 20,000 upwind of Fukushima that was evacuated in an afternoon following the melt-down. Quite humbling to walk the streets and wonder how anyone could have coped in a situation like that. Thanks heaps for bringing 'The Days' to my attention. Cheers
Sad to say I have never been to Japan, but hoping to remedy that in the next few years! Let me know what you think of The Days. I thought they did a good job with it.
Started watching 'The Days' last night and saw 2 episodes. Excellent and chilling with the recurring thought why was a nuclear power plant built on a highly tectonically active coastal zone? Cheers
In my job, I've been interacting a lot with the brilliant Ryuichi Sakamoto. We released a documentary some year ago titled CODA, in which he reveals his passion to reverse the nuclear grip on Japan following living through the experience of the Fukushima meltdown. We can certainly add that the long list of quality content that is in no danger of being interacted with my Peter or his echo chamber.
Remarkable isn't it? There is lived experience, and expertise all over the planet loudly calling out the dangers and the heinously large costs. Yet Peter is not for turning. He's got a sort of a policy that Gina and Sky approve, and off he goes. What a backwater Australia is at times.
The dynamic is depressing af, but I'm wondering if there isn't another side to all this, that this sort of nonsense is a leading indicator of change more generally? Positive change, I mean. Or maybe I'm clutching at straws. I'll expand on this in a post next week. (Keep the Marseille photos coming!)
Cracker of an article TD - uplifted my spirits immensely. Well fancy that: Kôji Yakusho - I saw 'Perfect Days' recently and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was immediately transported back to Japan 2019 when I visited sites in an attempt to understand how a country and its people can deal with so much turmoil - Hiroshima/Nagasaki, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami & of course Fukushima. Naimi was a town of 20,000 upwind of Fukushima that was evacuated in an afternoon following the melt-down. Quite humbling to walk the streets and wonder how anyone could have coped in a situation like that. Thanks heaps for bringing 'The Days' to my attention. Cheers
Sad to say I have never been to Japan, but hoping to remedy that in the next few years! Let me know what you think of The Days. I thought they did a good job with it.
Started watching 'The Days' last night and saw 2 episodes. Excellent and chilling with the recurring thought why was a nuclear power plant built on a highly tectonically active coastal zone? Cheers
‘Cure’ (1997) is a fantastic slow burn if you want to continue the Koji Yakusho kick!
Nice, thanks, I haven't seen it.