Slow Motion Dance Video for Japan

This dance video was created by a music/dance group World Order which is led by former martial artist Genki sudo, it was intended to give a massage of hope to the people of Japan in this trying times.

The disaster unfolding in Japan; earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Nuclear explosion will shape a new Japan in the future. So, if you live in Japan and you found your car a couple of kilometers away from where you left it, my thoughts are with you.

私の考えはあなたとい

The quest for Pulitzer Award.

I know this is old news but the picture below, shoot by Nathan Weber soon after the 2010 Haiti’s earthquake shows a bunch of photojournalist taking pictures of a girl, her name was Fabienne Cherismas, and she was accidentally shoot by police in the aftermath of Haiti’s earthquake.

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This picture (below) was taken by a photographer name Paul Hansen, and it was chosen as the best International News Image at the Swedish Picture of the Year Awards. The question is, is the quest for Best picture really worthed?

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A common code of photojournalism is to not intervene with the situation; their goal is to change the world using words/pictures/videos and not actions, is this immoral?, I think there is a right and wrong answer to that, we are in fact, HUMANS, to hell with codes, if you cannot help because you can’t then it’s Ok, but if you can, but won’t because of some codes you have to obey, then I think it is wrong. The most famous Pulitzer photo was taken by Kevin Carter; it’s a picture of a starving Sudanese child, He took the photo and left the scene. No one knows what happened to the child. Kevin Carter commits suicide in 1994, Portions of Carter's suicide note reads:

"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners”

- Kevin Carter

Nevertheless, I always appreciate their work and respect what they do to bring us news/pics/videos of what’s happening in some of the scariest places in the world. But all in all, sometimes, the cartoon below shows us the ugly but necessary side of photojournalism.

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Dead body of a Mother Holding her Child.

Mother and child were found dead hugging each other by a rescue team.

Why I admire Japan’s Post-Earthquake Behavior.

Alright,

Have you ever seen/read/heard news about a disaster happened somewhere? Sure, and then what happened next? Chaos, looting, increase crime rate, bla bla etc.

Well, Japan has recently been struck by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and the thing that impresses me the most is how cool Japanese people really are. When I say “Japanese people”, what’s the first thing that comes through your mind? Hard-working, good ethics, hygienic, low crime rate, and err, Maria Ozawa.

Now take a good look at these pictures;

In front of the public phone, people are actually lining up to use it.

Japanese people sitting on the sides of the stairs, ensuring that the center remains clear and accessible.

Transportation is paralyzed; people are walking home calmly.

A stopped subway station, without an uproar, without a mess.

This is the result of Education and first class mentality, not something that can be obtained through GDP alone.

Most intense tsunami footage so far.

When I first saw this footage, I thought "OMG, I think we've run out of land"

Japanese earthquake's joke, to soon?

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Why Google is Awesome.

Have you ever been to a website that's just promoting Sh*t, yeah most of them. especially Yahoo.com, Bing.com, AltaVista.com and some other crap like that. In this picture, Google is actually using its popularity to give people warning.

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