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Back to the Start: Choosing a More Sustainable Future

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Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared: A Terrifying Bloody Mess!

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Steve Jobs: The Life and Career, Animated in Taiwan!

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Flawed: That’s What Makes Life Interesting!

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The Hiroshima Photographs: Ground Zero 1945

“Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945” is a new exhibition of once-classified images of atomic destruction at Hiroshima presently on display at New York City’s International Center of Photography. The collection of photographs both repels and fascinates the viewer, with its powerfully ugly portraits of an unpeopled and obliterated city. The photographs were originally part of a governmental analysis of the atomic bomb’s effect on concrete, wood and steel, and this catalog of devastation was meant to be seen only by postwar architects and engineers tasked with erecting the “bombproof” cities of the future.

The Hiroshima photos have a strange and contorted history. In the mid-1990s, the owner of a diner in Watertown, Massachusetts, was walking his dog when he spotted a beat-up suitcase sitting in a pile of trash. It turned out that the photographs inside had once belonged to Robert L. Corsbie, an engineer and expert on the effects of the bomb. Just how those photos wound up in his possession remains unclear. Corsbie belonged to a cadre of ordnance experts, engineers, photographers and draftsmen who were sent by President Truman to analyze the nuclear devastation.

The Hiroshima photographs are fundamentally different from the more familiar World War II pictures of European cities, such as Cologne, where the stones of the cathedral rise from the debris, and blown-out buildings loom like hollow-eyed zombies. Those ruins have a perverse but palpable grandeur, a gothic desolation that is missing from the scenes of Japan’s ravaged emptiness. In hauntingly stark contrast to the images of European destruction, the Hiroshima photographs are eerily mute. There are no people, only twisted metal, blistered walls and miles of rubble. Except for a few skeletal structures poking out of flattened wreckage, the city simply vanished. Hiroshima didn’t look like a bombed city; it looked instead as though a monstrous steamroller had passed over it and just squashed it out of existence. The Japanese city centers, constructed mostly of wood, simply went up in smoke when bombed.

Wary of the conquered people’s anger and grief, the US government imposed strict censorship in September 1945, confiscating pictures and ordering that no image be printed which might, directly or by inference, disturb public tranquility. It was not until 1952 that “Life Magazine” published a handful of photographs taken in the first days after the attack. Even now, such images are rarely displayed. That is why this cache of photographs is so important. Once part of a classified archive, then buried in a basement, thrown away and resurrected, it counteracts the universal tendency to aestheticise violence. There is nothing awe-inspiring here, or even poignant, just plain devastating facts.

This piece includes a number of photographs from the exhibition, a photo-gallery, a documentary short film and the acclaimed Japanese animated film, “Grave of the Fireflies.”

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Thundercats Premiere Ep 01-02 Review

For those of us who grew up with the original “Thundercats,” we’ve been hearing rumors and musings for years about a re-boot of the show, a movie, etc… finally, it’s here. This new version of “Thundercats” was previewed at Comic-Con and on the Cartoon Network website for months with a “July” premiere date… July 1st came and went and still no definite date for the show… FINALLY, we should have known it would be the last Friday in July, damn near August!! But it’s here and while everyone has their opinions about it, here’s mine.

As with any remake/reboot there has to be changes made and dare I say the changes to the new “Thundercats” make the show and storyline better than the original. Thundera is not a dying planet, but rather a great city on Third Earth where the Thundercats, under the rule of King Claudus, dominate Third Earth. The best idea in this new version would have to be that Snarf no longer speaks! While Snarf was cute and all in the original, he was annoying and even though this new Snarf doesn’t speak, he still provides comic relief. His little squeaks and sounds he makes still resembles a “snarf” and he’s always fearful of what Lion-O is up to. Between his falling into the water after being frightened from his nap, to him making faces in the golden mirror, Snarf is still funny as hell! In the beginning scenes of the episode, Lion-O and Snarf are in a shady part of Thundera and this whole scene reminded me of Aladdin and Abu in the marketplace when they’re stealing the apples. Snarf is running around squeaking much like Abu, being very displeased with his master’s decisions.
It’s here in the shady market that Lion-O first meets Cheetara, for those of you who thought 80s Cheetara was hot, wait until you see this one! I love the new design of her, especially her long hair. A lot of people are complaining about the animation – they don’t like it, its nothing like the original blah blah blah… I would like to point out that I hate anime, I just cannot watch it, but this is a nice combination of anime and “regular” cartoon. They all almost look like people, but cats at the same time, I like it.
While Lion-O is busy buying some “broken” technology that no one believes in and flirting with Cheetara…. Claudus, Tygra, and Jaga are waiting on Lion-O who is apparently supposed to be testing out The Sword of Omens but unlike his big brother Tygra…

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