Thursday, December 16, 2010

Dec. 16 - We've Already Nuked Ourselves!

Dear Friends,

What's this ay about ourselves?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUqjrgwqWQE

Be Well.

David



A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto

"This piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a
month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal
messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light,
sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world."

This is a scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May
of 1998.

Isao Hashimoto was born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1959.

Worked for 17 years in financial industry as a foreign exchange
dealer.

Studied at Department of Arts, Policy and Management of Musashino
Art University, Tokyo.

Currently working for Lalique Museum, Hakone, Japan as a curator.

Created artwork series expressing, in the artist's view, "the fear and
the folly of nuclear weapons":

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