Taketoshi - Take H, Sendai, Japan, 2011
Taketoshi has been a favorite contact on Flickr for a few years. He’s based in Sendai and there’s been no update post from him. Hopefully both he and his family are safe.
Taketoshi is a talented photographer, using a seemingly endless supply of great vintage cameras to capture a series of street scenes and city still lives, depicting Sendai as a modern, peaceful urban space filled with small flourishes the residents leave behind (it’s a place you can leave paper lanterns and small offerings knowing other residents will not disturb them). Taketoshi’s Sendai is a city with many vintage bicycles and scooters.
The videos and photographs from the quake and especially the tsunami are so horrible. To look at Taketoshi’s photographs today are both an escape to the quotidian Sendai, but also an honest window into a real place, a place that will never be the same again.
(via photographsonthebrain)
by Dave Weekes
Dedication.
Japan, I love you.
News.
Reblogging for reasons other than humor value.
Earlier this morning (EST), we saw journalists staying at their desks, typing away and taking phone calls while the world was essentially shaking around them.
These anchors were inside studios, sitting beneath heavy, white-hot lighting grids, seemingly (but not) oblivious to the dangers they faced trying to get the word out about the disaster wracking their country and killing their fellow citizens.
Elsewhere in the country were photographers, reporters, producers, camera operators, helicopter pilots — all gathering the news.
This is supreme dedication to their profession; we are thankful and humbled by their steadfastness in the face of tragedy.
Why I love this job.
Live Streams - West Coast Tsunami
The following news organizations stream live during the morning and may offer video of tsunami waves as they strike the west coast Friday morning:
WASHINGTON:
OREGON:
CALIFORNIA:
For a list of times when the earthquake is expected to hit the west coast, click here.
(Source: matthewkeys, via shortformblog)
This graphic, from Russia’s Ria Novosti, does a good job of explaining the differences between a big earthquake and a really big one.
(via shortformblog)
Japan PM to issue Nuclear Emergency Statement - - AFP - @AlanFisher
Fuck.
Welp, shit just got real.
Dear Lord.
(Source: pantslessprogressive)
An explosion at an oil refinery in Japan is captured by an eyewitness. The oil refinery caught fire following a massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Friday afternoon. (twitpic)
(Source: matthewkeys)
life:
On the 65th anniversary of American planes dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9) — killing 120,000 people outright, and tens of thousands more through injury and radiation sickness — LIFE.com presents pictures from both cities taken in the weeks and months following the bombings.
Pictured: A mother and child sit amid rubble and burned, skeletal trees in Hiroshima four months after the city was leveled by the first-ever atomic bomb used in wartime.
