2011.03.18 9:13am
Have asked @fatblueman (of Christmas in Japan video fame) to start
writing a song for Japan quake survivors, and it got me thinking...
2011.03.18 9:18am
I want to compile a book of quake experiences and publish it like
within a week and donate all profits to Red Cross We have the
technology.
2011.03.18 9:22am
If everyone wrote 250 words - one page - or submitted their favourite
(original) tweets, pics or artwork, I could edit, publish it in days
... we've got to press coverage in the Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNNgo online and excerpts in The Japan Times. We've got the book and we're getting attention; our backroom mover and shaker is er, moving and shaking, with Amazon. People are responding around the world to the message of #quakebook, that alone we are useless, together we can create something amazing, selfless, to benefit others, and by so doing, improve ourselves. I really feel we are on the brink of something amazing.
But...
We still have not raised a single penny for survivors of the disaster.
This is simply unacceptable.
We must translate this global effort into something real. Now.
Sign up here to be notified when the book is available. That's all I can do right now :(
9 comments:
no worries, Good Man! Once the thing is out in the open air, pecunia will change hands for sure.
I live in Yamada, Iwate. I took some aftermath pics etc and am still in shock. Everyone living on the coast is in a sureal panic of cleaning and helping (impressive to see), but all I can see is the reality of a once beautiful area never being rebuit.
Thanks to the Jietai for what help they have given, I hope these aftershocks will stop soon...
Rich
Dear "Our man in Abiko",
I'm journalist in France and I'm deeply affected by what's going on in Japan...
I'm writting an article about your project... It will be on line tomorrow at : http://www.livreshebdo.fr/
Best regards,
Julie Rocha-Soares
Good luck Ourmani,
Am signing up now but not sure how I'll read it cos ,well,I've never bought an online book before.
All the best
I just discover your "Quakebook" through a "Pascalf49" post on
http://www.scoop.it/t/tsunami-japon/p/42284914/video-un-village-detruit-par-le-tsunami-cnn-nhk
Congratulations for your initiative.
I 'll relay your initiative on my internet site (concerned with oyster-farming in France and as I'm "shocked" that it seems (?but I hope maybe I'm wrong?) that there is no solidarity reaction here, in spite that the oyster-farming activity here was in the past somehow "saved" by Miyagy-ken oyster-farmers) See
http://web.mac.com/jonaas17/Site_JONAAS/HuitreJaponTsunami2011.html
-to know more about it…
Congratulations for your initiative. Please let me know how to contribute. See also:
"Des images pour le Japon" an french artists project:
http://cfsl.net/tsunami
I hope you have chosen a good charity within Japan.We have been donating to www.2hj.org Second Harvest Japan they have it together & a national infrastructure already in place.We also gave donation to Japanese Red Cross Society.Where will proceeds from book go to?.Many thanks.
I'm a poet/painter living in Tokyo. This is my poem for the quake victims. Feel free to include it in the book.
Title: Objects Wanton
Fortune seen beyond the radioactive, when humans brought the powers that be, to a synergy strewn with bodies in black, salty graves.
Poisons seep into the eyes of nature, destroying temples with acrid death.
Beyond the tracks of control from which it sprang, the music of forgiveness went unheralded amongst the mass of human objects no longer hearing that which withdraws.
Wild forces convened on the inventive stricken, who clutched their memories into the deep lost history impressed on their objects wanton.
By Jack A. Waldron
(Detroit Jack)
I think it's a noble thing you've sparked, collecting online media reactions to the disaster and turning it into a book with 100% proceeds to the recovery efforts. When/if it gets finished, I'm buying one.
But looking at all the people tweeting about this (including the very people you work with) it seems you're all more concerned about the media hype rather than galvanizing the concept into reality. For the sake of the people in Tohoku, I hope you do.
p.s. Turning the FCCJ press conference into a party???? Give me a f-ing break. I'm glad you decided not to agree.
Hi, I'm Peter Payne of jlist.com / jbox.com and I've been blogging about the disaster from the beginning. You can see my posts at http://www.peterpayne.net (scroll back to see them all). I'd love to participate in this project if you'd have me, I'd mainly be adapting posts I wrote and expanding. Please let me know if this is needed. Incidentally I'll be flying from San Diego to Japan (yes, I came to San Diego for a family event but am headed back now) so I'll be off the map for a bit, but please let me know.
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