Hong Kong’s Thousands of One Woman Brothels Hong Kong…a city where capitalism and laissez faire are so pure that even the brothels adhere to the tenants of a free economy. “If you want to see capitalism in action, go to Hong Kong,” is how Milton Friedman described it.
Yellow Cake Art – The Graffiti of Chernobyl Yellow Cake Art Yellow cake is used in the preparation uranium fuel for nuclear reactors. In 2006, twenty years after the Chernobyl disaster a group of seven artists from Russia, Belarus and Germany entered the abandoned city of Pripyat to create street art. Their work was a …
Lesson 1 From Chernobyl and Fukushima – Media & Crisis Fatigue I was invited to attend and speak at the Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World 2012, in Yokohama on January 14th and 15th. I am not a scientist, nor a model activist, but what I could share was what I learned from the …
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Fukushima One Year Later – First Impressions Last week, at the invitation of Peace Boat, and as part of my ongoing personal art project dealing with post-nuclear landscapes, I traveled to Fukushima and recorded my first pictures and impressions.
Chun Yeung or North Point Street Market The Chun Yueng Street market in North Point is not the largest, nor best known of Hong Kong’s markets. Still relatively unknown to tourists, it is a great way to uncover Hong Kong’s living street culture, and mingle with a market lifestyle that is neighborhood based.