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So, Japan is now a rotten corpse, deeply hit in his heart. What we see on TV from both sides, either from inside than abroad, we realize that there is a strong need to change the system. Tsunami and Earthquake are one thing, Nuclear is an other one. But the root of the whole troubles should, in my sense, change from what it is used to be. Move over. Turn the page. Bureaucracy is holding tight the whole decision of the country in the backyard of the government, mass-media sponsored by politics and companies end up not communicating the truth, people are aware of it, but not feeling concerned as far as they can keep consuming shits, the hypocrisy that makes behave politically correct when they are asked... All this should change. If the long waited earthquake hit for real, they were not prepared for it. Concentrating the whole energy at one area, which is Tokyo, can now be the next disaster's target. If they have tried to dispatch the needs to different places like in Germany, then the country wouldn't be paralyzed in the way it is now. Everybody is giving too much importance to their own peace, put their head in the whole like an ostrich, trying to not see and change the core of the problems. 6 days after the tsunami, they reopened the baseball events, TV shopping selling hand creams, and nobody speaks up about how the country should drive their own policy from now on. TV and politicians are trying desperatelly to mask what is wrong, and the mass is okay with that. How odd.... Waiting Neotopia

I was working when it just happened. I finished to draw my last piece of Researching Possible Panoramas series. Having my cigarette, and smelling the rest of the thinner's evaporation in the room, i was reading news on my computer. I suddenly I blinked my eyes. Too much of thinner at once? My head was spinning. I tried to fix just one point on the table. then, I realized that everything around me were shaking. it was slow first, but seconds after second, it increased its intensity. As soon as I stood up, the chair was bouncing as if it was on a spring, I ran to the metal workspace, and one of the colleague was starring at me, and looked a bit lost on what she was supposed to do. Other members of the studio were already outside. So, were run out.

Funny images : cars were bouncing, like in rap music videos, but without any mechanical tricks. the 15 floors high building next block to us was slowly balancing for few meters. Yeah, these huuuuge buildings were constructed on springs. I just remembered that. And the cranes on the other side of street were doing biiiiig movement. Guys riding it didn't look really scared. As soon as the quake seemed to calm down, they got back to work.

Strange feeling : we were scared, surprised, and more over laughing. We weren't realizing what was going on. We just felt that this one was a pretty big one. But that was all. We were amused like kids when in a car, the dad's jeep goes into to the bumpy areas. It was just funny.

We went back. It started again. we went out. we went back, and again..

the 3 rd time we came out, we all said that for today, the studio where it wasn't an anti-sismic integration was done, we'd better go back home. One of our girl colleague said she wanted to go to her younger sister's place. Senpai said that he would drive us home, since all the subways were stopped. Bad Idea though. We didn't know at that point that we were going to run in more than 5 hours traffic jam.

and here we were. Stuck in the car, upset, pissed that everybody else were doing what we wanted to do ; move back or away. All the bridges were shut down. Tsunami could hit the bridges. How can you leave a city where you have so many rivers, without going through a bridge? mission impossible. after 5 hours car ride, I just dropped off the car, in the middle of the city. and walked back home. People were out, all going back home on foot. In the bike shops, up to 2000Euro bikes were sold out, coz people wanted to get back home at any price. Unfortunatelly, I didn't have that luck.. so after 3 hours on foot, I decided to go to get a nice meal by myself. Bad idea again : what I wanted to do wasn't original : they all went out for restaurant. Last supper. We were all thinking that at least, we should get a good nice last meal, just in case.. awwww. 1 hour line for a simple ramen.. ouch...

other random thought now : Sorry for the french.

ce qui est interessant dans la situation actuelle vue de l'interieur du Japon : d'abord une sorte de serenite, de calme, bizarrement un certain plaisir d'un changement certain du futur. On nous l'avait promis, on y etait. Les gens allaient manger peut etre leur dernier repas. Tous etaient sortis, mangeaient, buvaient. on se sentait aussi tres egaux les uns des autres. Finalement, la vie n'avait pas une grande valeur, mere nature nous la donnait, et elle la reprenait quand elle le voulait, quelle qu'en soit notre situation. alors, face a une terre qui se dechaine, une mer qui devaste, des tourbillons dans les vagues, des avalanches... on redevenait etrangement plus sincere et serein par rapport a cette eventualite de la mort.

l'autre chose interessante, et qui me vient souvent en tete en ce moment, c'est la Raison d'Etat. Ici, les informations arrivent en flots, des images catastrophes, des degats, des secours. 76h environ apres la secousse de 9.0 M, nous voyons les memes images en boucles presques les memes depuis le debut. encore et encore. A tel point qu'a a un certain moment, on se demande s'il n'y a eu aucune avancee dans la situation depuis le debut. Faut il qu'on s'attende a une prochaine secousse, comment s'en preparer, quelles sont les situations actuelles, ce qu'on en dit a l'etranger, ce qu'on en sait, ce qu'on ne sait pas etc. Que faisaient les autorites nom d'une pipe! (c'est bien francais ca)

L'incident de la centrale nucleaire pose trois questions : aux vues des informations qui arrivent : 1 on ne montre quasiment pas d'images d'explosions. 2 : pas de rapprochement directe meme a l'oral avec Tchenobyl. 3 : personne ne fait etat de la puissance de la centrale (1 reacteur ici vaut 4 fois la puissance de Tchernobyl). 4 : Chiffrages difficiles a comprendre pour le public, et meme le mistre d'interieur ne comprends ce qu'il dit. 5 : On parle de la centrale de Fukushima. Les autres centrales qui ont les memes accidents ne sont pas mentionnees. Pourquoi?

En fait, quelle est le devoir d'un gouvernement ou du mass media en cas de crise : peut il filtrer des informations a la population? devrait il le cacher pour eviter la panique (ca semble etre la situation actuelle) Ou est la limite de ce qu'elle cache et ce qu'elle divulgue ? La population s'y interesse t'elle? Quelle est l'interet de filtrer les informations a long terme, sachant qu'en cas de crise encore plus severe, la panique serait encore plus forte. Pourquoi ne parle t'on pas des aides des organisations a l'echelle nationale pour les victimes? pourquoi ca n'est pas a la TV? (genre les dons etc : )

Ce qui est aussi interessant, c'est la prise d'information au pres des jeunes, qui ne donne plus confiance a la Television nationale, mais les informations abondent sur Twitter et Facebook. La desinformation aussi surement....

A l'heure actuelle, l'ambassade d'Allemagne vient d'envoyer les recommendation de quitter le pays aux allemands vivant au Japon. La meme chose a ete effectuee par l'ambassade de France. A suivre donc....

The Guy, sitting on the bench. I felt it. He was looking at the shiny floor. He was regretting something he said, something he did. He looked so lost. He didn't know how to behave like, stupid, mad, sad, angry, liberated..? I could feel it. I could understand him. I didn't know what was this sadness about, the "something" he was sealing up in his mind and heart, but I knew the one I had in me. Coelacanthe. Chin-chin je me fais tuer.

2011. I have started to invite more people in my studio, to get more kickbacks. I am now moving some sample pieces there, to be sable to show new things. If you are interested in, Please let me know!

I haven't been painting for so long. For a corporate video, I now have to paint in a kimokawa style... Here are some tests..

Work in progress..