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on March 15
bigbutpretty
backed a project
The Media Show boldly goes to new venues by Gillian Andrews
Help us bring media and digital literacy education to more students. Get exclusive behind-the-scenes puppet fun!
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115% funded $1,151 pledged
- 39 backers
- Funded Mar 16, 2012
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on March 11
bigbutpretty
Posted project update #86 months in...
Post Comment…and one year since the 3/11/11 Earthquake/Tsunami/Fukushima Meltdown triple disaster in Northern Japan. As spring sets in here I’m hoping this update and call for action finds you well and ready to continue dreaming of a nuke-free world with us.
Today TALK NUKES! will be rolling the kamishibai bicycle along the coast at San Onofre State Beach, to the south gate of the San Onofre Nuclear (Waste) Generating Station. In NYC an excellent event has been planned for 1pm featuring an English cover of the song “Human Error” by Frying Dutchman–if you haven’t yet seen this performance, please take the 20 mins to hear them out!
Moving forward…
the kamishibai bike: 1950's steel...and heavy marine plywood box!
On the positive side:
- 52 of 54 nuclear power plants in Japan remain shutdown.
- San Onofre in Southern California is shutdown, too.One reactor is shutdown for scheduled maintenance, the other remains shutdown after a “tiny emission of radiation into the atmosphere” on January 30th.
- A California Public Initiative is in the works to shut down San Onofre and Diablo Canyon, our two nuclear power plants.
- Nuclear energy is slowly working it’s way into the conversational and mainstream news repertoire. Maybe not for everyone, maybe ever-so-slowly, but I do believe that the concerted efforts of a whole spectrum of activists and environmentally-focused leaders from Germany to Kyushu has something to do with this.
- The Talk Nukes! bicycle is up and running. We worked together to create 2 original stories based on history and shared stories. I didn’t complete the 50 readings in the way I’d envisioned doing it (50 points on a map type of thing) but by continuing to read from the wooden stage even as I made adjustments and repairs on the bike, I’ve done more than 50 readings–in about 15-20 unique locations across San Diego, San Francisco & San Luis Obispo. Almost every time I’ve done a kamishibai reading, I’ve had the pleasure of following it with a conversation, knowledge-sharing from personal stories & experiences, or enthusiastic encouragement to carry on with the project. So, I will.
- Sometimes people donate money after I’ve read. I hadn’t planned on that. Luckily I’ve got some extra media I’ve printed from the Kickstarter funds, so I’ve been able to offer stickers, posters and t-shirts in acknowledgement of their support. Anything I raise now will go to bike repairs and web-hosting.
- We’ve also been given permission to adapt the storybook The Invisible Bomb from the Japanese author Yoshiko Oshiba and Illustrated by Hayato Kato.
posters printed up for the 3/11 rally at San Onofre
On the “yet-to-be-done” side:
- I’d like to get the 1950′s Raleigh bike in good enough shape to do a longer bike trip. Go from town-to-town. Meet lots of people & tell stories.
- I’m still looking to compile stories of parents and children post-Fukushima in Japan.
- I need to build a working, easy-to-understand method for uploading and sharing viewer-submitted stories for kamishibai. help!?
- I’ve put so much effort into what for me has been a new medium of storytelling, kamishibai, that I haven’t done the best job documenting the way I might have normally: photos, videos, vlogs, etc. A friend recently offered to work with me on documenting with video. I’ll take her up on the offer. ( I do try and post regular updates on the Talk Nukes! Flickr account, though)
- there are still 4,000 tons of high-level waste sitting in temporary storage just 48 miles up the coast from where I live, and undoubtedly within a few hundred miles from where you live. The nuke industry still wants to move forward with the production of nuclear waste despite having NO PLAN for waste storage.
More updates soon including reflections on the 3/11 rally here at San Onofre.
until then,
TALK NUKES!
(copied from : http://talknukes.com/2012/03/11/talk-nukes-its-been-6-months/)
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on December 29
bigbutpretty
backed a project
Surviving Japan by Chris Noland
-An American Volunteer living in Japan suddenly finds himself Inside the 2011 Japanese Tsunami relief & nuclear crisis.
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123% funded $6,154 pledged
- 70 backers
- Funded Jan 13, 2012
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on October 19, 2011
bigbutpretty
Posted project update #7October 19th-- pre-season for TALK NUKES!
Post CommentGreetings beloved backers & followers of TALK NUKES!
It's been over a month now since this project was backed, and nearly a month since my last update, so I figured it's time to share exciting developments and give a heads up for some exciting benchmarks coming up.
Talk Nukes! in local media:
The article worked out with San Diego City Beat!Ten Creators Harness the Power of Online Fundraising (no pun intended about power?) Talk Nukes! is the 10th and final project profiled in this cover story by Kinsee Morlan.
Today Talk Nukes! was mentioned in the coverage of a city council meeting in nearby San Clemente (5 miles from San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant)-- during the public communication section of this agenda item, I used my 3 minute slot to TALK NUKES!
Doug Beacom of San Diego uses a Japanese-style storyboard to ask the San Clemente City Council on Tuesday to support a call for shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station's two reactors. Beacom said they were designed to be decommissioned in 2013 but will continue to 2022 and perhaps to 2042 while accumulating nuclear waste onsite. [OC Register Caption, Fred Swegles)
Actions and Documentation:
TALK NUKES! represented at the Coalition Against Nukes (CAN) Global Day of Action in Ocean Beach, San Diego. In addition to testing out some new story cards, we were able to meet former Congressman Jim Bates, who came to wish us well and discuss nuclear energy. It was a great opportunity to interact and grow a community of positive, concerned citizens dreaming of a nuke-free world.
Congressman Jim Bates is to the left of me in this photo (I've got my arm around my new buddy).
Finally, a new twitter & face-to-face friend and Talk Nukes! associate Darrin captured this short video of me, talkin' nukes:
Gearin' Up:
It's less than 2 weeks to my anticipated starting date of November 1st--and I'm happy to report Talk Nukes! is just barely on track. The printer arrived last week, I found a great 1950's Raleigh Roadster commuter bike (with kerosene front lamp!) complete with the "full stand" my new contact Asano-san warned me was a must-have for Kamishibai.
Next Steps:
Settle on the printer for screenprint items, switch over from talknukes.wordpress.com to talknukes.org & talknukes.com (I got the URLs, but they're not live yet).
My friend is doing the carpentry work for the theater box going on the bike--I'm trying to design it so it'll be easy to carry and use without the bike, too. I've already learned that mobility is key--people love hearing a story from the Kamishibai box, so I don't want to limit my audience to outdoor, bike-friendly spaces--I want to take it into libraries, schools, community halls, etc.
I'll post again this weekend with pictures of the bicycle, and please rest assured that your rewards are well on their way towards completion--I'm still on track to ship them in November. Original artwork will mail with thank you letters by the end of this month.
TALK NUKES!
PEACE!
D & Y & m & j (the board of trustees, Talk Nukes!)
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on September 23, 2011
bigbutpretty
Posted project update #6the first ten days of a 'backed' TALK NUKES!
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on September 13, 2011
bigbutpretty
backed a project
The Graflex Project "lucha libre" Mexico by Mark Mann
Photographing the amazing characters of "lucha Libre" (mexican wrestlers) in Mexico City with a vintage Graflex super D camera
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152% funded $12,164 pledged
- 211 backers
- Funded Sep 24, 2011
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on September 13, 2011
bigbutpretty
commented on a projectsorry I spam-advertised your comment wall--I just read in the guidelines that it's not cool--sorry about that. Hope you make it and I'm lookin' forward to my shirt!
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on September 11, 2011Funded!
Talk Nukes! by bigbutpretty
Bicycle-mounted, 'kamishibai' paper theater storytelling about living with Nuclear Energy in a post-Fukushima world.
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104% funded $1,150 pledged
- 30 backers
- Funded Sep 11, 2011
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on September 11, 2011
bigbutpretty
Posted project update #55th (and final!) Pre-Deadline Update
Post CommentWe are just about there. And we can't just top-off the last $40. There are rules about that.
So it's the BUY A BEER & TALK NUKES CAMPAIGN time.
Pledge $5, we'll buy a beer (and drink it...we don't have a liquor license) and then send you one of these GORGEOUS 'TALK NUKES' beer caps. (see below) They're handmade, filled with little treasures, glue & hand-cut letters from newsprint. They read: 'TALK NUKES'.
Pledge $20 and we'll send you a 6-pack (of magnets) to share with your friends (like beer!).
Why beer caps? Because they're a simple, fun, colorful thing to recycle. Why magnets? Because you can put them up somewhere visible--make it a conversation point.
TALK NUKES!
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on September 10, 2011
bigbutpretty
Posted project update #4Crunch Time!
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bigbutpretty
San Diego, CA
Big But Pretty = hairy guy. doing stuff. teacher by day, relentless dreamer & father by night.
Congrats guys! Awesome picture!