A heartbreaking and heart-wrenching crisis for Japan: a massive Magnitude 8.9 earthquake followed by a vicious tsunami wave that swept their coastline. Sitting here in Canada, it seems more like a motion picture story plot than a real event that happened just today. The video is terrifying and spectacular. I noticed it took the news agencies only a couple of tries before they started adding musical soundtracks to their montages of destruction, as if it really were a disaster film. News as entertainment, ruination equals ratings. I won't even begin to try to document any of that.
Instead, I made a cartoonish picture of Gojira, perhaps the unofficial mascot for Japanese destruction. Paradoxically, the Japanese have adopted Gojira as their national defender as well. For another Godzilla-like creation, please check out my original Ungood Art seceltion by clicking here.
Japan's Embassador to Canada Kaoru Ishikara referred to his own country as "a department store for natural disasters". The Japanese people train from an early age to confront and deal with these events. I hope and pray that they will rebuild.
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