1000 cranes for japan
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I’ve been helping out my friend Alfred at Anomaly with his brilliant project, 1000 Cranes For Japan.
It takes the Japanese tradition of folding origami cranes to be granted a wish, and turns it into a way of showing support and understanding for those poor buggers who have been well fucked up by the tsunami/earthquake.
So in exchange for a donation, you can download one of the patterns done by top illustrators, such as:
Zeitguised
Jeff Metal
And Stuart Patience
Fold ’em up and off you go (I chose the first one).
The campaign has had loads of coverage, including Creativity Online’s pick of the day.
So, brilliant stuff from everyone involved (Unit 9 did the site).
UPDATE: you can consider every donation one in the eye for the planet’s biggest cunt.
Read an interesting article in The Times last week about why we shouldn’t send money to Japan, despite the atrocious scenes there.
Can’t find the article, but this basically makes the same argument:
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/03/14/dont-donate-money-to-japan/
World’s second biggest cunt, Ben. Here’s number 1:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366866/Rush-Limbaugh-mocks-Japan-earthquake-refugees-recycling-natural-disaster.html
Are you saying the Mail cunt is a cunt or the Japanese are cunts still?
Mail. Littlejohn.
Aye
Mail. Limbaugh.
‘those poor buggers who have been well fucked up by the tsunami/earthquake.’
Really?
Really.
Haven’t you seen the pictures and all that?
the mail cunt as he is, he has a point about the premiere league doing the minute’s silence thing last weekend.
A bit pointless isn’t it?
Do they now have to do it for every disaster?
Nowhere in this article does Littlejohn say he has anything but sympathy for the Japanese and the terrible events in Japan. He is reporting that, perhaps understandably, his Father-in-Law has no such sympathy. Why does that make him a cunt? Maybe he has said some stuff with which you disagree in the past but as well known clever clogs Aristotle once blurted out “It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without necessarily accepting it.” Or is it easier simply to dismisss everything everything he says because the accepted wisdom (especially amongst people who “Never read the Daily Mail” and therefore have no axe to grind, is that Littlejohn’s a cunt and everything he says is cunty. I put it to you, sir, that you are a narrow-minded bigot the equal of any Daily Mail reader. Do you read the Daily Mail? Or the Guardian perhaps? Two rags that are, as far as I’m concerned, two cheeks of the same intolerant arse. If you read Caravan and Caravanning then that seems OK.
Phlegmatic:
I think it’s cuntish to take the occasion of a country’s biggest tragedy for decades to point out why plenty of people don’t give a shit about them.
The article is riven with self-confessed ignorance (‘it remains a faraway country of which we know little and understand less’), hypocrisy (‘It is wrong to visit the sins of previous generations on their modern descendants’ is followed by a juicy old visitation of the sins of previous generations of Japanese, again, at a really tasteful time) and barking shite (apparently you shouldn’t grieve for the dead of a country unless you can point to it on a map).
It’s also cunty to preface a crashingly offensive opinion piece with an attempt to cover your arse by saying that you feel sympathy for the people involved. Similar to saying, ‘I’m not a racist, but…
Your quote on Aristotle is fucking stupid because you have no idea about my ability to entertain thoughts I don’t agree with.
I don’t dismiss everything Littlejohn says, or think that it’s cunty. I’m not familiar enough with his work. All I know is that my opinion of him from this article is that he’s a cunt.
And all I know from your comment is that you’re either being amusingly mischievous, or you’re not nearly as bright as you think you are. Most of what you’ve said is baseless conjecture and your accusation that I’m a narrow-minded bigot is without justification.
In fact, I think that by reading what you’ve said it’s fairly safe to say that you are something of a cunt, and not even as clever as Littlejohn.
Yes, that means you are officially a thick cunt.
Well let’s just agree to disagree.
Re: Really.
I was referring to your use of ‘poor buggers’ and ‘fucked up’.
‘those poor buggers who have been well fucked up by the tsunami/earthquake.’
Robin: I know.
http://www.1000cranes4japan.org/ ?
I’m guessing by the .org and text spelling that theirs came second.