Just a quick update on nuclear power....

Just to add to my previous post on the subject;

Fukushima (福島市, Fukushima-shi, meaning "good-fortune island").

And i just read this in the Guardian;

Three workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been exposed to high levels of radiation after reportedly stepping into contaminated water as they battled to make the stricken No 3 reactor safe.
Two of the workers were taken to a special radiation unit at a hospital in Chiba city, east of Tokyo, Japan's nuclear safety agency said.
The workers, who are all in their 20s and 30s, were exposed to between 170 millisieverts (mSv) and 180 mSv of radiation.
This is above the usual legal limit of 100 mSv per year for nuclear power workers in Japan, but below a new limit of 250 mSv, introduced last week to enable them to spend more time inside the crippled facility.

So that's all right then.

Magnum Photograhy essay on the legacy of Chernobyl.

The Devil's in the Details

I've recently been receiving personalised adverts on the web for Portrait Professional.

Having browsed their galleries of examples there is little left to say, particularity about the "child" setting. All I can say is that "professional" is a loose, loose term.

We've become obsessed with an impossible ideal that goes beyond the tentative beauty of the human condition only to come crash-landing into the wasteland of vulgarity. And now after scrutinising 1000's of human faces, this company can prey on our anxieties with a new user-friendly interface. That perfect web avatar is yours for only a small subscription fee, and all you have to do is ensure as little physical contact with actual human beings as possible to preserve your internalised myths.

"Welcome to the desert of The Real".