Althought there is an abundance of footage highlighting the profound depth of chaos and destruction laid down by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami on Japan’s coastline, this series of images showing the pre-disaster satellite image overlayed with the post-disaster imagery is one of the most dramatic out there. Simply hover your mouse over each image […]

Two short films from the Al Jazeera network highlighting the centuries-old fading arts of the samurai. You know we love our samurais, even if it comes in Chanel or Cat Armor form, so these hit especially close to home. The first film is about the last sword-maker in Taiwan who at 65 hopes to find […]