Kamishibai remix

Atsuko borrows some techniques of kamishibai for an audition.

Oliver: Why is she moving back and forth?

Ned: Well, first she speaks one part and then she speaks the other.

Oliver: She’s telling a story?

Ned: Through dialogue, yes.

Oliver: And pictures too.

Ned: It almost looks like she has done a remix, putting together a ventriloquist act with kamishibai.

Oliver: Kamishibai?

Ned: A story told using pictures and a frame.

Oliver: Refreshing change from the gravity of Gore, but she could use a little coaching on voices and maybe a couple more pictures.

Atsuko's performance here >

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Boiling frogs

Even Al Gore uses the analogy that we are ignoring climate change and doing nothing about it in the same way that if you put a frog in a container of boiling water then he will jump out, but if you put him in a container of cool water and then keep heating the water he won’t notice and will boil to death.

Urban myth.

Not true?

If you heat the frog he will get more and more agitated and then try to jump out.

Ah, if he can, you mean.

Precisely. Frogs boil to death because they can’t get out of the container, not because they don't notice.

Still the analogy is a good warning. When it’s getting hot, do something.

Mmm. Before you find you can’t get out.

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