Second Living Bay Sweetwater @ home

My first mixed-media video debuted at the Linden Endowment of the Arts, Month of Machinima for June screening today. I’m so pleased to have my video selected for this screening, and so honored to tell the story of the brave robot who went inside the Fukushima nuclear reactor when human beings could not.

I dedicate this video to the real-life Heroes of Fukushima, the men and women who still struggle and risk their lives to contain this nuclear disaster.

The story is told by the poignant music of Loveshadow, We’re Gonna Need a Miracle.

"Kobian"-photo courtesy Waseda University, Tokyo

THEY Say

by Bay Sweetwater

See that guitar player there? They say he’s just a dreamer.
And that girl having visions? Just too out of touch.
See that guy who turns his cheek? Just a troublemaker.
And that old guy with frizzy hair? He won’t amount to much.

O Robot, dry your tears, don’t listen to what THEY say.
No one at this party’s seeing clearly; it’s all a swirl
Of smoke and mirrors; no one sees into your soul;
They only see your steel and wires, though you might just save the world.

My new machinima goes inside Fukushima through the eyes of the robot who went into the reactor when human beings could not. My entry in Linden Endowment of the Arts June Month of Machinima event.