I just fell from my chair. Toronto-born, Tokyo-based entrepreneur, occasional artist and almost architect Christian Forestell (here a short interview) is right away starting the world’s largest painting project entitled Bikini Lines to benefit children orphaned in the 2011 Fukushima disaster!
Bikini Lines – The Cactus Dome Painting
Bikini Lines is a proposed massive, mixed media project inspired by a lack of standardized nuclear disaster reporting, in particular the panic that set in over Tokyo following the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent meltdown. Based on crowd-funding, the project’s main focus is on painting the huge Cactus Dome on the Marshall Islands, an enormous, foot-and-a-half-thick, 107m wide dome consisting of 358 gigantic concrete panels built over a nuclear crater, seriously!
Therefore, Christian is searching for artists, videographers, photographers and writers to paint, document and cover the event live. And of course the crowd-funded project is searching for supporters, so make sure to form your own opinion about this unbelievable project!
Sounds like a great idea and it’s probably a great chance to visit some South Pacific atolls. Their IndiGoGo campaign launches February 1st – I’ll keep you posted!
The Bikini Lines funding campaign just started. so go and crowd-fund this amazing project!
Christian
February 1, 2012
Brenna, this is awesome! Thanks for picking this up!
We’re super excited about the project and are thrilled that we’ve made it to Berlin :)
(Also, dig your site; very, very nicely done!)