Comments for On the Neutron Trail

Comment on Nuclear Cinema as Cultural Mirror by Lorraine Hopping Egan

Lorraine Hopping Egan — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:46:27 +0000

Interesting analysis, beautiful poem. I remember seeing Atomic Café when it first came out—time to revisit this interesting film. I’ve added Scared Sacred to my Netflix Q.

The nuclear winter movie Threads (1984) is a documentary-style drama that stuck with me long after viewing, with elements of “white fright,” as you say, but sticking firmly to ordinary, realistic, day-to-day lives. Even as the existence becomes horrific (to us), the surviving protagonists (especially the children) adapt and accept what becomes the new norm with unsettling dispassion. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/

Comment on Talks by Dr. Marina Milner-Bolotin » Blog Archive » On the Neutron Trail – Positioning Change and Global Nuclear Disarmament

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:22:01 +0000

[...] friend of mine, Olivia Fermi, will be giving a talk about the Neutron Trail project she has been working on for a number of years now. Olivia is a great public speaker and I would [...]

Comment on TEDxTransmedia Rome, Italy by Olivia Fermi

Olivia Fermi — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:05:05 +0000

HI Carl, Thanks for raising this. The pauses were time for people to make their own links – and – I was speaking to a European audience.

Comment on TEDxTransmedia Rome, Italy by Carl

Carl — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:42:22 +0000

Hi Olivia…I was right there with you, as you breathed, I breathed, as you laughed I laughed…It was an amazing experience. You left me wanting more. I thought that the pace was a little slow, though there were moments where you were right on. I wanted clearer links…I understand, but others have not.

Comment on TEDxTransmedia Rome, Italy by Bernard Duguay

Bernard Duguay — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:40:09 +0000

Thank you Olivia. It was 4am and couldn’t sleep. Your insight helped me put my fever on the opposite forces at work inside my pressure cooker. Instinctively we try to relieve the pressure but sometimes more pressure in the equation makes the situation pop into the next quantum.

I have done a lot of museum / public (interactive) “pressure cookers” installations myself. I’ve always wanted to propose one to CERN. Would really enjoy talking to you about it.

Thank you again for your new light on a old situation.

Comment on Hiroshima, Petropolis and Trinity by jean marie girard

jean marie girard — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:53:57 +0000

Thank you Olivia Fermi to make public you own personnel inquiry. Tthe question could be, why is human being at war with human being? The current nuclear predicament is to me the traditional way for us human being to protect our self again our own fear, our fear that he is not like us? Our fear that he does not speak like us? Doesn’t have the same color as us? I guess, after all the work, thousand of year of trying to educate our self about communication; we don’t seem to realize how little we know about it.

War is everywhere in our society, within us, our family, our friend, our government, the riches, the poor, you name it!? We are at war, and from my perception, we have always been. We are surrounded by skilled, diplomatic, expert, in our personnel life by psychologies, interventions and somehow we don’t seem to see any light at the end of the tunnel. Most of us don’t think there is an answer to this cancer. This is our human problem, we need the right question if we want to begin to see an answer. Let me ask one, where does that fear come from? Why are we so afraid, this is no news, we as human being are so frightened, and why do we always pass it on to the next generation? Yes, the complexity of all that is mind blowing and at the same time we need to figure it out.

Comment on TEDxTransmedia Rome, Italy by Eva Waldauf

Eva Waldauf — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:23:41 +0000

Olivia,
You did a wonderful job! Truly impressive! You were clear and focused. I love the concept of holding the contradictions within us, as you use it with the issue of our Nuclear legacy. I agree we do hold the solutions within us.
I also enjoyed your discussion about your family and the feeling that you were expected to be a hero in some way, when you were younger. Holding contradictions within us is a sign of emotional maturity, life isn’t black and white and to live within that helps to deal with the realities of life at all levels. I wish you much future success!
Eva Waldauf

Comment on TEDxTransmedia Rome, Italy by Marina Milner-Bolotin

Marina Milner-Bolotin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:42:40 +0000

Hi Olivia:

You did an amazing presentation and you looked great there. I also loved how you used pauses… The idea of using the concept of a pressure cooker throughout your presentation was very powerful. It was a very unexpected idea to see how these different things can come together so naturally. The questions you posed to the audience are very powerful and relevant. And the slides you used are very good! I especially liked how you talked about your grandmother. WELL DONE!!!

Comment on Talks by On the Neutron Trail: Enrico and Laura Fermi | The Engine Institute, Inc.

On the Neutron Trail: Enrico and Laura Fermi | The Engine Institute, Inc. — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:04:44 +0000

[...] Olivia’s talks include images and thought experiments to stretch assumptions and empower audiences. Her material comes from following the Neutron Trail, her name for a trans-cultural inquiry into our shared nuclear legacy. On the Trail, Olivia meets with scientists, artists, activists and nuclear survivors to discover and share cross-disciplinary insights for the benefit of our world. http://www.neutrontrail.com/talks [...]

Comment on TEDxTransmedia Rome, Italy by Brian Harris

Brian Harris — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:04:35 +0000

Greetings Olivia!

Your central message of deeply knowing all formations that arise in our being and responding to them with compassionate awareness is one way of describing an aspect of the perennial wisdom expressed by our world’s spiritual traditions. Thank you for the ever timely reminder.

All good wishes, Brian Harris