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Kalle Lasn () (born March 24, 1942) is an Estonian-Canadian film maker, author, magazine editor and activist. Near the end of World War II his family fled Estonia and Lasn spent some time in a German refugee camp. At age seven he was resettled in Australia with his family, where he grew up and remained until the late 1960s, attending school in Canberra. In the late 1960s, he founded a market research company in Tokyo, and in 1970, moved to Vancouver, Canada. For twenty years, he produced documentaries for PBS and Canada’s National Film Board. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the co-founder of ''Adbusters'' magazine and author of the books ''Culture Jam'' and ''Design Anarchy'' and is the co-founder of the Adbusters Media Foundation, which owns the magazine. He reportedly started ''Adbusters'' after an epiphany that there was something profoundly wrong with consumerism. It happened in a supermarket parking lot. Frustrated that he had to insert a quarter to use a shopping cart, he jammed a bent coin in so that the machine became inoperable. This act of vandalism was his first (quite literal) "culture jam"—defined as an act designed to subvert mainstream society.〔(Kalle Lasn, ''Culture Jam'', Harpers Collins, 1999, page xv )〕 ==Books and films== In his first book, ''Culture Jam'', Lasn portrays consumerism as the fundamental evil of the modern era. He calls for a "meme war": a battle of ideas to shift Western society away from consumer capitalism. His second book, ''Design Anarchy'', calls on graphic designers, illustrators and others to turn from working in service to corporate and political pollution of both the planet and "the mental environment", and to embrace a radical new aesthetic devoted to social and environmental responsibility. Lasn made documentary films for 20 years beginning in 1970 - many of them to do with Japan, the homeland of his wife, Masako Tominaga.〔(Linda Solomon, "Adbusters' Kalle Lasn: the flawed genius behind Occupy Wall Street", ''Vancouver Observer'', October 12, 2011 )〕 His award-winning films include: * ''Bears and Man'' (Co-writer, editor) * ''Japan Inc: Lessons for North America?''〔(“Japan Inc: Lessons for North America?”, winner of Silver Screen Award, U.S. Industrial Film Festival, May 25, 1982, Elmhurst – USA; Chris Bronze Plaque - Category: Social Studies, International Film and Video Festival, October 29, 1981, Columbus – USA )〕 * ''Japanese Woman''〔(“Japanese Woman”, Silver Plaque - Category: Documentary, International Film Festival, November 9 to 23, 1984, Chicago – USA, Silver Prize - Category: Films Dealing With Japan in General, Competition for Films on Japan, October 8 to 12, 1984, Tokyo – Japan )〕 * ''Satori in the Right Cortex''〔(“Satori in the Right Cortex”, Award - Category: Documentary, Northwest Film and Video Festival, November 15 to 24, 1985, Portland – USA )〕 * ''The Rise and Fall of American Business Culture'' * ''The Autumn Rain: Crime in Japan'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kalle Lasn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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