Today's lecture was very impressive. I liked the fact that it dealt with artists who had political statements or some great meaning behind their works. My favorite work was The Cove. I feel like I need to see that movie now. It looks horribly depressing but I feel like movies like that need to be seen. They are biased and definitely ethnocentric but still, the footage doesn't lie. There are mass slaughters of dolphins going on. People may ask what the difference between them and our livestock animals are, with the intention of proving that there isn't really a difference. The difference is that we raise animals with the intent of slaughter, they are also so much less intelligent than dolphins. They aren't roaming in the wild and one day fall into a trap where they await their death, then they are killed in highly questionable ways. The way we kill livestock is gross, but at least it is more humane. Often times an electric rod is speared into the brain and it takes fractions of seconds to die. The animals in the movie were clearly suffering. It is sad when any animal dies, but it is especially sad to see such a massacre of wild animals. The projections by Krystof Wodicko were highly political and great. I thought that they were amazingly provocative and a fresh idea to the street art scene. He let his ideas out there and it was very artistic and well done technologically. I think that Kip's critique of him having a problem with the fact that the artist was not from San Diego but still wanting to create art about it, was ungrounded. People go to share their art style and bring awareness to different places, if they just stuck to their home town or country that would be exceedingly boring especially for a project like his.
