Wednesday, November 23, 2011

dog killers art project revoked

The artist Tom otterness was selected by the arts commission to put up some of his famous bronze sculptors. On three levels of the moscone station, but he recently had his project put on hold. Thirty years ago when otterness was twenty five years old he recorded a video of himself killing a dog he had got from the pound. The name of the video was called shot dog. He claims that it was art. But animal rights activist in san Francisco made reference to the root of the name of the city, which was named after ST. Francis Assisi (patron saint of animals). And with the population of dogs being greater then children there is absolutely know tolerance for killing dogs.
When I first read this article It was appalling. There are so many different forms of art and self expression. When it comes to killing defenseless animals there is know excuse or way to play it off and redeem yourself from that, its just morally wrong and insensitive to do such a thing. And I feel he’s lucky that all they took from him was his project, and didn’t throw him in jail while thy were at it.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Who inspires me


Handicapped youth inspire me. Even though they are born with unchangeable circumstances I fell as if though they live life to the fullest and don’t let whatever there handicapped there disability maybe stops them. I have a cousin who suffers from downs syndrome and a heart condition. Every day that she wakes up is a miracle because she wasn’t supposed to live passed her first year and she’s five. She only had to go through one heart surgery and she was supposed to be getting them up till the time she was sixteen.  The doctors also said she wasn’t supposed to talk or walk but she’s talking and using sign language to the fullest, you can barely keep up with her when she got a head start on running. There have been no limitations that the doctor has set that she has completely surpassed every bound the doctors have thrown in her way, but she has proven to be able to do so much more and constantly with a smile on her face. In the craziest since she has become my rock and my since of balance. Whenever I’m down and out I can look to her and just listen to the sound of her voice or jus engage in a simple thing like reading her a book or playing Legos with her and that brings me an instant smile just being able to be in her presence I feel like every hour or day I spend with her is a blessing for me because I get to be in her company. So truth be told someone like myself who have no mental or physical handicaps could only dream about walking a day in their shoes. So the next time any of us dare complain about are life’s I think we should check ourselves because it could always be worse.