Tocky on 4/4/2009 at 04:06
I actually admire the hell out of that. He took a starving animal that people glance at and ignore and put it in thier face. They could discuss the various meanings and implications of it as it lay there painfully starving and wagging it's tail or they could FEED IT YOU DUMBASSES
If nobody fed that poor dog then it doesn't matter a damn what they thought of the rest of the collection.
Aja on 4/4/2009 at 08:26
Calvin: consequently, I'm signing this landscape. you can own it for a million dollars
Hobbes: sorry, it doesn't match my furniture.
Kolya on 4/4/2009 at 08:50
About that starving stray dog: This sounded like a typical blogger-story to me, where people get all riled about the cruelty of everyone else and hence can feel better about themselves. And guess what? That's exactly what it is.
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Juanita Bermúdez, the director of the Códice Gallery, stated that the animal was fed regularly and was only tied up for three hours on one day before it escaped.[6][7] Vargas himself refused to comment on the fate of the dog,[7][5]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Vargas) source
Ulukai on 4/4/2009 at 11:10
Quote Posted by LittleFlower
More terrible terrible nazi behaviour by artists who terribly terribly torture poor poor little animals for the sake of art.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3040891.stm)
I'm pretty sure the National Socialist German Workers Party never had any policies on the racial purity of goldfish - and besides, it wasn't the artist who pressed the "on" button on the blender.
He gave visitors the moral choice between right and wrong and one of them chose wrong.
If I see a bus load of people, and I throw a grenade, or even rotten eggs into it - is the bus company at fault?
Kolya on 4/4/2009 at 12:36
Quote Posted by Ulukai
He gave visitors the moral choice between right and wrong and one of them chose wrong.
How much Adam did he gain though?
Gryzemuis on 4/4/2009 at 13:28
I couldn't care less about a few dead goldfish. I do find the art in his project pretty crappy though. But I'm amazed how people can get totally emotional about some dead fish, while they eat animals every day all day long. If this art work wants to show hypocrisy for humans, then it works. But I believe that showing the hypocrisy of people is very easy to do. So no points with me there.
june gloom on 4/4/2009 at 18:03
LittleFlower invalidated his argument by comparing an artist to Nazis. Way to completely trivialize the horrors of WW2, asshole. Go back to WoW, the adults are talking.
Kolya on 4/4/2009 at 18:18
You sure he was even serious about it? What with the crazy word doubling in his post?
