Week Five

This week I found the video with the two dogs and the tennis ball the most interesting. When I first saw it, I wondered if I had seen that on Sesame Street before. Someone mentioned that in discussion, which is where it was confirmed that the artist had done pieces for Sesame Street. The author of this piece, I see as an animal lover. I see this person being fascinated by animals and being very observant of animals. I can picture this guy making up little games and tricks with his dogs. I can picture this guy being very patient as well. It obviously takes a lot of patience to work with animals, its not like you can just make an animal do something right away. The thing I found most interesting about this piece was the dog on the left side(when looking at the screen) because he kept looking all around. The other dog was just very stiff following the tennis ball without hesitation. The other dog kept trying to outsmart the man by anticipating his moves and guessing where it would go next. It was funny to watch this dog freak out. His head kept jerking around to the other side, just waiting for more movement. I think the dogs have control in this piece. The man is trying to manipulate the dogs by waving the tennis ball in front of them and trying to keep their attention, however the dogs just look where they want to. The dog on the right was watching the ball dead on, yet the dog on the left was looking all over the place. My eyes seemed to stay on that dog to see what he would do next. I kept thinking he was going to run around trying to achieve the ball.