Respons to kips lecture #5

Kip's lecture was cool, no surprise. He showed us a video by Tony Mendoza called "My Father's Lunch," 1999, which began with a definition of habit and proceeded to be a documentary about his father's addiction to Burger King. The movie was really funny and simple, very unpretentious. This guy's father has been going to the same Burger King for 25 years, every few days, and has gotten the same order every time, except for the medium diet coke in the winter rather than the large diet coke in the summer. It is really funny and I can't wait to show my man this vid cuz i think he'd like it. Then kip talked about personal narrative and the magic of seduction. He gave us this analogy of a donkey-drawn carriage with a passenger who has a pole with a carrot that he/she dangles in front of the donkey. The carrot must be at the perfect distance before the donkey so that it can successfully be pulled. He used this analogy to describe art - if you have a piece, it's important not to put the carrot too close to the audience because you do not want to be too in their face about it, this will result in turning them away. If you're piece does not have enough too it and bores the audience/makes them not really care, then the carrot is too far away. If the carrot is at just the right distance, then the audience will be intrigue and continue to stay intrigued and thus want more. The one part about Kip's lecture that was a bit odd/somewhat irrelevant is when he read that passage from his first book about fucking some fat white chick, or should i say, some fat white chick fucking him....this was a bit t.m.i. and i mean could have been appropriate perhaps in a different context - it was just really random when he busted into this story about some fuck encounter he had many years ago. hahaha still funny though.