Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Finesse

Finesse is the name of the challenge for tattoo artists on Ink Masters Season Six produced by Spike.

I saw this show awhile ago and I was deeply impressed. It ran again today. Luckily the episode is uploaded to YouTube in three parts, and luckily it displays here as well. Thank you, Spike.

If you can overlook the unhelpful sound effects, and if you can overlook the counting backwards for "stop" instead of for blastoff then you can enjoy a spectacular episode that shows everybody in their best light. The episode shows how real and fun and direct Down Syndrome people can be, it shows how deep their relationships with relatives, it shows the hosts on the show in their best light, truly, they never come across so well as they do here, and the contestant tattoo artist all drop their internal nit-picking and their usual competition and concentrate of the task at hand.



Here is part 2 showing them working.

Here is part 3, working with results, if you care to see how their art turns out and responses to it all around.

I love that episode.

Down the list of search results are more Down Syndrome-related videos, among them one of a boy with Downs who would prefer not to be bothered. A large blond Labrador retriever gently insists they be friends. It is a sweet video with music added that goes on at length with no action save for a dog nudging a child, one wonders who shot it and why. It seems someone was minding the minder and recorded what they saw.



It has only two comments on YouTube. One says, "Poor dog." How rude.

4 comments:

Aridog said...

Beautiful video clip of dog meets boy...dog has no judgment in him, only friendship. Find me some humans with such unbiased affection. Boy is uncertain, but unafraid. Dog is simply affectionate without bias of any kind...not pity, not loneliness, nothing but affection. It's one of the many reasons I love dogs. Their "vision" is superior to ours in most cases. BTW..in a pasture a horse would act no differently...they just can't. I can only wish to be so purely affectionate without any bias. Is that even possible for humans?

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

I'm in love with that dog.

Methadras said...

This video always gets me because you can see that the dog sees himself in that child. He wants to be his buddy no matter what.

deborah said...

So sweet...what an affectionate dog. As the boy matures they'll be best buds.