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  • This is so cute. Kims little teeth are fucking awesome.

  • Interesting, the box metaphor. The focus on primacy of the object. The idea of museum as cryogenic machine. All very traditional. Museums must innovate and follow the community model like that utilized at the Oakland Museum of California which encourages visitors to touch objects and partners with communities in authoring exhibitions in particular cultural exhibitions of from all levels of society.

  • sometimes i think that the objects placed in museums are better indicators of the society and culture that chose to put them there, rather than being decent impersonations from the cultures and societies they originaly utilized them. (sorry for my bad english, its not my mother-language)

  • @giordano373 Your English is excellent, especially for a complex idea like the one you made. You should be well pleased with yourself there; well done.

  • I wonder is the objects are originals !!! ? I wonder how many are exhibition fakes.

  • Very nice unpacking Kim. You're a good kitty.

  • btw whats that tune/music called at 6:50?

    I hear it so many times but I dont know the tune.

  • @1NX9 Gymnopedie #1 by Erik Satie

  • @kokopelli314

    Thank you kokopelli! ^_^

  • @1NX9 my pleasure!

  • great video pinky & kim!

    keep it going, you just can have a criminal record *pling

    meow

  • i guess that is a valid way to see museums... but in a history museum i cant think about any whorshiped objects but people and what we can really decide what is important to display in a museum if most people dont have idea of history or idea of how thing were in the pass without museums and books we would not be able to see what things and people in the pass were like in person i also think that some objects displayed in museums were made by or belonged to people that shaped our history

  • Such an incredible critique produced in such a cute way!

  • 6:14 ...so true

  • Umm, what is the point of this?

  • @lordrah the whole point of this topic is that Pinky and her friend are bringing public awareness to the fact that a certain class in society dictate what are important events and objects in our history worthy to be kept preserved. This group of people are able to rewrite or totally erase parts of history to suit their self-interests. And as the future generations visit these museums they will view society in a distorted way. Gosh I'll never be able to see museums in the same way!!!

  • @mzique, ya cause, the local historical society is such an elite group working to rewrite history.

  • @Houshalter Maybe not in such a dramatic fashion, but what they choose to include or left out in museums shape our awareness on historical events and, in a way, it can lead to the rebuilding of a very specific version of history.

  • put your cursor on 6:06, play a bit, and click it again. repeat 20 times.

    you will not hear it the same again.

    @dpwaco that's gymnopedie no. 1 by erik satie

  • Does anybody know what piano song was playing at the end scene there?

  • @dpwaco i don't know the name of the song, but they used it in the 'man on wire' documentary. look that up and you'll figure it out

  • this is way too harsh on the museums, waay to harsh.

  • WTF - was that shit.....some sort of child educational program,.. wow it doesnt get more boring and annoying than that, hell of a way to teach classical values ,,, bravo!!!

  • awww lol how cute!

  • Thanks for your concern. Salute for Pinky's patience and coolness.

  • To employ impressionism...in the end...is a bit uncanny... ><

  • Brilliant! do one on uhm... the federal reserve.

  • What a cute voice.

  • Pinky be slangin them red pills, yo!

    One thing to add. I love what archeologists do.  They've expanded our knowledge so much. But I HATE when I hear them bemoan the tomb-robbing that took place in the valley of the kings and elsewhere. I know tomb-robbing was usually an inside job, but at least the proceeds went to feed somebody. Burying gold with a king is like giving taxcuts to the rich. I think that is another aspect of the museum viewpoint exposed here.

  • lol. the ending is quite intelligent. pinky become valueable object at the end. the rich owners of the muse-sume decided to display pinky in a glass case. Damn money whores.

  • i dislike college. thank god. i resigned after 2 years.

  • valuable = King Tuts burial mask

    Not Valuable = this

  • Actually i should rephrase that,

    Maybe they should have a stranger remove your dead grandmother/grandfather bones from their grave/ashes from urn, take it into an unknown building, plaster the item, and make you pay to view it

    You idiots!

  • Obviously all those negative comments posted below have no heritage or any ancestry.

    Maybe they should have a stranger walk into their home, take their grandmothers & grandfathers belongings, take it into an unknown building, plaster all the items, charge you to view it and make you never physically touch it again!

    You idiots!

  • Little black kitty, many older paintings & artifacts are considered important because they are among the few objects of that type remaining from that culture. Or environmental epoch. Most major meseums are open one day a week free, so even the poorest and students, can see the collections. Would you prefer that nothing is saved or seen except by the super-rich who can afford to buy and preserve specimens? Think about that the next time you are scratching in the sand of your litterbox.

  • @Jefferdaughter actually many musean keep alive thanks to the donations of the super rich people whos often decide who and what can be show in the musean or what not thing that next time that you try to seem smart!!

  • @stjimy - Yes the super-rich support and even establish museums. Many donate numerous works, many leave entire personal collections to museums where ANYONE can view them. When did you last take advantage of that chance? Since not everything can be shown, how would you choose? 

    Like in a museum, your comments on YouTube are a lasting reflection of who you are choosing to be. Of course, you - like all of us - are always free to choose again.

  • @Jefferdaughter I agree. 

  • The Taliban hates Museums

  • I like the fact that they bring into question how "value" is created. I would like to point out that this video is a flawed as the thing they are "investigating" Any point which could call into question the inference that museums are bad and that "regular people" are marginalized is omitted. For instance the notion that people who study art in schools are somehow brainwashed to think a certain way or adopt certain cultural values. In general the whole video flawed by overly simplistic thinking

  • @ignatz1967 u flawed by try to seem smart dump!!!

  • I like the music at the end of the vid so sad and hilarious!!!

  • Awww Kim and Pinky are so cute :^D

  • Museum means "place of the muses". What if the ancient Greeks had museums and archived some of their best works? We know of some great sculptors and architects from Greece's golden age and we've found written records of ancient Greece's painters but not a single one of them survives so we have no idea what they looked like. If we were to take what this show says seriously it would seem that we too would leave no meaningful records of our artworks to posterity. Sad.

  • @BadBunnyRides and @stjimy I'm not even going to read the whole argument, because, since both of you are being childish, neither of you are right. Take it somewhere else.

  • How cute. Cat + museum = love.

    It's sad though, because everything deserves to be learned, and shown in museums.

  • funny

  • I loved this! I work in a museum attached to a library and I was, frankly, scared to watch the way it was going. But she captured my own feelings exactly.

  • I think Kim makes a lot of assumptions about what museums are trying to do, and she may be projecting her own feelings about class, policitcs, and culture onto the museums. For instance, while she interprets the blank walls at an art museum as a tactic to to encourage object worship, one could just as easily argue that blank walls encourage people to evaluate only the content of a piece without external cues about its value or importance relative to another piece.

  • juliorexodus said: "I think Kim makes a lot of assumptions about what museums are trying to do, and she may be projecting her own feelings about class, policitcs, and culture onto the museums."

    ya think? surely kim's last will and testiment will include instructions to remove her report from youtube because she doesn't want to indoctrinate future generations with her values, wasting precious resources to "time-freeze" her video in the process.

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  • I wish you would get stuffed Pinky

  • Absolutely hilarious! And I'm the director and curator of a museum! --The Great American Dollhouse Museum. (No blank walls)

  • I love u pinky!!!

  • Still not seeing how you can be called "educational" when every program you have made distorts facts to your own bias viewpoints.

    Seriously, show both sides of things like this. You're no better then CNN right now.

  • Badbunnygay@ u are no better than nothing!!! asshole!!!!!!!!

  • @stjimy That's the best you got fucktard? Seriously, that is the absolute BEST insult you could come up with you internet tuff guy?

    Go away, you suck.

    YOU=FAIL

  • @BadBunnyRides WTF!! I need waiste my time to imprese you social retard!!! get a life looser!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @stjimy I'M a "social retard"?? You're the degenerate who had to start with the foul language. There is nothing in my first post that warrants your swearing at me. I respond with same and you get all huffy? Go away child, adults are speaking.

  • @BadBunnyRides again I wont waiste my time whit a retard!!!

  • @stjimy *laughs* wont = won't......waiste = waste.....whit = with.....3 mistakes in the same sentence calling ME a retard. I am laughing SO hard right now!!!!

  • @BadBunnyRides so are you really think that people of other countrys speek english as you!! that born or grow up whit the english languaje?? that is retard, retard!!

  • @stjimy Well idiot, all you had to do was use a translation program. There are plenty of free ones right here on the internet. They even have this cool new thing that checks your spelling! Isn't that great?! Now even a half-wit, bigoted, racist, moron like yourself, can type and it will be perfect.

  • TRULY briilliant!

  • BRILLIANT!!!!!

  • i love THIS!

  • That's a good one. I didn't get it at first but I see how a stuffing does not bring you closer to what the essence of the object used to mean. Very open minded way to have a transparent eye !!!

  • I'm likin this.

  • Whats the piece from 6:49 onwards?

  • its one of the theme songs for deathnote thats the begining part than a gunshot sound happens and the song becums more .....chaotic

  • are u sure...? Whats the song called?

  • a chopin sonata, not sure which 1

  • Are you sure?

  • I was mistaken....

    "Gymnopedie 1"

    by Erik Satie

  • Thank you

  • ...Thats just not true, museums where orignially private enterprises and many still are, In england most museums are run by either universitys or private comapnies and only overlooked nby the government to make sure that they aren't damaging historic objects and places of intrest. Before you say something pessimistic and say "everything's corrupt" have a real point to back it up...

  • @mangaissofun but point is that they were private fare away from comun people!! before try to say something positive see both side!!!

  • i dont know if i agree. may be to some extent. there are a lot of politics envolve in museums. I usto be a contractor for the Smithsonian in DC for the Native Museum. But some museum displays are based on history, now history can be biasest but some people do try to work hard to not included their biasis in the displays. For example if u have a display in Renanisance art u display the 'important' people that contributed to that movement.

  • a fair point, and one i would definitely agree with. although the video is enough for me to question why the mona lisa is considered as an important object and worthy of worldwide reference

  • This is why I much prefer the more archaic Museums. Like what they say the Smithsonian USED to be like. Grand, rambling collections to get lost in.

  • kim is korean

  • What is the piece of music at the end? Haunting and sad - I've always like it but don't know the name or artist.

  • Erik Satie -Gymnopédie No.1

  • i want to know too!

  • I agree with many of Kim's concerns about museums; however, at times she overgeneralizes and makes questionable assumptions. Museums, in spite of their dogmatism, in spite of their tendency to resemble mausoleums of the intellect (both of which are fair criticisms), can present us with works of art and/or artifacts that unsettle and challenge our assumptions about the world in ways that are otherwise difficult to achieve. If different cultures expand our horizons, so too do different times.

  • The point of the Pinky Show is to present (not promote) different and even marginal points of view. Kim overgeneralizes on purpose so that we can enjoy a different perspective. I seriously doubt that the Pinky Show is museum bashing. Lol.

  • Thanks for the reply. Overgeneralizations are indeed frequently of value in a satirical critique, which this does have shades of at times, but overgeneralizations are rarely better than acuity when presenting a different perspective. Further, the pov expressed in this video was hardly marginal: Kim's attacks on the established artistic canon and traditional museums are for the most part built on the entrenched cant of contemporary art and art theory. I too love the show, but this was stale.

  • Oh, sorry, one other thing. It is disingenuous to say that the Pinky Show presents different points of view, but doesn't promote them. The show absolutely promotes specific points of view, and, for the most part, I agree with the points of view they present. If you don't think the show promotes clear positions, I would point you to the video on solving illegal immigration and the video on the legality, or lack thereof, of the Iraq War as evidence to the contrary.

  • Everything said here completely reminds me of how compulsory schooling is.

  • Umm.. This isn't actually taliking about all museums is it? Cause i may not understand the value represented in a painting, but I can certainly tell you that historical and natural musemums have itmes that are significant to the time period or the subject being adressed. This is an over generalization of an type of insititute that has many diffrent catagories in it. At first adress all and then to make blantant refrence to only one catagory of musemums is a little deceptive, isn't it?

  • Museums are stasis machines that forestall entropy/decay, Assign value, And copy reality?

  • Dogmatic, demagogical and irritating!

    And what do they have against Boucher : - )

  • LOL Let me just point out one thing. the two cats actually have the same voice. and what makes things important? I felt like pinky thinks everything on earth is wrong or not going the way she wants things to go. Well what can she expect from reality.

  • I love the last scene of this video--it's so sad and hilarious at the same time!

  • @jongela its cool that she made a reference to damien hirst at the end or that german doctor who skinned dead people for art.

  • The Islamists are using the pirates to train their own forces in naval tactics so that they can provide protection for arms being smuggled in Somalia from Eritrea.

    Another shipment arrived in July and is reported to have contained large quantities of weapons including specialist sniper rifles, heavy machine guns, guided anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft guns, as well as ammunition

  • Sounds like you have been watching to much tv.

  • dam this cats are cute

  • i want to kill those cats

  • people like you are why most of the world hates America

  • that would be funny a dog comes out of no were!

  • Brian (family guy) comes out of nowhere and starts tearing there heads off

  • @saltzr then he rape ou and you mom before blow his brains whiat a shotgun!!

  • i like their moon eyes

  • i knew cats were a lot wiser than us

  • As always, you guys post good stuffs.

    Thanks for continuing to make movies.

    I like them.

  • I love these shows! It doesn't matter how serious the subject is, the fact that I'm listening to talking cats explaining matters of importance is hilarious. :o)

  • "so who cares". That bit always makes me laugh.

  • You're so right, Kim.  Authority fonts on labels are, as you've said coercive - weapons of the AmericaKKKan pig power structure to punish third world people who step out of line.

    I don't think many hospitals have poor people in their administrations. Why is that? Lack of education?

  • Pinky looked really freaked out.

  • See how the deck is stacked here? A bad example of Classical painting is shown, which suggests that all Classical painting is bad.

    I agree - get stuffed Pinky, and get yourself placed in a museum historical exhibit. I suggest the Philistines.

  • This video has a great message! Value is relative. It depends on you what you are gong to value or not. Look at the economic crisis. The value of the capital, land, and labor only exist in our minds. Our world still works without the huge amounts of (virtual) money. Value is relative..

  • Ever remember going to a neighbor's house to see a good painting or read an old book?

  • I have thoroughly enjoyed all of the Pinky Shows previous work, and then out of nowhere they hit at a museum?! With no evidence beyond subjective assumptions. Kim states that museum people fight nature, in order to slow the affects of time as much as possible, that is perfectly true, and so do doctors, medicine is about keeping people alive for as long as possible. Similarly the museum attempts to retard the degradation of an objects so it can be studied and presented to new generations.

  • i didnt know retard could be used as a verb, but the really wierd thing is that kim is actually pinky with a tweaked voice, specificly the pitch has been raised. i'm a "über-gamer" and so i have great 5.1 surround headphones, so i can hear pinky breath. i do not have the patience but you shall! google "youtube music ripper/downloader" get that downloaded, now search "pitch raiser" and lower the pitch, you should now be hearing pinkys voice.

  • The arguments made about whether the object is important before or after it is placed within the museum are reasonable, although I feel that it is predominantly art which is being talked about at this stage. The argument of what things being chosen as important and not important is just stupidity, and the use of the phrase people will be allowed to worship it is just another example of the bias that festoons the video.

  • 3. Diss the mass culture that treats us like dummies (feel bad? take a pill! feel powerless? buy a car!). Museums treat their visitors like they have functioning brains and inquisitive minds. Yay!

  • 2. A lot of education is needed to get a job in a museum these days due to the free market, not museum animosity. There are many people who would like to work in a museum (an idealistic environment -- I volunteer in a museum, it's nice) and many applicants have relevant degrees (unlike 30 years ago). Museums pick the person with a relevant degree and the most relevant experience. And it's not about money, they don't make a lot. Read: Museums: A Place to Work; check your library.

  • 1. Most museums are very small, staffed by about 3, plus about 10 volunteers. You seem to be generalizing from big old museums, which is surprising since you produce things like mini-zines. Diss the particular museum displays you don't like, not all museums.

  • I thought it said

    "we love Muslims, do they love us back?"

    More interesting I think...

  • hmm yes, a bit judgemental perhaps. but its certain that museums present us with a mainstream history and world view thats in line with the ruling powers view. and that in itself is always one sided.

  • Regarding the comment that museum people "who decide what gets to be put into the museum" are not like "you"...

    That's just blatantly false. Sure, there are some out there who are disconnected with the community they serve, but the vast majority of the people I have met through my experiences are down-to-earth, always concerned about how they are presenting information to their visitors, and extremely overworked but passionate about their jobs.

  • Oh! That's radical! Post modern! I like it

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  • xa xa xa!!! wondefull basic museology I loved it!!!

  • Lol That was really funny...the animated cats reminded me of that animated show called HOme Videos from Adult Swim....especially cause of the way they talk.

  • Does anyone know the name of the piano song played at the end of the video?

    awesome video! 5 stars!!!!

  • It is Gymnopedie #1 by Eric Satie

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    Why do you think this paintings in a museam? Don't you think its ugly xD

  • This is awesome! Fun and very thought provoking.

    Plus:

    lol @ 1:41 - Pinky gets patronising

    lmao @ 5:32

    roflmao @ 6:50 - 7:07

  • here is a better bushman.... search "bushman'" and "san francsico

  • It's not just what get's displayed, but the context.

    I remember the "Bushman" display in the Cape Town Museum (in South Africa) when I was a kid (30 or 40 years ago).

    It was in between displays of other animals like hippopotamus, crocodile, buck etc. in the "Indigenous fauna" (or some such) section.

    Now imagine young children's impressions - "Oboy - we saw all kinds of wild animals - there was Rhinos and bushmen and ..."

    ... and you wonder how apartheid lasted so long?

  • naw u gay lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • wtf we know wat a museum kim der der derr

  • The perspective is totally ridiculous, but it's also very funny.

  • and pretty much true!

  • LOL Kim is sooo stupid

  • omg sick

  • Geezz - whats the macrobiotic equivalent of wonderbread??

  • Doesn't everything require training for people to run?

    We already have the internet (a great invention) to manage what the people want.

    If people cared enough, then the museum would have different things, but to be honest, not enough people care enough about what is being put in a museum. The museum professionals have to tend to their clientele anyways who help raise funds for the museum.

    I'm glad there are trained professionals running museums.

  • railing against oppressive museums? this is rather embarassing, moreso than your other anti-establishment stoner rants

  • I don't really agree to this one although I like all other pinky show movies I've seen so far.

    There are different kinds of museums, not just art, that show you things that can raise your interest in new topics and new things.

    Then inspiration is a point to start from and to do your own research.

    When I was a child, I liked museums. Haven't been there lately, because I think it doesn't really give me the big amount of information within a short time that I usually want to have.

  • jesus christ thaat other cat is sooooo cute!

  • This is so true...how artificial everything is! Only weeds growing undisturbed in nature are "real." Everything else is part of the Establishment.

  • This is such utter crap, "it looks like a temple to make you worship it" wtf?! Ludicrous. Cehbeach is correct this is un-intellectual, subjective propaganda against one of the few good things to develop from society, museums dont make money & they offer free education for anyone who wants to learn. To pick on them is to pick on education and a vibrant history which explains how we got here and what mistakes were made. I would like to read this essay by Kim and pick it apart piece by piece.

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  • sounds like kim struck a nerve.

  • you rock

  • At the end it says "For Karen". Who is Karen ? ô_O

  • Wow, the anti intellectual left! Quick take a picture so that we can put it in a museum! Set fire to the Met! Blow up the Smithsonian! You must do it to free the masses! Sorry, Pinky, Suck a fatty on this one.

  • I have to agree with Pinky. And what about those libraries? Think they are a little bit biased and controlled as well. I know some librarians and I wouldn't want them picking out my drink or my clothes much less what children should read.

  • Libraries are totally biased, but the difference btwn public libraries and museums is that (ideally) the library is stocked with what the public think is important. For example, I requested that the library purchase what I assumed to be a pretty not-popular title. Turned out a bunch of other people also requested it and it was purchased. When people stop checking it out, it will get weeded. Libraries are totally biased but at least try to represent the communities they serve...

  • pinky can suck my left nut or my right...

  • That Kim is a very cute kitty-kat.

  • I don't think museums are "coercive institutions" at least, not all of them. People are free to assess what is/is not important themselves. However, there is alot (not just art) that is geniunely important/valuable and should be preserved in a museum. If you were to visit the Met. Museum of Art or the American Museum of Natural History for instance, it would be difficult to find much that doesent belong there. Also, what you consider "dumb shit" could be just the opposite to another person.

  • okay o.O

  • Stars and garters hmmm.

  • lol ur sort uh gay lol no offence

  • I'm gay. Why shouldn't that offend me?

  • Oh my stars and garters, you are hilarious. I loved it, the whole poorly spun invectiveness and your venom in showing museums as pointless and disassociated from the general population. It was just like O'Reiley, you really nailed the satire and directionless hate. You rock, I really appreciate the humor and laughter you share. Thank you

  • OMG!!!

    Talking cats!

  • Oooh! Louis Malle piano score

  • More precisely, Satie.

  • first nations voice, can obama include a way for americans to turn their attention to the world like patriotism focuses on the states. Love the whole world rather than just one country. Particularly the animals should be protected

  • Jackson Pollack?

  • were can i read appendix a

  • was it jus me or was this psuedo-erotic on some level...