Richard Serra, Art 21, and the Guggenheim installation

One of my favorite places in Europe was Bilbao, Spain and it was because of the modern feel of the city, art scene and the visual impact of the Guggenheim.  I started watching the Art 21 Series episode "Places" on PBS, and the first part was on the large installation inside of the Guggenheim by Richard Serra.  Being a novice of art, but throughly interested in the mindset of contemporary artistic composition and thought, the discussions on perspective and space were intriguing.

Crips and Bloods- Independent Lens

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/cripsandbloods/

This was a good PBS documentary on gang violence and gave some background on the Watts Riots that I hadn't been exposed to. This film was almost like the Hughes Brothers "American Pimp" but with gunz and death instead of bitches and money. The craziest part for me was when one dude said he knows people who haven't left the same 5 block radius in years because they don't want to get out of their gang's territory. In LA? Damn. They also gave some huge percentage of people in South Central who have never seen the Pacific Ocean, even thought the beach is less than an hour away. 15,000 people have been killed in gang violence in the last 30 years in South Central, and everyone in the press is freaking out about swine flu. When you see documentaries like this, it reminds you how much farther the path to equality still must travel.