This has nothing to do with graphic design but I had to write about this. What this elephant does is simply amazing. I have no idea how this is possible. Could it be fake???
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HOLY CRAP
It is real.
Saw it in Thailand in an elephant show. It is amazing but people say that the elephants are being tortured in order to achieve such a discipline.
They are torured at a young age in order to perform tricks etc. The mother is often killed in order to break the mother-child bond elephants are said to share. Whilst Im not the animal rights type, I think that its wrong to torture elephants for the sake of tourism. Design is definitely a good way to discuss issues like this.
That’s terrible. I didn’t know that.
That was awesome. But now I feel terrible knowing what goes on behind the scenes. Poor elephants.
People are are still profiting from these elephants with this “not for profit” website…..
http://www.elephantart.com/catalog/splash.php
I’m assuming they are continuously trained, day by day, to draw the exact same thing, it’s probably not even cognitive.