Entry #9: topics in food quest

 Hello everyone, I hope all is well, today I will be responding to this food comic. 

The first thing I notice about this comic is the visual representation. I notice the chef comes to ask the customer a question about the food. The chef is the one who made the food so it is reasonable to want feedback on their recipe and skill. 

However there is a further message that the artist wants to show the audience. That is, the egg beginning to speak. It makes this ironic because eggs cannot speak which is a main part of the message. The author and artist wants to convey the message that the things we eat are not or may not always seem like they are for the best of our consumption. 

For example, we do not see the egg in the first picture and the artist does this on purpose to show the anticipation of the egg wanting to talk about the feeling it has being cooked and consumed. 

Also, the egg speaks as if it wants the chef to feel guilty because the chef did not acknowledge how the egg had to be cooked in order to be served. The customer was about to answer but the egg takes over instead and talks about its feelings as if they were never considered in the first place. This also makes the chef feel at fault. 

Overall, the message is to watch what we consume. The artist did a good job executing this even through its simplicity and the artist achieved a strong message through subtle yet having to analyze it. 

That all for this week. Thank you. 

Entry #8: my concert experience

 Hello everyone today I will talk about my concert experience. 

On November 5th, I went to see Men I Trust! I loved the show a lot. I thought I was going to be there late but surprisingly I made it on time, the process was quick. It was like I had just arrived and was seated in less than 10 minutes. I thought it would be a hassle because it was downtown and a lot of people went. I had a lot of fun. The instruments and voice were so amazing. They ended the show with an encore and came back on stage and played my favorite song, Billy Toppy. 

Before attending the concert, I did not know I was going to go for sure. I commented to my cousin that we should go but not expecting the plan to actually go through. I suggested we go months before and to my surprise she texted me one day asking if I still wanted to go because she had already bought the tickets as a surprise to me. I of course said yes and I feel like I needed it because I was feeling overwhelmed and really unmotivated. 

It’s safe to say that the concert really uplifted me because I would definitely sleep late on a school night for this experience again. I still can’t believe I was listening to them on a random day on Spotify listening to the Oncle Jazz album and then in the same building as them right in front of me live. 

The concert was a fun experience and a way for me to distract myself from things that lingered in my mind. I hope you all can get this experience and feeling of letting your problems go for a little while to enjoy yourselves. Thank you, see you next time. 

Entry #7: Fresh

 Hello today I will talk about the film we discussed as a topic in our class. The film fresh is surprisingly about food, here I’ll answer some questions regarding the film as well as analyzing some parts. 

Fresh is a nutrition film that is used as a documentary that documents the process of food throughout the farms as well as the daily tasks a farmer goes through and the machinery use within the process of steps. The purpose of the film was to inform its audience about the process of food and the material or things in the foods that people consume. The audience is daily grocers as in people who buy meats because the documentary is based upon the meat and or farming production and what contains inside of the buyers items. It is used to inform the audience about what they are eating. The tone of this documentary is strong and firm which makes the audience really take into consideration the items they are consuming or buying from the grocery store or purchasing for consumption. 

The parts of the film that really stood out to me was when the speaker talked about his sickness that came from eating the farm animals and how the doctors could not identify what the sickness was either. I found it interesting how the foods that an animal eats also affect who or what eats that animal after. I thought it was kind of cool also because it is something unexpected and something I did not know affected the human body. The film itself made me fascinated in some parts. I’m not too much into the whole farming plot but it was nice to receive information that I did not know about. 

I think the film is useful to many people and it can make people consider their eating habits so I think we should care. It made me start thinking about what I eat better too. 

That’s all for this week.