Friday, May 8, 2009

"Feed" Visual Essay




My theme is how to much technology isn't always a good thing. This robot is a hat that does whatever you command,...but really it has a mind of it's on. This robot hat is from the movie, "Meet the Robinsons". This movie is about a boy who grew up as an orphan and in the future became a great inventor but happened to invent a robot hat on the way that in the future would begin taking over the world. How the robot hat would relate to the book "Feed" is how the "feed" takes over 73% of the population and basically does anything you would command or think about to do. How that would relate to the robot hat from "Meet the Robinsons" is that is also does whatever you command and also can control others to do anything you'd like. Both "feed" and the "robot hat" controls others, without them even knowing!



My theme for this photo would be the way we grow up will forever stay with us. Why do I say this? I say this because, I am hmong. My ancestors may have came from Laos or Thai but I was born a U.S. citizen. I've lived in the U.S. all my life and still do now. But, because I was brought up the way I did I would have never imagined even growing up without electricity, healthy nutritious food, medical treatment, and come to even imagine what others have gone through without all these things...and how the even came to survive such things. For example: Amish people live all there life without any electricity at all! As for the all Americans, they grew up with nothing, but as the years went by, more and more things were discovered and invented. New ideas just kept coming and coming over the years. How this would relate to the book "Feed" is that,...about 73% of the population has the "feed," because, without the feed, there were less opportunities for you, such as: jobs and etc. Titus and his friends grew up this way, that's why they reacted the way they did when meeting such a person like Violet. Who she had lived without the "feed" until the age of seven. She had experienced living a totally normal life before getting the "feed" who feeds you all of your desires and the latest trends, music and etc. We grow up to an environment, thinking that the way it's always been...is considered "normal." Who would have thought that something as strange and powerful as the "feed" would come along. It would change the society forever. What use to matter seems to not matter as much, just like being discarded...never existent, just gone. How we grow up would always have an impact on us because it's what we know. Let me say that again, "it's what we know." Change, is what we can't face. What matters is who's going to stand up for the other percentage,...looking at the outcome of it all. To be honest, and from my experience,...there's not many of us that do stand up for the other percentage. If so, what shall be done to change the other 73% who's against us? Especially when the so-call government is part of that 73%. We grow up, wanting to improve the economy, but we need to look for the good in bad in what's it's worth when doing it. In the book "feed," many of them had no idea of what it was like without the feed, because that's how they grew up. It's like, the basics against the upgrades,...the regulars against the awesome(s). What'll the outcome be? Who's going to change it? We need understandment!

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