Feed Final Project

Before I put together the collage of my Feed I thought about what it would be like to have one. And the first thing I thought about was the flashy pop up ads I see on the internet, because they get in the way of what I'm trying to do. So I think this helps explain consumerism in America right now and how Feeds are described in the book because they blocked the characters vision of the real world.

In the center of my collage I put a picture of the perspective of driving a car to show my vision of the real world. And all the things in front of that sight are the advertisements that would be on my Feed. There are ads for shoes, mascara, couture a laptop, many different things. These are all ads I found in something that I think is quite similar to a Feed, Seventeen magazine. I think these ads would be on my Feed because they already are. Seventeen influences people like me by giving the message that the most important thing is looking good. It's where people go to find the latest thing they should be consuming. It does actually work weather I want to admit it or not.

On the left of my poster there is a picture of Shawn Johnson advertising deodorant. That would influence me into buying it because I like gymnastics (and Shawn Johnson). But I don't know if it would matter too much weather things on my feed were marketed specifically towards me. I remember my mom and I went to the convention center and there was this guy selling these "special rubber brooms". At the time he made it seem like the best investment ever but we have not ever used them since we got them and they were just a waste of money. So honestly I don't think there really is any individuality with what I buy because I think it could be marketed to anybody and in the end we are all tricked into buying something.

The question is, are we anything without the feed? And I think the answer is yes because we aren't anyone with a Feed. In the story everyone is alike even though their Feeds market a little differently. In consumerism you lose your identity because you are brainwashed into believing something. You are all you can be without the Feed because you will think for yourself.

I think that a Feed would sort of be in a website format but in your head so above the road is a webpage like thingy with a whole bunch of different links for different products. And for those products are captions like "copy this:" "one color is not enough" "go big or go home". I put those there to show how persuasive the Feed could be. I imagine that it would tell you encouraging things like "well spent" after you bought something to keep you consuming. And in the very middle of the vision of reality I put the word feed in parenthesis. Because I think the Feed would want me to always remember to feed the only purpose in my life.

The background of my collage is of destruction. The reality of consumerism is very destructive, wasteful and ugly. I wanted to contrast that with my view of the world. With a Feed I would never really know how bad I had made it because I would be too occupied with my feeding. I don't know if this is a moral but I think the biggest message Feed shows is the destructive cycle with consumerism.