Wednesday, October 7, 2009

"There I Fixed It"



These two images were part of a power point I received via email and can be found along with other interesting ones here. Besides entertainment, there are other reasons why I chose to include them. The first one, is the argument they present, that is: it might look ridiculous, but being resourceful and creative works. Even though to the audience this might seem awkward, clumsy, or dirty, the images still portray this message through the depiction of people's creativity. The man riding the bike with just one real wheel and the grocery cart serving as the other wheel depicts how resourceful and imaginative a person can be. Perhaps if it was someone else who did not have another wheel would have just left the bike resting on the backyard corner. Nevertheless, this man on the left takes a grocery cart, uses it as a wheel, and is probably on his way to the nearest store. The individuals cooking on the right were inventive enough to use a cart to cook their meat. Who does that? Most people would either buy cooked meat, buy another grill, or simply keep the meat frozen until they could get a hold of a real grill.
Another reason I chose them is simply because they are humorous. The scenarios are awkward because they are situations one does not expect. One expects to see a bike with two descent wheels and expects to see a real grill when seeing meat getting cooked; not a cart. The disparity between the every day reality one is accustomed to and the unique reality reflected on the pictures is what adds the funny factor.

1 comment:

  1. For some reason I really like this blog entry. It is probably because I enjoyed the images, and so it was easy to find the argument, comment on it, and write an analysis. Nevertheless, I feel I need to work on topic sentences. I mean I know a blog is not supposed to resemble an academic paper, but there still needs to be a clear idea of what it is I am talking about. For example, I feel that the last sentence of the last paragraph of this entry sounds like the topic sentence, which should then be somewhere on the top.

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