Project #10 Translation Device
Description
Nowadays, people have a paranoia about losing weight. People will look for the best way to lose weight. Some of the ways to lose weight are extreme. I would like to show this phenomenon through a satirical representation of calculating the sugar content of the various ingredients in a McDonald's burger. Since people care so much about whatever they eat, why don't we show the sugar content of the burger. The way I use data feminsm is supposed to be challenge power, I want to break the stereotype of other people, exactly some female public figures.
Design Process
Many females might have spent their whole life struggling about their weight to be "perfect shape." Especially being a female celebrity, you are under the spotlight 24/7, and you have to keep yourself to fit in size 0 to be called "goddess". People always ask them questions about the diet or private lifestyle but not the questions related to their talents or works. So it occurred to me that if people really care so much about how much fattening stuff is in food, they might as well present the matter in a satirical way. I want to keep track of how much sugar is in a burger. Because burgers are representative of junk food. People don't care about how much sugar or fat is in a burger when they eat it. So if I use to mark out the sugar content of the burger, would it have a comedic effect?
So I chose the common burger ingredients of bun, lettuce, beef, tomato, ketchup, and pickle and then represented them with different colors.
Reflection
This assignment was arguably the most difficult of the semester, especially since I spent a long time calling the data.My current use of the API is still at a relatively basic stage, but I'm happy to know how to use this API data in my future work.