Shawns Blog

A lot of us grew up seeing dinosaurs drawn with super-tight skin stretched over every bone, like someone shrink wrapped them at the factory. You can see every rib, every skull ridge, every joint. For years, that was the standard way to picture them, and it honestly made dinosaurs look way more creepy and zombie-like than they probably were. The funny part is that no real animals look like that. If you took all the flu ff, feathers, fat, or muscle off a modern animal and drew it that way, most creatures would look completely wrong. A cat without its fur and fat would look like a tiny alien. A rhino would look like a bag of bones instead of the tank-like animal it actually is. But for a long time, people treated dinosaur bones like the whole story. That is where the “shrink-wrapping” problem comes from. Artists and scientists were using only the skeleton when trying to fill in the rest, which meant everything came out way skinnier, sharper, and more dramatic than reality. What makes t...

  After watching Fresh , the first thing running through my mind was honestly, “Damn… I really don’t think about my food at all.” I eat fast food, frozen meals, whatever’s convenient, and I never really stop to think about where any of it comes from. The film doesn’t waste time showing you the ugly part either—crowded animals, giant corporations, farmers stuck in contracts they can’t escape. Even if someone hasn’t seen the movie, it’s basically exposing the stuff we all kind of know deep down but don’t want to deal with. Before this, I never really questioned what I was eating; but after watching Fresh , I caught myself looking at my fridge a little differently. The part that hit me the hardest was seeing the difference between industrial farms and the farmers who actually care about what they produce. The sustainable farmers felt real—like people who love what they do and want to make good food without trashing the planet. Their passion actually motivated me. The tone of the film...