Mimi Post

For my project, I decided to make a fake persona on Instagram: missing_alexis_anderson. Alexis Anderson is a Van Lifer who doubles as a travel photographer with her furry sidekick Bolt and decides to go to different places by throwing a dart at a map in her van. A Van Lifer is someone who decides to live in a van and just travel around. Linked in Alexis’s bio is an article by the New Yorker that goes more into depth about Van Life as the aesthetic of the Instagram page is meant to highlight her adventures and what she learns whenever she goes to a new place. There are many reasons why people do this such as having a love for nature, cheaper living expenses or the freedom to go anywhere at any notice. Similar to Richard Simmons, these people tend to be rather free-spirited and do what they want to do regardless of society’s criticisms.

Aria Wanek

For my multimodal project, I made a mini-podcast as a spin-off of the Dish City series, but based in Minneapolis. In my episode, I talk about Somali migration to Minneapolis, staples in Somali cuisine, and Somali spaghetti & how that came to be the de facto national dish of Somalia. I wanted to make a podcast to tie together everything that we’ve been learning about this year, and give me some insight into the production process. Making this podcast had shown me that any city can be explored and better understood through its food, and people use food to express what home means to them. Hope you enjoy!

 

This is the link to a Somali food blog with bunch of the recipes I frequently cited, some of which I tried out myself and ended up being delicious. 

If you’re interested in further research about this topic, this website is a good crash course in Somali colonization. I used other sources as well, but this gives a holistic view if you’re looking for a brief yet detailed summary.       

Eliza Schloss

For my project, I created a podcast episode called They’re Laughing At You (Not With You). I made this as a followup to Missing Richard Simmons. In this podcast, host Dan Taberski explained that Simmons was often invited on late-night television shows as a guest and was frequently made fun of for entertainment’s sake. In my podcast, I explore whether it is okay to poke fun and entertain at the expense of someone else as well as examine these implications. To do this, I examine other sources of entertainment. The link to my podcast is below. Hope you enjoy!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1043707/3534925

Isabella Silva

My comic for The Habitat focuses on the importance of nature and sunlight as well as a few other factors in correlation to your mood and even depression, especially relevant during our current pandemic. The sun character in my comic offers facts and suggestions about this topic, and I also explore how Carmel was affected while being in the dome, when she used to go out and run every day. The comic is fantasy-based and supposed to take place in our current time period, in this comic world even penguins and other creatures are affected by COVID-19.