Credit Card and IU Auditorium

 The article, Credit Card discusses the importance and when the credit card was first invented. The article talks about the process of how credit cards became so popular. In the article, it mentions that cash  has lost it's essential materiality. Hardly anyone to this day uses cash because using plastic is much more convenient. Credit cards are really convenient but they are also scary. It causes people to spend money they don't actually have.
 This article connects to everyday life because it talks about materiality of cash and how its use has disappeared just like the way with writing letters. Earlier on we discussed an article about how people using letters have vanished. The author of the article talked about he he wished that him and his wife wrote letters to each other so he can have her thoughts down on paper. Instead of writing letters, they just told each other how they felt. They didn't write or do anything close to a letter. Today's generation hardly ever send letters anymore. Our use of letters are mainly using email or text as our main ways of communication. Basically, we aren't creative and aren't as sentimental as past generations.
On Thursday we visited the IU Auditorium and focused on four different murals. They all connected to history and how things evolved. One way we can connect the murals to credit cards, we could start out with one side as showing people actually holding cash and depositing it into the bank while the other sides is images of people using credit cards.
For my image that interests me is a pumpkin that my roommate carved. I chose this because carving pumpkins is popular during the Fall and it's something I enjoy.

How the Fork Got Its Tines

How the Fork Got Its Tines is a really interesting article to read. It mainly discusses how the fork's tines came to be a thing. Also, it is mentioned that other every day tools are different and each tool is based off of any earlier items that are already here. For example, a knife was based on the flint. A flint is a hard stone or rock that had very sharp edges that could cut meat or vegetables. During the prehistoric times, people would actually use two knives when they were eating meat. They would cut with one and use the other one to eat off of. After this is when a fork's tines was made. 

"The fork's tines is what makes a fork work." The normal fork we use today actually started out with just one, two, or three tines. The fork was finally perfected with they came out with fours tines. Four tines made it easier to eat and just seemed how a normal fork should be. 

It's questioned in the article if our eating utensils really perfected or do they need improvement. I believe they are good enough but other people may have higher standards. The questioned about improvement can be connected to every day life. It is connected because almost everything in this time or century is thought to be perfect by the maker of the product. Since everyone has their own taste and opinion some people may disagree that the certain object is not perfect. For example, when things are hung on a museum's wall the person who is over the museum may think a painting is perfect but others may disagree. Excepting that not everyone thinks that someone's finished product is not bad is an okay thing because everyone has their own taste.