May 10th

Funky Friday at ILC today! We saw some videos related to the intercultural text of the ELA reader. The sushi tutorial video was reaaalllyy funny. It was quite interesting to see how the Japanese custom worked out from a foreigner's perspective. On the other hand, I found the Whale beer commercial disturbing due to its bizarreness. The blood shedding moment was unnecessary. As for the Rooney's video, I thought it to be very funny. Maybe that was mostly because it was my first time to see Rooney with actual HAIR. He seriously looks 10 years younger than before. Haha. Besides that, the video itself was also hilarious. So I was a little surprised to hear that most girls dislike that video... Or am I just being odd? Anyways,  as for the Japanese endurance comedy video, I just couldn't endure watching it. Frankly speaking, I didn't find any funny essence from those violent scenes. However, I remember one old Japanese TV program similar to the endurance show called Takeshi's Castle being very popular among Spain when I was living there. A whole bunch of rebroadcasts were done in European countries. And this fact shows how one humor from one particular country can transcend time and place, and also become understandable in multiple countries after a few decades. In other words, humor can be universal :) Of course, not always. 

We also learned how to get images legally. I'm going to try some out. I hope I'm doing it right!

cc image courtesy of 99 James Kieran Nguyen on Flickr