What is Consumed.today?
consumed.today is a site documenting everything i consume (and what consumes me!!). bits of the feed have been tucked away into the archive, and the format has morphed a little over time, but the process has always been deliberately manual. i’ve been serving up daily digests in (somewhat slow-cooked) html batches for over a year now.
Why did you start it?
i started it in 2022 after finishing high school and learning How To Be An Adult in a big new city. i’ve always had weird consumption habits, but for the first time, i had full reign over how i carried them out. naturally, i used this power to mainly eat baby carrots, pretzels, spinach, questionable takes on fried rice, and hershey’s kisses.. while consuming more media than i ever had.
this project was a response to this erratic era, and has since grown into an experiment in archival and self-surveillance. putting it out on the internet (with the vague idea of that it might be perceived) sometimes makes me more aware of what i take in, and at other times, makes it all feel like a silly study in self-anthropology. in any case, it’s been fun to look back every now and then to see how it has served me..
Who or what inspired you?
people often say you are what you eat. i still don’t know who i am or what that would even mean.. but i do know that my diet of foods and feeds has shaped how i experience the world, just as my experience of the world shapes what i reach for next.
in that sense, i am (and this site is) a smorgasbord of so many friends, strangers, meals, and media.. each of which has fed me in ways in i can’t quite begin to map, but that have incrementally changed the very shape of my person. and i think that’s pretty neat!!
WITH LOTS OF LOVE AND A BILLION APOLOGIES..