WeFeelFine is a project I learned about at the Beautiful/Decay: Vis/Ed event last week.
To learn more about Jonathan Harris, the mind behind WeFeelFine you can watch a video of him talking about this project and his new project, Universe on CoolHunting. Anyway…
WeFeelFine is a project that… Well, actually, they have a really good description of what they are doing, so let’s let them say it in their own words:
Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
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Beautiful/Decay’s Vis/Ed event yesterday at the Anthology Film Archives is the type of thing I would have told you about if I had been around last week and reading my emails.
Unfortunately, as I did not get a chance to catch up with my daily email reading, I missed out on the opportunity to tell you all about it. Instead you’ll hear how interesting it was in the hope that, as they promised, there will be future Vis/Ed events that I will be able to tell you about.
As part of Beautiful/Decay’s ongoing effort to showcase cutting edge media, ideas and creative expressions, B/D is proud to present Vis/Ed, an innovative foray into current discourse surrounding progressive and experimental new media today.
That is how they explain it, here is how I’ll explain it to you: Vis/Ed collected together 3 creative folks from the marketing and design world and then had them each put together a showcase of what inspires them (as well as their own work).
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So, while it may seem like I am shilling for a friend here, that is only partially true. I really like these T-shirts, I have most of the Beautiful/Decay Artist series shirts. Beautiful/Decay’s most recent line has shirts designed by Dust La Rock, Jesse LeDoux, Aaron Noble and, my favorite, Jan Kallwejt.
The shirts are available online at the Beautiful/Decay store or at retailers like Blades
Also, Beautiful/Decay is having it’s release party for Issue S this weekend
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