Posts Tagged web art
Twistori
Ok, I know I just posted a piece of Twitter-based web art last week. Since I discovered that, though, I’ve come across another one that I like even more. It’s inspired by We Feel Fine, which we showed you a few months ago. Twistori compiles new tweets with the words “I love,” “I hate,” “I think,” “I feel,” “I believe,” and “I wish.” You can select any of those six, and tweets will roll by. The presentation is simple and elegant. My favorite that I’ve seen so far is “I wish I were a llama in a great big llama world!!!” Check out Twistori!
Twyric
Yes, that’s a made up word, but I didn’t make it up. The Christian Mähler at Twyric.com did. Twyric is one of many web art projects that are taking advantage of the rapid pace of the creation of new, personal content on blogs and websites like Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, and others. Mähler’s program constantly combs through new Twitter posts in search of poems (by looking at hashtags). Then, it looks through the words of the poem, and tries to find tagged images on Flickr that it thinks pair appropriately with the poem. The results are mixed, but I kind of like that the poems and pictures don’t always make a clean connection or that either the poem or the picture (or both) might not be very good. Check it out for yourself: http://twyric.com/. It can also be your screen saver. You can even customize it to look for specific kinds of Twitter poems (like haiku) or Flickr images.
Here’s one I saw recently:
We Feel Fine
A while back, I posted a YouTube video called The Machine is Us/ing Us. It was an interesting and creative expression of the way the modern internet is changing the way we think about many different things, including art. In this spirit, I’d like to share with you a very cool piece of web art called We Feel Fine by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. The artists describe the piece as “an exploration of human emotions, in six movements.” Harris is interested in collecting stories, and this piece is constantly mining the internet for new ones. Every two or three minutes, We Feel Fine searches through all newly posted blog entries for sentences that begin with “I feel…” or “I am feeling…” It takes those sentences and as much data about the author as it can figure out, then displays them in a number of ways. Check it out here (http://www.wefeelfine.org).
We Feel Fine
