We Feel Fine – Jonathan Harris
I feel like writing a blog post about www.wefeelfine.org!
I stumbled across the work of Jonathan Harris today in another blog. He has a very imaginative approach to using information from blogs and the Internet in ever changing technological art work.
I particularly like We Feel Fine, which is a website that scans blogs for sentences containing ‘I feel’ or ‘I am feeling’ and grabs them, works our the mood of the poster, along with any data about the poster that is easily grabbed from the blog (age, gender, location, etc) and stores it for display in one of several inventive ways. It is a bit like a general ‘stream of conciousness for the Internet’, and quite humbling to read when you consider that behind each of those statements is a story to be told. It is a fascinating website.
He has a couple of other interesting projects too – Lovelines is a similar project, looking for ‘I love’ or ‘I hate’ and variations inbetween. He has a few others, but some of them seem to have been overtaken with spam (sigh).
This reminds me of the Listening Post project – which at the moment is installed in the Science Museum! I must make a point of visiting and having a look. Here is a YouTube video of it.
Kevin.
More odd contraptions
Whilst I seem to be in a ‘people sending me odd YouTube clips’ mode, here is another one.
Must have been good fun building this. Not quite as comprehensive as the Science Museum one I’ve posted about before, but pretty good none the less.
Kevin.
The largest mousetrap game in the world?
We recently went to the Science Museum in London, and as was to be expected, the kids spent some time in the interactive section, call the Launchpad. Whilst they were experimenting, I sat and watched an amazing film,called ‘on the move‘. This film presents a large machine, showing energy transfers (but also relying on a lot of stored energy!), which is part of a large ‘kinetic sculpture‘ by the group known as Engineered Arts.
This is just amazing to watch. I would really like to know if it was really done in one take or not.
Great.
Kevin.
