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How do you feel?

WefeelfineI wasn’t sure I should post this, because it’s not about a specific illustrator or artist per se (although it is something co-created by artist/designer Jonathan Harris), but it is nevertheless beautifully designed. It’s amazing and freaky and also a little creepy, because someone out there is harvesting your feelings. Sort of.

We Feel Fine is… well, it’s like a “robot artist” who spies on every single blog it can access, picks up on any entry where you mention how you “feel,” adds that information to its database, and then presents that information in a variety of elegant interactive animations. Here’s a better explanation from their site:

“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. The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 – 20,000 new feelings per day.”

We Feel Fine is the work of Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar. Jonathan has some beautiful, loose watercolour sketches on his site that you’re sure to enjoy too.

  • http://www.peterpencil.blogspot.com/ Thorsten

    Thanks for sharing, Luc! Indeed the right decision to put it up here at drawn! As it was great to see some German comic over here, too!

  • http://www.peterpencil.blogspot.com Thorsten

    Thanks for sharing, Luc! Indeed the right decision to put it up here at drawn! As it was great to see some German comic over here, too!

  • Nick Strings

    We feel fine is truly one of the most amazing things i’ve seen in a long time. Even if its not about one artist it most definitely deserved to be posted.

  • Nick Strings

    We feel fine is truly one of the most amazing things i’ve seen in a long time. Even if its not about one artist it most definitely deserved to be posted.

  • http://shalalla.blogspot.com/ shalalla

    Thank you for the links, this is so amazing. The paintings and watercolor sketches are fantastic, too.

  • http://shalalla.blogspot.com/ shalalla

    Thank you for the links, this is so amazing. The paintings and watercolor sketches are fantastic, too.

  • http://www.zuubu.com/ Paul

    Wow – I haven’t spent that long on a web site on my first visit for a long time. Simply amazing.

  • http://www.zuubu.com Paul

    Wow – I haven’t spent that long on a web site on my first visit for a long time. Simply amazing.

  • http://www.lamarica.blogspot.com/ marica

    Thanx a lotfor posting this site!!!
    It’s amazing!!! I posted it in my blog too, (obviously saying that u came first!)

  • http://www.lamarica.blogspot.com marica

    Thanx a lotfor posting this site!!!
    It’s amazing!!! I posted it in my blog too, (obviously saying that u came first!)

  • G2

    Brilliant. The first truly 21st century art project?

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    Brilliant. The first truly 21st century art project?

  • http://www.danielwgreen.com/ DG

    This is one of the most thought-provoking things I have seen on the internet to date.

  • http://www.danielwgreen.com DG

    This is one of the most thought-provoking things I have seen on the internet to date.

  • http://www.doodlestory.com/ Meteo

    That site put me in a trance..I feel relaxed after looking at it.

  • http://www.doodlestory.com/ Meteo

    That site put me in a trance..I feel relaxed after looking at it.