We feel fine

February 4, 2007 at 4:54 pm · Filed under Design, Geek Culture & Tech

We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale. 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.) Pretty cool idea, right?

What I really love about this exploration though is the brilliant flash interface, complete with the charming graphics. The colored speckles represent emotions, and I love the way they interact with one another, bouncing off each other in complete harmony. Jonathan Harris is a genius.

Naturally though, trust me to fall in love with anything that involves colors, balls and gravity. Doesn’t this experiment remind you of the Bravia ad?

Check out We Feel Fine here, meanwhile, I’ve personally been feeling absolutely wonderful lately!

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  • http://hareega.blogspot.com Hareega

    when i saw the picture with the black background the the dots on it i thought my computer screen was broken and I went crazy, but now I realzied it’s just the picture, so now I feel better, I feel fine

  • http://deessedechocolat.spaces.live.com/ nada

    hehe i saw the pics before reading the post and the first thing that struck my mind was the bravia ad…

    this thing is AMAZING!!

  • http://andfaraway.net Roba

    hehe 7aram Hareega! La22 dude, whenever you come here, don’t worry about the screen :P

    Nada, yeah! That was the first thing that crossed my mind. Did you move the mouse over the balls? It’s soooo cool

  • Nick

    Wow – this thing is really amazing!

  • Sam_carpenter

    I think most of the people who can’t afford to have Pc, or internet, are feeling bad, sad, hungry, killed…Etc. most of the people who can afford to have stuff like internet they are properly feeling good. There are a lot of hunger, diseases, and wars killing people, they don’t have time to post a comment to say “I Feel”, maybe just by media, we can see those big black balls eyes, or maybe not because they are already died.!

    But any way I think its cool idea!

  • http://iman-a.com Iman

    kewl.

    Did you notice that Jordan is not on the list of countries..or did I miss it?

    israel is on the list. It was interesting reading the feelings out of israel. check them out if you haven’t.

  • http://q-reflections.blogspot.com/ Q

    I think the idea is absolutely brilliant. For a second you feel you can almost grasp the bigger picture. You can see the insides of people, and you can relate to them much more easily. It doesn’t matter what they do, what language they speak, what they look like, or where they come from. All these differences melt away and you see everyone through their feelings, as humans….