We Feel Fine is by far the most beautiful and inspiring thing I’ve seen on the internet in years….it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve seen anywhere in a really long time! In short, the project visualizes a live database of several million feelings scraped from weblogs on the internet every 10 minutes, increasing by 15,000 – 20,000 new feelings each day.

We Feel Fine scans blog posts for occurences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”….once a sentence containing “I feel” or “I am feeling” is found, the system looks backward to the beginning of the sentence, and forward to the end of the sentence…

The feelings are organized in a series of different visual “movements” and each sentence is linked back to its original blog post for context (which is both disturbing and comforting at the same time). “Murmurs” in particular, reminds me a little of Slide…a ticker of expressed human emotions that can even be focused down to very specific ones (and filtered by age, gender, weather, location and date). I’d launch the applet and play with all the movements for a while before reading the statement and methodology behind the project, if only because it really is mesmerizing and best experienced without too many a priori notions i think.

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