9.05.2007

Continuous computer-generated "news poem"

Richard Valentin, former lead singer for the Poster Children, has created an art project called HOURS. Basically his computer scans the major news sites every hour, finds the two most common words, then prints them out on a continuous sheet of paper. A sample 24-hour period:
iraqbush
iraqbush
iraqbush
iraqkorea
iraqfelix
felixbasra
felixkorea
felixbasra
felixkorea
felixkorea
nuclearfelix
nuclearfelix
nuclearfelix
nucleariraq
nucleariraq
nucleariraq
felixiraq
iraqnuclear
nucleariraq
nucleariraq
nucleariraq
nucleariraq
nucleariraq
iraqnuclear

1 comment:

the plunge said...

This is actually pretty neat. They should do a meta one that prints the two most popular words from the poem at any given time.