Lovelines
/ An interactive portrait of passion — from love to hate — using real-time data collected from blogs
/ 2006
/ Data
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Note: Because of Adobe’s discontinuation of Flash, this interactive work is no longer functional.
- With:
- Sep Kamvar
- Downloads:
- Images — 7 MB
Lovelines is a portrait of passion — exploring the emotional topography between love and hate, as experienced by millions of bloggers.
It presents a stark white screen, bounded on the bottom by a slider running from “Love” to “Hate”, with a draggable heart that becomes scratched out to the point of illegibility as the heart approaches “Hate”.
As the slider is pulled through Love, Like, Want, Indifference, Dislike, and Hate, words and pictures appear that correspond to the chosen state of emotion.
Published May 8, 2006