Xmas Tweets (.com) is a website that presents tweets featuring the word “xmas”. The site searches Twitter’s public timeline in near real-time to present a fresh batch of captured tweets, revealing the wide spectrum of emotions found around the holiday.

Click here or on the “Launch Project” button below to view the work in a new browser tab.

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Trump’s Twitter Circus is a visualization of the president’s use of punctuation in his tweets. The piece chronicles his Twitter feed in real time, displaying the ending punctuation as a block on the screen. A viewer can mouse over each block to read the text from the source tweet.

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This webpage was designed and built specifically for that fair, and the voting mechanism was deactivated after the fair’s conclusion. Perhaps not surprisingly, the majority of fair patrons who were willing to participate voted for Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney.

You can view the archived web page using the link below, and then visit here to see some of the other design collateral I created for the booth.

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Two separate art fairs debuted in Houston in the fall of 2011. Houston Fine Art Fair happened in September, whileTexas Contemporary – the result of a disgruntled spinoff from the former – touched down in October, both at the same venue. Glasstire has a thorough article on the origin of these two fairs and the subsequent drama.

I wanted to have a bit of fun with these two entities and created a webpage that portrays the two fairs in a competitive manner. Each fair is represented by a floating construction of its site’s favicon logo atop a background of the Houston skyline. (Information on favicons and my sculptural rendering of them is provided below.) Clicking on each of these will allow you to “favify” the page, creating a swarm of smaller red and yellow icons, as show here:

About Favicons and Favify

Favicons are the 16×16 pixel icons that appear in the address bar or tabs of most browsers. Using Google’s Sketchup, I developed a process to extrude each pixel into a height, based on a its luminosity. In the examples below, for example, the black pixels are pulled to the tallest height, while the brighter pixels remain at a shallower depth.

Favify is a made-up term for allowing users to deploy multiple favicon renderings directly into their browser, as with this project. Use the red link in the sidebar to visit the project, then start clicking on either large favicon.

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Sculpture inspired by a 2008 article published by the Los Angeles Times.

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