http://www.afeverishdream.com Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:50:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (click to launch) After a three month hiatus, A Feverish Dream returns with Medals (After Stella). This Olympics-themed piece pulls its composition cues from Twitter, presenting a changing array of concentric squares in gold, silver, and bronze. The piece searches Twitter for recent tweets containing the words "olympics", "medal", and at ... http://www.afeverishdream.com/?p=266 Last month, from October 18th through the 26th, my artpiece Tweeting Colors played host to Tweeting Pinks, a small campaign aimed to raise breast cancer awareness. (You can read more about Tweeting Pinks here.) I pledged to donate $5 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation for each qualifying tweet, ... http://www.afeverishdream.com/?p=258 (go to Tweeting Colors) As you might know, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the color pink has hopefully been a bit more prevalent in our daily lives. My wife and I both have members of our respective families that have battled this disease. It has been a trying year for ... http://www.afeverishdream.com/?p=251 The alarm clock is about to sound on this feverish dream, but before I get to the residency post-mortem, I have three more favicons to add to Favify. The project started with nine favicons back in June, and now boasts twenty. The newly inducted: ... http://www.afeverishdream.com/?p=240 (click to launch) Tweeting Colors is webpage comprised of vertical color bars created by special tweets from Twitter users. New bars are added from the left, pushing the existing arrangement to the right. Working with the Twitter feed is nothing new to A Feverish Dream, yet unlike Journal of the Collective ... http://www.afeverishdream.com/?p=234 (click to launch) While I personally prefer tweeting over 'booking, I do value certain elements unique to Facebook. Specifically, I'm a big fan of the "Like" feature. The only ways to express any level of approval (or acknowledgment, for that matter) in Twitter is to either re-tweet an awesome entry or ... http://www.afeverishdream.com/?p=228 A Feverish Dream is going to be on hiatus next week, but here is a Favify update to tide you over. This time around we have three Houston-based entities, all conveniently found on Glasstire's Links page. Museum ... http://www.afeverishdream.com/?p=215 (click to launch) Ellsworth Kelly Hacked My Twitter is a real-time chart of postings from people I follow on Twitter. I have manually reduced the individual avatars of those I follow to a single, representative color, and each block shown represents an individual tweet that has come through my Twitter feed. ... http://www.afeverishdream.com/?p=208 (click to launch) Last week, in the midst of the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings, I paid a visit to the official website of the Supreme Court of the United States. I was shocked – SHOCKED! – at how out-of-date and, well, broken the site was. It's a visual trainwreck, yes, but ... http://www.afeverishdream.com/?p=197 One of the many great things about @cmonstah's blog, c-monster.net, is that it occasionally throws in something completely bizarre and unexpected. And one of the more recent delectable treasures is this. The song has – for better or worse – become a bit of a mantra around my house. I'm sure ... http://www.afeverishdream.com/?p=177