We Feel Fine

Images by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar from We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion, 2009, an in-depth exploration of human feelings.

Drawing from a database of more than 12 million individual sentences that contain the phrase "I feel" or "I am feeling", collected over 3 years from personal blogs on the Internet, We Feel Fine presents a comprehensive contemporary portrait of the world's emotionallandscape, exploring the ups and downs of everyday life in all its color, chaos, and candor.

Published by Simon & Schuster, the 288-page book contains photographs from over 1,000 individual bloggers, thousands of statistical computations, hundreds of infographics, dozens of back stories and in-depth profiles, and countless insights into theextraordinary lives of ordinary people.

Jonathan Harris makes projects that reimagine how humans relate to technology and to each other. Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art and storytelling, his projects range from building the world’s largest time capusle (with Yahoo!) to documenting an Alaskan Eskimo whale hunt on the Arctic Ocean (with a warm hat). He is the co-creator of We Feel Fine, which continuously measures the emotional temperature of the humanworld through large-scale blog analysis, and has made other projectsabout online dating, modern mythology, anonymity, news and language.