..Almost Famous..

A couple of months ago I receive this email..

Hello

My name is Jonathan Harris, and I'm a digital artist based in New York. A few years ago my collaborator and I started a project called “We Feel Fine” (http://wefeelfine.org), which collects human feelings from the Internet. Basically,
it automatically searches blogs for occurrences of the phrase “i feel”, and when it finds one, it adds the surrounding sentence to a database. The project has been running for more than three years, and collects around 15,000 new feelings a day, having gathered around 12 million feelings in all. We Feel Fine aims to illustrate the common ground shared by all people, making the world seem a bit smaller and friendlier.

We’re currently working on a book about We Feel Fine to by published by Simon and Schuster in the fall. In assembling the book we have searched through the millions of
feelings collected by We Feel Fine in the hopes of selecting what we believe to be the most powerful. From statements that made us laugh to ones that made us cry, the most important criteria was simply that they made us feel. One of
these selected statements and images was authored by you, and you can see it here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xxxxxxxxxx
And the text reads: “i'm feeling the love"

I’m contacting you today because I wondered if you might be willing to share further by allowing us to include your statement and image in the book. It is such a wonderful sentiment and would make such a great addition. You would
be joining several thousand other strangers who are also participating with their words and pictures, taking part in a new kind of experiment in mass authorship, adding your voice to this contemporary portrait of human emotion.

Please let me know if you would be interested in participating. It would truly be our honor. If you decide you would prefer not to be included I thank you anyway and
hope you will continue to express yourself as openly and beautifully as you did in this case.

Sincerely,
Jonathan Harris

The outcome???



PLUS!! We've been invited to the book launch in New York in December! Yes I know it's nothing that grand, but let me tell you, it feels great to know that out of the tens of millions of pictures, they want to publish one of mine. Awesome possum.

Am already making plans to attend the launch.. I mean, what are the odds? And you never know what could happen, so yes, i'm going...

xoxo
Drama Queen