Fashionable meditations

facebook application, 2010

Fashionable meditations1

is an application that will generate a status update.

The algorithm makes use of your individuality in order to come up with a message that is just right: it strikes a balance between the ridiculous and sublime.

Go ahead and:

generate your status!

The algorithm has been based on drafts for an artist’s statement.


1 The title is a pun on the title of Nietzsche’s book “Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen”: ‘untimely observations’ or ‘unfashionable meditations’. We do not want to be that thinker on top of a mountain.

Source code @ GitHub

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