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12-20-2013, 11:41 PM
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The artist Thomas Kinkade has made a fortune selling his idyllic Christmas paintings, which are saccharine-sweet but perfect for the holidays. In "A Victorian Christmas Carol," characters inspired by Charles Dickens stroll through a s**w-covered street in their bonnets and top hats.
It got the ad agency Red Pepper wondering what it would be like combining late-nineteenth century folks with tweets from 2013. They took Kinkade's painting and integrated Twitter's streaming interface, calling it "Christmas on Tweet Street LIVE! (http://tweetstreetlive.com/)"
It doesn't take long to **tice how ridiculous Christmas-themed tweets, full of (mostly censored) expletives and emojis, look in a sentimental scene from the past.
Check out this brief video to see how it works:
If you spend a couple minutes on the site, watching the tweets pop up in speech bubbles over the characters' heads, you'll **tice that Red Pepper used key words and trending topics to instill some traits into the figures. For example:
Tweets filled with exclamation points and smileys show that the woman in the red dress is happy, thankful, and a bit ditzy:
http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52b49e7d6da8113725fdd81d-312-355/tweet%20st%20dress.jpg
This handsome couple is returning from a day of shopping. The wife talks about her purchases while the husband complains about the ordeal:
http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/52b49f0decad04bb06f848d5-294-262/tweet%20st%20s**b%20man.jpg
All wishes for Santa are directed to this demanding little girl riding beside St. Nick:
http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/52b4a0a5ecad04d208f848cd-285-286/tweet%20st%20santa%20girl.jpg
All tweets referencing a memorable scene from "Home Alone (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099785/quotes)" get sent to this boy playing with a dog (and all tweets referencing "yellow s**w" get sent to the dog) :
http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/52b4a28f69beddc206966003-361-252/tweet%20st%20dog%20boy.jpg
The guy with the cane is a stand-in for Ebenezer Scrooge, who has updated his lexicon for the new millennium:
http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52b4a3056bb3f7236df848d8-289-279/tweet%20st%20scrooge.jpg
There are plenty more examples, and if you've got a minute or two to kill, check them out at Tweet Street LIVE! (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/%20http://tweetstreetlive.com/).
SEE ALSO: POLL: Apple's Christmas Commercial Is Incredibly Sentimental And Likeable, But **t Informative E**ugh (http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-christmas-ad-ranked-most-emotional-2013-12)
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The artist Thomas Kinkade has made a fortune selling his idyllic Christmas paintings, which are saccharine-sweet but perfect for the holidays. In "A Victorian Christmas Carol," characters inspired by Charles Dickens stroll through a s**w-covered street in their bonnets and top hats.
It got the ad agency Red Pepper wondering what it would be like combining late-nineteenth century folks with tweets from 2013. They took Kinkade's painting and integrated Twitter's streaming interface, calling it "Christmas on Tweet Street LIVE! (http://tweetstreetlive.com/)"
It doesn't take long to **tice how ridiculous Christmas-themed tweets, full of (mostly censored) expletives and emojis, look in a sentimental scene from the past.
Check out this brief video to see how it works:
If you spend a couple minutes on the site, watching the tweets pop up in speech bubbles over the characters' heads, you'll **tice that Red Pepper used key words and trending topics to instill some traits into the figures. For example:
Tweets filled with exclamation points and smileys show that the woman in the red dress is happy, thankful, and a bit ditzy:
http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52b49e7d6da8113725fdd81d-312-355/tweet%20st%20dress.jpg
This handsome couple is returning from a day of shopping. The wife talks about her purchases while the husband complains about the ordeal:
http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/52b49f0decad04bb06f848d5-294-262/tweet%20st%20s**b%20man.jpg
All wishes for Santa are directed to this demanding little girl riding beside St. Nick:
http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/52b4a0a5ecad04d208f848cd-285-286/tweet%20st%20santa%20girl.jpg
All tweets referencing a memorable scene from "Home Alone (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099785/quotes)" get sent to this boy playing with a dog (and all tweets referencing "yellow s**w" get sent to the dog) :
http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/52b4a28f69beddc206966003-361-252/tweet%20st%20dog%20boy.jpg
The guy with the cane is a stand-in for Ebenezer Scrooge, who has updated his lexicon for the new millennium:
http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52b4a3056bb3f7236df848d8-289-279/tweet%20st%20scrooge.jpg
There are plenty more examples, and if you've got a minute or two to kill, check them out at Tweet Street LIVE! (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/%20http://tweetstreetlive.com/).
SEE ALSO: POLL: Apple's Christmas Commercial Is Incredibly Sentimental And Likeable, But **t Informative E**ugh (http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-christmas-ad-ranked-most-emotional-2013-12)
Join the conversation about this story » (http://www.businessinsider.com/christmas-on-tweet-street-thomas-kinkade-2013-12#comments)
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