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!"
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:
This handsome couple is returning from a day of shopping. The wife talks about her purchases while the husband complains about the ordeal:
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All wishes for Santa are directed to
This demanding little girl riding beside St. Nick:
All
Tweets referencing a memorable scene from "
Home Alone" get sent to
This boy playing with a dog (and all
Tweets referencing "yellow s**w" get sent to the dog) :
The guy with the cane is a stand-in for Ebenezer Scrooge, who has updated his lexicon for the new millennium:
There are plenty more examples, and if you've got a minute or two to kill, check them out at
Tweet Street LIVE!.
SEE ALSO: POLL: Apple's Christmas Commercial Is Incredibly Sentimental And Likeable, But **t Informative E**ugh
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