yahoo time capsulei picked up this gem after my buddy nathan tagged it. it’s the latest jonathan harris creation, the ‘yahoo time capsule.’ it two words, it is “bad ass.”

the basic concept of the piece is that peeps can come put any of their media (text, photo, video) into the time capsule, tag it with some emotions (“love”, “anger”, etc.), and then, it 20 years or something, yahoo is gonna open it back up. by that time the internet will probably be like… embedded in our brains or something. so in 20 years this is gonna be automotically released into our brains. moving on.

i’ve always been into harris’ creations, if not his personal sentiments about the projects, because he finds incredible ways to connect the content that people are already putting on the internet. i first became introduced to him through his 10×10 work (which i still love) as well as word count. these are still two of the cooler projects on the internet. 10×10 is crazy interesting b/c it is a completely automated news diary. it scrapes rss feeds from news sites and combines them with their associated images. it’s super tight. and you could lose hours seeing the different use counts of words using word count.

i’m really interested in doing this kind of work, but with more of a journalism edge.