Jonathan Harris makes projects that reimagine how humans relate to technology and to each other. Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art and storytelling, his projects range from building the world’s largest time capsule to documenting an Alaskan Eskimo whale hunt on the Arctic Ocean. He is the co-creator of We Feel Fine, which measures the emotional temperature of the human world through large-scale blog analysis, and created recent projects about online dating, modern mythology, anonymity, news and language.
The project I enjoyed the most of Jonathan Harris is his dating website and how he compared house windows to the little profile pictures on the dating website. I found this brilliant because it is true that we imagine other people’s life through their window and he was taking that idea and making it into everyone being trapped in an apartment window. That was a great concept and was unique because most dating websites just have small profiles and pictures. Then when he figured out that that idea was already created he created the balloon idea and somewhat had the same concept as the apartment idea but everyone was just stuck in a balloon and he would form words and shapes out of balloons. The idea was very well thought out because he had female balloons and pink and male balloons as blue. In addition, the balloon would be darker if that person was old. He also had different movements and speech bubbles to pop up that had information about them. This entire dating profile intrigued me because they researched very small things that plays a part in what makes the balloon dating site a successful design.
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