some foreign investment

I just finished reading Visualizing Data by Ben Fry which is an interesting book on the process of creating information graphics using Processing. After finishing the book, I went to his site to read his blog and came across some interesting things including the source code and data used to create the Radiohead video “House Of Cards” which was made with Processing and this site Wordle.net which allows you to make custom text clouds using any text you provide. I entered in all the lyrics from the first two Interest Kills albums and the following was produced. (* in case you don’t know, the font size for select words is based on how many times the word appears in a given text)