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What if words could grow as trees?. A while ago I did a visualization with the words of all Obama speeches, growing as a tree. I’ve updated my code and tested it with some of the words image I’ve published along the time.

Here you have my huge collection of words trees. The first one represents the Darwin book “On the Origin of Species”.

All these trees have a post reference and represent the most used words of a book, a speech or lyrics. The size of the words are proportional to the number of times the word appears in these books or speeches.

Think on it as a step after the word image creation. Because the words colours of these trees was taken from the colours these words have in the image composition. it’s like a combination between the original words analysis and the image colours.

All the images comes from vector based pdfs.

The most commonly used words of all Lorca poems.

The most commonly used words of all ACDC lyrics.

The most commonly used words of The Bible (New Testament).

The most commonly used words of The Bible (Old Testament).

The most commonly used words of all Bob Dylan Lyrics/a>.

The most commonly used words of all Bruce Springsteen lyrics.

The most commonly used words of the Che Guevara book “Diarios de Motocicleta”.

The most commonly used words of all Miguel Delibes books.

The most commonly used words of messages to Dennis Hopper.

The most commonly used words of all Iron Maiden lyrics.

The most commonly used words of all Gilmore’s Girls shows.

The most commonly used words of all House MD shows.

The most commonly used words of all reactions to the Sara and Iker kiss.

The most commonly used words of words from Jesus.

The most commonly used words of all Juan Carlos speeches.

The most commonly used words of all Nirvana lyrics.

The most commonly used words of all reactions after the dead of Leslie Nielsen.

The most commonly used words of John Maeda book “Laws of Simplicity”.

The most commonly used words of all Marillion lyrics.

The most commonly used words of all Queen lyrics.

The most commonly used words of all messages to Michael Jackson after his dead.

The most commonly used words of all Radio Head lyrics.

The most commonly used words of all Rollig Stones lyrics.

The most commonly used words of all TED talks speeches.

Lorca’s poems

Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca has wide range of types of works, but I like a lot his poems, like “A poet in New York”. There is a lot artworks related to Lorca’s works, most of them really beautiful. Probably because it’s inspirational wonderful works.

For this illustration I took all the Lorca poems (in spanish) and counted the most commonly used words.

A nice list, I have to say: niños (215), muerte (210), amor (199), agua (194), corazĂłn (193), noche (180), cielo (156), canto (146), blanco (136), estrellas (130), oh (130), rosa (128), ojos (126), ay (118), luz (118), quiero (117), sangre (117), viento (116), mar (111), mira (111), verde (111), aire (105), negros (105), granada (100)… and another 4.200 different words.

The bigger are the most commonly used.

Another illustration with horizontal text.

Anonymous names

Are they villains?, are they heroes?… I don’t know, this time you have to think for yourself. But I love the David Lloyd’s mask for “The Doll” (read about V for Vendetta), and how it mix with the idea of an anonymous group of people.

In order to translate this concept I took the top 1000 most commonly used baby boy and girl names in USA throughout 2010 from this website and spread them over an image of The Doll. The bigger are the most commonly used.

You can also take a look at the same illustration without legend or download wallpapers, 640×480 800×600 1024×768 1152×864 1280×800 1280×1024 1366×768 1440×900 1600×1200 1680×1050 1856×1392 1920×1080 1920×1440 2048×1536.

Another one.

Also with legend, and wallpapers, 640×480 800×600 1024×768 1152×864 1280×800 1280×1024 1366×768 1440×900 1600×1200 1680×1050 1856×1392 1920×1080 1920×1440 2048×1536.

One more.

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I have a dream

My little tribute to Martin Luther King . He said “I Have A Dream” during the March on Washington  in one of the most wonderful speeches ever.

Martin, we still share the dream with you… a global dream!

Like a Rolling Text

Hey man… Happy birthday!… Bob Dylan is sixty now (ouch!, seventy!), well the last May 24.. but I’m always late congratulating.

For this illustration I took 462 Bob Dylan lyrics, counted all the words and spread it over a photo of a young Dylan. As usually the most commonly used are the largest.

The most used: well (659), just (613), know (597), got (584), like (567), can (536), one (480), come (456), go (449), love (432), say (415), see (414), time (413), oh (366), now (363), man (361), get (345), said (330), ain’t (327), baby (310), tell (277), never (270), back (267), night (262), look (261), day (251), want (241), make (233), take (230), eyes (217), heart (210), turn (209), way (208), long (203), right (197), hand (194), think (189), things (185), away (181), feel (180), gone (178), mind (175), good (174), around (171), walk (166), lord (163), world (160), ever (159), home (154), need (153), still (153), old (151), friend (149), hard (142), call (139), head (139), try (139), door (138), keep (136), road (135), stand (135), must (134), hear (133), little (133), people (133), die (132), wind (128), face (127), give (126), made (126), town (125), even (123), live (122), crying (120), new (119), blue (118), life (118), much (117), went (117), yes (115), girl (113), every (111), god (111), always (110), please (109), ya (108), light (106), nothing (106), put (106), woman (106), leave (105), something (104), stay (104), last (103), name (103), place (102), trouble (102), may (101), street (101)…

Another illustration with an “up to date” face…


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