This Online Christmas Painting Uses Real-Time Tweets To Show The Holiday Spirit Isn't
 

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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:

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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:

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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) :

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The guy with the cane is a stand-in for Ebenezer Scrooge, who has updated his lexicon for the new millennium:

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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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