Google has teamed up with The Arcade Fire and video director Chris Milk to make a crazy interactive video for their song We Used To Wait, set… on the street you grew up on.
On the Google / nerd side, it’s meant to show off the capabilities of HTML5, branded as an "experiment" for the Google Chrome browser, but it worked just fine for me in the HTML5 compliant Safari browser as well.
Here’s how it works: You head over to thewildernessdowntown.com, and plug in the address of the house you grew up in. The video gathers up a whole bunch of crazy aerial and street-level panoramas of your street from Google’s satellite spy cam gizmos, and HTML5 video is constructed on the fly, dynamically layering in elements of the music video over your intimately familiar scenery.
You can even leave a handwritten postcard for your past self using a little HTML5 drawing tool.
After the video you can submit that postcard to be shared with other fans who can then respond to it, and it might possibly used in the band’s onstage presentations.
Originally posted by LikeASong:They're an amazing band, yup. Still can't get to ADORE them, dunno exactly why.
Originally posted by LikeASongStill can't get to ADORE them, dunno exactly why.