The Wilderness Downtown

In an interesting use of mapping technology, Arcade Fire created an interactive music video with Google Maps that transports you to the town you grew up in.

“Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering… this Chrome Experiment has them all. “The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire’s song “We Used To Wait” and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.” (chromeexperiments.com)

Created in 2010 and directed by Chris Milk.

Click the link below, enter your home town and experience the experimental production:

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

(Its recommended you watch the video with Google Chrome)

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