If you want to see what happens when you combine HTML5, the Google API, some Google engineers, and Arcade Fire, then visit thewildernessdowntown.com. It’s an interactive music video by Arcade Fire and Chris Milk set in your childhood neighborhood. Yes, you read it right, YOUR neighborhood. When the page is loaded, you are asked to enter the address of your childhood home, after which it does a little processing. Press play and the video begins. It uses Google Maps and Street View, overlayed with animations in several browser windows to tell a story. OK, it sounds a bit cheesy, but it actually works very well on an artistic level.
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