Sunday, September 12, 2010

Music to use Google Maps by




One of the things Toronto is best known for is its vibrant music scene. Great music such as Lights, Broken Social Scene and Cowboy Junkies, to name but a few all originated here, and over the past few weeks I've been getting my music on. And speaking of music, there's been some nice stuff happening of recent in digital land on the music front. Like this music video from Lissie, which demonstrates nicely how an artist can use a music video to really capture the imagination of the audience. Basically using Google maps to determine your current location, the weather in the video changes, so if it is raining outside your window then it will be raining in the music video.

Have a listen here



Chris Milk's latest interactive, data-driven film using HTML5 video, audio and Google maps is something I'd been meaning to check out for a while. The film itself is a wonderful canvas for Arcade Fire's "We used to Wait" Stunning, emotive and beautiful, The Wilderness Downtown is great example of an engaging viral campaign.

Oh and incidentally if you're abroad in a foreign country where you barely know anyone, it's like self harm.



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