Inventing Interactive
This past week the winners of the 2013 UK Music Video Awards were announced. (Creative Review has a nice summary of the event.) And what’s noteworthy for me was it was the first year they had an Interactive Video Award. This years winner was for the song Kilo by Light Light, and went to Amsterdam-based design studio Moniker. I had […]
Take a look at “3 Dreams of Black” — an interactive web-based music experience. It’s part song, part music video, and even a little crowdsourced content. Directed by Chris Milk and developed by Google, it’s an interesting followup to “The Wilderness Downtown“, which they worked on last year. The interactivity is fairly limited — restricted […]
This week Arcade Fire launched the interactive video The Wilderness Downtown, based on their track We Used To Wait. Enter a street address (they suggest the address where you grew up), and a set of windows, with content synchronized to the song, delivers a mix of video, interactive pieces, and footage of your street address […]
Yesterday I received a Barneys Co-op catalog in the mail — in which all of the photos were shot in 3D. Because they used the red-blue anaglyph method, they also included a pair of glasses. It may be an old-fashioned technology for 3D, but it’s still pretty fun. (You can also see the 3D catalog on […]