The Wilderness Downtown is a collaboration between Arcade Fire and Google via Chrome Experiments. Arcade Fire's latest single "We Used To Wait" is a charming tale of a boy (I believe their lead singer) spending his summers waiting for letters from his pen-pal. I love this band and all three of their albums so far are incredible.
For this song they decided to create and interactive, data-driven Chrome Experiment (you'll need a Chrome browser to run it), using HTML5 video, audio and canvas. It utilises a series of choreographed windows, an integrated drawing tool, Google Maps and Street View. Go there and put in your address, you'll be glad you did.
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