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Ellie Goulding- Lights (interactive video)

Arcade Fire - "the wilderness downtown"  (interactive music video)

Here is yet another interactive gem by the arcade fire. 

The Wilderness Downtown is an interactive music video directed by Chris Milk featuring the song "We Used To Wait" by Arade Fire. It was one of three Grand Prix winners at the 2011 Cannes Advertising Awards. In this piece, you’re asked to enter the address of the home in which you grew up. As the music kicks in, Images of your first neighborhood and child hood home are incorporated into the narrative of the video. Where a hooded runner sprints down the rain slicked streets of what is implicitly your old neighborhood.

The execution for this idea is flawless but its already a couple years old and is not aging well. i kind of wish they would have been able to make this with the tech thats available now. There are several parts of the video that use these jerky looking pop up windows as a narrative device and it feels kind of like my computer is having an anxiety attack. It's weird, check it out you'll see what im talking about.

Au Revoir Simone - Knight of Wands (interactive video coloring book)

This interactive music video from Brooklyn dream pop band " Au Revoir Simone " is one of the most charming toys i've played with in a long time. The whole piece has this great spooky vibe to it that seems to be steeped in this sort of odd nostalgia for childhood halloween TV specials. (remember "Halloween Town" or "Are you afraid of the dark?" ??)

The set up to the interactive element of this video is really cute and classic. The slender hands of a young lady lay an old timey looking story book onto a hard wood table. This estately looking tome with its aged, worn pages, and tattered binding are turned to a magnificently cute line-art illustration of the three members of Au Revoir Simone. The viewer then sets to work as the colorist for this lovely drawing using the tool bar on the left as a pallet (its kind of like using the bucket tool on MS Paint).

Do Not Touch!!!  interactive music video aggrandizing the soon to be extinct computer cursor. 

"Do Not Touch" is an incredibly imaginative and engaging interactive expierience that highlights the cartoonish qualities of what will soon become a by-gone tool of the dawn of the digital age. The cursor has been our ubiquitous computing companion for over 50 years (the mouse was invented in 1963 by Doug Engelbart). It's elegant, intutive and almost unobtrusive design seemed as though there was little room for improvement.  The mouse and cursor feel like an extension of the user's hand. Its no surprise that the only thing that could replace the cursor is the ability to use one's own actual hand to engage with content.

Moones - Better Energy (interactive drunk video)

 This is easily the most hillarious interactive video I have had the sincere pleasure of finding on the interwebs! Basically, the band "Moones"(hadn't heard of them either) decided to use an interactive platform to combine their two favorite things; Drinking and playing music!

As the user you get to control the camera angle and  the amount of beers the band collectively had before their performance! As the video begins the beer toggle is set to (0 beers) as the video plays you can up the anty to "20 beers", "40 Beers","60 beers", or the penultimate "80 BEERS"!. This may come as a surprise to my more pious follwers, but their hand eye coordination and general motor skills degrade as their Blood Alcohol Content  increases!!?! by the time you click "80 Beers" their basically just shouting and hitting eachother.