The Wilderness Downtown is an interactive film by Chris Milk that utilizes new web technology to create a totally personal experience. Built in HTML5, this experimental film can only be viewed in Google Chrome, the web browser built by Google. The song this film is featuring is “We Used To Wait” by Arcade Fire on their album The Suburbs. (The previous three links open in iTunes.)
If anyone is interested, here’s a link to my experience.
If you love typography and fonts , then you are going to love this interactive font selection tool, Fontplore. It’s created by students and staff at FHP to be an installation at the mæve.
Fontplore is an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases.Fontplore helps you to easily find the right typeface for your project in a collection of several thousands of fonts. It lets you browse, preview, compare and print the fonts you are interested in.
I’m not crazy about the objects you have to use to interact with the user interface but that’s a minor dislike. The rest looks really promising. I’m looking forward to the future of displays and how we use them in the next 10 - 20 years. I know that one day my actual desk will be an interactive monitor. Can you imagine a 52” touchscreen display, like the iPhone, to use to design and create digital art? I can hardly wait.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010