3D Interactive Music Video for Chrome

“3 Dreams of Black” is an interactive film by Chris Milk for Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s ROME album.

Chris Milk was also the director behind Arcade Fire’s amazing Chrome-experiment-music-video “Wilderness”.

For “3 Dreams of Black” Milk used WebGL technology which brings hardware-accelerated graphics to the browser, without the need for additional software.  Chrome is one browser that supports WebGL.

You can read more about it on Google’s blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/3d-dreams-in-modern-browser.html

And can view and experience the video here:  http://www.ro.me

More great examples of the in-browser 3D capabilities of WebGL are located here: http://www.ro.me/tech/

Contributed by Francois Grouiller

Random Fun Typing Game

Typing Skills + Shooting = Fun

I kept waiting for subliminal messages to come through in the words which fell down.

This would be a lot harder if the words were all captcha codes.  That would be challenging, but would it be as fun?

http://www.phoboslab.org/ztype/

Play Russian Roulette with Your Virtual Social Life

A Miami ad school concept campaign lets you play Russian roulette with your Facebook account.

Sort of a reverse Whopper Sacrifice for higher stakes.  Interesting strategy capitalizing on the growing importance of one’s virtual life.

You have to wonder though, if this was a real concept how would it be spread if it keeps zapping people’s profiles, the very place where their friends would learn about it?  :)

http://mashable.com/2011/05/11/facebook-russian-roulette/

Teleport Yourself Around the World Using Google API

So cool.  Select the continents that you might want to see, hit Teleport, and you’re immediately in the middle of nowhere, Africa, or in a random location in Japan.

http://web.mit.edu/~jmcmicha/www/globegenie/

Contributed by Justin Visser

Pictionary Photobooth

Ogilvy & Mather, Colombia, created a live interactive experience to promote the game of Pictionary.

People stepped into a free photobooth set up in a mall, took “pictures”, and 10 seconds later, received cartoons of themselves as scribbled by a hidden cartoonist.

A clever immersive idea to promote a fun product.

Contributed by Jonathan Graham

Visualize Information Spreading Over Social Networks

See how information propagates on the web.

Done for NYT stories but the underlying code can be used by anyone.

http://nytlabs.com/projects/cascade.html

Contributed by Gareth Kay

MNDR Uses XBox Kinect to Create Music Video

Another Kinect hack – this one reminiscent of Radiohead’s House of Cards.

http://timbretantrum.com/2011/04/08/mndr-cut-me-out-video/

Narcissus Makes Every Movement Flashy

Narcissus is a desktop app for macs that responds with flashes of colored lights to your movements. Rumor has it an iPhone version is in the works.

What the Kids are Doing on Facebook

Draw My Thing is a new game on Facebook that’s picking up speed.

Users can connect with their friends or strangers and play a Pictionary type of game.

http://apps.facebook.com/drawmything/

Magnum Pleasure Hunt

Clever game site from B-Reel takes you through different online worlds.

Great execution on a nice idea.

http://pleasurehunt.mymagnum.com

Contributed by Caio Lazzuri