The Wilderness Downtown

It's not often that I see something truly new online but the recent interactive video by Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin is an extremely fresh and interesting experiment in both interactive art and HTML5. The website/video/art project (or whatever it is) blends video, elements from Google Maps and the users personal sense of nostalgia to weave a surprisingly personal experience. Apparently the experience can be viewed in other browsers with some trickery but it's been optimized for Google Chrome so I'd suggest going with that. Check it out at:
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

If you found it as imagination capturing as I did check out the behind the scenes work at the link below. For what it's worth I have a hard time not thinking about The Wildnerness Downtown whenever I hear the Arcade Fire song that provides the accompanying music.

http://creativity-online.com/news/behind-the-work-arcade-fire-the-wilderness-downtown/145696