Arcade Fire Show Off HTML5

This has been around for about a week now but it’s an amazing example of HTML5 (with probably a little help from CSS/JQuery too). The Arcade Fire new song “We Used To Wait” has been used as a backdrop to this music video that pulls images from Google Maps and Google Streetview from your own specified hometown. It also displays some nifty 3D rendered birds and other graphics within the videos and maps as well as some gorgeous looking fonts.

It must have been an amazing project to work on and I’d love to know how it was all done! I think I’m going to pick apart the scripts later!

You can view the whole thing here – The Wilderness Downtown.