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Arcade Fire meets HTML5

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Re: Arcade Fire meets HTML5

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The first time the map pops up I was dismissive. "Eh, so they mashed up a google maps thing with the video. Big deal. You can even see the google (r) watermarks. lame." Once it started in with the street-level images, swirling around, it started to hit me though. That was my friend's house! I remember when they put in that stone landscaping in front. A whole lot of memories came rushing back, of feeling the dry deser…

"A whole lot of memories came rushing back"

Me too, and it was made even more powerful because coincidentally, the running character reminded me of when I used to be on my high school cross country team and would go for runs around the neighborhood at odd hours.

Re: Arcade Fire meets HTML5

#54
this could almost be one of those turning points in html5 acceptance where you would say: and then i saw the arcade fire video and everyone has been using canvas ever since...

is there any more detail on how they made it besides chromeexperiments.com?

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