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Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada

Data-mining your childhood

Inspired by our discussion today… The Wilderness Downtown takes the address of the place where you grew up and sources images from Google Maps and Street View to tailor an HTML5 music video of Arcade Fire’s “We Used to Wait” to “your own” childhood memories. Here’s a behind-the-scenes video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKg2HJ_qvKA

And here’s the actual interactive site, which requires the use of the Chrome browser:

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

And speaking of data-mining, here’s a fun public service announcement – Amazing mind reader reveals his ‘gift’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pYHN9iC9I

Wed, November 11 2015 » database, dreams, future cinema 2015, interactivity, remix/mashup, surveillance

2 Responses

  1. Caitlin November 12 2015 @ 8:10 am

    oh, I love that one.

    here some video documentation of the other experiment I mentioned: take this Lollipop:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4obWARnZeAs

    not sure if it’s still an active experience, but you might do a search via Facebook to see if you can still do it.

  2. Alison Humphrey November 12 2015 @ 8:55 am

    Cool! Here’s the site, which still looks like it’s twitching, but I’m not sure I’m brave enough to try it:

    http://www.takethislollipop.com/

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