WIlderness Downtown
2010
Next Generation
You may well have seen this around already but if not, we highly recommend you check it out.
You basically put a postcode into the box on the home page, sit back and enjoy as the main character runs through your local streets and arrives at the location you typed in to the sounds of Arcade Fire's new track.
Google maps satellite view then allows the main character to interact with the environment and literally stop outside your location and explore it.
It's using some incredibly clever HTML5 techniques that not everyone will be able to see but certainly a great push from Google to get people to switch browsers and get the full experience.
What is so beautiful and interesting about this is not just the geek fest of clever tech and development but also the combination of music video and film production merging seamlessly with web code.
These HTML5 experiments will in no time at all, change the way we browse the web and experience information.
Very clever stuff.