
If you haven’t seen it yet, take a few minutes and go check out The Wilderness Downtown. It’s an interactive film/music video by Chris Milk featuring the Arcade Fire’s “We Used To Wait”.
It’s also the coolest thing you’ve seen in a browser in a long time.
What Milk, Arcade Fire, and a team at Google have done is create something that blurs the line between tech-demo and art. It’s really a little of both. Not only does it showcase the power of technology in creative hands, but it shows people that staying on top of new developments in markup and it’s capabilities is for more than just code-monkeys.
However, there is one area where this otherwise awesome effort falls a little short: connectedness.
If I want to learn more about Arcade Fire, where are my links to Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.? Where’s the link to the iTunes store to check out more of their stuff?
If I want to learn more about HTML5, where are the links to code repositories, tutorials, and discussion forums where coders are exploring all of the new possibilities?
I know this wasn’t built to be a marketing vehicle, per se, but by not providing any ability for users to follow up or learn more they’re really missing out on a great opportunity to capture some good vibes.

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