The Wilderness Downtown

The Wilderness Downtown is an interactive multimedia video coded in HTML5 and was published to show off the capabilities of the new Google Chrome browser.^[1]^[2]^[3] Directed by music video director Chris Milk and involving the work of a number of Google employees led by Aaron Koblin^[4] as well as digital production company B-Reel, it features the We Used to Wait song from the Arcade Fire album The Suburbs. It was one of three Grand Prix winners at the 2011 Cannes advertising awards in the Cyber category.

References

↑ Michelle Castillo (September 10, 2010). "The Wilderness Downtown's Creator Talks About What Motivated Him, What's Next". Techland.
↑ "The Conversation: Exploring "The Wilderness Downtown"". ABC News. September 3, 2010.
↑ "The Arcade Fire's revolutionary 'We Used to Wait' video:Director Chris Milk explains how it was created". Entertainment Weekly. September 8, 2010.
↑ Aaron Koblin (August 30, 2010). "Street View and The Wilderness Downtown". Google LatLong blog, Google Earth and Maps Team.

External links

thewildernessdowntown.com - official site and video

Arcade Fire

Win Butler Will Butler Régine Chassagne Jeremy Gara Tim Kingsbury Richard Reed Parry Additional personnel Sarah Neufeld Owen Pallett Colin Stetson Marika Anthony-Shaw Diol Edmond Tiwill Duprate Former members Josh Deu Alan Lavian Myles Broscoe Brendan Reed Dane Mills Tim Kyle Howard Bilerman

Studio albums	Funeral Neon Bible The Suburbs Reflektor

EPs	Arcade Fire Live EP

Singles	"Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" "Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)" "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)" "Cold Wind" "Rebellion (Lies)" "Wake Up" "Black Mirror" "Keep the Car Running" "Intervention" "No Cars Go" "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" "The Suburbs"/"Month of May" "We Used to Wait" "Ready to Start" "City with No Children" "Speaking in Tongues" "Reflektor" "Afterlife" "We Exist"

Other songs	"Lenin" "Abraham's Daughter" "Horn of Plenty" "Games Without Frontiers"

Films	Miroir Noir Scenes from the Suburbs The Reflektor Tapes

Related articles	Discography Awards The Wilderness Downtown Her

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