Monday, November 24, 2008

Radiohead: "Create Your Own Rainbow"

Why am I always writing about Radiohead?
Other than the fact that they're awesome?

No reason.  Well maybe because they keep breaking new grounds again and again.

Well here's one more.  They've already let you have all the pieces to two of their songs, "Nude" and "Reckoner."  (With other artists, taking pieces of full songs apart would normally cost ... I don't know.. hundreds of thousands of dollars to be able to remix like this.)  

Now they've brought you into the creative process of another part of their entertainment.  They filmed themselves performing "15 Step" in Japan from 12 different camera angles.  (I think it should have been 15 camera angles but neither I nor you can tell Radiohead how to do their thing.)  

You can watch the video and as you do, choose which camera angle you want to see next.  It then saves this information on the little bar at the bottom tracking your progress.  Then you can watch the video again with all the angles you chose.  It's like being the man in the big booth with all the camera feeds telling people "camera 2!" "Take me back to camera 5!!"  It's fun. Try it. Or don't.

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