When you follow the instructions, this takes you somewhere you really don't expect to go: back where you grew up. And type in your address and, thanks to Google Earth, you can go anywhere you like, to the tune of Arcade Fire's We Used To Wait. And then you can write to your childhood self, and then more stuff happens, and over and above that, this is a multi-image experience, courtesy of the fact it was programmed in cutting edge code HTML5.
It is, undoubtedly, a brilliant way of showing the genius of Google Earth (and one does wonder, is the recommendation that the whole thing plays better on Chrome actually true). But this is just not an ad for Google and some of its works. The technology is harnessed to serve a very strong idea - and then it's executed to a level that it can hardly fail to draw an emotional, very personal response. A milestone.
| Executive Producer | Jennifer He |
| Producer | Anders Törnquist |
| 1st AD | Lee Blaine |
| Director of Photography | Shawn Kim |
| Stylist | Inga Grimmett |
| Make-up | Cintia Kumalo |
| Colourist | Dave Hussey |
| Editor | Livio Sanchez |
BUG 17: C-Mon & Kypski’s More Is Less by Roel Wouters and Jonathan Puckey
Crowd-sourcing is a phenomenon of the times, but Roel Wouters and his collaborator Jonathan Puckey have come up with a genuinely new and brilliant application. In fact, they have arguably invented …
The Promonews Podcast! Brand new episode with Agile director Louis Bhose out now!
The second episode of Promonews' new series of podcasts with creatives in the music video …
Blinkink add four directors: Jack Brown, Danaé Gosset, Louis Clichy and Balázs Simon
London-based animation production company Blinkink have announced the arrival of four …
©Promonews 2021