a perfect remediation.

IN THE WILDERNESS DOWNTOWN

Part 1: Interface

The interface for the websites promises a unique musical experience based on the Arcade Fire song, “We

Used to Wait”

Part 2: Interaction

The user is prompted to enter in the address of the home they grew up in, for the purposes of this remix-dissection we

used an FSU address.

Part 3: Interface Manipulation

With “We Used to Wait” playing in the background, the program independently starts different windows on the screen with different film shots and animations using the Google Chrome browser. The animations used respond to the music.

Part 4: Repurposing

The character that runs throughout the beginning of the video in a vague suburban landscape is now seen

as an animated black figure running through the Google Earth images of the FSU “neighborhood”

Part 5: Personal Focus

The large scale aerial shots are brought down to ground level shots and the home at the address entered in the beginning is revealed through a 360 degree shot as if coming from the eyes of the “hoodie character”, this also coincides with the climax of

the song.

Part 6: User Contribution/Addition

The user is prompted to “write a postcard to the you the used to live there back then” and then has the

option to submit it to a global collection of other users’ postcards.

Part 7: Artistic Resolution

At the end of the video, the animations and the Google Earth images, mostly separated in the interface, are

combined as large trees overcome the landscape of the user’s home.