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Websperiment! 10 Audacious Experimental and Interactive Websites |
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by R J Evans, Jul 5, 2008 |
Is Websperiment a word? Who can say, but Emerson once said that all life is an experiment, and the more experiments you make, the better. Is Web two a precursor of a new renaissance in our attitudes towards life, the universe and everything? Here are 10 audacious and experimental websites that will make you reconsider the ways in which the internet should and can be used. |
This is a superb website with an idea that really takes Web 2 to its current limits. The video from the band all*joines, Take This Dance integrates information in real time from websites such as Google, Maxmind, and Flickr. It takes the concept of the standard and fixed music video and turns it directly on its head. A must see site that will make you ask that age old question - how did they do that? As an experiment it works because it is so new - but very possible a hint of what the future holds for us. Want your MTV? What about IIMV - Internet Integrated Music Video? Brilliant! 
Are y9u fed up and sick of receiving spam after spam. Now is your chance to do something useful with this most useless of communication. You can email a piece of spam to this website and then watch as the latest special offer from a dodgy Viagra dealer turns in to a beautiful work of art. You can then, if you choose, make the resulting masterpiece you wallpaper. Beautiful and smooth flash environment, this site will at least give you something to do with spam - without auditioning for a Monty Python remake. 
This website is mighty peculiar! IT is a randomly generated mix of music and vision and is deeply hypnotic, almost hallucinogenic. You can literally spend hours on this site watching and wondering at the range of strange shapes that come at you via your screen. I would recommend watching this site in a darkened room so that you can get the full effect. LSD without the LSD, or so one could imagine! 
If you like browsing for pictures but sometimes get bored with a two dimensional interface then this is something you must try. This is a collection of Flickr's most interesting images that load randomly on to your screen. You can then tilt them at any angle, zoom in, change the images and generally play around in an experimental 3D feel environment. This is a very crisp interface that loads easily and is a great intuitive net experience. Astonishingly simple, devastatingly addictive! 
This website allows you to create a message, like the one above. It is a database of Flickr images and you can create any message you want - and send it to anyone as well. You can even view who the originators of the photos are on Flickr (to give them credit!). Perfect for would be kidnappers who want to write a ransom note with that little extra bit of flair, you will find yourself sending your friends silly messages which they will think have taken you hours to create! 
This website is literally made of Japan - or rather from the contents of hundreds of different Japanese blogs. The site taps ion to 150 Japanese blogs each hours, analyses the colors and brings them together to make a shoe. What you can do then is to click on any of the elements of the shoe and see what it is and which blog it comes from. Extremely clever stuff, this really shoes you in to the Web 2 experience and will have you developing a virtual foot fetish in no time! 
One Japanese Flash creator will keep you occupied for hours. This website features the work of no less than five Japanese creators and showcases the cutting edge of interactive flash animation. This is a site that will have you chuckling at its kitschier moments and pondering the deeper depths of the human condition at other times. A must see site; you will be recommending this to your friends for ages! 
This website will make you feel like Tom Cruise in “Minority Report”. A revolutionary interface allows you to sweep back and forth in your choice of different media and applications. Plenty of good music and some surreal images, you can find yourself creating random images from a bank or watching bizarre videos. A truly awesome Web 2 experience with which to experiment. 
A strange journey awaits you here. This is a series of thirteen weird and wonderful works of art that track the birth process of angel. Accompanying each picture is a soundtrack which is used as an aid to the exploration of the pictures. You may not believe in angels but you will believe in the process of experimentation that is taking place in the ether. 
You know how to click with the mouse, yes? You know how to double click, yes? I expect you may have even come across the rare beasty the triple click! This website will invite you to click only once as it then takes you in to a clickless world where interfaces are reached in a variety of different and experimental ways. With a history lesson to boot (we have only had the click since the mouse and that isn't long!) this site will make you wonder about what the future really holds for the ways in which we access and use the internet.
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