Arcade Fire’s new interactive video, The Wilderness Downtown, actually gave me goosebumps. As a Google Chrome experiment using HTML5, the makers brought out all the super cool, super geeky techniques, including choreographed windows, custom-rendered maps, real-time compositing, drawing, and 3D canvas rendering. It’s all described here.

Put in different addresses and your experience will be continually different. Watch and enjoy.

Rocket and Walker recently had a fun project come across our desk from the New York Daily News in honor of the latest Mad Men season. As die-hard lovers of Mad Men, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity. The task: Create an ad for Sterling Cooper Draper Price’s clients. We chose the infamous Secor Laxatives. See the result here.

Oh to be young and cool, not to mention talented, and not to mention live in Greece. Stamatis Laskos, or Siveone, is exactly that.

Sive attended the Athens School of Fine Arts where he studied painting.  He now works as a freelancer painting on everything from small canvases to giant walls.

His work is refreshing, street art with a fine art twist. The exaggerated shadows, depth, subject matter and overall composition show his skill level.

You can see a lot of his work on his myspace page, yes, myspace. You can also take a look over at Behance Network.

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I like to put this under my Johnny Come Lately category, because anyone who has been looking at Threadless.com, or any other online t-shirt site knows who this is.

Glenn Jones is a graphic designer and illustrator from Auckland, New Zealand. The name Glennz comes from GLENN from NZ = GLENNZ, and as he states, this was his user name on Threadless.com, which is where he gathered a huge following, so why change it.

At first glance, you might think this is easy to do, but give it a try, I think you will find this extremely tough to pull off. I equate his work with Gary Larson, creator of The Far Side. simple, flat illustrations, but full of humor and wit.  Either you get it, or you don’t.

You can now see and buy his work at his site, Glennz.com.