This Interactive Photoshop-Like Video for Tanlines by OKFocus Is Amazing
February 15, 2013 | Marina Galperina
I’m going to make this quick. ANIMAL loves OKFocus for the cool shit they do. They just did some really cool shit. Here’s a fully interactive video for Tanlines’s “Not The Same”. It’s Photoshop-like interface allows you to select and “turn off” or “turn on” various instrumental and voice parts of the song and background “layers” you can toggle like a live cam of the Williamsburg bridge and their GIF-only-based chat room DUMP.FM and shut up, shut up just go “watch” and play with “Not The Same.”
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