The Best Weather Website

A Digital Artist's Interactive Art(ish)

Look at something.

Okay.

Well, more specifically, look at this: www.lookingatsomething.com. It's the best weather website out there on the internet, simply because you can control it; the website and the weather. Well, you can make it rain, anyway.

It's the most recent project from visual artist, Rafëal Rozendall. 

                                       


                                       (That's this guy) ------>                          

The digital one is a realm Rozendall is pretty heavily into; and like most of his website pieces, lookingatsomething is rather basic, borderline banal. However, it's impressiveness is two-fold: 

1) It was created. Getting philosophical here, anything created is rather impressive. And if you're not a digital wiz, rendering anything on the computer is impressive, let alone something aesthetic; let alone something interactive; let alone something enjoyable, if only momentarily, for anyone from incipience to senescence... young to old, for those who can't find the dictionary.

2) Look! Up there in the Web! It's a site! It's an interactive audio file! It's a new-wave "soothing sounds" orchestra! 

Indeed, it is, all of that. Try moving your mouse slowly from the top of the screen to the bottom, scrolling left to right as you do so, to control the direction of the droplets. As you descend, the weather picks up. What started as a slight drizzle (spry) of a Springtime sun shower, beats down with regularity, then force. Then fury, as thunder and lightning blast from your iPad speakers as though it were clashing swords of the gods. Okay, it's not that epic, but it is that enjoyable. After the monsoon you've created, slowly reverse the cycle, bring everything slowly back to peace; hear the harmonious chirp of birds.

There, you've just created track one of your new Chill Yoga Mix playlist.

Go on, hommie, make it rain.

Special thanks (again) to Co.Create for (yet again) enlightening me to more awesomeness.