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Music Video Based on the Current Weather of Your City

theunseenvideo.com — This music video works out your location and plays a completely unique flash music video based on a number of factors including temperature, sunrise, sunset and more

Who dugg this? Made popular Mar 22, 2006

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  • Kyle1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15It says my location is Augsburg Germany and I'm in Florida.
  • rezryder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I like the music and i am not gay, nice visualizations and good beats.
  • BNJM, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18I don't get it.
  • HaltingPoint, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Interesting concept, but something tells me it doesn't differ enough between weather variables visually to really be anything more than a "look at it once and go bleh" thing. All in favor?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I still have no idea what my weather forecast is...
  • Daniel591992, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's so cold here in New York, that the flash video just froze!
  • h4lofourt33n, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Hm, I absolutely love the idea, but the song really isn't good...sounds like a poor attempt at the postal service/death cab. I would like to see a Radiohead version of this...lol fans of them will know what I mean.
  • BigBlock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I cant get accurate weather reports now...so the music will emphasis the erroneous reports. I could just see myself dancing to some bumpin beats of a hail storm when in fact its sunny. My office has no windows. Tight!
  • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.theunseenvideo.com/video/quicktime/youmakemefeel_mix.htm

    this compares the differences of separate countries/weather conditions and how it affects the music video..
  • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6quit spamming your link jackass
  • Solis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Well I thought mine was off, but your's is much worse! Mine says I'm in Buffalo, NY when in actuality I'm in Scranton, PA.

    Even though mine isn't as off as your's it's still pretty wildly wrong.
  • antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Doesn't seem to work. :(
  • mrfollicle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4aye
  • geekluv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hmm...I'm in Florida too but it it was correct, even got the right city.

    Pretty interesting concept.
  • Dragular, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Germany... Canada... what's the difference? Ya'll are all foreigners ;)
  • Chongo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4from the MAKING OF section of the site:

    "To get that data it is necessary to identify the viewer's location first. This is possible with the help of Geobytes.com. Geobytes.com is an American company that provides information of 36.557 cities worldwide. The System localises the viewer through his/her IP-Address. If the localisation fails, the default City is Augsburg, Germany."

  • TalonTrax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I kept waiting for something interesting to happen. . . Why was this dugg so much?!?
  • dtrinh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very cool - I like it a lot :P
  • Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It says I live in "Noble, USA"

    It didn't even get the COUNTRY right. I'm in Montreal, Canada. With Bell Canada, the largets ISP in the country. I mean, look up my IP in *any* "ip to country" database and it'd show my IP as in Canada.

    Heck, Google Analytics can even figure out what PART OF MONTREAL I live in.

    And yet, this flash program can't even get the right country. Nice.

  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One of the neatest site ideas I've seen in awhile. Can't wait to see what future versions will bring.
  • JohnnySoftware, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is trivial to do with iTunes and a short script. It's scriptable on Windows using Javascript and on the Mac using AppleScript.

    I have a playlist of all songs about "morning". My script is currently hardcoded to run that. I control it by setting the time I want it to go off in my calendar. I can do a repeating daily event, or just do it at various times on different days, all from the Calendar. I think it will turn on the Mac in the morning too, if it is in sleep mode.

    It would be trivial to select different playlists based on the time of day the script is running at. Grabbing current weather from a web page or XML-RPC call is no big deal either. AppleScript has built in support for the latter and the former is accomplished just by having the script tell a browser to go get it from a page.
  • mesoed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The weather is much more interesting than the song
  • Nyfeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Says I live in Bossier City, LA. I'm in Arkansas. It should atleast ask something like Wrong Town?
  • GaleForce, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I want my 2 minutes back.
  • Simplogic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Wow, that was amazing! Funky weird lines and moving green gradients accurately describe the 48 degree weather here in Chicago. Cool idea, but kinda lame.
  • haochi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is flash movie won a international flash award...I think it is the first place or something. Real cool.
  • mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.theunseenvideo.com/menue_v1.swf says "The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."

    Ouch.
  • systemghost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, 2 gigs of ram and 3.4ghz apparently still has trouble running this thing. Cool, I guess.. But man. What a tax on CPU. Artists never want to compromise though, do they?
  • Dwebtron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2does this not work for anybody else?
  • antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Try the QuickTime one. There is a video of what it is like.
  • gamersedge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1when they say you need a fast computer they mean it. i have a 3.6 ghz Pentium D and this video logged up to 50 percent CPU usage
  • Recluse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmm totally didn't work. Just a black screen.
  • cryonix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Milosh is a cool guy, and makes some good music. i was going to try and do a video for him. but time got the best of me, along with finding a job. but alas the Unseen Video as a nice video for "you make me feel"
  • mkjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dugg just for the song.
  • shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i had to mess around with the flash some but i got it working, not that intersting i dont think
  • SmeRndmGy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2interesting idea, but the song they use is TERRIBLE.
  • chr1snv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2wow, pretty cool, but either this guys coding skills are *****, or flash is *****. What the crap is with the best seen with more than a 3 ghz computer? this crap could run on a freaking pentium 75 if this noob learned assembely
  • oldcyborg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It sucked. It got the area right, but the video was totally random.. I had to shut it down. It was depressing me.....

    Cyborg
    notachance....
  • pgm_01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting idea but not quite there, the geolocation was off by about 100 miles and had me in a different state. They should have partnered with adult friend finder. They ALWAYS know my location (except when using Tor :D ). I had no problems on my PIII 1 ghz with the flash so I don't know why you would need a 3ghz machine to view it properly.
  • kola_kidd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nice...
  • SamboGT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't work well. It listed me as living in Richmond, Virginia and I live in Indiana.
  • Inbal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dream #9642806325796: Get huge screen on main living room wall and play this 24/7. It needs to become more diverse and precise to show something different every minute, of course, but the idea is just amazing.

    Located me exactly, by the way.
  • oxuultae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The same thing happened to me, however, I'm in Minnesota so I'm sure the weather can't be too much different ..
  • dephrye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice concept!
  • neuraleyes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i'm confused.
    decent music though.
  • ricorick, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Cool Idea. It's cool watching it gather data to generate Video. Now if you could get it too use your own photos...That would be awesome!!
  • gunner453, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it got my location right (Toronto, Canada) but the devolper spelled Canada Like Kanada :P
    none the less cool idea
    pointless but cool
  • oxymoron9x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The novelty wore off after the first B&W pic. To get my interest back up, I'd like to know what elements of the weather effect what elements in the movie.
  • drame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0closest weatherstation:
    Hamilton, Kanada

    Uhh... what? "Kanada"?

    Interesting and different.
  • JayWright, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I don't get it either. What the hell do weird black and white pictures and designs have to do with my weather???
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