Every few months, I get an email about a new online storytelling tool. I have tried some, but few of them seem to provide an experience that is visually interesting. I’m not exactly sure how I ended up on the Zeega website, but I was immediately drawn in to click on and watch a piece called KOSMO KAT – Silk Water. This Zeega piece was a combination of music and animations that featured a 3d wireframe cat, sushi, and electronic music that sounded like the band Kraftwork.
So what is Zeega? It is a free online website where you can make an account, and use music, gif animations, and movie clips in order to create cinematic experiences comprised of looped clips. The project promotes itself as, “Make the web you want.” I recently navigated to the site, and when watching “The Most Insulting and Offensive Pizza in the World,” I was able to click on strange shaped pizza images, and read text about pizza while a rap song about pizza played. The experience is kind of like an interactive youtube – but the high-quality image, and loops of the videos somehow make it into a new experience.
To make pieces, any media can be used in any cloud or online space, and the entire screen is a canvas to create in. When navigating Zeega, and playing the featured pieces we are instructed to “Turn up the volume, and use arrows and hotspots to explore.” Currently the website features virtual exhibition the creators’ of the website favorite pieces, which were chosen from 1,000 contributions from 60 countries and 6 continents. I must not be the only person who has gotten drawn in to playing Zeega pieces, the project was recently featured at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Some of the pieces featured on the front of the site include The Making of .. Journeys, Ghosts and Thunder, Traveling Man, The Making Of. The City, and Ode au bungalow. Zeega originates from one of the startups in Matter, a San Francisco-based accelerator for mission-driven companies committed to changing media for good. The site is made to be used by anyone, and when you goto the website, make sure you have at least a few minutes free, it’s easy to spend time there checking out the pieces.
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