youtube your own adventure

One of the unexpected discoveries of the nightmarket.web workshop has been the ability to re-create a random walk through an urban space through youtube comments. The Bright Night team (Avalon, Odeson, Hung Hsiao-Mei, Jackie Yang and Jimmy), as part of the exercise of translating the unique experience of visiting a craft market in Tainan City, decided to post a series of youtube videos in a way that allows you to choose the direction to walk down the street at each intersection. You can try it out for yourself by clicking the movie above, when a comment appears asking you to cross the street you can click it to be transported along the way. Using Youtube’s recently introduced annotations, you can turn any narrative into a choose-your-own adventure by merely linking to other youtube videos from within the annotation.