Christmas Mountain
︎︎︎ Live site!
︎ Nominated for a Webby! ︎
Made for Piehole’s Christmas Mountain:
... an interactive “advent calendar” window display that features animatronics, embedded videos, and original music on a handcrafted diorama—appears this December in the windows of The Greene Space at WNYC and WQXR in SoHo / Hudson Square.
The story of Christmas Mountain unfolds for passersby and viewers online for 21 days, culminating on the Winter Solstice on December 21.
Piehole is an NYC live arts collective that has produced boundary-pushing live art for theaters, galleries, and digital spaces.
They wanted a long-scroll site that would incorporate elements of the real-life diorama without being a literal reproduction of the way it looked. We settled on a pile of TVs in the shape of a mountain, with elements (trees and snow) that would help viewers make that association.
Before December 1st, all the displays on the TVs showed static. Each day, a TV lights up with an image linked to a new episode of Christmas Mountain.
Episode pages were crafted so the daily episode looked like it was playing from a billboard on a mountainside, accompanied by GIFs of characters in the diorama.
I made this site in Hotglue, as the concept required a lot of precision image placements to work, and the collage style was perfect for this platform.