Crowd-Sourced Johnny Cash Music Video Is a Work of Digital Art

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If you’re a Johnny Cash fan and you have some time to spare today, we highly suggest heading over to The Johnny Cash Project’s website to take part in the making of a truly innovative, crowd sourced music video dedicated to the Man in Black.

File this under: Amazing things that crowd sourcing can do. The Johnny Cash Project is a collective music video, fashioned from drawings done by you, the denizens of the web, to accompany Cash’s “Ain’t No Grave,” his final studio recording.

Visit the site to check out the video so far, and add to the project. The site features a drawing tool, which allows you illustrate a frame from the video. These images weave together to create an ever-changing work of art.

The brains behind this project, director Chris Milk, also spearheaded the HTML5 masterpiece “The Wilderness Down,” a music video created for Arcade Fire’s newest album, The Suburbs. This time, however, Milk appears to have used Flash to create his video.

This kind of visual storytelling hints at a truly interesting future when it comes to musical experience on the web. Yes, video may have killed the radio star, and the web might have killed the video star — but is there another kind of star on the horizon?

[via hypebot]

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