In keeping with the music themed sites, we bring you Minuit. Its a site for a band that are from New Zealand. Their new site takes you on a magical journey through a circular land as you explore the various area’s of the site. You start of creating a character and then once you have named it, you use the arrow keys to navigate around. Climbing over rocks, jumping over ponds … all while listening to their latest hit.

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Ah, a good old music site. The new Pink Floyd box set “Oh, By The Way” is out, and this site is there to give you a taste of all the albums that are in the box set. What I find great about this site is the minimalism of it. You have the prism of light, from the Dark Side of the Moon album, which has been turned into a visual equalizer for the song samples that are randomly played from albums in the set.

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Cirque du Soleil is the legendary performance circus, and has a fittingly legendary website. I haven’t come across a menu that has grabbed me as much as this one. I suppose its loosely based on the menu that Apple uses for their iTunes album selection on the iPhone (well that is the 1st place that I remember seeing something like this) but this is a very well revamped version of it. The menu loads for the casting area of the site, where people who are interested in joining the show can find their niche. It breaks down the acts to 8 categories, and as you move your mouse over them, the others zoom/blur out of the foreground and the selected one will ‘evolve’ into the show time version of that niche.

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Infinite Oz - Tin Man is something to behold. Drawing inspiration from the famous Zoomquilt Project, a group of artists got together to make the new mini site for SCI-FI channel’s new mini-series “Tin Man”. What makes Infinite Oz so much more than the original Zoomquilt one, is how they have managed to tie in atmospheric sounds and a ‘visual distortion’ between the scenes which give the viewer an immersive trip into the world of oz. Its something that is very hard to explain, very hard indeed, but the more you are in the experience the more you … I actually dont have a word for this… so I’m just going to call it “A marvelous trip into the inner-mind-hole”

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I love sites that make me chuckle…and Hungry Suitcase is one of them. This clever marketing site, for Royal Caribbean, had me in stitches. Basically the site is centered around your suitcase that is wanting to go on vacation with you. But where this site is very well done is that instead of searching for a vacation destination via normal methods…you ‘feed’ your suitcase with things that you would like to do while there. Once you have given it enough to decide, it tells you where (according to your selection) he thinks that you should go…with a song number that will crack you up.

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krupt is a portal site that brings entertainment information and general internet related news to the user. This is done in a very punk/scrapbook sort of way. I like the background file that they have chosen as it tiles well and has a certain britpop kind of vibe going…

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This is the site for the DVD release of Waiting. The reason that we chose this site is because of its very interesting navigation system. The user is ‘transported’ along visual lines to the area of information that is of interest to them…however this is done by ‘panning’ the camera over other areas giving the illusion of the user looking at a giant ‘map’ of information.

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Amplifier, is a New Zealand based music portal where local muzo’s can get their music out and to the masses without the need of a huge record deal. The site is clearly laid out, with options for the end-user to sort the music to his/her preference.

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