# OK Go has another impressive video **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2010, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530 "2010-06-17T11:47:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/1 "2010-06-17T11:47:06Z")
I think I’ll save the commentary until after some people have watched it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/V2fpgpanZAw/maxresdefault.jpg "OK Go - End Love - Official Video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fpgpanZAw) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/2 "2010-06-17T11:53:52Z")
Wow. The goose was a nice added touch. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/3 "2010-06-17T12:03:05Z")
They’ve really built a “brand” haven’t they? Those videos take _work_. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/4 "2010-06-17T12:07:31Z")
started out a little slow, but it picked it up in the end. always a treat to watch an okgo video. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/5 "2010-06-17T13:04:50Z")
For the first 30 seconds, I was wondering if they lost their touch. By the time the part with the sleeping bags rolled around, I was in awe. And the goose? I wonder how much they fed that goose to get it to go along with the program. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/6 "2010-06-17T13:12:55Z")
Geese are evil creatures. I wouldn’t be surprised if it stayed in place because it was biting the guy and trying to rip his fingers off. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/7 "2010-06-17T13:14:08Z")
I’m wondering whether it was all done in one shot or not. Some people are saying it was basically stop-motion animation, that it wasn’t a continuous shot. You do wonder when they stopped to take a leak or drink some water, but there might have been a few places where they could do that, like behind those trees. On twitter they say the playback speed they used was 172,800x, or 24 hours per half-second, but I think that was only after the end of the song. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/8 "2010-06-17T13:16:34Z")
I was just starting to wonder how they got all that video without extra background people showing up in an obviously public place. Then there were people in the background and then the people were part of the video. Very cool. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/9 "2010-06-17T15:23:28Z")
[This site](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/06/16/the-ok-go-video-playing-with-the-speed-of-time/) has some details: > [@](#): > > The fastest we go is 172,800x, compressing 24 hours of real time into a blazing 1/2 second. The slowest is 1/32x speed, stretching a mere 1/2 second of real time into a whopping 16 seconds. This gives us a fastest to slowest ratio of 5.5 million. If you like averages, the average speed up factor of the band dancing is 270x. In total we shot 18 hours of the band dancing and 192 hours of LA skyline timelapse – over a million frames of video – and compressed it all down to 4 minutes and 30 seconds! Oh and don’t forget, it’s one continuous camera shot. > > We also made a special friend in the process. Her name is Orange Bill and she’s a goose. You will agree that she clearly has a future in music videos. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/10 "2010-06-17T15:32:51Z")
OK Go is the only band/musical artist I know of that makes interesting videos. There might be others, but this stuff is awe inspiring. Now I’m going to go watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/11 "2010-06-17T16:52:38Z")
Very cool. I still like the one with the warehouse with the Rube Goldberg device better, but that was fun. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/12 "2010-06-17T17:07:34Z")
I can’t watch the yubertuber here at work, but I am now intrigued. These guys are so amazing with their videos. Their other video for This Too Shall Pass with the marching band doesn’t seem to get as much love as the Goldberg one, but I love that one as well. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/13 "2010-06-17T18:10:55Z")
Excellent! Is that somewhere in Los Angeles? ---
**Author:** ![mikews99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@mikews99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikews99)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/14 "2010-06-17T19:47:20Z")
Echo Park. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/15 "2010-06-17T22:30:32Z")
> [@mikews99](#): > > Echo Park. Thanks. I should go drive over there some time. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/16 "2010-06-17T23:05:54Z")
> [@thirdname](#): > > I’m wondering whether it was all done in one shot or not. Some people are saying it was basically stop-motion animation, that it wasn’t a continuous shot. You do wonder when they stopped to take a leak or drink some water, but there might have been a few places where they could do that, like behind those trees. I suspect that rather than traditional stop-motion where you incrementally take shots of the action that they simply had a camera going non-stop and then some lucky editor got to go back through and delete frames. True stop motion takes forever. That you can actually see people walking along in the background is proof that they weren’t doing it. The effort for them was to choreograph the whole thing and (essentially) do it all in slow motion. I also doubt that there’s any camera which can store that much data. Probably they swapped out cameras and recording media several times dependent on what they needed. When doing the shots of them jumping in mid-air, they may have swapped in a high-speed camera, and for other shots where lots of time passes very quickly, a camera with a very slow frame rate. If they shot everything with a high speed camera, the editor who finished out the video would surely have gone insane in trying to choose frames to keep and drop. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/17 "2010-06-18T00:26:34Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > If they shot everything with a high speed camera, the editor who finished out the video would surely have gone insane in trying to choose frames to keep and drop. I doubt they’d have done it manually. It must have be pretty thoroughly coreographed in advance, so they’d know how slowly to lip-sync to match the music. They may have even done the speed-up and slow-down while they were shooting. The camera could have had some sort of spec file so that it was only capturing images fast enough to match the playback. (from time _x_ to time _y_, run at 1 frame-per-second; from time _y_ to…") Do these guys do live shows? I can’t imagine what they’d come up with for that. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/18 "2010-06-18T01:10:14Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Do these guys do live shows? I can’t imagine what they’d come up with for that. It’s even weirder: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFEwEkLMVOE&feature=player\_embedded](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFEwEkLMVOE&feature=player_embedded) They seem to be going in a “Flaming Lips” direction. They even used the same producer as them for their last album. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/19 "2010-06-18T02:25:28Z")
very cool, but does not compare to their previous videos in terms of ingenuity, imagination, and “wow” factor… ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530/20 "2010-06-18T06:00:58Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I doubt they’d have done it manually. It must have be pretty thoroughly coreographed in advance, so they’d know how slowly to lip-sync to match the music. They may have even done the speed-up and slow-down while they were shooting. The camera could have had some sort of spec file so that it was only capturing images fast enough to match the playback. (from time _x_ to time _y_, run at 1 frame-per-second; from time _y_ to…") Consider the scenes where they move down a walkway without stepping, just sliding over the surface. In terms of shooting time, it’s much faster to tell each of them to take step forward and put their feet together with the camera rolling continuously, than to have them step, take the shot, step, take the shot. You could tell the camera to wait three seconds and snap off a frame, yes, but then what if someone trips or isn’t in place right at the right time? Again, it’s easier and faster (from the point of view of filming) to just keep the camera running, parcel out the sections of the tape to different editors with a note for what time selection of the music it has to line up with, and then going through and cropping it to get the desired animation while syncing up. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-go-has-another-impressive-video/543530.md?page=2)