It doesn’t look like it’s a “one take” but a decent song.
Neat! I liked it!
It must be exhausting for the band to have to try to top, or at least match in creativity and innovation, each previous video effort. This one at least must have been easier on the creators because it looks like much of it was put together digitally, as opposed to the 100% practical effects I believe they always previously used.
Still, at the end of that video it says “This video exists because of the amazing efforts of”…followed by a scrolling list of what looked like around 500 names.
So did I but it did feel like they were just phoning it in.
:deadpan:
iLaughed.
It would be disappointing if they just did it digitally.
I had the same thought…but at the end it says “Thanks to the members of PGO” which is their fan club. So I think that’s just the “people who paid to get their name on this screen” list.
That was exhausting to watch (in a good way!).
In terms of mind-blowing, “how did they pull that off,” however, I’m still in awe of “Needing/Getting.”
They are geniuses
I saw Ok GO about a million years ago when they opened for They Might Be Giants. This was before they released all their amazingly creative videos, and even then I could tell they were on a level above the typical band of that era. I might still have the EP I bought after their show.
Reminds me of this:
Ah, ok, thanks for the clarification…that did seem like an awful lot of people to actively be involved in making the video-- even for an OkGo video.
Wow. Thanks, @running_coach!
If anyone is interested, they just announced a tour:
It seems to me that the hardest part would be designing it all, and that’d be equally easy whether it was “practical” effects (to the extent that recording a video of another screen counts as a practical effect) or digital.
I think in the future, OKGo will be recognized as one of the all time video creators
Another very cool video by OK Go.
Nope. They didn’t just let computers put this together for them.
I think that’s the case right now.
Very cool. It would have been really out of character for them to do anything the easy way.
I probably didn’t word this well. You can be respected now and disappear in a few years.
I’m betting there will be scholarly theses written about their work after they’re gone. Actually on googling, I see that many teachers are using their videos for illustrating science and inspiring scholarly article now, although I didn’t see one on actual video production