Now let's have something wonderful and lots of it. In the following talk, Damian Kulash presents the beautiful calculation that an Ok Go video composed of a hundred and thirty interactions, each with a ninety percent probability of going right first time, still has only a one-in-ten-thousand chance of being successfully filmed in a single take...
With that in mind, let's watch some of the band's best takes, opening with the video that closed the talk and whose slow-motion aesthetic means it had to be filmed in five seconds (and here's how):
Since the slow-mo rabbit hole's adjacent to the Zero-G, here's the band hitting their marks in a cosmonaut's vomit comet (and here's record of their last day of filming):
And speaking of hitting their marks, here's some fun with parralax (and a lot of quick changes):
And here, far more simply, are the elegant workings of the WTF? video from the band's dollar store days:
All of which makes the video that first made the band famous look now a bit like the Lumières' film of the Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, but it serves them right for getting even better.
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