Sunday, 5 July 2020

Love and Maths and Mess (I know you've all seen Ok Go, but let's watch more Ok Go)


 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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