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OK Go, "This Too Shall Pass"

Postby ctaulbee » Feb Thu 27, 2020 8:15 am



A creative collective of engineers, architects, roboticists, and NASA research scientists known as Syyn Labs are the minds behind OK Go's famed 2010 "This Too Shall Pass" video, which features an intricate Rube Goldberg contraption synchronized seamlessly with the song's beats and lyrics. According to Syyn Labs' president, Adam Sadowsky, the entire setup featured more working parts than a car engine, including a soccer ball that triggered a falling piano and a rolling tire that turned on a fan, which then blew an umbrella ... (you get the idea). While the 4-minute video was shot in single takes over two floors in an L.A. warehouse, and the contraption ran all the way through three times, there's one slight edit around the 2:20 mark for the sake of consistency. The entire video took about 60 takes to make. It has more than 40 million views on YouTube.

This is the very definition of too much time on your hands...
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Re: OK Go, "This Too Shall Pass"

Postby Jazzy » Feb Thu 27, 2020 9:14 am

Yup... too much time of not knowing what to do.
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Re: OK Go, "This Too Shall Pass"

Postby chouette » Feb Thu 27, 2020 3:32 pm

Maybe so, but totally cool. :D
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Re: OK Go, "This Too Shall Pass"

Postby Wrench » Feb Thu 27, 2020 4:24 pm

cool but yup to much time to kill.
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Re: OK Go, "This Too Shall Pass"

Postby VincentLupo » Feb Fri 28, 2020 4:06 am

I really like these videos.  The music isn't horrible either.
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Re: OK Go, "This Too Shall Pass"

Postby tmscrapbook » Feb Fri 28, 2020 2:11 pm

Amazing :)
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