• OK Go- "Obession" Music Video
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[video=youtube;LgmxMuW6Fsc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgmxMuW6Fsc[/video]
Luckily the song is really fuckin catchy cause "band does viral thing" has reeeeeeeally worn out said welcome.
[QUOTE=27X;52917389]Luckily the song is really fuckin catchy cause "band does viral thing" has reeeeeeeally worn out said welcome.[/QUOTE] OK Go has always been about creative-as-fuck music videos like this. It's just kinda what they do.
[QUOTE=27X;52917389]Luckily the song is really fuckin catchy cause "band does viral thing" has reeeeeeeally worn out said welcome.[/QUOTE] You could say that OK GO actually started this whole thing.
I'm well aware they kickstarted the trend, which is why the comment was made. The video does nothing for the song, and fact they're retreading material they used [I]4 years ago[/I], which is exactly 4 billion era in internet time to re-issue a new gimmick is pretty telling, nevermind the shameless plug at the end.
This music video had to have taken longer to make than the song itself. That attention to detail.
The video was great and the 3D effect was well done.
You bastard you set me looking through their videos for 40 minutes
I wonder how they controlled the printers, sure as fuck couldn't have been windows.
[QUOTE=27X;52917389]Luckily the song is really fuckin catchy cause "band does viral thing" has reeeeeeeally worn out said welcome.[/QUOTE] This is like complaining that a rapper rhymes
I'd love to see the technology behind this. It looks like they're laser printers but I've never seen any that small before. Kudos to my home country's paper company for making this happen. They make okay-ish paper, Hammermill is better, but sure beats the crap out of any other US brand I've tried.
[QUOTE=27X;52917468]I'm well aware they kickstarted the trend, which is why the comment was made. The video does nothing for the song, and fact they're retreading material they used [I]4 years ago[/I], which is exactly 4 billion era in internet time to re-issue a new gimmick is pretty telling, nevermind the shameless plug at the end.[/QUOTE] this is such a comfy and inoffensive video, man. why you gotta be so bitter?
Ok go is just a creative band in general. I saw them play at the maker faire once, and the whole band played the show with fishbowls full of water on their heads, and the singer was in a full body aquarium with fish in there with him. Is was great even though they couldn't hear themselves play. Funniest guitar solo ever.
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;52917540]this is such a comfy and inoffensive video, man. why you gotta be so bitter?[/QUOTE] The same reason you gotta care about someone else's opinion enough to try to "correct" it.
I wonder how much money they had to spend on ink cartridges to make this, especially with all those full page colour printouts.
This probably sounds lame, but I get really geeked when I see signing in popular media. Him fingerspelling OBSESSION got me excited more than anything else, and that's coming from a longtime fan. [QUOTE=kapin_krunch;52917644]I wonder how much money they had to spend on ink cartridges to make this, especially with all those full page colour printouts.[/QUOTE] A lot of their music videos are sponsored by some company, so I doubt it really cost them anything on supplies. Same goes for a video they made some years back for Needing/Getting where they drove a specific car brand through miles of donated musical instruments. They make something uniquely creative, the organizations get their names boosted.
I did the math: I counted 679,550 sheets of paper (white, unprinted sheets not included). The two big walls have 270 printers each and during the continuous scenes they eject fully printed sheets every second frame. If they bought everything at Walmart, they would pay around $39,690 for the printers, $69,856 for the paper and $179,793 for the ink, so $289,339 in total (without shipping).
My fav one of theirs. I just love how the scale of what's going on slowly grows and ends up ridiculous as the song hits its crescendo [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZB_rGFyeU[/media]
[QUOTE=Bob The Knob;52917813]My fav one of theirs. I just love how the scale of what's going on slowly grows and ends up ridiculous as the song hits its crescendo [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZB_rGFyeU[/media][/QUOTE] Wow, assuming there's no video trickery, that's shot entirely on a single take and with a drone no less. Impressive.
unpopular opinion but i can't think of anything less interesting than these self congratulating, meaninglessly complex visual nightmare music videos it feels like boring one-upsmanship for the sake of youtube views [editline]24th November 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Zukriuchen;52917540]this is such a comfy and inoffensive video, man. why you gotta be so bitter?[/QUOTE] i mean, that's why i guess. it feels like the music video form of clickbait
My favorite from them [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c[/media] All their videos are definitely worth a watch, though. Even if you don't like the music. They go above and beyond with some real outside the box creativeness. They went through and tuned every note on every piano to be the same note, Gretsch donated all of those guitars and they tuned all of those to be the notes they wanted. The behind the scenes videos are just as good Beats your average rap video of sleezy women and tacky jewelry
I bought that car like a few days before the vid went up, made me feel a bit better with the purchase lmao [QUOTE=TerrorShield;52917888]Wow, assuming there's no video trickery, that's shot entirely on a single take and with a drone no less. Impressive.[/QUOTE] [quote][media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCwzaTPARtU[/media][/quote] yep [editline]e[/editline] all of their behind-the-scenes stuff is so fun
[QUOTE=Rusty100;52917905]unpopular opinion but i can't think of anything less interesting than these self congratulating, meaninglessly complex visual nightmare music videos it feels like boring one-upsmanship for the sake of youtube views [/QUOTE] well sure, but ok go wouldn't get away with doing a regular music video at this point
[QUOTE=Eric95;52917999]well sure, but ok go wouldn't get away with doing a regular music video at this point[/QUOTE] nah i could see them doing something normal getting just as much traction with the right framing. i can see the clickbait headlines now "OK GO just released their most normal music video, and we can't even"
[QUOTE=binarybitz;52917539]I'd love to see the technology behind this. It looks like they're laser printers but I've never seen any that small before. Kudos to my home country's paper company for making this happen. They make okay-ish paper, Hammermill is better, but sure beats the crap out of any other US brand I've tried.[/QUOTE] Honestly I think they just used pre-printed paper in this and control the printers feeding motor. It would be a nightmare to do this over printer drivers, especially syncing them all. Building a controller for a couple of motors is way easier. Pre-printing also resolves any difference in printing speed or printing queue. Only leaves the question how they did the printing in the first place, probably some video converter that gives you stacks of frames for each position. Actually not that hard, just a little work, make video in after effects, export to single frames, make Photoshop action that cuts the specific part and saves them in a location, print stack of images. Tedious part would be to set up that photoshop action for each position but if you have all those actions you can run them all easily.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;52917905]unpopular opinion but i can't think of anything less interesting than these self congratulating, meaninglessly complex visual nightmare music videos it feels like boring one-upsmanship for the sake of youtube views [editline]24th November 2017[/editline] i mean, that's why i guess. it feels like the music video form of clickbait[/QUOTE] Are you seriously getting upset that people are being creative? "They should make the same music videos as everyone else because being different in the internet age is nothing but clickbait."
[QUOTE=c:;52918380]Are you seriously getting upset that people are being creative? "They should make the same music videos as everyone else because being different in the internet age is nothing but clickbait."[/QUOTE] nobody is upset, nor am i saying it should be 'more like other' music videos, i just don't think it's even remotely interesting. there are plenty of different types of music videos, and I think this type is conceptually dull and pandering for clicks/sharability. it's jangling keys in front of a baby, 'look what we can do', but without any substance. it's like a lame office water cooler video. that sounds harsher than i mean for it to be. it feels to me like visual vomit that's only technically difficult, and if you like it that's cool.
I wasn't convinced by the first part but the 3D effect was pretty impressive. [editline]24th November 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Rusty100;52918465]nobody is upset, nor am i saying it should be 'more like other' music videos, i just don't think it's even remotely interesting. there are plenty of different types of music videos, and I think this type is conceptually dull and pandering for clicks/sharability. it's jangling keys in front of a baby, 'look what we can do', but without any substance. it's like a lame office water cooler video. that sounds harsher than i mean for it to be. it feels to me like visual vomit that's only technically difficult, and if you like it that's cool.[/QUOTE] Couldn't you say the same thing about any kind of mainstream art?
I like the low grav one they did [video=youtube;LWGJA9i18Co]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGJA9i18Co[/video] behind the scenes is pretty nutty [editline]23rd November 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Mitsuma;52918288]Honestly I think they just used pre-printed paper in this and control the printers feeding motor. It would be a nightmare to do this over printer drivers, especially syncing them all. Building a controller for a couple of motors is way easier. Pre-printing also resolves any difference in printing speed or printing queue. Only leaves the question how they did the printing in the first place, probably some video converter that gives you stacks of frames for each position. Actually not that hard, just a little work, make video in after effects, export to single frames, make Photoshop action that cuts the specific part and saves them in a location, print stack of images. Tedious part would be to set up that photoshop action for each position but if you have all those actions you can run them all easily.[/QUOTE] apparently this was all done in one shot? [QUOTE]The biggest challenge of this project lies not just in developing a program to control all 567 printers used during the shooting. This large-scale production involves designing graphic patterns to be printed on each piece of Double A paper – design made by Karan Singh. Project also recruits the talent of MIKIKO, the choreographer behind many memorable music videos including ones of BABYMETAL, Perfume, Salyu and Sakura Gakuin. MIKIKO will design movements of all 4 members of OK GO and make sure they are coordinated with the Paper Mapping background. Shot in one take, every single element from rhythm, music, the flow of paper, movement blocking to choreography needs to be precise – you can't miss even by a millimeter. Professionalism aside, the success lies as much in the degree of “Obsession” put into the project by all involved – an obsession to create this phenomenon of world-class smoothness.[/QUOTE] I hope the do a behind the scenes video [url]http://www.doubleaxokgo.com/website2/behind_the_collaboration/en.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Rusty100;52918465]nobody is upset, nor am i saying it should be 'more like other' music videos, i just don't think it's even remotely interesting. there are plenty of different types of music videos, and I think this type is conceptually dull and pandering for clicks/sharability. it's jangling keys in front of a baby, 'look what we can do', but without any substance. it's like a lame office water cooler video. that sounds harsher than i mean for it to be. it feels to me like visual vomit that's only technically difficult, and if you like it that's cool.[/QUOTE] eh, i don't think you should call it clickbait. the whole thing about clickbait is that it's base, effortless content, which is just not true with OK Go. if you think the effort is misplaced, and ends with a visually uninteresting product i get it, i mean hell, this is still my favorite video of theirs [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1_CLW-NNwc[/media] the technical side of it isn't as impressive as the one in the OP but i think it's more pleasing to look at. so ye i see what you mean, but still. when you make this type of video your gimmick, you're bound to go over same-y territory, but you also get the chance to hit some home runs and make something that's both technically and artistically impressive (imo, this:) [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c[/media]
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