The official video for the recorded version of "This Too Shall Pass" off of the album "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky". The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The "machine" was designed and built by the band, along with members of Synn Labs over the course of several months.
By: Bubba | Mar 3rd, 2010 (6:30 PM)
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airdrummer wants his MILF and cookies
Mar 3rd, 2010 (6:44 PM)
fucking brilliant beyond words.
airdrummer wants his MILF and cookies
Mar 3rd, 2010 (6:45 PM)
TV hammer smash on the old video...sweet.
Puts the "Gold" in Goldberg.
Nayko can't get enough of your love, babe
Mar 3rd, 2010 (6:58 PM)
Every so often I see something on Today's Big Thing and think "I should suggest this" but then I don't because I figure most Fazers go there already...maybe I'm mistaken.
arothman sees your fail and raises you +3 internets
Mar 3rd, 2010 (7:10 PM)
I assume this was submitted by too many people to list...
oh this is still cool to do? I thought we all agreed to it was boring the fifty million other times someone had done it.
ionizer said:
oh this is still cool to do? I thought we all agreed to it was boring the fifty million other times someone had done it.
The great thing about these however, is that never has one been made twice.
Yyz - I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve
Mar 3rd, 2010 (7:47 PM)
Epic. Found myself clapping at the end.
For some reason I liked the umbrellas and the paper airplanes best.
Awesome. Looks like a bunch of guys scared to eff up the lip syncing, though.
Capn Prow1er is in command of this failboat
Mar 3rd, 2010 (8:03 PM)
Yeah, I submitted it too. I realized there have been a number of Rube Goldberg contraption videos on Fazed before, but this one seemed extra special. Lots of visually- and audibly-stimulating elements to it.
Bubba - doesn't like you either!
Mar 3rd, 2010 (8:05 PM)
arothman said:
I assume this was submitted by too many people to list...
The link I posted wasn't submitted by anyone. That doesn't mean someone else didn't use another link, however.
I liked this video, but I think the first (with the Notre Dame band) is better. I like the sound much better.
The requirements were that it had to be interesting, not "overbuilt" or too technology-heavy, and easy to follow. The machine also had to be built on a shoestring budget, synchronize with beats and lyrics in the music and end on time over a 3.5 minute song, play a part of the song, and be filmed in one shot. To make things more challenging still, the space chosen was divided into two floors and the machine would use both.
We had our work cut out for us; every facet of Syyn Labs' expertise was required to meet this tremendous challenge. See the results of this remarkable effort in the video embedded above.
Sounds like the band paid for it to me. Woulda been cooler if it was Cryptopsy.
there was definitely a hand under the table in that one.
thelaw - I'm on level one, need a walkthrough
Mar 3rd, 2010 (9:56 PM)
I find the tune in this one more soothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nld0NP_X1yE
and I can't find the dark german warehouse w/ chemicals one. They play that late night on our broadcast "bohemian" tv channel.
Recluse is not a spider
Mar 3rd, 2010 (10:34 PM)
I can't believe that was all one take... and they had to have it lined up perfectly to the song... Like the guitar spinning around and hitting the glasses at the right time.
Recluse said:
I can't believe that was all one take... and they had to have it lined up perfectly to the song... Like the guitar spinning around and hitting the glasses at the right time.
That did seem to be one continuous shot but I definitely don't think they did it in one take. At the end you see the paint cannons were shot a few times already. STILL, really really cool :)
SimPhal wants John McCain to approve this message
Mar 3rd, 2010 (11:24 PM)
Too bad it was set to god-awful music.
Also deserving of the WTMotherF tag.
wei lei knows that 4 beam down, but only 3 come back...
Mar 3rd, 2010 (11:52 PM)
LOL...this may be the first time I found out about something that ends up on Fazed before actually seeing anything about it on Fazed. Actually listening to the album on ok go's website now...
That was way too good of a video for such a crappy song. What a waste.
At the end you see the paint cannons were shot a few times already
yeah, and you can also see a stack of busted t.v.s in the background when the the set gets smashed. this would be so fun to do!
Siurana is Henry Gale, from Minnesota
Mar 4th, 2010 (12:51 AM)
airdrummer said it best, all first comments should be so succinct and accurate.
Don't they often just make it LOOK like one continuous shot for these kind of machines, though?
Siurana said:
Don't they often just make it LOOK like one continuous shot for these kind of machines, though?
Yes. I have a DVD of a half hour long rube goldberg machine, definitely lots of transitions.
icenine collects shiny things and bits of string
Mar 4th, 2010 (1:28 AM)
Jelly Box is the best thing about restaurant toast
Mar 4th, 2010 (3:04 AM)
CalvinHobbes - there's treasure everywhere
Mar 4th, 2010 (5:19 AM)
Woulda been cooler if it was Cryptopsy
haha.
This was incredibly amazing.
Cream Soda - Sgt. Cream Soda, Esq., if you're nasty
Mar 4th, 2010 (5:57 AM)
Still not a fan of OK Go.
bump Don't shoot me, I'm only the animator
Mar 4th, 2010 (6:16 AM)
Heath Robinson would be impressed...
DISCLAIMER: I'm not saying this video is crappy, that it is shopped, blahblahblah, it's just something I've noticed
At around 2:30, when the blue curtain opens, see how the position of the light behind the curtain shifts. Two takes?
Still. It beats my best Rube Goldberg machine by 2 minutes and 29 seconds...
Oh, and OK Go quite good, actually...
pongobongo said:
That did seem to be one continuous shot but I definitely don't think they did it in one take. At the end you see the paint cannons prisoners were shot a few times already.
awesome video, very well executed, but the music gets a big old "meh" from me.
MuM said:
yeah, and you can also see a stack of busted t.v.s in the background when the the set gets smashed. this would be so fun to do!
That doesn't mean they didn't do it all in one take... it just means they had takes where they messed it up beforehand. The video is one continuous shot, which for a rube goldberg machine of that size is extremely impressive.
The Old Spice commercial with the "look at your man, now look at me" guy was the same. They did the whole commercial in one take, but it was still the 57th take that everything happened correctly on.
Heferito this tagline intentionally left blank
Mar 4th, 2010 (12:55 PM)
I submitted this link. Where are my intarweb moneyz and fame?
house is an illusion
Mar 4th, 2010 (1:23 PM)
Heferito said:
I submitted this link. Where are my intarweb moneyz and fame?
The were traded in for LOLZ
Harvey Danger said:
That doesn't mean they didn't do it all in one take... it just means they had takes where they messed it up beforehand. The video is one continuous shot, which for a rube goldberg machine of that size is extremely impressive.
Nope, sorry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV23EVZ-nc4
Well that's lame. I rescind my impression!
kudos to the steadicam operator on this video
Schmierwurst said:OK Go always makes the bestest videos!
WTF was awesome
I've actually never seen that one, very cool. Even more so in a "Hey, SUCK IT!" way to all the musicians who spend a lot more money on a music video only to be outdone by an inventive, but simple one.
Another cool music video is
this Miike Snow one. Probably not as cheap as WTF but supposedly all those crazy visuals are created just using camera tricks.
CalvinHobbes - there's treasure everywhere
Mar 4th, 2010 (6:47 PM)
Freddie Wong is my favorite Youtuber,
and the only subscription I have.
He is King Nerd.
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Mar 4th, 2010 (7:23 PM)
The machine was awesome. Should have watched it without sound though.
wei lei knows that 4 beam down, but only 3 come back...
Mar 4th, 2010 (8:18 PM)
Just watched that Toe Jam one...it always amazes me the kind of things that some people can come up with for artistic pieces...I would never have thought of doing that with censor bars...
Okay, now that WTF video was just plain awesome. Very well done.
And the Toe Jam video was done by one of my favorite music video directors,
Keith Schofield. He's got a bunch of really creative, usually low budget music videos on there. One of my favorites is the video for One Block Radius' "
Loud & Clear" which makes great use of playing with time (mirroring the way a DJ plays with time on a turntable), love the concept.
I don't know if they are able make a bad video. Excellent.
Funk is a crazy MF named ice cube
Mar 5th, 2010 (10:14 AM)
