Every time i think OKGO can’t possibly outdo themselves they put out something like this:
Music Video of the Day: For their latest music video-slash-Chevy Super Bowl ad, OK Go drove down a two-mile stretch of desert lined with 1,000 instruments in a Chevy Sonic fitted with retractable pneumatic arms to perform a very complicated version of “Needing/Getting” that took four months to prep and four days to shoot.
A nicely executed and intricate machine for turning the morning paper.
Slander by Trash Talk
An animated video for a punk band I’ve never heard of directed and animated by Jim Dirschberger the same guy who worked on Bob’s Burgers.
Dreamer/Dubstep
I’ve posted stuff by this guy before. Ignore all the set up and outro, this guy has some awesome dance moves… and on the Great Wall of China at that. Sweet!
Shit NOBODY Says
Ok. The “Shit _____ Says” phenomenon was overplayed almost immediately, but this pretty much seals the deal. Funniest on I’ve seen since the original.
Spidey vs. the Yeti
I loved these as a kid, and they were some of my first comics I ever owned. There are a ton more of these in related videos.
Jonah has loved his Here Comes Science DVD since he was tiny. We had Here Come the ABCs and Here Come the 123s, but he was never as into them. The music is weirder and the animation is not quite as good (though maybe that’s why Corey and I didn’t like them as much and why we didn’t watch them as often).
Jonah happened to find ABCs and 123s in a box we were unpacking and put it on. The songs have grown on me and I was pretty blown away by the first two songs off the numbers album. The first, Zeros, is short but introduces children to the concept of zero. A number that means so much, but means nothing at all.
Zeros
And the second song on the video is about 1 and how there’s only one everything. And that if you thought of anything else that wasn’t included, then it also had to be included in the 1 everything that exists. Pretty high philosophy for a 3-4 year old if you ask me.
One Everything
TMBG manages to cover the concepts of everything and nothing, on and off, 0 and 1, in the first 4 minutes and makes it entertaining and intriguing to children and entertaining to adults. They certainly got my gears turning.
So apparently, this is the hit single from that new Twilight movie or something, but it just came up on my Pandora and I thought it was pretty good, which is the exact opposite of my opinion about Twilight things in that I think it is pretty NOT good.
Lyrics
I’ll seek you out,
Flay you alive
One more word and you won’t survive
And I’m not scared of your stolen power
I see right through you any hour
I won’t soothe your pain
I won’t ease your strain
You’ll be waiting in vain
I got nothing for you to gain
I’m taking it slow
Feeding my flame
Shuffling the cards of your game
And just in time
In the right place
Suddenly I will play my ace
I won’t soothe your pain
I won’t ease your strain
You’ll be waiting in vain
I got nothing for you to gain
Eyes on fire
Your spine is ablaze
Felling any foe with my gaze
And just in time
In the right place
Steadily emerging with grace
Felling any foe with my gaze
Steadily emerging with grace
Felling any foe with my gaze
Steadily emerging with grace
Crush a bit, little bit, roll it up, take a hit
Feelin’ lit feelin’ light, 2 am summer night.
I don’t care, hand on the wheel, drivin drunk, I’m doin’ my thang
Rollin the Midwest side and out livin’ my life getting’ out dreams
People told me slow my roll I’m screaming out fuck that
Imma do just what I want lookin’ ahead no turnin’ back
if I fall if I die know I lived it till the fullest
if I fall if I die know I lived and missed some bullets
CHORUS
I’m on the pursuit of happiness and I know everything that shine ain’t always gonna be gold
I’ll be fine once I get it, I’ll be good. x2
VERSE 2:
Tell me what you know about dreamin’ dreamin’
you don’t really know about nothin’ nothin’
tell me what you know about them night terrors every night
5 am, cold sweats wakin’ up to the skies
tell me what you know about dreams, dreams
tell me what you know about night terrors, nothin’
you don’t really care about the trials of tomorrow
rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow
CHORUS:
I’m on the pursuit of happiness and I know everything that shines ain’t always gonna be gold
I’ll be fine once I get it, I’ll be good
CHORUS:
I’m on the pursuit of happiness. I know everything that shines ain’t always gold
Hello and welcome back to the Friday Five! You’d think I’d have a bunch of stuff stock piled, but I only got reconnected to the internet last week and now that I’m working from home, I spend a lot less time dicking around on the internet. I’ll settle into a new groove though. In the mean time, here’s 4 videos to keep you entertained.