The boys of OK Go are known for their geeky music videos and they outdo themselves constantly. So how did they top the crazy Rube Goldberg Machine from the “This Too Shall Pass” video? By warping time, of course.
In the music video for “End Love” the video footage was sped up and slowed down to produce impressive looking effects:
The fastest we go is 172,800x, compressing 24 hours of real time into a blazing 1/2 second. The slowest is 1/32x speed, stretching a mere 1/2 second of real time into a whopping 16 seconds. This gives us a fastest to slowest ratio of 5.5 million. If you like averages, the average speed up factor of the band dancing is 270x. In total we shot 18 hours of the band dancing and 192 hours of LA skyline timelapse – over a million frames of video – and compressed it all down to 4 minutes and 30 seconds! Oh and don’t forget, it’s one continuous camera shot.
Results? Amazing-looking and geeky as always. [Discovery via Nerdcore via Neatorama]
Kif
Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 6:01 PMWould hate to get halfway through and need a crap.
David
Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 6:46 PMI love the duck that keeps following them around.
Dan Halford
Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 10:22 AMIt’s a goose.
b1llyp0p
Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 7:23 PMits like a scary slightly distubing version of the wiggles
Matt
Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 9:17 PMI would have liked to have seen benny hill or at least some chicks in underwear. Top job boys. Keep up the good work!
Matt
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 5:22 AMDude in the pink looks like a thin Ron Jeremy :D.
Jamie Carl
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 9:58 AMWell done to OK GO yet again. They really are showing the world that if you use a little bit of creativity you can create some content that people will actually pay for.
John
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 5:11 PMPretty cool video but not at the same standard as This Too Shall Pass, but really where were they going to go from there?