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OK Go’s video, for the song “The One Moment”, took only 4.2 seconds to film
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago...and in related news, water continues to flow downhill.
- rosstex 10y agoWhat planet are you on?
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago...The one where OK Go consistantly puts out amazing music videos. Which one are you on?
- MBCook 10y agoSo we should just ignore it?
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago...No, but a comment about the consistancy is wholly deserved, imho.
- stevewilhelm 10y agoThe background notes are pretty interesting. http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/background-notes-and-full-credits-for-the-one-moment-video/ http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/background-notes-and-full-credits...
- kejaed 10y ago"I made a motherfucker of a spreadsheet" Love it.
- AceJohnny2 10y ago<div class="post-image bg-center bg-contain bg-no-repeat" data-img="" style="background-image: url("http://okgo.net/build/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/spreadsheet.png"); padding-top: 57%;"></div> What ever happened to <img> elements :(
- w-ll 10y agoEasier to overlay other dom nodes than having a wrapper and position hacks.
- tvanantwerp 10y agoI recently learned of a CSS property, object-fit, than can achieve the same positioning effects as background-size for DOM elements without having to inject background-image style attributes. But, unsurprisingly, it's got no IE support. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/object-fit https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/object-fit
- spiderfarmer 10y agoCourage.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoIndeed. It makes it only more annoying to get at the content you want, the way you want. http://okgo.net/build/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/spreadsheet.png http://okgo.net/build/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/spreadsheet...
- mccoyspace 10y agowith integrated sponsorship. "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom"
- GuiA 10y agoYet another solid example of the spreadsheet being the best programming tool for the masses there is out there
- hrnnnnnn 10y agoYou can even use one as a game engine! http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3563/microsoft_excel_revolutionary_3d_.php?print=1 http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3563/microsoft_excel_r...
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoSpreadsheets are like FORTRAN: If you have certain, specific needs, they're the best tool for the job. However, they're not the best tool in the general case, and if you learned another programming tool first, you will recoil in disgust from some of the more non-ideal uses of it. At the end of the day, though, it gets the job done. I never really learned spreadsheets, so for most of the (very simple) work I have to do that would involve spreadsheets, I use AWK.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago> if you learned another programming tool first, you will recoil in disgust from some of the more non-ideal uses of it Will you? I've learned plenty of programming tools and I recoil in disgust at the sight of them - of all the bullshit you need to jump through to get anything done, and the arcane (and constantly changing!) knowledge you need to have to make it work. Spreadsheets are pretty much the best tool out there for exploratory work with numbers. And because the masses don't think of it as "programming", they still build suprisingly complex models and tools within the spreadsheets, when otherwise they'd likely be scared away. Personally, I'm in a process of learning Excel in depth - the more I work with it, the more I like it. It's like a REPL for moderate-complexity data processing and visualization.
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago>I've learned plenty of programming tools and I recoil in disgust at the sight of them As do I. >Spreadsheets are pretty much the best tool out there for exploratory work with numbers. That's an ideal use of a spreadsheet. A non-ideal use would be, say, re-inventing the RDBMS in Excel (perhaps the most common one, but there are far worse sins). >Personally, I'm in a process of learning Excel in depth I would, but I don't have the time. As I've said: with the sort of data analysis I'm doing (very little), AWK works well enough.
- piracyde25 10y agoAny other bands (or music videos) that does this sort of thing? I am ready to love them!
- ronjouch 10y agoCheck out OK Go's other videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/OkGo https://www.youtube.com/user/OkGo
- hannele 10y agoIn particular, starting with their oldest and working towards their newest: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0FB9262CF878A34A https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0FB9262CF878A34A
- sogen 10y agoIn the 90s there were 3 very creative directors : - Michel Gondry - Chris Cunningham - Spike Jonze I'd recommend you check their music videos.
- disordinary 10y agoThe band Goodshirt from the late 90s had some pretty interesting but low budget one take/reversed music videos.
- bertiewhykovich 10y agoThe Pharcyde's video for "The Drop" was filmed entirely in reverse. They apparently worked with a linguist to work out mouth movements that would sync to the lyrics when played backwards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co3qMdkucM0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co3qMdkucM0 It's a really cool effect -- except for a few bits where objects fall upwards and the like, there's nothing too strikingly "off" about the motion in the video, but you can tell that something's up. It doesn't form an uncanny valley, though -- there's still an overarching "organic" feeling to the thing.
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- mattdeboard 10y agoThe interesting thing for me about this video is the math behind "scaling up" the rhythm of the song, syncing that with the "events" (popping balloon, splodin guitar, etc), so the 6000fps cameras can cut down to, idk, 500fps or something in editing and have them all reflect the actual rhythm. Pretty cool stuff
- MBCook 10y agoThat was one thing that occurred to me while watching the video, because they keep transitioning between different speeds they can choose the transition point so that the music will continue to match up even if in real time there was a very minute timing difference that would cause a problem. I'm assuming that's how they got the various flipbooks to sync up perfectly, where the lead singers singing when they went back to real-time video for a second. I think I have all their albums, I love their videos and their music is often pretty good. I suppose I should know his name. (Edit: Damien)
- orblivion 10y agoExcept, sometimes the music would match up not only with the flipbook but also some of the explosions. At least it would match them somewhat.
- tgb 10y agoNote that in their FAQ they specify that they really weren't fiddling with the playback speed: it's not constant but it has a handful of discrete jumps to different rates at each part (eg: the guitars exploding versus the lip syncing are at different rates but the rate is constant within the guitars exploding). Knowing this makes it much more impressive. [1] http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/background-notes-and-full-credits-for-the-one-moment-video/ http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/background-notes-and-full-credits...
- disordinary 10y agoYeah, my guess is they're playing with the speed constantly to keep things in sync.
- lukeholder 10y agoYou can see that the first flipbook has a digital overlay mask for the sync of the mouth video to the words. See his right hand fingers.
- teraflop 10y agoYeah, there's definitely a lot more manipulation than they admit to. Around 1:50-2:00, a guy is turning a crank that flips the pages of another flipbook, but the pages keep turning at the same speed even while the speed of the crank changes dramatically. Also, the apparent lack of regard for personal safety irks me a little. Wear some eye protection, dudes!
- robbrown451 10y agoIt's may have a flywheel to keep it consistent speed. It kind of looks like one at the top. The fact that they were confident enough to not wear eye protection is one more thing that makes it impressive. I mean, certainly they have an insurance company that would want to see that they are being safe, right?
- nkrisc 10y agoI assumed the crank was attached to some kind of flywheel that kept spinning after he stopped cranking. Just a guess.
- cs2818 10y agoFrom the behind the scenes video [0] it looks like safety was taken into consideration (though the final edited product doesn't make this obvious). [0] http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/the-one-moment-bts/ http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/the-one-moment-bts/
- wikibob 10y agoHere's the robotic camera control arm they used which you can see in the BTS video. http://www.cameracontrol.com/equipment/bolt/ http://www.cameracontrol.com/equipment/bolt/
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- oolongCat 10y agoHN and GO(lang) has ruined me. Every-time I see "Go" my brain tries to think Golang.
- edgyswingset 10y agoI'm sorry about that. Have you considered programming in Haskell?
- rounce 10y agoWhy all the downvotes? His (dis)position is legitimate nonetheless.
- catshirt 10y agoprobably because there is no way anyone could read the title of this post and think they are referring to a programming language ...
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- michael_h 10y agoAnybody know of a mirror? Facebook won't let me through :( Edit:: found https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvW61K2s0tA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvW61K2s0tA Bafflingly, a search on YouTube for 'OK go the one moment' didn't turn this up for me. Bunch of ripped songs came up though. Edit 2: Ah, it's 'unlisted'. Also, I've read a few of the comments on the youtube video, so you don't have to. It's still the worst bit of the internet.
- seanalltogether 10y agoOK Go have listed there last couple songs on facebook first and then youtube second, i think it has something to do with preventing reuploads to facebook for sharing
- beefman 10y agoNo video appears in latest Firefox Mac. Also, blogspam. Official link is https://www.facebook.com/okgo/videos/10153836041340683/ https://www.facebook.com/okgo/videos/10153836041340683/ (which is notable for not being at YouTube...)
- dang 10y agoI think the article adds enough context to the video that it's ok for it to be here. No one who wants to watch the video will have trouble finding it. We did replace the baity title with the article's first sentence. (That's in accordance with the HN guideline that asks to not use original titles when they're clickbait.)
- pimlottc 10y agoFortunately that doesn't stop youtube-dl from working!
- sbierwagen 10y agoWhat role did Morton Salt play, and what is #WalkHerWalk Morton Salt have recently launched a campaign to support a group of people who are bravely making a positive difference in the world. They’ve pledged funding and assistance to incredibly inspiring and effective young innovators who are tackling difficult issues like the global water crisis, the plight of young female refugees, systemic failures in arts and music education, and children’s health and wellness education. The slogan for this campaign is #WalkHerWalk, a reference to the girl in their iconic logo, and you can learn more about the innovators and the many facets of the campaign at http://MortonSalt.com/WalkHerWalk. Morton was moved by the message of “The One Moment,” and felt it captured the spirit of what they are trying to do with #WalkHerWalk, so they reached out to us and asked if we were interested in making art with their salt – a video that could fly the banner for their initiative. We were impressed with their efforts to support positive change, so we proposed this idea, and together we collaborated to bring this video to life. A beautiful and inspiring 4 minute video ad for Morton Salt.
- grzm 10y agoJust a friendly FYI: block-quoting long-line text makes it very hard to read, especially on mobile, due to side scrolling.
- sbierwagen 10y agohttps://snag.gy/nb7BJj.jpg https://snag.gy/nb7BJj.jpg The lines max out at 75 characters. (`fold --spaces --width 75`) But I'll nudge it down to 60. (Now 50)
- grzm 10y agoOn mobile it's about half that. If you use two newlines per line, you'll get the same effect with decent breaks in narrower view ports.
- deathanatos 10y agoIt's for this reason that I usually use > blockquoted text but even that is imperfect; is there some reason that HN doesn't support actual blockquotes? has it just not been done, or is there some objection to it? I know that perhaps egregious formatting can be detrimental, but blockquotes seem to be one of those formatting things that is extremely useful in discourse…
- jszymborski 10y agoIt seems like it's only released on FB, which is a shame because even with their "HD" option on, I feel like I'm being transported back to YouTube circa 2008. Holy crud is the quality awful on FB videos, really undermines the work they did here.
- CaptSpify 10y agohttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvW61K2s0tA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QvW61K2s0tA It's unlisted on YT for some reason
- ymse 10y agoOK Go really do make some amazing music videos. The Rube Goldberg machine [0] one is particularily impressive. It even got its own TED talk [1]. 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w 1: https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_sadowsky_engineers_a_viral_music_video https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_sadowsky_engineers_a_viral_mu...
- code_chimp 10y agoNeeding/Getting is pretty cool as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c
- cyberferret 10y agoI didn't think they could top the 'Zero Gravity' clip, but indeed they did... indeed they did!
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- debt 10y agotech makes music cool sometimes
- sleepychu 10y agoTitle is inaccurate. >How long did the routine take in real time? The first three quarters of the video, from the beginning of the song until I pick up the umbrella at the a cappella breakdown, unfold over 4.2 seconds of real time. Then I lip sync in real time for about 16 seconds (we thought it was important to have a moment of human contact at this point in the song, so we returned to the realm of human experience) and we return to slow motion for the final chorus paint scene, which took a little longer than 3 seconds in real time.
- midgetjones 10y agoThat dodgy formatting made me think you were in OK Go for a moment.
- dev360 10y agoMe too. Heres link to quote: http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/background-notes-and-full-credits-for-the-one-moment-video/ http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/background-notes-and-full-credits...
- StavrosK 10y agoI don't know, I doubt that. If you look at the first guy's bit, he's lipsyncing even though he doesn't move his lips at all in the first (4.2 second) cut, plus lipsyncing the words in half a second would be nigh impossible, PLUS the confetti bits from the background color fall at normalish speed, where I would expect them to pretty much stay stationary if this were filmed over half a second.
- matt_morgan 10y ago"Tim and Andy’s short bursts of lip sync (Tim twice and Andy once) are only 3x slower than real life (90 frames per second)." http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/background-notes-and-full-credits-for-the-one-moment-video/ http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/background-notes-and-full-credits... Different sections of the video are filmed at different speeds.
- jboynyc 10y agoWhenever I hear an OK Go song (or see one of their amazing videos), I have to remember the appearance of Damien Kulash at the Aaron Swartz memorial at the Cooper Union Great Hall. "Everybody's heart's breaking now..." Very moving.
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- amelius 10y agoPersonally, I think this clip looks almost as boring as a screensaver. But then again, I might not be the target audience.
- xyzzy4 10y agoOK Go needs good videos to compensate for the music quality.