Comments on: Ok Go: you have to see this video

By: Eli Rabett

Eli Rabett — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:22:05 +0000

Those who do not know history are damned to repeat it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ATfm-wnC8

By: merrg

merrg — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:01:50 +0000

hehe…

the Colbert interview was totally hysterical.

Damian was totally not ready for it.

and the videos are always amazing.

By: Discourse.net

Discourse.net — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:16:34 +0000

Notes from the Cultural Treadmill

As regular readers may have noticed I have great respect for (and even greater fascination with) the views of MIT prof and culture boffin Grant McCracken on most subjects other than Yale. So of course I pay attention when Prof. McCracken writes of the …

By: Bob M

Bob M — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:55:10 +0000

Those guys remind me of The Wiggles – except for the music.

By: deb murphy

deb murphy — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:22:51 +0000

Very Dada – as though Marcel Duchamp produced a late night infomercial.

By: Maria making pictures

Maria making pictures — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:01:39 +0000

A wonderful video. I find it very entertaining and funny.
This video makes my day.

Thank you for sharing this video with me !

By: Tom Guarriello

Tom Guarriello — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:20:48 +0000

Synchronized movement has always fascinated us (think: Rockettes, marching band routines, pairs ice skating.) There are lots of psychological “explanations,” many of which have to do with the psychoanalytic notion of “fusion.” We are drawn to co-ordinated movement, this thinking goes, because it appeals to a desire to meld our identities with those of our fellows, rooted in a desire to re-create a single ego.

I prefer to think the appeal of this video was its exuberant charm.

By: LK

LK — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:02:12 +0000

When I saw the OK Go guy appear on Colbert the other night, just as the ‘treadmill video’ had made its round among my friends & colleagues I realized at that moment why Colbert’s show is ‘working’ for me better than Jon Stewart. Also enjoyable, but increasingly just the first 10 minutes. Colbert is operating at the meta level, and his ‘crumbelievable’ look at popular culture the other night, as evidenced by the treadmill dance video, had the show venturing into new terrain; adding another dimension of analysis to the mix. If parody is a game and satire is a lesson then the Colbert report may be staking out a new path for commentary.

And how great was it when he said to Mr OK Go, ‘well, we all know that music is only good if big corporations TELL us it’s good’ and Mr OK Go nodded with just the right amount of wink wink.

By: Dylan Trees

Dylan Trees — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:01:25 +0000

Their record company refused to release the video because they thought it was cheap and strange. So they released it themselves. Yeh!

By: Steve Portigal

Steve Portigal — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:08:00 +0000

One of the musicians was on the Colbert Report two days ago for an interesting if silly segment about the collapse (or is it dominance) of pop culture. It was actually one of the smartest things I’ve seen on TV for a while; the interview itself was so-so, but the premise of the whole segment (“it’s crumbelievable”) was brilliant.