A music video so insanely fun to watch it's crazy.

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I tried to make the thread title as interesting as possible because this video is a lot of fun to watch.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w[/youtube]

this is great -- I'm going to definitely show it to my kids!

The thread title was definitely accurate. I didn't think OK Go could outdo the epic treadmill video, but it appears they have. In a very awesome way. Now the question is, how will they ever top this?

Thanks for sharing this. I really like OKGo but haven't kept track of them and didn't know they had another album.

Yeah, I saw this a while ago. I really like when Rube Goldberg Machines are in music videos. The Bravery's video for their single "An Honest Mistake" has an RGM in it too. I also love one-shot videos (although I can see one small cut that seems to only be in there to time it with the music - it's when the camera travels through the curtains late in the video)

OK Go are a pretty good band. There's better indie rock/power pop hybrid bands out there, but they usually have some of the best videos.

Some cool other one shot music videos:
Metric - Gimme Sympathy (2009)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqldwoDXHKg[/youtube]
...and how they pulled it off
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHt5caARmh0[/youtube]

MuteMath - Typical (2005)
embedding disabled. This one's really interesting because this video is in "reverse" and the band did the entire one-shot with their singer mouthing the lyrics of the song backwards and then the tape was reversed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XVWR-5fiG0

Vampire Weekend - A-Punk (2008)
this video actually has frames removed from it post-production so the video intentionally seems jerky and stop-motion
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XC2mqcMMGQ[/youtube]
Vampire Weekend's video for "Oxford Comma" is also a one-shot, but since there's a couple uses of that dreaded "F" word used to curse the kind of punctuation that gives the song its title, so i've decided not to embed it. You can go on Youtube and find it if you're interested.

Feist - 1,2,3,4 (2007)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABYnqp-bxvg[/youtube]

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Oh my god that was amazing. The most elaborate version of Mouse Trap I've ever seen.

I've seen a bunch of people that compare the video to Mouse Trap online. While that is accurate - Mouse Trap is a Rube Goldberg Machine, RGMs actually have a longer history than that and have been referenced multiple times in pop culture.

That may have been the term I was looking for. I've also seen a few Littlebigplanet levels based on RGM's. They're very well done.