OK Go - White Knuckles
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Jul 21, 2015 
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With a string of viral successes under its belt, OK Go has released its latest confection for the song “White Knuckles”. The concept? “Dogs,” says Damian Kulash, the band’s 35-year-old front-man. “Dogs dancing.”
A video four years in the making, it is less about canines performing tricks than simple synchronised actions. But don’t think that made it a cinch. “Having some task, running around, that’s really easy. But just staying or being moved is really hard. If there’s a larger theme connecting all of the videos it’s choreography as a collaborative system. Like the beauty of an ant colony,” he says. “The idea being that if you move one fork, you’re moving a fork; if you take two forks, suddenly they’re dancing.”
Unlike OK Go’s previous videos, though, this is the first to be filmed in 3D — using two hacked Canon PowerShot TX-1 cameras, with a control switch built into an Altoids tin. “To make things seem dynamic without a moving camera you’ve got to have these very big changes in depth: small, big, up high, down low, so there’s so much using three dimensions already. These dogs look incredible in 3D.” The video can be seen on YouTube in a host of multidimensional flavours (including red/green anaglyph and active shutter): since the band left EMI in March, it depends more than ever on viral appeal.
Working from two reference videos — one of separate clips cut together into the full routine, another of the band performing in a continuous take with stuffed animals — filming took place in Portland, Oregon over two weeks. Initially rehearsing at 80 per cent pace, the dogs were cued in by clicks of differing pitches from off- camera trainers, or were made to move in unison by waving a cheese covered tennis ball attached to a long stick. It took more than 128 attempts (and they only started counting in week two).
Relying on live animals means the timing isn’t beat-perfect. But to Kulash that homemade quality is key. “I had to make a ‘What is an OK Go video’ list for potential directors, and one of the main points is that it’s something anybody could make. There isn’t special access, or crazy skills, or a whole lot of money. If it’s super-slick I think you believe it less.”
To learn more about this cool band, visit: http://www.okgo.net/
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p/s: Did you notice the cameo appearance of an unexpected friend at time 2:50? 
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