March 2010

WATCH IT: Never Shout Never "Can't Stand It" (Isaac Ravishankara, dir.)

Long before Ashley and Pete, there was Suze and Bob. And the fact that Never Shout Never's Christofer Drew Ingle and director Isaac Ravishankara can get away with this many Dylan references — alas, there's no Judas moment — in a video is enough to make you have faith that maybe the kiddies aren't just listening to Justin Bieber. --> watch "Can't Stand It"

WATCH IT: OK Go "This Too Shall Pass" (RGM version)

OK Go go even bigger in their effort to top that albatross of a treadmill dance video with possibly the biggest functional Rube Goldberg contraption ever created. Pulling together the braintrust at the "applied physics" group Synn Labs  — a braintrust of scientists and other nerds who pull off these sorts of stunts — and a grant from State Farm Insurance (breaking stuff + potential for injury = good marketing opp for insurance), OK Go lipsync this tune as all sorts of precisely plotted and fairly destructive actions take place all around them.

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