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OK Go’s new musical project involves 15,000 artists from 35 states and 21 countries

May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music Video, OK Go, Zoom

OK Go never takes the easy route when it comes to making music videos. Here’s another example of their ingenuity.

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Music News 

OK Go has a new online resource to teach students math and science

May 24, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments OK Go, OK Go Sandbox

OK Go’s videos are brilliantly complex, requiring untold hours of planning and calculating. They’re now putting that knowledge to work

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Cool! 

OK Go is Back with a New Weirdly Wonderful Video that Celebrates…Printer Paper?

November 27, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Double A, OK Go, Video

We can always count on the guys in OK Go to come up with new, cool spins on the music

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Music News 

Good Timesuck: OK Go’s TED Talk on “How to Find a Wonderful Idea”

May 31, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Creativity, OK Go, TED

No other band has consistently come up with new concepts for music videos than OK Go. From weird Rube Goldberg

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OK Go Covers Morrissey–and Donald Trump Isn’t Going to Like It

January 18, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cover Version, Donald Trump, Morrissey, OK Go

OK Go is known for their elaborate Rube Goldberg-style impossible-to-shoot videos (this, for example), but as Donald Trump prepares to

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Music News 

OK Go Releases New Video That Was Shot in 4.2 Seconds. Seriously.

November 25, 2016November 25, 2016 Nerhys 0 Comments Morton Salt, Music Video, OK Go

OK Go enjoys creating unique music videos and they just released their latest one. The majority of the elaborate video

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Tech 

OK Go’s Music Video Stored in DNA.

July 11, 2016July 10, 2016 Nerhys 0 Comments DNA data storage, OK Go

As technology quickly progresses, we’re able to fit larger amounts of data into increasingly smaller physical spaces. A few years

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Recommended Music 

OK Go Does It Again: The First-Ever All Zero-G Music Video

February 11, 2016 Alan Cross 2 Comments Hungry Ghosts, OK Go, S7 Airlines, Zero Gravity

We’ve come to expect OK Go to do weird and cool things with their music videos. Now they’ve shot a

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Music News 

OK Go Celebrates 10 Years of Making Awesome Music Videos

April 2, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music VIdeos, OK Go

No one has been more consist in delighting fans with innovative music videos over the last decade than Chicago’s OK

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Music News 

OK Go’s TV Commercial for a Chinese Furniture Store. Wait–What?

March 25, 2015March 24, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments OK Go, Red Star Macalline, TV Commercial

The whole concept of selling out is pretty much dead. If you’re going to exist in the music industry today,

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Movies 

OK Go Releases an NSFW Video That’s Very Catchy and Funny

February 17, 2015February 17, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Hot Tub Time Machine 2, Music Video, OK Go

And it’s all based on Hot Tub Time Machine 2…  

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The Backstage Project Podcast

The Backstage Project Podcast with Mark Silver focuses on the stories behind the biggest and best entertainment products, events, and companies. We go behind the scenes with amazing people who have done or are doing extraordinary things to entertain you, the audience. From sporting events to concerts, from cable tv to music apps; if it’s made an impact on the entertainment world, we cover it.

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