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OK Go, the band is being sued by a breakfast cereal manufacturer

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 Alan Cross 1 Comment Cereal, Copyright, Lawsuit, OK Go, Post, Trademark

Back in 1986, an ice cream lover named Jane Williamson wrote to the Ben & Jerry’s headquarters in Burlington, Vermont.

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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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