OK Go’s highly successful video for “This Too Shall Pass” was a lot of people’s first introduction to the mechanical-stylings of Rube Goldberg, but people have been building contraptions that mimic his mind-boggling style for some time. Evidence: this Breakfast-making Machine…
The band OK Go has the unenviable task of having to constantly outperform themselves in terms of their music videos (evidence: their video for Here I Go Again). In their new video for “This Too Shall Pass,” they have have succeeded again:
Take special note of the astounding levels of detail here. They could have easily gotten away with much less. But, even in the world of Rube Goldberg-inspired contraptions, this video is massively impressive.
“For English-speaking people who want to talk to and be understood by jazz musicians, hipsters, beatniks, juvenile delinquents and the criminal fringe.”
BarBot 2010: the third annual festival of Cocktail Robotics!
“BarBot is a celebration of cocktail culture and man-machine interface. Get a drink from an actual robot. Chat up a snarky electronic bartender. Listen to some graceful tunes being played by robotic music makers. And, after downing your sixth martini, you can finally admit that it’s the geeks who shall inherit the earth.“
A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything: a flipbook animation that covers the history of the universe… as related to our planet (and Western cultures in particular).