View Full Version : OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version - Official
festivalgirl
03-11-2010, 01:04 AM
Pretty damn cool ......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
stlbarb
03-11-2010, 01:53 AM
Pretty damn cool ......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
i always wondered what would happen if you crossed the Mouse Trap game with a hit of acid.
festivalgirl
03-11-2010, 02:09 AM
i always wondered what would happen if you crossed the Mouse Trap game with a hit of acid.
you get rube goldberg ......
i loved mouse trap!!!
Pretty damn cool ......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
pretty cool! I remember Rube Goldbergs in the Sunday funnies section of the paper when I was just a lad.
i always wondered what would happen if you crossed the Mouse Trap game with a hit of acid.
not as fun as it sounds...puffy clouds at sunset are better.
Apostrophe (')
03-11-2010, 08:44 AM
killer!
these guys never cease to amaze. glad someone still cares about making interesting videos.
festivalgirl
03-11-2010, 01:54 PM
pretty cool! I remember Rube Goldbergs in the Sunday funnies section of the paper when I was just a lad.
me too!! check out his web site. http://www.rubegoldberg.com/
revjimk
03-13-2010, 04:43 PM
Loved it!
Wonder how long it took to set up, & how much space?
Talk about expressing your inner kid!
About seven years ago there was a very similar TV commercial for Honda Accord. The gimmick in the Accord ad was that most of the moving parts in the device were parts from a disassembled Accord. It's still up on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEF0cg1j35o
The Accord ad in turn was apparently inspired by a 1987 film by two Swiss artists, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, "Der Lauf Der Dinge" (The Way Things Go). The chain of events in that film goes on for nearly thirty minutes. No narration, no context. I stumbled upon it on PBS one night and couldn't stop watching.
http://icarusfilms.com/cat97/t-z/the_way_.html
Fischli and Weiss found the Accord commercial so similar to their work that they threatened legal action, but I can't find that anything came of that.
To my eye, both "Der Lauf Der Dinge" and the Accord commercial have the advantage that they don't need to show a band singing so they can focus entirely on the device. In the OK Go video, many of the moving parts' interactions happen out-of-frame. I find that a little less satisfying.
Headless Hornman
03-16-2010, 08:19 AM
An interesting interview with the machine designers:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/03/ok_go_rube_goldberg_video_meet_the.html
MammaBullie
03-16-2010, 02:05 PM
WOW!!! That was incredible!