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#4228162 - 02/12/16 01:12 AM Another Cool Video from OK GO  
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They always do something different.



Apparently, they only wanted this video released through Facebook, so the Youtube link has been removed.

Here's the link to it on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/okgo/videos/10153210535420683/

Last edited by Arthonon; 02/12/16 08:55 PM.

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#4228181 - 02/12/16 02:42 AM Re: Another Cool Video from OK GO [Re: Arthonon]  
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That was nuts.

By the way, this was shared on Facebook by none other than Buzz Aldrin earlier today.

Now I want to see the "making of" video. I don't know how they did this in one take (if it was), 3 minutes of zero G in an airplane????


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#4228186 - 02/12/16 02:56 AM Re: Another Cool Video from OK GO [Re: Arthonon]  
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#4228187 - 02/12/16 02:57 AM Re: Another Cool Video from OK GO [Re: Arthonon]  
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some info from FAQ:

"How long did it take to shoot? It took months plan and set up, but we were actually on site near the Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia for 3 weeks. During that time we did 21 flights, with 15 zero gravity parabolas per flight, for a total of about two hours and fifteen minutes in weightlessness. For the first week we did test flights to figure out which ideas would work and which wouldnt. How hard is it to control yourself? If you do a really cool flip once, can you repeat it? What looks cooler in zero gravity: a chain of a string of beads? Toothpaste or a shaken can of soda? How hard is it to place place a tablet in the air and just have it stay still? By the second week, wed chosen our favorite ideas; we had our bag of tricks, and we assembled them into the routine and rehearsed it. The third week was proper shooting, we just ran the routine 8 times over 8 flights."

The video is a single take, but there is some time removed to make that possible. The longest period of weightlessness that it is possible to achieve in these circumstances is about 27 seconds, and after each period of weightlessness, it takes about five minutes for the plane to recover and prepare for then next round. Because we wanted the video to be a single, uninterrupted routine, we shot continuously over the course of 8 consecutive weightless periods, which took about 45 minutes, total. We paused our actions, and the music, during the non-weightless periods, and then cut out these sections and smoothed over each transition with a morph.

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#4228193 - 02/12/16 03:12 AM Re: Another Cool Video from OK GO [Re: Arthonon]  
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Oh to be young again, Would loved to have tried the zero G experience. But now
I would be puking my guts out going through those zero-g times. The up and down
does it now. Use to love riding coasters to.

Loved their other video on those crazy unicycle E-powered bikes.


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#4228293 - 02/12/16 10:12 AM Re: Another Cool Video from OK GO [Re: Arthonon]  
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Very well timed to be released, as a utubecommenter said
"on Gravity Wave Day".

#4228295 - 02/12/16 10:29 AM Re: Another Cool Video from OK GO [Re: Arthonon]  
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I'd like to know their budget for this. High six figure?

#4228299 - 02/12/16 10:38 AM Re: Another Cool Video from OK GO [Re: Arthonon]  
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Yes JimK, i wondered how they coped with the nausea.
Great vid though the boy-band music is abhorrent to these 65-y-o ears!
Pity the cleaners who had to clean that mess up.



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#4228407 - 02/12/16 03:09 PM Re: Another Cool Video from OK GO [Re: David Kennard]  
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Originally Posted By: David Kennard
some info from FAQ:

"How long did it take to shoot? It took months plan and set up, but we were actually on site near the Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia for 3 weeks. During that time we did 21 flights, with 15 zero gravity parabolas per flight, for a total of about two hours and fifteen minutes in weightlessness. For the first week we did test flights to figure out which ideas would work and which wouldnt. How hard is it to control yourself? If you do a really cool flip once, can you repeat it? What looks cooler in zero gravity: a chain of a string of beads? Toothpaste or a shaken can of soda? How hard is it to place place a tablet in the air and just have it stay still? By the second week, wed chosen our favorite ideas; we had our bag of tricks, and we assembled them into the routine and rehearsed it. The third week was proper shooting, we just ran the routine 8 times over 8 flights."

The video is a single take, but there is some time removed to make that possible. The longest period of weightlessness that it is possible to achieve in these circumstances is about 27 seconds, and after each period of weightlessness, it takes about five minutes for the plane to recover and prepare for then next round. Because we wanted the video to be a single, uninterrupted routine, we shot continuously over the course of 8 consecutive weightless periods, which took about 45 minutes, total. We paused our actions, and the music, during the non-weightless periods, and then cut out these sections and smoothed over each transition with a morph.

Good info, thanks!

I've always wanted to do one of those zero-g flights, and I thought it was cool that they shot some of Apollo 13 like that.


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#4228436 - 02/12/16 04:23 PM Re: Another Cool Video from OK GO [Re: Arthonon]  
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"How did they overcome the nausea?" Given the amount of time spent testing and practicing, they probably became as used to the experience as one can get.


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