This is spectacular.

From the description on YouTube:

Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. The official video for the recorded version of “This Too Shall Pass” off of the album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky”. The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The “machine” was designed and built by the band, along with members of Synn Labs over the course of several months.

I mean…wow. You gotta hand it to them. This is a real work of art. Totally raises the bar for all us directors and puts to shame all those performers who complain because a video shoot is four days long and because they aren’t in every frame of film :) This took months of preparation, and there’s no question that people are watching to see the action unfurl, not to see the band lip-synch.

OK Go – This Too Shall Pass:

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