Video

[zotz]

I mentioned (to Lara and Seth, I think) a video I'd seen on YouCrack involving treadmills. The Grauniad today has a few examples of runaway successes, and it was one of them - OK Go's "Here It Goes Again", - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINJQ5LRh-0

Comments

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

Apparently 28% of all YouTube links are for that OK GO video.

[zotz]

Sounds quite a lot.

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a very popular video. And Rightly so!

[zotz]

Youtube allegedly gets a million or so hits a day. That page has a million hits total. There are certainly other copies of it up there, but I'd be surprised if it was generally and regularly managing 280 000 hits a day. It may have done so at some point, though - that wouldn't particularly surprise me.

[dj-alexander.livejournal.com]

Well, you have to remember that a hit doesn't necessarily follow a link, and 59% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Hurr hurr, you said 'runaway'.

...well I thought it was funny. *goes back to work*

[zotz]

Yeah, get back to work, you!

Goddamn slackers.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Hee hee, their gangly legs! :) :)

[shaunotd.livejournal.com]

Heh! Haven't seen the vid before, but they re-created it live on TV a little while ago. Can't remember the show though...

[yehoshua.livejournal.com]

The staff at my gym get incredibly upset if anyone tries to re-enact this.

Or so I'm told.

[zotz]

*Coff*.

I can imagine. All those pairs of red trousers . . .

[yehoshua.livejournal.com]

The mandatory hipster-wear argyle vests, OTOH, can be very slimming.

[skx.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to picture how that would have looked on a blue screen without the treadmills being visible ..

Very cool video though.

[zotz]

The ferocious cheapness is part of the charm - for me, at least.

Actually, matting out the stationary bits shouldn't be too difficult for someone with the right software.

[happyblade.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is an ace video. I can only imagine how many takes it took to get it right :)

[zotz]

Must have been fun, though.

Shockingly

[shermarama]

I saw it on OK Go's own website rather than on YouTube. They have some other pleasingly budget affairs on there too.

Re: Shockingly

[zotz]

Cheers. I should probably check them out.

Re: Shockingly

[shermarama]

http://www.okgo.net/video.asp

[(Anonymous)]

Yes this video/song is playing a lot on NZ musicTV just now. I like it, kinda different fun. Grendel