OK Go :: mid-summer playlist

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Summer is slightly more than a third over, and we hope and trust that yours has been filled with fireworks and hot dogs and loud music and other such all-American delights. If it’s been lacking in the music department, or even if it hasn’t and you just need a soundtrack for further grilling, here’s the band’s latest Spotify playlist with jams hand-picked by Damian and Tim.

1. “Knives” – Viva Modula
2. “Valerie” – Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse
3. “It Must Be True Love” – Toots & the Maytals
4. “I Feel Space” (Freeform 5 remix) – Lindstrøm
5. “Tryouts For the Human Race” – Sparks
6. “Bad Girls” – M.I.A.
7. “Daniel in the Lion’s Den” – Bessie Jones & the Georgia Sea Island Singers
8. “Little Honda” – Yo La Tengo
9. “No.1 Against the Rush” – Liars
10. “Keep On Moving” – Bob Marley & the Wailers
11. “Everything Changes” – Eytan & the Embassy

Summer Camp, Week Two

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We’re getting ready to move OK Go’s 21st century summer camp into its next phase, but we’re still having our brains melted by all the amazing art/inventions/physics lessons/improvised plays that you’ve been sharing with us via the #okgosummercamp tag and summercamp@okgo.net. Okay, the heat is melting our brains a little bit, too. There’s still time to share, of course. Please do, especially if your creation involves figuring out how to have a virtual water balloon fight that results in a real-life cool-down. In the meantime, here are some our favorite submissions from the second week.

Jeff and his band Go For The Eyes made a video using 250 donated boxes that took 24 hours to paint.

 

Steven White turned an abandoned combine into a kinetic sound sculpture.

 

Kaci Beller is part of a theatrical production called Manhattan Stories that improvises plays in the style of Woody Allen films.

 

Henry Reicl creates minute-long physics lessons.

 

Summer Camp, Week One

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Earlier this week, we announced the start of the OK Go 21st century do-it-yourself arts-and-crafts Summer Camp. To kick it off, we asked what all of you have been making — songs, videos, dances, art, writing, anything, everything. The responses have blown us away, ranging from stop-motion animation about a haunted house to a giant cooling shade made out of recycled soda bottles. Some of our favorites are below.

But if you haven’t shared yet, we’d still love for you to do so. Post on our Facebook wall, tag it on Twitter with #okgosummercamp, or just email us at okgosummercamp@okgo.net.

Here’s what some of your fellow OK Go fans are making.

Kevin Ramler built a whistling pipe organ from a bike tire and a crank.

 

Jennifer Harris painted murals on soon-to-be-demolished buildings in San Francisco and invited people to collaborate.

 

Ren Vasiliev makes mixed media collages.

 

Garth Britzman used soda bottles to make a giant shade canopy.

 

Paola Horevicz makes handmade letter-press books.

 

Lachlan Dean and Sarah Phillips directed a video for the Australian band The Weekend People.

The Weekend People – We Are Police (Official Video) from The Weekend People on Vimeo.

 

Summer Camp!

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Besides the band’s upcoming summer shows (we hope you make it out), the guys are pretty much off the road for the foreseeable future, holed up in their secret bunkers, carefully creating the next batch of awesome for us all. And it’s time to see what you’ve all got, and engage our collective group-mind in some 21st century arts and crafts.

Over the course of this summer, we’ll be plotting (and posting) various ways to tap into the insane hive-brain we suspect you are. If this sounds fun, stay tuned to our Twitter and Facebook feeds and await further instructions. But before we do that, the very first step is to see how your creativity manifests itself. What’s your art? Do you write music yourself? Do you dance? Make movies or videos or animation? Wire up homebrew electronics? Compose epic poems? Now’s the time to show us. It doesn’t have to be OK Go-related. We’re just curious about what you’re making!

Tweet at us with an #okgosummercamp hashtag, post on our Facebook wall, or email summercamp@okgo.net. We’ll repost some of our favorites, and keep plotting ways for our hive-brain to make some collective cool stuff.

OK Go To The Movies!

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3D movies are great, IMAX movies are amazing, too, and 3D IMAX movies just insane. If anybody made them anymore, old-fashioned Smell-O-Vision would surely be totally incredible. But–on May 10th–not only can you go to your local cinema and see OK Go on the big screen as part of This American Life Live!, but you can actually participate in OK Go’s performance. That’s the magic of radio. Well, that and smartphone technology and living in the future and such.

Simply download the free app, and be prepared to play along with the band on virtual handbells when the time comes. We suggest that you buy tickets in advance, as well as download the app ahead of time, since it’s hard to get phone service in some movie theaters. The show will be broadcast live from the Skirball Center at New York University and will feature TAL host Ira Glass, many of the show’s regular stars (including David Sedaris) and many other surprises.

We also recommend that you wipe the popcorn butter off your fingers before operating the app and please for the love of all that is special and wonderful in this great American land of ours to keep your phone on silent for the rest of the show.