Overly Complex OK Go Music Videos Get Parodied
by Michael Suen | 6:14 pm, July 6th
You might know the rock band OK Go for its music, but you probably know them better for their elaborate viral music videos: “Here It Goes Again,” the YouTube sensation of coordinated treadmill dancing, is currently the 57th most popular video on the site; “This Too Shall Pass” utilizes an gigantic Rube Goldberg contraption built over four months by Syyn Labs across two floors; the most recent “End Love” is again another feat of coordinated–this time in stop-motion!–dancing.
Now, Babelgum has released a parody video titled “OK Go’s New Viral Video: Giant Pie,” which suggests that perhaps the band should stop producing increasingly complicated videos, and simply return to their roots: you know, music. Watch the amusing music video / mock-behind-the-scenes after the jump.
Read on...Magnetic Silly Putty: This Is a Thing
by Robert Quigley | 5:55 pm, July 6th
Vat19, purveyors of “curiously awesome” products, have outcurioused and outawesomed themselves with this one: For a mere $13.50, you can buy a handy 3.2 ounce blob of magnetic Silly Putty. And they’ll even throw in a powerful neodymium iron boron magnet, for added rare-earth magnetic fun! The magnetic Putty is loaded with “millions of tiny micron-sized magnets” which give it its unusual properties. Inb4 Insane Clown Posse reference.
This stuff looks really, really freaky in action. Demo videos below:
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