Remember the ghillie-suit music video?
And that Rube Goldberg music video?
Well, the same crazy group
is back at it again, only this time with a time-warping video:
The fastest we go is 172,800x, compressing 24 hours of real time into a blazing 1/2 second. The slowest is 1/32x speed, stretching a mere 1/2 second of real time into a whopping 16 seconds. This gives us a fastest to slowest ratio of 5.5 million. If you like averages, the average speed up factor of the band dancing is 270x. In total we shot 18 hours of the band dancing and 192 hours of LA skyline timelapse – over a million frames of video – and compressed it all down to 4 minutes and 30 seconds! Oh and don’t forget, it’s one continuous camera shot.
Personally, I still dislike the music – it is strangely compelling, but also wholly unremarkable – but their videos continue to be awesome. I really have to wonder about small details like restroom breaks and such, though…
Here is the original video that they became known for, “Here it Goes Again” a.k.a. the Treadmill Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI
Wow. So they have been doing this kind of craziness all along… I guess that figures, and is still absolutely awesome.
And, hell, it gets people like me, who are not terribly fond of their music, giving them free airtime, so it cannot be all bad
.