OK Go and Pilobolus Push Boundaries of Viral Video, HTML 5, Spandex

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In their new video, "All Is Not Lost," OK Go teams up with avant garde dance company Pilobolus to don toothpaste green spandex and dance through a kaleidoscopic choreography of HTML 5 browser windows. It's a little as if a synchronized swim team washed up on the fourth wall of the Internet and decided to perform anyway. For the full interactive experience, skip the YouTube video and go to www.allisnotlo.st, which is powered by Chrome and Google Japan. Director Trish Sie and lead singer Damian Kulash elaborate on the inspiration for the video in the behind the scenes.

OK Go's career is a wonderful little case study in how Web video has evolved since they blew up YouTube with their lo-fi, homemade "Here It Goes Again," in 2007.

Since then they've experimented a range of YouTube-friendly ideas, including stop motion, psychedelic visual effects, and lots of dogs, with a keen sensibility for all things viral. How many times have you watched the Rube Goldberg Machine they put together for This Too Shall Pass"?

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Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. She curates the Video channel. More

Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg's work in media spans documentary television, advertising, and print. As a producer in the Viewer Created Content division of Al Gore's Current TV, she acquired and produced short documentaries by independent filmmakers around the world. Post-Current, she worked as a producer and strategist at Urgent Content, developing consumer-created and branded nonfiction campaigns for clients including Cisco, Ford, and GOOD Magazine. She studied filmmaking and digital media at Harvard University, where she was co-creator and editor in chief of H BOMB Magazine.

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