Thursday 1 April 2010

smiling is a chain reaction

Not only has Zi packed her entire life into boxes and moved it into storage, but she is also suffering from a broken computer. So posts will be probably only coming from my direction until she's arrived in Malaysia. 

Seeing life is doing its best to be busy and stressful, I figure we are all overdue for a big ol' smile at the moment. Here to help me out is American band OK Go, who are are probably more famous for their one-take treadmill video (what? You haven't seen it?? Here) than the rest of their music...and now they've gone and done it again, with the video for This Too Shall Pass. The video features a rather epic Rube Goldberg machine. A who what machine? Named after the American cartoonist whose illustrations first made them famous, Rube Goldbergs are complex and over-engineered machines which perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways (thanks, Wikipedia!). Still confused? Maybe these will jog your memory:


And last but not least, the video itself:



PS: having watched it, does my post title make a little more sense? I'm thinking causality -> happiness -> silliness -> Rube Goldberg. Makes perfect sense, right....?

PPS: I think it's also kind of hilarious that the google ads which pop up at the bottom of the This Too Shall Pass video are for treadmills. Poor old OK Go. It was an awesome video, but they will forever more be "Those Guys With the Treadmill."

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