“This Too Shall Pass” World Premiere!
March 1st, 2010A New York Times Op-Ed Piece by Damian
February 20th, 2010Damian has a New York Times Op-Ed piece about the major labels, YouTube, and non-embeddable videos in today’s New York Times.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE and let us know your thoughts in the comments on this post.
Kansas City, Australia, Free Stuff
February 16th, 2010First off a huge thanks to Paper Tounges, Crash Kings, and Company of Thieves for rocking out with us Saturday night in Kansas City. We had a blast, and so did all these people:

And now….we’re in Australia. Brisbane to be exact, soaking up a bit of warm rain, and watching the endless herdes of Kangaroos hop past our hotel window (ok, not really). We’ve got four shows here in Australia over the next week, so if you are on this little continent, or near it, now is your chance to come party with us. See the shows page for complete info on all the gigs.
And finally, we’re giving away a couple different mp3s in a couple different places. Namely, a live version of White Knuckles HERE and the album version of This Too Shall Pass HERE. Bon Appétit!
Behind the Scenes Look at Our Latest Video
February 12th, 2010As shooting draws to a close on our latest video, we wanted to share the first in a series of behind the scenes looks:
Also, here are a few writeups on the shoot:
Damian and Tim Tour EMI Headquarters, Germany
February 11th, 2010Let them take you on a soothing journey…
WTF? Video Remixes Starting to Arrive
February 10th, 2010We’ve started to receive some remixes of our WTF? video and the results are fantastic, so we had to share. If you want to get involved PLEASE DO SO.
Summer Festival Dates
February 9th, 2010We are pleased to announce some summer festival engagements! More will be added very soon, but here’s a few to keep you warm in these winter months:
Playground Weekender Festival in Webb’s Creek, New South Wales on Friday February 19th (hey, it’s summer in Australia!)
Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama on Sunday May 16th
Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, Tennessee on Friday June 11th
Photos from Europe
February 2nd, 2010Just a quick update to say we are back from Europe and are hard at work on a new, crazy project we think you are going to love. More details on that soon, but for now, here are links to various photos from our European tour:

Our European Tour Set on Flickr
Photos from each show on the tour:
(if you want your photos to appear here, just tag them correctly!)
January 11, Norwich UK Concert Photos
January 12, Birmingham UK Concert Photos
January 13, London UK Concert Photos
January 14, Brighton UK Concert Photos
January 16, Sheffield UK Concert Photos
January 17, Liverpool UK Concert Photos
January 18, Glasgow UK Concert Photos
January 19, Nottingham UK Concert Photos
January 21, Brussels BE Concert Photos
January 22, Amsterdam NL Concert Photos
January 25, Cologne DE Concert Photos
January 26, Paris FR Concert Photos
January 28, Copenhagen DK Concert Photos
Any other photos from the tour we should see? Tell us about them in the comments…
WTF? Video Remix Project from OK Go
January 20th, 2010We are pleased to announce a video remix project for our video “WTF?”
http://www.vimeo.com/7166047
We want you, our lovely and creative fans, to remix the WTF? video using the raw footage as shot by filmmaker Tim Nackashi. Tim shot the whole video using a “greenscreen” background like this:

Which allows you to supply your own background layer to the video like this:
http://www.vimeo.com/8878427
So Remix Our Video!
We invite you to:
- Download the raw greenscreen footage and import it into your video editing software.
- Use the greenscreen or chroma key effect to remove the background and generally mess with things to create your own version of the video.
- Upload your version as a video response on YouTube and we’ll embed them all below.
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And don’t feel like you need to remix the entire video. A small excerpt is just fine. Here’s an example by our friend Casey Opstad (thanks Casey!).
http://www.vimeo.com/8886373Helpful Links
What is Chroma Key / Greenscreen?
Chroma Key / Greenscreen Tutorial for Final Cut Pro
Chroma Key / Greenscreen Tutorial for iMovie
Chroma Key / Greenscreen Tutorial for Adobe Premiere Pro
Download the Greenscreen Footage File Here


