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Hi everyone.  On Wednesday we’re hosting a parade!  We’re gathering friends and fans and a whole bunch of instruments and playing an 8-mile-long collaborative party-concert.  The dawn of battery-powered amplifiers has come, and we are putting ours in wagons and harnessing them to ourselves and taking the rock to the streets.  But really it’s more than a parade, because it’s also a giant collective city-sized drawing of the the letters ‘OK GO’ using ourselves as the ‘Etch’ and Los Angeles as the ‘Sketch’ in one giant, city-sized musical Etch-a-Sketch-ing. If this doesn’t make any sense, allow Damian to clarify:

Clear? We’re able to throw this party because Range Rover Evoque (it’s a car) has a program (the City Shapers Program) to fund art projects in twelve cities around the world, and this is ours.  We’re using standard GPS technology and an iPhone app to track our journey and draw out our path.  In short: mobile music party makes a picture.

You should do this too.  Download the app (it’s free) and plan a journey through your town.  It’s like dancing with your city.  You don’t need to plan a whole parade or even involve music at all – you could just take a walk or a drive or bike ride with a friend or two and draw out something awesome.  Draw your spirit animal or spell out the word that best describes you. And take pictures or video while you do it.  Then share the map-picture and the footage with us.  We’ll compile the map-pictures and the best moments of making them into one glorious little film.

WANT TO JOIN US? Do you live near LA? Do you play a musical instrument?  Do you want to be in OK Go’s parade on Wednesday? Or do you NOT play a musical instrument but you can bang a pot/pan and dance? We’re playing an 8-mile long communal party-concert on Wednesday afternoon in LA. If you want to come, hit okgonewsletter@gmail.com and let us know what instrument you play, or why we should invite you.

Project Page on Range Rover’s Site
Free iPhone App for making your own

We are excited to share with you the video for our song Last Leaf. It is comprised entirely of photographs…15 still shots for every second of video. Oh yes, and toast. Lots and lots of toast.

The result is a bit different than the last few videos we’ve made from this album, and we hope you like it.

Last Leaf was made in partnership with Samsung NX100 iFn – http://www.cre8yourworld.com.

It was directed by OK Go, Nadeem Mazen and Ali Mohammad of Serious Business Design.

Geoff Mcfetridge from Champion Graphics developed the hand-drawn animation.

Produced by Shirley Moyers.

Today is THE DAY. Not Election Day (well, yes, Election Day) and not El Dia de los Muertos (well, yes, El Dia de los Muertos) but ALSO it’s the day that the EXTRA NICE EDITION of our album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky is released in the US and Canada!

A fan dubbed it #ExtraNiceTuesday on Twitter, and that has a nice ring to it, so we’re stealing it (in the true spirit of the internet). Happy Extra Nice Tuesday everyone!

The Extra Nice Edition of the album comes complete with an entire second disc of bonus material, as well as a download card for 12 OK Go remixes.

You can buy it at places like:
The Official OK Go Merch Store
iTunes
Amazon
Your Favorite Independent Retailer

You can listen to three tracks from the release on AOL Spinner.
We’ll be streaming other tracks here on our website throughout the week, so be sure to check back for that. And thanks for supporting the re-release, everyone. We know it can seem insane to release an album three times, but let’s just say we are finally getting to do things the way we want and can’t help releasing more material related to this album. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it.