04 - Ok Go

I love these guys, creative lot they are. What brings me to them today? I will share a story....

I'm working in my office on this rainy Sunday afternoon and in the wake of graduation i've been left a bit blue. The last of the masters students who have been great friends have finished and moved on. The last of my undergraduate friends have graduated and are moving on. The last of my close friends in the area will leave at the end of the month. The friends that have already moved on have luckily been good about coming back (can't wait to be writing at the beach with Mrs. Waugh-and-a-half) but today I am stuck feeling a bit sorry for myself.

As the music is always shuffling as I am on my nerd grind, what should pop up but a song by Ok Go - Crash the party. It's rebellious and fun and it made me smile. Then I thought, you know what.. a lot of things about these guys make me smile. Most notably, their music videos.

Perhaps you're familiar with this wildly popular treadmill production:
Here it goes again (fast forward to 20 seconds in-the other video that I couldn't embed has 51 Million views)




In searching for this video, it led me to THIS JEM (a spot-on remake by some high school kids)



As I looked for their other videos, I came across their newest video from their album 'Of the Blue Color of the Sky' and it is UNBELIEVABLE. Think Scotty Smalls's Erector Set domino contraption on crack.




Now this foray into the abyss of internet distractions may seem counter productive, but I would argue otherwise. After attending the lecture by one Jorge Cham, creator of PHD Comics, I feel okay taking time for mental health. If you were to graph my productivity it would resemble a roller coaster at Busch Gardens and let's just say I spent the entire last week going uphill. But despite everything... the long days, the long weeks, the thinning social life (an unfortunate casualty of higher education) you still gotta find things that make you smile. Between Ok Go and the dizzying spiral of web queries following as a result of this blog entry my face now looks like this:

:D

... and I am rejuvenated and ready to return to conquering my spreadsheets!