Past OK Go music videos have featured everything from dancing dogs to an extraordinarily complex Rube Goldberg machine, but their latest eye-boggling clip for “The Writing’s on the Wall” features the band’s four members moving through a Brooklyn lot, where a series of perspective illusions have been painted and prepared.
Taking nearly three weeks to assemble and 50 takes to get right, the video attempts to add motion to the geometric paintings of artists like Felice Varini and Dan Tobin-Smith (who designed the cover of Jay Z’s Blueprint 3).
OK Go’s new album, Hungry Ghosts, is due in October.